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The Test on Keane In expressing his satisfaction in the attitude of the leadership of the City Manager League, Candidate Glossbrenner but echoes the opinion of the great body of men and women who followed that movement to its assassination. The leadership of the league very promptly rebuked its campaign chairman by accepting his resignation before it was offered when this chairman, whose partisanship at other times had proved embarrassing to the movement, attempted to capitalize the influence of his position in the league in behalf of Mr. Glossbrenner. In that clear-cut determination to permit no act to impair the fine influence of this league or to deviate from its announced purpose, all take great satisfaction in the leadership. If Candidate Glossbrenner desires to put himself in sympathy with the attitude of the great body of men and women who gave unselfish service to the city manager movement and who still have hopes of its adoption, he will explain his own position toward the candidacy of one Keane, on his ticket as an aspirant for the city council. The public is entitled to know what reasons were advanced in the private conferences which Mr. Glossbrenner held with Boss Coffin over the makeup of the councilmanic ticket for the nomination of Keane. The public is entitled to know, inasmuch Mr. Glossbrenner announced in advance of his selection by the rubber stamps for Coffin that he would accept the mayoralty nomination only on the condition that he was satisfied with the candidates for council, just why Coffin insisted on Keane. It was Keane in whose name the suit against the city manager law was filed. It was not his suit. The attorney who brought it was not employed by him. That|attomey was paid by three men whose names he refuses to divulge. Keane was the available tool for the real interests which were against the city manager law. It is not difficult to locate those interests. They fought the movement from the start. They opposed it at the election. And in the 1927 election they forced through a law that attempted to keep Duvall in office for two years, an impossible task when an honest grand jury functioned. The attack has always been made by Coffin and his friends. He has used his tools in the legislature. He has used his political organization and his under cover agents. The one question which arises is this. Either Candidate Glossbrenner is willing to accept on t*he council’a man who was against the city manager plan, which means that he must be for a partisan control of public affairs. Or he has been forced to compromise with Coffin to the extent of rewarding a man who permitted the use of his name to kill a great reform. This is a point which needs clarification. As for the justification of the suit, there is still room for debate. The great mass of voters take the liberty of disagreeing with the supreme court. They will accept the view of Professor Hatton that it was not a “respectable decision or one which is in accord with the precedents or principles of law.’' Insofar as that decision has lessened respect for courts, the test on Keane becomes even more important. The people are waiting for Candidate Glossbrenner to tell them about Keane and what he thinks of him. Courts, Communists, Common Sense With the country smarting under the humiliation of having an American court turned into a religious inquisition, anoilwr court has restored our self-respect somewhat by refusing to permit repetition of the disgrace. Both rulings were made in North Carolina and both in communistic cases. Judge Barnhill, in the textile strike murder trial at Charlotte, used a dead law of 1777 to permit the discrediting of a witness who admitted she did not believe in the God of hell and brimstone. “If I believed that life ends with death and that there is no punishment after death, I would be less apt to tell the truth,” said the judge. In putting his honesty on such a low plane, the judge probably maligns himself. The judge probably would find that neither the President noi the supreme court worship a God of vengeance. But that is not the point. There is not yet a state religion in North Carolina, much less in the United States. There still are certain constitutional rights pertaining to separation of church and state, to religious freedom and to the equality of all men before the law. Fortunately, Judge Stack, in the Communist flogging case at Concord Thursday, was aware of this. “I don't think a man's opinions about anything, religion, government, politics or anything else, would impeach his testimony,” he ruled. “If that provision of the common law ever was brought to this country, the Fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which guarantees all men equal protection under our laws, wiped out that provision.'' Then Judge Stack put his Anger on the hypocrisy at this heresy hunt: "Why, if that rifle should be followed, a man c&ild

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not verify a complaint in a just civil action, hs could not file a legal answer if somebody sued him to take his home away from him, and he would lie rotting in a jail because his religion disqualified him from taking the oath.” In other words, no attempt is made to revive the laws of the inquisition—which, If applied, would sweep away our legal institutions in a day—until a Communist comes along whom someone wants to victimize. It so happens that this newspaper thinks that most of the conduct of Communists in this country is silly; that their tactics in the textile strikes sacrificed interests of the exploited workers to the propaganda interests of the Communist party; that it was unfortunate that American Federation of Labor delay left the mill hands to such leadership. But the opinion of this newspaper, or Judge Barnhill or any one else, of Communism in general and the Communist strike tactics in particular, has no bearing whatever on the legal rights of Communists. The Communist party is just as legal in this country as the Republican or Democratic. Its strikes are as legal as those of the A. F. of L. The rights of its members in court are absolute and unqualified. When any judge, any federal official, any citizen strikes at the constitutional rights of the Communists, he is not hurting Communism; he is a revolutionist against the freedom for which this nation was founded and without which it will perish. Three Power Plans Whatever plan is agreed on in Washington this week for generating Boulder dam power will constitute a precedent of first importance for future developments. Three plans are before the department of interior and prospective purchasers of power now in session here. The federal government may install the machinery in the plant it is to build. The various lessees of power may be required to install their own machinery in the government’s power house. The cities and the private power companies of southern California may go into partnership and equip and operate the plant jointly. The last plan is favored by Secretary of Interior Wilbur. The city of Los Angeles says It will not agree to it, and rightly, we think. Interests of the city and of the companies in such project must of necessity be opposed diametrically. The city will wish to keep rates to the public as low as possible. The companies will wish to make them as high as possible. The second plan suggests a hodgepodge hydroelectric plant Few of those interested look on it with favor. Government, installation of machinery is the only method possible which will safeguard the government’s great investment in other phases of Boulder dam project. It is the only method which will insure equitable treatment of all purchasers of power. It is the only method which will make certain that power generation is subordinated to the more Important flood control and Irrigation purposes of the dam. Finally, it is the only method which can give the country intelligent knowledge as to whether private or public generation of power is more efficient. This test should be made. Until it is, the country can not know wliat course it wishes to pursue in regard to power in the future. It now is utterly without data by which it can judge the service being given to it by private utility companies.

REASON

WILLIAM FOX, the motion picture man, thinks that school terms may be reduced one-half by teaching pupils through the medium of talking pictures, but it is not a certainty that this would be desirable. In this world we value what we get by what we pay for it and education which would come without effort would not stick like that which pupils dug out by the roots. man Certainly the mothers of the United States would not welcome having their children on their hands four months and a half more each year. The k:ds are wonderful, but by the end of the summer vacation .their mothers are willing for them to return to school, thus enabling them to assemble their nervous systems for another year. a a a And then when they are in school, there's no danger of their jumping out of the haymow with an umbrella for a parachute, or blowing their daylights out with an old shotgun or being hamburged by an automobile collision at the corner or getting into a fight to the finish with other darlings in the neighborhood. u u u INSTEAD of giving pensions to the widows of Presidents, we would give them to the mothers of children, for if they do their work, they are the martyrs of civilization. 9 The fathers are entitled to full measure for providing rations, but they are away from home where their nerves are not constantly scrambled by the turmoil. * M • To paraphrase Voltaire who said, “if there were no God, it would be necessary to make one,’’ we say it would be necessary to make a public school if we had none, for in addition to teaching the rising generation, the school teachers of America are indispensable shock absorbers, making it possible for mothers to live and keep their reason. # M B The country is glad t 6 hear that President Hoover has no intention of accepting Premier Ramsay MacDon lad’s invitation to visit him in London, for our statesmen usually ape gold bricked when they cross the Atlantic. It is better to keep them here atf home where we etui watch over them. * a m BERLIN is going to broadcast sane of her criminal trials and we should do this in the United States, for if the people generally could only become familiar with the endless monkey business of our criminal procedure they might compel a discontinuance thereof. man Great arrangements are being made for the bringing up of the child of Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, who married this rich Hindu. The young lady will have an armed bodyguard, four mounted spearsmen and four attendants. How she will yearn to trade the whole bunch for one freckle-faced kid!

FREDERICK B y LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Slowly We Are Forced to the Conclusion That There Is No Single Source of Trouble and No Single Remedy for Human Ills. THE news takes on a sour note, with pleasant conservation as to peace and prosperity giving place to reports of theft, murder, and rum running. Not a bad thing, perhaps, since it reminds us that in spite of oar inventions, discoveries, organizing, and uplifting, the caveman hangover skill plays a part in the show. Disappointing as it may be to turn from the idealism of a MacDonald to the sordid details of a sex homicide, we might as well admit that each repersents a phase of human nature, and that we can not hope to make headway without recognizing this fact. 8 8 8 Where eight column headlines thrilled us with the story of big minds working to reform the world a few days ago, we now are greeted with eight column headlines regarding a hooch syndicate. In one sense, it looks like descending from the sublime to the ridiculous, but that state of things which we call order hinges quite as distinctly on law enforcement at home as on peace abroad, while law enforcement swirls around the individual's conception of what is right, or -wrong. a a a Variety Is Its Benefit THE real benefit of news consists in its variety. It shows how complicated ' the problems of life really are. For the first time in history, we are getting a fairly accurate picture of what we are up against. Slowly, but relentlessly, wd are forced to the conclusion that there is no single source of trouble and no single remedy for human ills. That is something that old people have known since the dawn of time, but that “young people found hard to understand until the modern newspaper was spread before them, a u u President Coolidge has said that he found no satisfaction in the glory and power of the presidency after his son’s death. That is typical of life. The small things generally mean more to us personally tharx the big ones. Not only that, but the big things generally grow out of small ones. It does not seem particulraly important that some person should want an occasional drink in spite of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act. Let enough persons want it, however, and you soon convert the pint pocket peddler into a syndicate. What this latest prohibition raid proves is not the depravity of lawlessness of a few individuals, but the appetite and attitude of millions. . a Market Was There WE can not afford to isolate that fortified house on the New Jersey coast, or the radio station, machine guns, tear gas bombs, speed boats and six mother ships, from the background. Nobody would have conceived the idea of taking such pains without a ready market. Nobody would have thought of risking life and fortune to land ten thousand cases of liquor eacli week, unless there had been reasonably good prospects of selling one hundred thousand. m m When you come to size it all up, our most ambitious efforts, whether for good or evil, hark back to the little things we want, believe, or hate. The great hospital merely reflects what we have tried to do in a scientific, organized way to help some poor devil who is ill. The court and the prison £tand for similar efforts to protect some poor devil who otherwise might be robbed or slain. The gang, racket and smuggling syndicate merely are magnified forms of personal resentment, lunacy or greed. nun Witches Still With Us OUT in Michigan they have just convicted one woman for killing another whom she believed was a witch. That shows some improvement, since it was considered not onlv permissible, but necessary, to kill witches a few generations back. Still, the superstition persists, and while we no longer hunt them, we are obliged to protect witches because of it. Down in Louisiana thev are giving a young lady the third degree, forcing her to stand beside the open grave where the body of her murdered lover was discovered, tossing his old slipper into her lap, and firing auestions at her, in an attempt to discover w T hat she knows. Maybe she knows nothing, but they are not sure, which shows what little progress we have made in fathoming the secrets of a wilfully locked mind. Not what he eats, drinks, accumulates, or discovers, but man himself is the big riddle.

Questions and Answers

What Is the definition of bacteria? Minute organisms, consisting of cells or an aggregate of cells. What breed of dog is the easiest to teach tricks? One authority says that all dogs can be taught tricks, but some breeds have a special aptitude in that direction. At the head of the list of trick dogs is the poodle, 'which takes to the performance as if it were second nature, and is the main reliance of all showmen. Newfoundlands, St. Bernards and Great Danes learn easily and collies and spaniels are also very intelligent. Terriers are apt pupils and among the toy dogs the black and tan and the schipperke are highly spoken of.

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Proper Posture Adds to Fitness

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IT generally is agreed by those who accept the idea of evolution that man, who walks on two feet, is developed from a type of animal that walked on four. Dr. L. Schwartz of the United States public health service emphasizes the fact that the human being has not) yet become fully adapted to the upright posture. Asa consequence, strain on various portions of the anatomy results in such disturbances as fiat feet, backache, round shoulders, narrow chest, dropping of the internal organs, fatigue and similar disturbances. * In a recent issue of Hygeia, Dr. Armitage Whitman asks how may

IT SEEMS TO ME

THE disposition of the American press to concede that the Gastonia trial would not be another Sacco-Vanzetti case was much too hasty. Judge Barnhill of North Carolina has proved himself fit to lace the shoes of Massachusetts’ Webster Thayer and’to wear them, too. The southern jurist not only has allowed the prosecution to crossexamine a -witness on her religious beliefs in order to create prejudice in the minds of the jury, but he has stated that her failure to accept fundamentalist theology is enough to impeach her credibility as a witness. “If I believed that life ends with death and that there is no punishment after death, I would be less apt to tell the truth,” said Judge Barnhill from the bench. What has become of the frequently repeated assertion that America is the land of religious liberty? Evidently this is generally construed to mean that each individual is free to be a Catholic, a Baptist, or a Presbyterian, as he sees fit. But it is nonsense to talk of religious liberty unless that liberty includes the privilege of accepting as much or as little as you please of Christian dogma. Or none at all. a a a Sectarian THERE have been other cases in which legal discrimination was practiced against avowed atheists. This always has seemed to me a monstrous perversion of the fundamental spirit of the American Constitution. But Judge Barnhill went even further. The test which he set would exclude a very large proportion of sincere Christian worshipers in this land today. Here is a brief transscript of the examination of Mrs. Edith Saunders Miller, witness for the defense, at the hands of Jake Newell, Sunday

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Editor Times—Will you kindly permit me a little space in your paper sor 1 a few comments on some assertions in regard to old-age pensions that now are being circulated? It would seem that friends of the poorhouse system are trying to delay the progress of the old-age pension by reviving some of the old, wornout stories that have been proved by actual facts and experience, absolutely false and groundless. But friends of the old-age pension movement, led by that great humanitarian organization, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, are marching steadily on to ultimate victory. But they are being advised to wait on the survey of the situation in New York, a pretext used so often to delay action. Official surveys have been made in many of our states, Indiana included, and they all agree that the poorhouse is absolutely unfit for human habitation. Then the charge

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we transform round shouldered, potbellied, hollow-backed, knock-kneed, flat-footed children into self-re-specting physical and mental specimens? He is a firm believer in the importance of controlled exercise for good posture. The active athlete carries his weight slightly forward on the balls of his feet and walks with his feet rolled over somewhat to the outside. The forward bending of the trunk serves to flatten the hip curves of the spine, to expand the chest, to draw up the abdominal muscles and to keep the head up. This attitude unquestionably will seem at first to tire the person who holds it because it requires active muscular effort to keep the upright position.

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school superintendent and lawyer for the prosecution: Q —l ask you if you believe there is any Supreme Being? A—You will have to explain what you mean by Supreme Being. Q—l mean the Supreme Bfeing who punishes you for wrongdoing and rewards you for virtues. A—l don’t believe that. Let me emphasize the fact that Mrs. Miller’s testimony is impeached in a North Carolina court not* because she is an atheist, but because she does not happen to believe in the preeise sort of God worshiped by Judge Barnhill and Prosecutor Newell. An old, dead low passed in 1777 was revived in order to inflame the prejudiecs of a jury almost wholly fundamentalist in faith. This ancient state statute requires a witness to believe in “divine punishment after death,” if he is to be permitted to testify. # Justice Denied IN other words. North Carolina denies justice to all save those who believe in hell fire. , Under this statute, many of the greatest leaders of world thought could not testify in the proceedings now current in Charlotte. H. G. Wells, although one of the most eloquent champions of modem religious thought, would find his credibility impeached in North Carolina. Shaw, of course, could not have passed muster, nor could Lincoln. Washington’s word would have been doubtful. Our highest Judicial officer, .Chief Justice Taft of the United States supreme court, almost certainly would be barred. I have no private word concerning the exact faith of Justice Taft, but he is a Unitarian. This denomination does not require adherence to any set creed, but universally its clergy has preached against the existence of

is brought that pensions would! create thriftlessness. ‘ There will always be thriftless careless people, but the public will have to care for them; then why should good, honest people who. unfortunate through sickness, nonemployment, etc., be punished? But the facts are as proved in countries that have several years of experience with the pension system that the knowledge of being cared for properly in old age, if it becomes necessary, has a tendency to create thrift. For proof of this read the report of the Bankers Association of Sweden. True, the abolishment of the poorhouse. which is sure to follow in the wake of old-age pensions, would do away with many high salaried offices, but the taxpayer would be winner in this and thousands of unfortunates would end their days in comfort and happiness that only their own homes can give. J. PIERCE CUMMINGS. 3601 Kenwood avenue.

In the fatigued position, all these relationships are reversed. The feet are turned out so that the weight falls on the inner border, the knees tend to fall together, the back aches, the stomach and abdomen protrude, the chest is flat and the head flops forward. _ A man who is very tired carries his head far forward. Thus, the first step in the control of posture is to learn the proper postition of the bones and the muscles and to make a constant conscious effort to maintain this position of the bones and the muscles and to make a constant conscious effort to maintain this position. The result will be manifest in improved health, easier breathing, and general well being.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those 1 1 one of America's most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to tbe.r agreement or w-ith the editorial attitude rs thill paper.—The Editor.

any hell and the doctrine that virtue is a species of bargaining whereby the individual gives devotion to God in exchange for some very definite and tangible reward of eternity. Even in the Evangelist churches there are many Christians who refuse to accept the notion that goodness is no more than a long pull commitment for salvation. It is a wrong thing to trump up a dead law which would stigmatize mapy of our greatest Americans as potential liars. It is also a foolish thing. Consider the practical workings of the ruling handed down by Judge Barnhill. tt 8 U Tempted to Lie MRS. MILLER, a very valuable and vital witness for the accused workers, must have been tempted to lie. One qf the defendants on trial for manslaughter is her husband. She could easily have said, “Yes, I believe in a supreme being who metes out rewards and punishments.” In other words, by lying she could have made herself acceptable as a truthful witness. But she said, “I don’t believe that,” and added, “when I take an oath it has a binding effect on me, and my conscience will cause me to tell the truth.” (Copyright. 1929. by The Times)

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CORNWALLIS SURRENDERS Oct. 19 ON Oct. 19, 1781, Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered 7,247 British troops at Yorktown, Va., virtually ending the War of Independence. Cornwallis, after establishing himself at Yorktown early in August of that year, fortified the town with seven redoubts and six batteries on the land side and a line of batteries along the river. Washington, with the combined American and French forces, left his headquarters at West Point, N. Y., on Aug. 19, proceeded by land to Elkton. then down the Chesapeake bay, reachnig Williamsburg on Sept. 14. On Sept. 28 Washington marched to the investment of Yorktown with a force of about 16,000, of whom two-thirds were Frenchmen under Rochambeau. A French fleet under Count de Grasse already had entered the Chesapeake and, by blocking the James and York rivers, cut off communication between the British at Yorktown and New York. By Aug. 16 the walls and fortifications of the British works were broken down and almost every gun dismounted. Cornwallis attempted to escane at night, but the plan was frustrated and on Aug. 19 he surrendered. Although the disaster resulted In the resignation of the British ministry. Cornwallis ecaped censure, owing to royal favor.

OCT. 19, 1929

SCIENCE

By DAVID DIETZ’

The Sun, Nowadays, Is Being Photographed More Often Than a Hollywood Movie Star. IRVIN S. COBB'S famous simile—no more privacy than a goldfish will apply aptly to the sun wheo the latest plan of Mt. Wilson observatory is put Into effect. At the present time the sun Is more photographed than a Hollywood movie star. Not a clear day goes by but that several photographs of the sun are made at the Mt. Wilson observatory. These are made with the great tower telescope built specially lor the study of the sun under the direction of Dr. George Ellery Hale, now honorary director of the observatory. By using the attachment which he also invented, the spectro-helio-graph, photos are obtained showing the actual structure of the sun’s outer layers. Similar photos are also made on every clear day at several other observatories equipped with tower telescopes, particularly at Meudon, France, and Kodaikanal, India. Thus astronomers have a complete record of the appearance of the sun on every day of the year. But the new plan of the Mt. Wilson experts will make it possible to keep the sun under direct observation by astronomers right aroupd the clock for the whole twenty-four hours. Dr. Hale’s newest device, the spectrohelioscope, makes it possible for the astronomer to see by direct vision the features of the sun’s surface which previously only could bo photographed. Seven spectrohelioscopes now are being constructed in the machine shop of the observatory. When completed, they will be sent to seven observatories in widely separated parts of the earth. a a 8 Earth Affected THESE seven soectrohelioscopes, in addition to the one in use at Mt. Wilson, will make continuous intensive studies of the sun possible, for the sun will always be high In the sky at someone observatory. When it will be sinking ,ln the west for one, it will be Just coming up in the east for some other. The Mt. Wilson people are not only interested in this study for '.he information it will yield about the sun itself, but for the information whrih may be forthcoming as to the sun’s effect upon the earth. They w'ish particularly to study “the relationships between solar, eruptions and such terrestial phenomena as auroras, magnetic storms and variations in radio transmission,” to quote an official report of the observatory. It has been known for some time that there seems to be some connection between sunspots and magnetic storms which throw the compass out of commission, intensify displays of the aurora, or northern lights, put telegraph and cable lines out of order, and increase radio static and fading. It has also been established by the photographs taken with the spectroheliograph that the sunspots are great whirlpools in the gaseous surface of the sun, and that there are many signs of intense activity in the outer regions of the sun. Among the most spectacular occurrences are the great eruptions of flaming tongues of red-hot gases, the so-calied solar prominences. Dr. Hale believes that direct observation with the spectrohelioscope will yield much information about these phenomena- which the photographs taken with the spectroheliograph have failed to reveal, amazing and remarkable as they are. a o u Spectacles THE photographer using the spectropheliograph. Dr. Hale points out, can not see what he is photographing. He merely exposes the plate. He does not know what he has ‘'caught” until the plate is developed. “Asa result, he almost invariably fails to catch the successive phases of short-lived phenomena that often afford marvelous spectacles to the visual observer at the spectrohelioscope. who can pick out at a glance the most interesting and most active regions,” Dr. Hale says. “Thus I have repeatedly seen with the spectrohelioscope the swift flow toward sunspots of masses of hydrogen larger than the earth." This same sort of phenomena, Dr. Hale says, was adequately recorded by a series of photographs only once in twenty years of such work. Dr. Hale points out that since the spectrohelioscope enables the observer to see the actual motion and flow of gaseous masses upon the sun, it gives him an entirely new appreciation of what is going on in the sun. Dr. Hale also points out that a more intensive study of the sun will improve the astronomer’s knowledge of the stars. It now is agreed among astronomers that the stars are in general like our own sun. Some of course are larger and some smaller, some hotter and some cooler. Additional knowledge of what is going on in the sun, therefore, will enable astronomers to unravel many mysteries concerning the stars which now are troubling them.

Daily Thought

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my tips.—Proverbs 8:7. M M M If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come, than the truth to be concealed. —St. Jerome. What is the boiling point of water at sea level? One hundred degrees Centigrade, or 212 degrees Fahrenheit. In which Shakespearean play Is 'll* description ,;f the seven age* #f man? •‘As You Like It.”