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The Job Holders Unfortunately no orator on the Republican side of the campaign debate has as yet made it clear as to what the future attitude will be toward the giving workless jobs to the politically efficient. The origin of the ticket is well known. It was selected by Coffin, led through his fears and an accurate knowledge of the extent of his own disrepute with the public, to agree to a mayoralty candidate of fine reputation for integrity, business acumen, and success. It was ratified by the organization of committeemen who hold their places, thanks to the peculiar legal view tendered by the supreme court, only as long as they serve as rubber stamps for Coffin. It is these same committeemen who demand, very often the jobs in minor places. They ask for them because they do not expect to work or because the pay is higher than they could earn elsewhere. They get the jobs and the people pay the bills. These job holding committeemen are to be found in the offices controlled by Coffin. The seriff’s office is filled with them. The hymn of that particular local of the Workless Union is said to be “0 de Golden Slipper.” They may be hunting for it. Just how the organization works is shown in the recent case of one Petty, a deputy sheriff and a ward chairman for Coffin. Petty was drunk on duty. He was rushing his automobile through the city streets, presumably on the hunt for violators of the law. He smashed into a car of a citizen who was sober and trying to drive carefully. When this citizen went to the jail to protest, he was told, so it was testified in court, that if he raised any fuss he might find himself in a cell. He, fortunately, had some sense of Americanism left and refused to be bullied by the other job holding committeemen. It took two trials to convict Petty. He now is on the state farm, serving a thirtyday sentence. Every influence was exerted to protect him. The first trial was so peculiar in some of its incidents that the prosecutor openly charged that political influence was being used to protect Petty. The point is that the viewpoint of these job holders was not one of indignation that their associate, elevated and trusted, had betrayed them. They acted as though they believed obeying Coffin gives immunity from punishment. Sone one should be specific as to how these rubber stamps of Coffin are to be treated in the event of success. Will they, who selected the councilmen and picked the secretary of their committee for a steady job, demand the jobs? Will they get them? Will they be permitted to perpetuate Coffinism or are they to be banished from job holding? The Gastonia Verdict Charged with slaying the Gastonia police chief, seven strikers and strike organizers have been found guilty of second degree murder by a North Carolina Jury. Announcement is made that the verdict will be appealed to a higher court. It is well that this appeal be taken. Not merely for the sake of the accused men, but for the sake of the state’s reputation and for the sake of justice itself, it is well that a rehearing be given in at atmosphere different from that in which the seven men are battling for their freedom. Regardless of whether the men are guilty or innocent, that is something of which one can not judge at this distance, it seems apparent that they did not obtain a fair trial. Every local circumstance worked to make a fair trial difficult; the very air of the community, filled with talk of Red Russia and Communism, was poisoned against them. The jury, consciously or unconsciously, was bound to be affected by the community's emotion; juries always are. This state of affairs was recognized by Judge Barnhill at the outset, when he granted a change of venue from Gastonia to Charlotte. But Charlotte, part of the same textile district, was surging with the same feelings as Gastonia; the air was no different. How far afield the Jury’s mind was taken from the simple question of whether the seven men conspired to shoot the police chief is revealed by various incidents. The testimony of one woman was impeached because she was too honest to lie when she was asked U she believed in a God of hell and hell fire. Under an ancient and long-unused Carolina statute, she was held incompetent to testify, because she said, "no.” The prosecution, bent on getting a conviction, regardless of everything, dug up this absurd and forgotten law, and succeeded in injecting religious prejudice into the already hostile situation. Asa climax to the strange struggle enacted in the name of justice—the lives or freedom of seven 1 —" as the stake —there was the argument of the prosecuting attorney. The jurors retired to weigh the evidence with these words ringing in their ears: ‘'Do you believe in the flag of your country, floating In the breeze, kissing the sunlight, singing the song of freedom? Do you believe in North Carolina? Do you believe in good roads the good roads of North Carolina on which the heaven-bannered hosts could walk as far as San Francisco? .... “Gastonia, into which the union organizers came, fiends incarnate, stripped of their hoofs and horns, bearing guns Instead of pitchforks, sweeping like a cyclone and tornado to sink damnable f.vngs into the heart and life blood of my community . . i “They stood It till the great God from
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the very battlements of heaven and broke the chains and traces of their patience, and caused them to call the offeers to the lot and stop the infernal scenes that came sweeping down from the wild plains of Soviet Russia into the peaceful community of Gastonia, bringing bloodshed and death, cfeeping like the hellish serpent into the Garden of Eden ...” That was the atmosphere in which the men were convicted. i The Boulder Dam Plan Secretary of Interior Wilbur has decided that the federal government will not generate Boulder dam power. Probably the city of Los Angeles, which is to operate the plant, will do a good job, even though arrangements call, a trifle obscurely, for appointment of a board containing two private utility company members and a representative of the federal government "to act with” the city. Nevertheless we regret the decision. Boulder dam project is so big, and has so many diversified purposes that we feel the government should have kept its hand on the helm, to make sure power does not usurp a position of first importance over irrigation and flood control.
Government operation would have served other useful public purposes. It would have thrown valuable new light on the power business and the problem of public control. The government has tried, through the federal trade commission, and so far failed, to get data to understand the complicated new structure of control which has made state regulation of utility rates practically ineffective. Public operation of great projects comparable to the laregst ones under private control is needed to help solve the new problems that have grown up with the expanding power industry. It was the intention of congress in creating the Boulder dam project, as debates in the congressional record clearly show, that it should serve this purpose. Tariff and Its Friends It is hard to say whether its friends or its enemies are doing most to discredit the tariff bill. On one hand, for example, 90 per cent of the members of the American Economic Association who responded to a questionnaire sent out by New York university feel that enactment of the bill would be wholly bad. It would raise the cost of living, promote international ill feeling and retaliation, and leave the economic gap between agriculture and industry as wide as it is now, according to these experts. On the other hand are such friends of the bill as Senator Bingham of Connecticut and his friend, President Hubbard of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association. Hubbard, indorsing Bingham’s extraordinary action in bringing to Washington and introducing into the secret rate-writing meetings of the* senate finance committee, a paid agent of the manufacturers’ assocition, unwittingly shot from under Bingham’s feet the argument that Connecticut industries are depressed. The manufacturers’ association is supported by dues paid by member companies according to the number of people they employ, Hubbard said. Never, he added, have its revenues been larger than this year and last. In other words. Connecticut has more workmen busy now than ever before. President Hoover, in convening the special session of congress, defined the only industries needing tariff relief as those in which there has been a “substantial slackening of activity and a consequent increase in unemployment.” Hubbard’s own unwilling words show that Connecticut industry does not need the sweeping tariff raises given it in the bill, which would increase the profits of forty-four of its fifty-two leading industries, according to Senator Walsh. Every such bit of testimony should be another nail in the coffin of the bill.
REASON By F S K
AS he thinks it over. President Hoover probably feels that he would rather feed the Belgians than the Washingtonians, for while the Be’gians were more numerous and more ravenous, none of their ladies cared a rap where they sat, just so they sat close to the rations. a a a Had the Chicago Cubs won the-world championship, they would have needed no great reception on their return. Yet 50,000 fans would have ripped the ether to pieces. Being defeated, however, they needed all the praise they could get, yet only a few met them at Chicago. u a So it is with the rest of us When our basketball and football teams go away and win, we meet them at the station with a brass band and 10,000 of us with bulging chests march with them to the courthouse square, yet let them come out of the little end of the horn and we shun them as if they had stolen a horse! a tt ft WE should give them a great welcome when they come back, having done their best, but having failed, for it is not only the sportsmanlike thing, it is also the best strategy. Let the boys feel that the old home town is for them, win or lose, if they do their best, and they will play their heads off. tt U tt You remember what Lord Nelson, Britain’s greatest sea fighter, did when he went into.the great naval battle; he reminded them of the folks back home; he ran up the streamer: “England expects every man to do his duty!” a a u THE most foolish of world series bets will be paid by Forrest F. Cole, who now will proceed to bat fly balls all the way from Dallas to Philadelphia. Which reminds us that the game of golf is said to have originated in the inexpensive habit Scotchmen had of putting monotony to rout by knocking a ball along as they walked long distances.
Chief Justice Hall of Massachusetts refused to naturalize a foreigner because the applicant did not hav9 on a necktie, yet of native born Americans who are driving automobiles haven't on any underwear. emu A statement from Manila annunces that the Filipinos will "push liberty/’ Liberty, not chaperoned by Uncle Sam. would push the Filipinos under a foreign flag, most likely Japan’s, inside of six months. erne The former kaiser, who is rolling in wealth when not looking in the glass, proves that he still is the same old noble-hearted bird by permitting his only sister to sell her household effects to pay her debts.
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M. E. Tracy SAYS;
Injustice, As We Call It, Frequently Hinges on Anything and Everything but an Impartial Desire for the Truth. . BY passing the debentures amendment, the Democratic-Progres-sive coalition has given President Hoover one more slap in the face, which seems to be its chief aim in life. The tariff bill was bad enough as it stood. The coalition has only made it worse. President Hoover dould hardly do better than veto it. n n n ‘‘Guilty of murder in the second degree" is the jury's finding with regard to the seven defendants charged with the death of the late Police Chief Aderholt of Gastonia, N. C. It carries a penalty of from two to thirty years, which means that the mistake is not irreparable, if the jury has made one, and which puts the verdict on a different plane from that of she Sacco-Vanzetti case. Prejudice played a part, of course, but not wholly on one side. If there are those who regard these defendants as guilty because of their political and religious beliefs, there are those who regard them as innocent for precisely the same reason. tt n n Jailed by Lies JUSTICE, as we call it, frequently hinges on anything and everything but an impartial desire for the truth. The illusionment prevails that there is little chance of sending innocent people to jail, much less to death, except through circumstantial evidence. Asa matter of record, probably more people have suffered unjustly through prejudice, or plain lying.
Ten years ago, a Californian was convicted on the testimony of a daughter who claims that he had wronged her. Now the daughter says her evidence was false. ‘ There was a man, an ex-soldier, who threatened to kill my father if I told the truth about who wronged me, and I was afraid of him. Besides, I did not realize they would send my father to prison for so long.” a a a In Gallow’s Shadow NOT so long ago a man was librated from a Mississippi prison after serving twenty-six years, because somebody lied, and he escaped the gallows by only a hair’s breadth. In Vermont two young men confessed to a murder that never was committed, on the district attorney’s assurance that they would be given life imprisonment, rather than take chances with a possible death sentence. Lying plays more of a part in our judicial system than one likes to think. a a a Commercial flying in this country increased more than 60 per cent during the last six months. There now are 1,375 fields in operation, with more than 12,000 pilots in active service. Up to July a total of 10,000 miles of airways had been lighted for night flying. If progress continues at the present rate until Jan. 1, American commercial planes - will have covered one-third more mileage this year than those of England, France and Germany combined. a a a Slowly, but surely, the daredevil stunts by which the possibilities of aviation were revealed are being translated into a great industry. The Lindberghs and Eckeners have not risked their lives in vain. Within fifteen or twenty years air travel will have become commonplace, and what now is regarded as a spectacular feat will have shrunk not only to an everyday, but perhaps, an obsolete performance. a a a New Giant of Air MONDAY the great twelveengine flying boat known as the Do-X. rose from Lake Constance, with 169 human beings on board—the greatest number ever lifted off the ground at one time. The total load of this giant Dornier plane, which remained hr the air one hour, amounted to fiftytons. Her twelve engines developed a total of 6,000 horsepower, and each can be turned on or off, without affecting the other. Her fuselage is 150 feet long, while her wing spread is 150 feet. She is designed for trans-Atlantic service if the tests now being made warrant the venture. a a tt Speaking of trans-Atlantic air service, a company to operate Zeppelins between Europe and America just has been chartered under the laws of the state of Delaware. It is reported that this company has the support of New York and Berlin bankers, and that its formation was the direct result of Dr. Eckener’s world trip. With 100-passenger flying boats •’nd dirigibles just* around the corner, we may look forward to a bigger and more interesting chapter in aviation than any thus far written. How high is Yosemite Fails? The upper falls are 1,430 feet and ‘he lower falls 320 feet high. Where in the United States is the greatest rainfall? Glenora, Tillamook county, Washington, where the average precipitation a year is 131 H inches. What ic an homophonic? It is a letter representing the same sound as another. Homophonic means an identical sound but Afferent in meaning. W'hich -states in the United States have no official state flags? Kansa| ipd Washington.
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Doctor’s Prescription Not Mysterious
BY DR, MORRIS FISHBIEN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. MANY a patient has puzzled inordinately over the prescription handed to him by the physician. Prescriptions were in the past written almost altogether in Latin. The reason was that Latin was a classical languge used by all learned men and medicine in the middle ages was studied altogether in Latin. It had the added advantage of the respect and inspiration that comes with secrecy and mystification. Furthermore, it was argued that Latin added to the prescription an unvarying accuracy not possible with English. Today it is realized that mystery
IT SEEMS TO ME By BROUN
MY weekly list of best bets among books and plays stands unchanged. I have no additions yet, and so the list remains for readers: “A Farewell to Arms” and “Animals Looking at You.** For theatergoers: “Sweet Adeline,” “June Moon” and “Strictly Dishonorable.” If it were feasible for folk to see only part of a play and then go on about their business, I would certainly suggest “The Channel Road.” To go before the final curtain seems to me advisable. The last act is neither well played nor well contrived. It let me down and killed the fine fervor aroused by the second act. But, looking back on it all, I think that Alexander Woollcott and George Kaufman have a considerable achievement to their credit. a a u Strong Scene THEY haven’t written a good play—at least I don’t think so —but they have furnished one scene which seems to be by far the most moving thing now current on the New York stage. Even if a playwright wilts before the evening is out, he hardly can be said to have failed if somewhere along the road he has provided true magnificence. And in the “The Channel Road" there is a moment in which an acid spinster and a very human harlot
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FIRST STEAMER IN WEST Oct. 22
One hundred eighteen years ago today, Oct. 22, 1811, the first steamboat on western waters, the “New Orleans,” left Pittsburgh for New Orleans, via the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The next few years saw an amazing increase in traffic on the inland waterways. Until 1825, when the Erie canal was opened, the Ohio was the great commercial and industrial link between the east and the west. Until the closing years of the nineteenth century, the famous old river packets plied up and down the Ohio’s winding 1,000-mile trail from Pittsburgh to Cairo and beyond. Then, as suddenly as it had started, river travel dropped to a minimum, wharves rotted, scores of packets were thrown into the discard, and the inland waterway seemed doomed as a main artery of commerce. But government engineers were convinced of its practicability as an important link in the nation’s transportation system, and the Ohio river federal canalization project was started. The gigantic engineering work, costing $118,000,000, was completed this fall. By means of fifty movable dams and locks, a nineteenfoot water stage is maintained throughout the length of the river and this gateway to commerce has been reopened.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE.
and secrecy are not the chief factors of importance in medicine. Instead, the public is being educated in matters medical and the writing of prescriptions in English tend to oppose charlatanism and quackery. Many people wonder as to the meaning of the “R” with a cross that appears on top of the prescription. It has been urged that this sign represents an invocation to Jupiter, chief of the gods; but more recent studies indicate that the cross at the end of the “R” is not a symbol, but merely a period, to indicate that this is an abbreviation. The letter “R” is the first letter of the Latin word “recipe” which means “take.” It is the instruction to the druggist to take the amount specified of each of the ingredients in the prescription and to mix them
talk of life and tragedy in a way which made at least one spectator sit up all tense and tingling. This part of the comedy is good enough to grace even a great play. And if I am almost persuaded to suggest “The Channel Road” to playgoers there must be promise of something more than a single scene, however excellent. If it is acting you’re after, here is fulfillment for your desire. An unknown German player named Slegried Rumann scored the most decisive personal hit I have seen at any first night in many seasons. nun Deserved Praise THE actor deserved his triumph. While it is true that his first entrance marks the moment when the play begins to take on pace after a slow beginning, he would stand out even if the competition of his companions were far more severe. The young German has the role of a Prussian lieutenant and he steers an inspired course in keeping the part delicately* satirical and yet never for an instant farcical. It was rather extraordinary to sit in an American theater and watch an audience go wild over an actor who makes a German officer come absolutely into life. Only a few short seasons ago Herr Rumann would have been compelled to act some noxious spy, if anything. Even now is can not be said that a Junker is quite the ideal of the New York public. To be sure, Lieutenant Engel, the character in the play, is a man not insensitive to humor. Still Rumann does rather more than bring out the chuckling undercurrent of the swaggering Prussian. He adds something of himself. He interprets the character and reviews him. too. Just a thin edge of the laughter rests not on what Lientenant Engel thinks of life and death, but what Siegfried Rumann thinks of the character which he is playing. into Reverse MY chief objection to “The Channel Road" is that you can not play it backward. An airtight comedy should contain nothing which will seem untrue in the light of earlier events. In a detective play there Is some character who undertakes at the time of the solution to explain and justify all that has gone before. If his summary won’t hold water, the theater is not so very likely to hold spectators. “The Channel Road” isn’t true to itself. For purposes of the formula it is necessary that the respectable spinster should begin by despising the harlot and end the same way But in the middle of the play comes
Daily Thought
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, j and being deceived.—Timothy 3:13. 000 Cheats easily believe others as b&d as themselves; there is no deccivafe them, nor do they long deceive.|ij Bruges* I
according to the directions, which are usually given in Latin below. The most common direction is reoresented by the letter “M" which follows the prescription and which stands for “misce” meaning “mix.” In an earlier day, prescriptions were noted for the large number of ingredients which they contained. Not infrequently the doctor would inquire as to the various ■ •mptoms and put something in the prescription to control each of the symptoms. The modern physician is likely to have only a few ingredient-, in each prescription, since he is concerned largely with controlling the cause of the disease and with relieving the most serious of the symptoms. He uses potent remedies which have definite effects.
Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those ts one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without ngard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude rs this paper.—The Editor.
the extraordinary scene in which the two bare their hearts to each other. Any two people who spill themselves out In private confidences set up anew and somewhat lasting relationship. Things never can be quite the same again. The play, I thought, brought false testimony in saying that they could. Still, if it’s acting you’re after, and much more as well, then you will be well off at Kaufman’s other play, “June Moon.” I am not among those who find a tear beneath the generous supply of laughs in this comedy. The pathos seems to me largely synthetic and unconvincing save in a few instances. Yet it is silly for anybody to quarrel with a comedy which keeps him roaring his head off all evening long. (Copyright. 1929. bv The Times)
Questions and Answers
Have all the popes been Italian? . Nearly all have been Italian, but a few were Spanish and French and there was one Englishman, Nicholas Breakspear, who took the name of Adrian IV. Do snakes lay eggs? Some snakes lay eg§s and some produce living young. The former are designated as oviparous and the latter as viviparous. Where is the Madeira River? It is a large river in South America that flows from the Andes across western Brazil and empties into the Amazon river.
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SCIENCE - By DAVID DIETZ —
Man Is About as Many Times Larger Than the Electron as the Biggest Star Is Larger Than He Is. "'T'WO things about modern sciX ence fascinate ine," writes a correspondent. “They are the immense distances of astronomy and the infinitesimal sizes of atoms and electrons. “You have mentioned both from time to time. Won’t you give a sort of table of statistics which could be clipped out and saved for reference?” My correspondent has touched upon one of the most interesting phases of modem science. Perhaps the most fascinating of all is the fact that the gigantic stars and nebulae, huge as they are, are built up out of tiny electrons Another fact of great interest is that man stands midway in the scale of the universe. He is just about as many times larger than the electron as the biggest star is larger than he is. But to answer the question of my correspondent. First a few figures that every one ought to know, since without them he lacks any appreciation of the scale of the universe in which he lives: The diameter of the earth is approximately" 8,000 miles. The diameter of the moon is approximately one-fourih of the earth’s, about 2,160 miles. The diameter of the sun is approximately 110 times th?t of the earth, about 864,100 miles.s From the earth to the moon is 240,000 miles. From the earth to the sun is 93,000,000 miles. From the earth to the nearest star is 25,000,000,000,000 miles. a a a Stars OUR earth is one of eight planets which revolve around the sun. The moon revolves around our earth. Some planets have no moons or satellites. Others have numbers ranging up to nine. Our sun is a star, one of 40,000,000,000 which form what astronomers call the galaxy. The smallest known star, called Van Maanen’s star, after the astronomer at Mt. Wilson who discovered it, is about the size of our own earth. The largest known star is Antares. It has a diameter of about 415,000,000 miles. The smallest known star is composed of material so heavy that a spoonful would weigh a ton. The largest known star is composed of material so.light that a piece the size of a mountain would weigh less than a hundred-thousandth of an ounce. The galaxy is shaped like a great watch. The diameter along the hands is about 300,000 light years. The diameter from front to back is about 40,000 light years. The spiral nebulae are at immense distances from the earth. The nearest is about 870,000 light years away. About 2,000,000 spiral nebulae are within range of the largest telescopes. * h Space SPACE, according to the Einstein theory, is not infinite, but curved and limited. Dr. Hubble calculates that space is about a billion times as large as the section of space within range of the 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson. According to this view, the longest possible distance in the unive v e is 100,000,000,000 light years. You can change that into miles by multiplying it by 6,000,000,000,000. Travel that far in one direction In space and you will yourself back where you started “from, according to the Einstein theory. And now for an excursion into the world of the atom: First, let us remember, that the smallest particles of chemcial compounds are called Inolecules. These in turn are composed of the atoms of the chemical elements, while the atoms, in turn, are composed of positive and negative electrons. The largest molecule has a diameter of about one ten-millionth of of an inch. The smallest molecule, that of hydrogen, has a diameter of one one-hundred - and-twenty-five-mll-lionth of an inch. The smallest atom, the hydrogen atom, has a diameter of one two-hundred-and-fifty-millionth of an inch. / The negative electron has a diameter of one twenty-flve-trillionth of an inch. The positive electron has a diameter of about one forty-flve-quad-rillionth of an inch.