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Is Keane Thinkable? Whatever decision the thousands of men and women who gave allegiance and support to the city manager movement may make as to other candidates, it is difficult to imagine even one who will accept without protest the candidacy of Keane on the Republican ticket for council. When Boss Coffin gave his slate to his henchmen and ordered them to translate his edicts into a formal ticket, it was no accident that he included the name of Keane as a candidate. Nor can any one be so guileless as to suppose that Coffin was merely paying his tribute of gratitude and obligation to the man whose name was used to file the suit under which the supreme court dealt a death blow to the city manager law. Political bosses are not noted for their gratitude. They are cold blooded and calculating in their political manipulations. With them “every little movement has a meaning all its own.” It is fairly reasonable to believe that Coffin had two reasons for placing on the ticket the man who had just shown his-defiance to the wishes of the vast majority of citizens. The first reason, unquestionably, was to give a sign to any of his followers who may have doubts as to the power of Coffin after election that he was able to force upon the ticket the name of a man who had shown a mental attitude toward public affairs that was out of line with the desires and wishes of the great majority.

If any Coffin follower believed that the boss was slipping, the nomination of Keane would be reassuring. The second reason it may be reasonably presumed, was to prevent any future efforts to put the city manager law into effect. Coffin, if he succeeds in electing his ticket, can point to Keane as evidence that the people are not seriously interested in the movement. He could argue that they had elected the man in whose name the city manager law had been killed and that the people therefore approved that decision of the supreme court. Certainly Candidate Glossbrenner, who has many friends among those who supported the city manager movement, can not wish to carry into office with a man whose election might mean so great a blow to civic progress and public sentiment. Surely he can not wish to become any party to a scheme of Coffin to produce the appearance of approval for killing the greatest movement for civic betterment that the city has ever had. The prospects of Coffin, who has gained the hostility of good citizens by his political rule, his reliance upon the statute of limitations, his ill-starred Duvall regime, having any power after election is tragic. But when he puts forward the man who stood between the people and self government and seeks to honor this man for his opposition to the welfare of the people, it becomes unthinkable. Candidate Glossbrenner should at an early opportunity, repudiate this effort to use his fine reputation as a mask for such sinister defiance of the opinion of decent citizens. If the city manager movement is to finally win, it should ask Mr! Glossbrenner to help now to prevent the insult after the injury.

Prohibition Prosecutions Figures from the department of justice showing another annual increase in the number of liquor cases tried In federal courts during the fiscal year 1929 will be interpreted variously. Some no doubt will say the large number of prosecutions reveals increased zeal on the part of enforcement officers and determination of the federal government to stamp out the liquor traffic. Others will see in the record evidence of growing violations of the dry laws. prohibition cases totaled 56,786, an increase of 1,057 from the year before, and represented more than hixif of both civil and criminal business that came before the courts during the year. The case3 were nearly double those of 1921, the first year the lav/ was operative. This total takes no account of the cases tried in state courts or of prosecutions turned over to state courts by federal officers. Whatever deductions are drawn, it Is clear that the prohibition laws are being violated widely, that the country has by no means accepted prohibition after ten years and that increasing appropriations for enforcement year after year have had little effect on the situation. The question arises as to whether prohibition as it now exists can be enforced under any circumstances. The President on Patronage It la a great tribulation to the Republican politicians to discover that the man in the White House puts public responsibility above patronage. It is so sad they can not believe it is true. So they go ahead reaching for patronage pie and getting hurt. After Mr. Hoover’s vigorous action in the Florida ease and his equally vigorous public rebuke of his ptrtgr officers, It may occur' to them by this time that

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they are dealing with a President and a party leader who means what he says. His previous statements on patronage were “no idle gesture,” Is the way the President put the warning in his letter calling down the secretary of the Florida state Republican committee for submitting unacceptable names for the job of United States attorney and for objecting to the President’s selections. Then Mr. Hoover proceeded to lay down the law to the would-be patronage bosses on the “primary responsibility” which rests upon the President: “It is that he shall, to his utmost capacity, appoint men to public office who will execute the laws of the United States with inegrity and without fear, favor, or political collusion . . , “Success of the Republican party rests on good government, not on patronage, and Florida wiU have good government so far as it is within my power to give it.” - That is striking at the roots of the patronage evil. Counsel for Consumers A counsel for consumers of the United States hereafter is to function with the United States tariff commission, working independently with his own staff to represent the public, if the senate amendment to the tariff bill prevails. This is one of the best of the many amendments the senate has added to the bill. The commission’s record of thirty-two important increases in tariff rates, against five unimportant decreases, shows that insufficient consideration has been given to the consumers’ interests in the past. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania declared that he voted for the amendment in a “cynical” mood, feeling it was useless, yet that a vote against it would be considered a vote against consumers’ interests. The vote was 68 to 11. This is significant. We hear much of the lobbies representing special interests and their power over legislation. When, however, it is possible to draw an issue clearly between the interests of the lobbies and those of the public, a majority of the senate votes right.

An Humble Genius If humility is the final mark of genius, Mr. Edison had added to his greatness.', In the moment of world acclaim, honored by Presidents and leaders of commerce and science, he spoke of the earlier scientists whose work contributed to his own and of those who had labored with him through the years. Others invented the electric light globe. He perfected it for practical use. He not only had the scientific insight, but what he has called a practical bump which related invention to practical needs. As he built on others’ genius, many more have built on his. Such is the fraternity of science, whose service is to all the world. Os those heroes of peace, the President, in his Edison anniversary address, said: ‘•Not by all the profits of all the banks in the world can we measure the contributions which these men make to our progress.” Harry Sinclair wrote to the newspapers to say that there was no sinister purpose in having that jury shadowed. Probably merely an interesting bit of research work for the Smithsonian institution? Consider the street car conductor. He leads a simple life, yet he is about the only man in the world who can tell the ladies where to get off. An Ohio truck driver was twice held up and robbed of a truck load of tires. Pretty soon that chap will begin to feel rimmed.

REASON By F Sf

THE taxpayers of the world should hang lanterns on their porches and jollify in honor of this agreement of the five leading sea powers to meet in London and consider naval reduction, for it should lift a cast iron burden from the world. These nations must realize that the airplane has scrapped the warship and the navy of the air has succeeded the navy of the water. Asa warrior, Neptune is as obsolete as the cigar store Indian of our childhood. tt tt tt When Ramsay MacDonald’s daughter rode in the engine between Syracuse and Rochester, it reminded one that our politicians are not so cordial with the (engineer as they used to be. Formerly the President always shook hands with him at the end of the trip, but none of them has done it since Harding. tt tt tt How strange that the only progressives on the bench of the United States are Justice Stone, Holmes and Brandeis, all of whom come from down east, Stone from New York City and Holmes and Brandeis from Boston. tt St St IT gives one a thrill to read how Blue and Gray joined hands to unveil the monument, erected by the state of Illinois at Memphis, in memory of two thousand Union soldiers, and it makes one think of the bitterness which would have been avoided had Lincoln been spared to put into effect his policy of reconciliation. tt tt These talking pictures of surgical operations will benefit surgeons everywhere and they should also benefit the patient by making sure that the operator removes all of his implements before he sews up the body. u * * The United States bureau of reclamation reports that a number of petrified trees have been found in Montana. There are some to be found on Capitol hill as well —senators who used to be regarded as presidential timber. n m m ENGLAND deplores the fact that many of her ablest political leaders nave forsaken public life to follow the golden lure of business. The same being a sad decline in the quality of our public service. a * * The Kansas board of health advises that after every kiss, the principals should always gargle and take a hot mustard foot bath. If these precautions were only followed by the studios out at Hollywood, what wonderful motion pictures we would have. tt tt m Dean Inge of London is right In saying that in 200 years the Anklo-Saxon race will have vanished from the United States. Old American families do not perpetuate themselves. Call the roll of the old houses in your town and you will find that the families that lived in them have vanished from the earth, __

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Italy’s Bachelors Thicart 'Mussolini, Paying Off Instead, of Marrying, While the Birth Rate Falls. DON’T he too hard on the Princeton freshmen. They are only human, after all, and besides, they are just out of high school. Some of us o’der ones would be stumped if we had been asked to name the “mcst essential quality in the ideal girl,” or to say precisely why we attended a certain college. Maybe there isn’t any ‘‘most essential quality in the ideal girl,” and ipaybe some other college would have done quite as well, had we only thought so. s a a The Princeton freshmen tried, anyway, which is something to their credit. Out of 490, sixty-five threw up the sponge when it came to naming the “most essential quality in the ideal girl,” and who shall say they were not the wisest? As to the rest, seventy-five named physical beauty, sixty-five chose personality, forty-five thought it was ability to dance well, while thirtyfour regarfled it as a sense of humor. tt a They’re Honest, Anyway Afcjo.i.cD why they came co rruneton, fewer than half the freshmen offered education as'an excuse, which suggests honesty, if not a fine sense of value. One hundred thirty-five said they were attracted by Princeton’s name and reputation. One hundred were inspired by a hope of making social contacts, and nine admitted they were moved by family tradition. Whether you agree with the verdict, it probably represents a typical cross section of young America’s mind with regard to women and education.

Old or young, men are apt to believe in some particular- quality, method, system or proposition as more important than all others. Benito Mussolini, for instance, looks upon early marriage and large families as Italy’s greatest need, while Henry L. Doherty regards oil conservation as America’s big job. The former was in a position for his gospel to be made law, with a tax on bachelors, and a bonus for children, but it is another case in which facts do not sustain the theory. The bachelors have paid instead of marrying, while the birth rate has fallen off. tt tt tt Doherty Preaches NOT being the boss of a nation, but ‘merely the head of a billion dollar enterprise, Doherty is not so fortunate as Mussolini when it comes to having his pet project spread on the statute books. The best he can do is preach, but he is doing that in the same whole-hearted, way that he has done most everything. Picking Memphis, where the American Bar Association is in session, as the opening scene of his drive, Doherty buys a double truck ad in the local papers in which he not only calls attention to the necessity for oil conservation, but lambastes the lawyers for their contention that the federal government has no power to enforce it. Indeed, he takes advantage of the opportunity to declare that, in his opinion, “lawyers will do more to destroy constitutional government than all the forces of monarchy, anarchy, socialism and communism might do, even though it were possible for all of these forces against constitutional government to combine.” a tt n ' Hits at Quibbling DOHERTY is not accusing the lawyers of a deliberate attempt to wreck constitutional government, but is suggesting that their quibbling, hair-splitting, loop-hole hunting, and technical evading which makes it almost impossible combine to produce a situation to get things done in a practical way. As inventors of political doctrine and interpreters of the constitution in behalf of great corporations, lawyears have accomplished nothing so distinctly as to create such confusion in the public mind, such a storm of words, such a clatter of phrases, that the average man does not know what it is all about. It may be good law to say that the government can not save oil for public defense and public interest, though it can regulate railroads. tt tt tt It may be good law to say that the government can stop a farmer from letting his cider grow hard, though it lacks the power to prevent ar: oil company* from letting an irreplaceable resource go to waste. It may be good law to say that the government can kill 20,000 cattle to prevent the spread of the hoof and mouth disease, though it is without authority to insist that drilling operations be conducted in a scientific manner. But it does not sound like good sense;

Daily Thought

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him It is sin.—James 4:17. it a a Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact. —Theodore Parker. To what race do Egyptians belong? They are classified as the Lybyan family of the white race. On what day of the week did Sept. 10, 1873, fall? Sunday. Who was the “Father of Poetry?” Homer, autfcor of the epic poems ‘The Ilk ad” and “The Odyssey.” Can airships and airplanes be struck by lightning? Y*.

So That’s What It Was Hatched Out Os!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Only Careful Diet Can Help Gout

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. GOUT used to be called the rich man’s disease. It is now recognized as a disorder of the chemistry of the body which is characterized by the deposit in the joints and around the joints of a substance known as sodium urate. This is the scientific remainder of the old uric acid hypothesis on which the sale of dozens of patent medicines has been promoted. When certain protein substances are taken into the body they are broken up by the process of digestion and uric acid is an end product, excreted from the body. In gout the uric acid is not excreted and accumulates in the blood and the salt that has been mentioned is deposited around the joints.

IT SEEMS TO ME "SS"

SOMEWHERE on Fifth avenue there lives a little old lady who has made the wild dogs of Central park her particular care. Early in the morning she goes to the city’s wilderness bearing liver apportioned in tin platters. Each of the trays has established his own kingdom and the food is set out by the Samarita’h in appropriate places. She knows the ways of the vagrants and learns if any change has taken place in the customary course of these dude ranchers, these amateur wolves. And she does more, the lady with the liver, than keep the renegades from hunger. In nowise does she disturb their self-esteem. Not one of them realizes that for all this semblance of revolutionary freedom he lives upon an endowment like any pensioned professor. No questions are asked. There is at least a crude democracy in the ranges of Central park. Some of the dogs undoubtedly are in exile because of unjust accusations. Others meant to put the money back, but got caught in the bear market, and a few belong in that unfortunate group which never can seem to learn to lead out trumps. n tt n The Lady THE little old lady with the liver does not ask them to take the meat from her hand. That would be contrary to the principles of these animals, who think that they have answered the call of the wild.

Her part merely Is to leave the provender and stroll away. The fact that she finds the platter clean a little later is all the reward that she requires. And so the wild and independent dog is not pauperized. He comes to think of the liver ration as something earned by his own initiative. To him the meat seems some part of the wild life of the park. He stalks his prey and creeps up on it, meeting the gossipy dead leaves with all the velvet of his paws. Inch by inch he comes closer to his quarry in the platter. One false step and the liver either will run or fight. There is no sound. Within a week the wild dog of the park has learned to tread softly. At last there is a lunge and a leap. Big jaws click, and with a crunch the hunting dog beats down tthe last resistance of the broiled meat. tt tt Truly Rural STILL, in some ways, the life is truly wild. This is an existence uncomplicated by belief excursions to the back yard or walks tightthrottled by a leash. There is no giving of a or begging for crackers, or walking on the hind legs. Turf lies beneath the feet and there are spots where the trees cluster close enough to shut out all sight of the city. ..

Nobody, knows exactly what causes gout. It shows a tendency to appear in certain families, particularly among the upper classes, but not infrequently cases will appear among the poor and even in the hobo cases. It generally is believed that overindulgence in rich foods and drinks has a tendency to stimulate the appearance of gout. It is an interesting fact that during the war when most of Germany was put on a starvation diet, cases of gout practically disappeared from the charity hospitals. Gout seldom appears in the very young, attacking usually people between 30 and 50. Men are more likely to have this disease than women, and it usually is the fat, stocky man who suffers most. The unusual symptom of gout is the sudden severe pain in the big

And the annoying din of city smells is less, particularly on these cold, clear mornings. You can not convince any of these dogs that he is merely carrying on in a restricted and carefully supervised jungle. For all they know, the signs which read “keep off the grass” are just some new sort of shrub and the sanctity of the command is lost upon them. All this seems to me logical enough. Think of yourself as an errant Airedale who has left behind him eight rooms, back yard and bath. Upon a frosty morning you are awakened in your private glade by a roaring, angry voice. Subways, you know, and steam' pipes, and even the static which is fetched into houses by means of loud speakers. This is another noise. Never did you hear it in city streets or houses. Louder and fiercer is the sound. Anger and hunger are both in it, and now as the breeze comes across the little lake in Central park there is no need to puzzle oier the interpretations of these tones. tt tt tt , Nose Knows A SURE and certain message comes to the nose of the dog. It is to him as plain and simple as any tabloid headline.

“-TdOAylil&iTHe^

THOMAS PINCKNEY, BORN Oct. 23

TODAY is the 179th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Pinckney, American diplomat and soldier. The famous statesman was born in Charleston, S. C., Oct. 23, 1750. He was educated in England and was admitted to the English bar in 1770. . Returning to Charleston, he entered the Continental army in 1775 and played a prominent part in the war until taken prisoner at the battle of Camden in 1780. He was Governor of South Carolina in 1787-89, presided over the state convention which ratified the federal Constitution in 1788 and was a member of the state legislature in 1781. He served as minister to England in 1792-94. In 1794, he was sent on a special mission to Spain, where he negotiated a treaty guaranteeing to the United States free navigation of the Mississippi. He was the federalist candidate for vice-president in 1796, and served as a federalist member of congress in 1799-1801. He served as a major-general In the War of 1812. He died in Charleston in 1828,

toe which comes on about 2 in the morning. This localized condition is not, however, nearly so serious for the health of the individual as the general involvement of other joints and the associated symptoms. Gout is controlled largely by the use of a severe diet with lessened amounts of proteins and rich foods. This diet must be followed over a long period of time and remedies can be given to control the pain. Vegetables, such as potatoes, string beans, onions, lettuce, carrots and cabbage, are excellent items for the gouty diet. On the other hand, spinach, asparagus, cauliflower, mushrooms and lentils are not especially recommended. The chief protein products to be used are milk, eggs and fish. It is not advisable for any one with gout to take alcohol.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting; writers, and are piesented without regard to the;r agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude < f this paper.—The Editor.

This is a strange and extraordinary thing, but that smell is lion and nothing else in all the world. The wolf of a week never has come across that same danger signal in all his life. And yet he knows. He could nami his unseen foe even if he were blindfolded. Ancestral memories rise like little brooks in spring. In an instant he is one with his forebears. The reproach and the weaknesses of civilization drop from his shoulders. No puppy-biscuit mollycoddle is your pet dog now. First he snarls and bares his teeth, and then the forgotten history, now unfolding, reminds him that a lion is pretty big. It was a lion which clawed his great, great and many times removed grandfather a long time ago back in the Nile country. Flight is better than fight and the open road lies ahead of the threatened animal. And so he i ms with more speed than he ever displayed within the confines of your house. He runs until the roar d’es down. The smell has faded. By then he thinks that through his own prowess he has won himself another day of live and liver. (CoDvright. 1929. by The Times) What city, the name of which begins with L is known as “the forbidden city?” Lhasa, the capital of Thibet.

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OCT. 23, 1929

SCIENCE By DAVID DIETZ

Two Trillions Times a Trillion Is Number of Stars in the Great Universe of Space. WRITE down the figure ”2" and place twenty-four “Os” after it. The result—two trillion times a trillion—represents the total number of stars in the great universe of space. You have that upon the authority of Professor J. H. Jeans, secretary of the Royal Society of London and research associate of the Mt. Wilson observatory of California. Professor Jeans is one of the most brilliant astronomers living, sets forth his views of the universe in “Eos; or, the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony,” just published by E. P. Dutton & Cos. The book is a small one of only eighty-eight pages, forming one of the thought-provoking series of little books which Dutton is publishing under the general title of the “Today and Tomorrow” series. Into its eighty-eight pages Jeans has packed many of the most profound view’s held today concerning cosmogony. Cosmogony is the branch of astronomy which treats of the origin and present condition of the cosmos or universe as a whole. Eos w’as the Greek goddess of the dawm and hence her name is an appropriate one for the book. Jeans combines the findings of the great 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson, the world’s largest telescope, with the Einstein theory to arrive at his estimate of the number of stars in existence. tt a a Septillions OUR own solar system—the sun and its eight planets which include the earth —is part of a great stellar organization which contains about 40,000,00,0,000 stars. This great collection of stars is known usually as the galaxy. It sometimes is referred to as “our universe” or “the universe of stars,” but these names are falling into disuse, since they lead to confusion when they occur in connection with a discussion of the great universe of space."

Scattered in space at enormous distances from our galaxy are the spiral nebulae, which are known to be galaxies like our own, though smaller. Dr. Hubble of Mt. Wilson estimates that two million such spirals are to be seen with the 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson. According to the Einstein theory, space is curved and hence limited. Dr. Hubble estimates that the universe of space is about a billion times the amount of space within range of the Mt. Wilson telescope. Professor Jeans takes the figure of one billion as representing the average number of stars in each spiral. He then multiplies this figure by two million, the number of spirals visible in the big telescopes. This gives him the number of stars in the part of the universe visible through the telescope, two quadrillion. tt tt tt Curved THE average reader will find considerable difficulty in accepting the Einstein idea of curved space and a closed universe. The obvious question is: If space has an end, what is on the other side? Speaking of space, Jeans writes, “It has no limit, but is nevertheless finite, like the surface of the earth. “The total volume of space is fixed by a quantity, the curvature of space. “Space which contained no matter would go on forever, but the parts of space we can survey with our telescopes contain enough matter to show that we already see an appreciable fraction of the whole of space. “Exact figures are impossible, but Dr. Hubble has calculated that space is not likely to extend more than about a thousand times as far as the farthest nebula visible in the biggest telescope. “Nothing prevents our going on and on in space beyond this tance, but, if we do, we merely come back to ourselves. The possessor of a sufficiently sensitive wireless apparatus may emit signals and pick them up a seventh of a second later after they have traveled around the world. “In the same way a not inconceivable increase in the size of our telescopes would take us around the whole of space, and we should see the stars surrounding our sun by light which had traveled around the universe, not of course as they now are, but as they were 100,000 million years ago.”