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The Mad Mullah Loose It is inconceivable that Candidate Glossbrenner can refrain from repudiating Charles Jewett and his rabid statement by which he tried, if his speech was correctly reported in the Star, to arouse a feeling of race hatred in this campaign. In addressing a meeting of Negro citizens, Jewett is reported to have declared, “Why, the name of Reginald Sullivan alone ought to be enough to fire the red blood of every Negro in Indianapolis.” Just why that ought to happen he did not specify. But certainly every honest Republican will repudiate such a slander upon one whose reputation for honesty, integrity and tolerance are so firmly established. Certain it is that when Coffin was attempting to organize white hatred against the Negro four years ago, Sullivan had no part in it. Certainly he was not consorting then, nor is he consorting now, with those who raised up that wave of hate which landed Duvall and the Four Horsemen in official power. If the Negro remembers the political past, he would inquire more deeply into the anetecedents of those who, under the name of the Ku-Klux Klan, captured the government of this city and of this state. He will not find Sullivan among them. What Jewett says may be of no importance and not binding upon the candidate. The unfortunate part of the situation is that the candidate had just left the meeting and stood sponsor for Jewett, who appeared as he left. Certainly, if there is to be any of that “cleanness” in the campagin for which Mr. Glossbrenner asked when he made his first speech, he can do nothing short of publicly repudiating Jewett at the first opportunity—which will be at a meeting where both appear tonight. This city has paid a huge enough penalty for its race and religious hatreds. It has paid in shame. It has paid in money. It has paid in hate. It is within the power of Mr. Glossbrenner to stop this Mad Mullah, who apparently in the zeal of anew convert to Coffinism, is endeavoring to arouse race hatred in this city. Four years ago when Coffin was electing Duvall and the Four Horsemen, the appeal to race hatred was open. It was organized. It was known and triumphant. No Negro will, of course, be influenced by this mad and misguided outburst of Jewett. They will know better. They know the men who obtained power by arousing hatred against them. And Sullivan was not one of these. A public apology by Mr. Glossbrenner for the vicious appeal by Jewett should be essential to his own self-respect and as a guarantee of his own promises of fairness and fitness for the honor.

Grundy’s Tariff There Is much exaggeration about the power of lobbyists in Washington. Many of them collect huge fees from credulous clients without being able to deliver the promised votes or to influence legislation. But Joseph R. Grundy is no exaggeration. He delivers the goods. He has helped to write the high tariff laws for a generation. He has more power in Republican politics than many senators. The explanation is simple. He is president of the Pennsylvania\ Manufacturers’ Association, and Pennsylvania is the largest industrial state and the solidest Republican state. He is the angel who collects the money for the G. O. P. war chest at election time. In the 1924 presidential campaign he raised $700,000 and in the state primary of 1926 he personally contributed somg $390,000. Mr. Grundy does not collect and give money to the Republican party for the sake of his health. He does it because he understands that it is the high-and-higher tariff party for the benefit of manufacturers like himself. He expects a return in the form of bigger profits. He makqp no bones about that; no secrecy. He comes to Washington, hires an office, begins to send out floods of propaganda, hobnobs as an equal ■with the highest political officials, talks to all the senators and congressmen he considers worth talking to, and then proceeds virtually to write the increased tariff schedules in which he is interested. Asa witness in the senate lobby investigation Thursday, Grundy said that: He help’d to raise "about sl,ooo,ooo’’ for the last presidential campaign. Soon aft t the election he opened a Washington office in the interest of higher tariff rates. Since then he has talked with various other lobbyists or "legislative agents,’’ with officials of the Republican national committee, and with "all the senators from industrial states.’’ especially the senators on the finance committee writing the tariff bill. As for congressmen, "I saw all that I to see.” Concerning Charles L. Eyanson, the SIO,OOO a year official of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association, wtio was admitted to the secret rate-writing meetings of the senate finance committee as secretary to Senator Bingham, Grundy said; "If there were forty fellows like Eyanson available for work such as Eyanson did, I would have wanted them all.” Senator ttfalsh of Montana, a member of the examining committee, then brought out that Grundy’s “increases woulfl raise the cost of Pennsylvania products from $2,786,000,000 to $3,290,000,000,” and that forty-two of the sixty-five4gading industries of that

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state would benefit from the tariff bill at the expense of American consumers. If the public is interested in tariff grabs, let it ponder Grundy’s proud testimony of his achievements. He is successful because he is more than a lobbyist. He is one of the most influential members of the Republican party in the country. He can crack the whip. And he does. And after observing Grundy in action, it is then for the public to let congress know whether it will stand for a Grundy tariff. “Amateur Sports” About all the Carnegie Foundation expose of college athletics has done is to give names and details regarding a generally known situation which has disgraced our educational institutions for years. That is why, and when all the denials and alibis are in and possible errors of the report checked, this investigation will stand in its broad implication as a bit of public service. Even if only half of the Carnegie- charges were true, it is clear that academic sports in most colleges have been commercialized. Leaving aside the grosser forms of commercialization, such as subsidizing of players, the following general indictment by the report can not be denied: “The paid coach, the gate receipts, the special training tables, the costly sweaters and expensive journeys in special Pullman cars, the recruiting from the high school, the demoralizing publicity showered on the players, the devotion of an undue proportion of time to training, the devices for putting a desirable athlete but a weak scholar across the hurdles of the examination, these ought to stop.” The chief blame is placed properly on the college and alumni officials. Curiously, it is the old grad, more often than not who is least able to see the objection to such commercialization of college athletics. He perhaps more than the student insists that alma mater have a winning team, whatever the cost. There is no occasion for being hypocritical about commercial football. If the public wants professional football there is no reason why it should be given a thin academic sugar-coating. But professional sports and academic training have no legitimate relation. To attempt to combine these opposites is to destroy the colleges as educational institutions. And that is precisely what is happening in many colleges. The Carnegie investigators found, however, that there is beginning to be a swing back to the ideal of amateur sports and of college athletics as a means instead of an end. Their report should hasten that reform. Enemies No Longer The story of the nine former German soldiers living in Lancaster, N. Y., and making buddies of the members of the American Legion there, makes mighty pleasant reading. The incident proves, for one thing, that our war with Germany left us with no such heritage of hatred and distrust as the Civil war, for instance, bequeathed to the country. A scant eleven years after the armistice, veterans of the rival armies are glad to fraternize with one another. War’s worst feature is the bitterness that follows in its train. We seem to be discarding the bitterness of the World war very rapidly. It can’t be done too fast.

REASON By FR LANDIS K

'TT'HERE is merit in this proposal to build refuge 1 f °r the figures which now clutter up statuary hall at the national Capitol, for as it stands, the chamber suggests a warehouse rather than a hall of fame, and there are many more figures to come. n n When the original hall of, the house of representatives, the one in which John Qu’ncy Adams dropped dead, was abandoned for the present one, congress thought it would be a good idea to turn the old place into a gallery of American immortals, so each state was invited to send the statues of its two outstanding giants. a a If congress, had it to do over again, it's not likely that it would throw out the lately string to unlimited marble company, for scores have arrived and they still arrive every litt’e while, and all of them stay. Every now and then George Washington has to move over to make room for the senator from Nevada and Ethan Allan has to pull in his elbows to provide space for the solon from Arizona. nun IN addition to the congestion, there’s a hopeless heterogeneity among those present, for some are small and some are huge, some are sitting and some are standing, some are militant, some are marble and some are bronze. It wouldn't be so bad, if they could be wide apart, but they huddle together, as if trying to get under one umbrella. , nan Washington has gone the limit in the perpetuating business. All the presidents and almost all their ladies have been embalmed in oil, the size of their portraits frequently being in inverse ratio to their imnortance. for instance Rutherform B. Hayes has a likeness as large as a billboard, while Theodore Roosevelt abides in a frame about two feet by three. nun THESE portraits were painted, presumably to decorate the walls of the White House, but there are not enough walls to go around, the result being that many of them are compelled to keep house in the cellar. Judging from Mrs. Gann, you may Imagine how they feel about this. n n n Then the senate does quite a bit of chiseling for its Vice-Presidents, each in turn being served up as a marble bust and lodged in a senate niche, but now the niches are running out. v n n n You see, it's really a very grave situation. And this is not the end of the orgy of immortalizing, for every single executive department has its cabinet member done in oil, the result being that, like the submerged Presidents and their affinities, these secretaries are m time consigned to the coal room. As it would be unwise to rebuild Washington just to accommodate all these busts and pictures, we suggest that we emulate the example of the Russian Bolsheviki. who sell the crown jewels from time to time, and dispose of these surplus masterpieces to the highest bidder and devote the money to farm relief.

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All That Keeps a Rich Man Warm When the Temper- ■ ature Goes Down Is a Good Coat or a Fire; He’s No Different Under the Skin. ONE extreme leads to another. If the stock market hadn’t gone up too far, it wouldn’t be coming down so hard, and if automobile manufacturers hadn’t over produced during the first nine months of this year, they wouldn’t find it necessary to let up during the last three. Progress by fits and starts may be unscientific, but it’s awfully human. Love of adventure and the gambling instinct still play a dominant part in life Average people I are willing to go only about so far when it comes to making things safe. What they want above all else is the game, the chance to lay a bet now and then, to try their mettle, to take a fling with fate. tt tt tt When the market goes wrong, or a world’s series turns out differently |rom what was expected, we yell , “manipulation.” Indeed, “manipulation” has become the great alibi of suckers. You never hear of it in fair weather, yet that is the only time it | can be carried on ocessfully. tt tt tt All Are Mortal CROWD psychology woiks quite as effectively in high as in low places. Let excitement take control, and there is little difference between the Stock Exchange and a ward caucus. The notion that bankers, boards of directors, and efficiency sharps cannot be stampeded is a mere superstition. We are all mortal under the skin. All that keeps a rich man warm when the thermometer goes down is a good coat, or a fire. it tt tt Having had a grand spree of boosting prices and production, we should expect a little let-up. But we should not take the let-up to mean that the bottom has dropped out. If the pendulum swings, it must go about so far in one direction as the other. Some folks think the pendulum can be stopped, without stopping the clock, and maybe they are right, but first we shall have to invent a different kind of clock. it tt tt This College Scandal MEANWHILE, the Carnegie . Foundation report with reference to college athletics has created almost as much of a stir as the flurry in Wall Street. College athletics has become exceedingly popular, not only with colleges, but with the public. That, more than anything else, accounts for the commercialism. When you create a fad that calls for million-dollar stadia all over the country, $14,000 trainers and $200,000 gate receipts, you have some head of steam with which to contend. * When thousands of young men choose their college because of its sport record, you have something of a reputation to protect. Moreover, if athletic abilty is so all-fired important and if some rich ! alumnus wants to contribute bed and board to show his appreciation, what’s so dreadfully wrong about it? True, we pretend to run our colleges and universities as educational institutions, but when it comes to publicity, they owe 90 per cent of what they get to sport, and when it comes to first causes, publicity should be ignored. tt tt tt Back to Caveman COLLEGE athletics and stock speculation hark back to the same basic traits. If the caveman hadn’t thrown rocks, or spit at a twig with his neighbor, we wouldn’t be what we are. The fashion of trial by combat was set in the jungle. Sometimes we have carried it too far, and sometimes we haven’t car- ! ried it far enough. Its suppression, however, seems out of the question. As long as humanity remains human, it is going to engage in contests of body and mind. The best we can hope is to elevate their level, to out more and more emphasis on the intellectual side. tt tt tt The greatest weakness of our educational system is its failure to provide for the combative element in the intellectual field. It furnishes small opportunity for he-men to wrestle with each other, except on the athletic field. Such intellectual contests as are permitted, or encouraged, are too 1 effeminate to be Interesting. That is one reason why the boys with real stuff in them go out for j track, team or crew.

Daily Thought

Whosoever hall receive one of such childrr receiveth Me: and whosoever s' 11 receive Me, receiveth not li but Him that sent Me.—St. Mark, 9:37. 0 0 0 A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it had a resurrection in his son.—Tupper. Why did Charles V of Spain abdicate in favor of his son Philip? 1 One historian says “There had long been forming in his mind the purpose of spending his last days in monastic seclusion. The disappointing issue of his contest with the orotestant princes of Germany, the weight of advancing years, together with menacing troubles which began ' to thicken like clouds about the eve- ; ning of his reign, led the emperor to carry his resolution into effect. Accordingly he abdicated in favor of his son Philip, the crown of the Netherlands (1555) and that of Spain and its colonies (1556) and then retired to the monastry of Puste. situated in a secluded region in western Spain."

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' DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Doubt Salt Effect in Blood Pressure

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. FOR m?— years it has been claimed, following the work of certain French Investigators, that there was a direct relationship between the amount of salt in the human body and the height of the blood pressure. Many cases of high blood pressure have been treated by cutting down the amount of salt in the diet and it has been reported that benefit has followed this measure. Investigators all over the world have tried the prescribing of saltfree diets. The majority of them seem to

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Editor Times—The recent statement of the Republican mayoralty candidate that “the real issue of the campaign is that the citizens of Indianapolis have been seeking a method of good business management,” raises the question of the correctness of his political wisdom. The citizens not only have been seeking for and fighting for good business management, but they got it under Slack and the Democratic party, • with the help of the eruptions in the Republican party factions. Now the citizens of Indianapolis know that by bitter experience the real Issue of the last two campaigns has been Duvallism and Coffinism. That is as clear as crystal to them. Yet, he says that he will avoid all arguments and contentions that tend “to befog” the voters’ vision. He introduces the haze of “fog” himself, or should I say “smogy when he plainly tries to steer the voter away from the real issue, Coffinism, and points him to the secondary issue, “a method of good business management." Why is this "method of business management” secondary? Because on the very fact that his method of management, assuming it to be of the very best, could not exist, side by side, with Coffinism. Therefore, who is trying to befog the vision of the voter? Who but the Republican candidate himself? Further efforts at befogging the voters’ vision consistently have been made by Coffin himself in placing voting polls in out of the way locations, in alleys far removed from the center of the prepincts, so that the voter will lose his way to the polls and thus become too disgusted to register his vote. Coffin thus puts a very cheap estimate on the fighting qualities and Intelligence of the voters. Estimates we know are never at the correct

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JOHN HANCOCK HONORED Oct. 25 ON Oct. 25, 1780, John Han- i cock was chosen first Governor of Massachusetts under the new Constitution. Election to the governorship was only one of honors conferred upon Hancock during his many years of service to the state. Hancock was born in Braintree, Mass., in 1737, and graduated from Harvard in 1754. He was for several years one of the selectmen of Botson and after 1766 was repeatedly elected to the Massachusetts general court, j After the “Boston Massacre” in i 1770, he was a member of the committee appointed to demand the removal of British troops from the city. He represented Massachusetts in i the first Continental Congress and in May, 1775, was elected president of that body. He was a member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1780 and upon adoption of the Constitution there framed was elected Governor, and was retained in annual re-elections until 1785. He again was Governor from 1787 until his death in 1793.

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favor the method, but there are some who have insisted constantly that the giving of salt does not affect the blood ‘ pressure in any way. Recently another study has been added to the previous work on the subject, the investigations being carried on in a Cleveland hospital. The most recent investigation, which concerns thirteen patients, seems to show that the deprivation of salt affects the height of the blood pressure in only a few exceedingly rare cases. When people with high blood pressure are put to bed and kept quiet and given a soft diet over a period of from ten to fourteen days, the blood pressure is likely to be lowered.

figure are given, often nothing more than a poor guess. The voter knows his “smog” in Indianapolis and how closely it resembles Coffinism. If the voter leans up against the barrage of ballots, registers his own and if he is true to his city and himself, he will emerge on the clear side of that red letter day, Nov. 5, and the enemy will be in full flight. Thinking that this might help to keep the voter’s eye centered upon the city’s objectives of the campaign, I am sending it in for Indianapolis. R. K. SPEECE, Precinct committeeman, Eighth of Fourth. Editor Times—l note in The Times that an old friend of mine has been named by his party as a candidate for mayor of your city. The National party made a good selection when it put up such a man as Wiley J. Rominger to be at the head of your city. True, Mr. Rominger is a “radical” in the true sense of that word. I have known him for more than fifty years. His reaction runs to reform in all things, especially in politics. And his radicalism would eliminate Coffinism from the otherwise fair name of Indianapolis. Mr. Coffin has been driving nails in his political coffin for some time, and, like D. C. Stephenson, he has about run out of nails. His political coffin is about to be lowered into the grave of political oblivion (with all his satelites). To hasten his obsequies, please remember that Wiley J. Rominger will make a fine pallbeferer. BERT F. MORLEDGE, Columbus, Ind.

Editor Times—The heading of the clipping, inclosed, “Boston Does It Again," should be, “Everybody Does It." “When I was in Boston this spring, I got hot under the collar, when I read an editorial about Indianapolis being too much of a hick town to rdopt daylight savings. It said. “Sixty years ago this week, the largest church in Indianapolis was divided against itself as to whether oi not the. church should install a I stove. One faction held that it was j a modern instrument that would not | meet with the principles of religion. The other side thought it would. Finally, after one year’s controversy, the modernists won, and installed the stove. The following Sunday those who were opposed took off their coats and shoes and sat there grumbling and constantly raising protests that they were being roasted by this modem device. “After church was over, it was discovered that although the modemlists had won, they did not have courage to build a fire for fear they would burn the church down, and ; the opposition would sue them foi damages. The temperature at that Itime in the church, was said to be 10 above zero. No one would take | the responsibility of starting the fire ; —resulting in no fire being built in the stove that winter. “It’s the children and grandchildren of those people who have .been, for the la 1 couple of years; j fighting about daylight saving, while j all over the east in more modem cities, it is an accepted policy. It is | hardly to be expected that Indianapolis will have the courage to adopt daylight saving for the same reason that it did not adopt the

If during this period the salt is removed from the diet, the removal of the salt may be credited with the lowering of the blood pressure. If the cases actually are controlled, some being allowed salt in the diet and some deprived of salt, the drops in blood pressure are likely to be the same in both groups. Several investigators have given large amounts of salt to patients under these conditions to find out if the giving of the salt would raise the blood pressure, and they report that it did not have this effect. At the present writing those who feel that the deprivation of salt in people with high blood pressure is not warranted seem to have most of the evidence on their side.

stove sixty years ago. Possibly sixty years from now, Indianapolis will adopt daylight saving, maybe.” The greatest of all teachers said that tolerance of another’s weakness is the greatest virtue. A newspaper which is supposed to express all that is good in public opinion, should at least be tolerant of another city’s weakness. The article was so amusing, after reading the article that Boston wrote about Indianapolis, that I wanted to tell you what the Boston editor thinks of Indianapolis. However, I think The Times is doing a wonderful work for our politically crippled city. E. E. MARTIN. Editor Times—l feel that honorable mention is due one of our city firemen. I happened to witness a fire on Cornell avenue Sunday evening. The house was a mass of smoke and flames when the fire department arrived. Upon learning that there was a small child in the house, Fireman Stanley, Company 16 rushed in through the smoke and flames and rescued the child. Mr. Stanley refused to give the writer his name, but I found out who he was through someone else C. E. M’COY, 2635% North Alabama street. Editor Times—The members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union are dleply appreciative of the splendid co-operation of The Indianapolis Times during the recent national convention held here, and we want you to convey to those of your organization who had any part in the excellent publicity given by | The Times our sincere thanks. j We wish for you and your publication immeasurable success in the years to come. MRS. LUELLA M WHIR TER.

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SCIENCE - By DAVID DIETZ —

1 Chemical Experts Turn Attention to Halting Great Waste in World’s Coal. THE time probably Is not far distant when the present habit of i shoveling coal into 'urnaces will be j regarded as the relic of a day which j ruthlessly squandered the world's natural resources. For the world just is beginning to realize the implications of the fact that the demand for both coal and oil increases annually, while the supply decreases annually by the amount used during the year. Asa result, chemical experts In every nation are turning their attention to the problem of utilizing coal with less waste than Is entailed in the process of throwing it directly into a furnace or firebox. A summary of the situation, prepared by Arthur D. Little Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., shows that four main lines of research are being followed. The flrist is to improve the quality of low-grade coal, thus making possible use of certain grades of coal which today can not be rained economically. A number of methods have been suggested to improve the quality of coal by decreasing its content of mineral matter or ash. Little reports that public service corporations are particularly Interested in this because clean coal makes for more efficient boiler operation and since freight costs would be saved if the incombustible part of coal was removed before the coal ivas shipped. u an Powered METHODS of removing ash from coal require that the coal be pulverized first. One method developed in England uses an air blast to separate out the finer dust particles. The pulverized coal then is allowed to settle on a solution of calcium chloride. The ash or mineral matter sinks in this solution while the coal particles float on top. Pulverized coal is being used to operate the S. S. Mercer, a 9,500ton vessel. It also is being used in a few German locomotives in regular service. German experts also have developed an internal combustion engine which uses powdered coal instead of liquid fuel. The motor is known as the Rupamotor. The other three general lines of research are based upon altering the coal chemically. They are the production of anew coke-like substance, the conversion of coal into ' gar Mne and similar liquids, and | the conversion of coal gas into j liquid fuels. Coke is produced by heating coal , in ovens or retorts, driving off the I volatile or gaseous, matter con- | tained in the original coal. The j new process uses less heat than that j used for the making cf coke, resultl .ng in the formation of a smokeless, solid semi-coke. In addition, this process yields | as a by-product a higher percentage ! of liquid material than is produced : by the ordinary coke process. | Petroleum substitutes can be mani ufactured from this liquid. The coal gas produced as a byproduct during the new process is j less in quantity than that obtained • 'rom the ueual coke process, but it is of higher quality. it tt it Gasoline THE conversion of coal into gasoline substitutes is being given particular attention by the I. G. Farbenindustrie, the German chemical trust. The process has been developed to the point where It is j expected that this year’s production | of gasoline substitutes at the great | chemical works at Leuna will amount to 250,000 tons. Coal is chiefly carbon. The petroleum fuels are hydrocarbons, that is, chemically, substances composed chiefly of hydrogen and carbon. The process of turning coal Into gasoline is known as hydrogenation. The coal Is treated with hydrogen at a temperature of about 650 degrees and under a pressure twenty times as great as ordinary atmospheric pressure. This is done in the presence of certain chemical substances known as catalyzers. These accelerate the chemical process by which the carbon of the coal unites with the hydrogen. Meanwhile, inventors are busy attempting to develop motors which will make use of the simple fuel gases. Tests are being made in France with trucks and automobiles operated on producer gas. The gas is manufactured from briquetted fuels in a small gas producer mounted on the chassis of the auto.