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One More Step One more indictment of Coffinism is added by Candidate Glossbrenner who boldly and courageously names George Y\ Coffin and declares that if elected, he will not permit Coffin to control his official acts. That is a real victory, as far as it goes. Whether it will satisfy the voters who have long been burdened and disgraced by Coffin’s leadership remains to be seen. The offenses of Coffin have been very largely political. It was for a political crime that Duvall, his selection of four years ago, was sentenced to prison. It was for his secret manipulations and intrigue that he was himself indicted and free under the statute of limitations. It was a political adventure which indicted Jackson, his Governor. There is, of course, an easy method by which sincerity can be demonstrated, even if unquestioned. Mr. Glossbrenner might go farther and demand that Coffin resign not his city chairmanship, but this command of the Seventh district in order that there will be definite assurance that he will never again be in position to control and direct any part of the government—city, state or county. The city election commission is even now naming special deputies and asking for special prosecutors to prevent frauds. There is no question as the source of the expected attempts to debauch the ballot. The control of elections, which have aroused expectation of frauds, have been in the past under the control of Coffin. Why not banish Coffin now, rather than promise to turn the welcome mat upside down after election ? North Carolina Amuck Nine alleged members of an anti-labor mob, charged with the murder of Mrs. Ella May Wiggins, a Gastonia textile striker, have been freed by the grand Jury. The same North Carolina grand jury freed four leaders of an anti-labor mob charged with kidnaping three union organizers. This also was the same grand jury which last July Indicted strike leaders for murder of the police chief, seven of whom were convicted last week in a trial atmosphere of religious and political prejudice. Taking the cold record of facts, it begins to look like Gastonia has one sysem of jusice for members of labor unions and another system of justice for antilabor mobs. For months before the fatal shooting of the Gastonia police chief, the strikers had been the victims of lawlessness. Officers of the law did not protect' labor in its constitutional rights; indeed, officers were accused of inspiring some of the violence. There was quick action, however, when the workers answered violence with violence. The strike leaders were convicted of murder, though no one saw the shots fired. Meanwhile, the mobs were running wild, unhindered by the legal authorities. Such a mob killed Ella Wiggins, an unarmed widow and mother. She was in a truck going to a legal labor meeting, when surrounded and bombarded by a mob in automobiles. All the nine men accused of her murder were bosses and employes of the two extiie mills trying to break the union. Today they are free without a trial. The report of the grand jury in the Wiggins case was so unbelievable that the judge at first read it as an indictment. After the judge comprehended, what seemed to be impossible, that those accused of Mrs. Wiggins' murder had been freed, he told the press he could see "no reason why the grand jury did not return a true bill" in both the slaying and kidnaping cases. The judge added that “the kidnaping case is a plain miscarriage of justice.' With the mayor of Gastonia and others said to be boasting that the Wiggins case is ended, about the only feeble ray of justice is the sharp direction of Judge Sink to the grand jury that it still is expected “to clear up the murder of his woman.” Unless Justice is dead in North Carolina, those anti-labor murderers will be found and tried. And the atrikers who were convicted in an unfair atmosphere will be given another trial which is fair. No state and no country is safe when citizens can not be protected from mob rule by the courts. Wall Street's Headache The crash of the stock market was the worst in our history. But basic industrial conditions of the country are sound, according to the President and business leaders. There is every reason to accept this assurance as something more than false courage to prevent panic, to accept it as a welcome statement c. fact. It is one thing, however, to recognize the essential ■oundness of business conditions, and quite another to laugh off the danger involved in repeated collapses of Inflated markets. The vast majority of business leaders, bankers and economists have agreed with the warnings of an unhealthy credit situation issued several times by the federal reserve board. Therefore these experts are of the opinion that this deflation of the speculative markets which has occurred should be helpful rather than harmful to business, by liberating credit for productive industry. But, by the same reasoning, any attempt to force the stock market up again to its speculative heights, and thus precipitate another and perhaps worse collapse. would be to jeopardize national prosperity. That intangible factor of public confidence and security, which is so important in the business world, la bound to suffer in the end unless Wall Street stops these sprees. When all is said and done about the “new” conditions that exist In stocks and about the old investment rules that “don’t apply,” it should be clear to the most excited speculator that in a healthy market the price of stocks must bear some relation to their actual earning capacity. And corporation heads are the first to admit this basic truth about their own stocks. A quick recovery from the national speculative 1 J

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debauch is all the more necessary at this time, because an apparent recession in a few industries already is upon us. “Industrial activity increased less in September than is usual at this season,” the federal reserve board announced today. “Output in iron and steel declined further in September, contrary to the seasonal tendency; there was a sharp decrease in output of automobiles and automobile tires, and a smaller-than-sea%nal increase in activity in the textile and shoe industries, which continued to produce at a high rate in comparison wi’h the preceding year.” With general business conditions healthy despite a few signs of slackening in the unusually large production of the last year, apparently the only thing the country 7 has to fear is ths disruptive effect of another highly speculative stock market and consequent crash. He Fought Well The many thousands of men and women of this state who gave unquestioning faith and loyalty will mourn the passing of Rev. E. S. Shumaker as more than the loss of a personal friend. They will feel the loss of his leadership in a cause to which they are devoted. From those who did not agree with either his aims or his methods will come a tribute of regard for his sincerity and admiration for that singleness of purpose which made him for so many years one of the most powerful figures in the destiny of this state. His power was unquestioned. He could make or break political careers. His voice was powerful and his silence potent. Politicians and ambitious men could not disregard his attitude nor his probable decision. They guided their own courses very often by a desire to gain his support or avoid his opposition. The source of that powe. was in the confidence and trust given him by the thousands of men and women who not only gave allegiance to the cause he represented, but had absolute confidence in his integrity and his political judgment. That he possed but one standard for judging men and officials did not detract from eiiher his influence or his power. He never permitted any other consideration than the advancement of prohibition to sway his course. He had no interest in other policies or other activities of government. To him, the solving of prohibition by complete enforcement meant the automatic solving of all other questions and, accordingly, he judged the fitness of men for office by their promises and their pledges on this one question. That he was often imposed upon by the unscrupulous and self-seeking, that he was at times guileless to the wiles and trickery of those who betrayed his confidence in order to obtain power and offices, adds to the picture of his power and influence. In his clash with the supreme court of this state, he saw only a battle between the forces of prohibition and those who would destroy it. He failed to see the larger issue of freedom of speech. In that hour he had the opportunity to lead another crusade. He sacrificed it for the sake of centering attention upon the one cause to which he had given a lifetime of devotion. New precedents of law were written in his case, precedents that are dangerous and likely to arise again and again to crucify others, including those who may have had a mean satisfaction in the sentencing of the dry leader. His sincerity was above question. Perhaps no other incident proved it more clearly than the letter written during his last illness, asking that the firm which had prepared a tonic prescribed for him and which seemed to alleviate his condition, change its product so as to exclude alcohol from the content. That the firm rather ruthlessly capitalized this letter by exploiting it only emphasized to the discerning that Dr. Shumaker had not only sincerity but courage of conviction which stamps him as outstanding and different from most men. It is that sincericy and that singleness of purpose which gave him his power and his leadership. He was powerful because he commanded the trust and confidence of others. He commanded that trust and confidence by his belief in the cause for which he fought and fought so well.

REASON

PRESIDENT HOOVER has a great opportunity. He called congress in extraordinary session to help the farmer, but instead of help ng the farmer, congress has spent months in a grab-fest, every interest in the country grabbing for a higher tariff duty, whether it needs it or not, and now it looks as if the whole thing would go over until the winter session. a tt a The President should hand congress a message with the bark on it. He should tell the statesmen on Capitol hill that agriculture needs help, while industry dees not, and that the legislative end of the government should give tfie farmer all the help possible by the tariff route, then adjourn and go home. tt tt a In such effort the President would have the overwhelming indorsement of the country and in every contest between the President and congress the advantage is with the President, for he is a human being and congress is only an institution. With the assistance of the radio, Mr. Hoover, with right on his side, would be victorious. tt tt tt INDIANA will collect $17,000,009 this year from her 4 per cent gasoline tax and now it is rumored that certain statesmen desire to divert part of this income from theTiighway department and use it for other purposes, all of which would be a perversion of funds. Use the gas money to build roads and if there’s too much money reduce the gas tax. e s it Did you ever go into the bathroom with your mind concentrated on Mussolini or the House of David and start to brush your teeth with your shaving cream? a a tt We wish there were some way the case of this Chicago decorator, who strangled the young girl, could be disposed of by the girl’s brother. He has the proper remedy and we wish he could apply it. IF Captain J. K. Robinson, retired, formerly chief of the navy bureau of eng neerin'u and now employed by Sinclair at a salary of $19,030 a year, was not loyal to his country when the oil lease§ were made, said Robinson should be amputated from the retired list and his salary adjourned sine die. a e a We saw a flock of blackbirds as big as Hoover’s majority flying toward the Gulf of Mexico last night. Very few blackbirds are wilLng to make fires and carry out ashes.

FREDERICK By LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

•SAYS:-

When You Come to Think of It, Our Jury System Is Little Less Than a Preposterous Anachronism, THE rumpus in Wall Street has very little bearing on general business conditions. It neither reflects them, nor will it affect them, except as it serves to scare folks. Twenty-five leading industrial stocks took an average dip of fortytwo points Thursday, but came back loi an average of thlry points before the market closed. Fifty stocks, including rails as well as industrials, took an average dip of twenty-three points, and came back for an average of seventeen points. n a a Meanwhile, no serious shutdowns, failures or retrenchments were reported. As far as the country is concerned, the result is about the same as it would be in some small village if tne leading citizens put on a poker bee in which several thousand dollars and a store or two changed hands. tt tt tt Mercy for Fall FORMER Secretary Fall is convicted with the jury asking the court to be merciful, a lawyer fainting and his old friend, E. L. Doheny, denouncing the verdict, “The jury didn’t try the case,” says Doheny; “the Judge tried it.” The ballots, as reported by the foreman, hardly bear out this conclusion. The first ballot, taker with the judge’s charge, the lawyers’ arguments and the testimony still fresh in the jury’s mind, stood three for conviction, seven for acquittal and two doubtful. The fourth ballot stood seven for conviction and five for acquittal; the fifth ballot, eleven for conviction and one for acquittal, and it required two more ballots for the jury to reach a unanimous decision. tt tt tt What does that show, except that a majority of the jurors changed their minds, and that the verdict really was reached after they left the courtroom. It sounds thrilling, but what it really suggests is that one or two strong personalities can manhandle the average jury, and generally do. tt tt tt Not Always Equal IN this country we preach equality before the law. We do not always practice it, however, which is often to our credit. Mexico does even better by refusing to accept it in theory. The code just adopted is designed to make punishment fit the criminal, rather than the crime, in Mexico. an The New Mexican code is worth studying, even if it does reject some of our pet convictions. Only to cite a few examples, it excuses the first robbery in case of hunger, and condones murder by parents in case of a betrayed daughter, or by husband or wife in case of adultery. The purists may hold up their hands in holy horror, but what are ! the facts? n tt In this country we disregard age, sex and social condition, except as juveniles are concerned. So far as the written law ¥s concerned we admit no distinction. • Theoretically, millionaires, paupers, college graduates and idiots dance to the same tune, and there are few extenuating circumstances, save that of self-defense. When It comes to actual practice, however, the story is different. tt tt tt Recognizes Horse Sense THE average man or woman is stumped when it comes to squaring the law 7 with common sense, which is something else the new Mexican co,de recognizes, so it abolishes the jury system and substitutes a tribunal of experts. That is another terrific jolt for om traditions, yet it is quite in keeping with the idea that a certain degree of training, experience and special knowledge is required to fit people for grappling with the complicated problems of life. When you come to think of it, the jury system is little less than a preposterous anachronism. a tt A lawyer can not try cases unless he has studied two or three years and passed certain examinations; a judge can not sit on the bench unless he has proved his qualification to the satisfaction of the public. Even a policeman can not get a job until he has done a certain amount of preliminary work. However, most anything that walks on two legs is available for jury duty. Not only that, but to make sure that the jury w 7 ill be as low as possible in the scale of intellegence, we exempt lawyers, doctors, ministers, school teachers, railroad men, druggists and several other classes, and the jury has the final say-so, no matter how 7 complicated the case or how confusing the evidence.

Daily Thought

For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not peiish forever. —Psalms 9:18. a a it We may cover a multitude of sins with the’ white robe of ‘ charity.— Beecher. What are some of the largest theaters in the United States? i Among the largest are the Roxy, New York, seating 5 920; Hippodrome. New York, seating 5,190; Detroit, 5 043, and the Mastbaum. Phfla-Fenna and the Chicago, Marbro and Uptown, Chicago, 5.000. Who operates the radio station with the call letters VE9BC? It is owned and operated by the Canadian National Carbon Company of Toronto.

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Popular Cures for Toothache Faked

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN his consideration of popular superstitions associated with the teeth, Dr. Leo Kanner points out that almost every one is convinced of his own ability to cure a toothache. He says that a man who made this statement was challenged as to its truth and proved it in the following manner: He tied a handkerchief around his face and sat down at the entrance of a well-fre-quented church on a great holiday sighing and moaning and pretending to have a terrible toothache. Everybody who entered the church stopped at the sight of the alleged sufferer and gave him advice as to what he should do to be freed from his pain. There are thousands of remedies for a toothache, as for a headache,

IT SEEMS TO ME

THERE was scant justice in the Gastonia trial and rather less mercy. Obviously some person or persons in the Union tent colony fired the shots which killed Chief of Police Aderholt. It was meet and right that an attempt should be made to ascertain the guilty parties and’bring them to* trial. North Carolina has not provided a precise analogy to the SaccoVanzetti case, where there was no question of the degree of guilt. The good shoemaker and the poor fish peddler were either innocent men or murderers. Gastonia presented a more complex problem, for, admitting the possible culpability of any or all the defendants, there remained the issue of the degree of guilt. I think it was an evil thing to shoot down an officer of the law in Gastonia, but certainly the farmer jury brushed aside the plea of self-defense in hasty fashion. Such a plea was by no menns fantastic. Subsequent events in Marion demonstrated that mill town police seem to consider themselves as acting wholly in the interest of the owners. They constitute a sort of private standing army for the bosses. tt Law Breaks. THERE can be no doubt that law broke down in Gastonia. As one who deplores war. I am equally opposed to violence in strikes. No complete pacifist can approve of even self-defensive shooting in an industrial dispute. The cause of Communism w 7 ould have been aided vastly if every leader in the mill district had boldly gone without arms, no matter what clubs or lashes or bullets might come upon him. This, I admit, is the counsel of perfection. Yet even by any such rigorous rule it can hardly be held that the trial was fair, the heavy sentences justified. Some will say that the judge meant well, but this seems to me a small compliment to the intelligence of a man who did so badly as Barnhill. In addition to permitting the introduction of cross - examination about the religious beliefs of a witness. her political theories and the validity of her marriage, he allowed a rough-jind-tumble prosecuting mounteback to stage an obscene appeal to mob emotions, under the 'pretense that it was a legal summation. Quite palpably the jury was muddled by this extraneous stuff. Indeed the twelve good and true North Carolinians seem to have wholly overlooked the fact that at least one of the defendants was hardly mentioned in the evidence at all. They found him guilty with ail the rest. tt m tt Not Justice EVEN Judge Barnhill had expressed some doubt of his comj plicity in the crime. And yet this | particular defendant, Hendricks, received a sentence of from five to [seven years. Even tbe prosecution was ready to

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

and most of them depend on the belief that the spirits of some kind must be pacified. Up to the end of the eighteenth century, all sorts of amulets and talismans were sold and worn as remedies against toothache. Many of them were invocations addressed to the moon, to running water, to St, Peter, or to St Appolonia, the patroness of toothache. A good many of the charms were planned to transfer the pain from the person who had it to some other subject or object. The old heathen holidays and procedures were gradually converted to Christian ceremonies. In western Germany it is believed that any one who fasts on Maundy Thursday is protected against toothache, and Good Friday is believed to be the best day for getting rid of a toothache. In Silesia people suffering from toothache are told to comb their

admit that he could not have possibly been convicted if tried alone. So can anybody assert that the Gastonia trial was just? If it develops that the technical record of the proceeding is without legal flaw I must insist upon the conception that justice is deeper rooted than mere conformity to cold copybook perfection. If it was fair to ask a worker whether she believed in a personal and protecting God it was equally revelant to bring out the whole sorry and tragic mess of the conditions under which the hard-pressed and exploited men and women and children of the Gastonia mills were compelled to labor. If there was savagery upon the part of the strikers in the killing of Chief Aderholt, this violence was in answer not only to the threat of immediate violence by armed official thugs, but also the flareup of blind rage against long years of oppression. It is not the custom in rough communities w'here guns are toted to hand out heavy sentences for hotblooded killings where there has been a deal of provocation. Even if the jury was correct in assuming that Beal fired the fatal shot, a sentence of seventeen years is in itself enough to betray the bias of Judge Barnhill. m it n Workers Slaves IN fact, these seven men in the long prison shadows were only incidentally tried for the death of Chief Aderholt. They have been convicted because North Carolina still clings to the feudal system of industrialism. The mill workers of Gastonia is

Questions and Answers

What is an aquamarine? A transparent bluish-green or seagreen variety of beryl. These stones come chiefly from Brazil and the Urals. When and where was the final game of the 1925 world series of baseball played? At Pittsburgh. Pa.. Oct. 15. Is the retired pay .of an army or naval officer subject to federal income tax? Yes. When was the Louisiana Purchase exposition held? At St Louis, Mo., from April 30 to Dec. 1, 1904. Os what sorority is Mrs. Hoover a member? Kappa Kappa Gamma. How deep can divers go? The greatest recorded depth reached by a diver is 306 feet. At what weight did Lais Firpo fight? His fighting weight varied from 214 to 223 pounds. He weighed 214 pounds when be fought Dempsey.

hair on Good Friday and to burn the hair which has fallen out while combing and inhale the fumes. The idea is that the fumes will cause the worm which causes the toothache to withdraw 7 . In Sussex England, a toothache cure is to put on the right stocking before the left and to put the right leg into the trousers before the left. In some parts of Germany one puts the left foot out of bed first and puts on the left stocking, left shoe and left sleeves before the right. A popular remedy is to hold whisky in the mouth. If the nerve is exposed the alcohol has a sedative effect. Practically every modern educated person now knows that the teeth are just another part of the human body, and that a competent person who has studied the relationships can relieve a toothache promptly by attacking the cause.

Ideals and opinions expressed In this column are those cf one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude rs this paper.—The Editor.

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actually as much a chattel as any slave before the days of emancipation. Had there been time or energy for banjo music along the streets where stood the company shacks, these might easily have been mistaken for the Negro cabins of plantation days. There are two ways in which a slave may be chained to his occupation. Shackles will do it and a wage scale which leaves him spiritless and penniless is equally effective. (Copyright. • 1929. by The Times)

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ERIE CANAL COMPLETED —Oct. 26

THE Erie canal, an artificial waterway across New York state, extending from Buffalo to Albany and connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson river, was completed and dedicated on Oct. 26, 1825. On that day the first canal boat, Seneca Chief, left Buffalo for New York and navigation from the Great Lakes to tidewater was established. The canai is second in length only to the great canal of China among the artificial water highways of the world. Actual cost of the Erie canal was $7,143,789, but by 1836 it had turned into the state treasury more than that amount. The canal was 352 miles in length with nine miles of adjuncts and played an important part in the development of New York state and contributed in a large measure to the establishment of New York City as a great port and commercial center of the eastern coast. Until 1882 when tolls were abolished, the gross revenues of the canal totaled $121,461,871.

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SCIENCE

By DAV7D DIETZ-

Gloomy Future Forecast for Earth by Scientists, but Doom Is Ages and Ages Away. A GREAT sea of pitch-black empty space with here and there a handful of charred cinders drifting aimlessly in the cold darkness. That, according to many eminent astronomers, is the ultimate fate awaiting our universe. In time, they believe the stars will grow cold and go out. And so will our sun. And this earth, dependent upon the sun for its light and heat, will become a frozen cinder, spinning around a cinder of a sun. The view is a glommy one and many will prefer not to accept it. Deductions about the universe are hard to make, because it is only within the last twenty years that information has begun to be accumulated upon which satisfactory deductions can be made. It may be, therefore, that in another decade the astronomers who now hold this view will change it. But nevertheless, it is interesting to review the evidence upon which they base the present view. The current view of the fate of the univese grows out of the accepted theory for the origin of the energy of stars and the sun. This is that the energy of these bodies arises from the complete annihil - tion within them of very heavy atoms. Lighter atoms, such as exist In the outer layers of the stars or the sun, or such as compose this earth, merely are the debris left from the explosion of the heavy or “lucid” atoms, as they are called. tt a a Squirrels SINCE the stars and the sun shine at the expense of their own weight, they must grow smaller and smaller with the passage of time. Eventually all the lucid atoms within them will have been turned into radiation and dissipated into space. The stars and the sun will have shrunk to 1 per cent their present size, consisting of matter like that here on earth, the by-product of the explosion of the lucid atoms. When that day arrives, the stars and the sun will have turned themselves for the most part into waves of energy which will go wandering aimlessly around and around space. Professor J. H. Jeans, who holds on the basis of the Einstein theory that space is limited and curved, pictures these waves wandering around and around like squirrels in a cage. This theory of a universe disappearing because matter is turned into energy, naturally brings up the question of whether the universe could not reappear as the result of energy turning back into matter. Jeans discusses this question, but answers it in the negative. “It has been suggested,” he writes, “that the radiation poured out from millions of stars through millions of millions of years ultimately may cause space to become overcrowded with radiation, just as a cage would become overcrowded with squirrels if we kept putting them in and never took any out.” tt tt a Sugar THE situation might be compared to dropping lump after lump of sugar into the same cup of tea, Professor Jeans continues. Finally the tea would become saturated with sugar and refuse to | dissolve any more unless some al- \ some of the energy will crystallize out. It is here that the analogy brings a ray of hope. Perhaps as matter continuously dissolves Into energy, the point will be reached where some of the energy will cystallize back into matter. But Jeans tells us from his calculations that the comparison of a teacup and lumps of sugar will not do. The situation is more like dropping grains of sugar into the Atlantic ocean. The Atlantic ocean is space. The grain of sugar is the visible universe. And the question, says Jeans, is how many grains of sugar will turn the Atlantic ocean sweet. That will tell you how many universes will have to turn to radiation to crowd space. Write down the figure 30 and put forty-seven ciphers after it. That figure, he says, represents the number of universes which could be turned into radiation and contained in space without overcrowding. And so, Jeans gloomily tells us, the universe is like a clock wound up at some time in the distant past and now slowly running down. Some day, perhaps In fifteen trillion more years, it will stop ticking. What do the names Patricia and Mario mean? Patricia (Gaelic) means noble; Mario (Latin) means ftreat victor. What is the meaning of the surname Beverly? It is an English name meaning beaver lea or beaver meadow.