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The Danger Signal No citizen interested in the saving of the public schools from the control of Cofimism should be lulled to any false sense of security by the public statement of Boss Coffin to his workers, telling them to take no part in the school election. Instead it should be the danger signal to the electorate and the cue to get even busier in an effort to elect the five candidates of the Citizens’ ticket. What has happened to the schools during the past four years of Coffin domination is a matter of such shame as to need no explanation. Jobs have been given to Coffin’s committeemen and their relatives. The law in regard to purchases has been so twisted as to invite protest from the state tax board. The schools are no longer the pride of educators. The large funds raised for education are being diverted to political channels. When faced by the universal protest against his control of the schools, and knowing that the same protest is likely to spread to include his city ticket, it was the part of strategy for Coffin to attempt to throw overboard his Jonahs on the school ticket. But you may be very sure that he also tossed them a life preserver in the shape of a secret promise to send the word down the line at the last minute to save at least one of his favorites. It is true that the statement may be regarded as a confession by Coffin that his rule of the schools has been so bad that he himself can not defend it. It may be a confession that he knows that the present board has conducted itself in such a way that not even he can find a plausible reason for asking for its re-election. When Cofiin indicts himself and his own machine for incompetency or worse, is there any reason for any citizen voting for the continuation of such rule? The school system, under the Cofiin regime, has been a most fruitful source of political power. It has millions to spend. It has hundreds of jobs and positions with which to traffic. Cofiin will not lightly surrender this power. The people must take it away from him. The way to keep Coffin out of the school system is to vote for all five of the Citizens candidates. State Department Learning The state department, of all places, has gone liberal. From the same building which issued not so long ago the “Mexican Bolshevist hegemony” bugaboo, the “red flag on the White House” fake document, and a succession of bans against distinguished but harmless Europeans, now comes anew order. Former President Karolyi of Hungary, whom the department barred from this country in 1925, has been granted a visa without strings. Count Karolyi has not changed; he still is the aristocrat who renounced his class to become an advocate of a republic—a dangerous thing when he did it, and worth his life now if the Hungarian Horthy dictatorship ever gets hold of him. But the department has changed; it no longer is afraid of foreign republicans. But that is not all. High officials of the department are going about the country preaching the ancient gospel of civil liberties so dear to the hearts of our founding fathers and so abhorrent in recent years to the state department. Listen to this: “Freedom of thought and speech—not only for those we love, but, as one of our beloved dissenting judges has said, for those we hate—freedom of thought and speech hate taken on anew importance and need anew vitality in this modern world...where liberalism is not only drowned out by louder cries of extreme opinion, but often is suppressed deliberately, sometimes by the law itself—more often by economic pressure or the stereotyped habits of thought of the community.” And that from the undersecretary of state, Mr. Cotton, speaking at the Harvard law school! We are reminded of this by two press dispatches. One tells of the work of the Soviet government in helping the American graves commission to find the bodies of eighty-six American soldiers killed in the Archangel campaign of 1918-19 against the Russians. Last Sunday a Soviet ship sailed with the bodies —and with her flag at half-mast, honoring the former American foe. As the Soviet funeral ship passed out kto sea. other Rushan ships “lowered their flags in \nal salute to the dead.” IS The other press dispatches tell of the enthusiastic Hsleome of American cities to the Soviet world filers Stand of the failure so far of the state department to Hpctend to those heroes of the Pacific flight the corns’ on courtesy of a Washington invitation and hospitality accorded to all other foreign aviators. It is not yet too late for the state department to do the gracious thing. This is not a matter of politics and diplomacy, and has nothing to do with recognition. The department should not humiliate the country by withholding from the Russian fliers the hospitality which even less civilized peoples extend to guests. Unhappy Hiram The custodian of the moral dignity of the senate, until recently, has been Senator Hiram Bingt-mi of Connecticut. He was self selected. Whenever the honor of the senate was involved he was the first into the breach. When Paul R. Mallon of the United Press secured honorably and published in this newspaper last spring the two secret votes of the senate on public nominees to public office, Bingham was the first to be outraged. It was an affront to the honor of the senate, he said. Other senators were outraged, too, but they

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changed their minds afterward and decided public business better might be transacted publicly, and the secrecy rules were amended in some particulars. Bingham never swerved. He voted for secrecy. Defeated but not unbowed, he and his fiends barred from the floor of the senate Mallon and all other newspaper men who had been accorded the privilege of the floor as representatives of the public. A resolution to restore their privilege has been bottled up, probably forever, in the senate rules committee by Bingham and his friends. Those who respect not the dignity of the senate even in the name of the public must not go unpunished, they said. Seldom has a bad bird come home to roost so swiftly. The custodian of the senate’s honor, it appears, has, by a subterfuge, taken into the secret tariff meetings of the senate finance committee a SIO,OOO-a---year agent of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association disguised as his own secretary. Not openly employed, but secretly. Not as a public sendee for all of us, but a service for the manufacturers of Connecticut. What happened in the secret sessions of the finance committee to get the tariff bill in the shape it is in? Only the manufacturers appear to know. The committee has voted not to make the information public and the newspaper men at the Capitol have been unable to find out all of it. They are barred from the floor for their last transgression, which amounts to a feeble attempt at censorship by coercion. It seems about time for the senate to straighten out this matter of honor and secrecy. Let’s have all this public business in public. We pay this tariff bill, so why not let in the people, as well as the manufacturers, on how it is written, even if the people have not the money to hire a lobbyist to pose as Senator Bingham’s secretary? Theodore E. Burton A noble Roman among statesmen will be heard no more in the halls of congress. Twice a senator and for twelve terms a representative, the late Theodore E. Burton’s life was devoted to public service. He combined the ability of active political leadership with knowledge of economics and government. ' He won the admiration not only’ of his fellowAmericans, but of foreign countries as well. They valued his long and earnest labors for international peace. In his position as president of the Interparliamentary Union and of the American peace congress, he patiently pioneered for the better understanding among nations which made possible the Kellogg treaty renouncing war and which now is leading to further naval limitation. In domestic affairs he will be remembered perhaps chiefly for his efforts to improve American waterways in the interest of the people. When President Hoover in his Cincinnati speech last week on completion of the great Ohio river system of locks and dams, paid high tribute to Senator Burton’s contribution to that achievement, he was echoing the warm recognition which the people of that state so often had given to their representative. There are too few Burtons in public life. Somewhere in New York there must be a superman. Or how did he find out that there are 32,000 speakeasies in that town? Along about December it is barely possible you will see some college president’s name in the papers, if he does something sufficiently sensational. A two-dollar bill may not mean misfortune, but you don’t have a lot of luck trying to buy something with it. This is a democratic country, but heaven help the hostess who puts the dignitaries in the WTong chairs.

REASON By FR landi l S K

EVERY now and then some gentleman in the city bitterly deplores the fact that the farmer takes an occasional automobile ride, but we know of nobody who has a better right to do it than the fellow who feeds the human race. it a it The President is wise to name two senators among his representatives to this London naval conference, since the senate must approve any treaty that is negotiated. Had President Wilson taken a senator or two along with him to the League of Nations powwow, the senate might not have slammed that institution with such vast disrespect. nan A leading citizen of Chicago complains that his town is not advancing as it should, which is surprising, as we thought Chicago was shooting ahead of everybody. a tt a YOU take your hat off to Elizabeth Morrow, the ambassador's daughter, since she has started to teach English in the public schools of Mexico. This should help us in Mexico, unless she has to lick a lot of the kids. ana Tired captains of industry, all run down as a result of overexertion in the watering of the stock, stare incredulously at Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States supreme court, active as ever at the age of 88. And during the Civil war he was shot through the neck and through the breast. a a a Our former ambassador to Great Britain, the late George Harvey, taught the English to wear the hornrimmed spectacles and now it is likely that Ambassador Dawes will convert them to the submarine pipe. a a a MR. HOOVER shows sense to oppose the insertion of words, offensive to Germany, In the inscription on this library which the American people have given to the University of Lovain, particularly since the Germans are doing all they can to build e republic upon the wreckage of despotism. a a a * Mrs. Coolidge tells in a magazine article how sh* was embarrassed at a White House function to find that the napkins had holes in them, but that isn't in it with the horror which grips the heart when you give a party and invite a guest to have another dish of float, then learn that there isn’t any more. a a a One of the greatest individual mergers is that Mayor R. B. Hale of East Chicago, Ind., who now stands charged with having violated the law 1,125 time*

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

' Senator Bingham Says He TFas Framed in the Lobby Probe; He Was; He Framed Himself. THE stoclj market takes another nose dive, with selling orders from west and south reported as the cause. Folks in the hinterland evidently got word that a rescue party had been formed, but they got it three days late. A quiet week-end was sufficient to cool off the rescuers. By Monday, the perfervid philan- ! thropy of Thursday had developed into a thrift complex. Still ready to save the situation, of course, but why at higher prices than are necessary? a tt n 1 The bulls fared no better at Washington than on Wall street. "Dead!” explains Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, referring to the tariff ! bill, and most people hope that he has diagnosed the case correctly. Senator Smoot of Utah still hopes to save the sour hash, but | that can be charged to his chronic optimism regarding anything and I everything which smacks of protecj tion. tt a tt He Framed Himself MEANWHILE, Senator Bingham of Connecticut, who hired a lobbyist as his secretary and got ! caught at it, says he has been ' framed. He has, and he did most of the framing himself. Neither will he get anywhere by ■ accusing Senator Blaine of using a Washington policeman as his chauffeur. Even if true, which Senator Blaine denies, it furnishes no alibi for Bingham. a tt a The only bull which made good Monday was Benito Mussolini. He i offered his usual line of talk and it went over big. Look at the last seven years, he told his followers, and rejoice that yours is the privilege of being bossed by me. Wall street bulls could have said the same thing last Wednesday. II Duce should go to the ticker and be wise. It reveals one of the most inexorable laws of nature. tt tt a Must Be an Ebb FOR every rise of the tide there is an ebb. You simply can’t get away from the rule of rhythm. Seven years ago, chaos and disorder drove Italy to accept Fascismo. Seven years hence Italy may be wanting some of her liberties back. ‘ people will stand for a certain amount of castor oil when they are feeling bad, but once they get well they are apt to demand sweeter medicine. This idea of shooting, exiling or otherwise disciplining every one who raises a voice in opposition can’t last. m a a It is curious how strong a foothold tyranny has gained within ten years after the world was “saved for democracy.” In half a dozen spots we behold onet kind of political order or another sustaining itself by oppressive measures. The worst of it is they all excuse themselves by pointing the finger of scorn at this country as the last ditch stand of ruthlessness and intolerance. mam Five hundred Communists, angered by the “Gastonia outrage,” as they describe it, attempt to stage a demonstration before the American embassy in London. Police prevent them from doing more than hurl a few insults. Meanwhile, the seven defendants in North Carolina face only prison terms, but the nine in Russia face death, and the nine in Russia were convicted definitely because of their political activities. mam Just Another Obstacle CLASS rule is class rule, whether exercised by an aristocracy or the mob, and class hatred goes with it. ! Communism justifies class rule on the ground of class consciousness. We Americans do not deny the existence of class consciousness, but we do deny that it should be accepted as the basis of society and government. In this country, class conscious- : ness is recognized as just one more ! obstacle to be overcome. a it Humanity has suffered from nothing so distinctly as an overdose of class consciousness. Notwithstanding all we have done and all we hope to do, there still is too much of it, right here in America—too much strut on the one hand, and too much of an inferiority complex on the other. But we are hoping and trying in the right direction, which should be of some satisfaction#

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Editor Times—Being a constant reader of your paper, and knowing your fair attitude in all things, my friends and I have decided to write ;to you a few lines on the coming city election. | Unorganized labor always benefits ! when organized labor enters the field, but all labor should vote for any candidate who is fair to it, and that is one reason why we have taken a decided stand against Boss Coffin’s canfhdate. By operating on the open shop basis, Mr. Glossfcrenner is supposed ito show shrewd business instinct, ; which is right, as it enables him to secure cheaper labor, adding more profits to his income. That is fine for Mr. Glossbrenner, but what about the workingman? Mr. Sullivan said nothing regarding labor. He didn’t have to say I anything, because labor knows he will give a fair deal to all, and will

The Mountain Comes to Mohamet

Orthopedic Surgeon Repairs Bones

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IT has been reported that 65 per cent of the American soldiers who returned from the war had disturbances of the bones, joints and muscles which required the attention of the orthopedic surgeon. This specialist in the medical profession deals particularly with malformations and crippling injuries; he is concerned with pains in the back, with flat feet, with fractures, with the paralysis of infantile paralysis and with all sorts of crippling injuries occurring in industry. In his address before the special meeting dealing with this subject at the last annual session of the American Medical Association, Dr. Walter G. Stern of Cleveland pointed out that no longer is the crippled

IT SEEMS TO ME By BROUN

THE future course of N. Y. U. upon the gridiron will be a matter of singularly small importance, since Chick Meehan has revealed himself as the gutless coach of a gutless college, Meehan has announced that he will not play his best quarter back. Dave Myers, in the forthcoming game against the University of Georgia because Myers is a Negro. “We simply are extending the University of Georgia the usual courtesy in following tradition in this matter,” explained Chick Meehan. But Meehan is betraying a wellestablished tradition and the University of Georgia has set the accepted rules of courtesy on end. Many Negroes have played with great success on football teams hereabouts. The names of Paul Robeson and Fritz Pollard come first into my mind. Moreover, the current track captain at N. Y. U. is Phil Edwards, a Negro. Obviously N. Y. U. has no existing tradition which would bar Negroes from athletic competition. a tt a Boorish to Refuse AS far as courtesy goes, it has always been my impression that it was incumbent upon a visitor to accept the customs of the house or the country to which he was invited. It would be boorish to refuse to take off your shoes before entering the home of a Japanese or to hum “Marching Through Georgia” at a confederate reunion. If the customs of any alien spot ase so repugnant to an individual that he can not bring himself to behaVe with proper manners, it is his undoubted right and privilege to stay away. The presence of Myers on the N. Y. U. eleven hardly could have been a surprise to the boys from Georgia, since he has been a regular on the team for two seasons. After all, why should even the proudest Nordic refuse to play

be everybody’s mayor, black and white, rich and poor. All workingmen and women, and also the merchants, should think this over before voting. Candidate,Sullivan is not backed by any gang, clique, or individual, and has no boss, as has his rival. We all know the condition of our schools, for we all have children attending these schools. We have an excellent citizens’ ticket and the Democratic ticket to fall back upon, so there is no reason why we can't oust Coffinism on Nov. 5. Now is the time to show the corrupt politician who deals exclusively in underworld votes that we can all get out in November and vote as does his underworld, and defeat him. Remember, when you hear his flowery speeches, that “birds of a feather flock together.” JOHN M’CTJLLOUGH, SIS West Vermont street.

—DAILY HEALTH SERVICE-

child the main problem of this specialty. The growth of tremendous hospitals for the crippled and the social reforms that have been carried on in the United States during the last ten years somewhat have lessened the problem of the crippled child. The control of immigration, better prenatal and maternity care, improved hygienic conditions, the feeding of proper diets, the use of sunlight and vitamin D to control rickets, and the general advance in the care of tuberculosis have all been important in lessening the number of cases of crippled children. Today the major problem for the orthopedic surgeon is the grown-up person who has become crippled by an injury in industry or by the after effects of various infectious diseases which attack particularly the bones,

against a Negro in a football game? As I understand it, the men of the south contend that members of the Negro race are their inferiors. Very well, then let them come out on the field and prove it if they can. Do they fear the test? tt tt tt Rutgers’ Robeson THIS is not the first time the issue has arisen. When Paul Robeson was at Rutgers, that college had a game scheduled with the University of West Virginia. Shortly before the date of the contest West Virginia intimated that it would like to have Robeson dropped from the lineup. Since he was the finest player in the squad, the suggestion did not appeal to Rutgers at all. Rutgers did not cringe or crawl as N. Y. U. has done. “Play us with Robeson or not- at all,” was the answer. If N. Y. U. had been courageous enough to take a similar attitude I have no doubt that the team from Georgia would have had ample good sportsmanship to go through with its engagements. West Virginia did. “When we lined up for the first play,” Robeson told me yeafrs later, “the man playing opposite me leaned forward and said, ‘Don’t you

islTHeQAtIY

TURKEY WARS ON RUSSIA October 29

ON Oct. 29, 1914, Turkish torpedo boats raided Odessa, sank a Russian gunboat and damaged other Russian and French ships. The raid followed a series of hostile acts against the allies, includfflg the detention of British merchant ships in Turkish waters, and violent attacks on England in Turkish newspapers, then subsidized by German gold. The result of the unwarranted raid was the withdrawal of the Russian ambassador from Constantinople and the instruction by the British government to their Turkish ambassador to leave Constantinople within twelve hours unless Turkey divested itself of responsibility for the recent acts of hostility. Turkey failed to give a satisfactory explanation of its actions and on Nov. 4 a state of war commenced, with Turkey an ally of Germany and Austria.

Daily Thought

Now when they shall fall, they sliall be holpen with a little help.— Daniel 11:34. tt tt tt It is a noble and a great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings nf aLfrtgnri—Rnnt.H.

the muscles or the nerves that control movement. In the care of such injuries, the orthopedic surgeon is no longer dependent wholly on the use of clamps, braces and plaster casts, although these still represent a considerable part of his apparatus. Today the orthopedic surgeon realizes the value of such physical measures as the swimming pool, the hot and cold bath, massage, special exercises, electric stimulation, and particularly education of the patient in proper movement of the muscles. What formerly was largely a mechanical art has now become one of the most intricate specialties demanding all of the resources of the human brain for the diagnosis of the difficulty and all of the powers *of the human brain for the proper administration of various methods of treatment.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those <f 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.

so much as touch me, you black dog, or I’ll cut your heart out.”’ “Can you imagine?” Robeson continued, Tm playing opposite him in a football game and he says I’m not to touch him. When the whistle blew I dove in and he didn’t see me coming. I clipped him sidewise and nearly busted him in two, and as we were lying under the pile I leaned forward and whispered, ‘I touched you that time. How did you like it?’ ” a tt tt Should Meet Test RACIAL superiority, physical or mental, can not ever rest securely on mere ukase. If the Nordic is really the blond darling of the gods let him stand up and meet the test. He hardly looks superior when he scuttles. Nor can it be maintained that the issue about Dave Myers is only a private matter involving the two colleges and no one on the outside. The report of the Carnegie foundation has revealed the fact that N. Y. U. pays its football players a living wage. Now when hired performers appear before cash customers we have what is known as a show. The public by- its contributions supports the J 4. Y. U. players in the style to which they have been accutomed. Accordingly, we have a right to demand that we get the whole show without understudies. (Copyright. 1929. by The Times)

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OCT. 29, 1929

SCIENCE

By DAVID DIETZ-

Radium, Scientists Hope, Will Reveal to Them the Secret, of the Earth's Age. RADIUM, that mysterious substance which first gave scientists a clew to the innermost structure of the atoms of matter, is expected to furnish the answer to another mystery. Radium, it is expected, will tell the secret of the earth’s age. A study is under way at the geophysical laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington to determine the age of the earth by the study of the radio-active content of rocks. Scientists today say that the earth is about 3,000,000.000 years old. The figure, however, is only a fair approximation. The history of the earth is divided by geologists into eras, each of which has a long name—the paleozoic era, the mesozoic era, and so on. By studying the layers of rock, geologists have determined with considerable accuracy the relative lengths of these eras as compared with another. But they are not so sure of the exact length of these various eras in years. They are willing to admit that their figures may be too large or too small. It is hoped, however, that the radium investigation at the geophysical laboratory will settle the question. The investigation has now been under way for several years under the direction of Doctors C. N. Fenner and C. S. Piggot of the laboratory staff. The investigation is beginning to yield excellent results, though It will take many more years of tireless and painstaking research to complete it.

Ages RADIUM lends itself to this type of investigation because the atoms of radium continuously are disintegrating or going to pieces. Radium itself is the result of the disintegration of still heavier materials, uranium and thorium. These substances by disintegrations, turn into radium. Radium, by similar disintegrations, eventually turns itself into lead. The rate at which the disintegration of uranium goes on is quite well known, though less is known about the rate of thorium. “If a rock contains both uranium and lead, it is fair to assume that the lead in the rock was originally in the form of uranium,” Dr. Piggot says. “That is, the rock originally contained uranium, part of which has in time turned into lead. “From mathematical formulas, we can calculate from the amount of uranium and lead present how much uranium must have been in the rock originally. “Since the rate at which uranium disintegrates is known, we can calculate the age of the rock from the amount of lead now present in it and the amount of uranium originally present. * “It is evident that the older the rock is, the greater amount of lead which will be present in proportion to the original amount of uranium since more uranium will have had time to turn into lead.” By studying various types of rocks, the investigators hope to fix the age of various geological structures and thus the length of various areas in the earth’s history. a a a Trillionth THE problem, as stated here, seems rather simple. The fundamental idea is rather simple. But carrying out the investigation is far from a simple matter. Many technical complications render it highly complex. The analysis of each rock sample must be carried on with the maximum of accuracy. Every known precaution must be taken to exclude impurities. The amount of radioactive material present in the average sample of rock is extremely minute. Only the most delicate and sensitive apparatus will detect its presence. To measure its exact amount requires yet more delicate and sensitive instruments. In an ounce of ordinary rock, there is about one-trilllonth of an ounce of radio-active material. There are many sorts of complications which the layman would not suspect. Because the investigators are working with radio-active materials, they must frequently discard the apparatus which they are using because radium emanations settle in it and render it inaccurate for further measurements.