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Only One Issue Despite all efforts to create confusion in the minds of the voters, there is but one issue in the election to be decided Tuesday. The people will determine whether they will give Coffinism anew lease of life or destroy the political regime which has outraged every canon of right, every standard of decency, every safeguard of the public. That the desperate needs of Coffin compelled him at this election to abandon his practice of picking a man without reputation and accepting an outstanding business man should be a warning, not a recommendation. ; Shocked by the widespread revolt when his attack on the city manager law proved so surprisingly successful in the supreme court, it was necessary for Coffin to abandon Winkler and accept Glossbrenner. Asa shrewd and smart hombre, he knew that to name one of his own henchmen would be merely to invite the lightning. It is true that Mr. Glossbrenner says that he has made no pledges of any sort. That Statement is undoubtedly true. But when the same candidate says that he personally interviewed every candidate for the council and approved them in advance, the people may well be warned as to his good judgment in the selection of men. If Coffin could impose upon him with these councilmanic candidates, what would he do to him after election when it comes to the picking of boards and officials? Certainly if Coffin could persuade Glossbrenner that the interests of the city demanded the election of Keane, who was the tool used in the assassination of the city manager law, then he will be able to persuade him of even more important mistakes in the event of his election. The rest of the list gives little more confidence, nor does the nomination of Emmelman, who has served Coffin so servilely and abjectly for the years he has ruled with an iron hand.

In indorsing these Coffin selections Mr. Glossbrenner raises a grave question as to his good judgment of men, or perhaps a suspicion that he may be an easy prey to the shrewdness and plausibility of Coffin, who has fooled many other men during his career. The big fact for people to remember is that Coffin has stood for and sponsored every movement to take away the rights of the people and make politics the chief business of government. It was he who abolished the primary law, and it is somewhat significant that he was able to so easily persuade Glossbrenner, known as the disciple and friend of Albert Beveridge, that he had been mistaken during two decades and that the primary is now alt wrong. It was Coffin whose men in the legislature abolished the safeguards against frauds in elections and erased the registration law. It was Coffin who fought the city manager law at every turn and it was his henchmen in the legislature who used every trick to destroy it. It was Coffin who has brought the school board to its present low estate, and it is Coffin who hopes, through a trick suit, to prevent the people .from again taking possession of the schools. The one way to get rid of the outrages, the one way to safeguard the future, is to put Coffin off watch politically. It can not be done by electing a respected business man as mayor and a Coffin council. It can not be done by ‘ permitting his agents to retain charge of these schools. The hour is here for decisive action. A iCoffin, hiding in the shadow of a GlossbrenIner, is still a Coffin.

Tariff Without Representation Joseph R. Grundy, brutally frank, has given the - people of the United States another look into the i ninds of those who make tariff legislation, by his H testimony before the senate lobby investigating com- || mittee. Giundy believes the founding fathers made a serious mistake when they gave each state two sen- . ators. Failing a provision by which great and wealthy states like Pennsylvania can be given more representation, he believes that senators from smaller states, particularly those of the south and west interested in agriculture instead of industry, should ‘talk darn small” and sit humbly and silently while tariff are being made. Particularly they should sit silent while Pennsylavnia interests write into the bill the provisions which they want. Grundy's frankness gives assurance that he spoke srhat actually was in his mind. Apparently there is ao limit to the heights to which he would drive iniustrial rates. A tariff act which would embargo oreign imports completely and allow the industrialsta of the United States to set prices at any level irhich they chose, would be the realization of his Ireams. k This is the man who had entree into the offices if Majority Leader Watson, Chairman Smoot of the lnance committee, and other tariff writers when heir doors were closed to other citizens. This is the nan who boasted not only of his Influencing the

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tariff law passed in 1922, but on every tariff law since 1897. Is it any wonder that the great majority of our citizens oppose the bill, conceived and engineered by the big Grundy and the countless smaller Grundies who have swarmed about Washington ever since the tariff fight began? The Government Is Guilty Os the many forms of lawlessness by law officials which flourish under the name of prohibition en ■ forcement, one of the worst is wiretapping. It is especially vicious because it has been given a semblance of so-called legality by courts. Despite statements by the prohibition chiefs that the practice had been discontinued, and despite pledges by President Hoover against lawless enforcement of the law, the government just has obtained a liquor conspiracy indictment from a District of Columbia grand jury based on wiretapping. The federal agents “listened in’’ on a series of telephone conversations among five persons named in the indictment. So long as this practice continues, the fourth and fifth amendments to the federal Constitution, protecting citizens from giving evidence against themselves and from unlawful search by officials, are dead. So long as this practice continues, the federal government by its example is encouraging and inciting American citizens to one of the most despicable and Insidious crimes which can be perpetrated against free men—espionage. So long as this practice continues, the federal government is guilty of tyranny. The federal government should be, and we believe will be, eventually, held accountable for this tyranny. We commend to President Hoover’s personal attention one of the great opinions in the history of American law, the dissenting opinion of Justice Brandeis when the supreme court in the Seattle case nearly two years ago upheld by a majority of one-the constitutionality of federal wiretapping. “Asa means of espionage, writs of espionage, writs of assistance, and general warrants are but puny instruments of tyranny and oppression when compared with wiretapping,” said Brandeis. “Men'born to freedom naturally are alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by means of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. “The terms of appointment of federal prohibition agents do not purport to confer upon them authority to violate any criminal law. “Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct as citizens. “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” One at a Time, Ladies! Henry Ford, in a current magazine article, predicts the disappearance of women from industry. They do not want to think much, he says; they prefer to take orders, and they are not precise. Just wait until Mr. Ford begins to hear from women! Whatever one may think about his judgment, there will be no lack of admiration for his courage. And his judgment probably is wrong. Few nowadays believe that women can’t think just as fast and as accurately as men. So far as we can learn from reading and observation, the trend is in the opposite direction from the one Mr. Ford predicts.

REASON By FR landis K

UP at Dearborn, Mich., Henry Ford has made a fair start toward the building of an old-fashioned town, but it is the work of a lifetime, as he doubtless realizes, as night after night, forgotten objects parade across the tablets of memory. We can mention a few of the things he’ll simply have to get. a a a An old tobacco store is one and it should be a frame lean-to between two taller buildings and it should call the chewing world’s attention to the virtues of Battle Ax, Climax, Red Horse, Spear Head, Old Sledge and Star. Then there must be open buckets of fine cut and out in front a wooden Indian, cordially proffering a bunch of cigars to a smoking civilization. a a a A barber shop with old wooden chairs and vanished red upholstery, an assortment of Police Gazettes, revealing pugilists and plump ladies in tights. There must be a wooden rack containing 200 shaving cups with the owners’ names in large fancy gilt letters, and while off duty the barbers must practice on their banjos and guitars for the dance to be given the following night. a a a AN old postoffice with private boxes, numbered from one up to three hundred, each opening with a key, and after each train he must arrange for fifty or seventy-five townsmen to form in line and call for their mail, whether they ever get any or not. Then there must be a suitable number of innocent bystanders, speculating darkly as to who wrote the letters opened by their fellow-citizens. a a a A town pump which wheezes with the asthma and surrenders its liquid refreshments only after desperate resistance, and there must be an iron cup, thick as a railroad restaurant saucer, and it must be fastened with a strong iron chain, and there should be a proper amount of moss about the surrounding stones. a a a A shoe shop where an old bald-headed cobbler sits! on a leather seat and talks politics with local statesmen while pegging soles. The windows must be cobwebby and several hundred boots ad shoes, beyond reclamation must litter up the establishment. a a a AN old grocery with two ancient Anglo-Saxons playing checkers, back by the stove, a dozen others leaning over in tense anxiety, suppressing their suggestions as to strategy only with the greatest effort, and all of these gentlemen must wear felt boots, caps over their ears, and two pairs of pants and three or four vests and all of them must be able to hit the sawdust box six feet away. non The courthouse must have a hitch-rack around it and half a hundred horses must stamp and fight the flies. • Old-fashioned lawyers with Prince Albert coats, expansive shirt fronts and open collars which give the freedom of the city to the-Adam's apple must go in and come out with their hands full of legal papers, and the bailiff must open an upper window and call three fl™** the names of those needed in a lawsuit

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M 5 E. Tracy SAYS:

'Mob Psychology Led to the Boost of Stocks Without Rhyme or Reason and It Also Way Cause an Epidemic of Cold Feet. "'T'HE whole affair is a brainstorm X in the market itself,” says Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, referring to the crash in stocks. He is correct, but the brainstorm began many months ago, when speculation took command of the show. To put it briefly, we have had a great bubble blowing spree, and became so infatuated with it as to forget that bubbles burst. Stock values have been boasted, without regard to dividends, or to the business back of them. The idea that this could go on indefinitely developed into a veritable craze. n n a * The present slump is less surprising than is the fact that so few saw it coming. Only the weather wise were prepared. As*for the rest, they appear to have been hypnotized with the notion that a foolproof system of making money without work had been discovered. All one had to do was sit down before a blackboard and bet on prices as they went up. It sounds silly, but that is exactly what millions did, and the worst of it is, they considered themselves not only very smart, but very wise. nan It's Mob Psychology THE boom in stocks did not originate in business, but in the speculative complex. You could not make people believe that before last Thursday, but they are more than glad to believe it now, because it gives them a chance to hope that the slump will not hurt business too seriously. Mob psychology remains the most mysterious, as well as the most dangerous, bug under the chip. It was mob psychology that led to the boost of stocks without rhyme or reason, and mob psychology may cause an epidemic of cold feet. Barring that, we ought to recover from the water squeezing operation without permanent Injury.

Under existing conditions, a share of stock is blessed with two values. First, there is the value determined by the dividends it pays and the business back of it. Second, there is the value determined by what people hope, expect, or believe. The stock market, as dominated by speculators and margin buyers, is interested chiefly in the latter. That is what sent it up, and that is what brought it down. So far as the dividend value goes, it is about the same today as it was a w'eek, month, or even year ago. m a a Business Changes Little IN fundamentals business has not changed very much since the depression of 1921. It certainly has not changed during the last week. To. read the ticker, however, one would think that the country was about to go bankrupt. The point is, of course, that the ticker no longer represents business conditions, but what a lot of suckers fall for on the one hand, and what a lot of manipulators can put over on the other. a’ a a Apologists for this greatest of all gambling games argue that it is necessary to provide capital. Maybe it is. Maybe we can not sell stocks, except through an exchange. Maybe we are doomed to continue the evil of unrestricted speculation to provide an investment market. But the long-continued rise in stock prices has put very little capital into business, and the present slump will take very little out. a a a Relief Two Ways IF the truth were known, it probably would be found that most of the great corporations really are glad that the slump has spared them from paying dividends on so much water next year, while merchants and manufacturers who have suffered from a credit stringency because of high call money see it as a promise of relief. The boom market has been more of a handicap than a help to legitimate business. It has raised interest rates, diverted cash, and increased the capital investment of many concerns against their will. Real estate development has been held back and building programs have been postponed on the one hand, while manufacturers have been forced into over-production on the other. There is a crumb of comfort In the prospect that lower prices mean a lessened demand for call money, and that a lessened demand for call money means easier credit in other lines.

Questions and Answers

What is “atomic weight?" The weight of an atom of a chemical element compared with that of an atom of hydrogen. Describe the flag of the kingdom of Iraq? Its length Is double its breadth, and it is divided horizontally into three parallel and equal stripes; the upper one black, the middle stripe white and the bottom one green. It bears a red truncated cone on the side next to the staff, of which the greater base is equal to the breadth of the flag, and the smaller base equal to the breadth of the white stripe, and the height is equal to one-fourth of the length of the flag. In the middle of the cone are two white stars of seven points, in a perpendicular position parallel to the staff. How large is the police force hi New York? The total personnel In 1827 was 16*7*

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Eyes Can Not Be ‘Transplanted’

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. NOT long ago a Missouri newspaper had a story about a girl who sneezed so hard that her eye fell out. Tire item went on to say that hospital authorities had said that it was not unusual for an eye to be removed for operations, but that to have it forced out by coughing or sneezing was unique in medical annals. Again and again newspapers have carried stories to the effect that someone had had an,eye taken out, washed and put back in the socket. There, indeed, are numerous stories having to do with the transplanting of eyes from one person to another. The actual fact of the matter is that the eye is one of the most deli-

IT SEEMS TO ME BROUN

AMONG the current plays my favorites are: “Sweet Adeline,’’ “Strictly Dishonorable” and “June Moon.” I have seen no production within the last two weeks which deserves to stand with them upon the list. And here are three new books which seem to me worth recommending: “A Farewell to Arms,” “Animals Looking at You” and “Born to Be.” This last named book has, among other things, a novelty value. It goes far to reinforce the theory of those who scoff at the emphasis often placed upon the technique of writing. Taylor Gordon, the author, is a singer of spirituals. In his autobiographical narrative he states that his schooling was of the slightest. A few years in a Montana grammer School was all the education this Negro lad ever had. Os course, like every other alertminded person, he continued to learn after quitting the orthodox classroom. But he was graduated from institutions which never have had much reputation for the dissemination of wisdom. Thus we find in the book that Taylor Gordon was alternately page boy in a brothel, cattle man, chauffeur, stage doorman, Pullman porter and singer. a m m Schooling STILL, it almost seems as if knowledge sprouts in the most unlikely places. One need only stoop a little to gather himself impressive garlants. And Gordon appears to have carried his eyes and his ears with him into every job. It is true that his lack of familiarity with the business of writing betrays him into some crudities. The book as it stands contains a number of passages which were better gone. And this in spite of what seems an expert editing job by Muriel Draper. It isn’t that the untrained writer doesn’t know what to say. His lack of technical proficiency is chiefly displayed in his ignorance of what not te say. The editing was probably a process of condensation. Taylor Gordon has it. Not for nothing is he one of the most moving of all singers of Negro music. He can compel an ecstasy with his voice and at least put pressure upon it with a written sentence. I commend to your attention: “After that I began to watch closer the effect of the spirituals on people. I have grown to really enjoy singing them, even if I do have to concentrate hard on dead people

Daily Thought

Because you have seen vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you.—Ezekiel 13:8. i t In condemning the vanity of women, men complain of the fire they themselves have kindled.—Lingree.

“Collegiate ”

cate of all of the structures in the human body, and that it is not at all possible to take an eye out and wash it, for the simple reason that the vision is controlled by the optic nerve which comes from the brain to the eye and connects up with the retina or the tissue back of the eye by which vision is received, and the message of vision carried to the brain. The eye fits In the socket and only in rare instances is it possible even to force the eye from the socket by a fraction of an inch. In certain diseases, such as exophthalmic goiter, pressure develops which forces the eyes slightly from the socket and gives the appearance of “pop-eyes.” There is only one instance known in medical records of a person who was able at will to force the eye forward In the socket. This was a

(chiefly my mother) so I can get their interpretation. “The dead people I think of sang them in true Christian belief. A spiritual makes some people cry, others laugh, and arouses another’s passion. “All these things can be done with song. I don’t know any other music that can get the same result — when I sing to people, 10,000 sing to me.” a a a Terseness NOW, that last line is what I call expert writing. An entire column of musical criticism of the nature of the Negro spiritual could say no more. And in addition to being revealing, the words group themselves together to create a beautiful sound. I always have felt that it might be entirely possible for someone unversed in the art of painting to produce a really superb picture. If he were, sufficiently emotionalized while engaged in the task even the tyro might push the pigments into an arresting composition. Os course, the technician has an advantage. He learns to fill in acceptably the periods between inspiration. He is a better judge of his own stuff and knows what to discard. Moreover, he has ever so much more chance to repeat. Many an excited amateur has leaped into a play and given one performance of a role good enough to challenge comparison with professional competitors. This, in a sense, is true of Taylor

-TqdAvr®'Tp e '“ mM WORLD’S FAIR CLOSED October 30 THE World’s Columbian Exposition, an international fair held in Chicago to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the landing of Columbus, closed on Oct. 30, 1893. Total attendance was 27,539,041 and there were 250,000 exhibits of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mines and sea. Receipts amounted to $33,290,065 and disbursements were $31,117,353. The exposition was authorized by congress in 1890 and a total fund of about $20,000,000 was available for use before the fair opened. The The site covered an area of 666 acres in Jackson park in the southeastern part of Chicago. The principal buildings were constructed of a composition called staff, consisting of a mixture of plaster of Paris with a little cement, glycerin and dextrin in water, which at a short distance gave the appearance of marble. The exposition subsequently became known as the White City. During the exposition, a series of international congresses, .grouped under twenty departments and 224 general divisions, were Jbelc,

Cuban whose case was described in scientific periodicals. There is not the slightest credence to be attached to the story that eyes are removed, washed, and put back. The transplantation of eyes has been accomplished only in certain forms of lizards and in these cases the eye never was removed, but merely moved intact from the socket in which it rested to another point nearby, the nerve and blood vessel connections being maintained intact. Occasionally attempts are made to transplant portions of the cornea or artificial cornea to the front of the eye in a person who has developed a white scar over that tissue and can not see because the region in front of the pupil is opaque. Very rarely indeed are such operations successful; absolutely authentic instances of success are yet to be recorded.

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

Gordon in “Born to Be.” The book is very happy, but somewhat accidental. Maybe he never will do it again. Still, this seems to me a little captious. Gordon’s book can be measured by the work of two competitors, one white and one a Negro. In general scope arid mood it falls into the field of Carl Van Vechten’s “Nigger Heaven.” I like “Born to Be” the best. In spite of technical deficiencies, it sweeps along with extraordinary gusto. Gordon has had all kinds of adventures and he has moved through them with all his powers of observation trained upon the incident. ‘He has a rippling sense of humor. That can’t be learned, either.

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OCT. 30, 1929

SCIENCE —By DAVID DIETZ —

Science Is Waging a Battle Over Where the Cradle of the Human Race Was Located. A THREE-CORNERED battle is raging in the world of science over the cradle of the human race. Seme say It was in Europe, others in Asia, still others in Africa. Eminent anthropologists can be found to support each point of view. The one thing they all agree upon is that the New World is truly new as far as mankind is concerned. Man, they agree, made his first appearance in America about 15,000 years ago. It is believed that man entered the American continent from Asia by way of Alaska. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the United States National Museum, one of the world's foremost anthropologists, believes that western and southwestern Europe was the birthplace of mankind. He bases his opinion upon the fact that many of the earliest skeletal remains have been found in Europe. Excavations and searching of caves have revealed that a race of man, differing more widely from present-day man than the various races of man differ from each other today, inhabited most of Europe from 40,000 years ago to about 20.000 years ago. This race is known as the Neanderthal race. About 20,000 years ago, this race was replaced by the Cro-Magnon race and later other races which resemble those of today.

Neanderthal THE remains of the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon cultures, weapons, utensils, and art objects, as well as many skeletal remains, are found all over Europe. The widespread nature of these findings is one of the chief arguments for believing that mankind arose in Europe. Very early skeletal remains are extremely few. Europe boasts of two. There is the skull and jawbone found at Piltdown, Sussex, England. Anthropologists consider this a sort of pre-man or “dawn man.” Technically they have called him Eoanthropos. It is estimated he lived 100,000 years ago. A few bones of a somewhat similar type were found at Heidelberg, Germany. The oldest near-human skull is from Asia, however. It was found in Java. Anthropologists refer to it as that of an ape-man and ha,ve named him “Pithecanthropes.” The case for Africa is much strengthened by the finding in 1921 of a skull in Rhodesia. “Rhodes man,” as he has been named by the anthropologists, had a more primitive skull than Neanderthal man. It is also pointed out that both the two types of ape which most nearly resemble man, the gorilla and the chimpanzee, are found in Africa. The oldest known remains of anthropoid apes have been unearthed in the Fayum valley in western Egypt. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is making a study of Egypt. Its investigators have found flint implements indicating that civilization began there 15,000 year ago.

Reasons DR. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, president of the American Museum of Natural History, Is one of the chief advocates of the theory that the human race originated in Asia. He believes that mankind is far older than many other authorities will admit. One of the things which Dr. Osborn hopes will be established eventually by Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews’ expeditions into Mongolia is that mankind arose in Asia. Dr. George S. Duncan of the American university, who also holds this theory, advances ten reasons for it. They are: 1. The Java ape-man remains are the oldest of the sort known and Java once was a part of the mainland of Asia. 2. The finding in a cave near Peiping of some teeth thought to be more than 100,000 years old. 3. The discovery of stone implements more than 25,000 years old in Mongolia. 4. The discovery of ruins in Mongolia believed to be of extreme antiquity. 5. Two species of anthropoid apes, the orang an'* gibbon, exist in Asia. 6. Most of our domestic animals and cereals came from Asia. 7. Mongolia is the oldest dry land on the globe. 8. The great size of Asia. 9. Asia is located centrally to other lands. 10. The oldest remains of animals related to the anthropoid apes and known as prim tes have been found in Asia.