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Two Objectives Whatever happens in the outcome of the city election, the indictment of Coffin now seems to be unanimous. More revealing is the fact that ambitious men will denounce an evil and caress it at the same time. In his final api>eal for a purely partisan victory, former Mayor Charles Jewett declared that there was to be anew leadership of the Republican party which would wipe out the shsme and degradation brought upon it by Coffin. And then he urged the election of Keane, who permitted the use of his name to destroy the city manager law, and of Emmelman, known as the most trusted servant of Coffin. It was to escape just such inconsistent appeals to passion and prejudices that the believers in the city manager movement gave their time and thought and effort during the last five years. They had hoped to make government not only more efficient but more representative by eliminating party labels and party appeals from city affairs. The opposition of Jewett to the manager system can be understood. He warned that the election of a Democrat might mean the distribution of patronage in a way that would elect Democrats to county and to state offices and to congress—especially congress. Os course, there went with the warning an implied pledge to Republicans if victorious that the jobs would be handed about to those who w T ould take a special interest, on public time, in the election of Republicans to these positions. The escape, of course, must come through an intelligent electorate who will not yield to partisan appeals or to party passions, but remake their government on a basis that will permit no Coffin, either a Republican oi a Democratic one, to misuse the power and patronage of public offices for selfish and sinister ends. In that direction the effort of the League of Women Voters to rewrite the Constitution of the state offers some relief. Still more relief could be quickly obtained by so “amending” the supreme court that its decisions will not be under suspicion of being purely political. These are two major objectives. When they are accomplished the government will be safer and the people better protected in their rights.

Weighing Judge Hopkins The senate judiciary committee should give careful study to the facts surrounding the nomination 01 Richard J. Hopkins of Kansas for the federal bench. President Hoover and Attorney-General Mitchell tried for months to persuade Kansas Republicans to submit another name for this important post. Hopkins now is a judge of the Kansas supreme court. He is said to be honest and well liked. He is an excellent vote-getter. But some of the outstanding lawyers cf Kansas question his fitness for the federal bench. There also is a question about his having accepted money from the state Anti-Saloon League some years ago, while on the state bench, which he says was for expenses for going to and from dry meetings. The Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U. and si*\*iar Kansas groups actively suppo*. ted Hopkins for tha Judgeship. Mitchell’s own inquiry is said to have convinced him that Hopkins did no* measure up to the standards set by the President in his announced attempt to elevate the judiciary. So the attorney-general informed the President many months ago. Hoover then requested the submission of other names, expressing his willingness to appoint an organization nominee. But the senatorial spokesmen, backed by the state G. O. P. and Governor Clyde Reed, declined to withdraw Hopkins’ name. The senate’s only concern should be the candidate’s fitness. Its only duty is to pass upon his qualifications, without thought of political considerations. It has, wisely, summoned Mitchell before it in this case. It may find that new information led the attorney-general to revise his original opinion. But it may find that the bench is still pretty deep in the patronage slough. A candid statement from the attorney-general may show what difficulties face the President in his insistence upon better Judges. An adverse committee report, if Justified, may rebuke the politicians who are blocking the President, A Foreign Complicrtion The swing of France to the Tardieu nationalist group will not help the coming naval conference. Nor will it contribute to the co-operation between France and Germany, at a time when such delicate matters as evacuation of the Rhineland and negotiations over the Saar must be handled. Premier Tardieu is. or at least long has been, representative of extreme French militarism and chauvinism. Os the same type is the new minister of war, Maglnot. Much depends on Briand. It is reported that he accepted the office of foreign minister only on condition that his conciliatory foreign policy be continued. At best it is anticipated he will have to make a number of anti-German speeches to satisfy his nationalist colleagues. At worst there will be a return to the belligerent Poincare-Tardieu policy, which so long retarded European political and economic reconstruction in the early post-war period. In any event, the joh of Hoover and MacDonald in obtaining a five-power naval agreement at the London conference in January is not going to be easy. Tardieu'3 rise to power in Paris makes it all the more

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necessary for Hoover and MacDonald to follow their original plan of advance negotiations with France to eliminate as many disagreements as possible in preparation for the conference. The Wrong Hero The following appears in one of the accounts of what now is happening in Wail Street: “The limelight is occupied by the bankers and financiers who throughout the speculative frenzy of the last two years have stuck to tried principles of finance.” Nothing to us seetns more incongruous or more unjust than the way in which the banker as such has come out of the financial hurricane as the hero of the piecej. For this very simple reason: In final analysis, the banker is ths financial leader of this nation. To him goes the stewardship and along with it the responsibility. He is well paid. The stewardship resting with him, he therefore in final analysis is responsible for the very boom that brought on the crash. He did not, as the article quoted said, stick to true and tried principles of finance during the two years that the boom was growing. He permitted the boom to grow. Accordingly, no matter how much he may have contributed during the crash toward lessening the shock, he nevertheless is not entitled to be rated as the only sane person in the madhouse. Speaking generally, the banker is the one force that should have prevented the inflation. For he held the purse strings of the nation. He did not prevent it. Therefore he deserves no tribute. And it would be a mistake—one that would lessen very greatly his sense of responsibility in the future —to let him get away at the finish as the noble hero of the plot, when, as a matter of fact, he is not. He Had It Coming The senate vote Monday on the Bingham incident showed the justice of the wide condemnation of the pending tariilf bill as a gigantic grab for more profits by the big industries. Twenty-two senators showed by their votes that they could see nothing wrong in the action of Senator Bingham of Connecticut in secretly placing a SIO,OOO a year lobbyist on the senate rolls, introducing him into the secret sessions of the finance committee while it was writing the bill, and supporting rates desired by the Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association. We do not pretend to interpret the motives of the twenty-two, except to point out that many of them Delong to that wing of the Republican party which has earned the title “reactionary.” But as to six of them, the vote was extremely significant. Senators Smoot, Shortridge, Reed, Edge, Green and Keyes belong to the senate finance committee and to that majority which, with Bingham, wrote the bill. Bingham's unthinking action discredited the work of the committee as a whole in the mind of the country. If any member of the senate should have condemned and resented his actions, these six should have done so. But, instead, they voted solidly against censure of Bingham. Senator Blaine of Wisconsin charged recently that the senate finance committee had been “packed” for eastern industry and against agriculture. It does seem strange that such like-minded men, almost entirely from the industrial east and northeast, should have drifted on to the committee, which can boast only one independent minded Republican. It does not seem strange, especially in view of their indirect indorsement of Bingham’s methods, that the resulting bill should be what it is—so outrageously unfair and so direct a violation of the President's and the country’s wishes.

’T' \ CiT’ATvT FREDERICK REAoOJN LANDIS

MR. HOOVER'S distress over the killing of that guardsman and the wounding of several others while firing a presidential salute at Madison, Ind., is probably coupled with a conviction that the sacrir.ee was utterly unnecessary. It is a lot of monkey business to blaze away with a lot of cannon whenever the President visits a place, particularly in time of peace. * U ft Justice Hitz should have sent Doheny to jail for cursing the court when the jury brought in its verdict of guilty in the case of ex-Secretary Fall, and he should have sent Lawyer Hogan to jail for loudly cursing the jury in the courtroom immediately after adjournment. Both of them should have been sent to assist Mr. Harry Sinclair, the rising young pharmacist of the District of Columbia jail. a a a IN his new book, Sir James Jeans, the British astronomer, announces that the earth was born out of the sun two thousand million years ago, tnat ft. has had life for three hundred million years and that in one hundred million years more everything will freeze. a a a Now’ that the prince of Wales has become a licensed flier, he should bear in mind that falling off an airplane is somewhat different from falling off a horse. m a a It does not increase the country’s respect for lawenforcement for Senator Blease of South Carolina, who helps make laws for the rest of us, to announce in a public address that it is no crime to take a drink of liquor and that he often takes-one himself. a a a On the seventh anniversary of his march on Rome, Mussolini made a hot speech to his Black Shirts and roared the warning to the world: “Hands off Italy!’’ Inasmuch as nobody manifests any disposition to put any hands on Italy, the same is pure apple sauce. If Mussolini will only take voice culture, he ought to go big in grand opera after he gets out of politics. a a a WITH Mr. Pantages headed for one prison and Mrs. Pantages headed for another and Aimie McPherson being investigate by the grand jury for misappropriation of funds, Los Angeles is clutching the spotlight with both hands. a a a Queen Maria of Rumania passes into eclipse as a result of repudiating her criticism of the politicians in charge of her country to save her allowance from the government. You can’t take a violent position, then back up for financial reasons without losing your appeal. a a a R. H Hamilton, prominent lawyer of Weatherford, Tex., is being defended by twelve other lawyers in his trial for shooting his son-in-law. There's great danger that he will get them confused with the Jugk

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

For Diplomatic Reasons, 11 i Duce Map Consent to Peace Parleys, but His Faith Is in Force. ONE dog furnishes an excuse for others to bark, arid the same | is true of jingoes. The demand of German Nationalists for a plebiscite on war guilt, reparations, and the Young plan finds a quick and vivid reaction in ! the rise of Andre Tardieu to power in France, not to mention Mussolini’s renewed beating of the tomtom. For the moment, it looks as though the plans of President Hoover and Premier MacDonald might suffer a setback. Though England and America, as well as the common people of most other lands, are just as interested in disarmament as they were two • weeks ago, European leaders seem to have entered a free-for-all to glorify war, ana “There is widespread talk of j peace in the world,’’ Mussolini tells | the crippled veterans of Italy, “yet | history teaches us that when there ! are serious crises, it is arms and war that solve them.” “The people that already have attained a place in the sun,” he elaborates, “do not want to make room for the people who intend to make a similar places for them- | selves.” u a tt Mussolini Favors Force THAT is what you might call a frank statement of policy. For diplomatic reasons, II Duce may | consent to peace parleys, but his faith is in force. Having risen to power by violence he visualizes violence as the one sure means of preserving it. Thus far, he has been content to preach the doctrine. Some day he may be tempted to practice it. BUB The looked-for boom in stocks did not materialize Monday. That is a good sign. In spite of the slump of week before last, many stocks still are selling at a higher level than is healthy. Money should bring as good a return in stocks as in first-class securities, which means 5 per cent, at least. When it does not, there is too much speculative element in their value.

a a a A Moneyed Aristocracy TWO HUNDRED NINETY Americans paid taxes on incomes of one million or more in 1927. That shows one aspect of prosperity, and one which is not altogether reassuring. We are developing a moneyed aristocracy in this country. What is more, we are developing a system to preserve it. In the old days grd&t fortunes were less of a menace, because as our grandfathers said, “only three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves.” With hired experts and great institutions to manage the estate, we no longer can depend on that method of dissipation. a a a Those very safeguards which financial genius has provided to “protect the widow and orphan” seem likely to perpetuate the difference between rich and poor. To put it briefly, American business is developing a peerage. When England has her dukes, earls and baronets, we have families with five million dollar incomes, three million dollar incomes and one million dollar incomes. a a a Equalize Opportunity THE other side of the picture is revealed not only by such sore spots as Gastonia, but by such disagreeable incidents as a husband beating his wife to get 7 cents, and a boy of 12 strangling an old woman for $3. We can not hope to make people perfect, of course, or to level their capacity, whether as represented by physical strength, intelligence, or money in the bank. Insofar as it is possible, however, our aim should be to equalize opportunity. In this connection, there is almost as much danger in fortune by birth as there is in title by birth. a a a It is in line with our standards and traditions to let the individual keep what he makes, as long as he makes it honestly, but that presents a different and a less consequential problem than the idea of letting him pass it on indefinitely. The menace of great wealth in this country goes back to the probability of its retention by the same family from generation to generation.

Questions and Answers

What is Newton’s law of gravitation? Any two bodies in the universe attract each other with a force which is directly proportional to the product of the masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Where in the Bible is the expression, “God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb” found? It is not in the Bible, but is from Sterne’s “Sentimental Journey.” By what party was George Washington elected? He was the unanimous choice of the electors, and there were no political parties organized in the United States at that time. How many volumes are In the library at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis? About 65,800. What is the name of the song -ung by a Negro at the close of the motion picture “Show Boat?” "Lonesome Road," by Gene Austin and Not Shilkret. What state leads In the production of corn? low* . . ...

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Parathyroid Gland Vital to Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the . Health Magazine. SITUATED beside the thyroid gland, with which most people are acquainted, lie two soft, reddish bodies each about the size of a large bean which are known as the parathyroid glands. When these glands are removed from a person’s body, he suffers from a condition called tetany, which includes spasmodic movements, loss of weight, pain and tingling in the hands and feet, cramping of the extremities and

IT SEEMS TO ME By BROUN

IAM aware of the fact that the general newspaper public takes very little interest in any phase of of the Gastonia situation. It never has assumed the dramatic quality which came to the Sacco-Vanzetti case toward its tragic last act. It is easier to grow excited about men who are on the brink of death. People on the outside take twentyyears in prison rather lightly. I come back to the case now because the public ought to be interested, whether it is or not. And more particularly I want to apologize for having taken an unjustifiable parochial position in the whole matter. * So clumsy was my expression that I seemed to speak as if the injustice being done was in some way peculiar to North Carolina or, at the very most, to the south. In some respects many of the southern states do lag behind the march of liberal opinion, but it would not be difficult to point out instances in which justice had been less than even-handed in every state of the Union. a a a ■ Denied Rights MOREOVER, there should be mention made of the gallant groups which fight valiantly for their rights in southern communities which are all against them. A correspondent, nettled by some recent remark in this column about the surrender of N. Y. U. in the matter of David Myers, a Negrct football player, asks, “What does a columnist do to display guts? ’ The question is not unfair and the answer is “Almost nothing.” I can rail against North Carolina justice without fear of tar and feathers. Nor has there been a single occasion upon which my employer has said, “Go slow, Heywood.” even on matters concerning which I might be considered rabid. ' But concerning Gastonia I am not actuated by any extreme political or economic beliefs. Surely it yet has not become “radical” in America to demand that every man should possess equal rights before the law. I arn afraid that in the Carolina mill country even this position may be considered Communistic and so I salute the managing editor of the Rale ; gh News and Observer, Frank Smethurst who has written what seems to me the most eloquent comment yet printed on the trial. a a a Carolinian Speaks AND this was written by a man close to the facts, by a man surrounded on all sides by hostile oninion. There are circumstances in which a newspaper man can and does display guts. Under the caption “Ella May Wiggins Doesn’t Count” he wrote: “It seefts to be true. The blood of Ella May Wiggins is as futile as her life. Yesterday Gaston county washed its hands of her

Daily Thought

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similar symptoms. The hair may fall out and the nails may change; there is a thinning of the skin and sweating. In all of these patients the amount of calcium In the blood is less than normal, as is true also in the brain. The amount of lime poured out of the body is increased. Furthermore, there are disturbances of the breathing rate. Obviously the removal of these little glands is a serious matter and physicians who remove the thyroid gland for goiter are very careful not to interfere with the parathyroid glands.

blood as easily and as indifferently as a mob of its citizens shot her down more than a month ago. “Ella May is in a cheap coffin in a neglected graveyard. Her five children are in an orphanage, where they will be taught to love their state, to obey its laws, to honor justice who stands with a keen sword to protect the rights of the weak as well as the strong, the poor as well as the rich, the weary cotton mill

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—A piece of campaign literature was passed out recently by a Republican worker and on the front page was a picture of the Republican candidate for mayor. Turning to the last page, the union label loomed up large and clear, and it is not necessary to add that it was a good piece of printing. ft seems passing strange that the candidate for mayor, managing a printing office, doesn’t at least have his own personal campaign literature printed in his own shop. Is it possible that the work done in his own shop is so poor that he doesn’t want to pass it out? Especially, when for years he has declared from the housetops, in season and out of season, that ail members of labor unions are lawless and without the pale. Isn’t it a little inconsistent that 4 now, when he is a candidate for political office, he finds it expedient to patronize the lawless element and have his political printing done in a union shop? E. O. C. Second ward.

GUNPOWDER PLOT FAILS November 5

THE Gunpowder Plot, a project for destroying the kings, lords ! and commons at the* opening of parliament in London failed on Nov. | 5, 1605. Disappointed and angered by the ! persecution of Catholics by King James I, a few of the Catholics banded together to overthrow the government and establish one of j their own. The originator of the plot was Robert Catesby, but it was a soldier of fortune, Guy Fawkes, who was selected to set fire to a hogshead and j thirty-six barrels of gunpowder ! which had been placed in a cellar under the house of lords. Members of parliament learned of ' the plot and Fawkes was arrested | on the morning of Nov. 5, a little after midnight, as he came from the cellar dressed for traveling. Examined under torture. Fawkes confessed his own guilt and revealed j the names of his associates. Nearly all of them were killed on being ar- ; rested or died with Fawkes on the scaffold. Far from remedying the op- j pression of Roman Catholics, the I plotters greatly increased their mis.a •

Fortunately for those who may suffer with tetany because of difficulties with the parathyroids or because of removal of these glands, modern science has developed a method of treatment which seems to be efficient. The physiologic chemist Collip, who aided Banting in the discovery of insulin, the specific remedy for diabetes, also has isolated an active substance from the parathyroid glands. When this substance is put into the body, the amount of calcium in the blood increases and the symptoms of tetany improve.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those if one of America's most Interesting- writers, and are presented without regard to the.r agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude rs this paper.—The Editor.

hand as well as the mighty mill baron. “If there is in them any heritage of intelligence, it will take a lot of teaching to make’ them kiss the cross that the hate of neighbors pressed upon them, to revere the county and the state that spewed them out upon the. world as orphaned undesirables “A half dozen wild-eyed Communists came preaching that all ! capital is the brutal, relentless enemy of all labor, that the organized state with its system of law and justice is the chief tool of capitalism. Some of us went crazy with fear. a a a Problem for State THAT are we going to do if a W great part of our population, overworked, underpaid and underprivileged. folks of little learning, little imagination but good memory for wrongs, recalling the striking contrast of state action in Gaston county, conclude that these wildeyed radicals are right? “What is the state going to do about it then? “More important, what is the state going to do about it now?” This editorial ought to win the Pulitzer prize. Aside from that it goes to prove that the south is not the great desert pictured by Mr. Mencken. Clear and deep wells can be found here and there and if I were a North Carolinian I think I’d take time off now and then to quit boasting about my state’s good roads and mention the fact that it also possesses the even more precious heritage of containing a good newspaper man. Incidentally, the Raleigh News and Observer, which has taken this courageous stand, is owned by Josephus Daniels, who never has been classed exactly as a wild-eyed radical. (Copyright. 1929. bv Th Times)

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SCIENCE - By DAVID DIETZ —

Motion's Capital Expected to Serve as Inspiration in Planning of Other Cities. WASHINGTON, the political capital of the nation, holds a second distinction for which it is not so well known generally. It is also the scientific capital of the United States. More than 6,000 scientists have their headquarters in Washington. In addition to the many scientific bureaus located at Washington, such as the bureau of mines, the bureau of chemistry, the bureau of standards, the coast and geodetic survey and so on, there are many nongovernmental organizations. These include the National Research Council, the central headquarters and clearing house for scientific research in the United States, the headquarters and several laboratories of the great Carnegie Institution, and the Smithsonian Institution which has a semi-official position as administrator of the United States National Museum and the Washington zoo. Now Washington is assuming a third distinction. According to the American Institute of Architects, it is becoming a “clinic in architecture.” Asa result, the architects expect Washington to serve as an inspiration and set the pace for city planning and architectural development for the entire United States. To stimulate other cities to follow the example of Washington, the institute now is showing through its various chapters in all parts of the United States a movie film which was made under the direction of Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury. a a b Five Years REMARKABLE progress has been made in the development of Washington from the architectural standpoint in the last five years. This is pointed out in a report by a committee of the institute headed by Horace W. Peaslee. “The extent of this progress best can be realized by comparing present conditions with conditions five years ago,” the report says. “In 1923, the development of Washington was handicapped not only by lack of funds, but by lack of co-ordinated, comprehensive planning. Not only was there lack of cooperation in planning, but there was a large factor of planning at cross purposes. “The park system was lagging behind the growth of population. The highway system was developing' without regard for its inter-relation-ship with parks and other elements of city planning. The public buildings project was practically at a standstill. “Private building development was taking scant recognition of its obligations to the capital of the nation, and congress, witnessing the general confusion, gave appropriations grudgingly. “At the 1923 convention, the institute took the position that if a definite program of development were established this confusion would be eliminated, and it appointed a special committee to develop this line of procedure. "Results amply have justified the theory. In five years, almost unbelievable accomplishments have been made.”

. Program THE report then goes on to detail the present situation. The present program, says the report, Is receiving hearty support not only in Washington, but from every state in the Union. “From a standstill,” it says, “the public buildings project has jumped to a $200,000,000 project for the entire triangle between Pennsylvania avenue, B street and Fifteenth street. Os this total, $25,000,000 has been authorized for the purchase of land. “An appropriation of $5,000,000 has been made for the development of the area between the Union station and the Capitol, including new highway connections, and carrying with it authority for the development of the Mall. “A $25,000,000 project has been authorized for anew municipal center on the north side of Pennsylvania avenue. “Another $14,000,000 has been authorized for the Arlington Memorial bridge and its connections which include the development of B street as a memorial highway to the foot of Capitol Hill. “Aside from any question of appropriations, the government is giving full consideration to the importance of having its work carried out by the ablest men it can obtain."