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One Bad Spot Most plainly marked is the duty of the citizens of Indiana as a result of the elections on Tuesday. That duty lies in cleaning up the political conditions of the Calumet district. The whole state must be interested in the fact that one city elects a mayor who is awaiting trial in a federal court on charges of conspiracy to protect bootleggers and another, one of the largest, elects as its chief a man who has returned from serving a sentence in a federal prison for the same offense. That makes very important the investigations of election frauds in that district which have apparently lagged for the past several . months. - It is true that the federal courts are catching some liquor violators. It is also true that there was an apparent indifference for at least three years toward violations of these laws in that district, an indifference that takes on a sinister interpretation in view of the fact that it is charged that protection had been promised in return for votes, and illegal votes at that. Even the promised aid of the attorney- . general's office seems to have fallen short of -its objective. The conspiracy to steal elections has not been exposed. The an*est of a few bootleggers does not clear up the situ- * ation. Just as one rotten apple spoils the whole barrel, so one rotten district can corrupt an entire state. There must be a cleaning up in the north. It must not stop with punishing bootlegging crimes. It must get at the bottom of conditions which elect ex-prisoners to high offices, especially when these prisoners serve time .for violations of law they are pledged to supjjort as officials. Indiana can not afford to accept complacently such a condition. North Carolina “Justice” North Carolina is busy trying to wipe out the stain ’of class justice. It was one thing for the textile striklers to charge that there was one law for workers and something else for the enemies of labor. It was another thing for the Gastonia grand jury to prove this 'serious charge by its conduct. ? That grand jury promptly indicted strikers charged ‘ with murder of the police chief, and the strikers were ■ convicted in a trial reeking with religious inquisition and political prejudice. But when the same grand jury -a few months later was asked to indict members of an anti-labor mob charged with killing the widowed striker, Ella May Wiggins, it refused. This cold-blooded refusal by the grand jury to perform its sworn duty stirred Governor Gardner and leading citizens of the state more than the murder itself and the long fine of mob violence against union members. They knew that if the Wiggins case ended there, the very name of North Carolina would become a word of shame whenever men speak of justice. - So the Governor appointed Judge P. A. McElroy to conduct anew investigation as committing magistrate. If the first days of the hearing are a test, McElroy means business. Os the nine members of the anti-labor mob held by the coroner and then liberated by the grand jury, one has been identified by three witnesses as the man who fired the shot. Moreover, one of the witnesses testified that he told a juror at the grand jury hearing: “You look something like one of them" in the mob. Asa result, the judge has ordered the grand jury to appear before him. The country is watchmg Judge McElroy with hope. The Flying Robot Nearly three-fourths of all airplane accidents have been found to be the fault of the pilot. Human error is great, and aircraft engineers are attempting constantly to diminish the human element in flightstriving to build planes that will fly themselves more and have to “be flown” less. The Sperrv gyroscope pilot was announced this week, after more than fifty hours’ test flying by the .army air corps. It is vastly significant; yet it is merely a step in the right direction, not the whole journey, by any means. It bettter coyld be classed as an aid to the human pilot, rather than as a means of eliminating his errors. It can not make a flight by itself. The automatic pilot takes the controls after the airplane journey has started, and keeps the plane in flying trim more skillfully than can a human pilot. But it can not land a plane, nor check against wind drift, both vital things. Its most valuable field is flying in t flick weather between air terminals that are clear. There the human pilot must fly “blind.” a strenuous and dangerous - job. The robot can fly blind easier and better than can a human. Undoubtedly, large transport planes of the future will carry >he gyroscope pilot, to assist and relieve the man at the controls. Machines, like humans, are not infallible, and it will be a long time, if ever, before the robot pilot will be able to fly a plane without human assistance. But with a human filling in the gaps still left by the robot, the safety of flight will be greatly advanced. A Perfect Picture Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut brought a SIO.OOO-a-year executive of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association to Washington and put him on the United States pay roll, although he continued to draw his pay from the manufacturers’ association. \ He introduced him into secret meetings of the senate finance committee while that body secretly was considering the rate sections of the senate tariff •|bffi . , Senator Bingham by his own admission received most of his tariff information and education from

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this man, and apparently voiced the wishes of the Connecticut Manufacturers* Association in every vote he cast for higher industrial rates. To all purposes, C. I* Eyanson was the senator from Connecticut while the tariff bill was being framed. Senator Bingham did not tell his colleagues that his “secretary” was an agent of a manufacturing association interested in the tariff bill, until the committee had Its supposedly secret work on rates well under way. Then Bingham withdrew him reluctantly and upon request. The result is that the member companies of the Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association, according to Senator Walsh, got only a $76,000,000 a year increased tariff, which Senator Bingham insists is “not near enough.” , On the witness stand of the senate lobby investigation, Thursday, the senator defended his part in this amazing deal. Bingham personally is neither better nor worse than some other members of the senate, who cooperate with the tariff lobby. The only way he differs from them is that in his simplicity, to call it by no harsher name, he has £iven the whole tariff show away. That is why the senate old guard is even more angry with him than are his political opponents. He could see nothing wrong in putting an active executive of a manufacturers’ association on the government pay roll, because, so far as he is Concerned, the Manufacturers’ Association of Connecticut is in effect the state of Connecticut. , Apparently he does not consider himself a representative of the 120,000.000 people of the United States, who would have to pay the $76,000,000, multiplied several times by inevitable pyramiding, of benefits he got for the Conneeticut Manufacturers’ Association. Apparently he gave no thought even to the larger interests of the 1,500,000 people of Connecticut who sent him to the senate. He represents the 1,000 or so leading manufacturers of that state. The people of the United States ought to be grateful to Senator Bingham. He has given them a perfect picture of the minds which made the tariff bill, the methods by which it was made and the intolerable burdens which it would impose upon them, to increase the profits of a single class. For the Children President Hoover goes to the root of most of the troubles of the world when he sets out to solve the problems of childhood. Under his direction, 500 skilled men and women are going to study every phase of the matter from prenatal care to education. If they can discover a way in which every child shall be born well and strong, shall grow up with enough to eat and with intelligent care, and shall be trained wisely as he grows, there is little need to worry about the future. Its problems will solve themselves. It is a splendid conception, but its realization is far off. Meanwhile, congress has failed to re-enact the Sheppard-Towner act, which took a first, practical step toward the goal desired, providing federal funds to match state funds for maternity and infancy hygiene. The President would not want congress to become so absorbed in contemplating his brilliant vision for the future that it forgets the immediate task within its power to perform.

REASON

IT was very appropriate for that squadron of airplanes to circle above the grave of Theodore Roosevelt on the anniversary of his birth, for he was an ardent champion of aviation when it Was in its infancy, also one of the first to fly, back in those pioneering days when one took his life in his hands if he “went up.” a an It was appropriate also because the Roosevelt family paid dear tribute to aviation, Quentin, the colonel’s youngest son, crashing to his death behind the German lines, that being the greatest blow his father ever received. We talked with one of Quentin Roosevelt’s mates the other day, and he said the boy w r as as daring a soul as ever flew. a a a The death of this boy greatly intensified Theodore Roosevelt's desire to get into the World war, but Presidenet Wilson could not see him in that light, which was a great mistake, for while nobody considered Roosevelt as a general, his mere presence on the other side would have been a great asset to our armies, for morale is of incalculable value in war. a a a THE human element had a lot to do with Wilson’s refusal to let Teddy go across, for he had bitterly criticised the administration’s reluctance to enter the war and almost all Presidents are just ordinary human beings when it comes to their reactions to friends arid' foes. a a a Certainly Roosevelt would not have sent Wilson across, had conditions been reversed, for the former was as good, a hater as our politics ever knew. He was loyal to his friends, but wasted no affection on his enemies, and if he ever turned the other cheek, that fact has not been recorded. a a a Roosevelt exacted unfaltering allegiance, as was shown in his split with the late Senator Foraker of Ohio. Foraker had been one of his first champions and stood for him in Ohio in 1904 as against the presidential aspirations of Mark Hanna, which surely was the last word in loyalty. a a a WHEN one day certain members of a colored regiment at Brownsville. Tex., participated in a riot with the townspeople and when none of them were willing to give the names of guilty soldiers, Roosevelt dismissed the whole from the service. Foraker broke with him about this and it resulted in a long and bitter fight, ending all friendship, a a a One night at a Gridiron dinner in Washington. Roosevelt amazed everybody by launching into a bitter attack upon Foraker for the Brownsville matter, after which Foraker made a reply which was a classic, the substance being that an American President is not a Mussolini, and that a senator has no obligations, except to his oath of office and to those who elected him. ana Lincoln was the only American President, able to rise almost sublimely above the recollection of wrongs. He kept McClellan in command after McClellan had insulted him; he appointed Edwin M. Stanton to his cabinet after Starton had brutally made fun of him: he retained Secretary Chase in his cabinet after Chase had plotted against him, and then "fie made him chief justice.

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M. E. Tracy

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That the Republican Party Lacks in New York City Is Votes; Otherwise, It Is a Perfectly Good Party. PRESIDENT HOOVER is reported as seeking anew Republican leader for New York. What he really needs is anew party. If anything, New York Republicans have suffered from an overdose of leadership. Major La Guardia was a perfectly good leader, but he did not have much of anything to lead. All things considered, an army without a general is a better bet than a general without an army. What the Republican party in New York City lacks is votes. Otherwise, it is a perfectly good party. * * * In congress, the case is different. There the Republican party has plenty of votes, but no leadership. Two months on the tariff bill, and only down to manganese. Manganese would be passed over without a second thought, if it didn’t involve steel and Russia. With big steel corporations buying it from the Soviet, however, even free traders think it ought to pay a duty. u tt Trade Will Come First MANGANESE presents an anomaly. Those who demand a duty on it are not looking for protection, but revenue. Ordinarily, it would be left on the free list, because American steel manufacturers need it, and because its importation does not threaten “infant industries” here. But as Senator Ashurst of Arizona points out, the steel manufacturers are making enough to pay a reasonable tax on it, and why shouldn’t they? Besides, a great part of it comes from Russia. o * * Russia, it seems, is not the economic vacuum which Mr. Hughes called it. Money may be scarce there, but not manganese, oil, or a market for farm implements. Even Communists have to swap things, not only with each other, but with outsiders. No matter what kind of government they may enjoy, one hundred and forty million people occupying two million square miles of rich land are bound to develop more or less trade. Some day, that trade is going to sidetrack our political prejudices. ana Russia’s Time Coming THUS far, we have been in a position to hold the trade without recognizing Russia, but, as Wililam Philip Simms points out, conditions are changing. Europe is getting back on its feet. The United States is no longer the only nation with a surplus of cash and goods. Up to this time, Russia couldn’t borrow or buy much anywhere else. Within a few years, it will be a different story. Within a few years, England, Germany &nd France will be in a position to accommodate her. Then, our refusal to recognize her will not look so wise, or essential. 808 Politics is a merry game,- but in these days it must function to the tune of commerce, trade, and intercourse, as made possible by man’s inventive genius. We are familiar with what the railroad and steamship have done to consolidate interests. Who doubts that the airplane and dirigible will do far more? Dr. Dornier is not exaggerating when he predicts airplanes will carry a useful load of 100 tons, and Dr. Eckener is not pursuing a fantastic dream in trying to organize transoceanic dirigible lines. B B B The Old Order Passes THE old order of statecraft is giving way, and, as usual, It is giving way because of what men are doing in other lines. Statecraft always has been a follow-up; policies always a byproduct of other activities. The colonial system which has played such a part in shaping the policy of nations during the last 400 years was the outgrowth of discovery. But for Columbus, there would be no Monroe doctrine. B B 3 If you would chart the course of statecraft, watch the inventor, the salesman, the captain of industry. The latter may be a Henry-Ford or a Stalin, and the government under which he functions may be democratic or Communist, but the net result is expanded commerce and industry, which, in turn, demands anew understanding of relationships. Statecraft can not be isolated from the sources of revenue and taxation. Neither will the people of any land sacrifice the creature comforts which civilization makes available for the sake of abstract theory, or even tradition.

Questions and Answers

What is the island of Yap? One of the Caroline islands, on which a cable station is located. It is held under Japanese mandate. Is the guinea pig a fur-bearing animal? Not in the sense of their pelts being of value. What is the value of a United States nickel dated 1894? From 5 to 7 cents. How high is Mt. McKinley in Alaska, and Mt. Kanier in Washington? The official height of Mt. McKinley is 20,300 feet and of Mt. Ranier. 14,408 feet. What is the difference between embassy and a legation? An embassy is a diplomatic mission headed by a diplomatic agent of the first rank, called ambassador.

Mental Treatment Aids Drug Addicts

BY I)R. MORRIS FISiIBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Ilygeia, the Health Magazine. IN 1927 the public was startled by announcement that anew method of treating drug addicts had beon discovered and that successful trials with this method in penal institutions in New York City had substantiated its success. Considerable doubt was expressed as to the real value of the method by various scientific publications. Asa result, the mayor of New York appointed a committee to study the entire problem of the treatment of narcotic addiction. This committee, headed by Dr. Alexander Lambert, just has made available its final report. The committee finds that most of

IT SEEMS TO ME

1 DIDN’T get much reading done in the last week on account of Wall Street. It’s curious how much time a man can waste looking over the stock market pages and trying to figure out how much money he would have won and lost in various issues if he had happened to have, by any chance, any money. Now that the two Rockefellers have taken the market in tow, I might as well return to my own knitting. Next week I promise to report on seven new novels which look promising. While it would be audacious to express an opinion of a book merely on the basis of having hefted it and looked at the jacket, I do believe that a bad book can be identified practically at first sight. When the blurb upon the cover is more earnestly enthusiastic than usual, depend upon it that there will be a low yield. Good books move under their own power and have no need of the trade winds of puffery. Certainly no practiced reader need go deeply into a novel before he knows whether or not it is to his taste. If the author has not seized your attention within the first thirty pages, the chances are that he will never do so. a b b Expert’s Touch THERE are exceptions to this rule. Some writer may have a fine tale to tell and yet fumble his beginning. The novice in particular needs a little time to clear his throat and get started on the story which lies within. But the touch of the .expert stylist inevitably must be obvious in the first paragraph. Indeed, in the very first sentence. And, speaking of stylists, I wish to make my semi-annual recommendation of everything written by Max Beerbohm. “Never be short of Beerbohm.” He is the dudless author and you can pick anything from the all-too-brief list of,his writings. My favorite is “Zuleika Dobson,” the most magnificent burlesque in the language. This has been obtainable for some

A legation is a diplomatic mission headed by a diplomatic agent of the second class, called minister. In all state, diplomatic, official or social functions, ambassadors take precedence over ministers. Which city in the United States has the largest Negro population? New York.

Daily Thought

He hath put down the mighty from their seats and exalteth them of low degree.—St, Luke 1:52. * B B B You who are ashamed of your poverty, blush lor your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or are psoud of your wealth.—Thackeray.

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the drugs and preparations forming the basis of the so-called specific cures for drug addiction have not any value in shortening the withdrawal symptoms or making them less painful. The quickest and simplest way is to withdraw the narcotic. The withdrawal takes place over a period of three days, during which there may be considerable mental and physical suffering and during which time the patient must have close medical attention. The most humane form of treating drug addiction is to withdraw the drug over a period of.two weeks, during which progressively decreasing doses are given, The disadvantages of this method are the time involved, the absence of the favorable psychologic effect of abrupt withdrawal, and the vigi-

time now in the Modern Library. And, in my estimation, “Seven Men” stands shoulder to shoulder with the earlier work. “Seven Men” is a collection of short stories, and the first of these, “Enoch Soames,” has everything necessary to the form. Generally, Max Beerbohm is set down as whimsical chap, given to light and witty conceits. There is a dextrous play of wit in “Enoch Soames,” but it also managed to leave me all broken up, even though by now I am quite aware of how it comes out. I can’t assume the right to say that Beerbohm meant to get his readers coming and going in this way. After all, his intention does not really matter. If an author aims for a smile and gets a heartbreak. I think the bullseye should be scored for him just the same. B B B Charge of Bleakness . AND that reminds me that I simply do not understand what people are talking about when they complain that the prose of Hemingway is bleak and barren. He uses no fancy words. Even when no character is talking, there is an effect of conversation. It is almost as if the author spoke his story from the beginning to the end. Most of the sentences are short. The phrases are close-clipped, but surely beauty of sound does not depend upon the piling up of clauses. I can go all through a novel and make no complaint at all if nothing happens, “as if it were a banjostring drawn tight.” Nor is it essential for my regard that heroes and heroines should be described in terms of their resemblance to antelope and of Old ’ Renaissance tapestry. Very few of us use any but most

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MONTANA JOINS UNION November 8

ON Nov. 8, 1889, Montana was admitted into the Union by proclamation of the President after a state constitution had been framed and stated officers elected. Joseph K. Toole, a Democrat, was the first Governor of Montana. In the first national election in 1892, was Republican; fusion of Democrats and Populists in 1896 and 1900, and thereafter almost invariably Republican. The state suffered for many years from industrial troubles which centered about Butte and other cities where labor was at a standstill for a considerable time. Montana had a population of approximately 600,000. It was crossed bv Lewis and Clark in 1804. It ranks third in size among the states in the Union, its area being 146,997 square miles, of which 796 miles are under water. Glacier National Park, in northeastern Montana, has an area of 915,000 acres, eighty glaciers ranging from five square miles down to a few acres, and more than 250 lakes.

lance required to prevent the addict from obtaining more of the narcotic. No form of treatment seems to be worth while in stopping the craving for drugs. Sooner or later the desire returns again, and if the person gets the drug, he is likely to become an addict again. The real, problem of ridding the addict of Ills habit permanently seems to be a psychologic and economic problem. The conditions which cause the addict to crave the drug are usually emotional or material circumstances. A correction of these circumstances is likely to prevent the recurrence of the craving. It is pointed out that many drug addicts are mentally disturbed or mentally inadequate, and that for this reason also the mental treatment is one of the most significant factors of the control.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those if 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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simple smiles and metaphors in ordinary conversation. From the day of Daniel De Foe through Hemingway and Lardner, there have always been inspired men who strove to break down the barrier between the spoken word and the written. China has one language for talkers and another for writers and something of the same thing might happen to English if it were not for the authors who have striven to take the gift and icing off. B B B Now for Fireworks ALL too many of us never sit down to our desks without saying, “Now this is writing. I must open up the embroidery basket and throw in all the lugs.” To take an example from the field of motion picture captions, which was only a little while ago the nation’s most popular form of literature, I ask did anybody in his senses ever say out loud, while telling a story, “came the dawn?” Then why write it in that fashion? I’m-all for at least a companionate marriage between the spoken and the written word. Listen to Ernest Hemingway in the second paragraph of “A Farewell to Arms;” “The plain was rich with crops. There were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. There was fighting in the mountains and at night we could see the flashes from the artillery.” That’s bald, if 3'ou please, but in a few such simple sentences the scene is set and the story starts. I never was for a novelist acting as if hfe ' Were a blooming landscape painter. (Copyright. 1939. by The Times)

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SCIENCE

By DAVID DIETZ-

Public Is Benefited Beyond Calculation by the Discoveries of Research Workers in Science.

WISE industrial leaders have realized the value of scientific research to- industry. Asa result, such organizations as the General Electric Company, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, to cite only three of the larger ones, maintain great research laboratories. The projects under way in these laboratories include many of the socalled pure science researches as well as work in applied science. For these companies realize that the pure science of one generation is the applied science of the next. In one generation a Heinrich Hertz is playing in the laboratory with some sort of mysterious thing known as electro-magnetic waves. In the next generation, the whole world is listening to radio sets. These corporations are wise enough to know that it is impossible for any one to foretell the importance of any scientific discovery. But it is also important to realize the value of scientific research to the public. It is bringing enormous savings to the public. General John J. Carty, vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, declares. General Carty, who had charge of telephone communications for the A. E. F. during the war. sets forth his views in the foreword to the third series of “Popular Research Narratives,” just issued by the Engineering Foundation of New York, and published by the Williams & Wilkins Company of Baltimore. an u Billions IT is sometimes instructive to appraise the value of scientific research In pecuniary terms,” Gen. Carty says. “For example, take the very'great improvements in electric power and electric lighting which have been made by the industrial scientists during the last twenty-five years. “Were it not for these improvements, the bill which the public is paying for electric current would be greater by more than two billion dollars a year. “A similar story could be told of the results of scientific research conducted in the telephone industry and in the chemical and metallurgical industries. “But the higher values of scientific; research must be stated in terms of human achievement, the elimination of poverty and disease, the advancement of learning, the growth of right living and good understanding among rrifn. “Scientific research indispensable to the attainment of all ol these ends. “According to the vision of science, life must no longer be regarded as a struggle among men for a limited store where one man’s gain or one nation’s gain must be another’s loss. “Under the banner of scientific research we are asked to join with our • fellow-men, working together in controlling and utilizing the boundless forces of nature.” tt a a Support ON this basis, General Carty urges greater public support for the research program of American universities and other institutions. In this connection, he quotes Pasteur, the great French scientist, who said. “Science is the soul ol prosperity of nations and the living source of all progress.” “For all the benefits which it confers upon us,” General Carty continues, “science asks only that we provide it zealous workers with the opportunity to multiply their efforts in our behalf. “The progress of scientific research in our country depends in the last analysis upon the support which is receives from the public. “There is no lack of problems to be solved, all of which in one way or another affect the welfare of the nation, and there will be no lack ol competent scientific investigators who will solve them if the necessary financial support is provided.. “The publication of ‘popular Research Narratives’ does more than provide scientific reading in an entertaining and instructive manner. “They constitute in themselves a distinct contribution to scientific research, because they present to the reader concrete examples of the methods, vicissitudes, and triumphs of scientific research."