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Their Last Chance Under the law, three members of the school board will serve until the first of the year. Two other members remain upon the board for two years. The people of this city, one week ago, emphatically disapproved of the policies and activities of these members. The verdict was at least five to one against their continuing in power. During the campaign, the members violently protested that they had no selfish purposes to serve and only wanted re-election as a means of vindication. They did not receive the vindication. The people said they wanted an entirely new and different board. If these members wish to establish themselves in public confidence and add any weight to their claims that they had made nothing but errors of judgment, they have one chance in immediate resignations with an understanding that the appointment of the five members elected by the citizens committee should at once take office and replace them. The people have said very definitely that they want these five to take charge of the schools. They have said that they want them to name the teachers and handle the contracts and supervise the education of the youth. They can not begin too soon. The positions bring no salaries so that no member can be said that he is being deprived of any financial rewards, unless Nor can any of them assert that they must carry out a mandate from the people to serve out their terms of office. To four of the five the people have very definitely said that they do not want any further service. The fifth was not a candidate for re-election. After so overwhelming a vote of lack of confidence, it might seem that self respect would urge these members to give up these unsalaried jobs and disappear from the horizon of the schools. If any one member can suggest any reason for not resigning, The Times would like to print it. And if any reader knows of any valid reason, after such a tremendous vote, for the present members serving for one day, it will try to find a suitable reward in the way of fame and publicity for the reader and the answer. It is, of course, the last chance these members have to appeal to public confidence and engender any feeling that after all, perhaps, they were not so bad, if they are good enough to recognize the popular will.

A Deserved Castigation Senator Caraway, chairman of the senate lobby committee, yesterday lashed WilUam Burgess after reporting to the senate on his lobbying activities. Burgess deserved everything that he got. Burgess has been employed by the United States Pottery Association for more than twenty years, and has been present in Washington during consideration of every tariff bill during that period. Only for four years while he was on the tariff commission by appointment of President Harding, has this employment lapsed. He now is getting $7,500 a year, and has been in Washington ever since congress started framing this tariff bill. It was Burgess who tried to have ‘ fired" Frederick Koch, pottery expert of the tariff commission. Koch instead of supplying tariff information only to senators working for pottery duties, had supplied it to both sides alike. Senator Caraway called Burgess' action "almost contempt of the senate.” Burgess was guilty of an attempt by secret pressure and by threats to ruin the morale of government employes and to get special favors. Coupled with these activities was his bland insistence that he was not a lobbyist, and that his hightariff activities were as a representative of a pottery firm in which he has $12,000 worth of stock, and not on behalf of the pottery association, which pays him $7,500 a year. Hoover On Peace Only one short year, and yet how great is the distance separating the Armistice day address of President Coolidge and that of President Hoover Monday, Coolidge’s attitude was provocative, selfrighteous. an appeal to selfish interests. Hoover's attitude is constructive and pacific. He sees the interests of the United States bound up with the peace and well-being of the rest of the world. Such a contrast between those two conflicting Armistice day speeches is not entirely fair, however, to Coolidge. He was faced with a tory government in Great Britain which had destroyed one American arms conference at Geneva and was blocking further naval limitation negotiations. Coolidge's belligerent tone was that of an impatient man, but of one who had some cause for impatience. Hoover is much freer to take a calm and constructive position— freer partly because of his own efforts at improving foreign relations and partly because of the existence of a labor government in London. With all due credit to Hoover, it is not difficult to be reasonable and patient in dealing with Prime Minister MacDonald. In this connection, the President's address raised one question in which the people are interested profoundly. Speaking of the coming London naval conference. he said: “I am in hopes that there will be a serious reduction in navies as a relief to the economic burdens of all the peoples.” This in effect is a repetition of the President's declaration on Memorial day that naval limitation

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is not enough, that actual reduction is imperative. That policy certainly has the support of America. But the statements of Hoover and MacDonald during the latter’s visit to Washington seemed to indicate that Britain, while granting so-called parity, would insist on a higher cruiser tonnage scale than now maintained by the United States. The net effect of such a naval “limitation” agreement would be for us to build more cruisers. We hope such will not be the case. Hoover’s return to an emphasis on reduction, if it is a statement of American policy for the London conference, is most welcome. If the President will stand on that policy, with friendliness but with firmness, the MacDonald government should be brought around to reducing Eritish cruiser strength to the present American tonnage. * The President's informal proposal that food ships in war time be given the free status of hospital ships appears to have more value as an aspiration than as a practical measure. Indeed, he said the matter was not under discussion and would not be at the London conference. Starvation of women and children, use of poison gas and all the other cruelties of war are apt to be practiced so long as men fight, regardless of prior treaty pledges. The only way to humanize war is to prevent war. And that is what the President, with the overwhelming support of the American people, is trying to do.

The Game Warden Enters Those who have deplored irresponsible prohibition killings will derive some satisfaction from the conviction of Jeff Harris in Oklahoma for killing Oscar Lowery and James Harris while acting as an unofficial dry raider on July 4 last. Whatever one’s view about the desirability of enforcing sobriety by legislative fiat, it is difficult to see how abstinence from alcoholic indulgence can be regarded as a matter of life and death. Many, indeed all, great nations have maintained their integrity in the face of the inroads of the rum habit. No nation well can expect to go on happily if it allows murder to become lesser offense than certain matters of taste and opinion like possessing a bottle of beer. If it be alleged that this also involves formal confidence, it might seem that self-respect breaking can not justify major violence at the hands of a public official. It has been suggested that American prohibition, no less than the world at large, needs disarmament most of all. Mr. Youngquist, the new assistant attorney general in charge of prohibition enforcement, will do well to order closed season on suspected bootleggers and to proceed in a manner appropriate to the task in hand. A moral issue is in danger of developing into nation-wide guerrilla warfare.

“Wall Street Booze Party” It may be that the grand jury investigation of the so-called “Wall Street booze party” at a hotel in Washington may result in sending somebody to jail. However, we are inclined to doubt it. This was the party attended by Senator Brookhart of lowa, which he discussed recently in speeches from the floor. He also testified before the grand jury on invitation of the prosecutor. According to Brookhart, liquor was provided in silver flasks and was drunk at the dinner. He saw a financier seated next to him pour something from a flask. Other senators w-ere there. Among the grand jury's difficulties will be getting information from others who attended. E. E. Loomis, president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, for example, declined to discuss before the grand jury what had happened when he was a guest at a “private dinner.” But at least a few facts again are emphasized by the inquiry, whatever it may accomplish in the way of justice. If Brookhart is correct, it would seem that disrespect for prohibition exists among officials and influential and wealthy men, just as it does among the rest of the population.

REASON By FR landis K

A LITTLE thing like senate censure does not seem to disturb Bingham of Connecticut, for he will not resign and seek vindication as is implied by reelection, the only thing a man of blood and pride could do. since longer service under such a stigma can make him only a senate outcast. tt • Still he will not mind being dispatched to any senatorial St. Helena, since he is a polar person who never in his life carried a loving cup in his old kit bag and his apparent indifference to the consequences of being branded is but a later expression of that high-hatism which has made him so unpopular with his colleagues. m a * But along with Bingham’s haughty contempt for the condemnation of his brethren there may be a dash of prudence: he may fear that he might not be re-elected. He may possibly remember that in the early eighties Roscoe Conkling and Thomas Platt resigned from the senate because President Garfield refused to appoint their man collector of the port of New York. n a m FOR that utterly grotesque provocation. Conkling and Platt made a dramatic exit from public life and returned to New York, expecting to have their honor massaged by a triumphant re-election, but the state of New York refused to do it, and turned them out to graze in the bleak and barren pasture of political oblivion. a * m The most dramatic resignation and re-election of a national law maker In our history waa that of Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina, a member of the house of representatives, who assaulted Charles Sumner of Massachusetts as he sat at his senate desk because Sumner had make a speech assailing Senator Butler of South Carolina. a The house of representatives censured Brooks who thereupon arose and resigned his seat and went back to South Carolina, where he was received as a hero and re-elected, receiving every vote but six. and, thus indorsed and fumigated, he returned to Washington and resumed his public labors. a a THE great disappointment in Bingham's case arises from the fact that much was expected of him, for he had both heredity and environment on his side, his father being t. missionary and his past occupation being that of a university professor. Had these agencies functioned in his life as science assures us they usually do. the senator from Connecticut should have been a model of propriety.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

The Republican Machine Has Become Demoralized* and the Next Congress May Be Anti-Ad ministration. WHAT people get mad about is one thing. What they do afterward is quite another. The dry Protestant west, we are informed by the United Press, is likely to coalesce with the dry Protestant south, and it all grew out of a row over the tariff. Stranger s : . ill, the first effect of this coalition is to weaken the Hoover administration, though it was what gave him such a smashing victory last year, and Senator Borah, who was his chief advocate, is boss of it. Little prophetic instinct is required to realize that something more serious has happened in Washington than a disagreement over tariff rates. To put it mildly, the Republican machine has become demoralized, and if the process continues much longer, the next congress will be anti- administration. BUB One hundred nineteen individuals face trial in North Carolina as the result of recent labor troubles. Eight of them are deputy sheriffs, charged with murder. The rest, ill, are trade unionists, charged with lesser offenses. Meanwhile, seven labor leaders have gone to jail. Such is the net result of an agitation started to better the lot of workers who are notoriously underpaid, and it does not square particularly well with our boasted intelligence.

Argument Is Flimsy FRANCE will ask the naval conference for a radical reduction in capital ships, on the ground that they are designed for offensive, rather than defensive, warfare, and that while naval limitation is desirable, it should apply to the offensive categories first. This is a bit of casuistry designed to offset the possible demand of England for abandonment of submarines, to which France always has been opposed. According to the French view, submarines and cruisers are purely defensive, but the history of the war would have to be w r ritten to prove it. B B B In the war. capital ships were conspicious for their inactivity, while submarines did most of the hell raising. What part submarines may have played in the defense of Germany was overshadowed completely by their operation against allied merchantmen. There never was another case in which any particular branch of a country’s navy wrought such havoc. Where capital ships destroyed one ton of the enemies’ property, submarines destroyed one hundred, and they did it far from home. BBS A Parachute Record SIXTEEN persons, one of them a woman, jump from an airplane at Roosevelt field. This not only establishes a record, but sets a precedent. Time was when a single parachute descent was more than enough to thrill spectators at an average county fair. From now on they will be demanded in droves. If the law of diminishing returns operates according to schedule, the public soon will cease to get a real kick out of it, unless someone is hurt. e e b Art certainly is growing simple. It makes no difference these days whether a picture is hung sidewise. Indeed, to be a great picture, it must contain such qualities as will satisfy the spectator, no matter how it is hung. • Neither is this a matter of personal or impulsive opinion, but finds lodgement in the decision of an expert jury' which awarded a prize without ever suspecting that the picture drawing it was not in proper position. BUB Jury Just Guessed WHAT is worse, the jury might never have been put right, if the picture had not impressed a photographer as queer, and even he was unable to tell what was wrong until he took the picture down and looked at the back. Nor did the proceeding end there, since it w r Jis thought necessary to call up tftfe artist to get an authoritative decision. The artist said not only that the photographer was right in declaring the picture had been hung sidewise, but that it had been hung the same way in a previous exhibition without anybody being the wiser. B B B Such a masterpiece falls but one step short of perfection. Now that we have had a picture that can be hung sidewise without destroying, modifying, or weakening its message, all that remains is one that can be hung upside down. When we have attained that, the realm of art will have been fully explored, and there will be nothing left for genius but to sit down, like Alexander, and weep that there are no more worlds to conquer.

Questions and Answers

What is Alice White's latest picture? What will her next film be? Her latest picture is "Broadway Babies.” Her next will be “The Girl From Woolworth’s.” Who said “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet?” Shakespeare in “Romeo and Juliet.” What is the longest hit ever made in baseball? There is no official record, but Harry Heilmann of the Detroit Tigers once hit a home run which was estimated to have traveled about 610 tern*

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This Is the second of four articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on the hygiene of athletics. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. A SPECIAL committee undertook the survey for the Carnegie Foundation of the entire question of hygiene of athletic training. In twenty-two universities and colleges selected to represent conditions over the United States, 43,923 male students were found to be engaged actively in thirteen branches of athletics. Among this almost 44,000, there were 1,320 serious injuries and accidents during the year, including chronic sprains, dislocations, concussions, fractures, collapses and internal injuries.

IT SEEMS TO ME By BROUN

BACK where the century began it was the custom for New York dramatic critics to w 7 eep at first nights. I remember when I was a boy all the as'hcans in the neighborhood were plastered with the poster of a local attraction which boasted that Alan Dale had cried throughout the third act. But the younger reviewers who came into the profession were more hard-boiled. It Is true that Alexander Woolcott confessed upon occasion ‘‘My honorable eyes were moist with tears.” This, however, was largely a literary device to indicate that Woolcott had enjoyed the entertainment. And for the most part It is and has been the custom of the critical fraternity to sit dry-eyed in aisle seats with hands compactly clasped. The critic even feels that it is beneath his judicial dignity to applaud. Nevertheless I confess that the Lyceum theater must still be somewhat damp with the tears I shed during the performance of John Balderson’s ‘‘Berkeley Square.” This may have been a crude tribute, but it was the only way I had to indicate the fervent belief that I was watching a play of true magnificence. a tt a Why Adjectives? Superlatives are not amiss in dealing with the theater, for a play tends to capture the spectator utterly or leave him quite aloof. It is well enough that books should be j-udged in a mood of some tranquility, but a play deserves the comment of those who are still hot under the spell. Even the newspapers are too tardy in catching up the opinions of their reviewers. It would be better. I think, to string a telegraph wire to the seat of every critic and order him to write a running story like his fellows at the football game. I am sure that Albie Booth of Yale could not begin to thrill me half so much as Leslie Howard did in ‘‘Berkeley Square.” I am speaking only in the mildest manner when I say that the play is easily the finest now to be seen in New York. It is a play of true distinction, towering above its rivals in a season which hitherto had offered nothing more than a few amusing shows. And since I like this play and would do it good rather than harm, so far as lies within my limited power, I must add that it is by no means depressing. I was having a fine time even during those scenes in which I wept most copiously. a a e In Its Place ‘“OERKELEY SQUARE” has the ±> advantage of dealing with a transcendental theme and so the spectator doesn't so much forget the price of Nevada Consolidated Copper, as gain, a mood in which the money doesn’t seem to matter. I came away resolved to be a bet-

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

The common notion that football is the most hazardous was substantiated by the fact that there were 649 football injuries, 166 baseball, 130 basketball, eighty wrestling, seventy-four boxing and seventythree track and field, notwithstanding the fact that there were 9,626 men playing basketball as compared with 5.400 in football and 6,955 in baseball. Intercollegiate football, according to the figures, is three times as hazardous as interclass football. Apparently twelve out of every 100 football players receive injuries during the season, usually in the form of fractures, dislocations and chronic sprains that disable the men for more than three weeks. Considering the number of men

ter man and along about next Monday I may get around to it. Mr. Balderson deals with that most fascinating theme the fictional quality of time. Early in the play the hero uses the figure of a man in a boat and above him another in an airplane. The man in the boat has just left behind him a clump of willows. They have faded from sight behind a twist in the river. A bend lies just ahead of him. He does not know what he will see when he has passed that comer. But the aviator sees both the willows and the farmhouse ahead which is still concealed from the boatman. Some believe that w T e are supers in the infinite scheme who march behind the backdrop only to appear presently again and again before the audience. Yet if the procession marches only forward the front rank which has passed the reviewing stand is no more out of existence than the companies which are yet to come. Thus, if one can but gain altitude enough to see the whole of the panorama that is no such thing as death. b a Between Centuries THE tragedy inherent in “Berkeley Square” is that of a man who projects himself back into the eighteenth century and falls in love with a girl of that time. But though he loves her, he knows that it must be a frustrated romance. He can not marry her, for he is familiar with the family rec-

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THE SEWING MACHINE November 12

ON Nov. 12, 1850, a patent on the first sewing machine to sew curving seams was issued to Allen B. Wilson, New York cabinet maker and inventor. He also introduced the rotary hook and stationary bobbin. Wilson’s invention aided materially in popularizing the sewing machine which was just then becoming a real competitor of hand labor as the result of other inventions by Walter Hunt, Elias Howe, John Bachelor, Isaac Singer and A. E. Gibbs. As the fundamental patents obtained by these pioneer inventors have graphically expired the most satisfactory features of the older machines have been adopted by all modern sewing machine manufacturers. Today also is the aninversary of the birth, on Nov. 12, 1770, of Joseph Hopkinson, author of Columbia!” And on Nov. 12, 1775, Americans under Montgomery entered Montreal, Cana^fk

engaged, football shows an excessively high incidence of injuries and the same is true of boxing, la crosse, soccer, and wrestling. When the coaches were asked their opin ~n, they pointed out that some methods of coaching ignore the hazards to life and limb and look only to the winning of contests. In some places men are played who are not conditioned* properly and in other places players are kept in the contest even after they are exhausted, because of lack of suitable replacement material. Finally, there is the charge of inadequate medical examination and supervision of athletes and the making of too rigorous schedules, usually planned to build up attendance.

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 ct this paper.—The Editor.

ords. What has happened can not be changed. Some mathematician might write some day a play about two parallel lines which can not meet because Euclid forbade them. Still even Euclid was forced to admit the possibility of an infinity, and so in “Berkeley Square” there is the hint and promise that in God’s time perhaps these two, separated by the centuries, may achieve the customary happy ending upon some common cosmic plane. And among other things the play contains the finest acting performance of the season, which is given by Leslie Howard. If you plan to see only one play this year, go to “Berkeley Square.” If your budget provides two evenings in the theater, see it twice. (Copyright. 1929. bv The Times)

Daily Thought

And while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.—Nahum 1:10. B B B Man has evil as well as good qualities peculiar to himself. Drunkenness places him as much below the level of the brutes as reason elevates him above them.—Sir G. Sinclair. How many tablespoons are there in a cup? Sixteen.

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SCIENCE —By DAVID DIETZ —

Important Step Is Taken to Bring Back the Old Family Doctor. 9 ONE of the most romantic figures in the history of America is the country physician of a generation ago, the old “family doctor.” Not only was he a romantic figure, but he was a stalwart and useful one. Frequently, he was more than medical adviser to the members of the family. He was a counselor on all family affairs, a true and trusted friend. Within recent years, there has been a tendency for the old type of "family doctor” to disappear. As greater and greater knowledge of disease and its treatment has been amassed, the tendency has been for medical students to .specialize. This is only natural. The mast interesting phase of any subject is always the newest. But many authorities in the field of medicine have felt concerned over the decline of the general ractitioner. They have felt that while the world needs specialists, it also needs general practitioners, men of the type of the old “family doctor.” There has been a fear that rural communities might find themselves without adequate medical service. An important step to bring back the importance of the family practitioner just has been taken in Boston with formation of the New England medical center. One of the chief activities of the new center will be the training of family physicians for the smaller New England communities. a b b New Trend A STATEMENT Issued by the administrative board of the new center says, “The formation of the New England medical center will mark crystallization of anew and significant trend in medicine. “During the last fifty years the trend has been entirely in the direction of the scientific control of disease, and has resulted in the development, of great hospitals, great laboratories, and great teaching centers. It has been a period of unprecedented progress and immeasurable benefits. “Yet during this period, a serious and widening gap has appeared in the medical structure. “Modern scientific medicine has acted as a magnet to draw the great majority of doctors into the large centers as specialists, laboratory research men and teachers. Fewer and fewer men have gone into the smaller communities of New England to become practicing physicians. The old family doctor—the backbone of the medical profession—gradually is dying out. “Thus while medicine has developed to a greater perfection than ever, its development has been unbalanced. We have enough doctor? in the large cities, but far too few in the rural districts. “We have superlative medical resources, but they are not accessible to a large proportion of people. “The New England medical center, through its program of bringing back the family physician and injecting the ideals of the family physician into its treatment of the sick, will help restore a much-needed balance.” ti rs ft

Specialists WHILE, as outlined, a large part of the program of the new center will be directed to aiding the rural districts, the center will be of great importance to the city of Boston. The center will include a city dispensary and a free hospital for babies. Three institution have united their efforts to provide the center. They are the Boston dispensary, the Boston Floating hospital and Tufts college. The project is expected to cost about $1,500,000. The question of general versus specialized practice has been troubling the medical profession for a long time. The reasons which impel a medical man to specialize are easy enough to see. This is an age of specialization. The greatest reputation and the greatest reward is likely to come to the man who specializes, whether it be in medicine or any other field of human endeavor. The feeling has been growing stronger each year, however, among the leaders of the profession, that definite steps were needed to prevent the development of a dangerous situation. It is quite likely that the action just taken in Boston will soon find its counterpart in other parts of the nation.