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The Difference Just how far the city has gone along the way of better things can be judged from the fact that today a city council and not a grand jury is investigating the transaction of public business. Not even the former mayor of this city, Charles Jewett, whose campaign enthusiasm led him into unrestrained utterances, has charged crimes or taken his story to the grand jury or the public prosecutor. It is a different picture and a different attitude than existed in 1926, when official pressure was used to protect, suppress and defend those under fire. Grand juries hunted for Black Boxes and the legislature, corresponding to the council, refused to listen to demands for investigations. Then came the pitiful spectacle of officials, very high ones, and former olficials, pleading the statute of limitations in various courts. They pleaded this statute when charges were made of actual crimes and the stealing of public moneys. Now the public will get all the facts, quickly. They w'ill be able to make up theii own minds, and it may be well to hold to the thought that those who make the ci iticisms and charges do not journey to the office of the prosecutor. That may give a clew and uggest that since the public is to be the iry, it may be w r ell to get all the facts berendering a decision.

Wilbur Should Reconsider Just about a year ago a great battle was in prog,c..s .n Washington. i Boulder dam bill was before congress. . . : ;t >rn California Edison Company and the a twork of public utilities was fighting it be.t provided, among other things, for a great over development. ■-ss passed the bill. And now, a year later, battle is going on. This time the Edison Com- ,, trying to gain control of a large bloc of be generated at the dam. : 11 the bill strictly provides that cities and ' all be given preference over private companies both make equally good bids for power, the Edii v. inpany is claiming that it is “to the public int . to give it as much power as cities in the southWi . are given, because it serves more people than any other agency. “We represent those people, and ask for them a share of the benefits from this great government project," said a representative of the company at a recent hearing. "Did you represent the public interest of that group last year when you were fighting the Boulder dam bill?" he was asked. Cities ot southern California have made an urgent plea to be allowed to buy all the power generated at the dam, less what is set aside for pumping water and for the states'of Arizona and Nevada. If they are not allowed to buy it from the government, they will have to buy it back from the Edison Company and pay the company’s profits on it. The Edison Company has won the first round in the battle; A tentative division of the power, made by Secretary Wilbur, gave the Edison Company and the city of Los Angeles equal amounts, and reserved for the smaller cities only 4 per cent of the total power available. The cities, confident that the preference rights in the bill would protect them, are bewildered and distressed. They have made an urgent plea to Secretary Wilbur to reconsider and let them buy the government’s power. The struggle this year is as vital as that of last year. Never has the issue between public and private power developments been more clearly drawn. Secretary (iood In the death of James W. Good, the President has lost a valuable member of his official family. Good was more than secretary of war. He was an important connecting link with Congress, in which body he had served efficiently for many years. He was a close political adviser, having been a pre-convention manager for Hoover, as well as western manager during the campaign. He gave of his time and thought and effort to these duties after accepting the cabinet office. In addition, he became the administration’s principal spokesman on the public platform, relieving the President materially of a burden that otherwise might have sapped the latter’s own vitality. Finally, as secretary of war, he was a member of the federal power commission, an important and onerous labor In itself. Loyalty to his chief apparently led Secretary Good into a degree of overwork that in the end proved fatal. The President’s expression of grief and his earnest solicitude during his friend's gallant battle for life were far from perfunctory. Good's quiet industry and capacity to shoulder responsibility had made him a man after the President’s own heart. Os likeable personality, possessed of a vast number of friends, Good's death leaves a real vacancy in American public life. A Successor to Watson Senator James E. Watson of Indiana is out of place leading the senate when Herbert Hoover is President. His unfitness for the position is illustrated sufficiently by the situation of the pending tariff bill. Watson was a lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers before he was elected to the senate, and an able lobbyist, as able as Grundy, the present principal lobbyist for the manufacturing interests. But the President called the special session of congress for agricultural relief and he asked his leaders in congress to revise the tariff primarily for the benefit of agriculture Watson sat on the finance committee and helped wrtt* the till which was reported to the senate. As floor leader he championed that kind oAbill—with

cnanganese ore on the free list, pig ir<j||uties in-

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creased 100 per cent over existing law, and with other similar industrial rates. It was like permitting a lawyer for the industrial interests, later made a judge, to sit in judgment on the case of his clients. The group of Republican senators who are trying to oust Watson are on the right track. They realize Watson did everything he could to prevent the nomination of the President, and that Watson can not provide the sort of leadership which the President’s program requires. They want what they call “anew deal in leadership all around” and it will be better for the party and the country generally if they get it. Straight Road, Not Blind Alleys The alleged death-bed confession of the late Lewis Smith of Ohio, that he threw the lethal Preparedness day bomb in San Francisco in 1916, is interesting. It has nothing to do with the case for the pardon of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings now before Governor Young and the California supfeme court. Since that unspeakable crime, thirteen long years have dragged by, how long only two men in California prisons know. At the time of the crime the officers of the law failed to follow one after another of obvious clews. Instead of looking for the real criminals, they went after two unpopular labor agitators. Where evidence was lacking, they created it; where witnesses failed, they coached them in perjury; where the guilty were missing, they framed innocent men. Now are the people of America expected to engage in a man hunt and furnish the guilty as hostages for the innocent? Before Governor Young and the state supreme court is no question of who committed that crime. The question is not even as to the possible guilt or innocence of Mooney or Billings of this or other misdeeds. The question is simply this: Were these two men given a fair trial and proved guilty of murder by the due processes of American justice? Justice-loving Americans will not be confused by running up blind alleys to look for the guilty. They will adhere to the straight road and demand quick action, long overdue, to free two innocent men and wipe from the record of American justice this shameful chapter.

English is being taught in Denmark schools to promote understanding of American-made talkies. Well, well, and is it really English in those talkies? If you didn’t send your children through college, you wouldn't have anybody around to correct your grammar. Many people are keeping the new bills as souvenirs, say treasury officials. A lot of folks seem to be keeping the old ones as souvenirs, too. Sing Sing prison is cutting down on the number of motion pictures. Are penitentiary officials seeking the causes for those recent riots? By the way, that problem of pajamas for street wear seems to have been pretty well settled. General Chang, the Manchurian war lord, was fined $l5O the other day for an accidental killing. So they have innocent bystanders in China, too. A Kansas City caddy sued a golfer for $50,000 for an eye injury. Golfers who have lost balls on the course may find it hard to understand how a caddy’s eyes could be W'orth $50,000.

Ia y a \ O Tv T FREDERICK REASON By LANDIS

IN a nutshell, Mr. Hoover tells the world how we feel about disarmament. Man for man, gun for gun and ship for ship, Uncle Sam will go the route with others, but he will not give his brains a vacation, make himself defenseless and dream of world-wide love upon the heaving bosom of Pollyanna while others strut up and down the international pike, armed to the teeth. a an Judge Kavanaugh of Chicago is skating on thin ice when he states that it isn't wrong for a woman to swear falsely to save her reputation, for if this is so, a man may swear falsely to save his liberty, or a witness may swear falsely in order to escape an unpleasant situation. When a judge begins to play his piccolo under the piazza of perjury, it is time to call a halt. When Grundy complains of the sparsely settled western states which vote against Pennsylvania’s tariff ideas, he should bear in mind that such sparsely settled eastern states as Maine. Vermont, New Hampshire. Rhode Island and Delaware vote for them. n an . THE city authorities of Berlin removed the picture of their mayor from the city hall, because he is involved in a political scandal, and state authorities should remove from statehouses the pictures of all Governors who have been indicted, unless they were later vindicated. * a u Fall goes to court in a wheel chair and the judge would have suspended his sentence had Fall not taken an appeal, then Mrs. Pantages goes to court in a wheel chair and the judge lets her go. If you’ve been convicted and wish to make the courthouse hole in par, approach the judicial green on wheels. m a a In spite of doubts and fears we have progressed. Cn the anniversaries of his victories Napoleon used to get out the trophies of war and have a triumphal procession, but cn the anniversary of our victory over Germany, the greatest part of the discussion was about world peace. ar i : a AFTER we go down to the cellar and take the ashes out of the furnace until all the baskets are filled, then carry them cut to the alley, figure on the direction of the wind and dump them, only to have the wind change and blow them all over us, we are rather dissatisfied with the progress science is making toward heating our hofhes by harnessing the sun. r * w Since France has given former Secretary Kellogg the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor for his treaty, renouncing war. she should now give several crosses to Levison, the Chicago lawyer, who was born in Noblesville. Ind., and who originated the idea and handed it to Borah, who handed it to Kellogg. man The prince of Wales showed that he is a good fellow when he gave that dinner to the British heroes who had won the Victoria cross, but it is tragic to note that many of them did not have enough to pay their car fare to the banquet. This cross entitles its wearer to a salute from the prince of Wales, but many of the heroes would

doubtless prefer a ham sandwich.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

1 In Soviet Russia They Exile the Candidate First and Hold the Election Afterward. TOGA clad and sandal shod, Raymond Duncan visits New York, hoping to discover something new in art which he can report to his friends of the Latin quarter in Paris. Thus far his search has been futile, unearthing only a “parasite artisanship,” he declares. Mr. Duncan evidently has overlooked the bulletin just issued by the Metropolitan museum, which tells how the employes of that august institution are learning to use the pistol. That, at least, is something new in art. a tt tt Mexico elects Ortiz Rubio, admistration candidate, to the presidency, with general rioting through the republic and no less than twentyone persons killed. Guns have entered politics as well as art—just one more example of how thoroughly American ways are weaving themselves into civilization. We might look for a complete triumph if Soviet Russia were not experimenting with an obviously superior system. a u u Russia Has System IN Soviet Russia they exile the candidate first and hold the election afterward. That is what you might call preventive medicine. It not only eliminates the possibility of an upset, but spares people the necessity of rioting on the one hand, or of defending themselves against rioters on the other. As leader of the right wing, Mr. Bucharin was r.ot acceptable to those in control of the administration, so he is removed quietly from office and expelled from the Communist party.

Since that is the only party in Soviet Russia, Mr. Bucharin has no place to go. A one-party nation is tough on politicians who have ideas of their own, Russian and Italian exiles are coming to represent a rather large per cent of the world’s available talent. ana Speaking of politics and politicians, not only England, but the world, loses a picturesque figure in the passing of T. P, O’Connor, who was a member of parliament for forty-nine years and long has been known as “father of the house of commons.” The ability to write good obituaries played no small part in bringing him fame as a journalist. It now remains for someone of his friends and admirers to do as well by him. His career as a journalist, as legislator and as champion of Irish nationalism, represents one of the brightest spots in recent British history. He not only won a place of confidence and respect from those whom he fought, but a place of affection in their hearts. a a a Lloyd George Is Dean WITH O’Connor gone, David Lloyd George becomes "father of the house of commons,” with a service of thirty-nine years. This will surprise most people, for Lloyd George’s virility creates the impression that he still is a young man. Spirit, rather than years, determines a man’s true age. Some of us are older at 40 than others are at 75. a a a Lloyd George is a Welshman and Ramsay MacDonald a Scotchman, while T. P. O’Connor was an Irishman. England has come to a point where she draws many of her leaders from the outlying provinces. There came a time when Rome looked in the same direction for hers. One wonders if the parallel will run to its logical conclusion, or whether it is mere coincidence. a a a Leadership Drifts West IN America, leadership is taking a westward drift, but for obvious reasons. Ever since the Atlantic coast was settled, there has been a westward move of the people, taking with it the best blood and most vigorous spirits, as well as the center of population. The center of population is now In Indiana, which makes it easy to understand why a Californian is President, and why the western grouo is playing such an important part in congress. a a a It is not so easy to explain why Scotch. Irish and Welsh have come to play such a prominent part in British politics. Rugged scenery and rural life may have something to do with it. Whether as pioneers or politicians, children of the soil, especialh- of rough, impoverished soil, have a way of coming to the front.

Questions and Answers

In what states are the Allegheny mountains? How high are they? The Allegheny mountains are a range of the Appalachian system, traversing Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia, in a southwesterly direction, and forming the watershed between the Atlantic and the Mississippi. In the northern portion the Alleghanies have an elevation of about two thousand feet, gradually increasing toward the south, and reach a height of 4.500 feet in Virginia. Where is Bncknell university? Lewisburg, Pa. Who was Osiris? An Egyptian run god and resurrection God. What Is a "dowager" queen? The term dowager means that she is the consort of a deceased ruler.

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Undulant Fever Gains a Foothold

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. YEARS ago considerable attention was paid to a disease called malta fever which had occurred in epidemic form among British soldiers quartered in Malta. The same disease occurring in other parts of the world carries the name of Mediterranean fever and undulant fever, the latter because of the intermittent character. Os recent years this disease has tended to occur in increasing numbers in other parts of the world, so that within the last year fifteen cases have been reported as developing in Great Britain; in Denmark, there are said to be 500 cases a yea", and several hundreds of cases have developed in the United States. At the same time that this disease has appeared in man, the disease known as contagious abortion has been more frequent in cattle. Investigators for the United States

IT SEEMS TO ME By BROUN

IT seems to me a pity that Bishop Manning thought it best to forbid a communion service in an Episcopal church at which a Presbyterian minister was to officiate. I haven’t any doubt that an excellent legal case can be made out for the bishop. Probably he was upholding the letter of canon law, but not so long ago there seemed to be the promise and the hope that the Protestant church was minded to rise above denominational differences in an effort to find unity. Surely, I am not mistaken In thinking that there recently was a move in New York to raise funds for an Episcopal cathedral, and if memory serves me right, people of all sects were asked to come together in the enterprise. Indeed, there was a slogan that this was to be “a house of worship for all people.” No, I have not forgotten. I’m afraid that Bishop Manning has. a a a— Dodge Religion NEWSPAPERS on the whole are somewhat afraid of religion as a theme on vrhich to build comment. Several readers have written to the editor lately, asking him to advise me to refrain from discussing the topic. But in this I see no logic. Conditions have changed vastly in the last few years. Religion begins to come out from the privacy of church walls. Ministers ask for microphones and bid for the attention of many. Certainly, if a sermon bites a man, that’s news, and nowadays the voice of the preacher goes as wddely as the sound of any jazz orchestra. Mind you, I am not regretting the fact. If only discussion becomes general enough, the world may yet be able to reconcile religious differences. Nor need a unity among all professing Christians be the final goal There Is some common factor in the religious instinct of Harry Elmer Barnes, to pick at random a well-known liberal, and the most fanatical holy man scourging himself at the gate of a Tibetan temple. If only we all can seize upon this common factor we might have a creed broad enough to let the whole world in and not maintain so many different denominations, each one a smallish Noah’s ark. into which the faithful may proceed, only by two and two. tt Q B Give and Take AND so I am in no sense criticising the clergyman who invites public attention, but when he does he ought to have sufficient sportsmanship to suffer public comment. It would be silly, for instance, to say that the religion of the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Caaman is his private affair and none of my business. The good doctor celebrates his beliefs not only through the ether, but by means of a widely syndicated newspaper department. He is a columnist, and surely the tradition la well established that one col-

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public health service have shown a definite relationship between the germ causing contagious abortion in cattle and the one causing malta [ever or undulant fever in man. The germ is found in the milk of infected cows, but this is not apparently the chief mode of infection, since the disease affects young men more frequently than it affects women and children. In Denmark, investigators found most of the cases among agricultural workers, especially those coming into close contact with cattle, and in this country many cases have been found in workers in packing houses dealing with swine, sheep and cattle generally. It seems likely that infection probably occurs from direct contact with diseased material rather than from the drinking of infected milk or eating infected butter or cheese, althought it is quite possible that the latter may be a source. Workers for the various state

umnist may write about another. Not only may, but undoubtedly will. The doctor reaches a vast audience. He taps at the dials in my room, and I let him in. More than that, I let him have his say without interruption. And I might say to him in the phrase made familiar by columnar fans, “Os course, I don’t always agree with you.” And so I should be permitted freely to answer back in this small voice, which can never avail very much against his wave-lengths. As it happens, I am very much interested in religion. Five years ago it was college football, and before that, professional baseball, but now it is religion. I do myself less than justice on such afternoons as I write about cooking, when the true internal tumult within me eddies about the rocks of controversal theology. a u st Not Exact Science SOMEEODY may object that after all Dr. Cadman is a trained theologian and that I know nothing about it and therefore should hold my peace. If columnists wrote only on themes concerning which they were

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GETTYSBURG ADDRESS November 19

SIXTY-SIX years ago today, on Nov. 19, 1853, President Lincoln delivered his famous address dedicating Gettysburg as a national cemetery. Immediately after the famous battle of Gettysburg, the Confederates retreated with the Union forces in pursuit, leaving burial of the dead and care of the wounded to the military and local authorities cf the state of Pennsylvania. A part of the battlefield was obtained for a cemetery and Lincoln was asked to help dedicate the cemetery by a few appropriate remarks. A distinguished crator, Edward Everett, was scheduled to make the principal address. \ Everett made an address worthy alike of his own fame and the extraordinary occasion, but it w’as forgotten in the tumult of acclaim of Lincoln’s brief speech. The President’s address was so pertinent, so brief, yet so comprehensive, linking deeds cf the present to thoughts of the future in such simple yet exquisitely molded phrases that the best critics have awarded it an unquestioned rank as one of the world’s masterpieces in rhetorical art. Who were three of the more prominent philosophers of ancient Rome? Seneca, the tutor of Nero; the Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus, the slave, were among, the more prominent.

health departments and for the United States public health service are attempting to find out how frequently the disease contagious abortion occurs in cattle. Examinations of specimens of milk are studied as to the occurrence of the germ of tuberculosis and also as to the possible presence of the germ of malts fever. Patients who have the symptoms of this disease, which include intermittent fever, great weakness and symptoms similar to those of typhoid, malaria, and even chronic heart disease, are studied by modern diagnostic methods which involve removal of specimens of blood and testing of these specimens as to their reaction with the germs of the disease. The menace of undulant fever is not the menace of a great plague, like the great epidemics of influenza, but rather the danger of anew condition which insidiously creeps into the population and gradually affects increasing numbers of people.

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

expert, the output hardly would fill the space allotted to them. There is also the fortunate fact that theology Is not an exact science. In speaking of omelets, I very possibly may reveal myself as shamefully ignorant. Indeed, I did not know until yesterday that some people beat the whites separately. That may be the reason why mine never have risen appreciably. On the other hand, I see no reason why I should be frightened or persuaded away from a theme because somebody writes to say, ’’You show yourself an ignorant fool when you do a column about God and religion.” I am not persuaded, for I feel that no precise standards have been established. One man’s emotion in the matter may be as good as another’s, and knowledge enters in but slightly. I will go further and say that in my opinion one man’s conception of religion is inevitably more important than the creeded conception of a million, since man must always come toward God alone. fCoDvriKht. 1929. bv The Times)

Daily Thought

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.—Ecclesiastes 3:1. O tt tt Look not mournfully into the past; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present; it is thine.—Longfellow.

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SCIENCE' By DAVID DIET 7,

Dr. Joseph J astro tv Deplores the Useless Argument Over Different “Isms” of Psychology. A CALL to psychologists to stop quarreling over “isms” is sounded by Dr. Joseph Jastrow professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin and past president of the American Psychological Associaton. Professor Jastrow views the war between Freudians, behaviorists, introspectionists and other schools of psychology, as unnecessary. “The acceptance of psychology in the confederation of the sciences is accomplished,” he writes in the Scientific Monthly. “But an internal warfare continues which in historical circumstances is unfortunate and in professional responsibility scandalous. “If physicists, chemists or biologists spent as much futile argument in discussing the purposes of their science and held as antagonistic views of the fundamental concepts and direction of progress, that progress itself would be just so far hampered.” Dr, Jastrow points out, however, that it is not unnatural that psychology should have been the scene of noisier battles than other sciences. “When the object of research involves the researcher himself, cross lights are inevitable,'” he says. tt m a Nature PROFESSOR JASTROW calls upon his colleagues to take a broader view of the field of psychology and to realize that the various “isms” are merely branches of ths same subject. “I am convinced that all phychology is one no less than is physics or chemistry, - ’ he writes. “The appearance of hopeless division is for the mbst part illusory, and can be resolved as readily as the famous contradictory description of the elephant by the blind men, one of whom had him by the ears, another by the tail, another by the leg, another by the trunk and none saw him rightly or whole for lack of eyes to see. “For the structural and the functional, the dynamic and the purposive, the introspective and the experimental, the behaviorist and the Freudian, the Gestaltist and the self-psychologist and the other ‘isiri’ renderings of the field of mind, are all partial gropings to describe the same beast, as nature made him, and as those whose psychological organs of vision are fully opened readily can see him. “It is obvious to the point of truism that there is only one psychology and my stock answer to the persistent inquiry as to what brand of psychology I profess is naturalistic psychology. “In common with every psychologist, I am a student of human nature, and my first and last obligation is to see that nature as nature made it, and as man has remade it for his own purposes; for that remaking and that, comprehension is the true human glory.” tt a a Behavior PROFESSOR JASTROW believes that the advance of psychology will be accelerated by a realization of this essential unity of psychology. “Science advances not by way of ‘isms,’ but by clarification of concepts,” he writes. Accordingly, he calls upon students of psychology to realize that different “isms” are merely parts of the same picture and that it is necessary to fit these parts together in proper relation without undue emphasis on any of them. Professor Jastrow devotes a large portion of his article to considering the school of behaviorism founded by Dr. John B. Watson. This is made necessary by the fact that the behaviorists have been loudest in ridiculing other brands of psychology and most extreme in their claims. Watson, for example, denies the existence of consciousness or thought, and picture.s all human behavior as reactions into original reflexes or direct responses to stimuli and later developed “conditioned reflexes,” in which one stimuli is substituted for another. Professor Jastrow deplores this emphasis upon the conditioned reflex. “The conditioned reflex, though real, is most limited,” he writes, and the problem of the true behaviorist is to explain how we develop intelligence by remaining so largely free from conditioning.” What actress played opposite Richard Dix in “Easy Come, Easy Go”? Nancy Carroll.