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The losses O°orges Clemenceau, war-premier of France, •patl.jr of victory,"' and Titan among European statesmen, lies dead at the grand old age of 88. Scrapper almost from the day he was born, Ins death was characteristic of his life. Despite his doctors’ predictions, he refused to die until he only had not completed his job as statesman, but just had put the last period after the last word of the last chapter of his written works. This done, he laid his manuscript by, murmured sjv e finished!” and passed on. Even as he was d>ing, h* sent his women nurses from the room, that he n>jght “die among men,” and left orders tha* he bt buried standing up, as a fighter should. In a vital and exposed position before Verdun In that terrible spring of 1916, a French detachment bad been raked and pounded for two days without cease. So terrific had been the barrage that the French trenches were all but obliterated. It had been Impossible to reach the tattered band with either food or reinforcements. The situation seemed hopeless. Then came the German attack. The last surviving officer, a young sub-lieutenant just out of St. Cyr, the French West Point, saw it coming. His own head was bleeding through its bandage made of the sleeve of his mud-soaked shirt, but in an instant he was on top of the parapet waving his bare arm and shrieking: •‘Debout, les morts! En avant!’ “Up, yet dead men, and forward! Electrified, his wounded, almost lifeless followers, sprang up cheering and met the attackers ... by attacking. Surprised, the German line wavered, broke and fell back. The day was saved. In much the same fashion Georges Clemenceau, Tiger of France, saved his country and with it the allied cause. , , . France’s darkest hour came in 1917. She believed herself at the end of her rope-exhausted. Her losses bad been terrific and no one over there believed America could train an army and get it across the Atlantic in time to do any good. Victory seemed impossible. Moreover, a defeatest drive was in full swing. Its slogan was: “Why keep it up? We’ll never win. Let s make the best peace we can with Germany.” 8010 Pasha, adventurer; certain editors, member* of the chamber of deputies and others were accepting German money and preaching defeat while tired France likened to the siren song of an early peace. Quickly sen ing what was going on. the grizzly Clemenceau, then 77 years old and retired from active politics, leaped into action. Back in his chosen work of editing a newspaper, he fired broadside after broadside into the then French government for permitting such treasonable activities to go on. and soon the clamor became so intense that the cabinet fell and Clemenceau found himself once more premier of . France. First putting all the defeatists he could lay his hands on in prison by many called “the bravest act of the war”—he took his country firmly in hand and turned her lace forward. Like the wounded, exhausted soldiers in the battered trenches before Verdun, the people of France rose and followed their new leader to victory. To disagree with Clemenceau always was easy. He and President Wilson clashed time and again in the making of the peare of Versailles. It was natural for him to want everything for France and he fought for what he wanted like the tiger from which he got his nickname. At the same time, however, there is just as much room for enthusiastic admiration for this Frenchman who certainly must be ranked among the greatest statesmen of the times. He was to Fiance what Bismarck was to an earlier Germany, different though their methods were. His ever was the spirit of the young lieutenant who made the “dead” stand up and follow him. Should America ever come upon such days, our hope is for a Clemenceau, faults and all, to prod us on to our duty.

rape General Coxey Thirty-five years ago General Coxey led a march on the national Capitol with an army of unemployed, asking the government for work and presenting a plan. It was very simple. He asked that the government use available labor in slack times to build public Improvements. Tire way to cure unemployment, he believed, was to funrisli employment. As far as the general got at that time was a police station. He was arrested for walking on grass and falling to see the “Keep Off” signs. His id has gone much larther and now the Govrronrs of various states and the mayors of cities arc doing exactly what Coxey said should have been done. They are planning vast improvements. There will be no unemployment this winter. There will be work, at good wages and not cut prices, in every section of the country. With the federal reserve banking law keeping money from being monopolized, there is no danger of the panics which formerly were expected about every twenty years because of surplus production. The people have finally got around to the idea that they ran use and ought to use the unable and useful things which they create. The significant thing is that the scheme which was once denounced as socialistic and dangerous when advanced by Coxey. is now recognized as sound economic and good business Os course, there was one step advocated by Coxey which has not been taken and which may be worth the time of congress when it meets again. Coxey had an idea that money for public improvements should be furnished tree of charge. That is, he believed that the people should not pay interest for a long term of years on hr'* w, ed capital, when spent for these public prvjCcts He has had a measure providing for this before congress at every session for thirty-five years and it will be there again in December. It has gained support to the extent of one-half of the committee to which it was referred. There are statesmen and financiers who do not believe it any crazier than was the public work project when Coxey first advanced that remedy. Coxey believes that a security safe enough to offer to the private investor is safe enough for the government. He would merely have the states or cities deposit their bonds with the treasury and receive the money. The people would pay back each year the amount they now pay in interest The

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money would be destroyed. At the end of twenty years, the bill would be paid the projects belong to the people and no more burdens. No money, no bond; all square. That might stimulate in two ways. It would release the funds now going into state and municipal bonds for private industry It would relieve labor and industry from interest debts. In calling in the gentlemen who have now adopted the Coxey plan in part, the President will overlook a bet if lie fails to call the general himself. There may be something in the rest of his idea. Francis E. Warren When a man has been a United States senator for almost thirty-nine years,-longer than any other man ever has served: when he has been in public office fifty-six years, longer perhaps than any other American, his death makes it difficult to fix upon a single episode to illustrate his character. The man is Francis El Warren of Wyoming. Sentences that suggest his career are these: He was a member of the territorial senate of Wyoming in 1873. Twice Governor of the territory and first Governor of the state of Wyoming. Member of the United States senate, with one year’s intermission, since 1890. At one time considered the wealthiest member of the senate. “The greatest shepherd since Abraham.” This sobriquet applied by Senator Dolliver of lowa clung to Warren for many years. It grew out of Warren’s successful battle for famous Schedule K in the tariff act of 1909, the tariff that wrecked President Taft's hope of a second term. Warren was one of the great, if not the greatest, of sheep raisers in the west and Schedule K fixed the rates on wool. Chairman of the senate appropriations committee through many terms and considered one of the few masters of the government’s fiscal machinery. A successful merchant, banker, stock raiser, and farmer. The only member of congress who had received the Congressional Medal of Honor. This was voted him for gallantry in action during the Civil war, where he served as a non-commissioned officer in and regiment of Massachusetts volunteers. These are among the milestones of Senator Warren’s public career and yet they do not furnish the key to his character. Perhaps it will be found in this little story of his boyhood. Senator Warren was born on a rocky New England farm. His family was poor, almost desperately so. As he grew toward young manhood, it was a hardship to spare the boy time for the brief winter schooling he could obtain by walking some miles to the nearest school house. Young Warren was big and strong, already doing a man's work on the farm. Finished with the district school, he aspired to the further possibilities offered by a small academy in another borough. He achieved this ambition by working between terms and during week-ends as a farm hand for a neighbor and turning the wages received over to his father, as was the custom, if not the law, of those days in Massachusetts. He completed the academy's course, with credit to himself, the result of night study in the unheated attic room where he lived. He left then on the /Thai long walk for home, without waiting for the next day’s ceremonies, which would have included the bestowal of a diploma on himself. His best clothes were so shabby he could not bring himself to appear. Does this explain the man? Courageous, tenacious of purpose, willing to work without end to achieve his aim. Yet this aim look beyond the accepted forms of success. He would have liked to have had the diploma, but he did not question the necessity to be dressed properly to receive it. Things were as they were; he did not question their rightness. He sought only to win the accepted form of success for himself. This aim he achieved and in immense measure. He won great wealth and great power. But it wasn’t his wealth and his power that made him conservative. Conservatism was inherent in his nature, a respect for the things of the world as they are. It was an honest conservatism, one that was respected bv those who differed with him. For at his death. Senator Warren had the deep affection and admiration of the others in the chamber where he had served so long.

REASON By 1 Landis K

WEATHER changes quickly in the world of politics. Little more than half a year ago Herbert Hoover stood in Ills glass reviewing stand and watched his inaugural parade go past; he was the leader of a united party; he had split the .solid south; he was surrounded by trusted counselors. Now he finds his party divided, the split south reuniting. while his trusted counselors, Senator Burton and Secretary Good are dead. After the mountain top, the valley. I £ S Civilization sympathizes with the desire of humanitarians to control military aviation, but it can not be done without controlling all aviation. Armies and navies can be controlled by agreement because it takes time to build them, but an airplane is changed from a dove to an eagle the instant its cargo is changed from mail bags to bombs. man It takes years for arsenals to manufacture great canons and this can be watched by that system of espionage which all nations maintain, but poison gas enough to exterminate an adversary can be secretly manufactured over night. Little wonder European nations, jammed together, have high blood press'ire! ana A CHIC AGO concern sends out postal cards, offering to trace one’s pedigree back any distance for so much a mile, but what's the use of such a thing, since we all go clear back to Mr. and Mrs. Adam. man Helen Wills, the tennis champion, announces the fact that her name does not need the society racket. u m a Lady Astvr can hardly be blamed for declining to go up in that great English plane which carries 103 passengers, since the crash of a fine flier almost every week makes timidity highly respectable. nan THE police 'ln the little Mexican town of Zazongotha recently saved the life of an Indian girl as she was about to be slaughtered as a sacrifice to the god of water. She and A1 Smith should get together and compare notes. nan The people of Great Britain should be happy now that the prince of Wales has taken up knitting, for there would be little danger of serious injury in the event he should fall off his yarn. a a a President Hoover did a fine thing, but he ran a great risk of starting something' when he sent a radio set to that crippled boy In lowa.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Clemenceau Dallied With Trivialities Near the End, Which Proves Him to Have Been Genuinely Human. PRESIDENT HOOVER calls on the Goverriors of all states to co-operate in promoting work, Standard Oil reaches an agreement with the German dye trust oy which it will manufacture gasoline from coal; the patent office reports such a rush of new ideas because of the machine age that it can not keep up without the help of at least 100 more examiners, and Soviet Russia appoints a commission to Latinize hfer alphabet. These activities are of moment to millions. They get right down where people live. It is right that they should have a prominent place in the headlines. But the death of a man in France more than divides honor with them. tt u n Life remains old-fashioned when it comes to death. We have not yet arrived at a point where we can stand beside an open grave with complete equanimity. In spite of the big things, we have done or expect to do; in spite of the grim necessity that keeps most of our noses to the grindstone; in spite of the hectic influences that drive us forward at an ever accelerating pace; and in spite of the small part an individual seems to play amid all the merging and mechanizing, we are still dismayed when a great soul drops into eternity. > ,tt tt tt Know They Are Mortal pOMEHOW it does not seem right for great souls to disappear that way. Having put them on a pedestal, we expect them to remain; having clothed them with impossible attributes, we gather the impression that they are different. Just as we find it hard to picture Columbus as a squalling, colicky baby, we find it hard to picture him as dying in chains; and just as we find it hard to think of George Washington as a happy, carefree ■ boy, we find it hard to think of him as strangling to death with the croup. tt • tt The great souls know better. They know that they are mortal, like the rest of us, not only with respect to death, but with respect to other things. They have been through the mill; have had their hours of ache, pain and disappointment; have felt the weakness that goes with common clay, and understand perfectly well that they are headed toward the same mystery. * tt n Foresaw the End Georges clemenceau said on his last birthday, “I shall die within the year.”'Not only that, but his mind reverted to little things as he approached the end. He wanted to die with his boots on, and so went to bed fully dressed each night; wanted no women around to weep when the crisis came; wanted lo be buried standing up like his father. * Strange that a man who had occupied such high positions, who had wrestled with such stupendous problems, and who had declared his be* lief that death was “a dreamless sleep,” should dally with such trivialities at the cose. But they prove him to have been genuinely human, and we like him all the better for it. It enables us to repiember the man, rather than the shadow we had manufactured in our fancy; the being of flesh and blood, rather than the marionette of story tellers. One With Rest of Us Georges clemenceau was a wonderfully human individual—human in his iron will, his tenacious prejudices, and his curious eccentricities. The philosophy exemplified by his career is bastly more interesting and vastly more practical than the philosophy he wove into words. The unrestrained radicalism of his youth, merging into the realization of responsibility; the violent and effective role he played as critic of the French government for a dozen years, causing one cabinet after another to fall; the magnificent part he played when called to take command at 73; the depth and narrowness of hts patriotism; + he vanity with which he afterward retired to write out his thoughts and fancies, as though they were of great consequents—all that, and much more, reveals him as one with the rest of us. The ironv of it is that doctors took off his clothes and robed him in a night shirt when he became too weak to resist, and that a faithful was at his bedside when he died. Human to the end. May your sleet) be pleasant, M. Clemenceau, whether or not it is dreamless.

Questions and Answers

Describe the state flag of Illinois. It is plain white and in the center is the state seal, consisting of an American eagle on an American shield. Back of she shield and helping to support it is an olive branch. li- its beak the eagle holds a scroll containing the words “State Sovereignty—National Union.” Will sleeping in direct moonlight cause insanity? That is an ancient superstition in which there is no foundation of fact. Why does radio have less volume on rainy days than on dry days? The National Radio institute says that the fact that a radio receiver has greater volume in dry weather than to wet weather indicates that the aerial system Is not completely insulated. This may be due to faulty insulators or to the fact that the aerial or lead-in wire touches some object. In either case, the radio signals will be conducted directly to the ground and will not pass through the receiver. The aerial and lead-in should be completely instated.

Keeping Schools Open Checks Flu

‘ by dr. morris FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyxela, the Health Magazine. AT the time of the last great epidemic of influenza there was much dispute among sanitary authorities as to whether schools should be closed as a means of preventing the spread of disease. Nowadays it is realized that it is advisable to keep the school open, because in this way it is possible to keep a check on the movements of the children to find out which ones are ill and which are well, to institute daily examination in all classes where cases occur, to exclude all those suspected of having

IT SEEMS TO ME ™ D

NOT so long ago, some reader wrote to say that he was considering the project of burning my Connecticut farmhouse, and maybe this was the same violent client who ascribes now across a column, “I have some facts about your private life that you would not want to come to light.” If my nameless correspondent really has got hold of something snappy, I think that I should be the first to know. Any spice of deviltry or scandal would come as a glad surprise. Also, it would be handy. The man who speaks of a columnist's “private life” knows little of the woes of being one. Day by day I watch my private life pouring over the dam and down the chute called “It seems to me.” nun Sheer Necessity IT is not exhibitionism, but sheer necessity, which makes me parade in print my most personal adventures in finance, moral philosophy and romance. * Pity the poor Columnist who must squander every day those reticences by which proper men are nourished Even those near and dear to me are drawn into the devastating limelight. Before he had yet reached the age of 1, my son was an income producer in the sense that he supplied me copy. Even his most trifling revolt against spinach served coldly to furnish forth a few necessary paragraphs. For seven years I lived off that child and paid him nothing in return. Almost I felt like one of the many legendary Russian peasants pursued by wolves. In the stories of such bleak tragedies the harassed man throws out his wife and then his grandmother from the sled in an effort to appease the wolf pack. Sometimes he does it the other way round. But in the end the wolves get every relative who happens to be handy.

Is the Graf Zeppelin longer than the Los Angeles? The Zeppelin is 772 feet long and the Los Angeles is 565 feet. What are the followers of Mohammed called? What book corresponds to the Bible in their faith? The followers of Mohammed are called Moslems or Mohammedans. The koran in their Biole. What is the meaning of Sven and Svend? They are Nora* and Teutonic words and mean youth. What stars form the northern cross? . Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon and Eta of the constellation Cygnus. How many games were played In the 1928 world series between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals? The New York Yankees defeated the St. Luu’b Cardinals in four straight

Speaking of Thanksgiving!

.DAILY HEALTH SERVICE-

the disease or to be associated closely with cases of the disease, and in many other ways to. exercise positive action rather than negative. It also has been shown that it is unnecessary to fumigate the rooms or to destroy all books and papers used by the children, since this does not seem to have any important effect in checking epidemic infectious diseases. The actual records are interesting. In 22 schools in Pennsylvania which depended only on fumigation to ’stamp out contagious diseases, there was, a total of 171 cases within a month before and 300 within a month following closure and fumigation.

It is not wolves, but deadlines, which pursue, and my only regret Is that I have but. one grandmother to give to my column. tt tt m Not Idle AND tills anonymous reader says that he will expose facts about my private life. What on earth does he think I’ve been doing during this last quarter-century of columning? If he does undertake to make any such exposure, I ask him as a favor to type it neatly and write on only one side of the paper so that I can hand it directly to the printer. That will save a good deal of time. I only hope, as Irvin Cobb said on a well-remembered occasion, that it is nothing trivial. All my life I have wanted to be a sinister figure. When I was a young reporter a fellow’ worker in the old press club appealed to me for assistance. “Would you mind,” he said, “going down to the lobby and find out if there’s a large girl in a w’hit.e fur coat walking up and down and trying to get in? “If she’s there,” he explained, “that’s Ethel and she wants to shoot me.” When I demurred a trifle, he told me proudly that he wgis the only man in all the world whom Ethel would think of shooting. It seems he had broken her heart, and she resented it. I never have ahy man as I envied him. Being no more than 25 or 26, I continued to hope for a while. Perhaps I, too, eventually might be pursued bv a large woman with a white coat and a revolver. It never happened, and by now, of course, it is much too late.

Casanova IT was my intention to hire some woman to undertake a whispering campaign against me. It was mv scheme that during a lull in the dinner she might say in loud and clear tones: “Speaking cf the League o Nations, I wnoder if any of you know Hevwood Broun. I advise ’cu not to meet him. I have exceTert information that is an inveterate roue. No woman would be safe with him for as much as thirty seconds.” The head of the oublicitv bureau didn’t care to undertake the pronaganda. She said she felt it was good business to accept only such commissions as there was some chance of completing successfully “Well,” I said, “make it ‘No woman would be safe with hiir for twenty-four hours.’” But even with this compromise, she turned me down. * Now, here, in the very middle of

Daily Thought

Let him eschew evil, and do good: let h'm seek neace, and ensue it.—l Peter 3:11. 0 0 K lam a man of peace. God knows how I love peace; but I hope I never hnii be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.—Kossuth.

In fourteen schools there were attempts to check scarlet fever outbreaks by formaldehyde fumigation of school rooms. Within a month before its use they had ninety-one cases of scarlet fever and during the month following fumigation 123 cases. The same type of figures are available for cases of German measles and of ordinary measles. Therefore the advice should be repeated again: In times of epidemic do not close the schools and lose control of the children; much better keep th schools open, examine the children daily and carefully record the development of cases so as to prevent contact and continued spread of infection.

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

my middle age, a man pops up and says he will start a scandal about me. It seems almost miraculous. Still, after forty-one years of clean living, I do deserve to get some such happy break. i Copyright.. 1929. by The Times)

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BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA November 25

SIXTY-SIX years ago today, on Nov. 25, 1863, the Battle of Chattanooga, one of the most Important engagements of the Civil w : ar, w'as fought in the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tenn. A federal army of 60,000 under General GranJ and a Confederate army of about forty thousand under General Bragg took part in the famous battle. Preliminary skirmishes w'ere fought on Nov. 23 after Grant had been reinforced by troops under Sherman. On the twenty-fourth, Sherman, on the left, carried a detached point of Missionary Ridge, and Hooker, on the right, in the famous “Battle Above the Clouds,” captured Lookout mountain. Grant ordered another assault and federal troops drove the panicstricken Confederates from the field in one of the most remarkable charges in military history on Nov. 25. The losses in killed, wounded and missing w’ere: For the Federals, 5,815; for the Confederates, 6,687.

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SCIENCE - By DAVID DIETZ—-

Industries Must Help Colleges to Turn Out Trained Technical Men as a Benefit to Themselves. , THE industrial concern which fails to take heed of the progress of science soon will find itself out of existence. 60 says Dr. S. W. Stratton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the United States bureau of standards. To support his contention, Dr Stratton points out the speed with which revolutionary inventions are being turned out by scientists today. He cites such things as new steel alloys, high speed steel, stainless steel and the like, ti_e turning o' former waste products into valuable by-products through chemical means, and the development of such articles as the radio vacuum tube, which is finding a widespread use in telephone and the electrical industry in general, as well as in radio. In general, Dr. Stratton thinks that there is no danger of industry failing to appreciate the value of science or the need of trained scientists and engineers. As an example of the demand, he points out that every member of last year’s graduation class at Massachusetts Institute of Technology received three offers of Jobs. tt tt Demand DR. STRATTON thinks that industry has been too eager to get experts. Asa result, he says that it is difficult for colleges to hang on to their faculties. Industries not only bid for graduates and students with post-gradu-ate training, but they lure away faculty members as well. To Dr. Stratton this policy is on a par with that of cutting down the forests and failing to adopt a conservation policy to replace them. He points out that if the colleges lose their faculties, the output of trained students can not be expected. He realizes, however, that it is not possible to keep men on college faculties when industries bid four and five times their present salaries for them. “The solution, of course, is to pay bigger salaries in the colleges," he says. “But the colleges can not do this without additional endowments. I feel that industries must realize their need of the colleges and that the endowments must come from them. “In the last analysis, they benefit most from the colleges.” Among the industries which are faced today by the shortage of experts, Dr. Stratton cites the oil industry and the airplane industry. As time goes on, and the airplane Industry grow's, there will be a bigger and bigger demand for experts in it, he says.

• Co-Operation “'T'HERE are not enough experts JL to go around today,” Dr. Stratton says. One solution to the problem, he thinks is the increasing cooperation growing up between engineering colleges and industries. By various arrangements, young men employed in industries are enabled to do additional studying and research In colleges. “Old graduates like to think that they worked harder when they were in school than present students work,” he says. “But it isn’t so. “Today, the growth of’engineering means that the student must be taught more about his particular branch of science. “And in addition, the fundamental nature of the new discoveries being made and the vast basis of knowledge upon which they are founded, means that the student must get more fundamental training in mathematics, physics and chemistry “One solution to the problem would be for the colleges to give more training in these fundamental subjects, the industries agreeing to give thfe more specialized training to the graduates. “Industry must co-operate in the training of experts if the demand is to be met.” As an example of the way in which eng ; neering is based on fundamental physical and chemical studies, Dr. Stratton points to the use of increased steam pressure in power plants. “This has made necessary a vast amount of research to determine the various mathematical constants of steam at these higher pressures,” he says. What is the numerical name for one, followed by nine ciphers? In the English system of notation 1,000,000,000 is called a thousand million. In the American system St is called a billion.