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Coolidge Still Coy After a few months in the has-been class, Coolidge emerges as a may-be he can have the Republican nomination for United States senator from Massachusetts for the asking. That is as it should be. The O, O. P. must have an unusually strong candidate to win. And. if the prestige of an ex-President can not carry the party across the election line, what can? But Coolidge is coy a3 ever. He is not saying what ha wifi do. That means, perhaps, that he is ready for the lightning to strike; but he must feel sure of victory before he takes a chance. It would be easy enough for him to say no. now. But that Is not the Coolidge way. The impatience of the Massachusetts Republicans Is amusing. They are bombarding him with letters, pleading for a quick and definite decision. They don t know their Calvin. His long residence in Washington has made the Boston politicians forget that their idol never made a quick decision in his life. He didn't choose to make his withdrawal from the presidential race until the very night before the Kansas City 'convention. Coolidge has many faults, but false pride does not happen to be one of them. The fact that lie, apparently, does not think an ex-President too good to lerve his country as a junior senator shows that he see* himself in proper perspective. Get the Rest Discovery by prohibition agents of a whisky factory of such proportions as to entitle it to respect as one of the major industries of the state suggests that the whole duty will not be performed by the capture of three or four sleepy hired men. The very size of the plant indicates the impossibility of its operation without very widespread knowledge, wide enough at least for some word to have reached high quarters long ago. Installing huge boilers and tanks, the purchase of vast quantities of sugar, the necessary truckage of raw materials and finished products, can not be done, even in a sparsely settled community, with no information trickling to the outside. Nor can these operations be carried on by the Impecunious criminal, the vagrant vendor, or the unorganized mobs of minor offenders. Such an operation suggests first of all, an executive mind. Someone had to plan. Someone had to discover the markets and arrange for them. Some one had to scheme, at least, for the safe conduct of the truck loads of alcohol and liquor that were manufactured daily in these gigantic vats. , I talso suggests financing of no mean size. Somewhere there must be a bank whose officials should have been curious of the size of particular deposits and withdrawals. Somewhere a railroad knew of vast shipments of sugar. And somewhere a vendor of sugar surely knew that the market for his products in the hills of Vermillion county was not such as to absorb such vast shipments as were made. It is possible, of course, that the plant had been operated under the terrorism of a few farmers in the vicinity. It is possible that no one in official circles had an inkling but were merely blind or indifferent or lazy. For many months rumor has carried tales of the existence of a well organized and large proportioned moonshine industry in that county. If it be true that this particular plant has been in existence but two brief months, then there are other plants still to be discovered. If this be the only violator then the people will be disappointed if the trail is not followed to the logical summits and those who hired the truck drivers and the menials be brought into the net. There can be no chance of success for the noble experiment if the government is unable to ferret out only the employes of a criminal and outlawed business. It will be interesting to discover how far the forces of law are able to go in the direction of getting those who must have reaped a fortune during the months’ operation of this one plant.

Fighting the Flu Alter six years of s/udy, during which 3,800 different kinds of microbes were studied. Dr. Isidore S. Falk of the University of Chicago, announced that he ha* isolated the germ which is responsible for fltienw:.The discovery of the flu germ is another epic to be added to the heroic talk of the conquets of disease, f’ourten members of the university staff worked with Dr. Falk, many of them contracting influenza a number of times during the work. The experiments meant ceaseless hours of toil, alarm clocks being set to ring every half hour when the men became almost too tired to keep their eyes open. The study matches the historic researches of Pasteur, Koch, Roux and Walter Reed. It is to be presumed that if the work of Dr. Falk is substantiated, that an antitoxin for treatment against the flu will be forthcoming. Thus flu will go the way of smallpox, diphtheria and other dread plagues which mankind has learned to control As man conquers, one by one. the plagues which germs cause, the question arises: When will he conquer the man-made plague of war? Porto Rico Starves To combat the starvation and disease gripping Porto Rico, the American Red Cross announces a ne'- appropriation of $87,000. This in addition to the $3.-30,000 expenditure following the hurricane of last year and tne $8,000,000 loan voted by congress. The stories of hungry and suffering children told to American audiences by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, wife of the Governor ot Porto Rico, doubtless will swell the relief funds. Such funds are needed quickly. But temporary palliatives can not touch the basic problem of the island. Wholesale undernourishment and unemployment existed before the hurricane The evils of the Porto Rican system can not be eradicated by charity salve. to economic sickness. They can not be charmed away by incantation about political Independence. Porto Ricans have a right to independence, if they want it; but the large majority know that such a change would only increase their economic problems. The major problem is over-population. At best, not more than two-thirds of the people could be Eced on that small island. And under present ons less than one-third are above the nearion mark. land is being takefl from the people by giant

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Yankee sugar corporations. With the rich soil exploited by absentee foreign capital, food must be imported at prices so high the peons can not afford to buy it. Undernourishment, in turn, breeds disease. Nothing apparently can be done to reduce the population. Instead of practicing birth control, the peons go on having ten or twelve children. Migration schemes, to the American southwest and Hawaii, have failed. Governor Roosevelt, who has made a good start in his new Job, hopes to interest American capital in establishing small industries to take up part of the labor slack. He also is trying to diversify and increase the crops of native farmers. That is difficult because land is scarce and expensive, and because three-quarters of the native farmers have only squatter rights and are being crowded out by the Yankee sugar interests. To complete the depressing picture, Porto Rican sugar, which is driving the people from their lands and depriving them of native food, can not compete effectively with Cuban and Dominican sugar. There is no perfect solution of the Porto Rican problem. But surely ways can be found to mitigate its worst evils. Here is a challenge to the Hoover administration. Unbelievable but True That many thousands of adult men and women can not read or write in a nation so progressive and civilized as the United States seems almost unbelievable, but is so true that it is causing President Hoover and his cabinet concern. The President, through Interior Secretary Wilbur, has named a special advisory committee of twentythree to study and combat illiteracy, which long has been regarded as a menace to any democratic form of government. The committee's work will consist in gathering data on the extent of illiteracy and the best means of overcoming it. The greatest lack of education is in the rural districts and consideration is being given to use of the radio to reach those who have no schools nearby. It is a problem that has been taken up before without definite success. Only by awakening the states to the appalling need of action can the committee hope to bring improvement.

Children Still Work Twenty-five years’ work have been completed by the national child labor committee . . . yet children still labor with the sanction of the law'. This is not said in disparagement of the committee. It has done valuable and intelligent work and has accomplished much. Yet it is w’ell to remember that child labor never will be ended simply by passage of child labor legislation. This is a problem with deep-reaching roots. It goes far into the economic structure of the nation. Children do not work because they want to or because their parents w'ant them to. They work so they may eat. When southern mill workers are paid for their days and nights of grinding toil enough to buy adequate food, shelter and clothing for their families, there will be no more child labor in the south. When men who work in the mines earn enough so they and their families may live decently, there will be no more child labor in the coal mines. Child labor legislation, the cure we are offered for a grievous ill, is important, but the cause of the sickness of the body politic must be eliminated before our national ideal of healthful, intelligent people can be attained. Nobody loses by being polite, says an etiquet expert. But it does appear to be quite a chance to take.

REASON By FR landis K

ACCORDING to the federal health service, there has been an increase of malaria, both in amount and in severity in the southern states during the last three years and those who are old enough to know the habits and customs of the beast will favor its extermination by the national government, if the states can not handle it. nun Malaria was the unrelenting foe of the pioneer. The swamps of the undeveloped regions being citadels of disease, and most of those who laid, the foundations of civilization in the mddle west were its Tictims. Some it slew without delay and others it slew by Inches, filling them with agony and making their skin as yellow as a gourd. a u a When this infernal disease was at its height, the natives called if chills and fever, a very appropriate if not enticing name, since one minute you would be sitting on the equator and the next minute you would be perched on the north pole. All in all, chills and fever, constituted about the poorest indoor sport of older days. nun It usually came in summer when a fellow's pillow would become as hot as fire, the victim vainly turning his head from side to side in search of comfort. There were no ice packs in those days and greatest touch of high life, so far as an artificial temperature was concerned, was a cloth, dipped in well water and placed on the feverish brow. nuti YOUR blood would boil and your pulse would gallop and your head would seem ready to burst. Then all of a sudden you would have a chill and the folks would pile the covers on you a yard deep, but you would shake until the old cord bed groaned and until your teeth rattled. And this is no figure of speech. U tt u How hot it used to be during those old blistering summer days, and there were no wire screens at all. In fact those who had mosquito netting were regarded as blue bloods, and to keep the flies in circulation, some faithful friend sat by the bedside with a switch, made of papers cut in ribbons. And to cheer you up some neighbor would drop in and tell you of those who had died during the last twenty-four hours. nun The one and only medicine was quinine and you took it by the bushel. You took it not only when you were sick: you took it, thinking it might keep you up and about while the rest were in bed; you used to take it at breakfast time. And there were no capsules in those days, so you took it raw! u u u YOU were burning up with fever and poison and your system fairly yelled for acids and sour things, yet the old-time doctor told you to avoid everything you wanted and take everything you didn’t want. And the morsel S'ou craved beyond all other joys of earth was a cucumber pickle!

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Out of the Vare Case We Get a Grundy and Out of Our Prohibition We Get a Crime Wave. VARE. whose supporters spent $785,000 in the 1926 primary, is excluded from the senate. Governor Fisher, whose supporters spent more than twice as much in the same primary, appoints Grundy to take his place. Senator Nye says that Grundyshould be kicked out for consistency’s sake, but his colleagues hesitate for the Constitution’s sake. Looking back at the performance, you can not help wondering what has been gained. a a a The idea of making men righteous by legislative acts is beautiful, but dumb. Out of the Vare case we get a. Grundy, and out of prohibition, we get a crime wave. It is the same old story of where people land when they substitute law for honor and regulation for virtue. Some day, perhaps, we shall learn that human character can not* be manufactured. ana Not Original PRESIDENT HOOVER’S crime commission appears to have decided that the failure of prohibition, is due to the laxity, incompetence, and corruption of officials. That is neither original, nor entertaining. Men on the street have realized it for the last nine years. What is worse, they have realized the same thing with regard to other laws. The prevailing attitude toward prohibition has become an infection, with thugs, thieves and even murderers profiting through the protection of bootleggers. a u u It Is impossible to wink at one class of criminals, without benefiting the whole criminal fraternity, or deny that they are criminals because of disbelief in a certain law, without providing a similar excuse for those who disbelieve in some other law. “Why should you pick on me?” asks the dope peddler, “if bootlegging is all right?” “Or me?” the confidence man wants to know. “Or me?” whine the white slavers and racketeers. And every sister, cousin, aunt, fly cop, shyster lawyer, ward boss and crooked judge who has an ax to grind joins the chorus. BUB Prohibition has become not only an alibi, but a smoke screen, for all kinds of graft, corruption and criminal fraternizing. It has put a logical argument in the mouth of every law breaker, has provided a consistent defense for every corrupt office holder and has led to an epidemic of wrong-headed reasonaing regarding the duty and obligations of citizenship. It has become common to hear people justify violation of the law and disregard of the Constitution on the ground of dissatisfaction. Well, if that is sound with regard to hooch, why not with regard to morphine, arson or forgery? a a a It Is Dangerous WE might as well admit that we are up against a dangerous situation, and that something needs to be done about it. We always have told ourselves that prosperity would solve the crime problem, and here we are more prosperous than ever before, more prosperous than any people in the world, with our prisons crowded, our court dockets clogged and our population of ex-convicts growing by leaps and bounds. The congressional and legislative investigate ns which have become so common and which generally are futile, illustrate the mental mire into which we have plunged. Though well aware that things are wrong, we still are deluded with the hope that they can be righted by conversation. The agreeable notion that we could become moral by lip music has inspired us to believe that we can correct our blunders the same way. a a a SO, we exclude the Vares and swallow the Grundys; bar hooch and protect the bootlegger; expose lobbies and exalt lobbyists; smash slot machines and gamble in stocks; censor books and tell smutty stories; preach intolerance and boycott our neighbor because he goes to a different church; shout for China and exclude the Chinese; glorify conscience and decide what is right according to our appetites.

Daily Thought

Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous; for praise is comely for the upright.—Psalms 22:1. tt tt a A man who does not love praise is not a full man.—Henry Ward Beecher. What is the nationality and meaning of the name Boleslau? It is a Slavic name meaning “strong glory.” Who said “He will hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may?” The sentence occurred in a speech by Roscoe Conkling at the national convention in Chicago in 1880 when General Grant was placed in nomination for a third term. Are the vertical tail surfaces of United States navy planes all painted alike? They are all painted in red, white and blue vertical stripes. How many Syrians and Arabs are there in the United States? According to the last census there were 104.130. How much does it cost to send a postal card to Holland? Three cunts. _

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Fight on T. B.’ Reguire s Herd Tests

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hyrcia, the Health Magazine. THE association of men with animals is pleasant and dangerous for both. There is no doubt that some of the diseases of man are conveyed to the domestic animals and vice versa. Recently the Massachusetts Tuberculosis League heard a survey of the subject by J. A. Kiernan. Hog cholera does not pass on to the human being, but it can destroy millions of hogs, which if converted into food would have much value for the human being. Hog cholera certainly <,can be prevented by the inoculation of the swine against the disease. In most states there are laws regulating the prevention and control of this disease. W T hen foot and mouth disease

IT SEEMS TO ME “ST

THREE communists in Ohio just have received what seems to me heavy and unjust prison sentenses for preaching the doctrine of their party. Two young men who spoke at a meeting will go to jail for from five to ten years, and a girl, only 21, has been committed to the reformatory for an indefinite term. These punishments were meted out by Judge W. W. Cowen under the Ohio criminal syndicalism statute. I say that the punishments were heavy and unjust because I think that there should be no punishment whatsoever against the preaching of doctrine no matter how far fetched or fantastic. As it happens, I am much more out of sympathy with the Commun--ist doctrine than the judge who imposed the cruel sentences. He and the prisoners shared a belief. B B B Believe in Force BOTH judge and defendants seem to believe that political and economic problems can be settled satisfactorily by force and violence. I don’t. \ The newspaper reports did not mention the precise nature of the words for which the three Communists were convicted. Probably they stuck to the traditional dogma of the party which holds that our present government

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WASHINGTON’S DEATH December 14

ONE hundred and thirty years ago today, on Dec. 14, 1799, George Washington died. On Dec. 12 of that year, Washington was exposed in the saddle for several hours to cold and snow, and attacked with acute laryngitis, for which he was repeatedly bled. Washington sank rapidly and died two days later. His last words were characteristic. He said: “I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. I believed from my first attack that I should not survive it. My breath can not last long.” A little later he said: “I feel myself going. I thank you for your attentions; but I pray you to take no more trouble about me. Let me go off quietly. I can not last long.” After some instructions to his secretary about his burial, he became easier, felt his own pulses, and died without a struggle. Mourning was almost as widespread in Europe as it was in America. How is the price of gold determined? It is fixed by law at $20.67183 an Ounce.

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breaks out among herds of domesticated it spreads rapidly, incapacitating the animals for normal functioning, reducing their weight and stopping the production of milk among cows. Hence it has been ruled that the spread of the disease must be stopped as rapidly as possible, and this is usually done by destroying all animals in an infected herd. The most menacing of all the diseases affecting animals is tuberculosis. There seems to be no doubt that tuberculosis affecting cows may pass through the milk to children and produce various forms of tuberculosis in them. Since 1917 more than thirty-five million of cattle have been tested or retested with* tuberculin to find oat if they were afflicted with tuberculosis. Up to Jan. 31, 1927, according to Dr. Kiernan, 1,173,626 cattle reacted to the test and practically all were destroyed.

is run by the capitalistic class for capitalists and that salvation can come only through an armed revolution, which will set up the dictatorship of the proletariat. Asa thoroughgoing radical, I have no faith at all in force, barricades or any sort of dictatorship. I am radical enough, indeed, to believe in democracy and a majority rule. A Communist is a sort of inverted conservative. He is wholly devoted to the class system, but he wants, to cut the cards and place the bottom of the deck on top. There is only one remedy and force is not it. Reforms come to a people when they are ready for them and there can be no readiness without education. This may seem a tedious process, but it is the only sure one. a tt n Illogical AND so I say that both judge and prisoners were spiritually kin. The judge said in effect, “You w r ant to change the government of this country by force, do you? I’ll show the evil of that philosophy by sending you to jail for ten years.” It seems to me a most illogical attitude. I don’t see how you can convince an individu. I that force is wrong by using force against him. Moreover, the Communists might pertinently have pointed out to the judge that the nation which he piofessed to protect was itself founded by a violent revolution against constituted authority. I think there is no great stamina in saying, “But the first revolution was a revolution to end revolutions.” I believe that no armed conflict in the world ever has settled anything. Certain developments may have been hastened a little, but It is misleading to talk of “decisive battles.” The course of the w r or!d is governed by subtle forces far more powerful than the biggest cannon or the sharpest bayonet. Slavery would have been abolished without the Civil war and America must inevitably have won freedom from Great Britain even if there never had been a Yorktown. 808 Radical THIS I will admit is a radical opinion and I assume that many will not agree with me. I have known even ardent pacifists to say that they would have been glad to serve under Miltiades at Marathon. But to what purpose! Green civilization would have conquered Persian civilization even though the battle had been lost to the invading horde. If you refuse to go with me this far perhaps you will admit the possibility of settling political problems by discussion rather than by. bloody revolution. Judge Cowen would not admit it. According to the newsoapers, he lectured the prisoners severely, for

In 91.7 per cent of those killed there were visible lesions of the disease seen in the post-mortem examination. In more than 20 per cent of the remaining animals the disease was demonstrated positively in laboratory studies. This should be more than sufficient evidence of the scientific char&ter of these methods for the demonstration of‘ tuberculosis in cattle and for the necessity of using every possible means of stamping it out of herds in which it is found to exist. When herds are made free of tuberculosis they can be kept free. More than 1,200 American municipalities have taken measures to protect their citizens against the possibility of having unsafe milk from tuberculosis cattle. If milk comes from clean herds and is pastuerized properly there can be no danger. It is possible now to vision the time when all the milk consumed in this country will come from tuberlosis-free cattle.

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.

their conduct in court. "They had delivered what authorities called a Communist address when they were asked if they had anything to say before sentence was passed.” But what sort of an address did the judge expect them to deliver? Surely he did not anticipate that they would devote their last few minutes of freedom to praise of the protective tariff? And if a man is going to spend the next ten years in jail, I think he should be privileged to speak his mind without let or hindrance. u u a Sound Money r T''HE theory of free speech is as simple as it is sound. If Communism were truly convincing then thwart it by cruel punishments. The truth has moved slowly upstream from the beginning of history even against the thumbscrew and the rack. And if Communism is fallacious and wrong-headed, as I believe, then let its exponents convict themselves of folly out of their own mouths. The common sense of the matter is that there is not the slightest danger of a Communist revolution, even a little abortive one, in America at the present time. It can be made dangerous only by judges and other men who become panicky and slap on severe and silly sentences as if some terror actually were lurking just around the comer. v In fact, the only effective Communist propagandist in this country is the reactionary. 'Copyright. 1929. by The Times)

The Right Thing to Do Good manners and good form are not affectations to be despised as something “put on.” There are reasons for the forms of etiquet that have become part of the equipment of cultured people. Failure to do the “right thing” at the right moment shows a lack of good breeding, of consideration for others, that is inexcusable in this day and age. Our Washington bureau has a packet of eight of ita authoritative and informative bulletins, covering etiquet for evary occasion, that it will send to any reader. The titles are; 1. Social Etiquet , 5. Etiquet of Weddings 2. The Etiquet of Travel 6. Origins of Etiquet o. Dinner Etiquet j 7. Etiquet for Children 4. Etiquet of Dress 8. Personality and Charm If you want this packet, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed. CLIP COUPON HEREETIQUET EDITOR, Washington bureau, The Indianapolis Times. 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of eight bulletins on ETIQUET, and enclose herewith 25 cents in coin, or loose, uncancelled United States postage stamps tr> cover postage and handling costs. NAME STREET AND NUMBER CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times ‘Code No>

DEC. 14, 1920

SCIENCE By DAVID DIETZ

The Theremin Is a New Musical Instrument Whivk Has Possibilities Almost Beyond Imagination. “ \ NOTHER ten years and a man will have to be an electrical engineer to write a review of a symphony concert.’ The speaker was Arthur Shepherd, professor of music at Cleveland college and musical critic of the Cleveland Press. I just had remarked upon finding the following sentence in an article he had written about a concert of the Cleveland Symphony orchestra: “The there min employes a screen grid UX-224 radiotron, three UY--227 s a UX-120. two UX-171-A’s and a UX-280 radiotron for power supply-' The soloist at the concert had been Leon Teremin. a Russian scientist. He performed upon an instrument of his own invention, known as the theremin and manufactured by the Radio Corporation of America. Theremin educated the squeal in a radio set and turned a liability into an asset. * Many radio fans have been troubled. particularly with home-made sets, bv the fact that the loudspeaker set up a howl when one brought his hands near the dials. In radio parlance this is called “body capacity.” The circuit in a radio set is delicately balanced. Bring the hand near the dial adds the capacity of the person’s body to the circuit. This unbalances the circuit, throws the tubes into oscillation and the howling results. B B B Rich Tone THEREMIN built a super-hetro-dyne circuit within a small cabinet. Extending from the cabinet are two small antennae. The cabinet is then connected to a loud-speaker. Bringing one’s hand near one of the antennae throws the tubes into oscillation. The resulting sound, however, is not a howl, but a rich vibrant tone. The closer one brings his hand to the antenna, the higher the tone becomes. This is because the proximity of the hand controls the amount of capacity added to the circuit and hence the frequency of oscillation. Bringing the hand near the other antenna controls the volume. The closer the hand is brought, the more the oscillations are damped and the less the volume. The result is a musical instrument which can be played by waving one's hands in front of it. Any one can play it after a fashion. The man with an ear for music can learn to pick out tunes on it after an hour's practice. The trained musician can call forth unbelievably beautiful effects from it as Theremin demonstrated in the concert. He played the “First Airphonlc Suite. Opus 21,” written especially for the occasion by Joseph Schillinger. famous composer. He vas accompanied by the entire symphony orchestra of ninety men under direction of Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff. The event, in the opinion of this writer, was not a novelty. It was a milestone in the history of music.

Future THE question one can not help asking is: What of the future? The present theremin has a lyric tone in the cello register. Its range seems rather limited. But this seems only a mere engineering detail. There is no reason why circuits can not be arranged to give every possible range from piccolo to bassoon and every tone quality from violin to bass tuba. One noticeable thing is that the volume can be made tremendous. It is possible for example to bring the ninety-piece symphony orchestra to double forte and yet have the tones of tne theremin issue triumphantly and clearly above the whole orchestra. The rich vibrant tone of the theremin is like the wind. It can .flow lightly like a gentle breeze among summer trees, or roar like the fury of a thousand storm winds. Many have felt the need of anew musical medium to express the machine age. Perhaps, here in the theremin, itself a product of the machine age, is the instrument. Will another half century see violins and cellos in museums along with fourteen-stringed lutes and Other instruments of the mirtdla ages? Will the concert of the future see a battery of there'mins occupying the stage? Will a half dozen players manipulate the whole battery and produce more intricate effects than an orchestra of ninety men can at the present? These are the questions one can not help asking.