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Why He Wins Those who had expected that the county officials, the last throne of Coffinism. mi?ht select new appointees for the coming year as some concession to the popular uprising of November, fail to understand the motives, the practices or the dangers of machine government. It is true that a vast majority of the people registered a protest against Coffinism less than two months ago, and a more timid boss might have attempted to trim his saiis against unfavorable winds. It is precisely because Coffin has never been timid and has never tossed his faithful to the waves that he has kept on winning, year after year, while those who have fought him remained on the outside. The selections of Coffin for appointive jobs have not been distinguished by any great passion for public service nor any considerable zeal for either economy or efficiency. On the whole they may be put into the luxury class as far as service is concerned. They rank in power and profits, not as they give to the public any value for their salaries, but by reason of their fidelity to the machine and their ability to secure vo + es by personal appeal, activity in small groups, the spreading of poison and prejudice. Politics is their real business and profession. The public job is the side line and the meal ticket. These tactics finally produce their penalties. The people tire of useless burdens. They revolt when the pack becomes too heavy and the taxes begin to eat into the raw flesh of industry. For that reason the empire of Coffinism has been reduced greatly in the past two years. His henchmen are no longer in favoi at the statehouse. Once they filled it. In the city hall, he no longer gives orders to a Duvall. The school board knows him not. Only in the county does he still rule. There is one sure way of eradicating the evils which grew and flourished under a system of bossism. That is to give a brand of government distinctly better than that which came from the machine. A boss can win by giving jobs to the politically active and alert. A government that obtains power through revolt against such a system can not thrive by the same method. It can not build a rival machine and expect to have either public confidence or a continuation of power. The same methods that let George Coffin win, year after year, would mean a short end to any administration that went into power in opposition to him. Between two rival machines, the people would probably prefer that of Coffin, who knows the job and never wavers from the traditions of bossism. Os course, if there be any considerable number of voters in his own party who fear the effect of his domination within their own ranks and who believe that the principles of their party are strong enough to stand without the assistance of patronage, they can very easily take over control next spring when new committeemen are elected. Coffin wins inside the party ranks by piling up taxes for his political army. The opposition must defeat him by reducing taxes and giving better service. The President’s Pledge The drys have given the country the five-and-ten law, but even the most extreme among them have not yet advocated a penalty of death without trial for suspected prohibition violators. Yet that in effect is the penalty for the guilty or the innocent who are shot down by federal enforcement officers. The latest case is that of young Downey ih Buffalo, killed by coast guardsmen, if the state authorities’ reports are correct. As so often is the case in these official murders, when Downey’s boat was searched by agents no liquor or other contraband was found. But then it was too late to bring Downey back to life and tell him that a mistake had been made. This is getting to be a habit with the federal agents. The Downey case is a repetition of the earlier Hanson case, also near Buffalo, in which the victim was killed at night by federal agents who found no liquor in his car. And this habit of the federal agents is the reason Mrs. Henry Vi-kkula of International Falls, Minn., is a widow. They fired at Virkkula's car as he was trying to stop it in answer to their challenge. They missed the wife and children, but they killed him. The astounding thing about these governmental crimes is not that the public is indifferent. It is not. In fact, the growing public opposition to prohibition certainly is due in part to revulsion against such crimes committed in the name of law. Nor is it very surprising that the enforcement services should sometimes recruit agents who turn out to be of the criminal type, who shoot first and think second. But what the country can not understand is the position of President Hoover, and his associates. Secretary Mellon and Attorney-General Mitchell, who are responsible for law enforcement. President Hoover and his cabinet colleagues repeatedly have deplored lawlessness of law officials even to the point of having it investigated as a major factor of crime by the federal commission on law observance and enforcement. ■very time another of these killings occurs public indignation is quieted by another official statement

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that agents have been forbidden the Indiscriminate use of firearms and that the administration Is opposed vigorously to such governmental lawlessness. Nevertheless, the federal government usually insists on keeping the cases out of the state courts and succeeds, through defending the culprits in the federal courts, in freeing them. So in this latest Downey case, as in others, there is the familiar conflict between the state and federal authorities. The state’s attorney in Buffalo has formally protested to the United States attorney-general the refusal of local federal authorities to permit the state authorities to function when there is every evidence that a crime has been committed. Whatever the facts in the Downey case are determined to be by thorough investigation, it is time for Washington to realize that the pledges of the President against criminal "enforcement” of prohibition are worthless unless federal agents can be made to respect and observe the administration’s declared policy. White House Lobbying The lobby investigating committee of the senate, under the chairmanship of Senator Caraway (Dem., Ark.), has developed some interesting and important information. It has shown, if nothing else, how large corporations pay huge fees to individuals who pretend to be able to get favors from congress. It has given the country a picture of the propaganda methods of tariff beneficiaries, and of the struggle behind the scenes when a tariff bill is written. Some of the so-called lobbying Is quite legitimate. Much of it is not. An industry which will be affected vitally by prospective legislation has a right to present its view's to congress. It is the right of petition, attempts to exert covert political pressure, to capitalize acquaintanceship and personal connection, and similar activities, are in a different category. Effort of Representative Garner (Dem., Tex.) and his party's national committee to involve President Hoover in sugar lobby disclosures is comparable to the sort of lobbying w’hich is to be condemned. Garner charged that the President “has been conniving with the Cuban sugar lobby to affect tariff legislation.” The basis of the charge was the fact that Edwin P. Shattuck. a friend of the President, had been employed by the Cuban interests allegedly because of his White House connections. H. C. Lakin, president of the Cuba Company, and a sugar lobbyist, gave such inference in letters uncovered by the lobby committee. • Shattuck has denied that his relations with the President had anything to do with his employment as counsel by the sugar people. But that is not the important point in the controversy. The important thing is that there has been no evidence to show that the President "connived” with Shattuck cr anybody else on the sugar tariff, or that he engaged in any activity that was reprehensible. Garner would have us believe otherwise. The President should and does discuss Important issues with citizens. If he or his secretary talked to Shattuck about sugar that is no reflection on Hoover. The sugar tariff is an important national Issue. Why should any vitally affected group not feel free to put its ideas before the chief executive?

REASON

CHRISTMAS belongs to childhood and old age; it is the day of gifts and recollections, the day when there is a kindlier atmosphere all round the world; it is the only day when we catch a glimpse of what the human race might be, if it were free from strife. n at n So for little folks it is the top of ecstasy; there is no other time between the cradle and the grave when speculative enchantment so floods the childish heart as at bed time Christmas eve, with old Santa Claus hanging round the chimney, refusing to descend until the last small eye has been plastered shut. u u And you can’t fool the old fellow. We used to try it; two or three of us, sleeping together used to plot to get his goat; we would shut our eyes so hard we pulled our muscles out of place and when this didn't work, we would all snore together. but it was no use, for he had a way of telling when kids were playing possum, so he just stayed up there on top of the house. st a it Maybe his reindeer sensed the truth of it, for animals have a wonderful way of getting at things which humans can't find out; maybe his reindeer have a wonderful scent and maybe kids smell different when they really are asleep. Anyway, with all the billions of chimneys he’s been up and down throughout the centuries, he's never once been seen by childish eyes. *f a He’s really an amazing fellow, this old Santa Claus. He can make more things than a thousand factories and he can distribute more things than all the railroads, and he hasn’t anybody to help him, you know, not even a wife to tie up the packages. He is the most successful bachelor in history. M M 0 Not only does he continue to give presents to a rapidly growing population, he gives each more than ever before. As we gaze at the piles of things children get these days we think of the far-off Christmas when one was rich if he got a candy elephant and a jumping jack, and we distinctly recall how we figured out that we could lick that elephant once a day and make him last from one Christmas to the next. MM M Those days are long buried in the past and we now trim the tree for our young ones as those who are dead and gone once trimmed it for us. And speaking of those who have gone, we have a feeling that if they ever do come back, it’s at Christmas time, at that dim hour when night meets morning and children troop down in awe to gaze upon the blazing tree. 9 9 9 CHRISTMAS tells the beautiful story of our world. For more than twenty centuries mothers in all lands have told this story to their children, pioneers have borne it across strange seas, the weary have found in it their only strength, and through it the dying have seen the dawn of an eternal day. Inspired by this story, martyrs have stood in the arena and smiled at ferocious beasts, while others, with ecstasy in their eyes, have embraced the flames. M M M Tlie king who asked for the earth has vanished, his dreams forgotten, his cities buried beneath the sands, but He who asked for nothing. He who taught that love is all and life is endless and for His kindness was put to death. He lives on, triumphant! He preaches still the Sermon on the Mount; He holds high still the torch of faith. He alone endures, the gentle, just, majestic figure of the ages.

FREDERICK By LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

SAYS:-

Instead of Simplifying Lav: and Its Enforcement, We Go on Making It More Complicated. /COMMUNISM appears to have seized on Christmas as a day of demonstration, not because Christmas means anything to Communism, but because it means so much to other people. Tnat is typical of Communistic philosophy—prosperity by making rich men poor; spiritual regeneration by the destruction of faith; freedom by class tyranny. B tt tt Still, the Communists have little on us when it comes to making queer uses of Christmas. If they employ it to sneer at religion, we employ it as a yardstick for prohibition. No deaths in New York this year from poison hooch, though more drunks were carted to the hospital. Drys take it as a sign of success, wets as a sign of better liquor. B B B Borah Is Skeptical THOUGH an ardent dry. Senator refuses to be optimistic. He thinks that the federal prohibition forces ought t<s be reorganized. Attorney-General Mitchell disagrees, though admitting there are some weak spots, while Dr. Doran says that If those now in charge are unable to enforce prohibition, it can’t be enforced. All of which suggests that what you can’t prove by figures, you can prove by opinion. b n m Meanwhile, we have another dry killing as a part of the Christmas festivities, with a clash between federal and state authorities as to which shall handle the case. It was just one more of those innumerable instances where a coast guard had suspicions, where a boat, told to halt, did not obey, and where no liquor or smuggled goods were discovered after the shooting was over. Also, it was just another instance of that growing conflict between state and federal authorities, which the eighteenth amendment has done so much to accenuate. n n b Clash of Authorities THERE has been more or less conflict not only between state and federal authorities, but between state and local authorities ever since this government was born. Prohibition does not furnish the only example of one set of officers getting in the way of another set, though it furnishes the most conspicuous one right no^v. Determination of our fathers to create such a system of checks and balances as would prevent tyranny by any political unit, or subdivision, has led to a lot of unnecessary confusion. 'What Is worse, it has led to innumerable loopholes by which no one has benefited so distinctly as the criminal. it n

What the federal government can not do because of state sovereignty, what the state can not do because of federal sovereignty, what cities and towns can not do because of the state, what the state can not do because of home rule, what one group of officers can not do because of the political alignment of another group, and so on, ad infinitum, accounts for much of the trouble we are in. tt M * Hurts Enforcement IT has happened, not once, but hundreds of times, that a sheriff and the local police force have become so interested in blocking each other as to leave little time for law enforcement. Important as the simplification of law may be, the simplification of its enforcement machinery would seem to be even more important. Instead of simplifying either, however, we go right on complicating both. B B tt In most every other field, we recognize the danger of haphazard growth and call for a plan. Not only that, but when a plan has become obsolete, or inadequate, we call for Its revision. No one would think of constructing, or enlarging a factory without consulting an engineer, or of extending a railroad or building a hotel. We have even come to the point where we demand a certain degree of city planning, not only to satisfy our taste for the beautiful, and our desire for convenience, but because of its practical advantages. B B tt When it comes to law, and law enforcement, however, anything like a plan is the last thing we think of. In that connection, our one idea is to go right on adding to the scrap heap, without rhyme or reason, multiplying regulations, duplicating jobs, and creating such general confusion that nobody knows what his duty is or how to perform it.

Questions and Answers

Is there a special name in baseball for knocking fly balls to the outfield for the fielders to catch? It is called fungoing, or hitting fun goes. To whom' dees the Isle of Man belong? England. ? How long is the shortest auto route across the continent from New York to San Francisco? The Lincoln highway which is 3.324 miles long is the shortest auio route across the continent between the cities named. Who were the thirteen baby stars of 191? Lina Basquette, Sue Carol, June Collyer. Sally Eilers, Dorothy Gulliver. Molly O'Day, Flora Bramley. Ann Christy. Alice Day. Audrey Ferris, Gwen Lee, Ruth Taylor and Lupe Valez.

YOU TELL 'EM JULIUS.' I SAY- / \ T WOULDN’T ( i DO IT THAT V WAY? MY- \ ri MV- 15 THAT X THE BEST \ YOU CAKDO: \

Science Ousts Refrigeration Hazards

This is the third of six articles in which Dr. Morris Flshbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the nation’s outstanding authority on health subjects, summarizes the accomplishments of the past year in the field of medical science. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. ONE of the significant observations of the last year was the increased danger to the public of toxic gases used in industry. Chief among these are carbon monoxide, a by-product of illuminating gas, and methyl chloride and sulphur dioxide, which are chief substances used in electric refrigerators. The electric refrigeration industry has grown tremendously within the last five years and represents one of the greatest accessories to the comfort of life in modern civilization. Following reports of' deaths in various cities from leaking pipes in electric refrigerators, the American Medical Association appointed a committee to investigate the extent of the hazard and to bring it under control. Furthermore, special investiga-

IT SEEMS TO ME

I have advanced the theory that there can be a certain kinship between a newspaper columnist and a clergyman. Each is in a sense a oreacher, but for this holiday season I am going to do a story instead of a sermon. Tlus particular story I have printed before. My excuse for introducing it again is that I like it. The host of heaven and the angel of the Lord had filled the sky with radiance. Now the glory of God was gone and the shepherds and the sheep stood under dim starlight. "Let us now,” said the eldest of the shepherds, "go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which has come to pass, which the Lord hath made known to us.” The city of David lay behind a far, high hill, upon the crest of which there danced a star. The men made haste to be away, but as they broke out of the circle there was one called Amos, who remained. "Come,” cried the eldest of the shepherds, but Amos shook his head. They marveled and one called out: "It is true. It was an angel. You heard the tidings. A Savior is born.” “I heard,” said Amos. "I will abide.” b m a God’s Will THE eldest walked back from the road to the little knoll on which Amos stood. "You do not understand,” the old man told him. "We have a sign from God. An angel has commanded us. We go to worship the Savior. who is even now born in Bethlehem. God has made His will manifest.” “It is not in my heart,” replied Amos. And now the eldest of the shepherds was angry. "With your eyes,” he cried out, "you have seen the host of heaven in these dark hills. And you heard, for it was like the thunder when ‘Glory to God in the Highest’ came ringing to us out of the night.” And again Amos said, “It is not in my heart.” Another, then, broken in, “Because the hills stand and the sky has not , fallen, it is not enough for Amos, He must have something louder than the voice of God.” Amos held more tightly to his crook and answered. "I have need of a whisper” They laughed at him and said, ‘What should this voice say in your iar?” He was silent and they pressed about him and shouted mockingly, "Tell us now. What says the God

Not a Great Help!

.DAILY HEALTH SERVICE.

tlons have been made in Chicago and in New York, and today regulations are already in effect which make the electrical refrigerator as used in multiple systems quite safe. The electrical refrigerator used in most homes consists of a smaller apparatus usually placed in the cellar and the amount of the gas and the position of the apparatus do not create the hazards that exist in multiple systems as used in great apartment houses. The rate of death from cancer continues to increase. It is the common belief among statisticians and physicians that this is a representation of the fact that people are living longer than they used to live and cancer is essentially a disease of advanced age. Throughout the world this problem is being studied more than any other. All highly intricate technics of modern chemistry, physics and biology are being applied to these investigations. The results have been of great interest in showing the background of the growth of cancer, but the specific cause has not yet been es-

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of Amos, the little shepherd of a hundred sheep?’’

a a Amos' Story MEEKNESS fell away from him. He took his hands from off the crook and raised them high. “I, too, am a god,” said Amos in a loud, strange voice, “and to my hundred I am a savior.” And when the din of the angry shepherds about him slackened, Amos pointed to his hundred. “See my flock,” he said. “See the fright of them. The fear of the bright angel and of the voices is still upon them. God is busy in Bethlehem. He has no time for a hundred. They are my sheep. I will abide.” This the others did not take so amiss, for they saw that there was a terror in all the flocks and they, too, knew the ways of the sheep. And before the shepherds went away on the road to Bethlehem toward the bright star, each one talked to Amos and told him what he should do for the care of the several flocks. And yet one or two turned back a moment to taunt Amos before they reached the dip in the road which led to the city of David. It was said, “We shall see new glories at

-’i doAVr ip' THe—-

THOMAS CARTWRIGHT December 27 ON Dec. 27, 1603, Thomas CartWTight, English Puritan divine in the time of Queen Elizabeth, died at Barwick. CartwTight was the storm center of many controversies, for he dared to attack the forms and ceremonies of the established church, which favored the use of the ring in marriage ceremonies and the cross in baptisms. Cartwright was banished from England, but returned without permission and twice was imprisoned He died in poverty. Today also is the anniversary of the general exchange of Civil war prisoners on Dec. 27, 1863. The Fed-e-als gave up 121.900 prisoners for 110,800 from the Confederates. On Dec. 27, 1776, congress gave George Washington dictatorial powers in military matters. And on Dec. 27. 1760, news of the death of King George II reached Boston.

tablished, neither has there been developed any specific method of treatment that is of value. The one certain method of control continues to be early diagnosis and surgical removal of the cancer. One of the great discoveries announced in the current year has been an electrical device Which permits the sealing of blood vessels during operation and thereby safer and more rapid operations on the brain. For this discovery, Professor W. T. Bovie received the medal of the Radiological Society of North America and recognition throughout the world. Previous to this discovery, brain operations were very slow, because it was necessary to tie off so many blood vessels and to seal them up with wax. Also during this war. Dr. Harry J. Corper of Denver, received the medal of award for discovering a new method of staining the germ of tuberculosis, which permits an earlier and more certain diagnosis of this disease. Next: A baffling malady is conquered. •

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.

the throne of God and you, Amos, you will see sheep.” Amos paid no heed, for he thought to himself, "One shepherd less will not matter at the throne of God.” Nor did he "nave time to be troubled that he was not to see the child who was come to save the world. tt tt a Sheep Quieted THERE was much to be done among the flocks and Amos walked between the sheep and made under his tongue a clucking noise, which was a way he had, and to his hundred and to the others it was a sound more fine and friendly than the voice of the bright angel. Presently the animals ceased to tremble and began to graze as the sun came up over the hill where the star had been. "For sheep,” said Amos to himself, “the angels shine too much. A shepherd is better.” With the morning the others came up the road from Bethlehem and they told Amos of the manger and cf the wise men who had mingled there with shepherds. And they described to him the gifts- Gold, frankincense and myrrh. And when they were done they said, “And did you see wonders here in the fields with the sheep?” Amos told them, "Now my 100 are 101,” and he showed them a lamb which had been born just before the dawn. "Was there for this a great voice out of heaven?” asked the eldest of the shepherds. Amos shook his head and smiled and there was in his face that which seemed to the shepherds a wonder even in a night of wonders. "To my heart.” he said, "There came a whisper.” (Copyright. 1929. by The Time*i

Daily Thought

An hypocrite with his mouth destroycth his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered. —Proverbs 11:9. a a m Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.—Burke. Where are the hottest and coldest places in the world? The highest natural temperature was at Azizia, a desert village in Italian Tripoli, about twenty-five miles from Tripoli City, where a sheltered thermometer in 1922 was officially reported as reading 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit. The lowest temperature ever recorded was 93 degrees below zero Fahrenheit at Verkhoransk. Siberia, close to the Arctic Circle.

.DEC. 27, 1929

SCIENCE

By DAVID DIETZ-

Famous Scientist Will Wield Gavel at Des Moines Conference of Savants. DES MOINES. Dec. 27—When the eighty-sixth annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. America's largest scientific organization, is called to order here tonight, one of America's most famous scientists will wield the gavel. He is Dr. Robert A. Millikan of the California Institute of Technology', this year's president of the association. If one set out to make a list of names of scientists who will be as well known 100 years from today as they are now. Dr. Millikan’s name would be one of the first to come to mind. For Dr. Millikan pioneered in two important fields of scientific research, establishing thereby the existence of two of the best spectacular and startling facts in modern science. In 1909, Dr. Millikan isolated and measured the electric charge upon the electron, the fundamental particle out of which the atoms of matter are constructed. He not only proved the existence of the electron, but proved that all electrons were alike. For this accomplishment. he was awarded the Nobel prize in physics. In 1925, he proved the existence of the cosmic rays, mysterious rays, thousands of times shorter than the rays of radium and thousands of times more penetrating, rays which enter the earth’s atmosphere from cosmic space. tt o a Romance THE story of the electron is one of the most exciting romances of modern science. Dr. Millikan himself tells how In 1694, when he was a student in Europe, he heard an eminent scientist give an address in which he summarized the achievements of the nineteenth century. The speaker said that he was sorry for the physicists of the future because all the important discoveries had been made by nineteenth century scientists, leaving only details for future workers. And then. Dr. Millikan tells how on Christmas eve of the next year—• 1895—he was present in Berlin at the meeting of the German Physical Society at which Professor Rontgen exhibited the first X-ray pictures, pictures of a hand showing tiie bones and photos of a pocketbook showing keys and coins through the leather. Here was proof that there still was something in the universe to be discovered. Professor Rontgen’s discovery of X-ray set the whole world of science upon anew line of research and startling results came with surprising rapidity. In 1896, Becquerel discovered the radio-activity of uranium. This led in 1898 to the discovery of radium by Pierre and Marie Curie. Meanwhile the electron theory, the theory that the atoms of matter are composed of tiny particles of electricity, the so-called electrons, was taking shape. Sir J J. Thomson, the great British physicist, and the late H. A. Lorentz, the great Dutch physicist, formulated the electron theory. The attempt to calculate the electric charge of the electron was made by Thomson in 1897.

tt tt ft Oil Drop DR. MILLIKAN'S famous experiment is sometimes called the oil-drop experiment. He built a device in which a tiny drop of oil was allowed to fall between two metal plates which were electrified. The rate at which the drop fell could be measured and was found to depend upon the electrification of the two plates. Electrons, obtained from the discharge of radium —for the Beta rays of radium are electrons —were allowed to pass in the vicinity of the oil d;op. If the oil drop captured an electron, it became negatively electrified and its speed changed as a result. If it captured two or three electrons, there was a correspondingly greater change. From these observations, Millikan was able to calculate the electric charge of the electron. The layman who imagines that every great scientist is a very old man with a long, white beard, careless about his dress and bashful in public, has a surprise in store for him when he sees Dr. Millikan. The 61-year-old Dr. Millikan looks 45. He has a powerful physique and forceful manner. He is one of the best platform orators in the country. His voice is resonant, and clear. And he is smoothshaven. Dr. Millikan was graduated from Oberlin college in Ohio, later obtaining his Ph. D. at Columbia university. He continued his studies in Europe, returning to America to become professor of physics at the University of Chicago. At present he is at the California Institute of Technology where he is chairman of the institute’s executive council and director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—l see in the paper where that great American citizens’ school board that goes into power Jan. 1 went over to the city hall and hired a man who has been and is in politics. If he is hired while in a political job I would call him a politician. So it looks like we are going to have four more years of politics in the schools. It is a shame the way your paper backed up that citizens’ ticket to have them jump right in your face on their first decision. Oh, well, your paper never did pick a winner You can see how we people felt when we elected Duvall and then let him double crass us. I sure feel sorry tor your paper in its misfortune. JAMES J. CULLING& 825 Broadway,