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Watch Your Pocketbook For the next four weeks, citizens will be importuned by candidates for nominations to public office for their votes. Some of these candidates are sincere m their protests that they wish to change con ditions for the better. They want to serve. There are others who see in public office a chance to pillage, to graft, to misuse power in behalf of those from whom they expect favors. > . The attitude toward public office is important, perhaps more important than any other factor. The primary election will determine rather definitely the kind of government the people will have in this county for the next two years. Neither of the political parties has a monopoly of either virtues or vices. There are crooked men in both parties, and there are honest men in both parties. The big job in a primary where there are very many candidates for nomination is to see that the honest seekers for office are nominated on both tickets. Under a system of manipulation and ruthless organization, machine rule in this city and county brought about a revolt. There is a revolt in the Republican party. There is a demand that candidates announce their freedom from any alliance with w T hat is termed Coffinism. That is good as far as it goes. But it is not the sole test. There should be a demand by voters of that party that candidates be free from any entanglements that will prevent them from unselfish service to the public good. Opposition to Coffin does not necessarily mean that the candidate is either honest, efficient or unselfish. It might conceivably mean that he was too dumb to be useful to Coffinism. Whenever a candidate for office asks for your vote, find out whether he represents your view of government and can be reasonably expected to be honest. High taxation comes usually from misuse of power. Your vote is your only protection. To ask for your vote is to ask for the right to spend some of your dollars. The man who asks for votes is really asking for your money. You have a right to know whether you will get value for it. Most profitable use of your spare time in the next four weeks will be a careful examination of every candidate for nomination on the ticket you will vote in the primary. You may save yourself a lot of money. The old army game is on. And just as the barkers for circuses of the old days warned the throngs, the cry should be “hands on your pocketbooks, gentlemen. Hands on your pocketbooks.” She Stoops to Conquer Perhaps it is a bit old-fashioned to desire that women in politics should represent something a little finer than commonly is expected from men. It used to be argued that woman suffrage would mean the purification of politics. We don’t hear so much about that any more: at least, we don’t hear many say that politics has become pure. But there still are those who cling to the notion that women in office and as candidates should set a higher standard than their brothers have set. These wistful ones get little satisfaction from the manner in which Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick has started her march toward the United States senate chamber. They don’t blame her greatly for stressing the fact that she is the daughter of one senator and the widow of another. They don’t blame her for attacking her opponent, man-fashioned, with every charge she legitimately could bring against him. But they do feel that she stooped to a most unbecoming degree when she made her campaign issue, in effect, nothing better than Big Bill Thompson's promise to “knock the block off King George.” Big bill and his gang threw themselves heartily into Mrs. McCormick’s campaign. A! Capone’s district was among those reporting a majority for her. These forces like nothing better than a campaign waged on the fanciful dangers that threaten them across the ocean, with all possible silence on the very real dangers they themselves embody. Mrs. McCormick gave them the kind of a campaign they like. Mrs. McCormick will be opposed in November by none other than the hardy quadrennial, Jim Ham Lewis. Lewis is a wet, and since Mrs. McCormick is a dry, prohibition no doubt will be the issue. It will be an interesting spectacle to see Big Bill and all the beer-running, machine-gunning patriots lined up behind Mrs. McCormick in defense of the noble experiment. Serious Charges The senate will do well to adopt the Blaine resolution calling for an investigation of postofflce leases throughout the country. Charges of wholesale fraud and corruption made on the floor by Senators Blaine and Nye, and before that by Representative Maas in the house, are so serious that they can not very well remain unanswered. t It is asserted that the government in many instance# has been paying outrageously excessive rentals on privately owned buildings and that large bond issues, have been floated on the basis of government rentals. A 8t Paul transaction is cited. There it is claimed the government agreed to pay $120,000 a year rental

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for twenty years on a building that, cost $300,000, after which a bond issue of $1,150,000 was floated. A station in Chicago, worth $350,000, is rented at $125,000. Maas charges, and one in Los Angeles appraised at $415,000 for the same figure. Bonds totaling $150,000,000 have been issued on government leased postoffices, it is estimated. Truth or falsity of the charges should be learned, and the task should not be difficult. If they are true, leases should be canceled and guilty persons punished. Bond holders would have the protection of civil suits. Are Lawyers Ethical? While the house or representatives in Washington was voting a condemnation of the practices of Federal Judge Moscowitz of New York, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching was Issuing a report calling for a higher form of professional morality among lawyers. The foundation’s annual review of legal education In the United States and Canada, by Dr. Alfred Z. Reed, discussed practical training and ethical standards as “the missing element in legal education.” According to this report: “Members of the legal profession, like professional politicians, to whom they functionally are related, generally are tolerated rather than loved.” Concerning the effort of bar examiners and law schools to raise moral standards, the report finds that "the practical results attained by this direct drive on ‘character 5 hitherto have been negligible.” Lawyers are depicted as neither worse nor better than their fellow-men, but in view of their greater temptations and larger responsibilities and privileges they should be better, the protest argues. Among the panaceas offered by it are increased attention to this problem by law schools, and more relentless operation of the machinery for discipline or disbarment of practitioners and for removal of Judges. If mere laymen may have an opinion on such a technical subject, it seems to us that this report sets a very fine and fearless standard of self-criticism of a profession which too often is judged by the public at its worst instead of its best. But we wish this study might have gone beyond the relatively simple problems of personal ethics into the confused field of social ethics. The grave danger to the country today is not that leading lawyers and jurists are personally dishonest, but that a lack of social ethics permits them to place private interest above public interest, and property rights above human rights. Hence the public and senatorial protests against the elevation of Charles Evans Hughes as chief justice, and the present opposition to confirmation of Judge Parker as a member of the supreme court. "Ninety-five per cent of the comedians in the movie business,” says a writer, “are executive.” Arid judging from some of the films released from Hollywood it would seem that 95 per cent of the executives in the movie business are comedians. More than 100.000 gallons of water were used during the making of a movie at Hollywood recently. And since W’ill Hays pronounced his code of ethics it is assumed the water was the purest obtainable. Government statisticians are not to be confused by the fact that the Pullman company has lowered its berth rate. Now that the students at the University of Georgia have been forbidden to solicit rides in automobiles, they can sing with greater gusto, "As we go marching through Georgia.” “Safe Robbers Knock Out a Foliceman.” Headline. Now if it were the other way around, that would be news. The judge who declared that no man should be content to do things in halves apparently forgets doormen at movies who tear your tickets. An inaudible talkie also may be referred to as a speakeasy.

REASON

CONGRESS should pass the bill which provides for the government’s operation of Muscle Shoals and Uncle Sam should proceed to manufacture fertilizer and sell it to the farmers at cost, but the amazing thing is that the United States found it easier to break the Hindenberg line than the line of lobbyists which stands between the people and the control of their own property. The Detroit school board proposes to drop all teachers who are nonresidents, which would apply to Mrs. Lindbergh, who lives outside the city, but in a larger sense the mother of Lindy is an honorary resident of every part of the country. a a a UP to date the finest hero of 1930 is Charles A. Bell, Pennsylvania engineer who, facing a collision, deliberately chose to stay with his engine and set the air brakes thereby losing his life, but saving the lives of those who were asleep m the cars behind him. 8 8 8 When Germany removed the long range gun with which she shelled Paris, she declared it high treason, punishable by death, for anybody to divulge any information. concerning the weapon, which should admonish us to stop telling the secrets of our national defense. 8 8 8 Professor Rafanel Bendandi of Italy claims to have discovered four new planets, proving that while Mussolini may be satisfied with naval parity with France, he insists on astronomical superiority over the United States. 8 8 8 ALL of us who hate gone to the great trouble to learn to hum the “Star-Spangled Banner” should frown upon this attempt to sidetrack it as a national anthem for America the Beautiful. 8 8 8 Owen D Young gave a great reason for our keeping out of European entanglements when he said that this country is too rich to be loved, and he might have added that we were too sentimental to collect. 8 8 8 Mayor Walker of New York displayed his sense of humor when he refused to high hat the policeman who did not know him and refused to let him into the city hall. 8 8 8 The cherry trees at Washington are said to be In bloom, but what interests the applicants for office Is the blooming of the plum tree.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

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No One Can Tell What Effect Prohibition Will Have on An Election, or Whether It Will Have Any Effect. CHIVALRY suggests only bouquets for Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, but, like everything else, chivalry suffers when mixed with politics. So we find Senator Norris proposing an investigation of primary expenses, while other people wonder just what Chicago, Illinois, or the nation has gained since Mrs. McCormick’s triumph includes that of the Thompson-Crowe crowd. It is somewhat paradoxical to behold this first lady senatorial nominee in the spotlight, with Big Bill claiming a large share of the glory, while a crowd of gangsters and racketeers forms the supporting chorus. The fact that wet votes put her there in spite of her ardent enthusiasm for the eighteenth amendment would be equally paradoxical if we had not became accustomed to such inconsistency. a m u It all can be explained by the presence of a overpowering desire to save our country from the world court. That is what made Mrs. McCormick and Big Bill comrades and what caused prohibition to play such an unimportant part. In any other place, such explanation would sound fishy, but we have learned to regard Chicago as foreign-minded in her politics. Four years ago, it was an overpowering desire to save our country from King George that landed Big Bill in the mayor’s chair. This latest example of Chicago’s determination to prevent the United States from getting into unnecessary trouble through entangling alliances, regardless of causes or consequences, is merely in line with her best traditions. Jim Ham Yet "to Face MEANWHILE, and giving MrS. McCormick full credit for her effective campaign and its happy ending, she still must run gantlet of an election. In that election she will have a foe worthy of her lipstick, said foe being none other than our old friend James Hamilton Lewis, who is no stranger to politics, or even the United States senate, since he won immortal fame in that body during Wilson’s administration by virtue of his oratory and pink whiskers. What is more to the point, Mr. Lewis will run as a wet, which should give him at least an even break, unless Mrs. McCormick or her advisers can think of some other foreign menace from which to save our country. tt a a No one can tell what effect prohibition will have on an election, or whether it will have any effect. According to every poll thus far taken by newspapers and magazines, the country is going wet, but one never would guess it by the lineup in congress, or the state legislatures. Thanks to the wonderful progress in bootlegging, they still can obey the party whip without running much risk of going thirsty, which is probably why they do it. a a a Amazing Discovery AS the chemical convention now in session at Atlanta had decided to inform President Hoover, com is the most substantial source of hooch, and there still is plenty of com. Considering the many trips President Hoover has made to the Virginia mountains, one wonders why the chemists should Imagine he needed this peculiar bit of information. But let that pass. It is good to know that the chemists are catching up with the public when it comes to exact knowledge concerning the origin of our alcoholic supply. a a a Jokes aside, the chemists are not so backward in their own field of endeavor. Some of the discoveries announced, or forecast, at this convention are little less than staggering. Sugar from cottonseed, celluloid from the fuzz, gas from the farm waste, and most of our clothing from synthetic fiber, only to mention a few. We are getting revolution in more than one respect—revolution which alters, not only the industrial, but the agricultural set up. The next generation may look 1*) the cotton crop to satisfy its sweet tooth, while publishers look to the sugar cane for their paper.

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FIRST PATENT ACT April 10

ON April 10, 1790, congress passed the first act providing for the granting of patents. This action was taken primarly to encourage useful discoveries and inventions in the arts and industries by securing to discoverers and inventors the exclusive benefits of the same. The year 1836 really marks the beginning of anew era in the patent system of the United States. In that year all previous statutes were repealed and a comprehensive act passed which brought the system substantially into its present condition. Among other things, it created patent office to be attached to the department of state, at the head of which was to be a commissioner of patents. It provided also for a board to hear appeals from the decisions of the commissioner against the patentability of an invention. The thing for which a patent is asked must have three general characteristics: It must be an invention; it must be new, and it must be useful. _ _

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Coffee Often Averts ‘Sick Headache’

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygcia, the Health Magazine. IN an analysis of the various measures used in the treatment of sick headache, Dr. Frederick Tilney emphasizes the importance of distinguishing this type of headache from that due to many other causes. The sick headache attack is likely to begin with a feeling of chilliness and of dizziness. The vision seems to become blurred. At such times, Tilney feels that a cup of hot coffee will help to avert the serious developments. After the sick headache develops, the pain is relieved by the use of various remedies, most of which are of such strength that it is necessary to have a physician’s prescription in order to use them successfully. The physician keeps in mind the danger of prolonged use of various

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IP radio continues to develop by leaps and bounds I hope a day may arrive when it will be possible for every man, woman and child in America to go on the air for fifteen minutes once a year. I don’t mean that every individual is necessarily filled with a quarter of an hour of entrancing conversation. Asa matter of fact, some of the people who broadcast at the moment have nothing in particular to say. I’m thinking of practice as a superb piece of training. Tire air is the greatest factor of which I know in making punctuality important and impressive. Myself, I am a slipshod person who in the bad old days turned up for business appointments and dinners and dates anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour late and thought nothing of it. When it’s the other fellow who is doing the waiting, fifteen minutes seems like nothing at all. a a a 'You’re on the Air’ BUT, when you’re on the air, fifteen minutes seems like a cycle of Cathay. They gave me a little time last week over the Raybestos hour on WEAF. They told me that I was to speak for nine minutes. Offhand, that seemed a trifle. I made a few vague notes, with the feeling that it would be easy enough to extemporize for the remainder of such a brief interval. The thing that had not been allowed for in my mind was the fact that this was a national hookup. It ought to be just as easy to speak for a chain as from a small local station. It doesn’t work that way. The idea of remote people sitting in their homes across the Rockies and expecting entertainment to jump out at them through the loudspeaker is enough to terrify even an experienced talked. Mike fever is most agonizing of all the anguishes. My notes were enough to carry me through five minutes, and then suddenly I was done, with four minutes of acute and nation-wide responsibility resting squarely on the middle of my neck. They say that his whole life flashes before the eyes of a drowning man. Mine went whizzing by, and then came back .to play an encore. It wasn’t quite my whole life. It was mostly the various experiences in which I had found myself inadequate, inept, and generally no good. About 95.6243 per cent of my life would be perhaps a moderately accurate figure. ana Memories of Life INSTEAD, my mind was filled with memories of my early days in dancing school, and what a mess I had made of things then, jusi as i was doing at the moment. Finally I had to drop the whole business of charity and tell the story about the man and the four mules. I doubt if it went welL Too obviously it was a straw. It's always a desperate thing to

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•DAILY HEALTH SERVICE-

coal tar products, such as acetanilid, anti-pyrine or acetphenetedin. He knows also the danger associated with the repeated use of morphine or other narcotics to relieve the pain. Just as important as the treatment of the acute attack is the treatment that is given to the person between attacks in order to diminish their number or perhaps to prevent them altogether. Dr. Tilney feels that the most Important single remedial agency is a careful routine of outdoor life and exercise taken in the form most congenial to the individual concerned. This should be written out and followed religiously. It must include proper instructions for diet, which should be light and easily digestible, and avoid constipation. The exercise should be golf or walking for those of advanced years, but may include more vigorous sports, such as riding or tennis, for younger patients.

tell anecdotes over the air. I’m not much of a fellow to laugh at my own jokes, and anything of humorous intent which falls without a cackle is exceedingly depressing. Years ago I used to lecture. It never was possible for me to commit the material to memory, but mostly I could get by through the expedient of carrying three funny stories around with me. Some kind person in the audience would chuckle a little, or, at any rate, shift his feet. Under this protective screen it was possible for me to collect my thoughts and then proceed. a m Night in Rochester BUT on a bitter night in Rochester, N. Y., in the winter of 1919, I addressed a group of 2,000 in an armory. This was more than I was accustomed to and I was rattled from the start. Wheezing along quite hazily, I

A fellowship of I Dailif ST Lenten Devotion \

Thursday, April 10 OUR UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE Read Acts 5:12-10. Memory verse: “That as Peter came by, at least his shadow might overshadow someone of them.” (Acts 5:15.) MEDITATION This beautiful story Is perhaps the best tribute ever paid to Peter. People believed that there was healing in his very shadow. He was all unconscious of this influence, as most men are. Our unconscious influence is usually our greatest influence. Life spreads as light spreads, as flame goes from candle to candle. It was said of Disraeli, that he was not only brilliant in himself, but that he made others brilliant. Our unconscious influence for good or ill may well fill us with awe. This lies behind Stevenson’s remark: “There is one person whom it is my duty to make good, and that is myself.” PRAYER “Once more anew day lies before us, our Father. As we go out among men to do our work, touching the hands and lives of our fellows, help us to cheer the suffering by our sympathy, to freshen the drab by our wholesomeness, and to strengthen In all the wholesome sense of health and the joy of life. Amen.” —Walter Rauschenbusch.

Daily Thought

The laborer is worthy of his reward.—l Timothy $:18. All true work is sacred.—Carlyle

Os special value are tonic baths, such as the cold bath following a warm bath, or a slightly lukewarm bath in the morning. It is not necessary for the patient to follow any special dietary fad. He must eat to sc-ure effective and regular elimination and, if necessary, this may be aided by the proper use of mineral oil or similar preparations. Just as It is necessary to control other forms of headache by a study of the relationship to conditions in the patient’s life, so also must patients with migraine be carefully investigated to find out whether or not mental disturbances have a distinct relationship to the onset of the headache. Dr. Tilney emphasizes particularly the way in which the haste and striving of modem living lessen efficiency and shorten life. He believes that more Intelligent living is of the utmost importance in controlling migraine.

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suddenly went completely dry, and swung into the story about the Spanish farmer who wanted to go to the town of Seville. Even a slight hur- would have afforded me a chance to find the notes which I had left in my upper lefthand coat pocket or the righthand hip pocket. I came to the tag line, “No, to Seville or back to the frog pond.” And over the great hall there swept the most penetrating silence I have ever encountered. They were all waiting for what came next. Today I couldn’t tell you what happened after that. The whole thing is blank. But some shred of recollection must remain, for I have made it an ironclad rule never to return to Rochester. The ordeal of the air is awful because nobody claps, nobody chuckles, nobody coughs. The thing is in its infancy. Just around the comer there must lurk some device whereby the reactions of the listener can be brought back immediately to the man who is doing the broadcasting. With 1,000,000 people tuned in on a program, there ought to be a reasonable chance that out of such a multitude someone or even two would cackle just a bit, even at the feeblest Joke, and giVe the speaker of the evening the courage to continue. (Copyright, 1930. by The Times)

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.APRIL 10, 1930

SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ-

Sir Ernest Shackleton Died on Fourth Voyage to Antarctic and Was Buried on South Georgia Island. ON the icy slopes of South Georgia Island in the Antarctic region is the grave of Sir Ernest , Shackleton. Death overtook the great Englishman on his fourth voyage to the south polar regions. Dr. Griffith Taylor, professor of geography at the University of Chicago, sums up Shackleton’s work by saying, "No man has done more to decipher the secrets of the south pole than Ernest Shackleton.” Shackleton made his first journey into the Antarotic as lieutenant in Captain Robert Scott’s expedition which set sail Christmas Eve, 1901. He accompanied Scott on his journey by dog-sled to latitude 82 degrees 16 minutes, but developed scurvy and had to be sent back home when the relief ship arrived in January, 1903. Shackleton headed his own expedition into the Antarctic in 1908. His ship was the Nimrod. He left New Zealand on New Year’s day. A steamer towed his ship to latitude 66 degrees in order to save coal aboard the Nimrod. Scott had lost faith in dogs for Antarctic exploration when his animals sickened and died during his push to the south. Shackleton, who had been with him, shared his view. Instead of taking dogs along on the Nimrod, he carried Shetland ponies. a a a Glacier SHACKLETTON had hoped to winter on King Edward VII Land, but found that impossible. Consequently he anchored his ship off Ross Island, not far from the point where Scott had spent two winters. The first exploit of the expedition was to climb Mt. Erebus, which rises to a height of 13,000 feet on Rosa Island. Mt. Erebus is volcanic and when the five men who made the climb reached the top they found that the crater was 900 feet deep. On Oct. 28 Shackleton began his dash for the south pole. Three members of the expedition accompanied him. Four ponies pulled sleds upon which supplies were carried. They started south on the Ross ice shelf. By Nov. 21 they had reached latitude 81 degrees. Here they shot one of the ponies, eating some of the flesh practically raw, since it became tough when cooked very much. 1 By Nov. 26 they had equaled Scott’s “farthest south,” but found travel particularly difficult because of the great chasm in the ice. Two more ponies were shot by the time they reached latitude 83 degrees 16 minutes. Their path now was barred by a great mountain range with huge granite cliffs rising to heights of 5,000 and 6,000 feet. Shackleton decided to climb one of the glaciers which flowed down from the high plateau. On Dec. 3 they climbed Mt. Hope, a height of 3,350 feet. They started south on the glacier. On Dec. 7 they lost their last pony when it fell into a chasm In the glacier. man Climb THEN they started the long climb to the south, up and up the slope of the great Beardmore Glacier. By Dec. 27 they had reached the head of the glacier, an altitude of 9,820 feet. The thin air at this high altitude added to the extreme cold made travel particularly difficult. On Jan. 9 they reached a latitude of 88 degrees 23 minutes. Here they felt it necessary to turn back. They were safely back on the ship by March 4, having suffered severely on the return journey from sickness and lack of food. Shackleton made his third journey into the Antarctic in 1914. Both Scott and Amundsen already had reached the south pole a few years before this. Shackleton’s plan on this expedi- * tion was to cross Antarctica from the Weddell sea to the Ross sea by way of the south pole. Disaster overtook the expedition. His ship, the Endurance, was caught in the ice pack and on Nov. 21, 1915, the ship was crushed and as a result it sank. Then men took to small boats and landed on Elephant island. They stayed here until the following April when Shackleton with a crew of five made a journey of 800 miles through the ice in a small boat to 1 South Georgia island. Here he reached a whaling station and the men left behind on Elephant island finally were rescued bv a whaler, the Yelcho on Aug. 30, 1916.