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What a Primary! There has been much rejoicing in the seats of the mighty over the Republican primary “victory” of Representative B. Carroll Reece In the First Tennessee district. Reece In congress la a spokesman of the private power interests. He was largely responsible in the last session for preventing enactment of the Norris bill for government operation of Muscle Ehoals, which has passed the senate so many times, and he also Mocked a compromise bill. We are told that his success in the primary proves that not even the people living in the Muscle Shoals territory, much less the rest of the country, object to handling that government-owned project over to private exploiters. But that explanation is too simple—much too Simple. In fact, the people were clubbed into voting for Reece. Reece had w’hat no other Republican primary candidate has had anywhere in the entire United States. He had personal interference by the President in his favor. After all. the President is the leader of the Republican party, and when he goes to the unusual length of battling for one Republican candidate against another Republican candidate, there naturally arc a good many Republican voters who feel that the President has left them no choice but to obey. The significance of the Tennessee primary, therefore. is not that the people have thrown down government operation of Muscle Shoals, but that the President, despite his campaign promise, has rejected it. In view of the Hoover intervention, it is surprising that Reece did not poll a large majority. On the face of the returns, he just squeaked through. But maybe Reece did not win at all, even with the White House pressure. Votes were "bought with an inexhaustible supply es money” supplied in part by “outside interests,” according to Reece's opponent, Judge Price. “The method and manner of holding the primary were unfair, fraudulent, corrupt and violative of the first principles of the Republican party and of common decency.” says the Judge When those serious charges have been proved or disproved, the public will be in better position to understand the meaning of this particular primary.

Norris and the Drys To the extent that any propaganda political organization is sincere in Its purpose and honorable in its methods, it deserves, and is apt to get. the respect of the country, including its opponent - That applies especially to the much-criticised Anti-Saloon League and W. C. T. U. Much of the criticism of those dry organizations is unfair. Certainly to Indict an entire organization for the faults of a few of its members is unjus'. But too frequently the leaders of the Anti- Saloon League and W. C. T. U. take action, with apparent support of their membership, which raises a pretty sharp question in the public mind as to the real nature and purpose of these organizations. The latest case in point is the Nebraska situation. Senator George W. Norris is running for the Republican nomination and for re-election. Now Senator Norris is, on the strength of his long career in congress, known throughout the country for three tilings. He is recognized by all as a man of unvsual integrity and ability. He is recognized by all as a sincere supporter of prohibition. He is recognized by all as a leader of the progressives. Norris is more than a political dry. Unlike many of the candidates supported by the dry organizations, Norris does not drink. His prohibition is not a matter of political expediency or pussyfooting, but of personal conviction. Here surely is an ideal candidate for the AntiBaloon League and the W. C. T. U. But those organizations in Nebraska are fighting him. Why? Because, we are told, he voted for a wet candidate for President. That, however, obviously is not sufficient excuse, for the Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. support many Democratic senators who voted for Smith. The test of a senator's loyalty to the dry cause—the only open test exacted by these organizations themselves—is his votes on legislation. And Norris meets that test. But there is one other test unrelated to prohibition that Norris does not meet. That is the test of being a political reactionary and a servant of the predatory interests. He is their avowed enemy. They are leading the fight against him. It is a natural fight, inevitable. In that fight, how does It happen that the dry organizations side with the interests against the dry candidate? *We don't know the answer. But we do know that the dry organizations will have to do a lot of explaining to talk themselves out of the charge of insincerity.

Old Myths Block Pan-European Plan Why should we be interested today in such apparently old and academic problems as who caused the World war? Primarily because ancient myths about this subject still block statesmanlike plans to assure peace and good-will in Europe. An interesting example is afforded by the opposition of French Nationalists like Poincare and his clique to the Pan-Europe plans of M. Briand. In the Journal de Deßats, a French Nationalist Just has written: "It is sixteen years ago today since Germany provoked the war. After the victory, peace was assured by the treaty of Versailles and the occupation of the Rhineland. We have made the mistake of evacuating the Rhineland. Do not let us commit that of letting the treaty be cut to pieces.'” Here we have ample proof that the old myths about the past prevent statesmanship today. Such a statement as this seems like brazen impertinence to the world. The author appears to have forgotten Dr. Charles Austin Beard's warning to foreign writers that none of them again can revive in the United States •the stinking corpse of war propaganda." It is almost incredible that sixteen years after 1914 the old legend of German provocation of the World war be set forth seriously in a reputable journal. Let xs see how this myth stands up in the light of the evidence and statements of French writers. We •ball not depend on any Hunnish allegations. In the Saturday Evening Post for Oct. 24, 1914, Clemenceau himself admitted that the French had been responsible for the war of 1870. Poincare told French students that he could see no reason for living except to get back Alsace-Lorraine. , In 1910, Georges Louis, French ambassador at St. •ptersburg. admitted that the Praaeo-Russian jilliance &s based on the program o t getting the sdLta for

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Russia and Alsace-Lorraine for France. In 1912 Poincare wrote that the Germans seemed determined on rc|*>ncillation with France, but that France never would permit it unless Alsace-Lorraine was returned. Alfred Fabre-Luce has shown how the Germans worked steadfastly for good relations with France before 1914, until they saw It was hopeless. The French military historian, General Buat, has admitted that in July, 1914, the French army was larger than the German, In spite of the fact that Germany's population was nearly twice that of France. In Foreign Affairs for October, 1325, Poincare admitted that there was no evidence that Germany and Austria had planned a war for the summer of 1914 or even that they planned war after the archduke was assassinated. Georges Demartial has shown that France and Russia did not dare openly to defend the cause of Serbia against Austria in 1914. Palcologue, French ambassador in Russia in 1914, has told us how he and Izvolski agreed that war was certain as early as July 25, 1914. Fabre-Luce has confessed that after Poincare’s behavior at St. Petersburg on July 20-22, 1914, there was little hope of peace. Demartial has shown how the Russian general mobilization brought on the war at a time when the Anglo-German diplomatic proposals seemed about to avert hostilities and has revealed how tire French lied in their documents (the Yellow Book) to hide the. fact that the Russian general mobilization preceded that of Germany and Austria. Just before he was assassinated in July, 1914, Jaures exclaimed, “that dog, Izvolski (Russian ambassador In Paris) now has got his war.” Demartial has revealed the ways in which Poincare and his group kept the French people from a real knowledge of the facts in 1914, and wade them think they were waging a war of defense. As Demartial puts it, "France was thrown into the war as helpless as a chicken handed in a bag to the butcher. ’ Indeed, this great and noble French writer is honest enough to admit that the responsibility for the calamity of 1914 was that of Serbia, Russia and France. In Current History for March, 1926, he wrote: “We are convinced that we no more can accept the thesis of divided responsibility than we can accept that of the exclusive responsibility of Germany.” For this outburst of candor and courage, Demartial was dismissed from the Legion of Honor. In the light of these statements and admissions of able and distinguished Frenchmen, what becomes of the allegation that “Germany provoked the war sixteen years ago today?”

Talking picture equipment is to be installed soon on 200 of the navy’s ships. Will it be proper to say now, when sailors leave port, that they're going out to see? The Connecticut farmer who traded seventy-five acres of land for a radio set is thought to have done it to tune in on this farm relief program he's heard so much about. In South America, a scientist says, there is a fly can travel 800 miles an hour. In New Jersey there is a filer who may go after the record. Then there's the philosophic banker who regards the traffic cop's bawling out as merely another item in the curb quotations. All that is necessary to cure the smoking habit, according to a Russian scientist, is to take three hypnotic treatments. It might work for a spell. Now that roof-sitting endurance contests have begun, it will devolve upon future builders to make their roofs not only rainproof, but foolproof as well. A West Virginia coal operator has urged the President to suspend radio broadcasting because in his belief it has caused the drought. To be sure, the programs have been rather dry of late. The fact Mr. and Mrs. Lindbergh have taken their first flight together since Charles Jr. was born, leads to the suspicion the baby has already become an endurance cryer.

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ONE of the most inspiring and assuring things of modern times is the spectacle of these two oil millionaires out in Oklahoma, now panting to be of service to the dear people, one of them as a Governor and the other as a United States senator. Here's hoping both of them get cleaned! # These two particular potential pillars of the republic, ambitions to graduate from lubrication into statesmanship, happen to be Democrats, but there’s no partisanship about the desire of the wealthy to get into public office, both parties having rallied off their honors until a session of the senate looks like a meeting of the board of directors. * a a WE remember the time, not so very long ago, when the people of the country had gooseflesh when it was announced that a millionaire had made his way into the United States senate, but now they are exceeded in number only by the English sparrows. n n And it's not only the senate: just look at the house of representatives. There not being enough opportunities for all the millionaires to become Clays and Websters, the overflow sought the less dazzling limelight of the house. We distinctly recall when we sat in a row of five multi-millionaires in the house, our poverty being sufficiently vast to bring the whole crowd "back to normal.” 9 9 9 But we wish to be just to our coin-laden fellow countrymen. Most of them have succeeded in getting what the rest of us would like to get, an ample golden fringe between themselves and the wolf of want, and most of them would make good senators, as far as their capabilities go. 9 9 9 •pEW or none of these rich men want public office * to make more money. In fact they have found oat there are many things more thrilling than the possession of cash There s another reason why they want to go to Washington. It has become the social as well as the political capital of the country’. 9 9 9 Germany built- her castles on the Rhine, but we are building ours along the Potomac, and those who. yearn to stand beneath society’s glittering chandelier instinctively think of Washington. 9 9 9 It's the place pre-eminent for ambitious ladies, and many a millionaire, content to pitch horseshoes back of the filling station, has been derricked out of his environment into the District of Columbia because mother desired to serve caviar to she Maharajah of Indore, and daughter wished to unfurl her wishbone to the zephyrs which are internettasali

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—-

German Architects Have Broken Sharply With the Past; Nation Forging Boldly Ahead in Its Buildings. WHILE Americans are still standing in awe before the pyramid-like “set-back” skyscrapers of New York City, Germany is forging boldly ahead In the field of modernistic architecture. Every type of building, from churches to theaters, is dominated by modernism, according to a report to the American Institution of Architects by Roger Gilman jof Providence, R. I. ” German architects have broken sharply with the past, Gilman declares. “Changed economic conditions and the post-war reactions in Germany, added to the really profound Influence of the Machine Age have built up a totally new point of view,” he says. “To an American searching dubiously for modernism, the amount to be found in Germany is a revelation," Gilman report: “In a three weeks’ trip, for instance, on the Rhine, in the Ruhr and Berlin, the number of modernist buildings of real interest totaled up to something like seventy. “Most of them had been produced during the lasc five years. Only three or four large new ones were not modern.”

Banks GILMAN indicates that the new trend in architecture has a genuine grip upon the people of Germany. It is a nation-wide movement and not merely a fad cropping out here and there. The visitor to Germany is surprised by the varied type of modernistic buildings, Gilman reports. “You expect this sort of thing in shop fronts and cabarets, but you find it used for the rich old conservative Bank of Dresden, in the solemn Peace Memorial church at Frankfort and the monumental Museum Group at Dusseldorf,” he says. “For interiors there are the Capitol theater, the rebuilt Renaissance theater in Berlin, and the liner Bremen. “And beside the many stores and office buildings there are everywhere the hotel tenements, countless, huge and successful. “The architectural schools, too, both graduate and undergraduate, have some of its leading spirits on their staffs, while the students with the enthusiasm that might be expected, read ‘Le Corbusier’ and design opera houses ir. plate glass. “A modern German plan may take any shape that the conditions suggest. It is not controlled by any predetermined composition, however much sanctioned by precedent, as, for instance, a decorative entrance on the axis. “In fact, the entrance of the large bank at Dresden consists of nothing more than the necessary width of its opening in the wall and leads into a comer of the banking room. “The Festival hall at Magdeburg, for 5,000 people, hai 1 only a series of side entrances like a stadium. Model tenenments at Frankfort have facades on a ‘sawtooth’ plan ”

Apartments THE most interesting structures in Germany from many points of view are the so-called municipal housing colonies, or “siedlung,” to give them their German name. Here, apparently, necessity was the mother of invention. They were urgently needed when thousands of families began to move into the Rhine cities and Berlin in the postwar period. Gilman reports: “The first consideration in the design of these buildings was the most modem hygiene and convenience for the tenants, together with the strictest economy for the city. “Outwardly the result is an immensely long, low building of stucco with flat walls, broken only by concrete balconies and perhaps flat concrete shelves over the entrances. “Possibly there may be open, porches behind the balconies and a band of brick to tie them together. If perfectly flat, they may have a color scheme, such as dull red for the walls, dark blue for the window frames. “At first sight you revolt at the idea of any one having to live in such a characterless barracks. But after going through some of the sunny apartments, or the cozy twofamily houses, and comparing their floods of light and air from a spacious court, their bathrooms and steam laundries, with the red roofs and small windows of the older tenements minus plumbing and plus high rents, you readily vote for the “siedlung.’’

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ABBOTT THAYER’S BIRTH Aug. 12

ON Aug. 12, 1849, Abbott H. Thayer, discoverer of the law of protective coloration in animals, and called the “Father of Camouflage,” was born In Boston. Famed equally as a painter as for his researches in science. Abbott’s canvases hang in the Metropolitan and Boston museums. His paintings are considered creative and modern. From his studies on the effect of color in combination or In masses, Thayer developed the law which he believed prevailed in nature’s way oft protecting animals and birds by marking them with the colorings which blend most easily with their environment. For example, according to Thayer's theory, a flamingo was adorned in colorful dress so that a crocodile in the Nile would nistake it for a sunset and not snap at it At the outbreak of the SpanishAmerican war Thayer offered his plans for making war-vessels semiinvisible. He received little encouragement and let the matter dropWhen the World war started Thayer went to Europe and presented ias principles before the British and French governments. Many of his devices ands omul as, according to the French report citing him for honors, reappeared in real service on the European battlefront and in the disguikng of war n<i mgrrhitTit. veSSOIS.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Monday’s Times: St, Hillaire, Creator of Navigation, Never Saw the Sea—Marig St. Hillaire, the blind French monk, who never saw the sea and yet to this day is accepted as an authority on navigation, gave the world the Saint Hillaire method of establishing the

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE—. — Research Shows Blood’s Importance

BY DR, MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hrgeia. the Health Magazine. LONG ago it was recognized that the blood is one of the most important constituents of the human body, that it is the fluid which gives life to the tissues, that it takes from the tissues their waste products and conveys them to the organs of elimination, and that it largely is concerned with the ability of man to resist disease and to overcome damage to his body. It was not, however, until the microscope was discovered that scientific medicine began to have any clear conception of the constituents of the blood. This fluid represents roughly from 1-13 to 1-20 of the body weight. It is far more than a fluid: it is a suspension containing many ingredients, chemical and physical, in the shape of formed and dissolved elements which have

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

Heywood Broun, who conducts this column, Is on his vacation. During his absence Joe Williams, sports editor of the New York Telegram, will pinch-hit for Broun.—The Editor. MAN and boy, Felix lias been barbering around the town for more than twenty years. And before that he played staccato rhythms on some of the most prominent chins in his native Naples. He can go back to the time when the barber took precedence over the family doctor when succor was needed at the bedside. This was an old Latin custom. Felix remembers going on one of these missions as an apprentice barber years back and watching the maestro applying two pedigreed leeches to the forehead of a peasant, who had been under the sheets for weeks. The next day the peasant was up and back in the fields and so far as Felix knows he was never sick again. In those days the barber enjoyed a high social rating. He w r as distinctly somebody. He was in equal parts a scientist and an artist. a a a Different Now BUT today things are different. Barbering isn’t what it used to be. A fellow has to be an electrician, a beauty specialist, a Swedish masseur and goodness knows what all to work at the trade. And, as Felix says, if Mussolini ever heard that he was a Swedish Masseur or a Swedish anything else, there’d be the very devil to pay. Take a look around the modern barber shop. Usually it’s a vast room done in marbles and tiles and mirrors. The chairs are numbered. If you failed to make an appointment you wait your turn. No longer does the raucous “NEXT,” so dear to the inspired pens of comic artists, boom across the room. An attendant dripping Tiffany poise from every pore escorts you with no little ceremony to the vacant chair. Such things as a shave, haircut, shampoo, massage and manicure are accepted as routine needs. But you may crave an ice po iltice. Very popular these days. Brings you back after a tough night. It’s applied to the back of the neck. The trick is too keep it there just long enough. If you keep it there too long a hemorrhage or something might happen. * How's th, head today? Kinda dizzy? Toufh on the. old sinusitis, eh? .Out co9*.eg a sort of violet-ray

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ship’s position by computation. The method is one of many credited to St. Hillaire, which mariners use today. Puetz and Mainzer Rolled a Barrel of Wine 500 Miles—On June 24, 1930, Josef Puetz and O. Mainzer arrived in Berlin rolling a 1,000-litre barrel of wine. They rolled the barrel from Bernkastel, In the Rhine-

an intimate bearing on life and health. A famous Russian, Metchinkofl, conceived the idea that the white blood cells were the important disment for attacking infectious disease and he gave to them the name “phagocyte,” with the idea that they ate and digested. However, the white blood cells represent but one of the many types of formed elements in the blood. There are, in addition, the red blood cells and the platelets. The white blood cells number about 5,000 to 7,000 for an amount of blood about the size of a pinhead. The red blood cells number from 4,500,000 to 5,500,000 for the same quantity. The blood platelets average from 150,000 too 250,000 for the same amount. Unquestionably all these cells have special functions, some of which have begun to be understood, but about many of their functions there is still a great deal of doubt. The red blood cells seem to be

drumhead set on a shoulder-high stanchion. A button is pressed and a flood of thin, blue light blazes down on the victim’s face. A chronometer attached to the contrivance ticks off the seconds, much after the manner in which the boiling of eggs is regulated. And now how about the feet? Yes, the feet. .. . Well, I don’t know how other people feel about such matters, but when any one breaks right out of nowhere and starts to get personal about my feet I am promptly shocked into a speechless embarrassment. It is not that I am lacking respect or admiration for my feet, for this assuredly is not the case, but there are some serious things men do not discuss with any enthusiasm in public places with strangers, and feet, with their concomitants, under which head come bunions, assorted corns and callouses, are one of them, or to be specific, two of them. But be that as it may if the feet are feverish, nervous, run down, illnatured or otherwise indisposed the foot expert in the barber shop will, after the customary diagnosis, prescribe what he hopes will be a helpful treatment. a a a Ask Dad THE barber shop that dad knew was nothing like this. There was an intimacy and an individualism about the old-time shop that meant something to a fellow, even if it didn’t wholly offset all the doodads and gadgets and exper; operators that are around today . It must have fired up a fellow’s sense cf importance right smart to walk into Tony’s on a Saturday

Questions and. Answers

What is the origin and meaning of the name Effie? It is an ancient Scotch name derived from Euphemia, a Greek name meaning “fair speech.” Do humans breathe air through the pores of the skin? No. What is the average yield of tobacco per acre in Kentucky? In 1928 it was 775 pounds. What is the address of Professor Albert Einstein? f 6 Haberlandstr, Bdrlin, Germany.

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land, a distance of approximately 500 miles, covering the distance in seventy days. They were presented with a silver wine cup by the wine merchants of Berlin. These cask makers performed this amazing feat to call attention to the patriotic sentiments of Rhineland occupied by foreign troops. Wednesday; The Siamese Pansies.

charged primarily with the conveying of hemoglobin, which is the red coloring matter, around the body. The hemoglobin contains iron and is concerned with the distribution of oxygen, a life-giving element; If the hemoglobin is lessened in amount, there is less oxygen carried and the blood becomes exceedingly pale. The normal amount of hemoglobin is listed at 100 per cent, but a person may have anywhere from 50 to 70 per cent and still feel fairly well. If the hemoglobin drops much below this amount, he is likely to indicate the deficiency by a shortness of breath. The pallor associated with lack of hemoglobin is typical. There are many conditions in which the hemoglobin is altered or destroyed so that it can not carry oxygen. For instance, in poisoning with carbon monoxide gas the hemoglobin is changed to a form which can not carry oxygen and the person gets purple.

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

night when the place was crowded and have the head barber call out to one of the help to get Squire Abernathy’s private shaving mug down offen the shelf—the one with General Robert E. Lee's picture on it. Felix remembers those days well. He was working in the Broadway theater district then and all the actors had their private mugs. The size and elegance swelled in proportion to the self-estimated genius of the owners. (Copyright, 1930, by The Times)

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.AUG. 12, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS: ■—

The Drought Will Do Ten Times the Damage to Consumers That It Has Done to the Farmers, Unless They Organize. MONDAY’S front page was the usual bucket of blood, with two ax murders adding some variety to the grewsome mess. One of the ax murders was committed by a section hand of 35. in love with a boarding house mistress of 52, whose discarded husband was a paying guest, and who enraged the section hand by accepting attentions from an iron molder of 65. The other was committed by a man of 70 on a roommate of 68 because he couldn’t endure the latter’s habit of continually shifting the furniture. At first thought, an ax seems rather out of place in these refined days of machine guns and prussic acid, but if poets, painters, and musicians must look to the jungle for inspiration, why shouldn’t the murderer go there for his tools? * * tt Terre Haute Shows Way AFTER two weeks of more or less noisy experting, climaxed by a spectacular air hop to New York, the Detroit police have succeeded in capturing one of the three alleged Buckley killers, who says he can prove an alibi by at least a thousand witnesses. After nlr.e weeks of even noisier experting, Chicago police have accomplished nothing in the Linglc case, except to prove that A1 Capone and his gang are in full control of the town. In contrast to the futile floundering of our expensive law-enforce-ment machine, a voluntary band of vigilantes in Terre Haute traps a gang of four filling station bandits, killing one and capturing the other three. While no law-abiding citizen conscientiously can advocate the substitution of ropes and telegraph poles for the splendidly inefficient, system of red tape and technicality which has hog-tied every one but criminals, he can predict its probability. a it tt Consumer Is Goat THE drought has hit New York, with the price of certain green vegetables up 100 per cent in the wholesale market. Not only because of custom, but because they can’t do anything else, retailers will pass the buck to consumers. Consumers are not dumb, but merely unorganized. They understand perfectly well what is going on, but find themselves helpless. If the present situation calls for one thing more than another, it is for a revival of the.. Housewives’ league'. Otherwise, the drought will do ten times l .he damage to consumers than it’ has to farmers. tt tt u Weather Plays Pranks OLD MAN WEATHER appears to be raising cain with everybody’s plans this year. The drought in America is matched by floods in China which not only drown ten thousand, but interefere with a carefully arranged battle. Switzerland’s grain crop has been so injured by violent storms that the country is reported as looking to American wheat for relief. Meanwhile, ship captains say that the drought is no mystery, because all the rain has been falling in the Atlantic ocean. tt tt a Russia Changes Tone According to press dispatches, Soviet Rusisa is stiffening her tone with regard to American trade, hinting that it may be stopped if recognition is not granted, and calling attention to some of the favorable agreements recently made with' other countries. M. Kalmanovich, Soviet vicccommissar, who sailed on the Majestic last Friday, after spending two months in this country, says that he placed orders for farm machinery and tractors totalling more than forty millions dollars and constituting one of the largest single purchases of farm machinery ev*u' made in a similar period of time. If money talks, Soviet Russia still is content to do business in America. If failure to get excited over all the windjamming talks, the great body of American citizens are willing to let her.