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Safeguard It Before the state borrows money to hire farmers in the drought-stricken area to build roads, some safeguard should be thrown around its expenditure. The loan is itself of doubtful legality, according to the attorney-general. Even more doubtful is the chance that the funds, when obtained, will be handled in a business-like manner. The conduct of affairs by the otate highway commission has been such as to suggest that the Governor would do well to replace that commission before turning over any more funds. The fact is now disclosed that through negligence, if not worse, the state has not taken advantage of federal aid to the extent 0f*52,000,000, a fund that would be sufficient to take care of present needs. That money belongs to the state, and would have been received had there been a competent handling of the road building program. The explanation that the commission was too much in a hurry to take advantage of federal funds suggests that anew commission, with more competency, is needed, quite as much as are funds for speedy relief. With the program to furnish needed funds to those who need them, all will agree. But there should be a certainty that the funds will be expended carefully and in the places where they are needed. The furthci fact that the highway commission paid no attention to the budget, ran riot with money that it did not have, should not be overlooked. The situation is such as to condemn the present commission as incompetent. It has failed to follow the law. It has failed to gain for Indiana the funds set aside by the federal government for road projects. Perhaps an investigation of the switching of funds from one department to another in the commission will give the Governor a clew as to the necessity of swift action. If the state is to embark on an enterprise of debts, disregarding the Constitution, the people in this emergency have the right to see that the funds are in the hands of those who will pay some attention to not only the law, but ordinary business prudence. Gangsters, Politicians & Cos. Financial records of one of Chicago’s largest gangs have fallen into the hands of the state’s attorney. The pay-off man of the gang was executed by rival gangsters two weeks ago, and authorities were able to locate his books, showing receipts and disbursements for several years—and. most important, to whom money was paid. The records reveal an amazing alliance between politicians and officials and gangland. Politicians and officials shared in the profits of the liquor traffic and other rackets, and for that the gangsters got inununity to violate the laws and prey on the public. Beer oould be sold, saloons and vice and gambling dens operated, and other crimes committed, without hindrance. Those sworn to enforce the law kept hands off for their pieces of silver. Thus further proof has been obtained of the connection between Chicago’s underworld and officialdom. which long has been known to exist. The crime record of the city and the failure of repeated efforts to stamp out terrorism and lawlessness in recent years testify to the effectiveness of that alliance in circumventing justice. Conditions in Chicago probably are worse than in most cities, but gangland rule is by no means confined to Chicago. Other cities are feeling it, and in every instance the fundamental causes are the samedomination of political machinery and government by unscrupulous politicians and officials. With a set of honest officials in Chicago or any other city, handling their jobs-without fear, wholesale underworld depredations would be impossible, and so would be the graft and corruption in public office which are scandals in Chicago. New York and elsewhere. A grand jury will examine this new evidence in Chicago, we are told. But few believe it will bring the bribers and grafters to book, any more than similar efforts in the past have resulted in punishment of murderers, racketeers and their cohorts. Tlie final answer in Chicago and in other cities lies with the community itself. Only an aroused and determined public can clean out the crooks and this through intelligent use of the ballot box. In any community the decent folks are of course in the vast majority. It is their apathy that enables gangs and political machines to flourish. Wet Gains and the G. O. P* Prohibition is holding its own in the state primaries and party conventions, according to the dry organizations. Prohibition is being thrown for serious losses in state primaries and conventions, according to the wet organizations. The public is accustomed to discounting the propaganda statements of both groups. But the public can not help being impressed when one group backs its claims by facts, figures and names, and the other group does not. The wets support their claims, and the drys do not. There will be twenty-nine new votes in the next house of representatives for prohibition repeal, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment announces. That estimate is based on results to date, and will be increased by some of the twenty-three later primaries and conventions. “The gains in primaries already held total nine," the association says. “In addition, seven new affirmative votes are pledged by reason of sitting members announcing they favor repeal. Thirteen additional members have switched from a position of uncertainty or modification to outright repeal of the dry amendment, these members coming from New York, Connecticut. Rhode Island. Illinois, Wisconsin and California. In every one of the total twenty-nine districts, either the sure winner is wet or both candidates are wet." A iTniUr tabulation by the Association on prospective wet gains in the senate would be interesting, estecigUg to # ew of the gimary success last seek of

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two Democratic senatorial candidates on a prohibition repeal platform in supposedly dry states—Bulkley in Ohio, and Gore in Oklahoma. Those results were in line, of course, with the earlier primary victories of the Democrat, Lewis, in Illinois, and of the Republican, Morrow, in New Jersey. All in all, these results are a pretty effective reply to the repeated statements by Senator Simeon Fess, new chairman of the Republican national committee, that prohibition Is * '-t an issue in the campaign this year. Indeed, Fes, by implication has refuted himself in the appointment of the chief ’V. C. T. U. lobbyist to head the women s unit of the Republican national committee. Even in the days of the late Wayne B. Wheeler, who as the Anti-Saloon League boss was probably the most powerful single political figure in Washington, the professional drys were content to name the prohibition enforcement officials of the Republican administrations without also naming the Republican party campaign managers. This raises a nice question of party loyalties. And that is a question on which the Republican managers have very rigid ideas. Witness their decision to boycott election campaign of the progressive, Senator Norris, who just has been renominated overwhelmingly by Nebraska. Republicans. Well, what is (he new w. C. T. U. chief of the Republican women’s department going to do about those new wet Republican congressional candidates in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Nebraska, and about Morrow, the senatorial candidate in New Jersey? Is she going to be loyal to the W. C. T. U. and prohibition, or is she going to be loyal to the Republican party candidates? Is she going to give full and enthusiastic support to help these wet Republicans defeat dry Democrats? If so, what about the W. C. T. U.? If not, how does it happen that she was chosen by Fess and the Republican national committee? This is just the sort of situation which can end in only one way. Someone is going to get hurt in the jam. The Fight for Liberalism There is only one thing the liberals in both parties can do between now and 1932 and that is to keep on fighting to make either one or both of the old parties liberal. The Democratic party lost golden opportunities in 1920 and 1928 because of the grip Republican politicians had on the party in the south through the Anti-Saloon League and its control of the Methodist and Baptist preachers. At one time it looked as if there was a better chance of the Republican party becoming the liberal party, strange as that may seem in the light of its history since the days of Mark Hanna. In 1928 many liberals pinned their faith on Hoover, but they have been disappointed. If Hoover has a liberal thought in his head, he keeps it thoroug. ly concealed. But Dwight Morrow in Now Jersey and former Senator Jimmy Wadsworth in New York give some promise of leavening the Republican loaf, paradoxical as it may seem to class a former Morgan partner and Jimmy Wadsworth as liberals. Yet the real test of liberalism now and until the Eighteenth amendment is repealed, will be prohibition. It was through prohibition that the Anti-Saloon League got its grip on government; and Morrow and Wadsworth are leading the Republican forces that favor repeal. There has been some indication of a change of opinion in the south, but it isn’t yet strong enough to give promise of the southern Democracy shaking itself freq from Anti-Saloon League domination and getting back to Jefferson and the Bill of Rights. The reign of terror isn’t yet over and few southern Democrats have the courage to defy the clerical political bosses. Even Governor Franklin Roosevelt is still goose-pimply with timidity and hangs onto the coattails of A1 Smith without saying much for himself. If the Republicans of New York should nominate Wadsworth for Governor, Roosevelt would have to declare himself as against prohibition or pass out of the presidential picture. Trustees of Des Moines university, egged by students at a public meeting, disappeared with the diplomas just before graduation. The trustees won out by degrees.

REASON

FORMER Congressman Herrick of Oklahoma states that he Is sorry that he did not sell out one day when he was a pillar of the republic and the forces of evil piled $50,000 upon his desk in an effort to purchase his virtue. 000 The former congressman is suffering from the heat when he makes this statement, for the simple reason that the forces of evil do not proceed in that manner. They know what they are about and how to reach the consummation of their desires. #OO A COMMON congressman such as Herrick used to be isn’t worth a dime as a determining influence in the house of representatives at Washington. Everything is done by committees and the way to control legislation is to control of the heads of the various committees. 000 And there's very little or any of this done at Washington. Gentlemen who vote this way or that do so because they feel that way about it, because great interests in their districts bear down upon them, or because their brand of political thinking sanctions their conduct. 000 Whenever privileged interests are concerned about governmental action they proceed to pick their men in advance: they do not wait to buy them on the hoof after they get into power. If it's an elective office, they cause “their man” to rim. and if it's an appointive office, they buy the appointment. U tt U BUT they do it delicately; they slip the candidate for Governor, for instance, a fat campaign contribution and incidentally have it understood that a certain son of thi republic is to be appointed chairman of this or that commission: 000 The most notorious bribery done at Washington is done by log rolling, by the swapping of votes by senators. This has been going on ever since the government was founded and it's likely to continue until the cows come home, and men. otherwise jealous of their honor, justify such swapping of votes because it’s the only way legislation can be effected. 000 So do not be distressed by the thought that your member of congress is laden with the golden loot of corruption, for unless he has been in the house a long time he hasn't anything to >ell, and it's just hareiy possible he wouldn't sell if could*

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SCIENCE

■BY DAVID DIETZ.

I Surgery Tended Toward, Science When Medicine Still IFas Connected With Magic. ONE of the interesting facts of early history is that surgery and medicine had separate origins and that surgery tended to become a science in days when medicine still was connected with magic, mysticism of various sorts, and appeal to demons and pagan gods. Perhaps the nature of early life brought this about. The man who had been ■wounded in battle or in conflict with a wild beast required immediate attention of a sort which was obvious. A disease requiring medical attention, however, seemed like some mysteriofis visitation of a god or demon. The earliest known surgical treatise is an ancient Egyptian one called the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus. It gets its name from an American student who bought it from natives in 1862. An edition of this papyrus, translated and edited by Professor James Henry Breasted, director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, just has been published by the institute. Professor Breasted regards the Smith papyrus as the first record of man’s effort to establish the scientific attitude, an attitude which scientists regard as the cornerstone of modern civilization. n tt tt Papyrus THROUGH the Smith papyrus dates only to 1700 B. C., there is evidence that leads Professor Breasted to say that the original document was produced at least a thousand years earlier, in the Pyramid Age that extended from 3000 to 2500 B. C., and it is his conjecture that perhaps the author was the earliest known physician, Imhotep, also a great architect, who lived in the thirtieth century B. C. “Whoever the author for the first time in man’s history, he was a true scientist, observing and collecting a group of facts and making rational deductions from his observations,” Dr. Breasted says. “This early surgeon was far ahead of his time, for he cast aside prevailing superstitions and belief in demons as the cause of physical suffering, abandoning as cures incantations and magical recipes for methods that in some cases are used today by surgeons. “Although he had the physician’s desire to help his patient, as a scientist he had an interest in cases in which he knew himself to be helpless, making his observations and deductions from a purely scientific interest. “Os fifty-eight examinations which survive in the treatise, which originally discussed the entire body from the head downward, he recommends treatment in forty-two, leaving sixteen without any recommendations, but recording them as interesting scientifically.” a tt tt Brain THE word “brain” is used for the first time by the Egyptian surgeon-author of the Smith papyrus. Professor Breasted points out that he obviously had recognized the meningeal membrane, for he refers to “rupture of the sack containing the brain.” Though from the earliest times the seat of consciousness had been regarded by the Egyptians as being both in the heart and the bowels, this pioneering surgeon observed that injuries to the brain affect ■other parts of the body, especially in his experience, the lower limbs. He notes the drag or shuffle of the foot, presumably partial paralysis, resulting from a cranial wound. Even more remarkable was his observation that the effects of a brain injury on the lower limbs shifts from side to side, according to which side of brain had been injured. This recognition of the localiza- ! tion of function in the brain is an observation which has been developed more fully by modern surgeons only within the present generation. Another remarkable achievement of the surgeon was his recognition of the heart as the center of a system of distributing vessels, and he noted, for the first time in medical history, the importance of observing the action of the heart in determining the condition of the patient.

Questions and Answers

Which is the largest glove manufacturing city in the United States? Gloverville, N. Y. According to the census of manufacturers of 1927, 4.05 per cent of all the gloves made in the United States are manufactured in Gloverville and 56.6 per cent in Fulton county,* New York. Is there any difference between a scholarship and a fellowship in a university of college? Fellowships awarded in certain American and English universities are practically the same as scholar-

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CAPTURE OF GUERRIERE Aug. 19

ON Aug. 19, 1812, perhaps the most important naval battle of the War of 1812 took place when the frigate Constitution, commanded by Captain. Isaac Hull, captured the British trigate Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia. I In less than thirty minutes after the engagement began, the Guerj riere struck her colors. She was jso badly cut to pieces that Hull could not tow her to port. Instead, he set her on fire and then blew her up. The American ship was undamaged. From that time on the Constitution became popularly known as j “Old Ironsides.” Out of eighteen naval engagements between single ships during the war the Amerij cansvwon fifteen. These series of j victories moved Daniel Webster to \ urge congress to increase the navy. Success of the Americans on sea was due to the fact they handled ; their ships and guns far better than the British did theirs. The enemy, i it is estimated, lost on the average iof about five men to one lor the Americans,

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Liver Is Chemical Center of Body

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THE liver is the largest organ in the human body. It weighs from three to four pounds. It is well supplied with blood and it is concerned with many activities essential to life and to health. The liver lies in the upper right hand side of the abdominal cavity. Under the surface of the liver is the gallbladder, a pear-shaped sac from three to four inches long. A tube comes from the liver and joins a similar tube coming from the gallbladder tb make one common tube which empties into the intestines. The liver is the great chemical center of the body. When food is df&ested, it comes from the intestines to the liver and the products of digestion are changed, built up, or broken down into other substances which are needed by the various tissues. Glucose, which comes from the blood to the liver, is changed into

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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. BY JOE WILLIAMS IT has been pleasant enough browsing around in the parched Broun pastures for the last two weeks. To be sure, there have been a few minor complaints. But I believe these can be ignored pretty safely. After all, when a customer shrieks in a letter to the editor: “Where did you get that guy Williams? he ought to be peddling fish,” it might readily be true that he is just a big jollier trying to have a little harmless fun at a good man’s expense. I repeat it is silly to take such letters seriously. Now in this

ships, except that they are granted to graduate students designated as fellows, and the amounts are usually sufficient for at least a year’s maintenance. Fellowships maintained in the graduate school of the universities offer graduate students opportunities for research and graduate work in specialized fields. Where is the city of Monte Carlo? In the principality of Monaco, VA miles from the town of Monaco. It enjoys a charming climate and is noted for its gaming tables and handsome casino and gardens. What is a Charley horse? It is a slang phrase for a severe pain, that frequently affects baseball players and other athletes. Grantland Rice defines it as a sudden bunching of muscles into a hard knot, and says that it is one of the most prevalent and most painful of athletic ills. H it against the law to make out a bank check for one dollar? No. What are the heaviest and lightest metals? Osmium is the heaviest and lithium the lightest. Neither are produced in quantity or handled as commercial metals. Iridium is the heaviest and magnesium the lightest metals produced in commercial quantities. Is a person born in the United States, whose parents were born in another country, eligible for the office of President of the United States? Yes. because he is a natural born American citizen, no matter where his parents were born. Who was Orinda? That was the pen name of Mrs Katherine Philipps, who lived in the reign of Charles 11, and died of smallpox. How old is Marie Dressier, the actress. m She was born Aug. 2, 1878. S

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a substance called glycogen, which is stored in the liver and which is reconverted into glucose and carried by the blood to the cells as they need it. The liver secretes the bile, which passes to the gallbladder and into the intestines. The liver helps to control the amount of sugar in the blood and to supply the tissues with glucose. It breaks up the products of indigestion and forms protein combinations needed in the body. It helps to rid the body of poisons, stores fat, and is concerned in the formation of chemical substances involved in the coagulation of blood. No doubt, there are many other functions of liver not yet even suspected. This tremendous organ certainly develops special secretions involved in manufacture of blood cells. Extracts made from the liver now are used in treating various forms of anemia. The bile is important in absorp-

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specific instance how does the gentleman know I am the type most likely to succeed at the business of peddling fish? Surely this business must demand a certain talent and technique. Personally, I do not think I would make much of a go out of the job. I have read a number of success stories by distinguished 100 per cent go-getters in the “pep and push” magazines, and I know that in order to reach the top rung in the selling game, as I believe it is called, a fellow must have a feeling practically amounting to affection for his product. Generally speaking, I am fond of fish. That is to say, I have nothing against them as an edible. I yield to no man in my gastronomical enthusiasm for brook trout swimming in butter sauce. For gustatory piquancy, there are few dishes that equal the Lake Erie whitefish. And even the stolid Boston scrod is not wholly without merit or appeal. Yet I am afraid that a close, intimate association with these fish, a relationship based largely on commercial prospects, would not be for the best. tt tt tt Prefers Violets THIS would mean another broken heart on Broadway and an incalculable amount of grief among the finny tribes, as I like to refer to them. No, the hazard is too great. No matter what happens, I am not going to try to become a fish peddler. Anyway, I’d rather peddle violets, because—well, there’s just something about violets that you don’t get in scrod or trout. I do not wish to create the impression that all the customers have urged that I apply for an apprenticeship as a fish peddler. Some have been less harsh. For instance, the day after I contrived a very scientific piece on the personal values of astrology, a gentleman wrote me a letter lamenting that I hadn’t first consulted the stars. A Then you would have known how little you really know about astrology.” he wrote. Actually, however, the joke was on my correspondent. I am what you might call Old Man Astrology himself if though the truth were known I am still just a juvenile, gay and debonair. But would it be practical to write all I know about astrology in a widely ci xulated newspaper and thus tip my mitt —as hardened sports writers put it—to those Coney Island charlatans who charge 10 cents to see Venus and Mars strolling in the twilight? a a Lost Love I AM forced to admit that I have lost a great deal of respect for the wealthy unmarried women of New York. Uncle Heywood got jobs for more than 1,000 last winter. With just as much ardor and earnestness, I,

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tion of fats. It is secreted by the liver continuously and in animals that have a gallbladder, from time to time, bile is passed into the intestines. The amount of bile that will pass in twenty-four hours may vary from a pint to a quart and a half. Some of the factors which control the development and secretion of bile have been determined, but the complete mechanism is not yet fully understoodIndeed, the functions of the bile are many, and still are the subject of investigation. Certainly, the salts of the bile, as has been mentioned, assist in the digestion and absorption of fat. The bile helps to remove bacteria from the intestines through the slightly laxative effect that it has. In the bile are dissolved various toxic substances which are taken out of the blood by the liver. Perhaps the bile is itself absorbed and acts as a stimulator to the development of more bile and to the secretion of bile.

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.

moved by the plight of a correspondent, appeal to Park avenue for one wife and what do I get? Nothing. Os course, there are professional cynics who will say that when you get nothing instead of a wife you get all the best of it, including simple honors, but this is a subject on which I decline to comment openly, on the ground that it may incriminate or annihilate me. Just the same it does not speak altogether well for the side of a community which will provide jobs for the unemployment, but will remain deaf to the love call of a heartsick swain who asks no more than a liberal-minded heiress. The trouble is, I suppose, the dear girls did not take the proposition seriously. Only yesterday, for example, Ethel, the waitress, said to me: “Did that old guy really write you about getting him a rich wife or is that some more of your bunk?” Well, any rational person can see what a fellow who w’ants to do “big things” is up against and what terrible discouragements he is forced to hurdle. I do not like to talk about myself, because to do that is vain, yet I think it is a fine tribute to my mental poise and placid temperament that I have been able to go through all these trying predicaments and still maintain my characteristic charm and amiability. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

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Most of Us Favor Censorship in One Form or Another, No Matter How Vigorously We May Oppose It in Prnciple. THE Tahiti disaster would have drawn much bigger headlines had half a hundred lost their lives, which is not the least tragic part of tragedy in these enlightened days. • While doing everything we can to prevent death, we still like to read about it, especially in violent form. Os all routine items, murder, suicide and fatal accidents still take first place. Generally speaking, best sellers are built around similarly grewsome episodes. The philosopher who said, “Blessed is the nation without a history.” well might have added—“and blessed is the home, ship, or institution that never knew the thrill of an eight-column head.” tt tt a It Must Be Grewsome ALL of us want to be healthy, safe, and prosperous, yet few of us find the health, safety, and prosperity of other people interesting. A sick neighbor, particularly if suffering from some loathsome disease, is always good for an evening’s conversation. So. too, is the ragged settlement “on the wrong side of t.ie track,” or the man who lost everything in the stock market crash. More often than not, the first-rate novel, play, or news story is built around the things we don’t want in our own lives. One can’t help wondering why this should be so. tt m We Favor Censorship SOME folks say that it is to satisfy an almost universal demand for the exceptional, implying that we have become so good, wise and effic s ent that the exceptional can be .found only on the seamy side. Others say that this is not true, that we are commercializing morbid tastes, and that censorship should be applied. Most of us favor censorship in one form or another, no matter how vigorously we may be opposed to it in principle. This paradoxical attitude may be accounted for by the interest we take in other people’s ills, ailments and misfortunes, especially when they can be employed to tickle our own conceit. At any rate, there is hardly a human being but who knows, or thinks he knows, of some pet vice from which his neighbors need protection. a tt u The Good Doctor Speaks EVEN the eminent pyschologist, Dr. Alfred Adler, is not so sure that Boston’s idea of censorship is wrong. There are many books, he thinks, which young people, or even older people without the benefit of scientific training, should not read. But, like every one else, Dr. Adler admits that these books have not, and could not, hurt him. Also, like every one else, he admits that his own profession is qualified to do the censoring. Viciousness and vulgarity, he says should not constitute the basis of judging a book, since what really counts is its psychological effect. a tt u Only a Gamble Theoretically, Dr. Adlers position is unassailable. The psychological effect of everything is all-important, but who in heaven's name can tell what that effect will be? Asa matter of record, we don’t know much about the psychological effect of anything until it has been tried, and even then we don't know whether it would be the same in another case. Here's Mr. Edison, who became what he is without the benefit of modern education, trying to pick a successor from the best products of our educational system, and no one knows whether he will succeed, or whether some ragamuffin from the back alley, or some tow-headed kid from the backwoods, will be the great genius, forty years hence. o a Cleanliness Is Vital PSYCHOLOGISTS can take a typical case of mental derangement and diagnose it with a fair degree of accuracy, but when it comes to forecasting the effect of what boys and girls read, or of their general environment, they can’t do much better than the average run of people. Like doctors, psychologists are of some help after the disease has made its appearance, but in forestalling disease, ordinary cleanliness, as made possible by modern inventions and a few simple rules, can be depended on to accomplish more than either.