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More Boston Tea Party Fantasy In mythological American history no incident Is more luxuriantly bedecked with fancy than the Boston Tea Party. For years adolescent patriots were taught in our schools that it was a protest against a mean trick of King George 111. His majesty wanted to dupe the colonists into paying a tax through a bribe of cheap tea. But they resented this insulting imputation, that they put their pocketbooks ahead of their morals and promptly pitched the tea into Boston harbor. Now we have an even more interesting explanation of the famous harbor party. Miss Sarah Cooper Hewitt just has given her valuable antiques to Henry Ford's museum. Among the intangible antiques is the following story: “The family history has it that several years before the American revolution the Hewitt estate had guests staying there who were the direct cause of the Boston Tea Party in 1773. These guests, it is said, were ladies of the court of King George 111, who found their trip to America so expensive that they appealed to the king to raise more revenue for the court. Accordingly, the king succeeded in having the tea tax passed, which resulted in the tea party." In other words, the tea tax was imposed to help subsidize the new world tour of some of the king’s girl friends. What are the facts about thus famous episode? We no longer are left in any doubt. Historians long since have cleared up the whole matter. The British East India Company the most powerful lobbying interest in England at the time—was in a big business slump. It appealed to parliament to remove the duty on tea imported into the American colonies. This was refused because it would interfere with the parliamentary legislative program for the colonies. But the company was given a rebate on tea consigned to America. This enabled it to sell tea in the colonies more cheaply than it could be smuggled in by American merchants. It was this blow at the smuggling trade which led John Hancock and others to call on Sam Adams to organize the Boston Tea Party and discourage those who sought to ruin the American trade in smuggled tea. There was no tricking of the colonists by the “crafty German tyrant" then sitting on the British throne. The king knew little about the affair. It was parliamentary politics. Further, the colonists already had’ been paying the duty on tea for three years with little protest. As for raising more money for the girl friends of the king who were romping about America, the rebate to the British East India Company on tea sold in America meant decreased income to England. Not So Crafty “A crafty trick" is the way one Chicago publication describes Ruth Hanna McCormick’s straddle of the prohibition fence in the senatorial race. Trick it doubtless was. But that it was craft seems much less certain in view of the sequel. The dry organizations have replied to the trick by bringing out another woman to run against Ruth. And, since Jim Ham Lewis, the Democrat, has the wet following, that may leave slim pickings for the not-so-crafty daughter of Mark Hanna. Slim, indeed, considering the enemies she has made by her second unsuccessful trick of shadowing the senate committee investigating her excessive primary expenditures. Our natural chivalry would wring out a word of sympathy for this poor woman in her distress, but how could we be chivalrous to her without being equally uncliivalrous to her woman opponent? Chivalry apart, our reason tells us that if Ruth gets & good spanking from the voters it will be a healthy thing for her and for American politics. It will be a warning to all the politicians who are trying to trim on the prohibition issue. All the politicians’ horses and all the politicians’ men can not sidetrack this national issue. The time is fast approaching when every politician will have to get on one side or the other in this fight, and when a straddle will mean political death for a candidate. Pests Beyond the Pale Among other unnecessary noises, put down the honking of an automobile horn by the fellow who stops his car in front of a house and notifies people inside that he is there—with repeated honks if those inside don't respond immediately to the summons. Neighbors are not interested either in him or in whether the people in the house respond or not, but they don't enjoy the noise and can’t see what right the noisy honker has to assail the ears of the entire neighborhood. Let him get out of the car, go up to the door, and ring the bell. As for dogs, most people like them and don’t mind the neighbors having them. But when they bark at night, that's different. Dog barking at night is an unnecessary noise that infringes on the rights of neighbors who don't keep dogs and who don't like to be kept awake by their barking. Another noise nuisance is the fellow who owns a motor-bike and who tears past your house with the cut-out wide open. Generally he assumes the right to violate the speed regulations, goes faster than an auto dares go, and makes a terrific assault on the eardrums of everybody within a block of the street on which he is traveling. Bawling babies we can put up with, for bawling can’t be controlled by mothers; and we seem to need babies to keep up the population. We still cling to the superstition that the chief function of wives is to have baDies whether they want them or not. or whether dad can support them or not. So let ’em bawl. But darn the dogs, the honking motorists, and the crazy motor-bike riders. Shooting any of them ought to come under the head of justifiable homicide. Federal Firetraps While the President was announcing from his summer camp that work would be speeded on public projects in Washington and elsewhere, to save rentals and to take up employment slaek, one of the temporary war time buildings in the national capital was burning. Virtually all the implacable records of the federal trade commission and many of the children's bureau were destroyed. The loss can not be calculated in money; it represents the destruction of years of labor in investigations and research basic to conduct of the government. No one Is to blame and every one is to blame. For twelve yeara it has been known that these government fire trap* might go up In flames at any minute. During all these years not only government records, but the lives of thousands of federal employes, have been in jeopardy. There hat been no end of talk about an archives building. Congress has authorized expenditure of |8,760,000 for the purpose and appropriated $1,000,000

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to get it started. But there have been delays and more delays. Now it is assumed that thg government, instead of waiting as planned until next January for tenants to vacate the property to be used for the new archives building, will give immediately the sixty days’ notice permitted by law. That, however, is not enough. Nine other of the old wooden temporary buildings are scattered over Washington, constituting a daily menace to employes and records of the census bureau, agriculture, war and other departments. The long-range plans for housing all these offices in new fireproof structures should be put into the form of steel and stone at the earliest possible time. If we had been as forehanded and efficient as we Americans claim to be, all plans and provisional appropriations for the federal building program would have been completed within a short time after the armistice, and ready to supply jobs for the unemployed on the first evidence of economic depression. Some federal construction was begun last winter and spring, but not nearly enough. Granting that the administration is at least ten months late in announcing today the speeding up of the construction program, it is to be hoped that this does not turn out to be merely another promise. The more the $700,000,000 federal building program extending over the country can be crowded into the depression period, the better it will be for business—not to mention the priceless records and lives at stake. Meyer’s Faint Praise Considering the high technical qualifications and unusually wide experience in private and governmental banking of Eugene Meyer Jr. of New York, the qualified public approval of his appointment as governor of the federal reserve board may appear surprising. His training includes service on the war industries board, the war finance corporation, and the federal farm loan board. He will be an in an expert's job. The faint praise which is damning his appointment is of mixed origin. Some object to the alleged pressure put upon ViceGovernor Platt of New York to resign to make room for Meyer, wider the system which does not permit any federal reserve district to have more than one representative on the board. Progressives in the senate still are suspicious of what they consider his favoritism to the east, as against the farming west, in his former government posts. The subdued reception given Meyer also is due to a rather general nervousness and uncertainty regarding the federal reserve board's immediate past and its future policies. While the board has been criticised severely for its timorous and halting handling of the speculative debauch which led to the depression, the critics are not ready to commit themselves in advance to tha more vigorous leadership expected from Meyer. Then there is fear that the board may be tending to lose some of its essential non-political character. Through the chairmanship of the secretary of the treasury, the board by necessity is connected with the political administration in office. When the Coolidge and Hoover administrations artificially were prolonging the bull market by official statements, it was doubtless more difficult for the board to issue warning promptly or to make its belated warnings effective. That explains in part why some critics are apprehensive that an undesirable tie-up between board and administration may become closer under Meyer, who is proud of being “an original Hoover man.” The point is not necessarily that the Meyer policy or the Hoover policy would be wrong in any given instance, but that the integrity and value of the board in the long run will depend upon preserving its nonpolitical character completely. Probably it should be assumed that this aspect of the situation is understood fully by both the President and the new governor of the board. Endurance bridge (the very latest) is just as asinine as other endurance fads. But, still, it has its points. It is said that the automobile had influenced architecture considerably. Yes we've noticed there is an increasing number of flats in the new buildings. The drug store cowboy protests he isn't really the loafer he's made out to be. Doesn't he work on sundaes?

REASON BY

THE other day we visited Nancy Hanks Lincoln park down in Spencer county, a place you should go. but first take the time to read Lincoln’s life, so you can reconstruct the drama enacted there. Two hills rise upon the tract which Thomas Lincoln selected for his Indiana home, piling brush upon the four corners to mark the boundaries, and upon the other a quarter mile away, is the grave of Nancy Hanks. a a a An impressive view presents itself as you reach the place set by the road from Gentryville, two miles away; it is a beautifully wooded knoll and upon its crown stands a plain white shaft, six feet high, surrounded by sn iroa fence. St 8 IS IT is in harmony with that career which was an indispensable, but unconscious element in the preservation of this republic, and we hope the memorial soon to be erected there shall not, in its elaborateness, overstep the simplicity of the life it is designed to honor. tt * Upon the other hill a granite block marks the site of the log cabin and one recalls with horror that this shrine was removed, the story being that it was taken to the world’s fair in 1893. The Lincoln Memorial Association should make every effort to find this cabin and return it to its old location. a a a We stood there and wondered what Lincoln's fate would have been had his father not moved to Illinois in 1830. His qualities would have carried him to the top in Indiana and while he would have been denied the cooperation of Douglas, he would have met opponents here with whom he would have debated the issues of slavery and secession. BUT so many little things enter into the destinies of men, so subtle are the workings of time and chance, the world might never have known its most fascinating figure, had one thread of the Lincoln fabric been altered. Be this as it may, the Hoosier state played a never-to-be-forgotten part in the evolution of this strange life. Here he lived from childhood until manhood; here his habits and ambitions were developed; here his character was formed; and it u upon sin Indiana rock that Illinois built her greatest monument.

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’ SCIENCE ’ BY DAVID DIETZ Boston, Center of Colonial Tradition, Is “Going Modern" in Its Architecture. TJOSTON, bulwark of colonial tra- ■“-* dition and home of the sacred cod, is “going modem.” The famous Massachusetts town which has been celebrating its tercentenary this summer, is beginning to succumb to the march of the machine age. The news—a melancholy bit from some points of view—is contained in a report to the American Institute of Architects prepared by Isidor Richmond, well-known Boston architect. He says: “Boston most assuredly is slowly but surely losing its old world character, and it must make all who love Boston for its intimacy and its quaintness sad to see this change to modernism taking place, but we have every reason to hope and expect that in we will get something even finer and better. “The predominant general character of Boston, it must be admitted, is still, and proudly so that of a* quaint old colonial town. It should be remembered, however, that we are celebrating the tercentenary this summer. Boston’s present character is the result of three centuries jof solid, slow, steady growth.” tt tt tt Conflict RICHMOND sees a conflict between the old and the new going on in Boston at the present moment. “Buildings like Fanueil hall, the old statehouse, the statehouse on Beaccgi hill, the Old North church and Old South meeting house, the Park street church and\ the old houses .on Beacon hill—all these together with such more recent gems as Richardson’s fine Trinity church in Copley square, and McKim, Mead & White’s incomparable public library (even though these last two are not of Colonial architecture), are the buildings that give Boston its old world character,” he says. “In strong contrast to the modern trend is the architecture of the new Georgian building now being built for Harvard university, and the Boston college gothic group, which seem to be determined to adhere to their original styles regardless of the trend of architecture outside their walls. “While this trend toward modern architecture undeniably is taking place in the business section of Boston, a great number of buildings are being built in the outlying parts of the city which are following the traditional lines. “Buildings such as residences, churches and college buildings are being built in the colonial, TudorGothic and. Gothic styles, Jaut into a great number of these buildings there is creeping a distinctly modern note.” * V tt Inevitable npHE trend to the new style is inevitable in the face of the modern developments of science with its influence on engineering practice and modern life, Richmond believes. “The art of architecture, like all other arts, must be free to respond to man’s developing needs and widening horizons,” he says. “To cramp it by rigid adherence to'the technique, or formulae of other times or uncongenial dogmas, would be to stop up the springs of its inspiration. “There has been much discusssion of late regarding certain new tendencies in architectural design; and some animated questioning of their propriety. “The news ever is startling and much tact is needed in appraising the unfamiliar. The present situation as regards architecture has been repeated many times. “But in all the great achitecture of the past, however varied, we may discern analogies due to the inevitable response of the artist to the rhythm which underlies all true design. “The history of our art is but a revelation of the fresh application of ancient principles, by succeeding generations of men, to forms expressive of their needs and their" ideals. “In the development of any art we can not avoid change, for change is an attribute of life itself.”

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THE GALVESTON TORNADO Sept. 8 ON Sept. 8, 1900, a West Indian hurricane drove a tidal wave across the city of Galveston, Tex., and caused what is said to be the greatest disaster in the history of the North American continent. More than 8,000 persons lost their lives and property estimated as worth $20,000,000 was destroyed overnight. The entire city was submerged to a depth of from four to sixteen feet. A report of the disaster at the time reads in part as follows: “The combined attack of the hurricane and tidal wave produced indescribable horrofs —the destruction of property sinking into insignificance when compared with the appalling loss of life. “Practically all food supples had been destroyed and the drinking water supply ha,d been cut off. Military administration was made necessary and many ghoulish looters plunderers were summarily shot, either in the act of robbing the dead or upon evidence of guilt.” Help was poured in from all parts of the world, and out of the storm emerged a wrecked city with a nucleus of 20,000 left from a prosperous community of 38,000. Since the storm the population has more than trebled, a model municipal government has been established, and gigantic engineering projects carried to a successful completion. Daily Thought O Lord my God, in thee do I pat my trust.—Psalm 7:1. If you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things. -J. R. Macduff.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Scratch Can Lead to Fatal Poisoning

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygela, the Health Mattilne. WHENEVER germs get into the body and begin to release their poisonous products, the human being reacts with fever, chills, and usually with an increase in the number of white blood cells. He seems tired and he may vomit. Sometimes the germs localize and set up small abscesses. There are many types of germs. One group is known as the pyogenic group, because pus develops when they attack human tissue. The chief members of this group are the staphylococcus, seen under the microscope in groups, and the streptococcus, seen in chains. Whenever a sufficient number of these organisms get into the blood the person suffers with sepsis, which is commonly referred to by the press as blood poisoning, although the same term also is used for a venereal disorder. Usually the infection with the

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POLITICS has brought this columnist one peculiar thrill which otherwise he never would have experienced. I have appeared in cartoons. It is true that these were published obscurely in the official Communist organ. The Daily Worker. It must also be admitted that their tone was decidedly hostile. But an unfriendly cartoon is better than none at all. Your columnist was pictured as fat beyond all belief and attired' in a clown’s costume. Borrowing an idea from the late Homer Davenport, the artist provided the suit with checkered squares, but, unlike the clothes attributed to Davenport to Mark Hanr.a, the design within the square consisted not of dollar marks, but whisky bottles. Gin would have been more appropriate ,and more welcome. One hand upheld another bottle, and in the other was a microphone. In front of the oafish ogre, easily to be identified by the label, stood workingmen expressing disgust in manifold balloons. Behind stood the Four Marx brothers. u * * Too Many Marxes IT seemed to me a sprightly sketch, but one man in our group wrote an angry letter to the artist inquiring the basis of this attack. The cartoonist replied that he had left Socialism and gone over to the Communist camp because the Four Marx Brothers were listed on a nonpartisan committee. That explanation puzzled me. I wonder if he felt that they usurped the place of Karl, who was, I believe, no relative at all. Or maybe he felt that a Socialist with such a wealth of Marxes should consent to split them up. The next day I was a baby in a carriage being indulgently regarded by Capitalism—a large, old lady with a lorgnette. Naturally, anybody would be pleased to act as model and inspiration for the graphic arts in whatever alley, but hard is the lot of a candidate who is pictured from the left as a smug reactionary and from the right, as represented by Mr. Franklin Ford, the broadcaster, as a red menace. a a a Peeking Tom University FROM Washington comes the news that Colonel Amos W. W. ■ Woodcock has selected twenty-four ! prohibition agents from all parts of ! the country and that they will ma- ! triculate in an enforcement college ! which he purposes to set up. There will be pardonable curiosity as to the nature of the curricu- | lum in this college. I trust that | Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart i can be induced to serve upon the faculty. He would, of course, assume the professorship of Sniffing and Peering. No agent should be graduated until he is versed In the art of detecting what fluid is contained within his neighbors glass at any friendly dinner. Naturally, in addition to sniffing, there will have to be practice in bending of the waist to get a

She Snoops to Conquer

streptococcus or staphylococcus begins at some single point on the skin or on the mucous membranes. It may begin because a roughened edge of a collar irritates the skin at the back of the neck, the usual procedure being first a pimple, then a boil, then a carbuncle, and finally perhaps blood poison. It may begin by a mere scratch from a pin or needle into which the germs enter. Not infrequently it begins through cutting a corn with a badly cleaned knife or razor blade. When the body fails to develop resistance and throw off the germs, they multiply rapidly and the illness is severe. The pulse becomes rapid, the face becomes pale, not infrequently great spots of hemorrhage appear under the skin. Death may occur in twenty-four hours or may be delayed several weeks. Thus far the only method known for controlling these conditions is to release as much pus as possible at the point from which the infection started; Unfortunately, in

close whiff of -what your fellow guests are drinking. The course to be given should include both lectures and laboratory practice, if’it is to be comprehensive. The students well might begin in a small way by sneaking along the corridors at night and looking through the keyholes in the Bishop Cannon dormitory for men. But first there would have to be some sort of gentlemen’s agreement among the budding agents if possible. If everybody is gumshoeing on the same night in the effort to catch his neighbor, there might remain nobody to spy on. It might be fixed up to have the boys in the north wing watch the boys in the south wing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with a vice versa arrangement for Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Sunday would be a day of rest, which would provide the senior snitchers with an opportunity of going home and trying to find out all they could about grandpa. The college rite range would be equipped with automobile tires instead of the conventional targets, and, of course, the object of the instructors will be to teach the promising lads how to aim at the tires and always hit above them. Whitewash Still Flows A GOOD deal of whitewash has flowed past the fence since

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Editor Times—l see there is a move to make a waterway from the Gfilf of Mexico up the Mississippi to Chicago. There has been enough money spent along the river to have made a ship canal from the gulf to the mouth of the Ohio river, but this was expended for the benefit of political skulldi ggery. Now it seems to me that if the government is going to do a job of that kind, it should be done on scientific principles, regardless of any influence whatever, and that would be to cut the ditch from the gulf as near straight as possible, thus eliminating the meanderings of the river as far as possible, and deep enough that it would not have to be diked, as at present the dikes hold the water from returning to the river after floods. This much as to the plan of the work, and now as to the finance. It seems to me that Coxey’s bill for financing projects of this kind would be in order, as we have had class legislation on the money question (and that for a very small class) for the last sixty-five years, and now it would not be out of order to do something for the benefit of all people as well as a small class. I well remember when Lincoln, then President, took his stand on the side of all p>eople and against the small class, how quickly he was silenced, never to speak again. This project should be performed by the government directly, and not by contract. JOHN E. BAYLESS.

some conditions the infection is deep in the body and can not be reached. In other conditions it is a blood infection from the first. What is needed badly from the point of view of medical research is some chemical substance or some preparaton that can be injected into the blood or underneath the skin or gotten into the body in some other way so as to overcome the infection directly and thus prevent the death of the patient. It is, of course, possible by modern methods of treatment to remove the localized spot of infection or to use nonspecific serums or vaccines in the hope of stimulating resistance or perhaps of striking accidentally the germ that is responsible. This is not, however, in any sense of the word certain or scientific. The main treatment of modern medicine is to give good amounts of water and nourishment, to see to it that all of the pattent’s organs operate at their best efficiency, to control the fever by baths, and to secure rest for the patient by proper sedatives.

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 naper.—The Editor.

„„ HEYWOOD B " BROUN

Mark Twain celebrated Tom’s famous trick in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” But the possibility of playing upon the same loophole in human psychology still holds good. No young bond salesman ever works so hard in his later years, when paid, as he strove in his undergraduate period to earn a blue sweater with a large white “Y.” And in looking through a shelf of old books I came upon a series designed for young people. I was struck with such titles as “When Mother Lets Us Help Cook” and “When Mother Lets Us Help With the Dishes.” I trust that the series will be revived and extended. I should like to see additional titles, such as “When Father Lets Me Stoke the Furnace.” When Father Lets Me Shine His Shoes” and “When Father Permits Me to Lend Him Money.” (Copyright, 1930. by The Times) What is heat? It is a form of energy, generated by the transformation of some other form of energy, such as combustion, chemical action, or the stoppage of mass motion by friction. The three most niarked effects of heat upon a given body are ificre<\"e of temperature, increase of vu, ime, change of condition or state, as from solid to a liquid. What does the place name Oberammergau mean? Over t.nd across the Ammer riyer in Bavaria, Germany.

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SEPT. 8, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

One Can Not Help Wonder How President Irigoyen and His Party Fooled Argentina as Long as They Did. 'T'HOUGH the revolution in Argentina was a surprise, it moved faster, went farther, and took a rather different turn than most people expected. The fact that President Irigoyen was completely out of tune with his country and his times made an upheaval of some kind inevitable, but those familiar with the situation looked for his party to survive. The weakness of that party, as revealed during the last four days, is the most amazing aspect of the entire affair. One can not ltelp wondering how this man and his associates kept the nation fooled so long. * * m Man of Little Merit AS a general thing, people no only want good order, but are willing to sacrifice a great deal for its maintenance. That is probably the reason why a man like Irigoyen can rise to power. Certainly, he has little merit, except ability to organize malcontents, dreamers, second-rate lawyer* and parasites willing to follow anyWh T° , promlsed the “ Brub stake. Just as certainly, he had no political creed except the ambition to get and keep control of public patronage. * * tt Kept Behind Veil Tj'CCENTRIciTIES have played 4 disagreeably large part In making men prominent. People cart not seem to get over the notion that there must be something awfully clever about those who live and see differently. Irigoyen never told his age, where he was bom, or who his parents were, never gave out newspaper interviews, never signed a pay roll until he had to, never moved from) the little flat above a store. Such peculiarities were enough to make him a man of mystery, and once he got on the front page, the mystery was enough to intrigue popular imagination. He was a sort of veiled prophet, whose countenance came to be thought of as beautiful because no one ever had seen it. * Only a Shell All that is water gone by the mill. Like most such men, Irigoyen had nothing to sustain him but the atmosphere of mystery, nothing but the fear which his isolation and idiosyncrasies inspired. He was nine-tenths creature of the crowd, and one-tenth mere fudge. Once rebellion had developed sufficiently to look him straight in the eye, it saw nothing but the hunger of unintelligent ambition and, once it had struck, felt nothing more substantial than ihe smoke screen of an inordinate vanity. Everyone is astonished, not at Irigoyen’s overthrow, but at how little there was to prevent it. au A Paper Regime ON paper irigoyen and his party seemed impregnable. They had obtained power by constitutional means and were in full possession of the machinery of government. They not only had a well organized army at their back, but a police force and fire department woven into the military establishment. It commonly was supposed that they could not be thrown out of office except by a protracted and violent struggle. More than that, it commonly was supposed that, though Irigoyen himself might be ousted, his party would remain. No one appears to have succumbed to the illusion more completely than Irigoyen himself. When the storm broke, he merely decided to take a vacation, while his lieutenant, Dr. Martinez, took charge, just as though nothing more than such an evasive measure was needed to caln% things down. u a * Others Could Follow Suit THERE are other dictatorships in this world just as thin and shadowy as that of Irigoyen, other men of ifiystery, who have fooled people by strutting their peculiarities, other misfit regimes that would collapse at the first breath of determined effort. The post-war period has led to the development of several ghostlike appearances of strength, which survive for no other reason than that people are unnecessarily afraid.* The revolution in Argentina typifies a general, rather than an exceptional condition. Half a do &n countries well could afford to stage a similar performance and not all of them are in Latin-America.