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Re-Elect Ludlow '• In a futile endeavor to distract attention from the real issue ol Coffinism, local speakers for that organization are resorting to a vicious, unfair, scandalous attack upon Louis Ludlow. / Coffinism has changed the Republican Elephant in Indianapolis into a polecat. The attacks upon Ludlow are so palpably Ealse as to lose weight -With any but the Unthinking. These political hijackers, bond slaves of Coffinism, actually boast that their party refused to permit Ludlow to accomplish anything for Indianapolis because he belongs to the minority. If only members of the majority party are effective, then Ludlow should be reflected, for it is the opinion of the political observers of every great Republican newspaper of the nation, including the Chicago Tribune, that when Ludlow returns to congress, he will go back as a member of the majority, and not the minority, in the lower house. The truth is, that with even the handicap ttf belonging to the minority party, Ludlow has been the most effective and faithful rep fesentative this city ever has had in W ashIngton. He has been an indefatigable worker pn behalf of this city and of every citizen who had business with any part of the national government. No appeal has gone unanswered. He probably has been the hardest working Os all congressmen. If you should by any mischance happen to listen to any of the malicious attacks upon Ludlow, remember that they are a smokescreen to cover up the real purpose of CoffinIsm to recapture the key offices in the county, hy which it may continue its p> licy of privilege, patronage, and pillage. Consider, also, the source from which these attacks come. The spokesmen for Coflinism who now attack Ludlow, two years Ugo were pleading for the election of Ralph Updike, that jest of D. C. Stephenson. They supported Updike, despite the fact that his Written contract with Stephenson for the delivery of all patronage had been exposed. |They cared nothing for his efficiency, which as missing. He was a cog of Coffinism and Uiat was sufficient. i Ludlow, in principle, in character, in Iflbility, in devotion to duty, is everything Urhieh Coffinism is not. That is the reason jEoffiniso has turned loose its mud batteries |n a last desperate effort to save itself. Political Judges (4 One of the great curses of Indiana has peen and is the fact that candidates for judicial positions have been thrust, willingly jMr unwillingly* into partisan politics. Our present Constitution manufactures Political judges and fe\v are able to cast aside |heir partisanship after they have secured jpffice. They are looking forward to re-elec-tion, and many ; courage to go counter to the wishes of the controlling forces within their parties. There are some, of course, who have (thorough respect for law and sense of the dignity of their high position that protects jthem against political suggestion. If there were ro other reason for voting Fbr a constitutional convention the opportunity of taking the judiciary out of partisan politics would supply a compelling one. It is a matter of common knowledge that jftie highest court of this state has lost the Respect and confidence of a large portion of jour citizenship through decisions which have seemed to be dictated definitely by partisan politics. . , ... The inexplicable delay m deciding cases Which might have a political recoil has added U> this distrust. The people can not understand why JohnDuvall, convicted ex-mayor of Indianapolis, remains at liberty, after the appellate court has affirmed his sentence, while the supreme court does not, or can not, decide the simple question of whether the legislature had the right to give the appellate court final jurisdiction over misdemeanors. . The people do not understand why it fehould take years for the supreme court to reach a decision as to whether D. C. Stephenson legally was convicted of murder, and this applies to those who believe in his guilt as Well as those who desire his liberation. The people put their own interpretation upon this delay. At present the only remedy offered to the people is the election of two Democratic judges, in the hope that a mixed court may regain something of public confidence. There should be neither Democrat nor Republican judges, but men selected because of jtheir knowledge of law, their keen sense of justice and their reverence for human^right. A constitutional convention undoubtedly Would write provisions under which the curse of partisan politics would be taken from the judiciary and its ermine drycleaned of its present obvious spots. Honduras Has Nothing on Us Strange things sometimes happen to forms ol atmocratic government when Inexperienced peoples btgin e xperimenting with them. W There comes from Honduras, lor example, the

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amazing news that a whole municipality has been Indicted on the charge of mishandling public funds. Newspapers call the indictment a device to prevent citizens from voting at the national elections. The people of the accused town are liberals. To a citizen of the United States, indicting a town to keep the people from voting sounds ridiculous and uncivilized. Yet a citizen of some other country might find it difficult to distinguish between the action of the Honduras court and action taken by a Pennsylvania court just about a year ago. A year ago workers at the Kraemer hosiery mill at Nazareth, Pa., went on strike against introduction In the mill of yellow dog contracts. A great many people in the community sympathized with the strikers. But almost at once a judge enjoined the entire county from discussing the yellow dog contract or saying or doing anything in opposition to it. This took place in the United States, so it attracted little attention here. It seemed “different.’’ More Liquor Deaths The question of how prohibition has affected public health has been much disputed. Drys say one thing; wets another. Both cite figures, but adequate statistics have been lacking. It is interesting therefore to note the recent findings of Frederick L. Hoffman, statistician of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, who asserts that the death rate from alcoholism has risen 300 per cent since the first year of prohibition. Hoffman places the death rate at four per 100,000 in 1928 as against one 100,000 in 1920. “While it goes without saying that drastic liquor restrictions and prohibition had at first a pronounced effect on the death rate, this effect gradually is losing force and the death rate shows a strong tendency to return to the average common to the pre-prohibition period,’’ he said. Dr. Hoffman's figures are like those published in the last year or two by other insurance companies and various official bodies. As far back as 1927 the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which has 8,000,000 policyholders, put the rate for alcoholic deaths at 4.1, was the same as for 1911. The New York State hospital commission has noted the grbwth of alcoholic insanity. This apparent steady increase in deaths from alcoholism since 1920 may m,ean either that the country is consuming more liquor, or worse liquor, or both. The important thing is that prohibition isn’t improving the health of people generally and that conditions are getting worse rather than better. Hoffman says, “moderate indulgence, as previously has been pointed out, may serve a useful purpose, or, put in another way, temperance is a higher ideal, and a more practicable one, than prohibition. Pershing Versus Hoover Now that General Pershing is about to publish his book of war memoirs, he has entered the field of public debate through the magazines. He is very much worried, it seems, because he thinks this country is unprepared for war. He goes so far as to state that: “America already is disarmed. Good men and women tell us that we should throw away our armaments. We have very little to throw away.’’ paving aside the matter of opinion as to what should be done about it, the country is bound to be interested in the accuracy of such startling “facts” coming from such an authority. Can it be that President Hoover was misleading the country when he Stated the facts to be the exact opposite from those presented by Pershing? “The American people should understand,” said the President, “that current expenditures on strictly military activities of the army and navy constitute the largest military budget of any nation in the world today.” The official figures show' that our military budget of $741,000,000 for the last fiscal year was not only the largest in the world, but'an increase of 161 per cent over pre-war. When Pershing describes such a record-breaking military establishment as “disarmament,” he either is ignorant of the facts or is using words in a way in which they will be misunf stood generally by persons familiar with the English language. A Chicago economist advises people of Illinois to buy state products, but with Thanksgiving dinners to think about it will require considerable courage to overlook Idaho potatoes and Cape Cod cranberries. Though Booth Tarkington, Indiana novelist, has had a third eye operation, who can say there are stronger visioned writers better able to view the American scene?

REASON

PRESIDENTS LINCOLN, GA tFIELD AND M’KINLEY were shot only once, but they had to die, but Legs Diamond, notorious New York gangster, who was shot four times seems to be recovering. a tt a The law of cause and effect is supreme in the wprld, bullets not taking the time to look up the records of those they strike, nor does the lightning care for the character of the building it wrecks, churches falling as frequently as dens of vice. a a CHICAGO is haling a hard time to keep in jail the tribe of public enemies incarcerated to promote peace and harmony. If Mussolini were in charge at Chicago they would not be in jail long; they would be en route to some other seaport of the universe and Chicago would have a peace she never has known. a a a All these hideous failures of justice and all of these disgusting evidences of weakness back you into a corner and ask you the question: “Is a republican form of government strong enough to do the work?” . a tt tt We think it is, but we will have to tighten Uncle Sam’s belt in a good many places,* and the most important place to do it is in his courts. It will not be long until we are faced with the alternative of taking the criminal lawyer by the seat of the pants or turning punishment over to the mob. t> ’tt * NEW ORLEANS had an earthquake the other day, but the people didn’t mind it, as it was much milder than the convulsions of the recent campaign in which Governor Huey Long ran for the United States senate. a a a France is so prosperous she had to import 8,000 foreigners to work on new r fortifications, but French prosperity is somewhat different from ours, labor being paid 12 and foments an hour. a tt Among these foreigners were men of all nationalities, except Germans, but you can put it down that Germany has a due quota representatives among the lot. also that every other European nation has a sufficient number of spies amOfcg the workers. i* ■ >

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

We Are Trying to Make Organized Industry Fit Disorganized Consumption. IN spite of all the queer crannies into which we have poked our noses, life remains about as much of _a mystery as ever. Horizons may be receding, but they are no less impenetrable, and some of them still are too close for comfort. You don’t have to go farther than the inside of your own whirling head to be absolutely stumped. When do the endless trains of thougit come from and where are they gaing? If started in a dozen minds at the same time and by the sapte suggestion, why do they seldom lead to the same conclusion in any two? The stars furnish one kind of riddle, the microbes another. But the most puzzling of all is furnished by man himself. There simply isn’t any logical explanation for man’s actions, or reactions, in nine cases out of ten, much less for his dreams. Sometimes he may be the helpless, hopeless creature of external conditions, easily amenable to influence, whether in the nature of discipline or anarchy, glad to follow the crowd, even though he knows perfectly well it is headed for distftter. At other times he seems ready to obey no voice except that of his own peculiarities. nun Must Learn Human Taste THEY are setting up research bodies in Washington to study the problem of business cycles, the idea being that we can soften, if not prevent, such cycles by learning to watch and interpret trends, by adjusting our production agencies to fit the varying currents of consumption beforehand. They won’t get far until they can do a better job at explaining the still more variable currents of human taste, appetite and caprice, whether as manifest in mob psychology or individual leadership. It was the present depression, of course, that inspired them to tackle such a task, but some of the causes of that depression antedate the Wall Street crash by several years, and some of the psychology back of it' had nothing whatever to do with a busted stock market. n n n The Czars Speak TWENTY years ago, heavy underwear and long skirts provided a veritable clover patch for the textile industry, while coal mines were working at top speed. Then came steam heat, closed cars and the effect of war on fashions. It is easy enough to see how warm houses and limousines spoiled the heavy underwear trade. So, too, it is easy enough to explain why women lopped off their dresses. But why didn’t more heat in houses make a better market for coal? The reason is that oil was just around the corner, and no one saw it coming. Further than that, if the women had such good reasons for curtailing their drapery, why are they lengthening it again? Only one answer to that—the style czars of Paris, New York, or Hollywood. But how did the style czars acquire their power, and why ( does the crowd obey them without protest? tt # a They Won't Fit THE trouble is that we are trying to make organized industry fit disorganized consumption, and to square the circle, we are playing with the thought that consumption can be organized. Perhaps it can, but it won’t be. We p-efer it disorganized, not only for the sake of variety, but for the sake of progress. The human mind demands change, the more change it is denied through standardization of industry, the more it craves on the side of consumption. The less it gets by traveling from place to place, the more it will expect while living from day to day. If it can’t get its novelties and innovations through the channels of substantial improvement, it will force them by arbitrarily altering its habits and customs. n a a Affect Business WE have seen some rather revolutions in the manner of living during the last twenty years. Some of them have been brought about by honest, intelligent progress, but others have been due to little but an increased passions for fads. All have affected business, whether produced by caprice, or science, and carprice has done its full share. The game promises not only to continue, but to get more exciting. Tree sitting and other signs of nuttiness merely are storm signals. Miniautre golf has raked in $125,000,000 the first year, w:hich means just so much less for something else. Any study of the business cycle which ignores this phase of the situation' will amount only to another “noble experiment.” Until we have learned to guess what people will want next for no reason in the world, and how much of it they will want, we can not hope to make progress in slowing down the seasaw.

Questions and Answers

What does nob’esse oblige mean? A literal translation is “nobility obliges;” the connotation being that nobility of birth makes a certain standard of conduct obligatory. Could a man bora in England of English parents who afterward became naturalized in the United States, ever become President of the United States? The Constitution says that only a native born American citizen may become President of the United States. WTiat is the nationality and meaning of the name Linwood? It is a British family name, derived from a locality, and is a shortened form of Lindenwood. Who played opposite Lillian Gish in the picture, “The Scarlet Letter?” Lars Hanson. How many bank failures occurred in the United States in 1929 and 1930? There were 437 in 1929 and 258 for the first two quarters of 1930

‘The Frost Is on the Punkin —

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Vitamin A Source Is Puzzle

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. ALTHOUGH a number of years have passed since the importance of vitamin A in the diet first was noted, the precise activities of this vitamin in relation to life are not understood fully. Indeed, its source is not absolutely known. Notwithstanding this doubt and vagueness, all authorities are agreed that vitamin A is of the greatest importance for life and health and recommend a regular consumption of this vitamin by all human beings, and particularly for the growing child. When vitamin A first was studied, most of the attention was given to complete absence of this vitamin from the diet of experimental animals. The complete removal of tnis vitamin brings about an inflammation of the eyes called xerophthalmia. This disturbance does not disturb the, average human being, but a great deficiency of vitamin A in the diets of people in some parts of the

IT SEEMS TO ME

ONE of the psychic factors from which I suffer is suppressed hate. All my life, it appears, I have gone along tucking away grudge's in my unconscious. I think that I gaze upon the world with a serene and unprejudiced mind, but the lower layers of my brain are full of lava. I wish now that I had struck my sister thirty-four years ago when she hit me in the mouth with a freight car. It was, you understand, a toy freight car, but it all but carried away my lower lip. And on that afternoon I wept a little, but I suppressed my anger. That started the whole train of evil consequences, so that now, at 41, I have insomnia. She did not say she was sorry after the doctor came and stitched me up, and I thought at the time that I forgave her freely. Now I know that it wasn’t free. It became a charge account, and after a while I began to bill not olny my sister, but Jhe whole world. ft ft ft Swatted Her IF I had my life to live over again, I should alter the incident. With a second chance I would want my sister to-even up the blow with the freight car and then forgive her freely. But that device mental bookkeeping would be avoided. Still, my conduct was not illogical. My brother could lick me, and so there was no particular point in doing anything but suppress hate as far as he was concerned. I did try the other system a couple of times without any good results. A violent blow in the stomach seemed to be more fearful than insomnia to be developed thir-ty-four years later. Indeed, I had no notion about the insomnia, for I was rather a sheltered child, and to the best of my remembrance, Freud never was mentioned in our nursery. Dreams I knew about. They had dark men in'them and blondes who would do you no good and journeys by water. They were, these dreams, quite on a par with the tea leaves at the bottom of the cup or the cards counted out upon the table. But they did not tie up then to any suppressed desire of mine. The journey across water I failed to identify as a wish fulfillment, and the blonde woman was not recognized as palpable evidence of my somewhat erotic feeling in regard to my great-aunt. 000 Manly Art AND so, as I have said, there seemed to be no point in flying into rages against my brother, who was four years older and had taken boxing lessons. In the gymnasium he had learned a neat trick of pretending to hit me with his left hand. At such times I would instinctively throw both hands in front of my face for protection, which gave my brother an excellent opportunity to wallop me over.either ear with his right. Somehow I never did get on to that trick. I was a little dumb.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

world, particularly in Labrador, indicates that the disease may occur in the human being in a large number of cases, accompanied in many instances by a visual disturbance called night blindness. In addition to complete absence of vitamin A from the diet, there is of course the possibility of vitamin A deficiency. Apparently the absence of a sufficient amount of vitamin A leads to easier infection. In a series of experiments carried out in Norway, every one of 1,138 rats with vitamin A deficiency showed infections at time of death, particularly infection of the kidney. Some British investigators found that rats fed on a vitamin A deficient diet ceased to grow, and two leading investigators, Drs. H. N. Green and E. Mellanby, confirmed the ease of infection on a vitamin A deficient diet. They proved, moreover, that the addition of vitamin A to the diet caused the infections to heal and prevented new infections. Such evidence as has been accumulated indicates that carotin, which is the yellow coloring matter

HEYWOOD BY BROUN

There was no complete salvation in not getting mad at my brother, because even when we were on the best of terms he initiated me into what he called “a friendly bout.” This was “just for fun.” When he began in that spirit I got cuffed around the ears just the same, but the blows were not so hard and there was no humiliation. This was a game. To me it was not a particularly pleasant or diverting pastime, but still I felt that I ought to be amused and I tried hard. tt a just Slugger MY sister never had taken boxing lessons, and she was two years younger. Here was for me a perfect avenue of escape. But I did not know I had an ego. After every boxing bout with my brother I had only to step into the next room and show the winning blow to my sister. If that had been the program I would have grown up to be a healthy and competent member of society and my sister would have had the insomnia. But I blush to confess my folly, I never did hit her. There was something in a book which I read about gallant knights and lovely

i f i SVSSd --IHoaNT THt—-

RQOSEVELT’S BIRTH October 27 ON Oct. 27,1858, Theodore Roosevelt twenty-sixth President of the United States, was bom in New York City of a distinguished family of Dutch origin. He was graduated from Harvard college at 22 and launched his political career a year later, when he was elected to the New York legislature, of which he was the youngest member. He continued thereafter in public life, serving on the United States civil service commission, as head of the New York City police department and as assistant secretary of the navy. He resigned the latter post to organize the Rough Riders, a volunteer unit which did remarkable fighting in the Spanish-Amerlcan war. After he had served as Governor of New York, Roosevelt was elected Vice-President and succeeded to the presidency on the death of President McKinley. At the close of the term, he was re-elected. ' For bringing about the treaty of peace between Russia and Japan in 1905, Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel peace prize. In 1910, after he had led a big game hunting expedition to East Africa, he returned through Europe, receiving numerous honors. In 1912 he was presidential candidate of the Progressive party, which he organized. lie died .at 1919.

in carrots and in other foods, has definite vitamin A properties. Vitamin A is not developed in the animal body and must be given in food. Apparently it is developed in the green coloring matter of plants. Cod liver oil is . rich in vitamin A, and apparently there is some derivative of carotin in cod liver oil that gives rise to the vitamin A. Cod liver oil if properly stored will retain its vitamin A content for long periods. In addition to cod liver oil, several extracts contain both vitamin A and D, and are now available for those who wish to take the vitamins free from the oil. Unfortunately the extracts available are of two varieties—those that have been standardized and proved to contain sufficient amounts of both vitamins A and D to be of service, and those forms which have not been standardized and for which the claims made are unwarranted. The physician will be able to advise the patient which of the extracts are potent, and the information may also be had be writing to the American Medical Association.

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

princesses. The gallant knight never raised a hand in anger against any princess. Not, of course, that I thought my sister was a lovely princess. That suggests a cojnplex quite alien to any of those which oppress me. But I was a gallant knight, and as such I could not hit any woman at all, no matter how plain and humble she might be. Giants and dragons were- about the only things a knight was allowed to get made at, and we lived in a city house where there were none. There was sometimes a sort of giant on the landing of the stairs, just outside the library, but it took a good deal of pretending to get him there. And since that was his status there was no necessity of actually getting mad at him or swinging real blows in his direction. Against him I found it was sufficient to feign anger and to imagine I had thrust clean through him with a spear. He always died quickly and quietly. And so sh my heart of hearts, I knew that giant for a setup, and I took no pride in the long record of knockouts which I held against him. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

Daily Thought

Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, and He sail lift you up, —James 4:10. Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.—La Rochefoucauld.

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.OCT. 27, 1930

SCIENCE by DAVID DIETZ Asteroid Eros Soon II ill Be Close to Earth—l6,2oo,ooo Miles Away. THE arrival of cosmic ship bearing news of the solar system is being awaited by the astronomers. The “ship” is the asteroid Eros which on Jan. 30, 1931, will swing closer to the earth than any heavenly body ever has been known to dc. with the exception of the moon, an occasional comet and the “shooting stars” or meteors. On that day, Eros will be 16,200,000 miles away. Just as in the days before the telegraph and cable, inhabitants of a seaport eagerly watched for the arrival of a ship to bring the news of distant places, so astronomers are on the lookout for Eros. The asteroids, of which Eros is one, are tiny planet-like objects which revolve around the sun in an orbit beyond Mars. But Eros has so eccentric an orbit that it swings closer to the earth at times than does Mars, cutting across the orbit of Mars. “As the earth swings past, close to this tiny neighbor, astronomers will hail it. seeking news from planetary space, writes Dr. Seth B. Nicholson in a bulletin of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. “The most important questions will be: ‘How far do you say it is to our sun’? and ‘How heavy arc our earth and moon’?” tt tt e Getting the Answer DR. NICHOLSON then goes on to explain how it is possible to obtain an answer to these questions from Eros. “Measuring the distance to the sun has been one of the most important and difficult astronomical feats,” he says. “From the observed positions and motions of planets and comets, their habits can be computed and diagrams drawn without kilowing the actual distances in miles. “Relative distances in stellar as well as in planetary space, can be determined by various methods; but until some distance is determined in known units, such as the mile, the actual dimensions of planetary or stellar space are unknown. “The simplest methods of measuring one of these obstacles is by triangulation, just as distances to inaccessible points on the earth can be determined by angular measures from a base line of known length. “The base line used in surveying the solar system may be any known distance on the earth, such as that between two observatories or the distance that an observatory moves in a certain time due to the rotation of the earth. “The longest base line possible is so short that the angle to be measured is small, and it. must be determined with great precision if accurate distances are to be obtained.” tt n tt More Accurate ACCURATE direct measures can not be made on the sun itself. Even a planet like Mars, Dr. Nicholson says, is so large and so bright that accurate measures of its: position are extremely difficult. “The asteroids are small and accurate measures can be made on their star-like images,” he continues. “But until Eros was discov-* ered, the known asteroids were toofar away to be of much help in this problem. As soon as the orbit of Eros was calculated, it became evident that it would sometimes be much closer to the earth than any other planet, and that measures of its position would give a very accurate determination of the distance to the sun.”. Dr. Nicholson also goes on to explain how the weight of the earthand moon, or to use the proper scientific term, the mass of those bodies, can be determined from observation of Eros. “The mass of the earth and moon -can be determined by their attraction on Eros,” he says. “The perturbations of the earth and moon on Eros will be large, and the difference between the observed and computed positions of Eros will give corrections to the mass of the earth-moon system. “Since the effect of the moon will vary with the relative positions of the earth, moon and Eros, the mass of the moon alone also may be obtained. “It is very probable that the value thus found will be more accurate than any now available.” Are acorns used for food? They are not eaten much by human beings in the United States. Indians in the Pacific coast region from northern California to Mexico make a meal out of dried and pounded acorns which they eat in the form of mush and bread. The meal is usually bleached to free it from tannin and whatever bitter principle is present. In some regions in Italy acorn meal made into a sort of bread with the addition of two-thirds ground grain is a common article of diet. The bread is black and heavy and not easily digested. During what month will the track and field events of the 1932 Olympic games be held? Probably July, although definite dates have not been fixed.