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Cast Your Ballot This nation owes its security ard its stability to the interest taken in its government by its citizens. All men are equal at the ballot box. The man of millions and the jobless man are equal when they enter the election booth to register their desires as to the kind of government they want. Political machines rely very largely upon the indifference of the average citizen. The} encourage the feeling that it is not worth while and that a vote is worthless. They urn derstand that votes by all citizens, reflecting the principles, the intelligence and the economic thought of all the people, fore\ei would banish machine control, with its graft, its special privilege, its extravagant waste of public funds. This year the man without a job is more concerned than the one who is protected and safe. It is all he has left. Undoubtedly there will be efforts by desperate machines in ever}’ county to corrupt his judgment anu make him forget that some of his troubles, not all, come from injustices in government and lack of that equality which existed at the beginning of this government, when there was a real equality of opportunity and a nearer approach to equality of income. You may be very sure that the man w r ho wants some special privilege from government not only will vote, but attempt to influence the votes of others. The great majority want nothing f/om government but an equal opportunity and economic conditions under which they may work out their own destinies without carrying privileged persons upon their backs. There are real issues in this campaign, especially in this county, where the last gallant and triumphant fight is being made against Coffinism. In the state there is the quarrel with inefficiency which now 7 is described by the chief executive as "carelessness.” There also is the great question of a constitutional convention which will the people a chance to write a Constitution that modern needs and conditions. Make up your own minds on these questions and then vote for the things which will be best for you and best for all the people, for men in office who, in your opinion, best will serve the great common good. Do not vote a ticket because some friend may ask you. Do not vote because a newspaper, The Times included, believes in a certain course of action. Think it out for yourself. Then be sure to cast a ballot. A large vote is the best protection of our liberties and our future.

The People Respond All who had any part in raising money for the Community Fund have every right to feel a glow of satisfaction in the accomplishment of a task that seemingly was impossible. The huge size of the fund raised this year would have discouraged a less determined or a harder hearted group of citizens than those who declared that the greater need would be met. *•- Men of wealth opened their purses, but more heartening is the iact that those who are fortunate enough to be employed during a period where many are in enforced idleness showed that their hearts ever ard open to the cry of distress and that a common feeling of sympathy and kindliness inspires the vast majority. Not the size of the donation, but the spirit in which it was made, is the true standard and in this crisis many to whom the gift will be a real sacrifice gave. The story of the “widow's mite” is retold and repeated, just/as it ever will be repeated until the curse of poverty is lifted and the need of charity passes into a saner civilization. The great cry which brought forth the shower of dollars was the picture of enforced idleness on the part of many of our citizens and the probable distress that will occur. That places a heavy responsibility upon directors of the Community Fund. It places upon them the duty of so distributing these contributions <4?at every possible dollar goes to the direct relief of the hungry, the naked and the impoverished until the emergency is met. If there have been donations for purposes that could be either suspended or curtailed, if there has been waste in any of the organizations, it is the duty of the directors to see that these Me eliminated. The first consideration should be for the hungry and the distressed. The Five-Day Week To encounter James E. Watson of Indiana, the Republican leader in the senate, and John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic national committee, agreed upon a point of national economic policy is—if we know our Dana —news. Watson says, “The flvs-day week without reduction of wages must become universal and permanent in America.” Raskob says, “We should have a fiveday week for workingmen, which means all of us.” We do not suggest that Watson or any other old ;uard Republican will doi anything to extend tire horter work week, nor that Raskob will align the Democratic party behind the program in the next session of congress. But it is interesting, meanwhile, to observe the immutable economic and political forces which have swept the Watsons and the Raskobs into the path of sound and enlightened policy. The five-day week now is put forward as the program of twenty-two railroad labor organizations, embracing some 2,000,000 workers. Never before in history has the flve-day week been advanced seriously for an entire national industry. The American Federation of Labor has indorsed the program in every convention since 1925, and now has more than half a million affiliated workers under the short week contract in seventeen crafts. The best way to remedy unemployment is for

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American employers to accept the five-day week,’’ says Carleton H. Palmer, one of the nation’s largest employers, in reviewing three months’ experience under the new order in his own business. Sales for the first three weeks of October were 9 per cent above the corresponding period of 1929. Unit production cost was smaller. The St. Paul city council is considering an ordinance which would establish the five-day week on all municipal construction projects. Minneapolis already has such a law. The United States bureau of labor statistics reports the drift toward fewer hours of labor universal throughout industry in the United States. Catalogued from a week’s news, these are but a few scattered incidents symptomatic of the latest revolution in American economic thought. The idea that machine production must be kept In relation to mass purchasing power is rooted in American thinking. As stated by the recent Scrlpps-Howard editorial conference: “Business leaders and economists who were first I to advocate the eight-hour day and higher wages see the need for further shortening of working hours at a sustained wage, to give labor its shares in the Increased productivity of the machine and to spread' jobs and money among more consumers.”

"A Little Common Sense” A man of great faith and an able jurist is Federal Judge William Bondy of New York. He had enough faith to believe that the United States labor department might act intelligently in the deportation case of Guido Serio. When the case came before Bondy some weeks ago,, he sent It back to Washington, with the suggestion that the labor department "use a little common sense.” If the judge had been more familiar with its methods in dealing with aliens, he would have known that “a little common sense” sometimes Is lacking In the labor' department. This has been demonstrated again by the department in its latest reaffirmation of the decision that Serio must be deported to Italy. Now Serio has carried the case back to Judge Bondy, who heard it reargued this week and reserved decision. The point is that Serio is an anti-Fascist and political refuge from Italy. If he Is returned there, he may be killed, as so many opponents of Mussolini have been. Serio asks to be deported to some country other than Italy. Why the labor department should be so intent on oecomlng an accomplice, in effect, a possible murder is not clear—unless Mussolini and his agents have more power in directing the policy of the United States government than supposed. Civil liberties are at such a low ebb here that it i no longer Is expected that this country will become i again the haven for political refugees. But we might at least keep the blood of such refugees oh our own j hands. Fortunately the case still Is before Judge Bondy, whose enlightened American attitude so far in this ! matter has earned public commendation.

How Patriots Will Vote Cabinet officers and other Administration Republicans appeal to all patriots, including such Democrats as are patriots, to give President Hoover a Republican congress so he can carry out his program. Patriotic Democrats tried the same tactics in 1918, and with some show of reason, for we then were mixed up in a big war. They asked for a Democratic congress that would help President Wilson carry out his program. s What patriots will do this year isn’t accurately predictable, but in 1918 they resented the suggestion that patriotic action by congress could come only from Democrats—and they elected a Republican congress. People don’t warm up very much to such partisan appeals. If there Is anything to the argument, then the Constitution is all wrong In providing for congressional elections every two years. Besides, a change now and then won’t do any harm, and may serve to get congress, and the President, too, out of a rut. And there are as many patriots in one party as there are in the other. . Now that Lindy has purchased a farm in New Jersey, does he expect to fly from chore to chore?

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POLITICAL weather changes quickly in politics, adversity coming hurtling out of the sky with the deadly swiftness of a West Indian hurricane. A little while ago when Ruth Hanna McCormick defeated Deneen for the senatorial nomination it cemed assured that she would be the first woman to be elected to senate. M B B But now it is not such a certainty’, for she is fighting the greatest combinations of adverse forces of any candidate in the running this year. In the first place she is opposed by a dry Republican candidate for the senate, in the second place she Is being secretly undone by the Deneen forces, and now' she is opposed by Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago. M B B THE opposition of Thompson is the best reason yet advanced why Mrs. McCormick should win, and as the late General Bragg said of Grover Cleveland, it is altogether possible that the voters of Illinois may "love her for the enemies she has made.” BUB Thompson’s letter, calling on the Negroes of Chicago to vote against Mrs. McCormick is the basest of all appeals, as is any appeal to any race, nationality or religion to vote as a unit. The politician who seeks to solidify such blocs in cur national life is a traitor to the common good. B B When the World war came we thought as a people that we were through with the grouping of nationalities and races, that all such base politics was a thing of the past and that henceforth we all were to be Americans without artificial distinctions. B w BUT the armistice soon was followed by disillusionment and the same old hyphenated societies reformed and the same old bunk was handed out to them by cheap politicians seeking their political support. Chicago is a perfect bedlam of foreign blocs and now Thompson comes to bat and seeks to further solidify the Negro vote. B B B The colored brother should tell Thompson and all other politicians where to head In, for the welfare of the race depends on Its independence of professional politicians and its ability to win esteem of the public by its manly, independent attitude in government If we continue to divide up along the line of color and nationality, the time will come when we shall cease to be a nation and become a mere international zoological garden. ' The members of the blocs are not to blame, for they never would assume a hyphenated Americanism If it were not politicians, many of whom trace their to Plymouth Rock.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

There Is Just One Issue in the Pennsylvania Campaign. His Name Is Gifford Pinchot. HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 31.—1 see by the papers that New York’s political campaign at last has reached the "fake” and "liar” stage. That may represent satisfactory progress for the Empire state, but it seems mighty slow down here. Pennsylvania ran out of epithets and began throwing things two weeks ago. Now they’re leaving the hall, no matter which hall you mean or w r ho hired it. The conversational output is just as disappointing here as in most other states, and you have to dig down through the usual chatter about horse racing, football, miniature golf and the drought to get at It, but when you arrive; oh, boy. nun Pinchot Is THE Issue THERE is just one issue in Pennsylvania, and his name is Gifford Pinchot. To let one crowd tell it, he is no less than “ a Daniel come to judgment,” and already hss begun to sprout wings. To let the other tell it, that’s all a sad mistake and the wings are horns. Pinchot says he is a Republican, though thousands of Republicans are ready to swear he is not. Anyway, he received the Republican nomination for Governor, which, under normal conditions, Is equivalent to election In Pennsylvania. Conditions are not ordinary in Pennsylvania this year, as most politicians have discovered, especially Republican politicians. In the first place, Pinchot is dry. j which was sufficient to start a wet bolt. In the second place, he displayed an unholy passion * for poking around in the public utility feed bag when he was Governor, which was sufficient to make some of the bi'T boys very lukewarm. In the third place, a good many people don’t like him on account of what they call his ‘‘old maid” ways.

Graham Quits Pinchot Representative george s. GRAHAM is the latest and, perhaps, the most distinguished Republican to desert Pinchot and come out openly for Hemphill, the Democratic candidate. Graham doesn’t mince words either. After charging Pinchot with lack of self control, destructive radicalism, opposition to the Coolidge and Hoover policies, and hypocrisy in his pretended solicitude for the sick and suffering, he says: “I prefer the able, Intelligent, and conscientious conservative lawyer, John M. Hemphill, for Governor of my state, rather than the erratic, abusive, contentious, and politically unattached Gifford Pinchot.” BBS G, 0, P,- in Bad Way THE national administration is completely stumped. President Hoover takes refuge behind his official position, while Secretary Mellon, who usually can be depended on to give most any fellow Republican in Pennsylvania a helping hand, remains discreetly silent. The rumpus raised by Pinchot only furnishes one more illustration of how rapidly and completely the Republican party is falling apart. Tilings are worse in Massachusetts, where party managers forced a show..of loyalty to President Hoover and prohibition by nominating Colonel William M. Butler for the senate, only to And themselves confronted with the prospect of a Democratic sweep. So, too, things are w’orse in several western states, where progressive Republicans have refused all offers of assistance by national Republican committees, rather than take the risk of compromising themselves in the eyes of their constituents. BUB Leadership Lacking ONE can make every allowance for the demoralizing effect of hard times and still leave the unhappy condition of the Republican party unexplained. One can see it pulling through with a slight margin in this election by virture of the mementum gathered in past victories and still recognize the presence, of dry rot. The Republican party lacks leadership, coherence and purpose. It not only has settled down to a treesitting attitude, but is quite unconscious of the fact. The stock argument, as expressed by Secretary Mellon the other night, and as it has been shrieked from a thousand platforms during the last month, that the only way to get out of this depression is to re-elect Republicans, proves nothing so vividly as barrenness of intellect. “We got you into it,” the spellbinders say in so many words, "which means that w'e know better than anyone else how to get you out.” And to prove the sterility of all the talk, it is accompanied by lack of purposeful action, or inspiring advice.

Questions and Answers

Is there any value in United States Continental paper money? Numismatic dealers offer 5 to 25 cents for United States Continental paper bills of any date and denomination, “when in good to fine condition.” Is there a duty on honey entering the United States? The duty on honey is 3 cents a pound. How can suede jackets be washed. Wash them in warm pure soap suds to which household ammonia has been added, about one tablespoon to a gallon of water. Rinse lightly and stretch to the desired size to dry. Was Jimmy Foxx of the Philadelphia Athletics ever a catcher? He was catcher for the Athletics in 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1928. What is the food of penguins? Small creatures of the sea, fish and Crustacea, which they catch by swimming and diving, often to great depths. When should geraniums be slipped for winter blooming? About - April or May.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE New Methods Aid Chilblain Cure

BY DR. MORRIS FJSHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hreeia, the Health Magazine. WHEN people whose circulation in thfe skin is poor are exposed to cold, the exposure sometimes causes injuries that are exceedingly painful. Os this type is condition known as chilblain, which involves a redness and swelling of the hands and feet, particularly in poorly nourished children exposed to dampness. The area in Which chilblain occurs is bluish-red, the color disappearing on pressure. The area usually feels cool, but sometimes is claiuny because of excessive perspiration. Chilblain naturally is not seen in the summer, but only in the winter. Os the greatest importance in the treatment of chilblain are two

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old-fashioned spanking,” I A read in papers, “was defended yesterday by a professor of sociology as the most effective and, perhaps, even the least cruel of punishments for disobedient children.” The professor recommends, however, that “the child be induced to lie down of his own accord for the punishment, instead of being dragged across his parent's knee, to avoid making him a victim of brute force.” That may be sound psychology, but I wish the professor would give some details of the manner in which the child is to be induced to ascend the gallows under his own momentum. Frankly, I doubt whether it can be done. It is very difficult to get a child to lie down for even so painless an experience as a night’s sleep, and I am quite skeptic of the possibility of arranging for any cooperation from the culprit in the matter of a spanking. Indeed, if the good professor’s suggestion w r ere feasible, I think he should go further. Why not induce the well-trained youngster to take over into his hands the business of punishment? The parent of such a model child then might sit back and read on undisturbed after handling the erratic infant a hair brush or a strap

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HALLOWEEN October 31

ON Oct. 31, Halloween, or All Hallow’s eve. Is celebrated. It takes its name from All Saints’ day, the observance of which was instituted in the seventh century to commemorate the conversion of the Pantheon, or temple of all the gods. In Rome, into a Christian place of worship. The traditional observances of Halloween are survivals of ancient superstitions and pagan festivals. The tradition of superstition is that this is the time when supernatural influences prevail and when spirits walk abroad. Many of the familiar customs of Halloween —the games and pranks of children and grownups, together with the ghostly tales by the fire-light-spring directly from these beliefs. A book published in 1511, called “The Festyvall/’ mentions a custom obsolete even at that time. “We rede,” it says, "in olde tyme good people wolde on All halowen days bake brade and dele It for all crysten soules.” I

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notable. Spring, who died in 1876, had been so busy forging the names of Revolutionary patriots and Confederate leaders during his lifetime that he seldom wrote his own name. Today his

methods developed in recent years. One involves heating of the area by use of a bath of melted paraffin wax. It usually is best first to cleanse the parts with hot water and massage them gently with some simple ointment. People with a tendency to chilblains should wear woolen socks and perhaps even thick shoes or hoots in cold weather. The feet or hands may be W'armed by the use of an electric pad, a heat lamp or by immersion in a bath of melte 1 paraffin wax, with a temperature of about 120 degrees. By remaining in this paraffin bath, the pain disappears and the circultaion in the tissues is improved greatly through retention of the heat. One of the reasons for the use of melted paraffin wax instead of hot water is the fact that water of a temperature of 110 degrees is about

with the injunction, “Go up to your i room and give yourself a good lick- | ing.” n b a Much Gloom SO much attention has been devoted to the stage recently that the church has been allowed an unusual freedom from the critical supervision of the community. Now that I have been introduced to the current fashions in sermons through the radio, I am shocked and horrified by present conditions. I suggest that the district attorney take immediate action and form a panel of church jurors to end the wave of immorality which is gripping our churches. Immorality, I think, may be defined as instigation to anti-social conduct. By this standard the church in New York City today is far and away a more flagrant offender than the theater. Even in the so-called “dirty” plays of Broadway there does run pretty much generally the gospel of the sanctity of human kind. j Playwrights deal largely with the potentialities of man. And tragedy j itself, although it marks certain limitations of the human spirit, celebrates the glory and the magnificence of the struggle against frustration. B B B Miserable Sinners THE church Is engaged, as I see it, in quite different propaganda. On the basis of an investigation extending over a couple of weeks I have come across no sermon which was not devoted to the deflation of the ego. Over and over again the minister ascends the pulpit for the purpose of telling his flock that they are all miserable sinners. Out of the reports on more than forty sermons, I have found only one which expressed any delight whatsoever in the achievement of living man or woman. One minister praised the padlock campaign. But on that Sunday, according to the papers, every other clergyman in town was engaged in viewing with alarm “Society Revels Assailed by Pastor,” “Pastor Sees Youth Misled by Elders,” “Denounces Modernists,” “Preaches on Sin”—here are a few headlines picked at random. As far as I can gather, all were talking of the various imperfections and misdeeds of mankind. God was not mentioned in passing, but He must have seemed to the average congregation a figure remote and feeble as compared to the devil, whose triumphs were so generally celebrated. The devil must look forward to Sunday, for his library of press clippings waxes each Sabbath. While it is true that does not get

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as high as the patient qan stand, w’hereas the praffin wax bath may be maintained at a temperature of 120 degrees for at least twenty minutes without complaint from the patient concerning the heat. Chilblains seem to be benefited, moreover, by the use of ultraviolet rays. Application of the rays usually bring about Improvement in the condition of the circulation and apparently is* beneficial to the skin in the area concerned. The basic question involved In all these cases, is, of course, the condition of the health of the patient which causes him to develop the chilblains. Hence it is important v* improve the circulation in the tissues by regular exercise and massage, and to improve the general health by proper amounts of the necessary foods and proper amounts of sleep and rest.

Ideals and opinions expressed In this column are those of one of America’s most Interesting writers and are presented without reerard to their arreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this caper.—The Editor.

much outright support, he receives an enormous amount of frightened and respectful attention. Certainly, no clergyman ever laughs at him. b b n Little Stimulus TJEFORE Sunday comes around U again I will have had an opportunity to go to the theater and watch a representation of the deeds of heroes and heroines. I will not believe utterly in everything set before me, but I will take away enough to feel elated and proud to be alive. And In my shoulders and my soul I may find an itch to strike out against evil and stagger the old devil with a punch on the jaw. And so it is not for myself that I ask the formation of a church jury to avert political censorship of sermons. If I had a 16-year-old daughter I would not like to have her hear all this defeatist talk. I am not minded to have her come to believe that the devil is mighty and must prevail. I will not tolerate any body propagandists who want to send her out into the world licked before she starts. (Copyright. 1930. bv The Tlmeg)

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Malthus Stirred Embittered Argument With His Views on Population. MORE than 130 years ago, Thomas Robert Malthus. English country parson, started an argument upon the subject of population w’.iich still is flourishing today. The Malthusian theory, as it ia called, Is still a very live topic. Briefly, it states that the growth of population tends to outrun the supporting power of the earth, and is checked by war, famine and other disasters In this connection, it is interesting to note a suggestion from Professor Ezra Brown that Malthus first was led Into the field by a very human desire to deflate a too optimistic bubble. “Every entirely human being has a well-spring of sympathy for the Athenian citizen who said that he was going to vote for the other candidate because he was tired of hearing Aristides called ‘the just,’ ” says Professor Brown. "Nearly every one who is compelled to listen to an optimist or who finds himself unwittingly reading one has feelings akin to those of that disillusioned citizen of ancient Athens. "To sensitive persons, perhaps the sweetest of sports is the puncturing of optimists; Malthus was of that gentle strain. William Godwin, famous English political economist and author, blew the bubble which annoyed Malthus. a U B Fireworks Followed PROFESSOR BROWN turns to Godwin’s "Political Justice” for a sample of his optimism. "We find a paragraph,” he says, "to the effect that the time may come when we shall be so full of life that we do not need sleep ana so full of living that we need not die; the need of marriage will be superseded by tne diversion of developing the intellect; we shall be angels. "And then: Other improvements may be expected to keep pace with those of health and longevity. “ ‘There will be no war, no crimes, no administration of justice, as it is called, and no government. Besides this, there will be neither disease, anguish, melancholy nor resentment. Every man will seek with ineffable ardor the good of all.’ ‘‘lt was a—perhaps unworthy—desire to puncture this gorgeous bubble that brought forth, In 1798, Malthus’ first essay on ‘The Principle of Population.’ ” And so, Malthus wrote his essay. And then the fireworks began, fireworks whose sparks are still to be seen against the Intellectual skies. "A modest country parson, Malthus called down up his head a stream of vituperation sufficient to sink a navy,” says Professor Brown. "This quiet rural scholar and parson was accused of defending smallpox, slavery 7 and child murder; cf denouncing soup kitchens, early marriage and parish allowances; of having the impudence to marry after preaching against the evil of families; of thinking the world so badly governed that the best actions do the most harm—in fine, of taking from life all Its Joys and virtues.” nan “ Popular Conflict SIX editions of Malthus 7 essay were published during Ills life. A number of formal replies were published and the debate raged with fiery vigor But the Edinburgh Review for April, 1810, felt moved to say; "The excellent work of .Mr. Malthus, though It certainly has produced a great and salutary Impression on the public mind, appears to us to have been much more generally talked of than read, and morn generally read than understood.” .‘‘Like every popular conflict, however fundamental or simple, the Malthusian controversy has been hopelessly muddled from the beginning,” says Professor Brown. "Early critics and opponents of Malthus, after the manner of popular critics, attacked not hlr main proposition, but some of the consequences which they saw flowing from it. "Some even were led so far away from serious discussion and sound science as to put Into practice the immemorial-'first axiom of jury lawyers. When you have no case, abuse the plaintiff’s attorney—and In this case Malthus was his own attorney.” “Cobbett made himself prominent among early critics by inventing the sobriquet >ai~?on’ Malthus.”

Daily Thought

All Is vanity. Ecclesiastes 12:8. Pampered vanity is a better thin* perhaps than starved pride— Joanna Baiille.