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The Utility Attitude Today representatives of the city government and of civic clubs will endeavor to persuade the owners of the electric and water companies that their rates should be reduced. The city and the clubs have made a formal appeal to the public service commission for such a reduction. They have taken the only legal possible step for relief. At once the cry is made that this action will be costly and dilatory and that it will be a year or two years or longer before the rates can be reduced. That objection, coming from the utilities and their inspired friends, means that they repudiate the entire theory of regulation of utility rates and hold themselves above the law. Such a declaration means tflat the utilities brazenly boast that the people must pay exactly what these utilities charge and that no effort on the part of the people can succeed. Much like some famous cases in the higher courts, those concerned may be expected to die or be in bankruptcy before justice can be obtained. There can be no question as to the fairness of the demand on the part of the people for relief. The utilities have collected during the fat years on the basis of what it would cost to reproduce their plants. They continue this basis in the lean days. It means that rates can always be put up and never come down until the utilities decide that they are taking more than the traffic can bear. At this particular time the large users of power and electricity are greatly concerned. Present rates mean high cost of manufacture. That means, finally, fewer or more poorly paid employes. It means hardships on apartment house owners. It means a blow at all industry. The water company has always been extortionate and greedy. It took, last year, 44 cents out of every dollar as profits for the Geist family. That did not include huge charges for management and engineering made by the holding company. If the utilities fail to do justice, and this is not likely, the utilities can only blame themselves if they find the people tearing down the public service commission which has been made impotent, even were it willing. They can only blame themselves if they find the people of this and every other city demanding the right of public ownership in competition with private greed. Today, the utilities merely say to the people, “You can do nothing- We can delay. y\e will spend your dollars uselessly.” The people will find an answer, sometime, to that.

The Danger Grows While the League of Nations council takes a recess and the United States government looks the other way, Japan pushes her army deeper into Manchuria In defiance of treaties and justice. However good the Intentions of the league and of the state department may be, it is increasingly clear that their halting diplomacy is inadequate. We do not believe that the league, as such, or the anti-war and nine-power treaties have failed. The peace machinery of the league covenant and the nonleague treaties has not even been tried. With extreme caution. Geneva and Washington have preferred to talk vaguely about that world peace machinery, without actually putting it into operation. It was the sincere hope that Japan would withdraw her army of invasion, provided the league and the United States did not anger her by direct interference or by siding with her victim, China. That hope is gone. More than a month has passed since the Tokio government announced that it had begun evacuation. More than ten days have passed since the league council asked Japan to withdraw troops, and then recessed, with the tacit understanding that Japan would do so, provided she was not “forced.” But, instead, Japan is extending her military lines hundreds of miles beyond Mukden and digging in, apparently for permanent occupation. Japan now has advanced so far that not only China, but Russia also, is threatened. The international danger is great. The time has come for the league and the United States to give Japan the choice of submitting the dispute to neutral Investigation and settlement or of facing the world as a treaty outlaw. The destiny of Manchuria may not be important to all the world. But the preservation of world peace is. A City Manager Defeat? Cleveland, after ten years, has voted out its city manager plan and voted back the old mayor system of government. On the face of it, that may appear a serious defeat for the city manager plan, which has been growing with rapidity and success throughout the country. But it is not such a defeat. The plan went under in Cleveland because the citizens were not interested sufficiently to protect it from the domination and misuse of politicians. After an initial flush of enthusiasm, the citizens of Cleveland left the city manager system alone to work its own miracles. It did not work miracles. No system ever devised—or which ever can be devised —will operate for the public interest unless it has the constant support and protection of public attention. The worst system will produce better results with public support than the best system without that support. We call attention of our readers to a factual story In our news columns today by Louis B. Seltzer, editor * Jft

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of the Cleveland Press, on what actually occurred in his city. TinKerers had been at the city manager plan for four years," he explains. ‘‘Three times they failed to knock out the system. The fourth attempt was successful. . . . "Republicans controlled the 10,000 jobs at the city hall because they had picked the manager; the Democrats wanted the jobs. The Democratic machine, working for the amendment, rode to victory on the wave of unrest that makes itself manifest during times of depression. . . . "About half the eligible voting populace did not bother to go to the polls and of those who did go about 25,000 did not mark the charter ballots, turning in blanks.” The lesson of the Cleveland election is a very old one—the price of good government is eternal public vigilance. Rotten politics can ruin any system of government. But citizens have a better chance to achieve efficient and clean government under the city manager system than any other operating in the United States. That is the general experience and testimony, not only of municipal experts, but of virtually all the 442 cities that have tried the city manager plan. The British Elections The amazing victory of the Tories in England will provoke much political speculation. No less than 470 Tories were elected to 71 Liberals and 65 Laborites. The Tories received nearly 12,000,000 votes out of some 21,000,000 cast. Many attempts will be made to draw some major lesson or conclusion from this landslide. It seems, however, that the chief deduction to be made is the inadequacy of contemporary representative government and party institutions amidst the complexity and confusion of our urban, industrial world society. Certain specific points also seem to emerge from the British situation: (1) The party lineup reveals an utter lack of political logic. The only party logically equipped to handle British problems right now is the Liberal party. The Tories seem hopeless; the Laborites helpless until they gain greater power and experience. But the Liberals, in actuality, constitute a pitiful minority party in the new house. This is the chief political legacy of the World w T ar in Great Britain. (2) The one party in which there is the least hope in the way of realistic and statesmanlike grappling with contemporary problems is the Tory group. It has bungled and banged from Lord North to Winston Churchill. It has fathered war, empire, autocracy, and social injustice. The Tories hardly have adjusted themselves to the facts of the nineteenth century, to say nothing of the twentieth. (3) There is no consistent pursuit of any given policy or firm support of any particular party. It would be logical to back either the Tories, Liberals or Laborites until they proved their inability or capacity. The existing see-saw prevents the bestowal of power or responsibility on any party program. Hence, British politics offers little real test or opportunity for any party. (4) The elections indicate that in England, as well as in the United States, there is little popular respect for expert economic opinion. The major issue was the establishment of a protective tariff. The party advocating the tariff has been returned with the greatest majority in a century of British history. Yet the best economic judgment in England is as overwhelmingly against the tariff program as in our country, where 1,000 economists advised against the Smoot-Hawley act. (5) The elections illustrate a definite reaction in British politics wtih respect to the tariff. The first great campaign for protectionism was made in England some twenty-five years ago by Joseph Chamberlain. In the election of 1906, the free-trade Liberals buried the Tories and Unionists by the greatest landslide since 1832. In 1931 the Tory tariff wins by an even greater landslide. But reputable economic opinion is decidedly more opposed to protectionism today than it was back in 1906. (6) The case of Ramsay MacDonald indicates the dangers of political ambition and opportunism. Without passing any judgment upon the ethics of his procedure, he has placed himself at the mercy of his enemies. They may be kind to him, but they do not need to be. Many leading Laborites think that MacDonald made a great mistake even to accept the responsibility of forming a Labor government at any time. They believe he better might have kept Labor from responsibility until it possessed strength and experience adequate to running the public affairs of Britain. MacDonald’s present position and that of the Labor party lends some confirmation to this contention. (7) Paradoxical as it may seem, it is probable that the Tory landslide is more of a victory for British Communism than for British conservatism. Tory incompetence only will speed the day of radical triumph in Britain. Only liberalism, intelligent, and daring enough to grapple realistically with our issues, can save the capitalistic order. Radicals in England and elsewhere are not illogical in hating the Liberals more than they do the Bourbons.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IN an intelligent discussion of romance and marridge, Dr. W. Beran Wolfe makes this observation: "Is it any wonder that the average American who cherishes a whole-hearted belief in Santa Claus should spoil his marriage when he approaches it as a solution of his problems, rather than as a task which requires a considerable preparation?” This habit of ours is called by Dr. Wolfe romantic infantilism. Without going too deeply into the technicalities of the term, let us ask ourselves why we are romantic infants where marriage is concerned? If we except the moving picture and the literature of sentimentalism, we are obliged to confess that the American mother is the chief culprit in perpetuating false notions of marriage. Women who love their daughters devotedly very often will tell them untruths about life or leave them to trust in half-truths. For when a mother -deliberately allows her child to think that marriage for any woman should be a “flowery bed of ease,” she lies to her. Because the mother, if she knows anything at all, knows better than that. n tt it WE harm our children immeasurably when we fear to give them a true definition of love. The girls of today know too much about passion and not enough about its finer aspect, which can transcend a continual awareness of the physical. At least it is something for women to think about when men such as Bertrand Russell and other brilliant protagonists of modernity contend that mothers oftener are a hindrance than a help to their children. Many of us may not agree with such a drastic idea. But where there is so much criticism, there must be some culpability. And without doubt we do evade our responsibilities when we bring up our daughters with the idea that they are fairy princesses who always must be pampered.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

If You Lay the Results of the Election to Depression, Then the Republicans Are Merely Getting a Dose of Their Own Quack Medicine. NEW YORK, Nov. s.—The election brought few surprises to | those whose judgment was unaf- ! fected by prejudice. A nation-wide drift toward the Democrats was apparent, and has been for the last two years. So, too, was the probable influence of this drift on New York politics. Under normal conditions, one would have been justified in looking for a chance because of recent disclosures and scandals in New York City, but the prospect of national triumph next year, especially with Governor Roosevelt as leader, did much to stiffen the Tammany morale. tt tt a Hoover in Danger AS to congress, though the Democrats gained one seat and apparently ended the tie, it is of no great significance, since the Republicans appeared unable to perfect its organization under any circumstances because of the progressive deflection. As to New Jersey, the death of Morrow and the popularity of Moore combined to make Democratic success well-nigh inevitable. As to general inferences which may be drawn reasonably, the Hoover administration continues to lose ground, and though it obviously can lose a lot without being placed in a hopeless position because of the normal Republican majority, it is clearly in danger. tt tt tt Can’t Blame People IF this is due to the depression, the Republicans merely are getting a dose of their own quack medicine. No party in this nation, or any other, ever harped so continuously on the idea that people should take their politics as a pure matter of business. For the last seventy years, they have told us that good business meant good government, and since they have been in power threefourths of the time, made no bones about claiming that American prosperity was bound up with Republican policy. The people can’t be blamed if they reverse the rule because of reversed conditions. it tt tt Takes Smooth Arguing NOR are we through with the educational possibilities of a world-wide slump. John Bull is about to show us what a real tariff looks like on the other side of the ocean. Quite a few American manufacturers who found the tariff to their advantage here will build plants in England for precisely the same reason. It’s going to take some smooth arguing to prove how that will help the unemployment situation in this country, or why the protectionist philosophy shouldn’t be held responsible. tt tt n Stimson Is Right EVERY day brings fresh illustrations of how hopelessly our affairs, plans and policies are bound up with those of other nations. Here is State Secretary Henry Stimson advising the power authority of the state of New York that it would be unwise for the federal government to attempt to define the latter’s water power rights on the St. Lawrence river until “more subtantial progress” has been made in negotiating a treaty with Canada. Mr. Stimson is right, of course, irksome as his decision may be to some folks. There is a conflict of authority not only as between the federal government and the state of New York but as between the federal government and Canada regarding the St. Lawrence river. Admittedly, the conflict between the federal government and Canada is of major consideration and must be cleared up first. tt it An Untried Field CONFLICT of authority between the federal government and the states constitutes a great difficulty in solving the power problem. It enters not only into the question of river development, but into that of interstate power delivery. The method of railroad regulation throws some light on how the latter could be handled, but the former presents anew and untried field of legislation. The federal government claims control of every navigable stream in this country. Such control obviously includes construction of dams, reservoirs, locks, or anything else that would affect the flow. Such control could be employed to prevent what a federal administration did not want on one pretext or another. That is one reason why those advocating public control or operation of power plants are strong for placing it under the federal government. With the federal government in charge, conflict of authority could not be advanced as a reason for failure to do a thorough, effective job.

Questions and Answers

What did the slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight” mean? It was the slogan of a large portion of the American people who were not disposed to yield to the claims of England to a portion of the Oregon country. They demanded the whole of the district as far north as 54 degrees 40 minutes latitude, the southern boundary of Alaska. In the campaign of 1844 it was the slogan of the Democrats. What are the three largest island possessions of the British empire? Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland. How can peanuts be salted in the shell? Boil them in salt liquid and then allow them to dry. After this they are roasted. In what year was the American Red Cross Society organized? 1881. What is an epigram? A pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Hope Offered for Rheumatic Fever

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvseia, the Health Magazine. ONE disease which strikes fear into the minds of every parent and indeed of most physicians is the rheumatic fever of childhood. Associated with this there are almost invariably infections of the lining of the heart or the development of the condition called acute endocarditis. Dr. John Lovett Morse recently analyzed 100 cases of rheumatic fever with inflammation of the heart occurring in his practice durin some twenty-five years. Twelve of the patients were seen before 1906, 20 after 1905 and before 1911, 40 after 1910 and before 1916 and 28 after 1915 and before 1921. He finds at this time that 36 of the hundred are dead and three are permanent invalids. The remaining 61 are alive, and in 37 of them the hearts are apparently normal; in 18, the hearts show slight damage; in six it was impossible to obtain re-examination of the heart. Dr. Morse recognizes the possibility of criticism to the effect that

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times —Newspaper readers recently have been regaled with interesting accounts of the marooning of three shipwrecked men upon the Isle of Cocos. The romantic features of this adventure have been emphasized in the customary manner of the newspaper writer. I have failed, however, to note in any of the reports any recognition of the economic lesson that should be very apparent. These men were taken off the island after six months’ habitation in its primeval wilderness. Aside from their lack “civilized” clothing, they appeared' to have suffered no ill effects from their experience. They were well fed and in good health. They had enjoyed a period of utter freedom, to come and go as they pleased within the confines of the island, and to take what nature offered for their sustenance and cornfront, finding no restrictions upon the application of their labor to the resources that the creator had provided. They didn’t have to ask anybody for a job. What would have been their experience if, upon landing, they found some individual in possession of the island, exercising his right of priority? This right is recognized in all civilized nations today, and our shipwrecked unfortunates, having been imbued with the legality of this principle, would no doubt have been quick to acknowledge the absolute personal right of its prior resident to the entire island and all its resources. They then would have been confronted with three alternatives: (1) Go to work for the owner at whatever price he chose to pay; (2) leave the island, or (3) starve. They could have remained there only through sufferance of the owner. Suppose these men had been cast within the last six months upon the shores of the United States. Would their lot have been any less unfortunate (assuming them strangers) than in the hypothetical case just cited? They would have found the God-given resources of the country locked against them. If they had been able to find a job, it would have been strictly upon the terms offered by the employer. The greatest probability is that they immediately would have become objects of charity. The obvious conclusion is that the germ causing most of our economic ills is to be found within our land policy. We have permitted individuals to appropriate unto themselves and to their heirs or assign forever the only source from which all mankind can obtain a livelihood —the earth. And, since this is limited in area and varied in productiveness, its increase in value is inevitable in a progressing civilization. This leads to speculation in this prime element in wealth production, with of prices and final breakdown of industry. The holders of land are abetted ably in their demands upon industry by the taxing authorities, who, almost ignoring the only source from which they justly may ojgtain revenue, proceed

the patients who are fully recovered and without signs of heart disease perhaps were diagnosed wrongly at the time they were sick. He points out however that correct diagnosis probably was made in the 36 who died and that therefore there is just as much reason to believe that the correct diagnosis was made in those who lived. His figures offer hope to the parent who has a child suffering with this disorder. Dr. Morse is convinced that the last word has not been said on this subject. He feels that heart disease developing in a child during a rheumatic attack is more likely to be serious that heart disease developing from tonsilitis or that following other diseases of the nose and throat. The apparent combination of rheumatic joints with an inflammation of the lining of the heart is exceedingly serious. He is inclined to believe that there are two types of this condition; one malignant and promptly fatal, the other tending toward recovery. Thus 33 per cent of those who died within four weeks of the

to put a progressively heavier burden upon the production of goods. Until we recognize the common interest of all citizens in all the land and adapt measures to appropriate its benefits for the common good, we may expect a recurrence of periods of depression, until eventually civilization itself will break down. D. W. HUFFERD. 22 North Euclid avenue. Editor Times—l was interested in reading your editorial in your newspaper on “How do they live?” and thought perhaps you would like to know how at least one of the unemployed holds body and soul together. This example is true of many of my acquaintances, at least in part. I always have made a reasonably good salary, an average during the last fifteen years of S3O a week. I supported two parents on this, as well as myself. Started buying property at $25 a month, that we might have a home of our own some day. Each fall we laid in our coal, potatoes for the winter, and canned much fruit and vegetables for our winter’s use. We are church members and regular attendants at services. Always gave to the Red Cross and the Community Fund each year. With all my expenses, I always was able to save a little and have had a bank account, both checking and saving for years. In the summer cf 1930 I was laid off from my work, my position going to a man who perhaps needed it worse than I did. I could not find work, and all I had in the bank soon was exhausted. We got behind in our payments on our property, as well as insurance, etc., which is not much either, totaling $64 yearly. When we got to the place where

M TODAY -Sf WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

GERMANS FINE BELGIUM Nov. 5 ON Nov. 5, 1917, German authorities in Belgium imposed a fine of $2,500,000 on the province of East Flanders because it failed to place 40,000 laborers at the disposal of the Germans on Nov. 1. The U. S. S. Alcedo, an American patrol boat was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine with the loss of one officer and twenty men. The ship sank in four minutes. The Alcedo was a steam yacht belonging to George W. C. Drexel of Philadelphia before the war. This was the first American fighting ship to go down since the war began. An official announcement was made by the Italian war office that the Austro-German forces had crossed the Tagliamento river. The Germans reported that more than 6,000 prisoners and a number of big guns had been captured in the drive.

onset of the disease, and 66 per cent within four months of the onset of the disease, while two-thirds of the remainder of those who died passed away within five years. On the other hand, 4 per cent of the children who are alive and with slightly damaged hearts had several attacks. Asa result of his resurvey of these cases, Dr. Morse feels that the care that the patient receives has a definite relationship to the recovery, the rule being the better the care the better the chance of recovery. The high percentage of patients who died within the first four months who had poor care is striking. It is possible that there is some relationship between the virulence of the condition and the lack of care, but there are enough exceptions to the rule to make this still a subject for extended study. The age at the time Vhen the disease began and the interval elapsing between the beginning of the disease and the time when the patients first were seen by the doctor did not seem to influence greatly the likelihood of recovery.

we had nothing to eat, I asked for help from the charitable institutions, and received one basket of groceries and one and one-half tons of coal. I have not been able to pay on my property for more than a year. I pick up a little typing to do, and occasionally find a few weeks’ employment doing extra work in offices, etc. With each cent of earnings I lay in a supply of groceries. I have not had a glass of milk to drink since last January, can never buy candy or any such thing. I take home from the grocery every box for kindling that I can get, and always am glad to get anything wl|ich neighbors are kind enough to offer. What this winter will bring forth I have not the courage to predict. I wish to assure you that it is my trust in God which is holding my body and soul together, nothing more. I need dental work badly, but can not have it done. Is this an answer to your question? MRS. A. L. W. Editor Times—l would like to know why, when a man works for the county trustee two days a week for a basket of food, valued at $2, that the trusteees sets the price higher than that for which the food can be bought. For instance, potatoes cost 35 cents a peck, when they can be bought for 19 cents; lard, 13 cents a pound, when it sells for 81-3 cents; dry beans, 7% cents, selling for 5. Why should these poor men have to pay 35 cents for potatoes, when they can buy them for 19? Who is getting the difference? ? READER. Editor Times—ln a recent issue of The Times we saw that in Kosciusko county, Indiana, no auto or dog owners can receive township help. They can’t sell or eat them. What are they to do with them? I will agree that if a man can afford to operate his car he needs no help, but he could put it away until he obtains work or means‘by which he can operate it. Anyway, I think that in the land of plenty (free America) that it is a disgrace to American pride and principle that an American has to ask someone what and when he can eat. Politicians say they are against the dole and unemployment insurance. Either one would be a credit to our ‘‘chain gang system” unemployment and misery we now have. In reply to Mr. Sharkey, I would like to ask him if he has ever asked the Welfare Society for assistance? If so, he may reach the conclusion that one-eighth of $1,009,000 is more than it deserves. We complain about forced work in Soviet Russia, still we are forced to work on the chain gang in our city for dole, or a basket of food. American workers don’t want charity. We want work, and our inherent right to self-preservation. BILL. Editor Times—Since the Democrats were elected upon democratic issues, why should the city administration keep 70 per cent R^pub-

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—-

Astronomers Expect 200-lnch • Telescope to Make New Revelations of Vast Importance. ANEW book just has been published by one of the world’s greatest astronomers. It is “Signals From the Stars,” by George Ellery Hale. Dr. Hale is honorary director of the Mt. Wilson observatory, the world’s greatest observatory. It was Dr. Hale who planned and built the observatory. He is one of the great inventive geniuses of the world of astronomy and he designed new instruments which originated new phases of astronomical research. He invented the spectroheliograph, the instrument which made it possible to photograph the sun’s upper atmosphere and the solar prominences, the great fiery tongues of blazing gases which shoot out into space from the sun’s atmosphere. The instrument also revealed details of sunspots which had never been observed before. More recently. Dr. Hale perfected the spectrohelioscope, which makes it possible to observe with the eye the details which previously could only be photographed with the spectroheliograph. Dr. Hale is a great observer as well as a great instrument designer. Among his important discoveries is the fact that the sunspots are great whirlpools in the surface of the sun which act as huge magnets, setting up powerful magnetic fields.

200-lnch Telescope SOME years ago Dr. Hale began to write magazine articles designed to explain recent astronomical advances to the intelligent layman. These articles were couched in nontechnical language. Later, the articles were collected into small books by Scribner’s. Three of them were published—- " Beyond the Milky Way,” "The Depths of the Universe,” and "The New Heavens." Dr. Hale’s newest book, "Signals From the Stars,” grew out of the same sort of endeavor. Its chapters originally appeared in articles in Scribner’s, Harper’s, and Popular Astronomy. It is now published by Scribner’s at $2. . This reviewer not only recommends "Signals From the Stars,” but the other three books to all those who have not yet read them. Chapters in "Signals From the Stars” are titled "The Possibilities of Large Telescopes,” "Exploring the Solar Atmosphere,” "Signals From the Sun,” and “Building the 200-lnch Telescope.” Dr. Hale is chairman of the conservatory council of the California Institute of Technology. This council and members of the Mt. Wilson observatory, is charged with the task of erecting the 200-inch telescope. The telescope will be twice the size of the 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson, now the world’s most powerful telescope. Dr. Hale expresses the opinion that the 200-inch telescope will prove ten times as powerful as the 100-inch. He points out further that the new telescope will not supplant the 100-inch, but that the two telescopes will supplement each other, making it possible for the scientists of both institutions to embark upon researches of new magnitude and importance. *i a u World’s Debt Cited DR. HALE writes with skill and interest. A passage in which he speaks of the world’s debt to astronomy will serve as an illustration. He writes: “To realize our larger debt to astronomy, read Hendi Poincare’s book, ‘The Value of Science.’ The basis of science is the knowledge of natural law, and we owe the conquest of law to astronomy. “Where would our modern civilization be,” asks Poincare, "if the earth, like Jupiter, had always been enveloped in clouds? "Our remote ancestors were creatures of superstition, surrounded by mysteries, startled at every display of incomprehensible forces, accustomed to attribute all natural phenomenon to the caprice of good and evil spirits. "Today we no longer Implore the aid of genii, but utilize natural laws of which we are constantly learning more. "Recognizing as we do the unchangeable basis of these laws, we do not foolishly demand that they be changed, but submit ourselves to them, and use them for the advantage of mankind. "Astronomy taught us the existence of the laws of nature. The Chaldeans, observing the heavens even more attentively than the Egyptians, perceived harmony of m ?,^ n . and se( l ue nce of phenomena. ~ T} eir work was continued by the Gr ee k astronomers, who discovered law after law with the simple instruments at their command. flv2°^ r T iCUS ’ P pler and Galileo fixed the sun at the center of our system, shattered the medieval mode £l h T Ught * nd prepared the way for Newton, who finally announced the most general of all natural laws.” licans on the pay roll, also the counll Democratic office holders with their 35 per cent Republican emand the sanit ary board with 300 employes, of which 250 are Republicans? I think it is high time for the good thoroughbred Jeffersonian Democrats to get up in arms, with all due respect to the Republican Party, and demand these Republicans’ jobs. The Democratic party has no apologies to make to any Republican who is holding office sinoe the Democrats carried a Democratic banner on election day, taking into consideration the principles of Democratic politics. I think this is ridiculous and a blow to the Democratic party of the future. I have donated regularly to the campaign fund, also donated SSO to the present city administration’s campaign fund, worked like a trooper both on county and city election days, donated automobiles to haul voters to the polls, also had several signs printed advertising candidates. My reward was this: I am one of the unemployed. If this is the kind of Democratic politics the party wants to play, I do not want to be a members. REAL DEMOCRAT AND TIMES READER.