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Infamous Politics Every decent citizen should resent the effort of the head of the Republican state committee to revive bigotry and prejudice, fed upon lies, and link the churches with partisan politics. The appeal of the committee is a desperate effort to save James E. Watson and to elect a Governor who will serve the utility and special interest forces. It is open and brazen. It is infamous because it endeavors to link church and state. It is monstrous because it is based upon a lie. Ihe ministers were asked to make soap boxes of their pulpits next Sunday morning and mobs of their prayer meetings during the week. The basis of the appeal was that these extraordinary measures were needed to prevent a return of the saloon. -No candidate of any party and no platfoi m of any party has advocated the return of the saloon. Every candidate on every ticket and all platforms of all political parties have declared against the return of the saloon. Yet the committee officially asks the pi eachers of the state to warn their hearers next Sunday that unless the Republican ticket is elected they may expect the saloon to return. Indiana knows to its sorrow what happens when religious bigotry and prejudice are successfully used by politicians. The parade of former leaders of this crusade of hate are again hovering around the Watson headquarters. The presence there of the old leaders of the nightgoWned brigade, most of them fresh from penitentiaries where they went for crimes, might have forecast just such a “last hour appeal,” as the letter’was labeled. If any independent voter had any hesitation before, he should hesitate no longer. Only a desperate cause would make an effort to link church and state. Only a more desperate candidacy would appeal for lies from pulpits. Os course, the ministers who received these letters will be incensed and outraged at the childish effort to influence them. But the incident does expose the infamous lengths to which the cause of Watson will go to find votes. Fix Responsibility In the savage polemics of the presidential contest, we are likely to forget a point all too little stressed in the campaign. That is the need of a united government in the next four years of reconstruction. Reelection of Hoover with a Democratic congress would be a calamity. We do not elect merely a President next Tuesday. We elect an administration. The President of the United States is so powerful that we are inclined to lose sight of the part played by the co-ordinate arm of government—congress. It is a truism, and, like most truisms, often forgotten. that the President alone is virtually helpless. To be effective he must have congress working with him, especially in times like these. Such harmony is lacking today. Hoover, who was incapable even of leading a Republican congress when he had one. of course can not work with an opposition congress. One reason for his failure was that, at the height of the depression, he had a hostile Democratic house and an unfriendly coalition in the senate. There have been many similar failures through stalemate between White House and Capitol Hillsuch as the Cleveland fight with a Republican senate, and Wilson’s last bitter years of dispute with a Republican house. A private corporation's board of directors must be harmonious with its president; so must a nation’s. It is conceded generally that the seventy-third congress will be Democratic. What would happen if the people re-elected the Republican President to work with an opposition congress? Prohibition repeal plans would be delayed in wrangles between a dry President and the wet congress, modification would be wrecked, millions of dollars in revenues from legalized beer and wine would be lost. Tariff reforms would be deadlocked between the high tariff President and the revisionist congress, and our languishing foreign trade would continue to diminish. Emergency relief, economy, revenue measures, farm legislation, reconstruction plans of all sorts would be jeopardized by a reactionary presidential veto power wielded over a serpi-progressive congress. The situation at its best would be one of compromise; at its worst a paralysis of government. Since a Democratic congress virtually is assured, responsibility and orderly government in this emergency requires the election also of a Democratic President. Only by thus definitely fixing responsibility on one party can we hope to get the efficiency and initiative so necessary In the next administration. What's Left of Hoover If there still are voters who have a laugh left for the Hoover hobgobbling, we commend to them the speech made by Carter Glass last night. It is probably the most devastating speech of the campaign to date. Senator Glass does not drop in for an afterthought. He not only proves the bankruptcy of the Hoover administration, which almost any street urchin can do, but he cites his own and other Democratic warnings made in advance of the Republican come-on efforts for the Wall Street speculation orgy, unsafe foreign loans, farm board gambling, and Republican misuse of relief measures. That an administration with such a record of financial .bungling and economic Ignorance should make its election appeal on the basis of fear that its opponent might wreck the nation is perhaps the greatest joke in our political history. Senator Glass and some of his Democratic and

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Progressive colleagues, on the record, know so much more than Hoover and company about sound government finances and economic reconstruction that the Hoover-mkde Democratic scarecrows are no longer even funny. One Sure Method It is heartening to learn that in the turmoil of the campaign Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has not forgotten his advocacy of reforestation as one means of creating work for the unemployed, and benefiting the nation at the same time. Attempts reflecting no credit upon the intelligence of their author were made to ridicule this plan. Roosevelt now has restated it in terms which any one should be able to understand. When he talks of the wisdom of planting tree crops on land unfit for agriculture, and of taking immediate steps to preserve standing forests owned by the government, he is on sound, statesmanlike ground. Failure to do as he suggests means destruction, in the not so remote future, of millions of acres of good agricultural land by flood or by drought or by erosion or by waste deposits. To a greater extent than any of us have appreciated, national safety and prosperity depend upon intelligent care lavished upon our forests. Money spent to employ men in their preservation is money much better invested, from the point of view of national well-being, than money spent for public buildings, or distributed in doles. The Hoover administration this year has reduced the amount of the federal government’s annual contribution for co-operative work with the states growing and distributing planting stock to farmers. This Is one of the most unwise economies a government might make. If Roosevelt is able to make us see the wisdom of spending both public and private funds on our forests, he will have performed a worthy service. The Goosestep In New York, eleven city college studehts have been expelled for protesting the dismissal of an English professor for alleged .Communistic leanings. The student publication, The Ticker, must, according to a ruling, submit its copy to faculty censorship. In Los Angeles, Southwestern university law school authorities have forced the resignation of one of the school’s most brilliant faculty members, Leo Gallagher, whose defense of radicals proved “embarrassing.” University of Pittsburgh students are forced to sign anew oath of loyalty, pledging fealty not only to the nation and state, but to the "purposes and regulations of the university.” This unique measure followed the arrest of three students last June for the display of a poster protesting against Major-General Douglas MacArthur as commencement speaker. Brought to trial, these students were dismissed by Judge Michael A. Musmanno, who rebuked the authories. “Main purpose of a university is to make students think, and how can there be thinking without free speech?” he said.

How, indeed? That Turkey Dinner Avery cheering little note, for those of us who like to look ahead to Thanksgiving, is the forecast that the United States will have a bumper crop of turkeys this year. • This may mean that the men who raise and sell turkeys are not going to get very good prices for them, and that is too bad. But an abundance of turkeys is, surely, about as good an augury for a nice Thanksgiving as one could ask. t The big feature of Thanksgiving, after all, is the dinner, and the big feature of the dinner, beyond question, is turkey. Thanksgiving, indeed, is just about the finest of our native holidays. Foreigners who scoff at American cooking should sit down to an old-time Thanksgiving dinner just once, and learn their error. Any land that can provide a more splendid feast than the traditional turkey-with-dressing, mashed potatoes, preserves and pumpkin pie will have to stretch its culinary resources to the utmost. A Kansas woman who has written a verse entitled “The Twang of the Sea” ought to devote her attention to another one, entitled “The Boom of the Piccolo.” A writer says that golfers are rarely moved by scenery. But how those golfers can move the scenery! Prosperity must be coming back, at that. Fewer banks are failing and more are being robbed.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THIS column is a reply to the divorced wife who signs herself ‘‘Discouraged.” She does not think that husbands should have men friends and spend evenings away from home, and tells her reason. She began her marriage on that baiis. and after the birth of three children she found herself alone most of the time, while her husband, pleading the demands of his friends for fishing and hunting expeditions and poker parties, came home drunk frc%i all of them. Not being able to persuade him to give up these men. she divorced him, and after several years remarried him and endured the same unhappy experience. Certaintly such a woman is not wrong for leaving a man who gives her no consideration whatever. Nevertheless, I must insist that she began her life with the right plan. The point of the whole thing is that no matter what she would have done, her husband probably would have acted in exactly the same way. If she had been a sort of domestic police matron, he would have behaved no better. And she would not have had the satisfaction of knowing that she had done the square thing by him. * m THERE are men who never appreciate a good wife. There are men who never are decent fathers to their children. There are men who are nf so-wells, weaklings whom nothing can change or improve. But the average man—the decent man—reacts to fair tactics like a hero. If he is ordinarily just, he appreciates a woman who is generous with him and does not nag. The thing for “Discouraged” to do is to put this husband as completely as possible out of her life and her heart. And whatever has happened, she should try _P ot •^ ud ? e Bjl “ten by the behavior of one. For there are standards that we dare not abandon in marriage. And perhaps the most important is the standard of personal liberty for both husband and wife, so far as life permits. When generosity and kindness do not n%y, it is not the fault of marriage, but of the individual,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

Hoover's Campaign Has Shriveled to a Wail of Alarms, Pitched to the Gospel of Fear. NEW YORK. Nov. 2.—What are these “sound American tradij tions” about which President Hoover is so worried? Most certainly they do not oppose change. On the contrary, they were built around the idea that change is essential to progressive government, and ' that the people should be given opportunity to make it at frequent and regular intervals. The Constitution does not provide for the election of a President every four years to prevent change, nor was the two-party system developed for that purpose. Our forefathers saw the wisdom of ousting an administration when it failed to meet the wishes of a majority of the people, and wrote it into the organic law of the land. They disagreed on many things, but they were unanimously in favor of periodic elections. The experience of more than 140 years has confirmed their foresight. tt tt Opposition Is Essential Notwithstanding our restless nature and all the innovations we have made in response to it, there has been no move to alter the practice of choosing a President every four years, or a new house of representatives every two. In spite of its obvious defects, the two-party system has been accepted as the best set-up for conducting these elections and giving the people a chance to register approval or disapproval of the administration in power. There might be some advantage in more than two parties, but there would be none in less. Opposition is the essence of democracy. In fact, if it weren’t necessary to political health, there would be little excuse for democracy. If either party threatened destruction of this government, as President Hoover now proclaims, it would have gone to the bow-wows long before. Partisanship has blinded him to the meaning of history, as well as to many other things. His campaign has shriveled to a wail of alarms, pitched to the gospel of fear. In that respect, it is unique. u tt tt Beyond Imagination CAN you imagine a President of the United States, professing to believe in the Constitution, trained to the two-party system and unable to decide whether he was a Republican or Democrat as late as twelve years ago, actually getting up on a public platform and prophesying that this country will revert to a jungle if his opponent wins! President Hoover has become one of the worst reactionaries of his time, and in this connection it is only fair to say that reactionaries have done more to twist, spoil and misinterpret “sound America n traditions” than any other class. Who has stood in the way of progressive legislation ever since Alexander Hamilton gave them the cue? Who has maneuvered this government into the position of a servant for special privilege? Who has preached the policy of assisting great combines and ignoring the plain people? Who has proclaimed “rugged individualism,” when it comes to getting votes, and fallen back on the sorriest kind of Socialism when it comes to granting credit, or providing relief? “Sound American traditions,” indeed! Where are they? Smoke Screen for Failure NOT in the Republican bag of tricks by a long shot, or in the ten million unemployed who still wait for work and who have received little comfort from Washington, >fcxcept the message, “it might have been worse.” Not in this deliberate attempt to prey on distress and frighten voters this jeremiad of despair, this extravaganza of self-pity thrown up as a smoke screen for failure. Where would we be if such men as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Wilson had followed the Hoover creed, or had the American people been afraid of chance?

Questions and Answers'

Is it possible for an athlete to lose eight or more pounds in an athletic contest? It is possible, but not probable. What is the address of Alfred E. Smith, ex-Govemor of New York. The business address of ex-Gov-ernor Alfred E. Smith is the Empire State building, New York City. Where are songs copyrighted? At the Copyright office, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.

; WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

U. S. TROOPS ADVANCE November 2

ON Nov. 2, 1918, American troops broke through the German lines along the Freva sector, capturing Champigneullo, Btizancy, Fosse. Barricourt, Villers-devant-Dun, and Doolcon. The British army took Valenciennes. The Italians advanced north in the Trentino as far as the Sugana valley. King Boris of Bulgaria abdicated and a peasant government was formed under the leadership of M. Stambuliwsky, who formed a republican army.

Daily Thought

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.—lsaiah 1:17. He who never has denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity. We xwe our superfluity and to be happy in the performance of our duty we must exceed it.—Mme. Swetchlne.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE : Few People Can Sit Properly

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journ-.I of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. FEW people thoroughly understand how to sit for the proper benefit of their body construction. Manufacturers of furniture have tried all sort of stunts in the development of chairs to force people to sit properly. Unfortunately, no chair has been developed that will make people sit correctly if they do not wish to do so. It is possible to slide down in any of them and to throw the weight on the shoulders. It is possible to hold the legs in almost any position and to tilt the head either forward or backward. In the correct sitting position, the upper part of the body remains in the same relative position as when standing. In this position the head is poised correctly on the neck without tilting forward or back, the chest is forward, the chin in, and the abdominal muscles fairly tight. On the contrary, when one sits

IT SEEMS TO ME

RESENTMENT has been expressed at what has "been called Governor Roosevelt’s “slur” on the United States supreme court. His interpolated remark in the Baltimore speech was taken down by the reporters as, “After March 4, 1929, the Republican party was in complete control of all branches of the government the legislature, with the senate and congress and the executive departments, and I may add, for full measure, to make it complete, the United States supreme court as well.” A “spokesman” for Governor Roosevelt has stated that the Governor intended no slight on the court, but merely was thinking of the fact that there were more Republican than Democratic members. It was a hasty remark and probably one which the Democratic candidate now regrets. "Control” was not the happiest of all words to use. I don’t suppose that anybody in particular thinks . that President Hoover was in a position to call up and say, “Now, I want you boys to decide this case right, and I’ll tell you the sort of decision you should make tomorrow.” a a Not as Lofty as All That ON the other hand, certain defenders of the sanctity of the supreme court have gone to ridiculous lengths in ascribing to it a character so lofty that it never yet was found in any land of living mortals. For instance, Paul D. Cravath is quoted as saying, “The supreme court is above and beyond politics.” But there is evidence to the contrary. Chief Justic Charles E. Hughes was a member of that bench and resigned in order to run for the Presidency on the Republican ticket. He was defeated. Some years later he was returned as chief justice by appointment of President Hoover.

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incorrectly the back is round, the chest flat, the abdomen protuberant, and the head held in a tilted position to balance the distortion of the rest of the upper half of the body. A survey was made at Harvard university and it was found that less than 10 per cent of the men had good posture. About the same number had fairly good posture and the remainder had poor posture. An examination of 10.000 people taken at random by one of the great medical groups indicated that at least 44 per cent of people have bad posture. Probably the most important factor in bringing about a bad position while sitting is what has been characterized as a sagging mental attitude. t * The person simply does not care and slouches into a position in which he thinks he is going to be comfortable. There is no doubt that clothing that is too tight in the wrong places, or that presses uncomfortably on certain portions of the body when

Now, here we are asked to accept something which is not in line with human experience. When the cloistered seclusion of Mr. Justice Hughes first was broken by the rude invitation that he should take off his black robe and get on the stump, it is not likely that the thing came to him as a complete shock. After all, there had been intimations in the newspapers that his name was being considered as one who could bring the Bull Moose faction back into the fold. And Mr. Huges, being, like the rest of us, a human being, hardly could manage to keep all political thoughts outside his mind as he listened to the drone of learned counsellorsu a tt t Politics Did Break In THERE must have been a time before his resignation when he had to sit down with the distinctly political problem of whether to run or not to run. Then after his defeat he returned to the busy marts of private practice, with a little dignified politics on the side. There is a theory that anybody who goes up to that august tribunal is washed clean of all partisan feeling and past prejudice. But in the case of Mr. Hughes, the process was not so complete that he failed to step down when he heard the rattle of a nomination. Os course, in his case it may be so that the absolute integrity of pure neutrality has been reached, since twice he has gone through the ablutions of renunciation. But let’s take the case of another man who didn’t quite make the grade. Does anybody seriously contend that President Hoover named Judge Parker on the ground that he was a great jurist, and the very man out of all the land best fitted to pass upon the complex questions' which reach our highest court? I would like to sell stock in the green cheese mines of the moon to

a person sits, also may be responsible for bad posture. The first step in correcting faulty position in either standing or sitting is to develop a consciousness of error. This means that a person who wishes to correct his bad position must make certain that the spine is not curved and that the head is properly held. The correct curve of the spine will be brought about if the chest is held forward, and a correct position of the head will develop if it is held properly poised on the neck, with the chin in. To develop proper position, W. W. Krueger recommends that the person first should sit down on a suitable chair, that is, one with a hard seat and a fairly straight back. He then draws the chin in and back which serves to raise the chest. He then pulls in the muscles of the abdomen while contracting the muscles of the buttocks. Thereafter, he releases the muscles of the abdomen and then again contracts them.

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‘all and any who believe such a thing. After all, Mr. Hoover had broken the Solid South in 1928. He wanted to consolidate these gains. Whether consciously or unconsciously, he must have said to himself, “I wonder where I could find a southern lawyer for this vacancy on the bench.” And if that isn’t politics or control of the court, just what are you prepared to call it? a a According to Their Lights BUT control can exist in a much more subtle state than the giving of direct commands. Certain men have gone to the bench casting long shadows before them. After all, these are mature men set in their ways. In many instances it would not require an Evangeline Adams to know in advance just what decision some certain appointee will make in regard to every type of case which comes before him. There have been a few surprising dissents during the court’s history, but one of the easiest tasks in the world still consists in predicting what the court will do and the attitude of each individual member. I am prepared to believe that everyone who is appointed tries his level best to be dispassionate and fair in his opinions. But men of 50 7>r 60-odd can’t change their habits overnight. Many a justice has reached the supreme bench because in the eyes of some President or other he was “safe” in regard to certain moot economic questions. And I don’t see how such appointments can be regarded as anything but political. (Copyright. 1932. bv The Times)

People’s Voice

Editor Times From all indications, it is safe to assume that the majority of the southern states will show a plurality for the Democratic presidential nominee, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Four years ago these same states threw themselves as a battering ram against the political fortifications of A1 Smith, crashing them hopelessly in defeat. In attempting to hide the real reason for this unwarranted assault upon a great man, these states below the Mason-Dixon line gave as an excuse that Smith was “wet” and that they believed in upholding the eighteenth amendment to the letter. * All that was needed to disprove this was another election with another Democratic “wet” nominee. Fortunately, Franklin D. Roosevelt is opposed to the eighteenth amendment, but strangely enough the southern states extol his praise from the Mississippi to the Atlantic and from the Ohio river to the Gulf of Mexico. Now, I wonder if it is safe to assume that the solid south always was, is now and ever shall be prejudiced from a religious standpoint. Such narrow-mindedness is detestable and regrettable, but apparently just another of those “necessary evils” that one hears about frequently. However, A1 Smith certainly can

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

.NOV. 2, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

California Tech Scientists Soon Can Duplicate Temperature of Infernal Regions. WHATEVER your notion of the temperature of hell may be, the California Institute of Technology soon will be in a position to duplicate it for you. If you adhere to the conventional notion that it is very hot, or if you prefer the Eskimo idea that it is intensely cold, you will be able to take your choice at the famous scientific institution in Pasadena. California long has boasted that its climate approximated that of heaven, so perhaps it is appropriate that by way of contrast “Cal. Tech” undertakes to present other varieties. The temperature range which the institute will have at its command will run from temperatures of 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, temperatures equal to that of the sun’s surface, to temperatures of more than 400 1 degrees below zero, temperatures at which hydrogen and helium freeze, temperatures only a few degrees from absolute zero. Absolute zero is 459 degrees below the ordinary zero of the Fahrenheit scale. It is the lowest temperature that can exist in the universe, for at it. this mark, all molecular and atomic vibration stops and the word temperature loses further meaning. a * Solar Furnace THE high temperatures will be obtained by the “solar furnace,” now under construction in the new astrophysical laboratory oi California Tech. This device, designed by Dr. J. A. Anderson and Russell Porter, is merely a gigantic extension of the old "burning glass’’ of childhood days. The solar furnace consists of a steel frame, which turns by clockwork, to catch the sunlight at all times. Mounted on the frame are nineteen lenses, each two feet in diameter. The sunlight concentrated by these lenses further Is concentrated by a system of mirrors, so that it ail falls, upon one little spot about the size’of your little fingernail. This little spot of concentrated sunlight will have a temperature of about 10,000 degrees. A large glass vacuum bulb will be placed at the focus of the solar furnace, so that this little spot of concentrated sunlight is inside the bulb. Therefore, any substances placed at the center of the bulb will be brought to a temperature equaling the sun’s surface. The vacuum bulb is made necessary by the fact that no chemical element pan exist as a solid or liquid at a temperature of 10,000 degrees. Any substances placed in the bulb will be vaporized at once. Chemical compounds will be separated into their constituent elements. It is believed that experiments with the solar furnace will lead to a better understanding of what goes on in the sun’s atmosphere. a a Liquid Hydrogen THE low temperatures will be obtained in the new cryogenic laboratory of California Tech. (“Cryogenic” is a word formed from the Greek word “cryos,” which means “ice cold” or “frost.”) The cryogenic laboratory has been designed to produce large quantities of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium for experimental purposes. There are only eight low temperature laboratories in the worjd. Four of them are in Europe, one in Toronto, one in Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore, one in the bureau of standards at Washington, and one in Berkeley, Cal. Professor A. Goetz, in charge of the low temperature investigations at California Tech, recently returned from an inspection of the European laboratories. He found that all the low temperature laboratories had elaborate safety systems. This is because of the danger, while hydrogen is being liquified, of enoqgh hydrogen escaping into the air to form an explosive mixture. The laboratory at Cambridge, England, has a number of signal devices automatically thrown into operation when 1 per cent of hydrogen collects in the atmosphere. These devices, in addition to sounding warnings, automatically open all the doors and windows of the building. An atmosphere of 6 per cent hydrogen is so violently explosive that, il ignited, it would blow 8, closed building to pieces. thank his lucky star for having been defeated. If he had been President during this period of depression numerous fanatical attacks doubtless would have been made about the “political affiliations of Pope Pius and A1 Smith.” Let us hope that some day the people of the south will go to the *“ November and <St asiSe ill thought of the religious affiliaIJSS* of the various candidates for (jffice. That, indeed, is some thing o hope for. TIMES READER * Editor Times— This great mysterv of why Lieutenant Frank Owen was reason* i? * mystery at The _ T??f. reserved and dignified News needed someone to be the goat for its own ballyhoo. It wanted to sponsor a cause that would strike to , , h f ar t °f every family— safety of children, a worthy cause it is, too. So the News and the police department work together, with Lieutenant Owen representing the latter. All well and good until the News, to blow its own horn, gives a good man too much publicity. The facts are Owen’s name was to the front more than the chief’s or the mayor’s, and that can’t be allowed Owen couldn’t object to this publicity if he wanted to and the News had to have the police department to work with it. The News has lost its pet ballyhoo for protecting the home, and of course it squawks. I don’t know what it is going to do unless it can get the police chief to be its goat. A SOLVER OF MYSTERIES. How long does a voter have to reside in a precinct before he fag eligible to vote? Thirty days previous to election, j