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And Now Leslie Only desperation would cause the Republican state committee to permit Governor Harry G. Leslie to gander Paul McNutt In a last moment effort to keep control of the governorship. The attack from that quarter has behind It only the dignity qf the office. That Is all that makes It Important. The governorship is an important office. It has the power of appointment. Prom that power comes the bank examiner. Control of that office alone makes it possible for scavengers to grow fat on the dead flesh of wrecked Institutions.. The office names public service commissioners who can, If they desire, give the people justice. And now comes Leslie with the preposterous charge that McNutt is under the control of Insull. It is a matter of common knowledge, of which any court would take judicial notice so well known is the fact, that the largest contributors to the Leslie campaign was the highest Insull official in the state. For him to make this charge should cause a laugh, were it not for the fact that for two more months Leslie must be taken seriously and after that forgotten. - Independent voters, when they are forced to listen to these attacks, should ask one question: Who is the candidate against McNutt? Why has the Republican strategists found it necessary to conceal as far as possible, his name? Is there a reason? Save the Court It would be unfortunate if Judge Clarence Martin of the supreme court is retired to private life because his name happens to be on the same ticket with Herbert Hoover and James Eli Watson. The outrageous system that forces the voter to select judges on a partisan basis is the only reason that Martin is on the same ticket with these men who are in such bad odor in the state. The official record of Judge Martin should insure his re-election to the office he now holds. It may be granted that his opponent is of equal standing and would look at the law with the same unbiased and unprejudiced viewpoint. But to send back to private life a judge who has stood for all that is fine and good and righteous because of a party label is to drag the courts into party politics and in the end defeat all justice. Judge Clarence Martin has written better law in dissenting opinions than his two Republican colleagues wrote in their prevailing decisions. The people should remember that Judge Martin tried to prevent the rape of the city manager law when the people of Indianapolis were denied the right of self-government because the local boss, George Coffin, objected. The people of this county should remember that It was Boss Coffin who blocked that road to better government and that Coffin now controls the majority of the local candidates on the Republican ticket and will again rule if those candidates win. The people should remember that Judge Martin has protested against the use of the highest court for political purposes whenever opportunity presented Itself. If there were separation of judicial and executive offices in election, Judge Martin would receive a unanimous vote. Fortunately, his opponent is a man of high standing. His record is exceptional. But just to encourage judges to drive politics from courts, a vote for Judge Martin is imperative. His victory will be an inspiration to all Judges to forget politics as he did. The one spot on which citizens of all parties can unite in the interest of good government is upon Judge Martin, more important perhaps than even the governorship. Hope—And the New Deal Prophecies of disaster if there is a change In government have become the dominant Republican strategy in the closing days of the campaign. Is Jeremiah effective? We think not. His role is too fantastic. The clash of prophecies—four years ago and now—is too incongruous; too rosy then, too dismal today, and all out of the same mouth. The American people, even in dire adversity, do not lose their sense of humor, and the political wailings of 1932 go across grain to that—that precious thing which in times of crises is the great safety valve. One can not survey the full career of Herbert Hoover as a forecaster without smiling. Dipping for a moment ourselves into the uncertain realm of prophecy, we predict that the effect of the election of Roosevelt—and even that appears to be inevitable —will be to lift and not to lower. The most obvious phase of 1932 has been a keen national hunger for a change—a hunger similar in its force, though not in its nature, to that which characterized the ‘back to normalcy’ sweep of sentiment that elected Harding in 1920.. Apart, therefore, from a discussion here of the merits of the two candidates, the election of Roosevelt will be a response to that hunger. Hope for what the new deal will bring, as contrasted to lack of faith in the status quo. will be the dominant reaction. The millions who are hard pressed to the verge of despondency will tighten their belts, grit their teeth and struggle upward toward the peak of what promises to be the hardest and the highest hill of the whole long journey—the winter of 1932-33. That hope in anew deal, and the renewed courage that hope always inspires, will contribute, in our opinion, more than any political policy cr set of policies toward taking us on to better days. 100,000 Liberated Aged While the Republican party and candidate are silent on old age pensions, the Democratic platform and standard-bearer are for the new way. The DillConnery bill for federal aid to states having pension systems is a Democratic measure. A number of Democratic senatorial candidates and Governors are ardent pension advocates. “When old people are in need and want, it is far better for the state to spend something to keep them with their families, with their relatives, than to cart them off to the finest institution in all the world,’’ says Roosevelt. This is more than a pre-election avowal, for Governor Roosevelt fought for and signed the New York act of 1930, under which today nearly 53,000 old folk are drawing pensions averaging $24.35 a month. New York, like California, finds the pension plan cheaper for its taxpayers than the poorhouse method. The annual tax which a $3,500 property owner pays

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for supporting the state’s aged poor is 1 cent a year! This is less than he pays to keep criminals in prison. Alaska and seventeen states have adopted the pension system. More than 100,000 American old folk can thank these laws for their liberation from the fear and disgrace of poverty in their declining years. A Democratic victory should speed this national movement. Bring Insull Back Action of the authorities to obtain extradition of Samuel Insull from Greece for trial in the United States is highly commendable. Not because punishment of that old man is important. It is not. He could take his “pension,” live out the best of his life abroad and America be well rid of him, if it were only a question of personal retribution. What matters is that the whole picture of his financial operations, which wiped out hundreds of thousands of investors and crippled an essential public utility, be seen by the country in such way that it can not be repeated. That requires Insull on the witness stand. There always will be suckers. No example and no law entirely can protect foolish investors from their own credulity. But the citizen has a right to the protection of its government from rackets of high finance. Business itself requires protection. Thanks to the Insull crash, the country probably will get federal regulation of holding companies and a reform in banking laws. To that end it is first necessary that the entire Insull story be spread on the record for fullest understanding by public and lawmakers. Bring the fugitive Insull back, by all means. Just a Punch in the Nose Don’t be too hard on President Hoover’s confidential secretary, Mr. Larry Richey, for having threatened “to punch in the nose” a former Hoover secretary who is going to vote for Roosevelt. He just carried to its logical, if a bit too literal, conclusion the tactics of the Republican high command from his chief down. Did not Hoover threaten that his defeat would cause the grass to grow in the streets of a thousand towns? Did not Hurley threaten us with Mexican steers? Did not Mills threaten us with fiat money? Did not Ford and others threaten us with stagnation and more unemployment? After all, JMr. Richey’s threat is only a punch in the nose. Now what the country needs is a good joke, President Hoover tells a comedy team. If we can get the drummers back into the Pullman cars, the jokes will take care of themselves. Broadway play critics who moan that there no longer are any great actors in the world ought to hear a few of the political campaigners when they turn on the tremolo attachments. A cow ate a Texas farmer’s pocketbook, which contained $760. The animal probably just wanted a roll for breakfast. The human conscience began to function 5,000 years ago, says a scientist. But it never found its way to Wall street. Since the business of sheriffs started falling off, more and more young men are coming out for the college football teams. Consider the bee who is so busy making honey that he forgets to get out of the way of an automobile radiator. The weather man no longer has the exclusive rights to wrong guessing. How about the football forecaster? Eighty-six distilleries in England have been closed by the depression and high taxes. Perhaps the British ought to study our system. Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, we hear, is taking a vacation at a Dutch retreat. And all the time we thought his vacation started back in 1919. Calvin Coolidge and A1 Smith are on the railroad commission. The two great quiet men ought to get along pretty well together. A story from Chicago says that Mr. Dawes at last has discarded his pipe. Maybe his best friend finally decided to tell him. You get anew idea of the value of men’s affections by reading the figures in an alienation suit.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THE rights of men should come before the rights of law. Humanity has suffered enough because of the injustices in legal codes. In East Texas, where the supreme court has declared oil pro-ration unconstitutional, men are agitated violently lest the structure so carefully built by them to prevent industrial disaster be swept away. One gentleman who stood before a group of independent producers said this: Law or no law, the people ought not to lie supine and let a court decision take from them the right to get out of poverty.” Being ignorant of all phases of the question, whether it applies to this case, I do not know, but I glory in the sentiment. In Oklahoma many thousands of Socialists will not be permitted to vote for their candidate, because a technicality which is entirely legal will keep their ticket off the ballot. The court has upheld the law. Good citizens all over the state are agreed that this is right. And so a large number of honest men are disfranchised. a a a PERHAPS I am not a good citizen. Sometimes when I see the way such individuals think and act I have no desire to be one. A gentle rebel is, I believe, often of more worth to his country than a thousand good citizens. Justice in America travels under many incognitos. The majesty of the law so long reversed succeeds now and then in imposing bitter tyrannies upon men. Sometimes it seems that the courts have very little to do with real justice, real moral equity. For consider this: State laws are made by state legislatures. And did you ever spend much time at a session of your state legislature? If so, you know the average type of man who holds legal power in his hands. Thus you must agree that it is possible for very bad laws to come from this source. Most of the statutes which we are expected to obey without question are formed without thought and with little or no consideration for the good of the majority. So, like the gentleman from East Texas, I consider supine obedience to all law the hallmark of a people who have lost their taste for liberty.

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M. E. Tracy Says

In an Ultimate, Fatal Sense Qf the Word, There Probably Is No Starvation Among Us. But There Is Hunger, and to Spare. YORK. Nov. 4.—When j N asked if he had been quoted correctly by a news report, which made him say, “There is no star- | ration in this country," Dr. Ray ! Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the ini terior, replied, "Have you ever been ;in China, Japan, or Turkey? That iis where starvation and poverty ! exist.” One is reminded of the terrible quip which Leon Trotski is said to have made one wintry night in Moscow some twelve years ago. Personally I doubt whether he made it, but it illustrates the point I wish to bring out. A hungry mob had gathered before the Kremlin—a growling, inarticulate aggregation of shivering humanity, so the story goes. Throwing open a window, Trotski inquired what the tumult was all about. “Comrade,” shouted someone, “the people starve.” “Starve!” sneered Trotski. “You don't know the meaning of the word. Wait until mothers begin to eat their babies, and then you can talk.” tt tt tt There Is Hunger IN an ultimate, fatal sense of the word, there probably is no starvation among us. It would be a disgrace to our wealth, resources and intelligence if there were. But there is hunger and to spare. Not the kind that craves bonbons, or cream pie, but the kind that could be satisfied with plain bread. Starvation, like other words, has a relative meaning. No one uses it in this country and these days with the idea of reproducing oriental conditions. It is taken for granted that the western world left such conditions behind two centuries ago. It is taken for granted that we are not going to let men actually die for lack of food, much less women and children. When things have come to such a pass that politicians use oriental conditions as an alibi, we might as well admit that the situation is grave. * tt a No Consolation Here MILLIONS of our people are hungry, not only for food, but for those spiritual values which a government like ours is supposed to maintain, for the right to believe in themselves and one another, for the privilege of hoping that they could better their condition if given a chance. It does not console such people to tell them that matters are worse in Asia, or that they might be worse here. That is not the purpose for which this republic was established, and it should not be made an excuse for failure to administer the affairs' of this republic efficiently. Twist words as you will, and the fact remains that the people of this republic—all of them—are much worse off than they should be, much poorer, and much more discouraged. tt tt u Wealth Shrivels THE aggregate wealth has shriveled by a third or a half during the last three years. The aggregate income has gone down by even a greater percentage. What is most humiliating of all, prices, wages, and production have shrunk more here than they have in England or France. Whether the depression started abroad, it has done its greatest damage in America. You can’t laugh that off as due to world-wide conditions, or as freeing the present administration of responsibility. The American people have a right to plead poverty, or even hunger. Compare to what they enjoyed five or twenty-five years ago, they are poor and hard-pressed. They have a right to expect something better from an administration which took office under auspicious circumstances and which has made such an obvious failure.

Questions and Answers

Name the Democrat candidate for President against Harding in 1920. James M. Cox of Ohio. • Name the first woman who successfully swam the English channel. Gertrude Ederle. Who originated the maxim, “Day by day in every way, I am getting better and better?” Emile Coue, a French pharmacist. What was the name of President Harding’s dog? Laddie Boy. What is the nationality and meaning of the name Linin? It is a German family name meaning “serpent,” “wise as a serpent,” and originated as a nickname. Is it possible that the moon may collide with the sun? No. The moon is always more than ninety million miles from the sun. How large a membership has the Society of Friends, in. the United States? 110,000.

M IM&Y & ANNIVERSARY

U. S. TAKES STENAY Nov. 4 , ON Nov. 4, 1918, American troops captured Stenay in their advance on Sedan. A British offensive between the Scheldt and the Oise-Sambre canal took 10,000 prisoners and 200 guns. Germany sent a note to the United States protesting against allied plane raids on German cities, and announced that she had been limiting her bombing operations since Oct. 1. The United States formally recognized the Polish army as autonomous and an ally.

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Boils Dangerous; Cause Many Deaths

BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. OF all of the nuisances to which human flesh is subject, probably none is so annoying as boils. Ever since the Bible mentioned the fact that Satan went forth and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown, men have been studying this condition and attempting to alleviate it. The modem scientific physician knows that boils are caused by action of germs. These germs are found in the matter that can be taken from the boil. This does not mean that the mere presence of the germ on the skin will cause a boil .because these ■germs frequently are found on the skin. It is necessary to have some breakdown in the resistance of the human being to infection, and quite frequently to have an irritated place on the skin, or a broken place into which the germ can gain access. There seems to be no doubt that bruising and irritation of the skin is an important factor. People who ride a great deal on horseback, men who wear collars that are

IT SEEMS TO ME

THIS is a big event. It may be that in the ages to come 1932 will be remembered along with that other date upon which “Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” School children will have a holiday, and the great event will be celebrated appropriately on some convenient table in each home, however humble. I am referring, of course, to the fact that the rules of contract bridge have been changed officially, and that from this time forth a grand slam, bid and made while vulnerable, counts 2,250, instead of a mere 1,500. If delicate instruments and laboratories jiggle and dance, this will not necessarily indicate grave seismic disturbances, but merely the fate of plungers bidding for slams and not making them. o n tt Here I Am Conservative Although i admit the vital importance of the new code, I wish to come out strongly, although hopelessly, against it. I am in many respects radical, but every revolutionist should preserve for himself some corner and cranny of belief in which he remains conservative. One of my most ardent Communist friends is passionate against free verse. He would, if he could, sweep democracies, republics, and monarchies from the face of the earth and never change so much as one well-established metrical scheme. It is not inconsistent to believe in the abolition of the capitalistic system and still stand fast for contract as it used to be played before the rule makers began their tinkering.

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Stirring It Up

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

ragged or too much worn, women who shave under the arms without suitable antiseptic care or with dull instruments, all will get boils. No. doubt, the presence of the hair on the back of the neck and under the arms aids in development of openings into whiefc the germs penetrate. Children are much less likely to develop boils than are adults, perhaps because of the absence of hair from the skin of a child. This applies also, of course, in general to the skin of women. There is plenty of evidence that an excess of sugar in the blood, such as occurs in diabetes, may be associated particularly with the persistence of infection with boils. There also is likelihood that the presence of infections of the skin generally, such as eczema, itch and inflammations of the skin from various chemicals may so damage resistance of the skin that boils develop secondarily. The boil usually is not taken very seriously and yet it probably causes more deaths than any other skin disease. Particularly dangerous are, of course, boils on the lips and on the face near the nose. The face and neck are recognized as danger zones.

DV HEYWOOD BROUN

I am aware that many think of cards as matters of ao consequence, but no co-operative Utopia will be an almost perfect state, as far as I’m concerned, unless it makes a place for the not too friendly rubber. Indeed, in the new world of man’s vision I think there should be much more time for contract. If human beings eventually come to the sensible realization that the necessary work of the world can be done better and more equitably in a shorter week with shorter hours, there will be none of that old nonsense about quitting early. In a co-operative commonwealth, nobody will find it possible to say along about 4 o’clock in the morning, “I guess I’ll have to call this the last rubber. I have to be at work by 9.” People won’t go to work by 9 in the bright days to come. Or if a few are assigned to that ugly hour, their span of toil will be so brief that they can hurry through with it in an hour or so and get back to the bridge game. tt tt tt Making Contract Unsound I REGRET the new changes—not just out of a sentimental desire to stand pat by familiar rules. It is true that I will be compelled, like millions of others, to keep a copy of the regulations by my side. Something to remember them by. Surely it is not too easy to remember such an ordinance as “the first, third, fifth and seventh odd tricks at no trump count thirty; the second, fourth and sixth odd tricks count forty.” That is a regulation seemingly

There also is the likelihood* that boils in other parts of the body may develop secondary infections, such as abscesses of internal organs, and particularly infections of the bones, which are called by the scientific term osteomyelitis. Obviously, the methods of preventing boils are simple. They include particularly the avoidance of rubbing of the skin by irritating clothing, and cleanliness of all portions of the body. For years, some people have argued that yeast taken internally is a preventive of skin infections and of boils, but controlled studies made by Dr. Rupert Hallam failed to verify any actual value for yeast in this connection. Once the boil has developed, it is customary to apply heat until it reaches the stage known as ripening, and thereafter to permit the infected material to escape by cutting into the boil. This is not the kind of surgical operation that any one ought to do on himself. It is necessary to make the incision with scrupulous cleanliness and to use proper antiseptic solutions to prevent infections of the skin elsewhere.

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

designed to keep pinochle and poker players wallowing in that outer darkness where they now reside. Missionaries are going to find it very difficult to gain new converts with any dogma quite as intricate as that staring the heathen in the face. But mostly I am against the new rules because they are economically unsound. Like the old populists, the rulers of the bridge world have fallen hook, line and sinker for the dangerous doctrine of inflation. They seem to think that a big slam will be more precious because they have jacked it up for the vulnerable from 1,500 to 2,250. Now, I don't say that I exactly would refuse such a triumph, but the new count will make the prime achievement of the game a far more common thing. Many more will take the risk, and though millions will be mowed down in the rush, a greater number will come through. Again let me point out the vital harm which has been done to American cultural aspirations by a new code of rules at this particular time. Although more people are playing contract than ever before, there has been a growing grace in the matter of not talking about it. In the last three months for the first time it has been possible to go to a dinner and not sit next to somebody who would remark Immediately after the appraisal of the weather, “You see, South had the ace, king, queen and eight of spades, the ace, queen of clubs and the deuce of diamonds," and so on and so on far into the night. * * u Starting Commenators WE were Just beginning to outgrow all that, and here comes anew dispensation to start the gabble all over again. If the rule makers had to make a rule why didn’t they simply add this one: “Anybody who talks about a hand after it has been finished shall be penalized three tricks, slapped on the knuckles, and sent to bed without his supper”? Moreover, I should think Republicans would resent it. Here President Hoover came to town intent upon making a speech which should be the wonder of all listeners and readers. What does he find? He discovers that something important has happened which destroys his chance for any considerable amount of space. People can’t really be bothered to learn what Herbert Hoover thinks about the tariff. They w f ant to discover what Sims and Culbertson and Jacoby think about the new penalties for under-tricks when not vulnerable and doubled. (Copyright, 1932. by Tht Time#) For what crime was Charles Ponzi convicted and sent to the federal penitentiary, in 1920? Using the mails to defraud.

.NOV. '4, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ *

I Big Comet May Be Spectacle in Heavens Before Christmas. SANTA CLAUS may be preparing to astronomers a big comet as a Christmas present. Many star gassers hope so. To date, 1932 has been a good year for comets. Astronomers made a record for sighting comets in 1977. In that year six new comets were discovered. In addition, four old comets which swing around the sun in elliptical orbits, came back into view. That made a total of ten comets for the year, more than ever had been seen before in any one year in history. The 1927 record already has been equaled in the present year. Six new comets and four old ones have been sighted, all visible only with the aid of the telescope. But several old comets, due back in the neighborhood of the sun this year, have not yet been picked ip. There is good reason therefore, to suppose that the 1927 record will be surpassed. But the most important question of ali is whether a really big comet will heave into view in the next sixty days. If it does, 1932 will be remembered as the year of the big cometThere is good reason for hoping that a really magnificent comet, one visible to the unaided eye, and with a fiery trail that will make a spectacular sight in the night sky, will show up this year. On the basis of the law of averages, astronomers rather expected it in 1931. The fact that it failed to show up makes it more than likely that it will appear this year. tt * * Fifteen a Century Astronomical records list the appearance of about 400 comets prior to invention of the telescope. Obviously, these 400 were all big ones, visible to the unaided eye. The span covered by this record is about twenty-six centuries, from about 1000 B. C. to the invention of the telescope In 1609. This means, therefore, that in twenty-six centuries naked-eye comets have averaged about fifteen to a century. Now the present century has had only three naked-eye comets. They were the MoorehouSe comet in 1908. Halley’s comet in 1910 and Brooks’ comet in 1911. Twenty years have- 1 elapsed since the last big comet decorated the sky. That is why astronomers are hopeful for this year. But the astronomical Santa Claus will have to hurry, because there are only about sixty days left of the present year. Big comets always have been the cause of a great deal of superstitious fear. Shakespeare noted this fact when he wrote: “When beggars die there are no comets seen,. The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.’* In 1910, when Halley’s comet appeared, many Chinese villagers shot off fireworks with the hope of driving the celestial visitor away. In 1812 many people in the United States believed that the comet of that year foretold the War of 1812. In 1858 the appearance of Donati’s comet was assumed by many to be a herald of the Civil war. In ancient times the nature of comets was misunderstood completely. Many ancient philosophers did not realize that they were astronomical objects at all, but regarded them as some sort of supernatural fish or dragon swimming in the earth’s atmosphere. tt tt tt * Comets of 1932 /NOMETS are named after their discoverers. If two stargazers tie for the honor of being the first to spot anew comet, the object gets a hyphenated name. The new comets found in 1932 and the dates of their discovery are as follows: Houghton’s comet, April 1; Garorena’s comet, April 25; Newman’s comet, June 1; Geddes’ comet, June 22; Schmidt’s comet, June 25; the Peltier-Whipple comet, Aug. 8. All these, of course, were invisible to the unaided eye. The PeltierWhipple comet, however, swung close enough to the sun near the* end of August, to be visible in a good pair of prism binoculars. The periodic comets which returned to view during 1932 were the Grigg-Skjellerup comet, Kopff’s comet, Borrelly’s comet and Faye’s comet. The chief comet news of 1931 was furnished by Masani Nagata, a Japanese amateur astronomer of Brawley, Cal., who discovered in that year the comet that now bears his name. By day, Nagata was the foreman of a melon ranch, directing the activities of twenty field workers. By n*ght, he studied the heavens. through a portable three-inch tele- ’ scope. With this instrument, he discovered the comet named after him. In 1927 the most interesting comet of the year was the Pons-Winnecke comet. It originally was discovered in 1819 by a French astronomer named Pons. Then it was lost. Winnecke, a German observer, rediscovered it in 1858. It was thought for a while in 1927 that this comet would become a spectacular object in the night sky, but while it could be seen with the naked eye, it was so faint that only astronomers, knowing exactly where to look, could see it.

Daily Thought

Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.— Galatians, 6:7. God's mill grinds slow, but sure. —George Herbert.

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