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Defeat Watson The big contribution which Indiana can make to the nation in this election is the defeat of Senator James E. Watson. In the senate he has been the defender of *very public plunder. He has served the interest* that live and fatten by special privilege. He has stood against every progref*ive measure offered in congress. He la the leader of all the reactionaries, almost the last of the famous old guard that represents the powers that prey. The final exposure of Watson came with the sugar stock deal in which it was shown that Watson received stock in a sugar company in return for his note, at a time he was handling tariff legislation. Watson said his note was worthless and the stock became worthless. That is the picture of Watson. The nation deserves more from Indiana than a senator who has these official morals. Frederick Van Nuys announces his program as progressive. He has pledged himseir to laws that will give the worker, the farmer and the business man an even break. He will go to the senate with none of the chains of obligation which Watson has forged around his own liberty of action. Avery definite rebuke to Watsonism, which has meant sinister affiliations with every force of evil in the state for years, will give courage to forward-look-ing citizens all over the nation. His defeat seems certain. It should be made ro Impressive that the things he stood for will recognize that their day Is doomed. The Income Tax Every citizen who believes in fair play and a decent distribution of tax burdens should vote for the amendment to the Constitution which will definitely legalize the income tax. This form of taxation is designed to relieve farms and homes from an unjust share of tax burdens. This legislation has been opposed by the big tax (lodgers who are perfectly content with things as they are. The income tax seems to be the fairest method of collecting money to run the government. It takes the money from those who can pay. The tax upon real estate is no longer practical and has become confiscatory. Every voter should cast a ballot for this ? mendment before voting for candidates. It is much more important. It may be the means of saving all orderly government. Scratch Your Ballot Voting is a serious business, as vital as death or taxes, both of which are likely to be affected greatly by our ballots. The present presidential contest, with all its fury and bitterness, should not obscure the importance of congressional and state elections. Under our system, ih-csidents and Governors lead and suggest, but the legislative bodies actually make any changes in government to meet changing conditions. * At present, except for a lew progressives, congress Is many years behind the best thought, behind the actual needs. We need more leaders, more thinkers, in congress. Btrict party men, men who listen to lobbies, men who tfait for a Hoover or a Roosevelt to guide them, are riot leaders in national affairs. * Norrises, La Follettes and La Guardias are what vjc need more of in congress. Many of these progressives now are running for congress and the state legislatures. Most of them have shown by their past records that they can be depended on to support consistently the causes of civil liberties, human rights as against corporate encroachments, equality of opportunity, regulation of monopolies. These men are In the Republican. Democratic, Socialist and independent columns on the ballots. In Tennessee a Muscle Shoals liberal is running for congress as an independent. In Milwaukee, New York and a few other places, Socialists have put forward some strong candidates. There are larger numbers of men in both major parties who are pledged to progressive ideas. These men, such as Wagner and La Guardia of New York, Adams of Colorado, Mead of Buffalo, Lewis of Maryland, Huddleston of Alabama, are needed in Washington.’ Their loss would be a public loss. Party partisanship should not be permitted to sway any vote in this matter. A “straight ticket’’ never helped anybody but a politician. Child Labor Bread Lines There probably is not a parent in the country who would send his child to work in mines or mills If he could help himself. Universally, parents crave education for their children, and healthy, well-de-veloped bodies. Yet 667,118 children finder 15 years of age trudge off to work daily, some of them to toll ten and twelve hours. They have to go, because their fathers and mothers can not get work, or can not earn enough to feed the families dependent upon them. . Both Hoover and Roosevelt have expressed themaelves strongly on the vice of this situation. Both have declared that child labor must be eliminated, and have pointed out that more jobs will be available for adults if children are kept from working. And with both we earnestly agree. < Efforts to have the child labor amendment ratified should not be abated until they succeed. Yet there is another way to get at this situation which is ignored largely. If sufficient family incomes are provided, most child labor will stop automatically, and enactment of laws to guard against its recurrence will not be difficult. This is the aspect that economists face and acknowledge, but that candidates for the most part do not. Adequate wages, made work, doles—somehow or other families must be given enough to live on. Once the government acts to accomplish this, children can be required to stay in school and the vicious circle of young people filling older people's jobs can be broken. “The Indispensable Man’* Now that President Hoover has warned that his defeat would destroy the American system, and has compared himself with Lincoln, it is rather difficult to discuss him as a mere human being. But a great many business men and others will understand that the answer made by Owen D. Young, who compares Hoover with trie familiar fellow in the business world who thinks he is absolutely indispensable. Business always goes on without him, sometimes better. Speaking out of his experience as head of one of

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the largest corporations. Young refuses to be frightened by the prospect of Hoover leaving the White House. He says: We have learned in industry, at least, to regard with reservation the people who, no matter how honestly, think themselves indispensable. I have no objection to a man saying that he would like to hold his job . . . but I resent at any time and at any place the attitude that the safety of this country depends on any man holding his job. “No man has achieved that strength, and this country has not deteriorated to that weakness.” After all, the nation did manage to survive for a century and a half without the benefit of Mr. Hoover. Probably it can do so again. The Fact That Cheers While we listen to the closing lamentations of Jeremiah as he wends his way toward the setting sun, let any who may become downhearted be consoled with this fact: The Roosevelt program calls for immediate modification of the Volstead act. Such modification is excluded from the Republican program. In his St. Louis speech Friday night, President Hoover continued his evasion and silence on modification. Modification hits directly at the three most vital spots In the depression—unemployment, taxation, farm prices. It will mean thousands of jobs, millions in taxes, and more millions to the farmer. Contemplation of the election of Roosevelt, therefore, presents enough tangible hope in just that fact alone to dispel all the grass-in-the-streets gloom that has been spread or can be spread between now and Tuesday next. “Foolish and Useless” Utility companies are advised by the Magazine of Wall Street to support federal regulation of holding companies as their best defense against a “savage reaction in the direction of public ownership.” “The Insulls have betrayed private initiative and independence of management of the utilities to the bureaucrats. It will be both foolish and useless for the masters of power consolidation to oppose the rising popular demand for potent federal regulation of holding companies,” the magazine declares. While this spirit of acquiescence prevails, congress should proceed to carry out its too long delayed plan for just such regulation. It will have the hearty support of investors this winter, as well as of power company rate payers, and it should act while these two groups perceive so clearly that their interests are more together than apart. If federal regulation of holding companies had existed four years ago, the Insull crash probably never would have occurred. Congress has opportunity now it may not have again, and the new administration has opportunity to make utility holding company regulation a real public service. The official hangman at Warsaw, Poland, says he can not make enough at sls a hanging to keep his family. He wants more money, but the government probably will tell him to go hang for it. A1 Smith says that since he has been an editor, he has received an amazing number of poems. He probably has discovered that the life of an editor is not such a happy one, after all. The leg-o’-mutton sleeves of the gay ’9os are coming back. Perhaps it's the depression; the ladies feel the need of having something up their sleeves more than usual. / It’s remarkable how many candidates discover during a poltical campaign that they have been farmers all their lives. The Soviet government has changed the name of Nizhninovgorod to Maxim Gorki. It’s no bargain either way you take it. A Toronto man, blind for forty-five years, regained his sight after being hit suddenly on the head. He must have suffered quite a disappointment. A couple of football players were arrested for robbery the other day. Maybe the game is becoming more honest, after all. China has accepted the Lytton report on Manchuria from the League of Nations. Unfortunately, however, it isn't something to eat. Sooner or later we can match anything Europe produces. Their Kreuger; our Insull.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

FROM Russia, where she has spent a year, an American woman writer returns with this information: "There is no more miserable human being in the world today than the emancipated woman of Soviet Russia ” Never having been there, I can not attempt to deny this statement. But it is safe to assume that there were plenty of miserable, overworked women in Russia long before Lenin was born. The Soviet government is not the only one that permits "militarism to trample upon its victims, or where men walk out on their wives, or women exist wretchedly, facing spiritual starvation." It always is interesting to find out how other people live. It would be much more to the point right now ix we found out how a good many Americans are living. Working women in the fields long has been considered by us as particularly degrading. When we compare "God's country” and its blessings with other nations whose peasant* thus toil, we always point this out. * YET is it any more terrible to work in the fields than to sit for nedless hours in a factory or mill, as hundreds of thousands of weak young girls and half-sick women do here, making over and ever and over the same mechanical gesture? Where else do women endure any more bitter or grinding poverty than our mi ners’ wives bear? Is it more killing to dig in the earth than to stand behind a counter breathing foul air and living on a pittance? Which is better for the race, working in the fields or living all one's life in the slums? And. as to that, plenty of good American women are working in our fields, too, only one doesn't see them when one never gets two leagues away from a city pavement It is very well to consider the downtrodden in other corners of the earth. But how do I wish we could get up the same emperature about our own miserable ones! It seems particularly foolish to agitate ourselves into a fever over what the Soviet government is doing We have plenty of work in that line, right here at home.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

Hoover'B Addresses Have Proved That He Is 100 Per Cent Reactionary. NEW YORK, Nov. .s.—Undoubtedly, President Hoover has gained some votes by appealing to fear. Whether he has gained as many as he has lost, is another question. You just can’t attempt to scare people without creating resentment. Be that as it may, the President’s style of campaigning, as illustrated by his more recent addresses, is strictly in line with (rid guard Republican doctrine. If anything were needed to identify him as a 100 per cent reactionary, those addresses have supplied It. Herbert Hoover is not the tolerant, open-minded liberal that millions of people took him to be four years ago. It is more logical to suppose that he has changed to some extent, than that they were wholly wrong. His public career began as a subordinate of Woodrow Wilson, as an organizer of food sources and a dispenser of relief. u * M Sparred for Advantage r is nothing to indicate -L that he was disatisfled with the Wilson policy or program at that time. On the contrary he appears to have experienced some difficulty in deciding whether to join the Republicans, or string along with the Democrats in 1920. He finally chose the former course, but not until after some flirtation with the idea of accepting the presidential nomination if it were offered him by both parties. It is possible that Mr. Hoover knew what he was at that time, though nobody else did, and he got nicely tucked away in the department of commerce for eight years, with the halo of liberalism clinging to his name. The routine, colorless character of his services in that department furnished little opportunity for the public to learn or guess whether he had altered his views, or whether he possessed any that were worth altering. He was discreetly conformable to the leadership of Harding and Coolidge as he had been to that of Wilson. No one knows yet whether he was shocked by the oil scandal, the “Ohio gang,” or the veterans’ bureau expose. nun Made by Wilson Herbert hoover stepped forth in 1928, not as a typical member of the party which had nominated him for the presidency, but as a man whom Woodrow Wilson had picked up and made and who generally was regarded as unacceptable to the standpat wing of that party. The Hoover that most people remembered was the Hoover that ran the food administration, or dispensed relief while Wilson and the Democratic party were in power. The Hoover that had served under Harding and Coolidge went unsung. Well, eight years can play strange tricks with a man’s viewpoint, especially if he is adaptable and looking for something big. This Hoover who talks about grass growing up in the streets of our cities and abour, our farms being taken over by weeds, if anything happens to the Smoot-Hawc ley tariff, is not the Hoover people remembered in connection with suffering humanity when they cast their votes for him four years ago. This Hoover is just one more standpat politician, with a watertight mind. un Nothing to Offer THIS Hoover has nothing to offer an agonized country but truckloads of statistics, proving how well bff bankrupt farmers, busted business men and unemployed laborers will be when the big plans he has made and the big institutions he is assisting get around to them. This Hoover can’t see any virtue in a beer tax, though the federal government is running behind to the tune of $125,000,000 a month, and though bootlegging has developed a form of lawlessness and racketeering which is causing the people untold losses in money an* morals. What a contrast to Wilson, who, in one of his first speeches after being inaugurated, said: ‘“I see the woman with the shawl and a market basket on her arm.”

9 T ?s9£ Y ' WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

ARMISTICE LOOMS Nov. 5

ON Nov. 5, 1918, Secretary of State Lansing notified the German government that the allies were willing to arrange an armistice based upon President Wilson’s principles, and that the terms could be obtained from Marshal Foch. The German army started a retreat along the seventy-five-mile front between the Aisne and the Scheldt. Amreican troops crossed the Meuse at three points below Stenay. Police troops seized Cracow.

Questions and Answers

Who was the physicist appearing at the Circle some time ago, and what is her address? Gene Denis. We believe Miss Denis can be reached through the Paramount New York studio, Thir-ty-fifth avenue and Thirty-fifth street, Long Island City, New York. Was a vote in the primary election necessary in order to vote Nov. 8? No. What is the insignia of a full general in the United States army? How many active full generals are there? The insignia }s four silver stars on the shoulder. General Douglas McArthur, chief of staff, is the only active full general. Which states are in the corn belt? Illinois, Indiana, lowa. Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio.

BELIEVE IT or NOT

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Following is the explanation of Ripley's “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Friday’s Times: The Most Famous Nose in History—Salvipien Cyrano de Bergerac, French swordsman, writer and philosopher, lived to the age of 36. In his lifetime he fought

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Valuable Vitamins Found in Fish

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. MOST people have the feeling that a diet of fish is not really as valuable for building human tissue and preserving human health as is the meat of animals, this notwithstanding the fact that there are nations in the world which subsist almost wholly on fish and seem to do very well at it. The human body requires certain essential food substances to repair itself satisfactorily and to have energy to do its daily work. These substances have been mentioned repeatedly as porteins, carbohydrates and fats, mineral salts and- vitamins. The flesh of most of the fish commonly used in the diet, such as halibut, cod, whitefish, salmon, trout, pickerel, and perch, will average from 15 per cent to 18 per cent protein, as contrasted with approximately 21 per cent protein for mutton, beefsteak and pork. Because of the large amount of water in the flesh of fish the protein calculated in dry solids of the flesh of the fish is from 85 per cent

IT SEEMS TO ME

Every now and then something comes up which makes me wish that I had read the papers more carefully and remembered better what I read. For instance, I went to Pittsburgh last week-end to make a speech, and at an informal luncheon they turned Luke Barnett loose upon me. I fell for the joke 102 per cent. Perhaps you don’t need to be reminded of the identity of Mr. Barnett and his curious occupation. He is a professional annoyer. His exploits were chronicled at some length in the World Telegram a year or so ago. I have heard of him and hi% stunts a score of times. And though I never saw him until my Waterloo in Pittsburgh, his picture has smiled out at me from a score of special newspaper articles. Until I met the enemy and became his I had no conception of the subtlety and extraordinary skill of the man. n a m Wasn’t Waiter This Time MOST of the tales of his prowess concerned his playing the part of a clumsy waiter, and if somebody had stumbled over my feet I might have realized that I was being victimized. No, possibly not. That would have seemed plausible enough. Waiters frequently stumble over my feet and fail to end up by saying, “Surprise! Luke Barnett!” But if anybody had poured hot tomato soup down the back of my neck I feel confident that I might have tumbled to the fact that the episode was merely an indication that my kindly hosts wanted me to feel at home and have a good time. Mr. Barnett was more subtle than that. He attended the luncheon in the guise of a local political leader from a Polish district, and as far as I could tell his Polish was perfect. At the end of the luncheon he rose and said, without any great amount of heat, that he wished to voice a protest. He said that he understood that at the dinner which was scheduled in the evening there were to be three speakers—a Republican; a Democrat and a Socialist. He had heard the names of Senator Pat Harrison and Elihu Root Jr. mentioned as the champions of the major parties, but at the luncheon he observed only the Socialist guest speaker. In his opinion, he

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him.

more than a thousand duels. It has been ascertained historically that he killed ten men for looking askance at his nose. This famous nose, which a contemporary writer likened to a large, yellow cucumber, pictur-

to 90 per cent, as contrasted witfy 65 per cent to 70 per cent of protein in the dry solids of the meats that have been mentioned. The flesh of fish generally contains protein, fat, mineral salts, particularly iodine and phosphorus, and vitamins. Most of the fat in the flesh of the fish is stored in the liver, except for the salmon, mackerel, sardines, and herrings, which have from 10 per cent to 15 per cent in the flesh generally. A dietetic authority indicates his belief that whitefish generally is more easily and rapidly digested than the meats generally eaten. Indeed, it makes a relatively slight demand on the digestive organs. Os course, meats rich in fats are digested with greater difficulty than those with less fat. The flesh of fish is also particularly valuable as a source of vitamin A, which is associated with growth and general increase in resistance to disease: and with vitamin D, which is important in the relationship to the use of calcium and phosphorus by the body. It must be remembered that cod liver oil and other fish liver oils, notably the halibut and salmon oils, are rich in vitamins A and D.

declared, it would be a very bad thing to have a radical party represented at a large banquet, and he, for one, would resign his membership if such a thing was allowed to occur. Everybody around except myself was in on the deception, and a superb piece of group acting took place. They all endeavored to “shush” the Polish patriot and to exclaim that he was insulting “Mr. Broun.” Asa matter of fact, in the beginning at least, I was pleased rather than otherwise. It flattered me to be accused of having the potentialities of a dangerous agitator. I had thought of the dinner as more or less Gridironish in its mood and not particularly serious in purpose. u u n There Is Confusion MY wits were dull, but, for a time at least, my manners were above reproach. When people shouted at Luke Barnett, under his Polish name, to sit down and shut up, I did a superb though wasted effort to preserve the sanctity of free speech. It was my effort to calm the heckler, but whatever I said seemed to make him all the madder. He shouted that I had insulted A1 Smith. To that I replied honestly enough that I didn’t remember having done so. With that he switched to Jimmy Walker and wanted to know whether I hadn’t said mean things about Jimmy Walker. He would have me understand

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esquely curved, made its owner particularly sensitive in matters of appearance. In view of Cyrano’s skill with the sword, it was said that it was “death to look at his nose.” Monday: “The Forgotten Man.”

Moreover, the roe of fish also contains vitamin B and vitamin E. Careful studies have been made as to the vitamin content of various edible parts of the fish. These indicate that oysters give the most complete vitamin value, followed by salmon and herring as good seconds. It may be taken for granted that no single article of diet iff complete in itself. The human body does best on a well-balanced diet containing some of several important substances. Since it is obvious that the flesh of fish lacks in fat and in carbohydrate; a meal of fish is supplemented well by butter and by bread and potatoes, which provide fat and carbohydrate. There was a time when considerable doubt adhered to the use of fish in the diet because of the dangers of fish taken from contaminated waters and kept under improper conditions, which permitted germs to multiply. Nowadays, the catching, keeping, shipping and marketing of fish are controlled to a considerable extent by health regulations. Moreover, the waters in which the fish swim also are protected by laws which tend to guard them against initial contamination.

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that Jimmy was dear to the hearts of the Polish people. I was a little puzzled as to why Jimmy should be dear to the hearts of the Polish people, but, then, I never could quite understand why he was dear to the hearts of New Yorkers. So T had to let that pass, and I was also compelled, in all candor, to admit that I had said severe things about Mr. Walker, although he was not the subject of the discourse I had planned for the evening. And all the time people were jumping up and shouting, and every few minutes the toastmaster would I go over and sock Luke Barnett with right hand smashes which seemed very vigorous, even though I did notice that the blows were done with an open palm. g g g Not a Real Cue for Oil AND there I was trying to act the role of a tub of oil and imploring people not to hit each other. At that point Luke Barnett walked over to me. I have never seen a more realistic portrayal of an angry, excited man. The tears were pouring down his cheeks. He seemed more friendly now, but he bristled when the toastmaster insisted that he must apologize to me. “Oh, to hell with apologies!” I said, and the Polish Barnett blazed , up all over again and squared off in i front of me. At this point a police- ! man entered the dining room and seized Barnett. I pleaded earnestly for no arrests, and I think the first inkling I got that anything was wrong came in the cop’s broad grin, as I insisted that he let his prisoner go. And then they told me. It was all right by me. The only trouble i is that at a meeting some day when a Communist heckler gets after me I may fall into the error of assuming that it’s only Luke Barnett’s litI tie brother. (Coovright. 1932. bv The Timeet

Daily Thought

For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with His chariots like a whirlwind, to render His anger and fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire.—lsaiah 66:15. Abused patience turns to fury.— Quarles. . . .

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

.NOV. 5, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Mystery 0 f •Third Eyelid ’ Possessed by Birds Is Subject of Experiments by Scientist. I ECENT experiments at the j AV Smithsonian Institution may I have cleared up an old biological mystery—the reason for the “third eyelid" possessed by birds. The third eyelid, known technically as the “nictitating membrane.” is a thin, translucent membrane which can be flicked rapidly over the eye. Many theories have been advanced to account lor its action and purpose. New light is thrown upon the subject by experiments recently carried on by Dr. Herbert Friedmann, curator of birds at the Smithsonian Institution. “Some birds, especially pigeons and fowls, make quick, jerky movements of the head while in motion. ’’ he says. “When the same sort of movement is made by a human being, the result is a series of sharp, visual images with an interval of blindness while the eye is in motion, due to some obscure mechanism. “Visual impressions can be recorded only while the eye is at rest or moving very slowly in its socket. Otherwise there would be confusing intervals of blurred vision which might make objects look very different from what actually doss appear to the human eye.” mg* Theory Advanced DR. FRIEDMANN says that it is by no means certain that birds possess this same obscuring mechanism that human beings do. Photographs. however, show that when the bird's head is being jerked, the third eyelid flicks across the eye. “The theory has been advanced that this purely reflex action—the. nictitating membrane presumably is entirely independent to the will of the bird —produces the same necessary blinding effect and thus brings external nature to visual order," Dr. Friedmann says. He set out to test this hypothesis by actual experiment—in some cases removing the membrane altogether and in others treating its muscle supply so that it could not be moved. If the blinding function actually existed, such a bird might be expected either to stop jerking its head as it walked or to show signs of confusion, due to the visual disturbance caused by the blur accompanying rapid head motion. “The experiments were carried out with semi-wild pigeons.” he continues. “Surprisingly enough, following the operations the birds showed no observable difference In head movements and no more confusion than before.” un Blind Birds AS the next step in the experiment some blind birds were obtained, Dr. Friedmann reports. “It was found that they completely had stopped bobbing their heads, but walked with the head held straight out in front of them and with the neck stretched,” he says. "They also had stopped blinking the third eyelid, except occasional movements. “Then specimens of both blind and seeing birds were held in the hand and their heads artificially jerked forward and backward. “In each case, it was found, the nictitating membrane was flicked. There was a correlation of this movement with head motion, but it apparently had nothing to do with vision. “From these experiments it appears that the blinking of the mysterious third eyelid is primarily a type of reflex protection to the eye during jerky movements and that its visual shutter function, if existent, is only a secondary coincidence. “It also may be of use in shutting out some of the light to which nocturnal birds are exposed in the daytime, at the same time allowing them to keep the eyes open. “Owls are known often to sit with the nictitating membranes drawn across the eyes when exposed to bright sunlight during the day. “But even the true eyelids of birds are fairly translucent, and there is probably no interference with the luminous sense and light direction sense, even when the eye is closed ”

People’s Voice

Editor Times—Mr. Hoover, in his speech at Cincinnati staTed that the gun booms, factory whistles and cheers that greeted him there and on his tour, were indicative as to where the would stand on Nov. 8. Mr. Hoover's above statement with his present depression is sufficient evidence for any average “compos mentis” to know that all the many excuses offered for this, the saddest period in all human history, Is a complete admission from Mr. Hoover that he and his cohorts have “consummated,” in the manner set forth in the prediction of President Lincoln, in 1865, when he made the following statement: “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Asa result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed. "I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of the country than ever before, even in the midst of the war.” The fact is Mr. Hoover has spurned the policies and warnings of Lincoln, whom he—Hoover—pretends to claim as his "political godfather,” and has adopted the policies of Alexander Hamilton, which are the direct cause of this present depression, and have taken Jobs from 12,000,000 workers and bread and meat from millions of women and children. Notwithstanding these facts, and more, Henry Ford and the favored class, are threatening those who are working, only part time, with starvation, unless they surrender their rights of American citizenship,' by voting contrary to their choice. W. G. HOUK. Crawfordsville, Ind. Are clouds constantly in motion? Yes. Does pure tin rust? No.