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Redeem Indiana If there were no more compelling reasons for voting for Frederick Van Nuys for senator and Paul McNutt for Governor, the vicious methods of the Republican state committee should cause the thinking voter to redeem Indiana from the hands of those who would triumph by deceit, prejudice, passion, and slander. During the past few weeks, this committee has broadcast an appeal to ministers to turn their pulpits into soap boxes, their prayer meetings into mobs, in behalf of the Republican ticket. Even in the palmy days of Stephensonism, no such brazen effort to tie the churches to partisan politics was made. In the past few days, an effort has been made to drive the Negro voter into the Republican camp by patently deceitful, slanderous letters mailed from Texas. The appeal to race prejudice is of a piece with the religious appeal. In addition, the state has been covered with slanderous advertisements concerning Paul McNutt, the candidate for Governor. lie is condemned for the alleged putting into form of a utility law which was passed by a Republican legislature and signed by Governor Leslie. Yet Leslie has the brazen effrontery to criticise McNutt for writing as an expert lawyer named by himself, a law which he later approved. When it comes to Senator James E. Watson, not only the state but the nation can be glad that the threatened landslide offers every reason to believe that he will pass from national life, and in passing, wipe out one of the last symbols of reaction and greed which has flourished under the name of the Old Guard.

Senator Watson has survived through a set of circumstances which alone kept him in office. Exposed years ago as an unscrupulous lobbyist, the foe of labor, the servant of special privilege, he went into the senate through the untimely death of a Democrat at a time when a national election clouded the judgment of voters. Six years ago, it required the suspicious vote of Lake county to send him back with so slim a grip upon his job that an investigation of the origin of his vote might have loosened it. Since then, Watson has been exposed once more, this time as the purchaser of sugar stock when the tariff bill was under consideration, in return for which he gave his note. There was a profit if the tariff could force dividends from the people. There would be no loss for Watson, and he finally brazenly admitted that he had given a worthless note for stock which became worthless, and had the callous indifference to say that this made it “fifty-fifty.” His whole career has been one of service to the seekers of special privileges and of opposition to any relief for the plundered many. The United States senate will be a better place without the influence of Watson, termed by his fellow Republican, Senator Couzens of Michigan, as a double crosser. His own political followers, the friends of other years, know how well that term fits. The election of Van Nuys will be notice to the nation that Indiana stands for progress and is no longer the vassal state of special privilege. It will bring chills to the power trust, the sugar trust, the other pillagers of the public. The election of McNutt will bring a different standard to the statehouse and permit the people to forget the past three administrations, especially the nightmare of the past four years.

The Election All the time, money, and words of this bitter campaign have changed nothing. Since the Democrats won the congressional elections two years ago as a result of the administration’s failures, Democratic victory this fall has seemed probable. The probability was increased by the renomination of President The campaign has been unpleasant and unimportant. We have stated our position. We share the conviction of an apparently overwhelming majority of voters that Roosevelt offers a better chance for good times and good government than the reactionary administration which has failed for four years. We do not accept the extreme view that the administration caused the depression; nor do we deny that the depression is world wide. But we said at the time, and now repeat, that the administration intensified and prolonged the depression by abetting the speculation orgy, by a suicidal high tariff, and by other disastrous economic policies; that the administration's remedial efforts were belated, half-hearted, and ineffective. Extent of this administration's intellectual bankruptcy and governmental inefficiency in a time of crisis is unprecedented in American history. Nor has it been all a matter of inefficiency. Part of it has been deliberate—deliberate effort to serve interests of the few at the expense of the many, and deliberate evasion, as in the matter of hunger relief and of prohibition. Whether Roosevelt and the Democrats will do better remains to be seen—there are no certainties In politics. Roosevelt is no superhuman and the record of his party in the last congress is nothing to brag about. There are some issues on which they are evasive. But the voter does not ballot for perfection. All

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he ask* 1* a fair chance for better times and better government. And there is a good chance for better times and better government if the Democratic party puts into action Its liberal platform and if Roosevelt lives up to his generally progressive pledges. Vote Against Coercion (Editorial in Labor. Railway Brotherhood*’ Weekly Newspaper) When the boss tells you which way to vote, vote the opposite. There are two main reasons for this advice; and either one alone ought to be decisive. In the first place, the man who tries to scare you is not your friend, and the employer who tells you the factory will close if his ticket isn’t elected is trying to scare you, and nothing less. He's not browbeating you for your own sake. He’s not doing it for the good of the country—any man who tries to control elections by fear and threats is a rotten bad American. When he tries such tactics to influence your vote, he is giving proof that your interest lies in exactly the opposite direction. The second reason for voting opposite to the boss’ orders has been given in Labor before, but is worth repeating. No holder of any office, from President to constable, nor all of them together, can do as much good as this vicious, cowardly, dishonest, unAmerican bullying of voters does harm. If the big employers of this country could be taught that when they try to control the ballot box by fear, they are rousing resentment which will smash themselves, this would be the most fortunate election. America ever held, no matter who won. If the boss lets you alone on the election, let him alone, study the situation, make up your own mind, and vote It. If the boss tries to bully, frighten or coerce you in any way, find out what he wants you to do—and do the opposite. Why Not Begin? As the federal deficit grows greater daily and candidate Hoover continues to talk about economies he may effect if re-elected, the 1932 economy act, permitting him to save at once, remains forgotten and neglected. This act provides that the President of the United States may consolidate nonmilitary activities of the war and navy departments at once, without waiting further authorization of congress. Estimates that as much as $100,000,000 might be saved in this manner were made to congress last winter. Congress would have made the consolidation compulsory had it not been for the strenuous opposition of President Hoover and his cabinet. Meanwhile, the two greatest purchasing agencies in the government continue to duplicate each other’s efforts and ignore the possible savings from mass buying and elimination of overhead. Nor has President Hoover exercised his authority, given also by the economy act, to proceed at once with consolidation of public health activities, personnel administration, and education. The President insults the intelligence of the American people when he expects them to believe his pledges on federal economy sincere while these tasks remain undone. Producer Daniel Frohman urges that everybody write a play. But It seems that lately everybody has been writing a play, and the same one at that —about gangsters. In the farm belt you can buy a pretty good pair of shoes for 100 bushels of corn. How would you like to be in the farmer’s shoes? A lot of people are beginning to believe that the college to which they should send their boys and girls is the electoral college. Germany’s high court decided that President von Hindenburg had the right to appoint Chancellor von Pa pen to the dictatorship of Prussia. Nothing like making sure. That item about the ducks that settled upon a freshly oiled highway, mistaking it for a lake, will remind some of us that we have often mistaken a freshly oiled highway for a road. Nicola Tesla, inventor, is trying to get a response from Mars and other planets. If he is successful, the Democrats might try asking him to get a response from A1 Smith.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

IT IS not surprising that the American voter is lethargic. The wonder is that he has sense enough left to vote at all. For campaigns usually deprive us of what little reason we normally possess. We get so excited that we seem to degenerate into a bunch of howling, prejudiced, unthinking fanatics. And the very fact that America is able to survive these periodic outbursts of political insanity is positive proof to me of her enduring stability. The individual who loves and believes in his country has his faith sorely tried during election years—and how frequently they roll around! In 1932, for instance, he has heard that if the Republicans get in again, the nation is doomed. Then he listens in on some G. O. P. oratory and learns that if Mr. Roosevelt is elected, we are headed straight for the bow-wows because Democrats have not been endowed by God with the ability to run the government. The Divinity bestowed all these qualifications upon Republicans. Discouraged, he tunes in on a Socialist and finds out that, no matter what happens on Nov. 8, with either of the two parties in power, we may resign ourselves to destruction. a a a ONLY a being impervious to alarms or totally devoid of intellect could withstand such dismal prophecies. The marvel to me is that business doesn't just shrink away to nothing and pass entirely out of the picture. It would, if people believed politicians. So the voter must not take his campaigns or his balloting too seriously, or he would be without any belief in the future. Better be a little lethargic than totally crazy, which would be his ultimate fate if he accepted all the dire predictions he hears. The truth is that we probably shall muddle along, no matter who wins or loses. If we did not believe this in our hearts, industry never could survive campaigns. As it is. they offer the best evidence of our inability to run government affairs with any degree of good sense or intelligence. There can be no doubt that they greatly retard industrial, social and moral progress.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy ■— Says Governor Roosevelt Is One of Those Typical Americans Who Has Had to Fight Every Inch of His Way Upward. NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—lt Is not true that the American people have swung away from President Hoover without knowing or caring much about the man who will take his place. Os necessity, his record became the big issue in this campaign. That is true of any public official running for re-election. The fact that President Hoover has been discussed more widely than Governor Roosevelt does not mean that the latter is a “forgotten man,” as the New York Herald-Tribune seems to think. Governor Roosevelt has not failed to make a distinct and favorable impression on the public mind. His energy as a candidate, coupled with his efficiency as chief executive of New York, are not overlooked. He will enter tne White House with as good a background as President Hoover had four years ago. He will not enter it with the handicap of being advertised as a miracle man. t> St u

Hoover Not Trained PRESIDENT HOOVER neither had held, nor ran for, an elective office before he was chosen President. Governor Roosevelt ran for the vice-presidency twelve years ago and twice has been elected Governor of New York. President Hoover’s connection with public affairs previous to 1928 was as a subordinate carrying out other men’s programs. He was inexperienced In the field of practical politics. He ha,d not been trained to go out and battle for support in the public forum, much less to obtain what he needed from a hostile legislature. Governor Roosevelt not only has been through all that, but has shown how well he could get along on his ow r n. His political sagacity has been forged in the school of hard knocks, and his humanitarianism comes from something better than a big fund provided by other people. St St St Fought His Way Up HIS nomination was not handed Governor Roosevelt by an administration in power, with a wealth of public patronage to mobilize. His career was not made and cut out for him by an amazing twist of fate. He is one of those typical Americans who has had to fight every inch of the way, and he has had to fight a grave malady, as well as the usual handicaps. Most men in his position would have given up and played invalid long ere this, but Franklin D. Roosevelt is made of better stuff. He has played the game like a man, and out of the struggle and pain this involved he has learned a sympathy for his fellow human beings, which no amount of bought and paid for relief work could develop. This has not gone unnoticed by the American people. St St St Appeals to Heart IT is probably true that Governor -Roosevelt has appealed to their intuition more than to their intelligence. He certainly has not lulled them to sleep by droning endless statistics by which they are perfectly well aware they could be deceived.

He has talked to them from the heart, rather than from the head, as Wilson was wont to do, and they appreciate it. The American people are hungry for things above and beyond the ledger. They have waked up to the realization that such things are necessary, and nothing has done more to wake them up than the dismal failure of the last three years. They are not looking for miracles. All they ask is a little horse sense, and by that they mean a little spirituality mixed with the hardheaded side of life, to give it the proper balance, a little pep talk now and then, such as sales managers and football coaches know how to make, a little encouragement to go out and do things, a little imagination to break the drab monotony of their worries arid cares.

Questions and Answers

What word means “reading character from the expression. of the face?” Prosopology. How long are postoffice money order records kept by the postoffice? They are destroyed after three years. Give the date of the Ashtabula bridge disaster? Dec. 29, 1876, Where and when will be the next Olympic games be held? Berlin, in 1936. When was the Panama railroad opened? In 1855. In the event of the death of"*a presidential candidate before election, how and by whom would a new candidate be selected? Just as a state and county committee may meet and fill vacancies, as has occurred in many instances, it is presumed the national committee would function in the same manner.

Why was the Socialist party ruled off the state ballot in Oklahoma? Why is this permitted in any state? Some of the states have a petition law. If there are not enough names to a petition, any party may be ruled off the state ballot. In the case of the state of Oklahoma, infringement of minor technicalities of the law also were charged. Daily • Thought Thou shalt come to thy grave In a full age, like a shock of corn coroeth in his season.—Job 5:26. Death to the Christian is the funeral of all his sorrows and evils, and the resurrection of all his joys.

—DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Radium Scarcity Is Cancer Handicap

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. SINCE the time when Monsieur and Madame Curie found that a substance which could be taken from uranium minerals possessed a high degree of radio activity, and thereafter isolated this substance, which is now known as radium, both the scientific world and the public have been extremely interested in the nature of this substance and in its possibilities for use in treatment of disease. Radium-containing ores, as pointed out by Dr. R. R. Sayers, chief surgeon of the United States Bureau of Mines, now are found in ten different countries. Because the amount of radium in the whole world is not exceedingly great, and because the substance is recovered with such great difficulty, it is extremely valuable. Approximately 80,000 people now are treated annually In this country with the available radium. There are five states in which not one hospital has radium available,

IT SEEMS TO ME

HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United States, blandly and dogmatically spread before his public in the Madison Square Garden speech a theory of American political philosophy which is not supported by our history. He accused Franklin D. Roosevelt of wanting to change “the American system.” Now, anybody who has followed the speeches of the Democratic candidate must be aware of the fact that, for good or ill, he is not minded to make any sweeping changes whatsoever. But at the moment that is not the point which interests me. I am taken up by the conception of a nation which has proceeded from the very beginning upon one single, clear and consistent conception of government and its functions. I doubt that this would be a healthful thing for any nation, since it would suggest stagnation rather than life. But in any case it is a most inaccurate picture of American development. a a a It Is Not the Same ONLY by the widest latitude of language can it be said that we are living by the precise principles of government laid down by our ancestors. It is true that we operate under a written Constitution and that the instrument still survives and is honored in many speeches. But it isn’t, by any means, the Constitution to which the original states subscribed. There is a rough resemblance, but amendments and practice have changed the scheme of things to such extent that Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton never would recognize it. Surely any one of the mighty dead would blink his eyes in surprise at the sight of women holding office and marching into polling booths. If he visited states where Negroes actually are allowed to vote, as the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments provide, this visitor from another age would certainly be astonished. Washington very well might bfc both indignant and amazed when the federal men came in to seize his Mt. Vernon distillery and brewery equipment. If Mr. Hoover were correct- in his theory of an unbroken and consistent thread of policy called “the American system” how on earth could there have been such a thing as the Civil war? Now, of course, the truth is that by nullification, amendment, interpretation, and downward forgetfulness we have changed the fundamental spirit of our Constitution at least half a dozen times. Certain catchwords have continued, but many applications are vitally different. a a a Electoral College Team THE founders of the nation really were sincere about the electoral college. They had no notion that it eventually would develop into a shadowy institution not even good enough to stand against the freshman team of C. C. N. Y. And, aside from structural changes, it is mere carelessness of expression to suggest that America has not got whole-heartedly into experi-

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and there is one state in which nobody has any radium available. The figures indicate that altogether 710 individuals, companies and hospitals own 124.7 grams of radium and it is estimated that at least 117.4 x grams more are required for normal uses in this country. In France, the government established fifteen radium centers in various parts of the country and allotted to them about 31.5 grams of radium. In England there are about twen-ty-five grams available and the government has recommended that at least twenty-four additional grams be acquired. There are, of course, several conditions which are treated with radium and radium preparations, but the main condition in which radium is used is cancer. The other conditions in which radium is used are those involving the lymph glands and the blood which, in their effects, resemble cancer.

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mentation upon numerous occasions. Mr. Bryan’s populism of 1896 was defeated at the polls largely through the unscrupulous skill of Mark Hanna, but that somewhat muddled radicalism is just as much a part of the American tradition as the standpat, high tariff conservatism of McKinley’s, which was jammed through by methods just as well not to mention. It is entirely fair for Herbert Clark Hoover to stand before the voters as an extreme conservative, and he is within his rights in arguing that cautious procedure is the only one calculated to get us out ot despond. Os course, It may riot be a very convincing argument. It will take a great deal of talking to convince many people that a slump which occurred under a Republican mandate really was brought about by a Democratic minority. But this, again, is merely a byproduct of the discussion. It is my contention that democratic America has been an adventurous nation in many of its political phases. Natmally, it has grown and changed in the course of a century and a half.

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times—President Hoover seems to be looking for cover in his statement that twenty foreign countries were in the throes of a depression before we were. What happens in foreign countries should not be used as political excuses to cover what has happened in this country. The fact remains that during Mr. Hoover’s tenure of office absolutely nothing has been done to terminate the widespread depression so prevalent in the United States. Mr. Hoover mentioned, or rather stressed, in his Cleveland address what the Smoot-Hawley bill did to our imports. He completely forgot to mention what that bill did to our exports, which suffered a stunning blow immediately on passage of the Smoot-Hawley bill. The direct result of that blow was an annual loss of hundreds of millions through a decrease in production that came in the wake of the obnoxious bill. Our decrease in production due to this drop in exports was the result of our decrease in employment. As the condition became worse, and our unemployment situation became acute, our imports started to drop, for the simple reason that a nation’s imports depend on that nation’s employment stability, and, when that stability is jeopardized, home production and foreign trade falls off. Mr. Hoover deftly states that our decrease in imports was due to the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill. I maintain that this bill crippled the export trade, which in turn crippled us to the extent that we were, and still are, unable to buy either at home or from abroad. If we can export goods from this country, we would still have the smoke of production belching from the factories over the length and breadth of the good old U. S. A. Exports mean imports, for if we can earn, we can buy. Remember, we can produce far

Fortunately, there are other available methods for treating many of these conditions, so that the available radium may be reserved for cases of cancer which require it most. In 1929, 111,569 deaths were reported as due to cancer. The only single cause ot death which exceeds that from cancer is heart disease, with 245,000 deaths. The number of deaths from cancer per 100,000 people has risen from 63 in 1900, to 83.4 in 1920, and to 96.1 in 1929. This does not mean an actual increase in the rate of cancer involvement, because the number of people living to advanced years has become much greater since 1900. It does mean, however, that more people are living longer arid hence dying from cancer. Since radium is becoming of increasing importance in the control of cancer it is estimated that at least fifteen times as much radium could be used advantageously as seems to be available in this country at this time.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this 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.

And just as naturally it will again. If Herbert Hoover came here in 2032 he would be just as startled as if George Washington was set down in Washington, D. C., in our present year. Won’t Be Same Place IN fact, I think that Mr. Hoover might take the changes more to heart. I rather think that they will be more extensive in the next hundred years than ever before. Moreover, Washington, although a man of decidedly conservative tendencies, did have vision enough to comprehend that each age must be a rule and a law unto itself. None of the elder statesmen went to the length of urging a political system* molded for all time. The facts of history are against Mr. Hoover. He can not escape from the fact that some of our most highly honored heroes were men who said, ‘“This thing may exist, but it isn’t good enough. It must be changed.” There is nothing in “the American system” which suggests that the best patriotism is a firm resolve to stand with King Canute and shout defiance to the flood tide. (Copyright, 1932. bv The Times)

more than we can consume and our export trade is the only outlet for our surplus. If this source is stifled because we invite trade reprisals from the foreign powers through obnoxious tariff laws, then the life blood of American industry becomes congealed to a point where a financial blood transfusion becomes necessary. Mr. Hoover and the whole Republican party hide back of that fact. Mr. Hoover is seeking re-election by making promises that for the last four years have been violated. Why does he wait until election to make promises? Why hasn’t he accomplished the things he is now talking about, during his four years in office? Mr. Hoover proudly states that the "nest-egg” idea of Mr. Roosevelt’s is old. He claims that the Republican party has laid the egg and it in turn already has hatched. If that is some of the Republican performance that they so proudly display, it only goes to further indicate the abject inefficiency, of a party that is groping around in the darkness, trying to show the public where their efforts have been so highly successful. If the past administration had been such a huge success, Mr. Hoover would not have to go around the country trying to sell the people the idea of that success. I ask you, why have Mr. Hoover and the Republican party waited until election time to go out and accomplish things? The answer is obvious. Votes. Mr. Hoover claims that the operation of home loan banks will be effective by the end of this month. Why was it necessary to wait until hundreds of thousands of people had lost their homes by foreclosure until such relief measures were taken? Personally, I have been 9, Republican all my life, but a change wo*?ld

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Pioneer in Development of Accelerators in Rubber Industry Is Given Perkin Medal. THE Perkin medal. on of the most coveted awards In th£ world of chemistry, has been awarded to George Oenslager of the B. F. Goodrich Cos. laboratories at Akron. Oenslager is one of the nation's foremost chemists. He was the pioneer in the develop f ment of so-called "accelerators.” organic substances which speed up the vulcanization process of rubber tires and other rubber goods. It is estimated that this method has saved the motorists of the nation $50,000,003 a year by producing longer-lived tires. The award was made by a committee representing the Society of Chemical Industry, the American Chemical Society, the American Electro-Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Society de Chirmo Industrielle of France. The medal will be presented to Oenslager at a joint meeting of these societies in New York on Jan6, 1933. The medal was established in 1906 by Sir William H. Perkin, famous chemist and one of the pioneers of the synthetic dye industry. Among previous winners of the menal are E. C. Acheson, who developed corbomndum; Leo H. Baekeland, the inventor of bakelite, velox paper, and various synthetic resins; and Willis R. Whitney, distinguished director of the General Electric laboratories. Disregarded Warnings George oenslager was bon*. in Harrisburg. Pa., on Sept, 25, 1873. and educated in the public schools of that city. His father was a jeweler and watch maker. Oenslager entered Harvard with the ambition, so he confided years later, of becoming a “second Edison.” But he found the study of chemistry so interesting that he decided to follow it.

The science of chemistry still was young in those days and his friends warned him that "he would starve if he persisted in becoming a chemist.” Nevertheless, he stuck to it. He was graduated from Harvard in the class of 1894, but continued post-graduate study until he ha<f_ obtained his master’s degree. Then he entered the pulp and paper industry, remaining there in chemical research for about ten years. In May, 1905, he became a chemist with the Diamond Rubber Company. In 1906 he started work to find a means by which the cheaper, wild rubbers could be made to vulcanize as rapidly as those of high grade and also to produce a good finished product. Ihs researches resulted in the present-day methods of using ofw ganic compositions as accelerator in the process of vulcanization. w These accelerators, as they are called, so speeded up the process that rubber tires and other rubber goods could be vulcanized in only a fraction of the time formerly required. They also resulted In production of rubber products with longer lives. an A Distinguished List THE roll of winners of the Perkin medal in past years is a catalog of distinguished chemists who have helped make the modern dustrial world what it is today. Here are the men and their accomplishments: J. B. F. Herreshoff, improved chamber process for sulphuric acid; y Amp Behr, corn products; E. G. Acheson. carborundum; Charles M. Hall, manufacture of aluminium; Herman Frasch, refining of petroleums. James Gayley, dry air blast for manufacture of iron; John W. Hyatt, celluloid; Edward Weston, electrodeposition of metals; Leo H. Buekeland, velox paper, bakelite and other synthetic resins; Ernst Twitchell, organic sulfo acids; Auguste J. Rossi, titanium steel and other titanium alloys; F. C. Cottrell, recovery of helium from natural gas’ wells. { Charles F. Chandler, educator and expert in industrial chemistry; Willis R. Whitney, research director of General Electric Cos.; William M. Burton, high temperature process of cracking petroleum under pressure. Milton C. Whitaker, manufacture of alcohol, ethyl acetate, acetone, other solvents; Frederic M. Becket, extraction of rare metals from ores; Hugh K. Moore, electrolytic processes for chlorine and cautsic soda; R. B. Moore, achievements in field of helium and radio-active elements. John E. Teeple, manufacture of acids; Irving Langmuir, accomplishments in field of low pressures, conduction and radiation of heat; E. C, 4 Sullivan, special glasses for heat resistance; Herbert H. Dow, production of chlorine and alkali; Arthur D. Little, pioneer in application of research to industry; Charles F Burgess, the dry cell.

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PEACE ENVOYS MEET November 7 V ON Nov. 7, 1918, the German peace envoys crossed the front and were taken to Marshal Foch’s headquarters. The allied armies, however, continued their drives. The American troops entered Sedan. French soldiers east of the Oise and north of the Aisne pushed forward ten miles, capturing 100 villages that had been in Germany’s possession since the early months of the war. be in order, so I’ll change to a party platform that has potential qualities and discard the platform of the past that has proven incapable, inefficient, nonproductive, evasive and unqualified for the successful operation of a great government. w We do not want two for every pot, nor two cars for each garage; that represents an unfulfilled Republican pipe dream. What we do want, however, is just a good, old-fashioned Democratic normalcy. So, regardless of past affiliations, voe for Frankl n Delano Roosevelt. LEON A. PERKSIE. Antlers hotel. How many daily newspaper* are there in the United State*? a* 424 k f