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Indiana Redeemed Today, the state of Indiana sends word to the nation that it joins the ranks of progressive and liberal commonwealths. The years of senility to the forces of reaction, intolerance, bigotry are cleansed by anew era of tolerance, liberalism and progressivism. * Senator James E. Watson retires from public life and with him retires the influences that have made the state of Indiana a byword among people who hoped for something better than domination by special privilege. Ilis downfall dated from the day when he tried to laugh away the exposure that he had given his note for sugar stock, with the cynical jest that the note was worthless. * Indiana does not believe in worthless notes. Watson was more than a personality. He was the symbol of great forces which had brought hundreds of thousands of human beings to the breadline and joblessness. He was the servant of all the forces that believed in the theory that prosperity depends upon the placing of wealth in the hands of the few. To retain power, he was an expert in the doctrine of expediency. When the Anti-Saloon League ruled the state, he gave allegiance to that force. When Stephenson came into power on his weird and almost unbelievable appeals to prejudice, Watson never hesitated. He joined Stephenson and looked upon him as a great political asset. He was true only to one master—Big Business. To retain power, he betrayed at times his associates in his own party. Beveridge felt the sting of his secret antipathy. Harry New understood. Every man who served him in time walked the plank, politically. Give Senator Watson credit for keeping faith with his own philosophy of politics which was that the one crime he could commit was to lose a political battle—for himself. When Frederick Van Nuys enters the United States senate next March, he will carry with him a responsibility which must and will fill his soul with humility. He is the hope of all the men and women of the state that by his votes and his words he will be all that Watson was not. He goes as the apostle of anew philosophy and anew message from Indiana, a redeemed Indiana. His will be the voice of liberalism and progressivism, and the people hope from him not only words, but a consecration to progressive principles that will destroy special privileges for the few and the misery for the many. He goes to that great duty with a more sacred commission than Indiana has ever given to any other man sent by this state to the national government. His is the opportunity, his is the duty, of adding the voice of Indiana to that of other progressive states who believe that the people, not dollars, must rule the nation. A Triumph for Decency The victory of Paul McNutt for Governor is a triumph for decency over the long years when prejudice and slander, rather than argument, have been the appeals to the electorate. Paul McNutt has been subjected in this campaign to vilification and abuse such, as have come to few candidates for any office. Only a man with years of unblemished record could have withstood these powerful attacks. As Governor, he will have no difficulty in identifying the sources. They were not political. They’ came from selfish forces which long have fattened on control of the state. The public utilities were in that group. Those who desire to control the huge highway funds were active. All the parasites who have traded upon their influence in the office joined in the battery of > mud. Paul McNutt should regard his election as the greatest of opportunities. As Governor, his task will not be easy. But the common man will look to him for an even break. The great problem in the next four years will be that of a real control of public utilities. His record will be made or broken on that issue. He has pledged anew deal. That means that the statehouse must declare a closed season upon those pillagers who have found the back door open to their pleas. Other problems unemployment relief, old age pensions, real economy in • government —will press upon him. And to that task he will take with him the confidence of the hundreds of thousands of voters who refused to listen to libels and who look to him as their spokesman -and their friend. When the Supreme Court Went Partisan Republican hysterics and Democratic pooh-pooh-ing about Roosevelt’s reference to the supreme court and partisan politics have not yet ceased. The

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merest tyro in American constitutional and party history recognizes that the supreme court has reflected political interests. John Marshall upheld federalism from the days of Jefferson to those of Jackson. Then came the regime of Rogers Tawney, which was as frankly devoted to the states-rights policies of the Democrats. After the Civil war, the court supported the nationalistic Republican reconstruction policy and its amiability toward individualism and big business. The elder Roosevelt’s boast of how he influenced a decision of the court has been cited widely. But there is one decisive proof of the fact that the supreme court can be as strictly partisan and as regular as any party caucus. This is the record of the five supreme court judges in the contested presidential election of 1876-77. It Anally was decided to leaw determination of the validity of the contested electoral votes to an electoral commission composed of five senators, five representatives, and five members of the supreme court. In the supreme court delegation there were three Republican judges and two Democrats. When the test came in February, 1877, the five judges voted in just as strictly a partisan manner as did the senators and representatives. Like the latter, the Judges subordinated questions of legality to considerations of party. This is the one and only time that the supreme court judges have been permitted to demonstrate whether they retained their party affiliations and loyalties after mounting to the highest bench of the land. So far as this affords any basis for generalization, it fully supports the implications of Governor Roosevelt’s assertion, namely, that our judges of the highest tribunal are creatures of party as are other men. President-Elect Roosevelt To President-Elect Roosevelt we extend our congratulations. His will be the most powerful elective office in the world. He will serve during an unprecedented crisis. He will need the support of all good citizens. That support will be given. Campaign bitterness will be forgotten. That is an American trait. It is more necessary now than every We have turned the corner, at least politically and psychologically. That is significant. All the campaign talk about closing factories and grass growing in streets was nonsense. The vote shows that the American people so regard it, that they face the next four years not with fear, but with hope. And why not? We have proved that we can produce more than we need. If we try, we also can distribute those products of our toil so that none shall want. This election should be and can be the end of a period of reac-, tionary paralysis, the beginning of anew progressive era. To that end, the American people, in their sovereignty, have elevated Franklin Delano Roosevelt to leadership. The gravity of his responsibility is the measure of his opportunity. c A woman can make an awful change in a man’s life, but she generally requires an awful lot of change in doing it. “Some blame success on push, others on pull,’’ an economic student writes. And let it be said that alarm clocks and stepladders have been the means of getting a lot of people up in this world. India has 43,600,000 “untouchables”—outcasts of Hindu society. But have you tried to make a “touch” in your own country! Frank Hoch, Hays (Kan.) merchant, runs a monument store on the first floor of his shop, a laundry on the second, and a fox farm on the roof. It is not revealed what he does with his cellar. And then there’s the cat who remarked that her rival wasn’t much of an artist, because she didn’t have good designs on her boy friend. In his later campaign speeches Hoover was termed the “fighting Quaker.” Now, let’s see—wem’t those old Quakers supposed to take it on the chin and then turn the other cheek? The Democrats spent more than $927,000 during the current campaign; Republicans spent $1,555,000. The question now is: Was it worth it? Along about this time of year we cold sufferers commence to wish some brilliant scientist would discover the influenza germ—and keep it! Late hours, an English scientist contends, are not good for one. But they’re just the thing for two.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERQUSON

AMELIA EARHART’S husband pokes g2ntle fun at himself in the current Pictorial and doesn’t seem to feel unhappy in his position as a famous woman's lesser half. This is evidence of the intelligent individual. And it sets anew standard for the valorous sex. I have an idea that being good husbands to famous females is, going to be the hardest and most heroic thing the' gentlemen ever have attempted. We women, however, long schooled in the art of self-effacement, can assure them it is not so bad. The thing to do is to cultivate first the proper state of mind. Think of yourself, not as an idividual, but as an ennobling influence. You know how it is. These men should get a great thrill from the* knowledge that they are the power behind fine feminine accomplishments, and that without their strong love and splendid sympathy the ladles could not go on. u u tt THIS is such a satisfactory sensation. The men themselves long have insisted it must be so. To know that whether you get credit or pay for it, you contribute your small part toward advancement of science or literature or art or culture, as the case may be, is quite enough. To be sure, the world will not give you much notice, good sirs—and that only in a desultory and distrait manner—but it is so wonderful to realize that but for your retirement from the spotlight, your modest. but all-pervading affection, your wife never could carry out her fine achievements. I hope these insignificant husbands are given due attention in the press. It might be a 'good idea to have a “day’’ for them—a day when public consciousness is aroused over the fine co-operation they give, and when ministers will stand in a thousand pulpits and offer thanks for their self-sacrifices and their nobility of character. But the fine, full flavor of compensation for their minor roles, will come to them only when they hear a famous wife speak of her husband as her "dearest friend and severest critic.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says: One of the Weirdest Phases of Our Civilization Is the Ease With Which We Pass From One Wave of Excitement to Another. NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—Sweep out the voting booths, turn on the jazz, and look for something besides politics in the news. In one way, it’s a big relief; in another, a big letdown. Life yon’t seem quite the same for a day or so. After that, you will find it hard to recall much that happened. One of the weirdest phases of our steamed-up civilization is the ease with which it enables us to pass from one wave of excitement to another. A week hence, w r e may be all “het” up over a killing in Kansas, or a political episode in Manchukuo. What has become of all the killings and political episodes during the last two months. And isn’t it surprising how well we have done without jthem? Sometimes, you wonder whether we do very well without a lot of things which, though attracting geat attention for the moment, soon are forgotten. ana Straw Men Fall LAST year, we were worried terribly lest the Asiatic situation result in war. We were not sufficiently worried, however, to do anything. The Asiatic situation went contrary to our views, with China losing out, Japan getting h*fer way, and Russia backing down for the sake of peace. Last spring, we were alarmed over the advent of Hitlerism in Germany. It was interpreted by some as forecasting little less than the return of the Hohenzollerns. Throughout the recent campaign, gloomy prophets have warned us of the dire calamities that would ensue, unless the election went a certain way. One could fill a volume with the straw men of fear that have been built up and knocked down during the last decade. Is this anew form of sport, or a mental weakness. a a a Poise Is Lacking THERE are things of vital and lasting importance in life. Are we learning to identify them, or are we creating an unhealthy equality of episode and incident for the sake of excitement? How far does the prevailing disposition to hop from one thing to another explain our failure to get results? We tell children that they must concentrate, but do we set them a very good example? We tell them, also, that, when they tackle a job, they must see it through, but do we show them how, especially in our habits of thought? Maybe, it’s wrong, but I feel that the great weakness of life in America right now is lack of continuity, poise and judgment. We seek novelty, rather than improvement, anything for a change, regardless of what or how little it promises. The very frivolity of such attitude frightens us of real change, no matter how necessary or helpful it may be. a a a Perspective Is Lost YOU can’t imagine our forefathers gathering in the street gaping at a flagpole sitter. It is almost as difficult to imagine us taking the risks they did to establish this country. We constantly are making sacrifices and throwing away opportunities for temporary gain or pleasure. We wince, however, when it comes to making theni for something big and far away. We have suffered, I oelieve, a definite loss of perspective. In spite of the so-called expansion of horizons, our thoughts are growing localized and personal. One can sense it in the type of songs we sing and the books we read. We have lost taste for romance and drama previous to the Victorian period, and we prefer them richt up to the minute. j We like to live in the present, forgetting that those unacquainted with the past make poor readers of the future.

Don’t Refuse Needy Without Inquiry

BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON THE. word goes out from Washington that we must be charitable this fall and winter. Will you let me add my message to that? It is difficult to understand all the slow litigation for relief work. Under all that has been done, or not done, there are economic reasons, it appears, not understood by the average citizen, for a more liberal program of help for the jobless. Whatever those reasons are, and regardless of the fact that the relief voted by the federal government and states will go far to keep people from starving, we are faced by the fact that there will still be thousands who will need more help than welfare organizations or government bodies can give. It comes down to the man or woman at our front door, who asks for food, clothes, car checks, or money. a a a NOW, I know the problem. Perhaps I have had even more than my share of destitute who come to my door to ask help. Each housewife feels, very likely,

Questions and Answers

What is the address of Will Rogers, the movie star? Beverly Hills, Cal. Is a person with only a bachelor degree from a college entitled to wear a hood? A hood is worn only by a person who holds a degree of doctor. * Where are common house flies native and what degree of cold kills them? True house flies are native in nearly all parts of the world. They are killed at 15 or 10 degrees fahrenheit. Name the masts on a six-masted vessel. Foremast, mainmast, mizzenmast, spanker-mast, driver-mast and jigger-mast.

—But the Melody Lingers On!

Carrier of Disease Is Menace

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and .of Hvgeia, the Health Magazine. TT sometimes happens that people who are quite healthy are able to carry about in their bodies germs which do not attack ihem, but which have sufficient virulence, toxicity, or strength or poison, to invade the body of another person and in that person to cause disease. A person who carries the germs about is called a “carrier.” Should the carrier suddenly have his own resistance lowered by any of the factors mentioned, he might suddenly become- invaded by these germs, although previously they had not been able to set up infection in his body. There is no doubt that all of us constantly are being invaded by

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

IT is my firm resolve that I will not write another political column again for one month. I xode in a taxicab yesterday with a driver who seemed 'in the same morose state as myself. We were both suffering from nervous exhaustion. Two or three cars almost took his mudguards away, and he cursed over his breach. The swirl of traffic tossed us in* to a great Sargasso of stalled taxis, and most of the chauffeurs tried to move the car ahead by blowing horns. Once upon a time there must have been a traffic jam which was solved by the simple process of concerted clamor. I never have seen it done. According to my observation, the tooting and the honking only serve to make the black hole of Calcutta a little more torturing. The taxi driver seemed to feel the same way about it. “You know,” he said, “this street is a madhouse.” He settled down to ruminate and wait for the green light. “You know,” he asked, “what I do

as I do on certain days when the quite obvious professional beggar whines for alms, that it has all gone beyond the bounds of reason and that she can do no more. But what I beg is this: Don’t close the door with the words, “No, not today,” unless you are certain that the man or women standing there is past self-help, is not actually hungry, and has not a hungry and cold family of children at home. And if you have a maid, say to her, “Mary, come to me if there is so one who needs real help. You are as smart as I am. “Come and tell me if a thin gray woman or an old sick man, or a discouraged young one asks for something.” There is always a way to figure it out. a a a WE can not all give money. I discovered that in two weeks I had given away a number of dollars. I could not afford to give in quarters and dimes at the door, as well as food and clothing. But we shall have to do this, and go on doing it. We shall have to divide our crusts this winter. Just a moment ago a sick woman came to my door. She was just

Is the story of Dracula real or fiction? It is fiction, based on a superstition prevalent in Transylvania. What is the largest port in area and amount of shipping on Lake Superior? Duluth-Superior Harbor, the com- j bined harbors of the cities of Duluth and Superior In Minnesota and 1 Wisconsin. How long does it take the blood to circulate through the human body? About fifteen seconds. ‘ How many infants under 1 year are in the United States? The 1930 census enumerated 1,112,171 males and 1,078,620 females. y.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

germs in contaminated food and water, in breathing, in touching infected items with our hands which then are conveyed to the mouth and nose, and on money, in clothing, and in various other ways. However, the dosage of germs thus received, or the strength of the germs, is not sufficient to bring about disease. The exposure of the germ to fresh air and sunlight and the fact that it is trying to live on a substance not suitable to it as a habitation may prevent its multiplying and may cause the germ itself to lose its strength. However, under other circumstances, germs multiply in tremendous numbers, so that the human being who comes in contact with them sustains a massive assault. For instance, an infected fruit

after I’ve had a couple of good days with the hack?” I supposed, of course, that he went on a boat or a bender or a street car, but I made no attempt to guess. I just indicated that I was curious to know. “Well,” explained the driver. “I know a little street in Brooklyn where nobody bothers you. I just drive the taxi over there, get inside and read. I’m set for the day.” “Do you know the works of Edna Ferber?” he added. I admitted that I did. “Well, she’s my favorite author. Hot stuff! It sort of rests me.” n tt tt Act of Renunciation “■OUT let me get this straight,” I J3 interrupted. “You mean you never get any calls over there in that street in Brooklyn?” “No, that’s the idea. I might get hailed on the way over or coming back, but if I manage to slip by it’s perfectly safe. Say, they’re people over there in that little block in Brooklyn who never rode on a railroad, train, let alone a taxicab.”

out of the hospital. Too weak and thin to care to eat, she only wanted tea. We gave her a little money, a coat, some canned goods, bread and butter to take home to her children. And she rested until her pain got better. I thought she was going to faint, poor girl. She wasn’t very old, and oh, so thin! “Every one closes their door in iny face,” she panted. “There are so many beggars who take advantage now that you can’t blame people.” But once in a while there is an angel to be fed unawares. We have to risk that. Not once in a while, but often. We can not help everybody. But aside from our contributions to welfare chests this fall, we shall! have to enlarge our hand-to-hand charity and help mothers, fathers and children to live.

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peddler may use saliva to polish the fruit and the germs may grow very well on the fruit thus polished. Germs may be deposited with sewage in running water and grow tremendously on the sewage, so that when the water from a contaminated stream is drunk by a human being he gets in enough germs to cause prompt infection. Sometimes an infected food handler is employed to mix a potato salad, to bake a custard or to make a pie, which is then kept under insanitary conditions before being eaten, so that the germs multiply profusely. When this occurs, everybody who eats the infected food may become seriously infected, as occurred recently in a picnic when 800 people became sick from eating infected potato salad.

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

It almost sounded to me like a song cue, ‘A little block in Brooklyn, a good book and myself.” But, of course, that doesn’t scan. Still, I suddenly realized that my friend was spiritually kinsman to a most famous poet. I speak of Surrogate O’Brien's friend Horace. He, too, had the vision of a Sabine farm far from the madding crowd. He, too, wanted to get away from traffic and the tribunes of the people. There must be, for the soul’s sake, retreats where no pale Praetorians rush in with staves or counsel. a a a \ I'd Drive There Right. Now! IWISH I knew how to drive and had a taxi and knew the name of that little street in Brooklyn. Os course, he never told me. He had no desire to have the place all cluttered up with parked cars. In no time at all his sanctuary might become a boulevard. But I will do the next best thing in the four weeks which I trust will follow on after the election, in spite of Republican predictions of doomsday. If the echoes of the campaign still linger correctly in my ears, 1 believe I heard that grass is to grow in the streets of our great cities. Very well. I will pillow my head upon it. And if anybody says: “Will you make a speech?" “Will you be a toastmaster?” “Will you do ten minutes over the air?” I mean to spring upon that person and wring his neck, if possible. Why, that’s a thought, ‘it might be even more secluded than the little street in Brooklyn. I might get life and solitary confinement. But I’m afraid It won't work. No jury in the world would convict me. (Copyright. 1932, by The Time*) What is osmiridium? How is it used? It is an alloy of osium and iridium; almost infusiable; hard as tool steel, and is attacked only by the most concentrated aqua regia. It j is used for tipping gold pens, for | delicate bearings instead of ruby, and for draw-plates for making gold [ and silver wire of exact dimensions.

NOV. 9. 1932

sciencel —BY DAVID DIETZ '

Before Many Years, WorldWide Telephony Will Be Accepted as Long-Distance Calls Are Today. THE notion of telephoning to London, Paris, or Berlin still possesses a thrill for most of us chiefly because we can’t afford it. But to those whose business require it, it probably is no more romantic in their minds .than the sending of a cablegram. Familiarity, as some wit once observed, breeds that tired feeling. The miracle of one age is the commonplane of the next. It is difficult for most of us to realize that there was a day when the telephone in itself was a startling thing, a source of w'onder and amazement. Then when people became accustomed to telephoning over short distances, the long-distance telephone became the source of wonder. Today it is accepted as a matter of course. Before many years, world-wide telephony will be accepted in the same way. Today, however, we still find ourselves marveling at the growth of world-wide telephony. This topic recently was discussed at the International Electrical Congress in Paris by Bancroft Gherardi, vicepresident and chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Cos., and Frank B. Jewett, pres.dent of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. a a a Remarkable Conquest THE rapidity with which telephone service has been extended to world-wide proportions during the last few years is perhaps one of the most remarkable of man’s conquests over time and distance,” Gherardi and Jewett said in their joint paper, titled “WorldWide Telephony—lts Problems and Future.” “Already it is a commonplace to hear the human voice from thousands of miles away, over land and sea. Distance and the great natural barriers of the world no longer prevent us from talking with each other. Across oceans and over high sierras the voice now carries its full mesasge. “Furthermore these results have been accomplished within a tew years. Telephony has demonstrated its international and intercontinental services. The development and extension of those services lie before us.” World-Wide telephony, the two famous engineers point out, was a natural sequence to the development of great networks of wires on the various continents. Each network joined millions of telephone users. The next step was to connect the networks. There were, however, some very early attempts to overcome the barriers of the oceans. “The first step was taken in 1891," the two authors say, “when the first submarine telephone cable was laid between Dover and Calais.” (This spanned the English channel, connecting France and England.) . “Further submarine cable developments followed, including the laying of a continuously loaded cable between Denmark and Sweden in 1902.” a a a Growth of Service W7 HILE ese ear ly attempts to v v cross bodies of water were going on, great advances were being made in spanning long distances over land by the invention of the loading coil and other improvements in transmission. “In 1911 sendee was opened between New York 'and Denver, a distance of 2,000 miles,” Gherardi and Jewett say. “By 1913 the development of underground cable had progressed s8 that a cable was placed in service between Boston, New York and Washington, a distance of 420 miles. “But it required still further improvements in the whole art of long distance telephone transmission, including amplifiers and their application to wire lines before long distance telephony could develop beyond the semi-continental stage to truly transcontinental and transoceanic distances. “With improved amplifier elements and the perfection of means for applying repeaters came the opening of transcontinental service ih America in 1915 initially between New York and San Francisco, 3,200 miles. “This w y as followed after the close of the war by the rapid development of telephony of continental scope throughout Europe, stimulated by the close co-operation of the European administrations through the international advisory committee on long distance telephony. In South America the Trans-An-drean telephone line between Buenos Aires and Santiago was opened in 1928. Two years later came the transcontinental lines in Australia. "Overseas radio telephone experiments, in 1915, successfully transmitted the human voice from Washington to the Hawaiian islands. “Commercial development of intercontinental telephony, however, followed somewhat slowly, both because of the war and because of the tremendous inherent technical difficulties.”

f ANNIVERSARY

KAISER ABDICATES ON Nov. 9. 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm and the crown prince renounced their rights to the throne of Germany. French cavalry crossed the Belgian border. British troops took Maubeuge and Tousnai and the Americans clinched control of both sides of the Meuse. The American ship Saetia was sunk by a floating mine off the coast of Maryland.

Daily Thought

Curse not the king, no not even in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry they voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.—Ecclesiastes 10:20. If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.—Young.