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TTTF. TT.T AT'HT TC TIHTHV VflVl'M Til' It 1 in--1. NBV ORK DAY BY DcmiJ THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK STREETS JUST FOLKS. BY EDGAK A. Gl'EST.

imvl'or our readers! fore the beginninr of the school year. One trustee bought 250 gallons of perfumed disinfectant at $2 a gallon, when fumigating candles at $10 a dozen would have been equally efficient. Relatives of trustees have been hired at $10 a c'ay to spend, a few hours driving school busses. Salary claims have 3 1 1 Journal in 1S2.T absorbed ir.03 starched white cuffs, which is what- TELEPHONE RI. 7 Established as The Indianapolis The Indianapoli3 Sundat Sentinel JOHN C.

THF INniANAPOUS HB CHICAGO EVENING POST JTHK TERRE HAUTE STAR THE cept for those who can conscientiously commit an act which the law calls a crime. Increased knowledge prcbably has taken away much of the fecr of fu funds has by no means marked, of every township trustee. Some; and succeeded in handling: the with reasonable efficiency. The system however, as it has failed to keep of the state. The evil can be adoption of the county unit system affairs.

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Fress is exclusively entitled to the Use for republication of ail news dispatches credited to "It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also local news published herein. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES: KELLY-SMITH COMPANY. York Chicago Pniladelphia Detroit Atlanta Boston i Ave are so arcustomri tt masquerading ourszlvts 'bep-e others that ivs end b'j deceiving ourselves. Eochrfoucaulfl. EW Oct.

31. Thoi'ghts i while strolling: What's become the strong man who used to stop a runaway horse with his fists? Ber-ton Braley's slouch hat. Beatrice Hereford, the mimic. Barbers at the gallery entrance of the Metropolitan opera. Keating, the magician.

And new Broadway heart palpitator. John Cuneo, a Chicago (111.) boy, who made good in the city. The best orchestras now play in chop suey dinner places. Harry Acton's rosewood cane. Why do ventriloquists call their dummies Jerry? Ann Pennington is bobbed and hennaed.

She wa3 about the last hold-out. A lecture on fish culture. The lure of toy store windows for grown-ups. Stylishly dressed mannikins who peep through Fifty-seventh street- windows. The aloofness of a fur-coated chauffeur.

John Ringling prowling about a private art gallery Charlie Journal, the night clubs' most celebrated head waiter. "The Dunk and Dine" a lunchroom. Michael Arlen's double, who clerks in a Madison avenue haberdashery. The grinning starter who cries: "Reuben's that's all!" Many big hotels operate their cafe-teries under another name. Frank Crowninshield, the blue-blooded editor of Vanity Fair.

Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. VanDine) even has a mystery novel beard. Hooray! a country sausage shop. Rarely see a shepherd's plaid suit any more.

The enticing row of bookshops On east Fifty-ninth street. Shifty-eyed crowds around garages. Three airplanes over Columbus Circle. The lame movie doorman, once a bullfighter in Spain. Hooked in the hip.

The biggest electric signs have been to ballyhoo chewing gum. Passengers hopping out of coast buses for a long stretch. The paw-paw season is over back home. Those worldlings you see in evening clothes before sundown. Sidewalk ticket speculators who wear huge diamond ring3 looped around ties.

Come hither girls with a ready dinner look. Mike Hogg and his bride. The man who made a fortune selling picture postcards, ready stamped. -4- -t- Colored shirts with attached collars to match are being featured with BLAME IS BIPARTISAN. The effort to blame the Republican city organization and the Republican mayoralty and council--jnanic nominees for ihe present school board is so iitupid that it should deceive nobody.

Those representatives of the Republican party in the present 'Jcity campaign are in no wise responsible for the City school commission and are not even suspected 'Of being in sympathy with it. Voters who have been in the city long enough to 'dot familiar with political conditions know the prc3-i'int school commissioners were nominated from IN ACTION AGAIN. cry raised a few years ago was This yesr some of the same calling; loudly to "save the Republican "save ndif.napDl;3" then because their own way in naming the Republican candidate. They neve not nerve there is tny objection to the the saddle this year, so they are the party from under him. today, ju3t as it was tight years that the Republican party has candidates organization competent to take care can not be ruled from the side therefore marked for slaughter by that the Republican nominee ycai-3 ago and the city kept on as refusal of the voters to heed the Tiir Republican party, no doubt, p.nd sprightly' in spite of the proclaiming that its salvation lies in party is offering a ticket that excelled by any in the history of elections.

It has an outstanding, clear-headed business man as its in Alfred M. Glossbrenner. The are able and honorable. That questioned in any quarter. is being made is not in behalf of candidates or against the Republican an attempt at getting Republican cat's-paws in pulling from the fire those who feel that any party they be "saved." among a long: list of aspirants.

Citizens who tike time to do the'r own thinking refill that the! present school board went into office- with the wave, 'that-swept into office Updike pi representative, Duvall as mayor and the discredited councilmen who have since been ousted. r't The Republican party was caught napping by an Organized bloc that had strength enough to put its slate and to get the party nomination. The candidates went into office under Republican t)ut did not represent Republican sentiment, then and ilo not represent it now. The school commissioners were 'nonpartisan basis just as they will be next week. 'Ttht Democratic nominee and committee are just a3 to blame as any one for the opportunity which permitted the present school commissioners to tri-mmph four years ago.

The commissioners did not run as Republicans then and are not doing so now. Ill A HOOSIER LISTENING POST BY KATE MII.NER RABB mm 7 lie Hint invite ejpresxinn opinion row tin rcailirn. Letters nhould be hrn and Id the jj'itnl not vime than X'lO wot tin. 7 hry sftould be on topic tit u'netat iti-t rest and mut the tiaii'e rind tiddrcsx the urttcr as an cLulcnte vl toort ttiith. FOR GOOD OF SC HOOLS.

To the of The Star: Though I am a Democrat and ordi- narily would vote for Mark Gray and other individuals running for election as school commissioners, 1 feci it my bounden duty a3 a citizen to support the nonpartisan citizens' school committee ticket in it3 entirety. Our public schools should be free of political domination. Their administration should be on a identic, efficient system such 83 controls the moft progressive and succesiful business concerns of the city in order to secure the beat educational opportunities for the children and young people of Indiananolis. QUINTET SUPPORTER. Indianapolis.

"CHIMES AND CHUCKLES." Tn the Editor of The Star In a recent edition of The Indianapolis Sunday Star there appeared a brief article and a poem under the general headinsr, "Chimes and Chuckles From Curly Shingles Farm." I This article and poem deserve favorable mention. The writer is entitled to a more elevating "nom de plume" than Tramp Starr. It makes no difference, however, what he choor-es tn call himclf. so long as he provides us with this kind of thought. Sure we want to know what one farmer thinks of death.

We would also like to know what he thinks of life. Perhaps we may expect that later. I am glad that through this column I can express my views and say that, I sincerely appreciate "Chimes and Chuckles" and hope that others shall follow. GUY EMERSON LOWRY. Southport, Ind.

SOUTHEASTER PLEASED To the Editor of The Star: "A Sure Southsider Satisfied" as well a3 Irvington neighbors. The English avenue improvement now about ready for traflle, a long wanted and needed public improvement which surely is a credit to Mr. Moore, the city engineer, and the present administration in the manner and speed pushing it to rapid finish after starting, I am one of many others who have, for twelve years, worked for this much needed improvement, but from past administrations each and all gave us smiles and a promise to "look into the matter." We now have a 40-foot roadway and curb from Southeastern to the Erookville road surpassed by no other two-mile drive in the city. It is a short, direct way of evading the traffic jams of Washington street. The Board of Works agreed to put in sidewalks in the spring and a line of electric lamps on each side of English, fitting the beautiful "English boulevard." Our new school at Emerson and English and the Irving-ton high will be built if we do "sink the Shipp." Wa are proud of old English with all our conveniences.

City water, gas, sewer, phone, electric light3, two bus lines and lots of fresh air, where you can own a nice home and plenty of garden space within sight of the beautiful Christian S. J. WARD, 502 South Emerson avenue. CONSCIENCE AS A GUIDE. To the Editor of The Star: Recently a noted New York minister, answering a question over the radio, as to whether or not eon-science is a safe guide, said that our conscience is liable to lead us anywhere; that besides conscience we need convictions, etc.

If he is right, I should like to know what conscience is. According to my conception, confidence is that which causes one to feel that he ought or ought not to do a certain thing. I can't see how one's conscience and his convictions could ever be opposed to each other. No doubt the fact that two persons may hold radically different opinions upon a question and both be equally conscientious has led people to say that' they acted conscientiously in certain cases when they really did not. And it is this fact, I think, that caused the minister to say that we need something more than conscience, which is true.

But the thing we need is unerring judgment, and not to discard our conscience as a guide, because it sometimes leads us into trouble. Perhaps what we need most today is people who will let their consciences be their guide. Then if we all could have a perfect judgment the world would be morally perfect. Every act of man is done either to increase his pleasure or to decrease his pain, or both. By pleasure, I mean any agreeable experience, and by pain, I mean any disagreeable experience.

The approval of our conscience is pleasure. Its disapproval is pain. If this pleasure ana pain were intense enougn we wouiu neeu no prisons, electric chairs or other means of external punishment, ex- 1 NOTABLE AIR PIONEERING. Announcement that the Daniel Guggenheim fund for the promotion of aeronautics will be terminated 't the end cf the current year not only directs Irenewed attention to its invaluable contribution to "aerial progress, but also demonstrates that. succc33 ihas crowned most of the problems with which the Ifund was particularly concerned.

At the conclusion VjDf Its activities, the fund will have spent about $5,000,000 for the development and fostering of safe "aviation. Its aid was extended at a time when flying required an experimental research laboratory, which government funds were unavailable. The fund is being closed on advice of trustees and, officers, who point out that the tasks it undertook at its inception in January, 1926, have been performed. One of its last projects was the competition to secure a foolproof plane which could bs operated by an average person without special fly-'. lng instruction.

Tests are now under way at iMltchel field, Long island. They have produced from all parts of the United States and from THE COACH. the football coach be relegated durinj contests and control of the student captain, made recently aftermath of the Carnegie report and alleged professionalism, revive a no means new to American universities, discussion is not likely to go its predecessors toward effecting a handling of athletic teams. the critics assert, that the players than pawns or puppets, moved by sitting on the sidelines. Agility, skill are important factors in but the strstegy of the contest the bench.

Theoretically, the football provide a better test of comparative coach were denied any part during familiar with the difficulty frequently in inducing a player to leave physical condition makes a substitution It is a question whether that wisely vested in the captain. So requires a directing hand, the qualified than any other to supervise of the players and the general the battle. as might be supposed, are unanimously to the plan of relegating them to An Ada (O.) correspondent, Mrs. J. E.

McMullan, sends the following interesting story of some early Indiana wedding dates. "I have just returned from Richmond, where I went to see the wedding hats of my great-great-grandparcnts. I think you will find the story of interest to the readers of your column. "These hats were the wedding hats of Emma Elliott and Catherine Lamb, who were married in Center Meeting, Randolph county. North Carolina, third month, twenty-fourth day, 1790.

"Exum and Catherine Elliott came to Wayne county, Indiana, in the fall of 1815, and in 1816 he settled on a farm three miles northwest of Cen-terville, where he lived, and died Oct. 8, 1811, and Catherine on Sept. 2, 1859. Both are sleeping in the West Grove burying ground, about one-half mile south of their farm. "They were the parents of thirteen children, two of whom died in North Carolina, and the youngest was born in Wayne county, Indiana.

All the children came to Indiana except the two who died in North Carolina. There are many worthy descendants now all over the United States. --(--- "The hats are worthy of detailed description. They are typical of the hats worn by Quakers of that day. Exum's hat is of beaver, and resembles very much the dress hat of gentlemen of today, or the 'silk as it sometimes is called.

The crown is 51 inches high and 71 inches in diameter. The brim'is 3S inches wide and at the front side has a strip of velvet to lift the hat by. "The story has always been that Catherine Lamb made her hat, that is braided and sewed the straw and shaped hat. When we recall what perfect work was done by the early settlers, we must believe it is true. The hat is an exquisite leghorn, and is eighteen and one-half COMMON' I.ANGI AGE.

Wander where you will. Go travel up and down, Or east or west, and still You'll see men smile and frown. And this in every land Is speech you'll understand. jhf light that's in the eye. The smile upon the lip World-over will supply The touch of fellowship.

The tongue is strange, but, oh The friendly glance you know. In Germany or Spain, In Itaiy or France, You'll find the meaning plain In every human glance. The smile and frown of home You'll find where'er you roam. And by this common touch The traveler comes see We're all alike in much' Who make earth's company. By smile and frown we reach Beyond the shades of speech.

(Copyright, 1929, Edgar A. Guest.) irror of Washington BY CLINTON W. GILBERT. Congressman La Guardia is not going to be elected mayor of New York. He may even be as badly defeated as the usual Republican candidate for mayor of that city is.

The so-called silkstocking element in the Republican party of New York city does not like him. Tammany's strength is unimpaired. And Mayor Walker, in spite of his triviality, is popular. But I do not suppose that La Guardia had the slightest notion when he sought and obtained the Republican nomination for mayor that he would be elected. He cut his eveteeth politically a long time ago.

The unexpected might happen. Some scandal might become public which would upset all calculations. Short of that. Tammany would win as usual. But all the same, La Guardia has made a fight just as if he had every chance of winning.

He has not neglected his opportunity just because it did not seem as promising as he would like to have had it. The election will not go to Tammany by default. He has made the most resourceful campaign for the mayoralty that any Republican has made in years. And he has added very greatly to his reputation by doing so. La Guardia always suffered in Washington from certain prejudices.

In the first place, there is his recent foreign -origin. And that is always something of a handicap. In the next place, his party regularity has not been above reproach, for once when the Republicans refused to give him a re-nomination he ran for Congress as a Socialist and won. Again his small, rolypoly figure made him slightly comic; size and shape do contribute to the total impression formed of a public man. And then he lacked the stodgv seriousness so grestly admired in Washington.

He loved publicity and got it for himself; so he offended in many ways. Actually, he is a man of much more then average ability in Washington and of energy almost unmatched there. And with all his attitudes and poses, he i3 really a serious man with a habit of accomplishing what he undertakes. And he is going to be taken much more seriously as a result of (his mayoralty campaign, esDecially if he should get a con-siderablv bigger vote than Republican candidates for mayor of New York usually do. Copyright.

1929. Little Benny's Notebook BY LEE PAPE. Ma sent me around to the drug store this morning before skool for some stamps to put on letters, and tonite we was eating suppir and she sed, Benny, where is your mind? Mam? Why? I sed, and she sed, Because anybody with a mind in their brane couldent possibly go out for stamps erly in the morning and come home in the evening still without them. Well wizz, ma, I did get them, I sed. I went to the drug store and got them before I went to skool this morning.

I sed. and nop sed, There you are, mother, a distinguished member of my sex has been misjudged agen. Well my goodness if you got them, where are they? ma sed. Me starting to feel in my pockits, and ma sed, my lands he's been carrying them in his clothes all day, theyll all be stuck together like a molten mass of uselessness. Ha ha, I did that trick more than once when I was his age, ha ha, pop sed, and ma sed, I fail to see how that makes it funny.

Me keeping on feeling for the stamps and then remembering something, saying, now I know, pops little brown address book was on the hall rack so I put the stamps in that. Then Im the fellow thats been carrying them around all day, pop sed. And he took his address book out of his pockit saying, Yes, their here all rite, yee gods their stuck like iron rite on top of my most important page of addresses, for Peet sake, what a place to plaster a flock of gooey stamps, havent you any sents at all? Well wizz, pop, dident you ever do that when you was my age? I sed. Hee hee thats a good question, whats funny now, hee hee, ma sed, and pop sed, Nothing, and come to think of it I dont bleeve anything was in the ferst place, and if I dont rescue these addresses from this ocean of glue this entire family will proberly be in the poorhouse in less than 30 days. give it to me, helpless, ma, sed.

And she took the address book out in the kitchen and let steam squert on the stamps till they came loose, and we kepp on eating suppir, being veel and things. Two Words a Day. BY L. E. CHARLES.

RACKETEER. Noun. This word, as well as the more familiar "racket," has a very special meaning today. A racketeer is orre who profits from the business of some one else. He is usually the member of a gang who by physical or financial threats gains control of a certain percentage of another man's business.

A racketeer interested in the baking business, for instance, with a powerful political or financial backing may demand payment from every baker within a certain distance. Racketeering is unlawful and is disastrous to good business, but in larger cities it is practiced and is unchecked by the powers of city government. The final syllable of rack-e-teer is accented, SPORADICALLY. Adverb. We de rive this word from the Greek words for scattering or sowing seed, thus the term ap.

nropriatev means occurring in scat tered rases or at irregular intervals Events which happen sporadically might also be said to happen singly, separately, or here and there. We stress the secona syiiame or spo rad-i-cal-ly, sounding as in "obey' and a as in "am." ever you think up. An enterprising fellow who trained ushers in cinema cathedrals in ths crisp military manner has been engaged to give the same soldierly click to bell boys and pnges in a big new hotel. Parade Palms up! The great drawback to mastodonla inns is they are too much cut to pattern. Everything is standardized and lacks the spontaneity i'hich makes a hotel patron feel re Is something more than a ticket tnd a number.

There are still those who enjoy being greeted by name before the clerk glances at it on the register. Servants stand at attention with the fixity of figures on Wedgwood plates. They do not look at you but through you. All the "accommodations" are controlled by predatory concessionaires and such hotels have the fleeting rush of a union station. As a former hotel clerk we often wonder what has become of that beaming and jovial drummer who bounded out of the hack and slid his valise across the hotel office from the front door to the desk.

He was reputed to be rewarded with a staggering salary of $150 a month and expenses, and he graced the "drummer's table" the one with the bowl of fruit. He was most always a great admirer of Elbert Hubbard. About the toughest looking mugs in New York are the waiters in the hash houses along the water front. The majority are left-over barmen of the south and west street swing-door saloons. They generally wear a three days growth, a greasy apron and blue work shirt open at the throat and are armed with a fierce scowl.

And they rule by the domineering might of the If a customer puts up the slightest argument he is on the receiving end of a swing from the ankle as quick as that. "Why," writes some one who seems interested, "do you live in the roaring confusion of the Forty-second street district when there is so much peace and quiet a short ride away?" I live near the Grand Central' to watch the trains come in. inches in diameter. The crown is only one and one-half inches high, and five and one-half inches Jn diameter. Originally the brim was lined underneath with a greenish-blue silk, but that has long since dropped away, The hat was worn with a broad ribbon over the crown and tied under the chin, making the brim droop and giving a poke effect.

H- "As the married women in Quaker circles of that day wore the bonnet, Catherine's hat was carefully laid away, and, in after years, was given to her daughter, Rebecca Elliott, who married John Maudlin in the West Grove meeting, the seventeenth of the eleventh month, 1825. John Maudlin was son of Benjamin Maudlin, who came to Wayne county in 1807, before Wayne county was organized, however. "Rebecca Elliott Maudlin died the tenth day of the fifth month, 1875, and is now sleeping in West GrOve burying ground. Her husband, John Maudlin lived until the twenty-second day of the third month, 1892, and his death he gave the hats' to his who still has them in her possession. It is her plan to leave the hats to some historical society having fireproof housing.

"When John and Rebecca Elliott Maudlin were in their old age, their home burned and but few thing3 were saved, but among the few were these hats, the old family Bible and a few articles of furniture. V' The. above article is not only interesting, but may bi used to "point a moral." The present possessor of the hats "will give them to some historical society having fireproof housing." Wayne county doubtless has many other such relics; other counties in the state have valuable historical papers and relics which their owners hesitate to give up because of the lack of suitable fireproof museums. Provision for such museums should be sought by our county historical societies. inree to lour glasses oi mnK, ior time and phosphorus and complete protein; two ounces or so more proUia food (building and repair) eggs, flesh food, cheese whole grain cereals and breads, raw fruits and vegetables (for vitamins, mineral elements and bulk), and some cooked vegetables as well.

The hard crusts of the bread and the raw fruits and vegetables will also provide exercise for the jaws and teeth, which is a large factor in the development of the jaws. Now you can anticipate from all I have written what I'll advise, Mrs. S. It is to take your little girl to a dentist who keeps up in his profession. We have a list of books on the general care and feeding of children, which you will find helpful.

See column rules for obtaining this. Mrs. T. Your questions on menopause (change of life) are answered in our pamphlet on the hygiene of women. i Editors Note: Dr.

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Tomorrow: Swimming and Swimming Pools. -DON'T BE AN ALSO-RAN, Lafayette Journal and Courier. It pays to be the head man. There were eighty-eight other fellows on the fleet of Christopher Columbus, but who can name one of the adventurous eighty-eight? SOO, BOSS! Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Is Bossv to follow Dobbin into ob livion? Government figures sho? that the number of cows in tht United StaVs has declined by.

pei cent since 1W. A been raisinea. This waste of the administration EDITOR. STak THE Ml'NCIK 8TAK have endeavored TKRRE HAI.ri.ITM r-rr chosen then on a The individual and able to devote of Hoosier voters. of The board ter of actual ha eolfleVi lntert- schools' business is at fault, pace with the growth remedied by the in Indiana's educational "SAVERS" The campaign "Save Indianapolis." chronic savers are party." They wanted to they did not get mayoralty enough to pretend nominee who i3 in proposing to "save" The difficulty ago, seems to be and an of themselves.

They lines and are the dirgruntled. It will be recalled was elected eight usual in face of appeal to it. will continue vigorous few who are hari-knri. The Republican has not been Indianapolis municipal vigorous, mayoralty nominee others on the ticket fact is not being The fight that the Democratic nominees. It is votcn to act as the chestnuts of can not run should RELEGATING Suggestions that to the stands team vested in the as a possible its revelations of theory which is by The present any further than change in the It is true, as are little more the rival coaches strength and natural advancing the ball, is directed from game would merit if the the contest.

Spectators are encountered the game when his necessary. authority could be long as the game coach is better the manipulation strategy of The coaches, opposed the stands. They of his present placing students classroom. The convincing. The practice absorbing coach, just as the of a professor.

to learned their should have no who, in used, is not even how much Mr. Glossbrenner's leaks should win plumbers. The average the marked sense of humor. The campaign spellbinders are not A violent storm next Tuesday, is the Shipp lines. It is also time to doff their The weather some softer places games.

A wounded orders, although, would Arthur Brisbane think more, but think more about In the first is even less ciate some expert the storage supplies tips. Attica There are still who ask, "What ignore or are facts. For example, has just pointed investments in a total This in American loans Conference foreign investments readily conceivable might be a total generat welfare ture punishment. Our manner of dealing with crime has probably takn away much of the fear of immediate punishment. Grp.nting that we are passing through a period of moral laxity, it doesn't necessarily follow that people are les.i conscientious than formerly.

It may result from a lack of fear of external pun- ishment. The real difference between a good person end a bad one is that the conscience of the good one inflicts sufficient punishment to deter him from wrongdoing, while that of the bad per3on does not. Is this difference due entirely to heredity or does training have romethinR to do with it? It seems to me thtt our psychologists should be doing all they can to an3vcr this question and, if possible, help parents and teachers in training the consciences of children to inflict more severe internal punishment. And our penologists should devise means of handling crime that would increase people's fear of external punishment. Vernon, Ind.

L. A. JACKSON. NOTHING TO "COFFINISM." To the Editor of The Star: I have known George Coffin, the present Republican county chairman of Marion county, since he was a child, and like thousands of others who have known him intimately all his lire, wonder why the opposing political raise.1 such a hullabaloo about "Coffinism?" To read a Democratic speech made in Indianapolis during the present city campaign is like, reading an account of an undertakers' convention, as about all they talk about is "Coffinism." Is it possible that the Democratic organization of Indianapolis realizes there is no vote drawing power in the personal of their city ticket, and that they continually complain of "Coffinism" in the Republican party, to make a smoke screen to becloud the weakness of their own ticket? I wag born and raised at Carmel, and so was George V. Coffin, and considering that I have known him intimately, and favorably all his life, I wonder what the opposition hopes to gain by raising the cry of "Cofiin-ism" again3t George V.

Coffin, who is regarded as an honest, upright, Christian citizen by all who have an intimate knowledge of his life. He is a member of the Friends (Quaker) church. All three of his children can be found in Sunday school every Sabbath, and Mr. and Mrs. Coffin are God-fearing, home-loving, Christian people.

Every time Capt. Coffin has been elected Republican leader of Marion county, the local Republican ticket has been elected; is it any wonder the Democrats and nonpartisan cliques claim he is too "partisan" to be county chairman. Did any one ever hear of a nonpartisan Republican county chairman? Just because he has the confidence of the people to such an extent that he always wins is no reason he should be called "boss." The facts are, and have been, the people are "boss," as they are the ones who select, him. When a young man George V. Coffin came from Carmel to Indianapolis and enlisted in the Spanish-American war.

While serving in China against the Boxer movement, his daring regiment was the only one that scaled the famous Pekin wall. After returning from the war to Indianapolis, within eight years he served every position in the Indianapolis police department, from patrolman to superintendent. It is within the memory of most all voters that during the critical strike in 1913 the mayor, superintendent of police and board of safety all resigned, and after civic societies and business interests prevailed on Capt. Coffin to act as superintendent of police, the state of chaos over the city was soon removed and law and order restored. In the same year the famous 1913 flood decended on Indianapolis, and all newspapers in the city at that time vied with each other in making Capt.

Coffin the hero of the flood. It will be remembered ne Draveu me raging torrents of White river, crossed to the West side, confiscated food and fed the hungry. No, he was not called a "boss" in those day'. He was ca 1 ed ero I The PPf Le.fd-i iioi.nH MBllffll tUUIKJ again in 1916, he leading the Republi can ticket eacn time. The last two times the people selected him leader of the Republican party in Marion county Capt.

Coffin was at home sick in bed, therefore, in this case as in most others, the people were the "boss" and not Mr. Coffin. Those of us who have known George V. Coffin since childhood, before and after he came to Indianapolis from the Quaker town of Carmel, Hamilton county, believe the opposing party only does their own cause harm by shouting "Coffinism." From past experiences, "Coffinism" is more popular with the Republicans than "Jeffersonism" is with the Democrats. Again the question, "Why does the opposition shout "Coffinism?" HENRY A.

ROBERTS. 2309 College avenue. 11. The short story must find fortune in the periodicals of vast circulation; vast circulations must be written down to, for readers with high tastes are not numbered by millions; and so the short story tends to cheapness; and the promoters of vast circulations put a high-powered advertising-back of silly stories to make them seem significant. t- 12.

The short story must be produced rapidly and in great volume to feed the machines of vast circulations, and so speed is imposed upon its writer. The short story, forced to be snappy, begets restlessness and dissatisfaction in writer ar.d reader alike. 14. The short story finds the creative mind of the writer and the crear tive response of the reader worn down by this restlessness. 15.

The short story and the big circulation magazines that print them are standardized, made by mass production, and conformity is enskirced upon writers, their output, ana their readers. 16. The short story, under mass production, tends to think more of the uniformity than of the quality of its material; and with poor material, its writers resort to veneer either )f a sterile imitation of culture or a slick, ingenious patter, 17. The short storv scorns Intelli gence beyond a certfin point, for too much intelligence breed a revolt In its writers and in its reeders against its shoddv material and its standardized manner. Thin, as Mr.

O'Brien pees it, the American short story takes on the color of the machine see for which it is being manufactured. Tomorrow "I Stufe Medicine (Copyright, 1929.) intimate that depriving the coach authority would be comparable to in charge of the college or the attempt to draw a parallel is not football players spend the week's the instructions given by the students digest the classroom lectures The football game is the examination determine how well the players have lessons. On that theory, the coach more to do than the classroom professor schools where the honor system is present while the students demonstrate they have learned. pledge to stop the financial considerable support from the 'several European nations. The conclusion of the existence also will be marked by additional grants to schools and colleges and the establishment cf an airship institute.

When the foundation began its work with a gift bf $2,500,000 from Daniel Guggenheim, it was an-' nounced that its put poses would be to promote education throughout the country, to in the extension of aeronautical science and further the development of commercial aircraft, -particularly in its use as a regular means of trans-portation. The fund has become internationally known for the success of its experiments in fog and aerial navigation, together with its encouragement to independent aeronautical engineering projects. The tour which carried Col. Lindbergh 'lnto every state in the Union was one of the more "popular ventures sponsored by the fund. 2 TRUSTEE SCHOOL WASTE.

Additional charges in the long indictment of extravagance and corruption against the administrations of schools under the township trustee system 'have been filed by Maurice Early in his series of 'articles in The Star dealing with major issues of a 'proposed constitutionil convention. Efforts to free the rural schools from this blighting influence have failed at sessions of the Legislature because public opinion has not been educated to the point of relief from the political domination of the township trustees' militant lobby. The campaign will icontinue until the schools eventually are rescued I ETe HEALTH BY LULU HUNT PETERS.M.D. AUTHOR OF "DIET AND FOR CHILDREN" Halloween celebration also demonstrates variety which exists in the has reached the stage where the so particular about original ideas. on the political sea, due to strike expected to cause heavy damage to I an archaic system smacking of rail-fence days.

Mr. Early's article is a scathing arraignment for some of the political Halloween masquerades. LITERATURE AND THE MACHINE. BY GLENN FRANK. One of America's Foremost Kducatorg and Famous Kditor.

man apparently tried to provide td light in this week's football cultist says he shot himself under under those circumstances, our inclination be to disobey. I of the inefficient system which has squandered the "taxpayers' money. "The scandal of inefficiency and Extravagance, he says, "bordering on criminal rack-'teering in some of the state-aid townships, has soft-pedaled for the sake of the cause." PaY rolls have been padded to mulct the state-Aid fund; petty political patronage has wasted thousands of dollars in exorbitant salaries to school bus drivers; money has been spent in the manner of the proverbial drunken sailor for equipment far beyond 'She normal market price. High-priced sets of books, iilmost worthless for school needs, have Imposed ad-' litional drains on the public purse. Attempts have been made by well-informed educators to enact the so-called county unit law, which iwould free the school? from the blight of township trustee politics.

They have failed because members the Legislature have hen dominated by a powerful organization of the 1,017 township trustees in "this state. An educator who endeavor? to inject a says we should all eat less and when most of us eat less we only food. night at the Metropolitan the opera important than the somber-clad groom. preparing for winter would appre ANSWERS TO MOTHERS. God could not be everywhere; therefore He made mothers.

Jewish Proverb. "Dear Doctor: Our 4-year-old daughter has two teeth (the front incisors) that are beginning to show decay, but the dentist would not fix them because he said they would soon come out and it didn't pay to fill them. What do you advise? MRS. I think you have gone to a dentist who is not keeping up with the advances in medicine and dentistry, Mrs. S.

The idea that because the first teeth will soon fall out, they needn't have any attention, was found to be wrong years ago. There are several reasons why the first teeth do need attention: 1. If the first teeth are decayed, they usually are painful and prevent the child from chewing his food. This may cause nutritional upsets. 2.

These declayed teeth are full of pus germs, which may be transmitted by the blood stream and settle on the heart valves and joints, causing serious trouble. 3. The permanent teeth, being directly under the first teeth, may become infected and decay almost as soon as they appear. 4. Unless the first teeth are filled and cared for, they may be so painful that they either have to be extracted by a dentist, or the child works on them himself until they are loose enough to pull out.

(Can't you remember see-sawing the loose teeth back and forth?) This premature loss of teeth may cause the permanent teeth to come in irregularly, so the child has crooked teeth, and it also may cause the jaws to develop improperly, 5. If the child is taken regularly to the dentist, at least once in six months, beginning cavities can be filled when they are tiny, without any pain. 6. The habits that the child acquires in caring for his first teeth are going io be carried on with his permanent teeth, and through life, in fact. Going to the dentist will make him realize, more than anything else, thu importance of his teeth, and, therefore, the need of the proper cleansing and the proper diet to furnish them the needed elements.

The diet that makes for good teeth is also the diet for the best, growth and development of the other organs of the body. I'll add here that this diet includes tips anent the moss on the trees of the squirrels and other surefire Foreign Investments. measure of efficiency into school administration is for defeat at the poll3. This applies chiefly the state superintendent of public instruction, an Official who must appeal for votes every two years. The state superintendent should be an outstand- Jng educator appointed for a long term of years or for an indefinite tenure of office.

He thus would Here are some of the things that Edward J. O'Brien, in his "Dance of the Machines," thinks characterize the American short story produced in this machine age, things that follow rather closely the things Mr O'Brien sees as characteristic of the machine, as 1 summarized them yesterday. 1. The short story must be accurate, photographic, careful in detail, without mistakes of omission. 2.

The short story works to a predestined pattern, and is thus Calvin-istic like the machine. 3. The short story is as cheap as possible in its emotions, its characters, the victories of its heroes, and its sickly sentimentality. 4. The short story must produce heroes that function as flawlessly as machines, without nervous ana unpredictable qualities.

5. The short story is impersonal, manufacturing types rather than creating: characters. 6 The short story is designed to be interchangeable witn its fellows. 7. The short story, if it be successful, must be reproduced by its author over and over again; its writer may not practice literary birth control, even though he may be able to write better stories.

8. The short story is concerned primarily With technique, its writer "making good if he masters tne techninue. 9 The short story must not guilty of mueh variation from the prevailing pattern; otherwise it will go unpublished as an article made by machinery will go unsold if an error crept into its manufacture. 10. The short story can not stand much creativeness in its author, for the market cries for standardized goods that it i used to reading.

free from political influence 'his abilities to the educational advancement of the Any change in that post, of course, would Require a constitutional amendment, a difficult task Ledger and Tribune. moss-backed American statesmen do we care about abroad?" They unacquainted with certain significiant the Department of Commerce out that there are now American Europe of great variety which represent American capital of no less than addition to the many millions of to foreigners. The National Industrial Board recently showed that, these are good business, but there are (View of the present temper jihe township trustee blight, however, could be eradicated by a simple legislative act. The last Legis- took steps to curb a portion of the state-aid even though it lacked the courage to rescue rural schools from township trustee control. While some of the poorer townships have been 'clamoring for stats aid, a cursory investigation re- sealed that books were sold to the trustees for $60 conditions under which they loss.

Obviously the stability and of the European countries is a mat- concern to us, even if only in our own 4r $70 which had an actual value '''C'UVi fcnniVaa that Brhnnl.