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Arizona California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maine,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Ne
vada New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico New
York. Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.
In thirty-th States there are more members
of the Catholic church than of any single Protestant
denomination.
In the South the church situation is entirely diff
ferent, for there Baptists and Methodsts over
whelmingly predominant, with only comparatively
thin sprinkling OF Catholics For example OF total
of 1234132 church members in Georgia, only 1924
are Catholics and there are 387,775 Methodists and
721,14O Baptsts.
In Arkansas there are 1896 Methodists 287 $40
Baptists, and only 2112o Catholics In Mississippi
there are 3216O Catholics 226,356 Methodists and
1898 Baptists.
In North Carolina the proportion of Protestants
is even greater: Catholics, 1889; Nethodists $685.
Baptsts, 535,299 The portion is not far from that
in South Carolina.
How much the nomination of Smith by the Demo-
Gratis influenced voters in Maine illustrated by the
big Republican victory, in State where of 255,293
church members over majority are Catholics,
Nobody expected Smith to carry Republican Maine
solely for the reason that more than half of the
church membership is Catholic. Nor does anyone ex
pect Hoover to carry the Solid South merely because
all southern States except Louisiana are over
whelmngly Protestant
The truth is that Protestants, Catholics and Jews
vote as Republicans Democrats when they go to
the polls. The bigots both sides of a religious
controversy are merely the froth.
The citizen who votes for candidate for no
better reason than that they worship in the same
church isn't any different from the one who votes
against candidate because he belongs to ether
church.
Deep in the hearts of sound and sane Americans
there is vigorous opposition to any union of church
and State. There are some, Of course, who will be
influenced one way or the other by religious prejudice
into lame wherever they
But there is little reason to fear that they can
seriously affect the sane thinking and the religious
tolerance of the great body of American citizens
either In the Republican North the Democratic
South.
That is the message found in the Maine election.
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When Amendments Clash

Two amendments to The Constitution of the United
States say:
I'm all criminal prosecutions the accused shall
enjoy the right to a speedy trial"-sixth amend
ment
1.-THE manufacture, sale or transportation Of in
toxicating liquor is hereby prohibted.-The
Eighteenth.
striking example Of the inconsistency and lost
motion that characterize prohibition enforcement is
presented by the New York night club cases. wherein
Federal Judge Thatcher ruled illegal the paddock
ing of resorts before their owners have been brought
to trial.
In behalf of the Eighteenth amendment the
Sixth amendment violated, and by agents OF the
Government who should have known better
This phase of prohibition enforcement-of violat-
ing one constitutional provision to enforce another
has been common practice since the Eighteenth
amendment and the Volstead act went into effect.
Particularly has It shown up in raids without search
warrants, such raids violating another of the Con-
Stitutions amendments-the Fourth
Zeal in behalf of one law at the expense Of an
not be expected of courts or law enforcement officers
certainly not from such high in the legal
profession as the Office of the Attorney General Of
the United States.
Until Government agents wake up to the fact that
one part of the Constitution is sacred as another
their enforcement activities will continue to be mis-
directed and impotent
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for Italy, studying at Padua where he obtained his
degree of doctor of medicine in 1887
The ban against the dissection of the human body,
in force through the Middle Ages, fortunately did not
apply at Padua at this time.
Accordingly Vesalus was able to devote his time
to dissections Apparently the university realized the
Importance of his work, for in 1887, the same year
that he received his degree he was elected to the
chair of surgery and anatomy.
For the next five years, he taught anatomy, hold
ing many public disSections to which the medical
students hocked.
In 1912, he finished his great treatise anatomy,
ode Human Corpores Fabrica."
The Fabrica, it is generally called, published
in 1543.
Today medical authorities regard the Fabrica as
one of the greatest books of all times
But the professors of the day were Immediately
up in arms.
Vesaus had dared to dispute the authority of the
ancient authorities. He had dared to disagree with
the Greek and Arabic writer's
Vesalus was attacked on all sides.
1t the sort of attack that Calico
had to endure when he first turned his telescope upon
the heavens. Calico told in a letter. how there were
professors who refused to look through his telescope
They preferred ancient authority to the evidence of
their eyes.
The professors who attacked vesalus were of the
same sort.
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RELIGION and Politics

Although few political preachers are doing the
best they can to divide the American people polit-
cay along religious lines there is little reason to
believe they will get very far with it,
If it possible to induce Catholics to herd to-
gether politically on side and Protestants on the
other the change from Did party standards would be
startling For in the present election most of the
southern States would go Republican and all of the
New England States, along with New York. New
Jersey, California, Michigan, Arizona, New Mexico,
Montana, Nevada, Wisconsin and probably Mime
sofa and Pennsylvania would go Democratic.
The last available figures published by the
Census Bureau show that in the following States
there are more Catholic church members than there
are members of all Protestant churches put together:
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Hats Off to Crime

Meanwhile, and as vivid side
light to the great progress we have
made in civilization and refinement,
Tony Lombardo the Chicago gang
ster, is buried with such pomp and
splendor as would do credit to a
Acknowledgement, not to say a no
bleman of Sicily.
Seventeen truckloads of flowers
lent color to the two-mile process
sion, which included AL (Scarface)
Capone, with his bodyguard. and
which was honored with the at
tentive scrutiny of hundreds of po-
lice.
The way such characters are laid
to rest is not without significance.
Big funerals imply nothing so much
as admiration. The kind rendered
to Tony Lombardo, frankie Yale,
Joe Colisimo, Dion O'Bannion in
dicate not only what is in the mind
of the underworld, but what pro-
portions it has attained.
The underworld is no longer a
skulking, despised stratum of So
ciety that fears to show itself in
public, that is content with shadowy
existence and secret burial of its
dead. 1t has acquired a business,
if not a social, standing.
1t thrives on the assumption that
it has made itself essential. 1t not
only demands pay for it's services,
but tribute to its achievements. Its
leaders are courted for their po-
litical power, its lieutenants inferred
like heroes and its exploits are
gripping the mind of youth.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Infections of Body Affect Heart Tissues

Other secondary results of such
infections are rheumatism and st.
Vitus' dance.
While such infectious diseases as
diphtheria, influenza, scarlet fever
and measles may lead to unusual
circulation of bacteria or poisons,
and possible secondary inflamma-
ton of the heart, an attack of acute
rheumatism or st. Vitus' dance or
chronic attacks of tonsilitis, are far
more likely to be followed by or as
ISOLATED with heart disease.
Another common cause of dis
eases of the heart is syphilis. This
is a potent source Of disease Of the
whole system of blood vessels.
It's presence has been associated
with hardening of the arteries, in
Examinations of the Innings OF the
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PeriIS of Cremation

Speaking of burials, there comes
word from England that spiritualists
have discovered a DANCE in too
prompt cremation. Unless the
burning 4 is delayed a reasonable
time, we are informed, the spirit
suffers from contact with the flames
and may enter eternity cripple
through scorching.
r. Montadon, a French savant,
tells the World Spiritualist Congrc S
that suffering may be severe, and
it may even cause the spirit to rise
to the astral gates lame, blind
and imperfect being"
Numerous reports to uphold this
have been received from the here
after through mediums" he says.
II recall the case of spirit who
said he was unhappy because he
woke and found himself surrounded
by flames. He thought himself in
hell"
That is an ungrateful spirit. In
stead of being unhappy, he should
have been jubilant upon discovering
thatit was only a crematory.
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Begging the Issue

A large well-known city founded by the Quakers
awakes to the discovery that prohibition has resulted
in gunner murders, millions of graft, and obvious
political corruption.
Speaking from Atlantic City, the Quaker city's
mayor has to say chat welknown respectable citizens
have cellars and are known to take drinks If it
not for thirsty citizens he says, there would be no
bootleggers.
Which has the sound of mayor trying to divert
attention from gunner and high graft 1t sounds
even more so when the mayor suggests that the police
srm themselves with search warrants and raid the
homes of these citizens.
1t is true that drinkers produce market for drinks
1t is true that q completely dry constituency would
dry up Illicit trade in BOOZE Also it is true that the
Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead act have
diverted millions Of dollars from the public treasury
and made it the premium for an outlaw industry
which consists in part of murder and in part of cor
rupting city governments, from the police up
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THIS campaign is beginning to
4 drip with insinuation and
hooey. Such issues as there were
have been lost sight Of. Argument
has given place to backbiting.
Anonymous SANDER is matched by
an effort to hang it on innocent
people.
No excuse can be offered for the
disguised scurrility with which Gov
ernor Smith is being assailed. At
best, it only can be described as the
spew Of morons. 1t is no less das-
cardly, however, than are efforts to
blame Hoover for it. No scandal
has been whispered, no unsigned
postcard sent through the mails, no
pamphlet issued from Khan head
quarters that is more deceitful, false
and misleading than the attempt o.
certain Smith supporters to create
the impression that Herbert Hoover
is in any way responsible for the
slime, has enraged, or could stop it.
Though in an exaggerated form, be-
cause of the peculiar opportunities
offered for narrow-mindedness and
bigotry, we face in this campaign
neither more nor less than we face
in every campaign. whether it is for
a justice of the peace or President
of the United States.
SANDER goes with politics, just as
sewage goes with great city. YoS
can not have free speech, free con-
science and free press without
opening channels for those who de-
light to scatter filth.
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(Terre Haute Post)

(Terre Haute PosO
The proposed insult merger
which would include the T. H. 1.
& E. T. Co. and the Dresser power
plant should not be considered
lightly by the $50 communities in
volved.
Some of the utilities in the pro-
posed merger make money. Others
do not. These utilities differ in
location and character Of service.
It is therefore of vital interest to
those of the $50 communities af-
fected where the utilities are
making money to know whether
they would be required to carry
the load for other communities
where the utilities are making no
money. The town where the utility
is profitable may even be entitled
to a reduction in rates instead OF
being taxed to keep up an I'M
profitable utility some other place
The theory of mergers is that
wasteful competition among utili-
ties of the same kind is eliminated,
which makes for better and more
economical service. The insult
merger hardly comes in that class.
There are two kinds of utilities
involved-electric railway and
electric power utilities. The merger
would tie these two types of utili-
ties together. A profit would GER
tainly be demanded on the whole
capitalization without regard to
the cost Of service to any one COM
munity.
This huge merger scheme in
volving millions of dollars might
be all right. Substantial savings
in overhead and operating costs
through simp1if1cation Of manage
ment are promised. That sounds
good providing the savings are
passed on to the utility customers
and provided the community
where the utility is profitable
doesn't have to stand for the losses
where the utilities are not on a
profit basis.
Befor this merger is finally ap-
proved the pNblic service commits
sion should infinitely pry into ev-
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Life in Old Tiger

Chairman Oldfield of the nation
al Democratic congressional COM
mittee, says he visited Arkansas,
Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee
and found the Democrats getting in
to fighting mood. He should have
included Texas, where they are al
ready in it.
Not even the veriest sceptic would
claim that Texas Democrats lack
spirit. They have become so en-
Unused over this camaign that plat
forms, declarations, acceptance
speeches and resolutions no longer
satisfy them. Others may be con-
tent with theories and pledges, but
they want action, as was demon
strated at the Dallas convention.
That convention bequeathed to
the country a plethora Of black eyes,
broken heads and bloody noses in
vindication Of its mettle, of the vim
and enthusiasm with which it ap-
preached this campaign, and, above
all else, the harmony and accord
which pervade the Democratic
party.
First, the Smith contingent purged
itself of all boilers and then to
show how ardently it approved the
New York Governor, came out for
prohibition.
Episodes of strange and startling
variety accompanied the purging
process. An ex-Goernor, leading
the bolt, called on all legal Demo-
Gratis" to fold their tents and de-
part; an ex-senator of the United
States illustrated what membership
in the greatest deliberative body
on earth means by engaging in a
fist fight over a banner; a prom
inent war horse was knocked flat
when he tried to seize another BAN
ner from one of his lad compatriots
and four stalwart partisans, who
mistook a ranger for one Of their
opponents, landed in the hospital
as the result of their folly.
Such an exhibition of militant
democracy should gladden. the heart
of Mr.. Oldfield.
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blood vessels, the appearance of
clots in the blood stream, and par
ticularly the presence of weak spots
in the blood-vessel walls.
These weak spots cannot stand
the pressure of the blood stream
and gradually give way. The re-
sulting dilated spot in the blood
vessel wall is called an aneurism.
Old age is not infrequently as
ISOLATED with weakness and failure
of the heart. The human body be-
gins to wear out slowly after pass
ing the middle milestone.
Changes develop in the walls OF
the arteries and in the pressure
of the circulating blood, with re-
sultant inequalities of nutrition and
stress.
These soon manifest themselves
in disordered action of the heart.
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MAINE A WISE STATE
a
MULE WITH PLUG HAT
4 q
SATURDAY NIGHT CLUBS

MIR. WALTER KOHLER, Repub-
IVl iican candidate for Governor
of Wisconsin, is known as the bath
tub king.
The people of Wisconsin should
now form Saturday Night clubs and
put Brother Kohler over with a
bang!
It is terrible to note that Indian
apolis is becoming a bombing CEN
ter, but with a covered bridge full
of indicted statesmen and a reign
ing Governor in the city who plead
ed the statute of limitations to keep
out of the penitentiary, what in the
name of Heaven could indianapolis
expect!
Sir Henry Dickens, son of the
great novelist, Charles Dickens, is
indignant over a new novel which
sulrs his distinguished father.
If Sir Henry will Just turn to his
ancestors American Notes" ana
read what his dad said about the
people of the United States, his
temperature may subside.
q
It seems like Sunday-with al
the kids gone back to school.
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Is Memory Short?

The estimate put upon the intelligence OF
the voters by the managers of Harry Leslie
is little short of an insult to the voters.
They are depending on very short mem
cries and that DOGGY of regularity among
those in political life to carry through can
didate that was repudiated by the members
of the party in the primary and was nom
mated by forces and influences which have
been condemned and are abhorred by all
decent citizens Of the State.
The trick is most apparent, as it is des-
perate. Under the implied and perhaps
open threat that any one who opposes Les
lie will be hereafter condemned to political
obscurity because of his independence, the
Leslie managers are broadly announcing that
the candidates against Leslie in the primary
are now all in line and supporting their man.
Before the primary there was a concen-
trated demand for cleanup" in the affairs
Of the Republican party
The necessity was admitted. Governor
jackson had just successfully pleaded the
statute of limitations against a charge of
conspiring to bride Warren McCray.
Speaker Leslie had just successfully made
suppression of investigation party issue
in the House of Representatives.
The Black Boxes Of Stephenson had re-
vealed signed contracts with Congressman
Updike and Rowbottom and fervent letter
of thanks for a pearl necklace
The chairman of the party machine was
sojourning in Leavenworth for Federal
crimes.
Up and down the State went Tom Adams,
pioneer crusader, charging Leslie and the
machine with being party to the disgrace
and some $4,000 voters in the Republican
party voted for his nomination. Fred
Lands was breathing vitriolic defiance to
the machine and naming Leslie as unfit
to lead cleanup crusade.
The speeches in April were more i'm
portant than those in September and
October, for they gave the family view and
a frank view of the conditions and the quail
ifications of candidate for the nomination,
as given by each other.
If any of the candidates who denounced
infamy and disgrace and pleaded for clean
up now yield to the call for party regularity,
the voters will understand that this is only
a part of the game and that they were either
insincere in the spring or unwilling aids
in the fall.
The voters will probably remember.
The Republican voters showed a very definite
desire to rid themselves of the influences
which had ruined the reputation of the party.
They will probably be independent and wise
enough to remember the speeches and to
know that there is no relationship this fall
between the State and national tickets
The cover-up brigade will find it difficult
to whip the voters into line, even if they d.
terrify the leaders.
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NEME. SCHUM ANN HEM K
1VI rather buffaloed the G. o. P

NEME. SCHUM ANN H Elm K
IV1 rather buffaloed the G. @. P
by singing at the Kansas City con-
vention, then declaring for Smith.
And if she controls those fourteen
family votes, she will cut more ice
in November than all these automo-
bile magnates.
q
Peggy Hopkins Joyce is back from
Europe and announces she will
write the story Of her matrimonial
experiences.
AS we recall, this means it will be
e six volume set.
Il
Mr.. Smith may have a cinch on
carrying New York, but his bosom
friend, Senator Wagner, declines to
surrender his office at Washington
to run for the governorship.
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ReNard of Pioneering
No. 154

A NDREAS VESALIUS, like so many of the other
L n early benefactors of the human race came to a
tragic end One of the sad facts of history is that
so frequently the pioneers who blazed the trail for
mankind received only suffering as reward
Vesalius born in Brussels in 1914 His family
been associated with the practice of medicine for
many generations and his father was the apothecary
to King Charles " whom he accompanied on his cam
paigns and travels.
Vesalus was educated at Louvain. From earliest
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BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright. 1928. by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY W. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations; A-ace; king; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower
A MOTHER misnomer convention
n is always play through
strength" Assume that you are
second hand and have the lead on
the third round. Dummy'S remain
ing cards are:
Spades 8 6 5
Hearts A @
Diamonds A K O j
Clubs K j.
Following this convention literally
you would lead through the strong
est suit, diamonds. But east may
be holding the Ace-Queen Of clubs.
If you lead a diamond, the de-
clarer probably will be delighted, for
it will give him an opportunity to
discard losing clubs on the winning
diamonds in the dummy.
Before leading through the dunn
my, always attempt to visualize your
partners hand and then lead in a
manner which will not enable the
declarer to capture your partners
possible winning cards.
If you cannot draw an inference
as to your partners holdings, lead
through broken suits such as A x x,
A j x, A @ x, K x x, @ x K,
K @ x, K j x or K 10 x in prefer
ence to such solid suits as A K @ j,
AK Q, K Q j 10. A @ x x, K
10 8 or A K. j x x.
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Reason

MAINE is wise to vote for State
wi and national candidates on
different days, but the extra expense
could be avoided by selecting State
officials in the off year for a four
year term.
To select a State government in
a presidential year is to grease the
political machine, whose foxy chauf-
feurs figure that the national ticket
will carry their hand-picked State
ticket through.
Thus our political gangsters boot
leg State tickets across under a
layer of national candidates, just
as our other gangsters bootleg liquor
across under a layer of honest mer-
chandise.
Illinois and Indiana would not
have had their gubernatorial unde-
sirables had they not been carried
in by the presidential tide.
Behind a foaming ctein in Paris,
DR.. Gene Tunney discusses the nler-
it's of American institutions.
We probably shall get used, to IL
in time, but the learned doctor must
bear with his fellow Americans If
for the time being the spectacle Of
prize fighter in the robe of a phi
losopher should remind them Of a
mule with a plug hat on.
n
1t now appears that John Cool
idge and Miss Trumbell may be
married in the White House.
Ordinarily the ceremony is at the
lady's home, but there's no other in
vestment which brings l. such vast
dividends as a White House we'd
ding.
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Editor Times-Your article in last
evenings Times headed 1.-THE Citys
Great" was very interesting to mt,
especially the one of Governor
Jackson.
I don't claim to be one of the
city's great, only my mother named
me after Frederick the Great. /
also spent my first school days III
the old Centerville school. My
father was the village blacksmith
in that town and with all due re-
spect to the Governors memory,
will say when he started to school
he didn't know bricks from boards,
for the building he speaks Of was a
large brick building and burned III
the year of 1890 or 1891.
Perhaps his teacher used board
or paddle so often the Governor
thought the entire building was
made of boards.
Those we're happy days, Goveropr
F. w. EARHART.
Reader of The Times.