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was going over to the continent at frequent intervals
for conferences with Einsten the subject of gravi
tation.
In approaching the new EinSten theory. we must
keep in mind some of the things which characterized
relatively.
To begin with we must not look for simple cate
gorcal answer 1t will not do to expect an answer Of
two or three words like 'Gravitation is such and
SUCH
Answers of that kind not only contrary to
EinSein but they are contrary to the whole spirit
of modern physics of which Einsten is perhaps the
outstanding apostle
For modern physics and particularly Einstein, deal
with the universe as a whole
The old hard and fast concepts OF space time.
matter energy, electricity gravity and SO on begin
to fade and merge in this way OF looking az the
universe.
The modern physicist finds that he can only de-
scribe the way things happen in the universe
Reality becomes something almost unreal IN this
new universe and almost tempted to agree
with Shakespeares assertion that we are the stuff
that dreams made of.
We shall see therefore. that Enstein's theory OF
gravitation is really explanation OF how things
happen in the universe.
The similarity of electromagnetic phenomena
and gravitational phenomena has long made sclen-
fists suspect a fundamental relationship.
However, as shall see, it required TIE genius OF
an Einstein to point 1t out.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

With this fact in mind, Dr. Emerson
has attempted to estimate the cost
to this country of heart disease,
which is among the leading causes
of death among our people.
The deaths from heart disease In
1928 are estimated about 221, 300. The
value of these lives would then be
more tnan 81, OOO,OOO,OO0 and the cost
to the people of the country is rep
resented at $12.65 per capita.
1t is estimated that in 1928 heart
disease caused a reduction in the
average length of life at 1.66 years
for men and two years for women.
Figuring on the basis of the COM
plete lives of such people and loss to
the country, the cost is estimated at
$22,000,000,000
Thus heart disease is more eX-
pensive than cancer, although less
expensive than tuberculosis. In
1922. the annual cost of tuberculous
patients was about $3.15 per capita
and the cost for heart disease Is
cents per capita.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-05
Democracy Training

TINE great difference between
Il democracy as practiced in the
United States and Mexico is this
We got ours from the bottom,
while Mexico got hers from the top.
But for the two hundred years
of experience and training which
our colonial forbears received in
town meeting, church vestry, county
court and legislative assembly, we
would have had far more trouble
in setting up workable democra-
cy. So far as local government went,
this nation was a republic long be-
fore it declared independence.
So far as local government in
Mexico is concerned, it was never
republican, and is not to this day.
Mexico has a constitution, presi-
dent, congress and all the rest Of the
superstructure. What she lacks is
the habit and experience down be-
low.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-05
Hiding the Shells

Efforts on the part of the legislature to find
a painless way of taking money from the cltl-
zens of this state would be humorous if they
were not serious.
For years the machine politicians have been
telling the people that the policies of the bosses
had resulted in very economical government,
that the treasury was filed with gold, that
government cost little or nothing.
Now it is revealed that these were exagger-
atoms and that the machine rule has been costly
and not very satisfactory.
Instead of the simple expedient of spending
less money, the legislature is contemplating
.levying special taxes on business and industry.
Just how the money is raised is perhaps not
very important except that the method may be
So stupid as to place industries in this state
under handicap when competing with those
from other states. The lawmakers may make
.it difficult to bring in new enterprises or hold
the present ones.
Of course, in the end the money must come
from those who work and produce wealth. They
pay and special taxes will make their life just
"a little more difficult.
Raising funds by special taxes instead OF III
creasing the general levy fools very few peo-
ple. TIE ultimate consumer is the final victim,
no matter what the scheme.
The only way to reduce taxation is to spend
less. That has apparently not occurred to the
lawmakers They prefer to suck eggs and
then frantically try to hide the shells.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE ---
Heart Disease ExaCtS Huge Cost

The difference in these costs is
due to the fact that there is a
greater adequacy of privision for the
care OF. the tuberculous because OF
the infectious nature of their dis
order and sanitary supervision,
which are not required for heart
disease.
However, the burden Of heart dis
ease falls more heavily on the peo-
pie in terms of loss of livelihood.
Because of its duration heart dis
ease constitutes a heavier burden
on the Wage-earners than any other
disease, except tuberculosis, mental
diseases and certain forms OF
chronic rheumatism.
These facts should cause increas-
ing attention to problems of heart
disease and greater willingness to
aid in those steps in early life that
are known to be efficient in prevent
ing heart disease; namely, proper
care of acute infectious diseases and
the removal of infections of nose,
throat and teeth.
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The Real Need
America.

That many public utility corporations of the state
have been greedy and ruthless in their methods is
almost universal opinion.
The fact that they send a group of lobbyists to
each session of the legislature to consort and play
with members of the legislature is evidence that there
is something wrong
OF course it is possible that members of the leg
slature who back to session after session may
be responsible 1t not beyond the realms of reason
that these members, apparently not concerned with
the small salary of lawmakers may make demands
that threaten the orderly conduct of business.
The whole theory of regulation suggested that
the utilities be put out of politics They seem to
be in politics more than ever either for sefprotec-
ton for greater grabs.
There will always be criticism and dissatisfaction
as long as the utility commission is under suspicion
of being controlled and influenced by the utilities.
During the past four years, this estimate of the
commission has been very general. The method by
which its membership was changed just in advance
of merger did not add to public confidence.
Theoretically, 0he commission investigates and
checks the annual reports of every utility. It's doubt
full whether any of these reports given such careful
check. There have been rurnors that efficient EN-
ployes of the commission soon disappear from the pay
rolls
The actions of the legislature in placing the seec
ton of lawyer for the commission under the Cover
should be resented by him. The people elected a
legal officer and legal matters should be under his
charge, just executive powers should be under the
Governor instead of the secretary of state.
The real need, not only of the people but of any
utility that desires to deal fairly and honestly with its
customers, is commission composed of men who hold
public confidence and are not known the close
friends of the utility lobbyists who infest the state
house.
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Times Readers Voice ViezCS

those tirnid and artlesS souls who
are unable to sleep nights lest the
terrifying spectre of radicalism de-
stroy the whole body polite ut one
fell swoop.
1t is somewhat reassuring, how
ever, to reflect that our public school
system has functioned with con-
siderable degree Of success for
something like 100 years, and during
all of that time. few if any school
teachers have been convicted of
treason or sabotage, and, so far as
the record shows, not one ever has
found it necessary to plead the
statute of limitations to keep out
of jail.
Now if the sisters of the D. A. R.
must have some outlet for heir
patriotic zeal, they might use up
some of their surplus energy leading
to the mourners' bench some of
those public oflcials-and ex-
officials-who subscribed to an iron
clad oath when they were indicted
into office, and then straightway
forgot all about that rival formal
ity. JOE. SAUNDERS.
1922 North Alabama street.
Editor TiInes-Gilliom' spite and
the offended dignity Of judge have
at last succeeded in sending the Rev.
Shumaker to the penal farm for
contempt of court. Now what are
they going to do about the contempt
Of the public2 A READER.
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TT INDBERGH is between two fires.
L. He must be careful, since the
n1ishaps of the last few weeks, any
one of which would have ended
everything on that fight to Paris,
warn him that he has little left IN
the bank of good luck.
Still he must continue to be a
hero and to do this, he must con-
tinue to fly; he would soon become
very commonplace in carpet slippers,
even though he sat in winged
chair.
In New York City the Trotskites
and the ti-Trotskites had a riot
after a meeting called to protest
against Trotski's Punishment from
Russia.
Think of Uncle Sans being COM
PEELED to digest such human hash!
And yet the alien influence In
congress was strong enough to de-
feat the bill to deport alien
criminals!
Whose government is this?
We are not an engineer-not even
a fireman, but as between the st.
Lawrence canal, joint affair with
Canada, and an All-American canal
through the state of New York, the
latter sounds good to us.
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BETWEEN TWO FIRES
SUCH TERRIBLE HASH
.
IT WOULD END WAR

"HIS man. Mitchell of Minnesota,
Il whom Hoover has selected for
encouragement, is not only DEM
ocrat, but he has voted the straight
Republican ticket the last three
times, which makes him a regular
Democrat.
Now that the all-important Shar-
key-Stribling crisis has passed, let us
turn to the relatively frivolous mat
ter of the presidential Inauguration.
The senate's adoption of a resolu-
ton to survey canal through Mic
aragua will delight the spirit of the
late Senator Morgan of Alabama
when the news is flashed to the star
he now inhabits.
The national treaSury's estimate
that $4,000 millionaireS will be rep
resented in the income tax returns
suggests the only practical method
for ending war-let every nation
make shock troops of its million
aires.
Let this be done and the dove OF
peace will hatch it's young in the
whiskers Of the god of war.
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faint mood and informed Brookhart that the COM
mittee must keep its hands off Republican affairssn
Texas
Brookhart wasn't frightened and neither was any,
one else.
If Creager's organization is pure he claims
it to be, investigation do harm. If he is as
eager he says he is to put the Republican party
high level in his state he ought to assist Brook
hart's committee.
We quite agree with Brookhart that machine pol
itics must 60 from Texas or any other state, and
whether Democratic or Republican machines
The Brookhart committee has the right idea. We
hope it succeeds in its purposes.
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71ZNArSSsS,
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ANNIVERSARY
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THE BOSTON MASSACRE
March !

THE BOSTON MASSACRE
March
A BRIGHT moon was shining on
n a fresh blanket of snow in
Boston 159 years ago this evening,
so that a disturbance as conspicuous
as the Boston massacre" should
have been clearly visible to every
one in the neighborhood. For some
reason, however, practically all the
witnesses described it differently.
To some it was a brawl between
a few British soldiers and a group
Of heckling Boston vagabonds. To
others it was a cold blooded maSsa-
ere of respectable citizens by a regi-
cent of domineering Redcoats.
At all events, the affair was of
sufficient importance to hasten the
.sevolution. IT same as a climax to
the lodging of two regiments of
British troops in Boston. Their
presence IN the city was offensive to
the majority of the eitizenry and,
undoubtedly. the soldiers we're
heckled occasionally.
Following the massacre, which
resulted IN the killing of three per-
sons and the wounding of eight
others, the troops were removed.
argely due to the efforts of Sam
lal Adams
Of those killed, only one, Crispus
Attacks, q mulatto. had taken any
part in the disturbance which pre-
ceded the firing.
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Not So Free

THE colonel can hardly have
L been so completely free Of all
imperfection. Not in our time has
there been such a spotless one.
There is not a trace of shadow in
the character as drawn. by Charles
Willis Thompson and yet it is a
sketch made by a man who knew
Roosevelt extremely well.
Circumstances generally consid-
cred trying. Thompson was a COR
respondent with him during the
f1ercely fought Bull Moose cam
paign.
Possibly the complete It. r. will
have to be written by some man
who never saw him. His glamor
seems to have blinded all who came
into any intimate contact.
But I would not class Thompson
as blind, although he squints little
in regarding his hero. For instance,
I refuse to accept literally the
authors fiat statement, "He never
compromised a conviction for a
vote" 1 never expect to see any
politician attain the White House
by walking up on the water. For
tunately, Thompson's transports of
admiration are tempered with his
news sense.
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STAYING a Revolt

VXTHAT would we think if, three
w months hence, the Governor
of California and three or four prom
inent generals were to stage a re-
volt, seize Buffalo on the Canadian
border, Norfolk on the Atlantic
coast and city or two on the Paci-
tic, broadcast that fifteen states had
Joined them, and calmly go about
the business of setting up a new
government for the country?
Whatever we might think it would
not be a circumstance to what we
would do. The fracas never would
reach a point to justify the word
revolution"
We have had. civil war, and could
do it again, but not without an
issue, not without long and heated
debate, not without ample warning.
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By
- s.
Frederick
Lands

president COOLIDGE natural
Il ly does not want to give up his
three dogs, but if he keeps them
and takes them all for walk, he
will have no time left in which to
do his contemplated writing.
n
It's all right now for Curtis to
take his vice-presidential oath on
that German Bible, but it would
have. killed him politically had he
done it just after the war.
Il
AS soon as they hear about it, the
pacifsts in our great universities
will hold meeting and denounce
the sending of ladybugs from Colo
RADIO to Texas to fight the bugs that
kill the young onions.
=
Morgan, the greatest advocate OF
an inter-oceanic canal, always stood
for Nicaragua and was heart-broken
when the Panama route was chosen.
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The soldiers bonus bill having been
killed in the legislature, no further
letters ON this subject will be printed at
this time.
Editor Times-Of all the silly and
far-fetched measures introduced at
the present session of the legislature,
the bill sponsored by the Daughters
of the American Revolution, requir-
ing school teachers to take an oath
of allegiance to the United States
flag and the Constitution, surely
was entitled to the BOBBY prize. As
a rare, unmatched example Of 100
per cent maudlinism gone to seed,
this stupid aTocity certainly is a
hundinger.
If things have reached such an
awful pass that the constitutional
liberties of our citizenry or the
perpetuity of our free institutions
are being jeopardi1ed by the inten-
tional contumacies of our unfettered
and unsworn pedagogs, then this
enactment should be amended to
compel all instructors in the public
schools to wear red, white and blue
uniforms while on duty, smoke a
certain brand of 'nop=cough" cigar
cts so highly recommended by our
senior United States senator. and sit
in sackcloth and ashes on Washing
tons birthday and the Fourth Of
July.
Such comprehensive measure
surely would instill coolies Of patri-
otto ferVor into the whole teaching
fraternity, am lift an awful burden
Of anxiety from the shoulders Of
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I I
SEEMS

BY HAYWOOD
BROUN

THERE are two ways in which to
Il write biography. You can pick
a man whom you adore or sub
ject whose very existence is deplor-
able in your sight.
Modern biography has leaned to
the latter method. Writers so about
saying to themselves, '1et me see
whom do hate sufficiently to do his
Iife?"
Indeed, biography has become a
form of assault. Some entertaining
and valuable books have been writ
ten by the haters. AS one who as
sisted in an attack upon Anthony
ComStock, / am in no position to
say that all antagonistic portraiture
should be discouraged.
Yet, it is well to remember that
there still remains utility and lit
erary value in alteration. Boswell
did Johnson on his knees and his
book is still the top of the heap.
This classic reverence comes 70
my mind because 1 have just been
reading Presidents I've known
and Two Near Presidents" by
Charles Wills Thompson. The long
est and best sketch in the book con-
Germs the man whom Thompson
liked best. Like is too mild word.
Thompson's study of Theodore
Roosevelt is pure panegyric.
And the authors wealth of pas
sionate regard for the dead Presi-
dent in no way detracts from the
fascinating nature of his picture.
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Mrs Coolidge

A gracious lady has left the White House. The
homage of grateful people goes to Mrs. Coolidge
for giving to the last administration that touch of
humanness and friendliness that needed to Offset
the austerity of the President.
Once it was said that Mrs Coolidge was worth
$1,0Oo,OOO to the Republican party The amount was
placed too low. She was a priceless asset.
Mrs. Coolidge is remarkably capable woman. She
is human She is tactful. She has pose and person
atty. Her naturaness made her great first lady.
Grace Coolidge is secure in the affections of
America.
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". E..
TRACY
SAYS:
''To the People of MeGico,
Government Is Still a
PoaOer From Above;
Poa0er in Which They
Feel No Share"
NJ E..
"NXTHERE there is no vision, the

MA HERE there is no VISION, the
w people cast off restraint;
but he that keepeth the law, he is
happy"
So runs the verse that President
Hoover kissed when he took the
oath Of office. Its wisdom was born
out by the news from Mexico.
Leadership is the first essential
of political order.
This country has been blessed
with the right kind of leadership
since its misunderstanding of
vision, leadership of courage, leader
ship that commanded respect.
No one can deny that Democratic
institutions had much to do with
maintaining the supply.
Whatever else may be said of it,
democracy possesses the advantage
of stimulating men to take interest
in public affairs not only by offering
jobs, but by providing ways to get
rid of them if they fail to make
good.
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A Nation Growing Up

90 there rises a Gales to match
- a Manzo, even if Portes Gil does
appear to be quite at sea, and there
come thousands of good citizens to
his support dominated by something
better than partisanship.
What is it all about? What
would the revolutionists do differ
emily if they won? What is the issue
that has so suddenly arisen, if any?
Away with such trivialities. Here
is nation growing up, just as
England grew up, just as this
country would have grown up, If
the old world had not given its
founders a lot of valuable schooling,
while the new world offered them
an easy chance to exploit their
ideas,
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Reporter

4 GREAT reporter he remains
"A an author with a keen eye for
incident. His book is filled with a
vast wealth of little things that
Theodore said and did behind the
scenes. For Roosevelt, although so
much reported, nsver got completely
into the papers.
The men who were with him seem
to have been animated upon many
occasions by the sole thought, "Will
this. story of mine help or hurt the
colonel?" Indeed, Thompson reports
one incident in which the corre-
spondent of the Associated Press de-
cided not to send out a legitimate
piece of news wholly because he felt
that it might be harmful to RooSe-.
velt's campaign.
Charles Willis Thompson sees
nothing out of the way in this. In
fact. he points with pride to the
fact that Roosevelt was fond Of Civ
ing the reporters vast quantities Of
information upon the understand
ing that none of this must ever be
printed as coming from him. I
think it is an unfortunate system.
The colonel was able to use the
press for his own purposes. The
papers served him rather than the
public.
Also he saved correspondents q
great deal of trouble. AS Thompson
explains, the colonel would tell the
reporters in advance whether his
speech was to be hot or cold.
HE abolished unnecessary work
for us" writes Thompson. when
ever he returned to the car after
speech he would found us up and
say:
Now the next stop will be at
Blankyille. You don't have to bother
about that, I'm going to get off the
usual thing
cor, AT Dashtown, where we stop
next, you'd better be on the job.
I'll have some new stuff there"
No wonder they loved him. But
l still hold that the relationship be-
tween public man and reporter
should never be too close and conf
Dental. The correspondent should
be neither friend nor foe.
The enforced reticence of high
regard may cost the public informa-
ton which it has a right to know.
Toward william Jennings Bryan,
Thompson had no love such as he
bore Roosevelt and yet he seems to
have protected him upon occasion.
The Bryan chapters contain one
incident so damaging that it might
shave been sufficient to drive him
out Of his post as secretary Of state
before he had a chance to make so
many costly plumbers.
The secretary's dealings with
diplomats were unconventional"
writes Thompson. "Once Takahira,
the Japanese ambassador, came TO
the department to meet him. but an
other diplomat was in conference
at the time and Takai-Ia had to
wait
When the other diplomat was
ushered out, Bryan, handkerchief in
collar, opened the door and bawled
out to Eddie Savoy, the colored
doorkeeper, who had served such
dignified Gentlemen as John Hay,
Eddie, show the Jap in
Not a CULVER of a muscle showed
that Takahira heard. If he did, his
face was as impassive as that of
the Iong-suff aring Eddie.
| could visl that Charles Willis
Thompson had told this story soon
er. I think I would have been bet
ter to protect the state department
than to protect Bryan.
Copyright. 1928, for The TimesI
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Mr.. Creager

r. B. Creager Republican national committeeman
from Texas. may run the party organization in his
state but he not running the senate patronage in
yestigation. Senator Brookhart, chairman OF the
senate committee has told Creager as much and that
Is quite sufficient for anyone who knows Brookhart
Creager appeared before the committee in de-
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dGlNlIy U II q V 1 Z
would lead to
further work in
the field of grav-
itation.
The problem
was attacked by
Professor A. S.
E d ding ton of
Can1bl .dge, Eng
land, who called
his book on rel
ativity. IS p a C e,
Time and Crawl
tation."
When I was in
G a m b RI d g e in
1928, Eddington
told me that he