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BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA
November 25


CIXTY-SIX years ago today, on
~ Nov. 25, 1863, the Battle of Chat
tanooga, one of the most important
engagements of the Civil war, was
fought in the vicinity Of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
A federal army of $4,000 under
General Grant and Confederate
army of about forty thousand under
General Bragg took part in the IA
nous battle. Preliminary skirmishes
were fought on Nov. % after Grant
had been reinforced by troops UNI
der Sherman.
On the twenty-fourth, Sherman,
on the left, carried a detached point
Of Missionary Ridge, and Hooker, on
the right, in the famous Battle
Above the Clouds" captured Look
out mountain.
Grant ordered another assault and
federal troops drove the panic
stricken Confederates from the field
in one of the most remarkable
charges in military history on
Nov. 25.
The losses in killed, wounded and
missing were: For the Federals,
5,815; for the Confederates, 6,687.
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Keeping Schools Open Checks Flu

In fourteen schools there were at
tempts to check scarlet fever out
breaks by formaldehyde fumigation
of school rooms. Within a month
before it's use they had ninety-one
cases of scarlet fever and during the
month following fumigation 123
cases.
The same type of figures are avail
able for cases of German measles
and of ordinary measles.
Therefore the advice should be
repeated again: In times of cpl
demic do not close the schools and
lose control of the children; much
better keep tn schools open, exam
inc the children daily and carefully
record the development of cases sc
as to prevent contact and continued
spread of infection.
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One With Rest of us

TEORGES CLEMENCEAU was a
" wonderfully human individual
human in his iron will, his tena-
cious prejudices, and his curious
eccentricities.
The philosophy eXemplified by his
career is bastly more interesting and
vastly more practical than the
philosophy he wove into words.
The Unrestrained radicalism of
his youth, merging into the realiza
ton of responsibility: the violent
and effective role he played as critic
of the French government for a
dozen years, causing one cabinet
after another to fall; the magnif1-
cent part he played VIXEN called to
take command at 10; the depth and
rarrowness of his patriotism; the
vanity with which he afterward re-
tired to write out his thoughts and
fancies, as though they were OF
great corsequence-all that, and
much more, reveals him as one with
the rest of us.
The IRONY of it is that doctors took
off his clothes and robed him in a
night shirt when he became toe
weak to resist, and that a faithful
dauShter was at his bedside when
he died.
Human to the end.
May your sleep be pleasant, M
Clemenceau, whether or not It Is
dreamleSs.
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MOT SO long ago, some reader
L Y wrote to say that he was con-
sidering the project of burning my
Connecticut farmhouse, and maybe
this was the same violent client who
ascribes now across a column, Il
have some facts about your private
life that you would not want to come
to light"
If my nameless correspondent
really has got hold Of something
snappy, think that I should be the
first to know. Any spice of deviltry
or scandal would come as a glad
surprise. Also, it would be handy.
The man who speaks of column
lists private life" knows little of the
woes of being one. Day by day I
watch my private life pouring over
the dam and down the chute called
1T seems to me-"
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

the disease or to be associated close
ly with cases of the disease, and in
many other ways to. exercise positive
action rather than negative.
It also has been shown that it is
unnecessary to fumigate the rooms
or to destroy all books and papers
used by the children, since this does
not seem to have any important
effect in checking epidemic infec-
tious diseases.
The actual records are interesting
In % schools in Pennsylvania which
depended only on fumigation to
stamp out contagious diseases, there
was. total of I'll cases within a
month before and 300 within a
month following closure and fumi-
cation.
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ForesaW the End

~EORGES CLEMENCEAU said
VI on his last birthday, 81 shall
die within the year" Not only that,
but his mind reverted to little
things as he approached the end.
He wanted to die with his boots
on, and so went to bed fully dressed
each night; wanted no women
around to weep when the crisis
came; wanted to be buried standing
up like his father.
Strange that a man who had oc~
cupied such high positions, who had
wrestled with such stupendous prob
lens, and who had declared his be-
lief that death was "a dreamless
Sleep" should daily with such trivi-
alities at the cose.
But they prove him to have been
genuinely human, and we like him
all the better for it.
1t enables us to remember the
man, rather than the shadow we
had manufactured in our fancy; the
being Of flesh and blood, rather than
the marionette of story tellers.
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Casanova

TT was my intention to hire some
1 woman to undertake a whisper
inc campaign against me. 1t was
nv scheme that during a lull IN
The dinner she might say in loud
and clear tones:
SPEAKING Of the League o. Ma
tions. I wnoder if any Of you know
Hevwood Broun. I advise you not
to meet him. I have excellent IN
formation that is an inveterate
roue. No woman would be safe
with him for as much as thirty sec
onds."
The head Of the publicity bureau
didn't care to undertake the propa-
ganda. She said she felt it was
good business to accept only such
commissions as there was some
chance of completing successfully
well" said, make it NC
woman would be safe with him fol-
twenty-four hours" But even with
this compromise, she turned me
down.
Now, here, in the very middle Of
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Page General COxey

Thirty-fve years ago General Coxey led march
on the national Capitol with army of unemployed,
asking the government for work and presenting
plan.
1t was very simple. He asked that the govern
nent use available labor in slack times to build public
improvements. The way to cure unemployment, he
believed was to furnish employment.
AS far as the general got at that time police
station He was arrested for walking grass and
falling to see the Keep Of" signs.
His i'd has gone much farther and now the Gov
eronrs of various states and the mayors of cities
doing exactly what Coxey said should have been done.
They are planning vast improvements. There will
be no unemployment this winter. There will be
work at good wages and not cut prices in every Sec
ton of the country.
With the federal reserve banking law keeping
money from being menopolized there is danger OF
the panics which formerly expected about every
twenty years because of surplus production. The
pie have finally got around to the idea that they
can use and ought to use the disable and useful
things which they create.
The significant thing is that the scheme which
was once denounced as socalistic and dangerous
when advanced by Cozey. is recognized as sound
economic and good business
OF course. there was one step advocated by Coxey
which has not been taken and which may be worth
the time of congress when it meets again.
Coxey had an idea that money for public improve
ments should be furnished free Of charge. That is
he believed that the people should not pay nterest
for long term of years on borrowed capital when
spent for these public prUJects He has had meas
ure providing for this before congress at every
sion for thirtyve years and it will be there again
In December 1t has gained support to the extent of
one-half of the committee to which 1t referred
There are statesmen and nnanciers who do not be-
lieve it any crazer than the public work project
when Coxey first advanced that remedy.
Coxey believes that a security safe enough to
oer to the private investor is safe enough for the
government He would merely have the states or
cities deposit their bonds With the treasury and
celve the money. The people would pay hack each
year lie amount they now pay In interest The
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NJ. E. Tracy
CLemencedu DdlIied With
TriUialities Near the End,
Which Proves Him to Haze
Been Genuinely Human.

DRESIDENT HOOVER calls on
IL the Governors of all states to
cooperate in promoting work,
Standard Oil reaches an agreement
with the German dye trust py
which it will manufacture gasoline
from coal; the patent Office reports
such rush of new ideas because of
the machine age that it can not
keep up without the help of at
least 100 more examiners, and
Soviet Russia appoints commission
to Latinize her alphabet.
These activities are of moment to
millions. They get right down
where people live.
1t is right that they should have a
prominent place in the headlines.
But the death of man in France
more than divides honor with them.
n
Life remains oldfashioned when
it comes to death.
We have not yet arrived at a
point where we can stand beside an
open grave with complete equa-
nimity.
In spite of the big things. we have
done or expect to do; in spite of
the grim necessity that Keeps most
of our noses to the grindstone; in
spite of the hectic influences that
drive us forward at an ever accel-
Grating pace; and in spite Of the
small part an individual seems to
play amid all the merging and
mechanizing, we are still dismayed
when a great soul drops into eter-
51itu
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Demand

nR. STRATTON thinks that In
~ dustry has been too eager to
get experts. AS a result, he says
that it is difficult for colleges to
hang on to their faculties.
Industries not only bid for gradu-
ates and students with post-gradu-
ate training, but they lure away
faculty members as we'll.
To DR.. Stratton this policy is on
a par with that of cutting down the
forests and failing to adopt con-
servation policy to replace them. He
points out that if the colleges lose
their faculties, the output of trained
students can not be expected.
He realizes, however, that it Is not
possible to keep men on college fac
ulties when industries bid four and
five times their present salaries for
them.
1.-THE solution, of course, Is to pay
bigger salaries in the colleges" he
says. But the colleges can not do
this without additional endowments.
I feel that industries must realize
their need of the colleges and that
the endowments must come from
them.
I'm the last analysis, they benefit
most from the colleges"
Among the industries which are
faced today by the shortage of ex-
perts, DR.. Stratton cites the oil in
dustry and the airplane industry.
AS time goes on, and the airplane
industry grows, there will be a big
ger and bigger demand for experts
| in it, he says.
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Not Idle

4 ND this anonymous reader says
IN that he will expose facts about
my private life. What on earth
does he think I've been doing during
this last quarter century Of column
ing?
If he does undertake to make any
such exposure, I ask him as a favor
to type it neatly and write on only
one side of the paper SO that I can
hand it directly to the printer
That will save good deal OF time
I only hope, as Irwin Cobb said on
a well-remembered occasion, that it
is nothing trivial. All my life ]
have wanted to be a sinister figure.
When I was young reporter fell
low worker in the old press club
appealed to me for assistance.
would you mind" he said, go
ing down to the lobby and find out
if there's a large girl in white fur
coat walking up and down and try
ing to get in?
IF she's there" he explained,
that's Ethel and she wants to shoot
me-"
When I demurred trif1e, he told
me proudly that he was the only
man in all the world whom Ethel
would think of shooting. 1t seems
he had broken her heart, and she
resented it.
never have envied any man as ]
envied him. Being no more than %
or 26. 1 continued to hope for a
while.
Perhaps I, too, eventually might
be pursued by a large woman with
a. white coat and a revolver. II
never happened, and by now, OF
course, It is much too late.
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SCIENCE
Dy DA FIU DIE I Il
Industries Must Help Colleges
to Turn ont Trained Tech
meal Men as a Benefit to
Themselves.
BY DAVID nIFTZ-

TINE industrial concern which
l. fails to take heed of the pro-
greSs of science soon will find itself
out of existence. So says DR.. S.
w. Stratton, president of the Massa-
chuSetts Institute of Technology and
former director of the United States
bureau of standards.
To support his contention, DR..
Stratton points out the speed with
which revolutionary inventions are
being turned out by scientists today.
He cites such things as new steel
alloys, high speed steel, stainless
steel and the like, tie turning o.
former waste products into valuable
by-products through chemical
means, and the development of such
articles as the radio vacuum tube,
which is finding a widespread use
in telephone and the electrical in
dustry IL general, as we'll as in radio
In general, DR.. Stratton thinks
that there is no danger of industry
failing to appreciate the value of
science or the need of trained scien-
fists and engineers.
AS an example of the demand.
he points out that every member
of last years graduation class at
Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology received three offers Of jobs.
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BY DIR, MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

A IT the time of the last great
4 n epidemic of influenza there
was much dispute among sanitary
authorities as to whether schools
should be closed as a means of pre-
venting the spread of disease.
Nowadays it is realized that it is
advisable to keep the school open
because in this way it is possible to
keep a check on the movements OF
the children to find out which ones
are i'll ard which are well, to in
stitute daily examination in all
classes where cases occur, to eX-
clude all those suspected of having
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money would be DESTROYED At the end Of twent

money would be destroyed. At the end Of twenty
years. the bill would be paid the projects belong to
the people and no more burdens No money, no
bond; all square.
That might stimulate in two ways. 1t would re-
lease the funds going into state and municipal
bonds for private industry. 1t would relieve labor
and industry from interest debts.
In calling in the gentlemen who have now adopted
the Coxey plan in part the President will overlook
a bet if he fails to call the general himself There
may be something in the rest of his idea.
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Daily Thought.

Let him eschew evil, and do
good: let him seek peace, and en-
sue it, Peter 3:l1.
.
am a man of peace God knows
how love peace: but ! hope ! never
shall be such a coward as TO mis-
take oppression for peace ossuth
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COOPERATION

"THERE are not enough experts
L to go around today" DR.. STRAIT
ton says. One solution to the prob
lem, he thinks is the increasing CO.
operation growing up between en-
cheering colleges and industries.
BY various arrangements, young
men employed in industries are en-
abled to do additional studying and
research in colleges.
"Old graduates like to think that
they worked harder when they were
in school than present students
work" he says. But it isn't so.
To-day, the growth Of engineering
means that the student must be
taught more about his particular
branch of science.
"And in addition, the fundamental
nature of the new discoveries being
made and the vast basis of knowl-
edge upon which they are founded,
means that the student must get
more fundamental training in
mathematics, physics and chemistry.
"One solution to the problem
would be for the colleges to give
more training in these fundamental
subjects, the industries agreeing to
give the more specialized training to
the graduates.
Industry must cooperate in the
training of experts if the demand
is to be met"
AS an example of the way in
which engineering is based on
fundamental physical and chemical
studies, DR.. Stratton points to the
use of increased steam pressure in
power plants.
This has made necessary q vast
amount of research to determine the
various mathematical constants of
steam at these higher pressures, :"
he saws
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|IT SEEMS TO ME By Hf 6RoUS

my middle age, a man pops up and
says he will start a scandal about
me. 1t seems almost miraculous.
Still, after forty-one years Of
clean living, I do deserve to get
some such happy break.
Copyright. 1929. BY The Timesl
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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What is the numerical name for
one, followed by nine ciphers?
In the English system of notation
1,oo0,OO0,O00 is called a thousand
million. In the American systepN "
is called a billion.
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1t is not wolves, but headlines,
which pursue, and my only regret
is that I have but one grandmother
10 give to my column.
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the committee by DR.. Amos w. But
Ter, indianapolis.
Work of the subcommittee will
be used to map the general COM
mittee's course at a meeting at the
ctatehouse Nov. %.
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NO FATALITIES
IN AUTO TOLL
FOR WEEKEND
Two Hit-and-Run Drivers
Are Sought as Result
of Collisions.

indianapolis auto death toll was
not increased over the weekend, al
though a series of accidents resulted
in injuries TO several persons.
1t was the first weekend since
oct. 6 that local persons have not
3een killed in auto accidents, police
aid.
Police today sought two hit-and-
IN drivers. One is the Negro who
bandOned his wrecked car and
led after he had collided with an
uto driven by Mrs. r. L. Warren,
a. TWenty-frst street and Flowing
Well road, at Commerce and Mas
achusetts avenue, Saturday after
loon.
Is Partially Paralyzed
Mrs. Warren was thrown from her
Car as it overturned. City hospital
physicians said the lower part of
Mrs. Warren's body is paralyzed.
The other hit-and-run driver
struck an auto driven by Gilbert
Benedict. 81, of 610 West Twenty
fourth street, Sunday at Twenty
fourth street and Northwestern
avenue. Benedict's car struck an
other driven by Patrick Crane, Al
of 2O4 West Morris street.
Jane Marie Cox, daughter Of
Thomas H. Coz, 1854 Fall Creek
boulevard. suffered slight injuries
Sunday afternoon when the car
driven by her father. collided with
another driven by Mischael Abrams,
BIS Ruckle street, at Thirty-second
and Pennsylvania streets.
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STUDY CRIME TASK
Subcommittee Meets to
Outline Program.

Need for a concrete program for
combating crime in Indiana was be-
ing discussed today by a sub-com-
mittee Of the general committee APP
pointed recently at the state crime
conference.
The subcommittee headed by
James A. Van OSdol. Anderson, was
III session in the Office of Governor
Harry G.. Leslie Reports on the
Illinois study Of the indeterminate
sentence and parole system, the
Minnesota report on the same sub
ject and report on the prisons of
the Dominion of Canada by their
superintendent will be presented 20
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Cart Pusber Is Hurt

Gilbert Williams, Negro. 1909 Co
lumbia avenue, was recovering to-
day at the city hospital from in
iuries he received Saturday night
when he was struck by an auto OPP
Grated by G. E. Springer, 1910 North
Rural street.
Springer said he was driving at
Twenty ninth street and Columbia
avenue when he was blinded by
lights of a passing auto and did not
see Williams pushing a cart near
the curb.
Perry Brock, 81, of TOO Haldey
street. suffered a left leg fracture
Sunday when his auto collided with
another driven by Raymond Perkins
IS. OF 920 North Alabama street, at
Bright and North streets.
Miss Alice May Worland, Is,
Waldron, Ind, was cut on the head
when an auto driven by Milton
Riggs, Shelbyville, crashed into a
telephone pole at keystone and
Southeastern avenue Sunday night.
1t takes eight and one-half min
utes for the light of the sun to reach
the earth.