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THE REGISTER AM) LEADER: MONDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 5, 1910. 4 THE INTERVIEWER STORIES PICKED UP MOVING PICTURES WITH X-RAY cents, but to how many of the people was this a serious matter? The barber shop price is everywhere and always a dime, while on the streets there were nickel bootblacks by the doren, The Courier asserts that no newspaper outside of Des Moines has given the state fair any notice whatever that was not paid for "simply for the reason that the institution has come to bo regarded as a private enterprise for robbing the people." It would be interesting to know to what extent this is true. If it Is true at all then the newspapers of Iowa are negligent of their duty. or the state fair is a state Institution, maintained by public money, conducted by state officers.

If it is not worthy the same sort of commendation ether stale institutions receive, then there is mismanagement that ought to be freely criticised. The state fair was attended, in fcnite of threatening weather, by larger crowds than have before gath ered in Iowa. We doubt if crowds of like size were ever handled In a city no larger than Lvs Moines with loss friction and anncyance. Cer tainly fewer complaints have come to Ihe attention of the Des Moines newspaptrs. To berate the greatest showing of horses, breeding tattle, hogs and farm machinery ever made In the United States and to diiber-ately encourage Iowa people to go to Minnesota and other states rather than attend their own exposition can be Justified only by a pretty specific showing of facts.

Let the Waterloo Courier collect the individual experiences of resi dents of Black Hawk county while at the fair and publish them. ROOSEVELT AND TAFT. The modified and carefully guarded compliment Mr. Roosevelt paid the Taft administration iu his Sioux City speech, not ventured upon until he had consulted his political friends, will be taken by many to mean the closing of the door to reconciliation with the president. Cer tainly no more guarded utterance could have issued from the mouth of a political opponent.

But there is a lingering feeling in many quarters even yet that Mr. Roosevelt will In the end align him self with the president and this Sioux City declaration will be accepted as a cautious feeler. In New York, where It is assumed that Mr. Roosevelt will be in full control of the state convention, the state platform is now looked forward to as the real test of the- Roosevelt purpose. The New York correspondent of the Boston Transcript says In this connection: Mr.

Roosevelt, In full control of the convention, will be responsible for the making of the platform -and for Its phraseology. Consequently the portions of the platform dealing with the Taft administration will lie of and will be so regarded by the country as indicating the real feeling of C'oionel Roosevelt toward the administration. This Is more so because political comment every dav emphasizes the curious fact that Colonel Ron-evelt has not yet uttered one complimentary word of the Taft administration or commended any nf its work. On tVe other band, President Taft has repeatedly referred to the ex-president 1n terms of praise In his letters and speeches. Whatever Mr.

Roosevelt may decide to do, It is evident frotii the couise he has pursued thus far that he will choose his own time and place for doing it. He waited many weeks after his arrival belore giving out an inkling of his purpose to become the apostle of the new national-Ism, as he dubs the Insurgent movement, and no will wait as many more if it suits his purpose before he finally announces his Intention with regard to the administration. The logic, of politics, as we have suggested before, points to only one conclusion, and that a renewed leadership of Roosevelt himself in the he has espoused. It will be a lame and Important conclusion if after faying what he has said in the tone In which he has said It he attempts to adjust himself to the halfway measures of the administration. Hut everybody will Teel surer about it after Mr.

Roosevelt has said the word. THE ELESSINOS OF THE AMXRI CAN WORKINGMAN. is an Interesting commentary on labor conditions In this country that we seldom. If ever, hear such phrases us "the poor workinpman." The laboring man himself will not tolerate its nge. He may not be rich, and there may be room for Improvement in affairs, but he Is reasonably prosperous and he has learned quite well how to take care of himself, thank you.

When Samuel (ioinpers returned from his tour of Europe late last ynir. where he made a study of labor conditions in behalf of the American Federation of Labor, he wrote an interesting nook which makes It, very clear why the American worklngman isn't a "poor worklngman." The book sets forth almost endless advantages which he enjoys over work-himien elsewhere in the world and a perusal of it cannot fail to make optimists of woikingmen pessimistically Inclined. Il would be Impossible to enumerate as Mr. Gompers sets them forth many things which make the condition of tho American worklngman so superior, but, to quote Indirectly, these are some of them: The United States is in the lead of th" world in civic and Industrial development. The people of the United States do not stand tinder the constant men ace of war, which demands large anil Jc ntkt fThe Des Moires leader, established IMS) (The Iowa State Register, established 1866) iiY THE REGISTER AND LEADER CO.

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Chicago office-People's Gas Building, suite 1164. i Entered at Dea Moines, Iowa, postofflca i at second class matter. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1910. Al'til'ST CilKTLATlOX. jj The PuJly and Register and i Leader.

Ftate of Iowa, I'olk county, ss. W. fouthwell, business manager of Tlie Register and Leader, does solemnly swear i that the following Is a true and correct statement of the a circulation of The Jlegtster and Leader for the month of August, 1910: Iate. Coplo, Date. 17 Copies.

34, 3L5 1 St.Mt) 1 3S.120 8 4 6 34. SF 6 84. 7 8 S4.7H3 9 34,797 10 34.S44 11 3S.i3 12 34,917 13 34.925 14 Kt.TM 15 349fi7 18 34.S.S5 35, Ki 35, Ki 35.171 3.1.3:3 35,201 Average circulation of The Pnilv Reu Ister ami Leader during said month of August, 1010, was 35,184. W. H.

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T. LAMBERT, Notary Public. Average circulation of The Dailv Uegister and Leader and The Evening Tribune combined 'during the month of August, 1910 54,203 TOO HASTY BY HALT. Senajir Cummins' proposition for a nation-wine primary election, Involving, 'Practically, two presidential elections inhere we now have one, has fallen by the wayside In the rnpular estimation, we find very little commendation of it In 'the press or by publicists of repute. It another of those fantasies with which trie Cummins cult is obsessed.

Burlington Hawk-Eye. The Hawk-Eye is passing Judgment too hastily. There will be time enough to Judge of the vitality of Senator Cummins' suggestion after his bill has been framed and congress, has listened to a full and free exposition of the evils of the present method of naming presidential candidates. If the Hawk-Eye has kept as close watch of public comment as It would have us believe, it has noted that It Is recognized everywhere that Senator Cummins is aiming at a real evil. That alono is more justification that most reformatory movements are accorded at the beginning.

Where nn evil Is recognized a remedy is generally conceded. Senator Curamlna has not begun a flash In the pan agitation. That Is not his record in other matters. He has Berved on the national committee and he knows something of the 'abuses of rotten borough rcpresvn. itatlon in the national convention He will not have to argue long to convince us that if it Is Important to urround the nomination of county surveyor with safeguards It Is im portant to have the nomination of a candidate for the presidency honestly and fairly made.

iierore tne next session or con gress has adjourned the Hawk-Eye will have loss occasion to sneer at this "obsession." BERATING DES MOINES. The Waterloo Courier brings a 1 pretty severe charge against peg Moines in connection with last week's fair. We publish what It has to say In another rolumn. The Cornier says thousands havs turned against the Iowa state fair because they can get "decent e.ccom-mcdatlons and reasonable prices" in St. Taul and Minneapolis.

Can the Courier cite a single instance to prove this claim? On the contrary, does not the Courier know that rrloes are uniformly lower in Is Moines than they are In the Twin Cities? The Courier says (he state 'fair management had no rleht to sell the prlvllego of dealing in watermelons on the fair grounds, and that it was nn Imposition on Mr. tialloway to prevent him from giving melons way to the injury of the melon concessionaire. Will the Courier name a fair association In the United States where the concession to fur nish lood supplies of all kinds Is notl eolrf and where the concessionaire would not be protected In his right his concession? As to the "general fact what Is it? Beds were afforded st the uniform price of $1 a bed whether occupied by one or two, aud meals were hawked on every street corner In the city at chureh fair price. The Com mercial maintained headquarters at convenient places and there was no reason why anybody should be imposed upon, who would not be imnosed uiion In Waterloo br any other city. It is true that the boot black stands raised their price to ten standing armies whoso burdens fall chiefly on the worklngman.

In no other country of tho world are our common schools equaled in their opportunities for education, In their lnexpenslvenesa to scholars, in their quality as a nursery of whole some manly and womanly sentiment. The people of the United States are not divided and separated by distinctions ol caste. In the United States we have done with czars and nobles. Our heroes are men and women, and before the law all men are equal. In the United States the prerogatives of family and property are denied the political and social power that Europe grants them.

In the United States the-jfull scope of every man's right to participate in government is recognized In IU constitutions and upheld by its courts. In no European country is the general condition of the wage earner so comfortable and fortunate as in the United States. After reviewing the whole labor situation of the world in his concluding chapter, Mr. Gompers writes: The Old World Is not our world. Its social problems.

Its economic philosophies. Its current political questions are not linked up with America. All the people of the. nlohe may be on the broad highway to social justice, men of all tongues, and universal nrom-erhood. but all nations and governments have not reached the same points on the road.

In the procession, America is u'8t. Of course, the workingmnn's con dition here in the United States is not yet rerfect, and there is higher ground to be attained In the future, but he has made wonderful progress and he stands today as the highest type of worklngman the world has ever known Tree and with all the rights aud privileges of freedom. r.eentlnn In Omaha was followed by another gnashing of teeth by standpatters In Iowa. An Ohio man offers to wager that he -tiUWv without can arinK a pausing; to take breath. The fool kl er generally has very little trouble with caee of that kind.

Mr. Roosevelt say'. "I enjoyed myself In the White house Pint tip to date rresmem hlmed In wltn simutu i I- vhour cot away irom l'es prisMM the hope that those Chicago street cars will be doing business here during the next state fair. It Is reported that Mrs. Rockefeller hss advised ner nuii --rS fears the work will ins.

ro-K-, con. entually unaermm science. Thousands of salmon in Puget Sound inousanun ut discharge have been kllieo L'uior Worden nf beavv guns at run inci t) IB ii'" Even preparation for war and Casey. artlme prices on canned seems to make goods possibe. ne Moines fM It reent fair difficult to -conversaUon service? Anyhow, you will have to admit that newspapers gave Lnrl.

Joe bean furnishing hot stuff for their fvolumns. "Pr. Cook," sals a news Item, "has found an asylum In Texas. derstand it. there are a numner ui overcrowded asylums In teat noisy com- monwealth.

Jim Sherman still seems disposed to resist all attempts to turn his face to the wall. Doubtless every man who attends a performat.ee of "In Search of a sinner feels that Lillian Russell has her ee on him. THE PJiS MOINES HOLDIT. Waterloo Courier: The press dispatches failed to report It because It was done In small quantities and under the guise of law and order. The boodle Instead of belli carried off In a few cash bags, being many times greater In quantity than th- ordinary haul seized from shattered safety vaults, now swells the bank accounts of manv hotel and public service men of the capital city.

The people of the great state of Iowa have distributed themselves back to the other cities and farms and will make some more money to rehabilitate their finances. There are always leeches who hope to gather a year's income at such occasions anywhere In the country. These are to lie expected. Rut the Pes Moines graft has outclassed all others. It haa become notorious.

Impudent, Insufferable. The people of the entire state are up In arms. Many of them have resolved never again to attend the lies Moines fair. Even this year thousands of people of northern Iowa have turned their backs on Des Moines and are going to the Minnesota fair, where they can get decent accommodations at reasonable prices. Caterers, hotel keepers and bootblacks in I'es Moines conspire with the others to double rates during fair week.

Every grafter with an ostensibly legitimate trade is given free rein. The pickpockets, however, are driven out because the others nre. not willing to share the spoils with them. William Galloway of this city secured from the fair management conttact rights to give away his melons. A concession was later sold to another man to sell the same fruit on the grounds.

The rest nf Ihe story Is well known. Mr. Oalloway reimbursed the man for something for which the fair management had no right to take his JufO. In order to maintain good feeling after the Calloway fashion. One grateful visitor remarked that "our Hill's" melons were the only thing he ever obtained free In lies Moines.

Incidentally this distinction falls to a citizen of Waterloo, It Is time for Pes Moines to wake up to the reputation which she is winning for herself. Normally, every newspaper In Iowa should boost the fair, for Is a Btate "affair." But the fact is that no newspaper in the sbite outside of Pes Moines has printed a word of free advertising, simply for the reason that the Institution has rmne to he regarded as a private enterprise for robbing the people. es Moines Is killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Will the business men of that city awake to the fact of the offense that has been committed against the well meaning, hard working masses of Iowa people or will It blindly tfm tlie Institution of the state fair Into the ground? Tire first step In the reconciliation of Iowa people Is an admission that things have not hen as they should be at the state fair. Then the Iowa public many believe that the attempts to better conditions, If any are made, are sincere.

Otherwise our predictions for the annual fair In the future are not at all optimistic. People cannot forget In a year some of the outrages that have been practiced upon them. 'Wa arc all proud of Des Mohn our magnificent oapltol. our historical building and of ouratata fair building, ln(J grounds," said George Moniux. returnl, to Ms home In Rock nm the fair officers did well in all their duties, and.

in proteetirig visltora from Pny graii while on th, grounds, but ws are not so treatment while down town. We that at the hotels we used to the regular price was Just doiihi, an, sometimes higher, Wa viewed the historical painting that adorns the siJlr. way of the capital, the painting cost 300,000 bushels of oata at the painting, and whlla fine It is not t- to tha eubject. Some of us drove 0itn when we cam into Iowa but we drive from the off side of the cattle am our mothers and sisters did not fr shirt waists and the bevy of f. vj angels that hovered over our wagon ai invisible.

We visited the soldiers' m-ir, ment. Under the lee of the great rapimi building It stands, and perhaps not on? fair visitor in a dozen aver saw It nnrt If ha did see It he could not know what It was at any distance without being 1. We with others walked down the hill found It standing on a vacant lot, a muddy alley an one aide and sturs.) weeds growing all around, without any fence. It stands alone In all Its glory, it Is a disgrace to the state to allow tVB magnificent monument to remain where It ls and with such surroundings. The legislature did it.

On two aides of the. great base are bronze colossal flgurea representing the mothera of the war times, all honor to them we say; but ws wondered why they should put another woman of heroic size surmounting tlie monument, with a broom in one hand and a feather duster in the other hand. But this great monument dedicated to the Iowa soldiers, living and dead, will must be removed where the people of future generation! can tee and admire it. Rebuild It on the river front opposite tin city administration building with suitable, surroundings where people can get to It 11 lieil and Iowa, will have one of the (Inei monuments to be found in any state' tlie union. Of course the old soldlei would like to have this done, but we real Ize that the general public must take this matter up and do this if it is ever done.

What do the citizens of Des Molnei think about the matter?" "I have always wondered why practically every paper In the west carries the standing of the American league ahead ot tlie National league. I believe that there are more men in this part of the country who have more of an Interest 1n tin National than they have In the American," said Hubert Utterback, "and these men would like to see the American follow the standing of the league In which they are interested. I have never been able to understand why the rule of running the American standing before that of the National should be almost universal. The National ls the veteran organization. In most of the lnterleague meetings of lata years the National has shown its supremacy as having the best players of the national game, but tha papers atlll give the American the hypothetic! ranking of a top position." "If the city council would order tlie alleys In Woodland cemetery plotted we could deriva at least 110,000 more from the sale of lots In that cemetery," said W.

B. Oeorge, secretary to Councilman Wesley Ash. 'The streets there are close together, but still there are alleys between them. In my opinion there Is no necessity for them. Lots there have been selling at forty cents a foot and now none are to be had even at that price.

The council ls considering various plans for providing an Increased income for the care of cemeteries. That would be one way to help the maintenance of Woodland out. There is little doubt in my mind that the price of lots in both Laurel Hill and Qlendale cemeteries will be raised soon. The matter waa taken up by the council the otHer day and It seemed to be the unanimous opinion that ten cents a foot, the price the lots are now bringing, ls too cheap. The prlc I should be sufficient to make It possible to I set aside a portion of the fund for rer- petual care.

At the last session of the legislature authority to create perpetual maintenance funds for cemeteries was secured. I is essential that they he cre ated, else a comparatively short time the city w.ll find Itself with the care 0 three large cemeteries on its bands and no money for tha work. When tha lots are all gone, as Is now the case In Woodland, the cemetery becomes a deal weight. The care of that cemetery over UO.000 a year. By charging a 11" a more than ten cents a foot for ground In th( two new cemeteries maintenance funds of sufficient proportions to meet the needs can be provided." The state fair thla year was mora orderly than any Iowa state fa that I have attended and I ha mlssd but two lnr they began, gan," said A.

V. Coates. "There was es hqnor sold in or near the grounds than ever before. wa, very muoh plaaaM oyer the way th. fair wa.

managM. Years ago we prohibitionists used to ob ject to the amount of liquor that was a under iuIm of drinks. I one drunk man at the fair this ear, That waa fine. In former year, the man-agemertt said that it was unable to stop liquor being brought In to the horse metv While the fair management may ha lost money thts year on some of the cotr cessions, it has gained much by the clean way In which the fair waa handled. "The dty certainly ha.

a deserted appearance the fair closed," said R. 8-Lafferty. "During the first part of the week as you went down the street, you could easily imagine that you were In Chicago at the busiest time of the day, the streets were ao crowded when you tried to go anywhere on the street era you certainly played the 'strap-hanger for fair, and sometime, it was almost Impossible to board a car at all. Now when you go down the streets, it almosl seems like you were In a country village, It is .0 quiet In comparison lo what it was the first part of the week." "One of the remarkable facts of the state fair week this year," said Constable John Vicker of East Des Moines, "wa. that disturbances on this side of the river were entirely I have seen many state fair weeks, but until this year there has beenl none hut what was marked by soma trouble that reflected little credit upon the districts below the tracks.

Last week there was no trouble whatever, and prove, conclusively that tha police department i. weeding out the undesirables, As the rupers Have It. The rage of Taft Is strong and deep; He smiles a.nd chuckles In bis sleep. He's still a friend of Theodore And they have split for evermore. He Is progressive and with wrath Will sweep Insurgents from his path, And now has plans for laying low The friends and foes of Uncle Joe.

The tariff he. with strong disgust, Will stiffen, leave alone and bust. To Balllnger he's tied a can. He loves bim as no other man. Good natured, sad and mad Is he And as he drives from tee to tee He slgiis and laughs and sings and swears About the nation's griefs and cares.

Peoria Herald-Transcript A Full House, "At Peachvllle 'we played to a full house," said the manager of the "Uncle Tom" show. "How did, that happen?" he was asked. "The people had lust voted for local option and the saloonkeepers were giving their goods away. Chicago Kecora-Herald. The Upturns In 1UCO.

"Where are the women going to?" Said Files-oniParade going to vote, they're going to vota," The big policeman said. "What makes them look so fine, fine?" Said Flles-on-rarade; "They always dress up for the polls," The big policeman said. "For the women are out voting, you observe their brave array! Mrs. Mackay is In violet voile and Mrs. Catt In gray: Mrs.

Belmont wears taupe chiffon, Miss Mtlholland oink piaue- For they're out to cast their ballots in the morning! Carolyn Wells in Life. Noncommittal. Lawyer Did the prisoner when he stabbed his victim seem to recognize him? Witness-Well, h6 cut him Baltlmore American. Hie Unassuming Expert. Belinda Bell a-flshing went.

She wore her prettiest hat And was a picture of content As In the boat she sat. With high-heeled shoes and silken hese And simple frock but fine; She talked and watched the fish mat rose, But never cast a line. No catch, they said, Belinda made While out a-flshlng there Beneath the parasol whose shade Saved her complexion tair. But we know better, you and I. Since cards have come our way All neatly graved, to notify Friends of her wedding cay.

Washington Star. Wishing. dee whiz, I just wish that I wu A girl 'stead of a kid. An' then thev wouldn't scold becui Of naughty things I did. It's "Glenn, do this," and "Glenn, do toat." "Now, Glenn, why don't you Quit? "Why can't you be a good child once?" "Now, Glenn, why did you do it" If Hazel wants to yell an' crv Enough to make folks wild, They never whip or scold her for She's such a cunning child.

But I can't play ball In the house, An' must keep off the grass. An' mustn't throw a stone because I'd mavbe break some glass. Gee whiz, It's fierce to he a boy, I most wish I wuz dead. An' then I'll bet they'd all feel bad Because of what they'd said. Detroit Free Press.

Glimpses of the l'ast. Adam had finished naming the animals. "I leave to the entomologists and micro- scoplsts, he sain, tne jou 01 bugs, tlie parasites, and the microbes." Even then, perhaps Adam had a dim foreboding of the troublous days to come when Eve would be complaining that the premises were alive with cockroaches. Chicago Tribune. II I gilt.

'Would you take ten thousand dollars to flv from Albany to New lork? "Whv not? Our cashier took only a thousand to fly to Europe." Puck. For Ladies Only. Ladv (annoved hv constant yelling nf pat, vi "Poor little dear! Is It a boy or a girl?" A hoy." Lady "Well, perhaps you wouldn't mind getting out at the next station. What's he doing in a lady compartment, anyhow?" London Sketch. Also It Uses Up Cold.

"Old you ever notice how a ring Is like the marriiige obligation?" "No. Ifow do vou mean?" "A ring Is more easily put on then It Is taken off." Boston Transcript. Needed the Money. Mrs. Crtmsonbeak-Been to see the doctor? Mr.

Crimsonbeak-Tes; just come from there "Did he find out what was the matter with you?" "Yes. he discovered I had that he wanted." Yonkers Statesman. lillbhed It In. The argument had reached the Jumping off point. "Oh.

well, I don't care, she said. "Have it vour own way but our engagement is off." "Don't say that," he protested. "I am willing to admit that I was In the wrong." "That's all right as far as It goes." she retorted, "hut it doesn't go quite far enough." "What more can I do he queriea. "You can and must admit that I was In the right," she replied. And he dirt.

St. Louis Post.pispatoh. Narrow Escape. "Our new neighbor has sent her kid over to borrow pome gasoline." 'Dear me! hate to admit that we have no auto." "We won't have to. She only wants a little to clean some gloves." Louisville, Courier-Journal.

Hriglit Outlook. "Do vou er do you think, Mis Dobhlelgh. that vou will be er-en-gaged next Thursday evening?" asked Tnmpv. very bashfully. "Well, really, Mr.

Tompv." replied Ethel. "I don't know-hut If you can get up spunk enough between now and then to do your share I think there's a fair prospect that I shall be." And Tompy did. -Pittsburg Post. Not Surprising. I've beard that Homer nodded, And Napoleon had a fall.

All great men have been prodded Now and tlben by brothers small. I've seen Ty Cobb caught napping On the ba.ses, so I'm not Astounded at the shipping That our Teddy Hoosevelt got. I've seen the favorite benten, A sure-thing lose the race. For no one man we sweeten Life's cup or hold a place. And since 'tis life we're viewing, I'm not Rurprlsed to note, That others, up end doing.

Have captured Teddy's goat. Detroit Free Press. Feeling Pretty Well, Tfuink Vou. Traer Star-Clipper: Wa guess the country knows now on which side of the fence Teddy stands, and the progressives are feeling pretty good, thank you. make It possible now to do this without the intervention of the pencil and from successive radiographs themselves present the order of these movements.

Advance In the X-ray work has been a struggle for supremacy between the producers of the spark and the tubes that emit the rays. Ten years ago the Crook's tubes were calllpg for more powerful machines to generate the electricity, but today the exciting apparatus Is so powerful that no Crookes tube can long withstand its fierce energy. The result Is an enormously penetrative ray which capable of traversing translucent objects Hfee the ihuman body in one-sixtieth of the time needed some years ago. in photography Increased speed has been hv th improvement In the plate, but In radiography the plate was already well perfected so that the Improvement has come through the possibility of securing a greater amount of available energy. This greater penetrability of the rava ma lie.

It now possible to radiograph so quickly that the successive pictures may show tout slightly different positions of the walls of the orgsns. and when viewed in radd succession the plate imitate the natural movements. nresslni along the Una of advance to quicker exposure the Germans and th. imoricons have been neck and necK. The latter with their Ingenuity have In vented devices so tnat an me imi peered ray producing machines are founded m.os hut the Germans with their philosophical minds, their splendid institutions and the separation of the research work from the teaching, have been able to achieve final resu Its.

In either country It is possible to "tur action of the moving organs, the heart, lung, or diaphragm, with put I tU. or no over the other. These have heretofore been at Uie very limit of vision Sbeyond it because with the cpara-lively feeble ray. of earlier days, their r.y resistance was almost the same as the organ within which they were seated But with stronger power, the difference become more marcu. kncl Hat have which, with the qulcger expuamo the diaphragm may be neia moment of its duration and the organ remains quiet with it.

Th. erent advance of X-ray worir has been In the study alimentary tract, and but slightly less important has been that of the Km ney The new possibility of filling th. gullet with an opaque food avhow progress can be watched has led to closer dTagnosis of maladies here oeated. carcinoma, for example, and the PhyuclM 1 or surgeon ion knowledge of just what be la to do, the stomach has unriaetnR ilia i i a In been studied, and now the Intestines With reference to the kidney, the method has a curious variant In that It Is a salt of silver and not of bismuth that is used. The organ may be filled with the opaque silver by a simple process of Injection and then Its size, position, and quality are evident and any serious disease Is sure to he noted.

The same Is true of the bladder, but here the cys oscope makes It possible to view directly the walls of the organ so that the sliver salt Is usually reserved for the more deeply seated organs. Motion pictures of anatomy have been shown In Boston. About two weeks ago Alban Koliler of Wiesbaden was able to ma such pictures of the thorax and these were exhibited here. No work of the kind, however, is known to have been done in this country. There are here no great Roentgen research laboratories, and what research has been done is to the credit of private laboratories or else as the by-product of some Institution busy with its clinical work.

The cost of such biograph reproductions as that 01 Rieder and his companions Is prohibitory. It Is too great for the ordinary private investigator or for the college or hospital assistant, and In fact, comparatively few Institutions would be able to meet the expense. One reason for this Is that the radiograph of the body Is life size. No means has as yet been devised to reduce it In size, for It is a direct shadow, and a plate twelve to sixteen inches square is necessary for every exposure and for a full series of motions several hundred plates of feet of film would he needed. It would be necessary further to provide a quick-working mechanism to Bhift the film along, the rate of speed being many feet per second.

There are mechanical difficulties, therefore, as well as cost, so that It Is only a powerful institution that can undertake experiments of this kind. The Institution that, has carried forward the series of films of the stomach, noted In the dispatch, Is the Imperial Bavarian Ludwig Maximilian university at Munich In which Dr. Rieder oc cupies the chair of psychotherapy. His companions are less well known to Amer lean authorities. The matter of the con trading band of the stomach, which Is coupled with Rleder's name as a dlscov ery, Is by no means new.

It was long ago announced by Pr. Cannon that there does not exist such a well-defined contractile band and Dr. Brown has pub licly confirmed this observation OIK EXVIOIS NEIGHBORS. Atlantic News: If Des Moines is such a hellofaplace, and Its business men such wonderful patriots, and Its state fair so devoid of Des Moines selfishness, we (tometlmes wonder why Jt ls that Its people ever leave It for the cow townships of the state. Marshalltown Herald! The fact that seventeen gamblers were run In In Des Moines last week Is taken by the Omaha Bee as a sort of slam on the commission form of government.

Quite to the contrary. It shows how efficient the commission plan Is. If the plan were working right In Omaha there would he seven hundred or more of Its noted citizens on the retired list, and Mayor Jim would have a Job of getting his boosters out of the lockup. Knoxvllle F.xpress: The Express has In times past discoursed upon the advantages of life In a country town as opposed to a feverish existence in the city, end we are now reenforced In our convictions. In New York, Chicago, Des Moines or San Francisco a man may pay IS or lo for a dally paper without getting a pleasant look from the cashier, but over In Lucas he pay.

ft for the Ledger and gels his name In the next Issue and Is referred to as "one of God's nobility." Who wouldn't live "far from the madding crowd's Ignoble strife?" Waterloo Reporter: The bootblacks of Des Moines are being censured for raising the price of shines during the state fulr. From this distance It looks like a cry of "stop thief to cover the escape of the real criminals. Rockford Register: A great deal of criticism has been directed at the lack of harmony which seems to prevail between the superintendents of the several municipal departments under the Des Moines plan of the government. This doesn't coynt for much if with all the contention affair, are ably and economically administered. The time ofr the taxpayers to be on the lookout is when everything runs smooth and lovely and when there Is a complete harmony and understanding between the several members of the governing body.

Wlnterset News: When a atate republican convention meets in Pes Moines there Is a glad hand and a display of bunting. When a sttate democratic con-ventlon comes to Des Moines, a business man will dangle your badfie and ask you "what's Pntll a democratic stat convention can be given the recognition It meets In other eltles the democrats will meet In other cities than Des Moines. Waterloo Times-Tribune: Mr. Galloway might have known they would not let a man give anything away at Dea Moines. JOHN RITCHIE, JH In the Boston Transcript.

It Is announced from Munich that Dr. E. Kaestle, Dr. H. Rieder and Engineer Rosenthal have succeeded In getting motion pictures of the Internal organs of the human body.

They have made observations of the stomach during digestion, and they find that the assumption Is wrong that there la a rythmical contraction of the stomach dividing It practically Into two portions. This story In general marks an Interesting advance In the use of fhe Roentgen, or as It Is popularly termed, the X-ray. So far as the bones of the human body are concerned, the depicting of them and the study dependent thereupon attained a very satisfactory degree of advancement some years ago. The present developments relate to the depicting of the soft organs, whloh have been observable to a much less satisfactory degree. The cinematograph figures of portions of the digestive tract come, however, as the philosophical result of Improved There Is nothing startling In the announcement and In fact anatomical olographs have already been shown In Boston.

There seems to be only the cost of the process that Is In the way of their production at any time now. The word "now" Is used advisedly, for In the development of the technique of radiographs the steps forward have been very rapid during the pHst few years. It may be said, for example, that the minutes of exposure that were necessary ten years ago have become seconds now and with the approach of Instantaneous radiography the dossI- bllltles of Investigation widen enor. misly. The story of the earlier Investigations of the movements of the digestive tract as shown by the Roentgen ray is of Interest to Bostonlans, Inasmuch as the first experiments alona- this line seem to hai'A been made by Boston medical students.

following the discovery of the X-ray In there was an enormous imnnni nf observation with the fluoroscope and with tne radiograph of the bones of the human body. While this was In nrnm-os. it curred to a group of bright young fellows at the Harvard Medical school that there mlghr he a chance to study the forms and movements of the hollow organs. Of course, all these things had been studied by means of anatomy, but the organs nen nissected are very different from what they are In life end ti, must still be guessed at. W- "ne or investigation Dr.

B. Cannon and Dr Pm 4-i. up the matter with a great deal of vigor In the year following the discovery or the rays. In 1KW. Dr.

Cannon fed pearl buttons to a goose, th. Scattered Oiroue-h a 'o through watched JVh nea 5' wa watched with a great deal of interest. new notions of the place and normal action of th. (...... S1m9 mat an on a mi mtaeS wfth icon If nr.

Cannon tched Euroneanmof' 'iOPtin thB Luropean observers seem to have select- niuk. omy nls. as to th. metal to use. It 1.

Tne Pwr in the food or enc .8 S5'K- a.4 ttlA flrat 4- specialist In Srnnfllnfanriaeki- personal tlratnr. Af V- "ng the great investigator, of Kurope. Dr. Brown is thoroughly touch with the forefront nt advance and to him the announcement He has himself been always an advocate of Increase of speed In taking radiographs and has kept his knowledge of the literature and his Instrumental equipment fully up to date, so that his apparatus will show him the most delicate Items that are visible. Jt ls a very different matter, however, to get cinematograph pictures as will be noted later.

Cannon while he was at work carried on his Investigations In precisely the same way that the Germans have whose achievements have Just been heralded, and so well as Was possible at the time tried to make a visual presentation of the movements of the organs. He administered bismuth hullets to domestic birds and watched them with the fluoro-' scope. From his observations he made drawings, which, set In scries In the zoetrope. showed to a Boston company at a meeting of the national academy here, the first exhibition of Its kind, the peristaltic movements of the Intestines. This was in 190.

The newer methods MATTFRS OF OPINION. Mr. Klssick Protests. OSKALOORA, la. To the Kdllnr: Attorney General Wlckersham holds that Robert K.

Lee Is "worthy of national commemoration." though he tried for four years to destroy the nation; that his statue, clothed In the confederate uniform, ls legally In Statuary hall and "should surely provoke no opposition." Evidently his opinion Is based on the strict letter of the law, the naked law. not the spirit or Intent of the lawmakers, making the text of the law subservient to his preconceived views or desires. In this, he has violated the elementary principles and rules of Interpretation and construction. It Is what Is classed, In law, an "artful Interpretation;" that ls, he has given a meaning to the text of the law other than the one he knew, or had good reason to believe, to have been Intended by congress wheMi It enacted the law, July 1. 1.

"There can be no sound Interpretation," says an eminent law writer, "without good faith and common sense. The object of all Interpretation and construction Is to ascertain the intention nf the authors, even so far as to control the literal signification of the words. Saint Paul, the great lawyer and logician, said: "The letter of the law kllleth, but the spirit maketh alive." As a lawyer, caring for his reputation, the attorney general should revise his opinion, making It conform to the legislative Intention or the legitimate purpose nf the act of congress. Robert Klssick. Street Car Tracks a I'nrt of the Public Hlglmny.

To the Editor; The people who ride on the street cars ere not getting a square deal. The city ls spending thousands of dollars to prepare fine paved streets for automobile travel, A-hlle those have to ride on street cars must pay a rate of fare high enough to enable the street car company to provide Its own tracks. If the city provided these tracks as It does the pavement, a fare of 2 or 3 cents would pay the operating expenses. Car tracks are Just as much of a public necessity and a public Improvement as are pavements. Both are placed In the public highway for the convenience of the traveling public.

And all should be permitted to use the puMIc highway on equal terms. If It is free to the man In themulomoblle, It should be free to the man In the street car. L. J. Kasson.

1itH of Xoise Hut Spirit Iake Beacon: As we go to press only meager reports come from the field as to the flrot day's legal shooting, but heavy bags arc expected. By actual count nearly a thousand ehells were exploded within earshot of this town before six o'clock yesterday morning. 1.