Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1922 — Page 4

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JttMana SaiUi SFimes • INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephone—MA in 3500. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. JNew York, Boston, Payne, Burns & Smith, Ino. Advertising offices jchleago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. , FEW INDEED would oppose the bonus If no one had to pay it! IN OTHER WORDS, Senator New is going to leave his campaign to his friends! HERE’S HOPING the prosperity that President Harding sees "coming this way" does not get lost in aDy bloc. CARMEL should remember that the proximity of a reformatory vill serve as a real object lesson i.or its children. IF TERRE HAUTE were not such a popular place, perhaps there would be less necessity of keeping the National road in repair. DOUBTLESS Mr. Howat and his supporters feel that the SIOO,OOO his convention fight is estimated to have cost the miners was all expended in a good cause. Disillusion for the Public Operating a street railway system in Indianapolis is rapidly becoming more and more like operating a newspaper—everybody knows better how to do it than the editors. In the last several weeks, the newspapers have been bombarded with suggestions for improvement of street car service,-few, if any, of which are practical. Included in these suggestions were those of the man who wants express cars to run from the heart of the city to the edge at high speed, without stops, over the same tracks as the local cars which must stop at every crossing. The question of how the local cars are to keep out of the way of the express cars is, of course, left "to be determined. Another earnest citizen suggests a single loop In the heart of the city through which all cars should pass without giving consideration to the fact that the passage of all the cars operated in the city through this loop at one time could not be accomplished in a working day. Still another suggests a crosstown line which he says vouid involve merely the construction of one and three-quarters miles of double tracks, part on paved streets." This suggestion is no less impraticable than the others, insomuch as the company has no funds with which to build the tracks and no one stands ready to supply the funds. * Mayor Shank's meeting of civic organizations for the discussion of the street car problem cannot be expected to evolve any solution of it. Insomuch as it makes more people acquainted with the fact that there is a real problem to be solved tl& meeting is not with6ut its value. But the committee which has been appointed to consider the situation will soon be composed of a lot of -disillusioned citizens. No magic wand exists which may be waved effectually enough to provide a proper street car service. Such an end can only be obtained through a long constructive program in which the car company and the citizens will have to give and take, each with due consideration for the rights and the desires of the other.

Interesting , if True! J Commenting on the letter addressed by Thomas Taggart to the Democratic editors in which he reiterated his desire for equal participation of women in party affairs, the Evansville Jour .ai says: "The emphatic words of Mr. Taggart show his realization of the unhappy plight into which the party of the State has been thrust by Ignoring the women or giving them n„ more than passive recognition. “The action of the Republican State committee in accepting women on the same plane and with the right of a representation coequal wltn the men puts the Republican party far ahead of the Democrats in adjusting the problem presented by the suffrage amendment. The Republicans have welcomed* the participation of women in all party affairs without any restrictions or any separate organization. The Democratic masculinisis may be driven to the same policy, but they will grant the recognition grudgingly and reluctantly.” * Perhaps the Journal can advise who is Republican national committeewoman from Indiana? Or how many women members of the last national delegation went to the Chicago convention? Or what the -Republican State committee meant when it approved of the candidacies of women “for such offices as they are qualified to fill?” We may have been dreaming, but it seems to linger in our minds that the League of Women Voters did not find it necessary to demand the equal representation in the Democratic party organization that they did demand recently from the Republicans! The Habit of Observat ion In these days when minutes count nearly every man carries a watch. But how many know whether the sixth hour is marked with a Roman or Arabic numeral? This test recently was applied at a meeting of high railway officials in St Louis, and none of them passed it, though they, if anybody, might have been expected to know just how their watches w-ere made. The railroaders laughed at each other and seemed to be a little humiliated, but really there was not much need, if any, for feeling that emotion. None of them*knew how 6 o’clock was marked for the excellent reason that the knowledge .would have been quite w-orthless in their business and only would have taken up room in their minds better filled with other information. They all could “tell time,” and that was enough. So It is with the most of the things to which we are accustomed. The how, the why and the actual descriptions of our conveniences are seldom fixed in our minds while they function. Likewise, is It true of our government. Too few of us know the intricacies. Seldom do we find a man who understands why the county clerk issues marriage licenses and the city controller issues dog licenses. But that does not in any way prevent the average citizen from feeling that be could do a better job of filling the office than either. Landis Resigns The retirement of Judge Landis from the Federal bench solves a problem that never should have been permitted to exist for a moment. The Judge was deriving financial support from two sources, serving two masters and creating a situation that would some time have served as a precedent for a far more dangerous condition. The judges of our courts should be the Judges of our courts and nothing else. If they are to be permitted to serve as baseball commissioners they might as well be permitted to serve as counsel for big commercial enterprises. The spirit is the same whenever a judge elects to accept employment from any other source than the government which makes him a judge. In his role as Federal Judge, Landis was always spectacular. In his role as commissioner of baseball he has been scarcely less so. It remain to be seen Whether he will be as much in the public eye when he ceases to shine in the somber surroundings of a courtroom. Build It Wide! The determination of the city plan commission to Insist on the widening of the proposed bridge over Fall Creek at Delaware street is comendlable. There have been almost, as many mistakes made in the construction of bridges over Fall Creek as bridges and the community is to be congratulated on having evolved an agency that stands for consideration of future needs in construction work. Indianapolis has some beautiful structures spanning Fall Creek, but no one will contend that they are wide enough for the traffic they beafr today and certainly there is no indication that new bridges constructed at the same interval as has heretofore obtained will take care of the inICreasing traffic. I The Delaware street bridge should be so constructed as to care for ■double the present traffic r- for it will be only a few years ■until the traffic requirements are doubled.

BABIES AND CHILDREN TURN BACK THE YEARS And Bring Memories of Youth to Movie Fans This Week

The youngsters of the land rule the local screen this week. It is seldom that the young people come to the front as they do this week on the screen. At Loew’s State several children and even a baby take part in the Fox production of “Shame.” At the Isis, the white hands of a baby sways ami controls the notions of Hobart Bosworth in “White Hands.” At the Circle, Penrod, the brain child of our friend Booth Tarkington, comes to life through the personality of Wesley Barry. This week is a glorious week for the voung blood on the local screen. -I- -I- -IA DELICIOUS HOOSIER TOUCn IS REVEALED IN TARRINGTON'S MOVIE Remember when you were n youngster? Was the woodshed a frequent and unpleasant scene of meeting with your father? In the woodshed dad generally showed his athletic strength by expressing his sentiments with a shingle or. a switch. Anyway, whether that happened to the average boy who is now a man is not the question, but that is what Booth Tarkiugtou's "Penrod” received In the woodshed. I went over to the Circle yesterday afternoon with the thought that the movie produeer had some ag&g; " "r? 4!> real material to film if he stayed 'W within the spirit 3# of Tarkington’s story. 1 was not fc|. -■ -*'f \ in the theater long i n,ltli 1 realized that Marshall NcihßL. ' lan had not only V caught the spirit "nT ♦< of Tarfciugton but ■ * £ f. In- had photos' ,< I - graphed the “soul" - "v-if of the American boy, S. T All of us follows v have played show. : Eh! Haven't we had II* I .s a grand and glorlous time playing Wesley Harry. circus and generally our attempts to be Rarnum A Bailey resulted in a tragedy. When Penrod gets the circus bug—well the bug turns out to be a bee. Penrod gets stung. ( Some mothers are so afraid that their dear son will be ruined by being a real boy.) I am going into detail concerning “Penrod," but I feel that Booth Tarkington and Wesley Barry will get very next to you. “Penrod” is the story of a real American boy and Barry makes him a real lad. I enjoyed best the scene where Penrod was celebrating his twelfth birthday. All the children were present with theii mothers. (What a grand time mothers have at a children s party.) The village vamping Juvenile arrives and teaches the dear children to shimmy. The shoulder shaking Is stopped when the dear mothers arrive on the scene. That ends the party. You will enjoy the children in this movie. The truth is I feel that you will obtain much pleasure from seeing “Penrod. ” At the Circle all week.— W. D. H.

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN MELODRAMA, YOU KNOW. If yon buy grapefruit, you would not Judge the quality of It by the orange. The same with the movie. If a -tiovie Is melodrama —very mellow at that—it must be Judged by the standards of melodrama. William Fox has decided that the time is ripe for producing lurid melodrama on the screen. Several weeks ago "Thunder- ! clap" was presented at J,cow's and this week, “Shame” Is the attraction. This . movie belongs to the melodrama class. Personally, I did not enjoy “Shame.” It’s too “rnelo" for me. The director has failed to make realistic this melodrama. “Thunderclap" got over because it looked “real" altl.'jugh the scenes were greatly overdrawn. In “Shame,” I cannot imagine a pretty woman going into Alaska without a hat. The main male character in this movie wears a white shirt in a cabin in the northiands. A director must not forget that it Is his duty to make even the most impossible story ring true. That Emmett J. Flynn has cot done with “Shame.” The cast is as follows: David Fielding William Fielding, his father John Gilbert Winifred Wellington Doris Pawn Li Clung William V Mong Foo Chang George Riegmann Cnpt. Jonathan Fielding. .George Nicholls David, at 4 years Mickey Moore David, at 9 years.. Frankie Lee The Lotus tilossom Anna May Wong The Weaver of Dreams. .Rosemary Theby Randolph Wellington Herbert Portler Charlotte Wellington Mary lluntre.e Once-Over .lake Fred Kirby Those who read this department know by tills time that the more fact a picture ha 9 failed to reach my standards of criticism la ”0 sign that a general enrse has attached to the picture. I “ravod" over “Fof'ever,” which was at Loew’s last ! week, but Judging by letters t received, the public didn't go wild over It Anyway, yon get here wbat I really think of a picture. Manager Jennings has done a clover bit •of work In presenting an anvil chorus I during the overture. Several young wom!en obtain melody from: anvils on the [ stage. The effect is pleasing. I The orchestra is great at Loew’s this 1 week. The musical score played during j “Shame” is a treat, j At Loew's all week. —W. D, R. -I- -I- -II'OLA NECKI AGAIN ON VIEW AT ALHAMBRA. “The Red Peacock" so reminded us of Nazhnova's “Camille” that It was like i reading a book for the second time: I Pola Negri plays the role of a flower ! girl, sent upon the streets to earn money for a drunken stepfather. She is picked up by a young playwright who falls In love with her and she with him. The playwright leaves to visit a sister who is ill and while away she chooses the “easiest way”—a life of luxury offered to her because of her beauty. Her love finally leads her back to the now successful playwright. They live together happily until his father and sister ask her to give him up, which she does. She returns

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INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20,1922.

THIS PICTURE TELLS ITS OWN STORY

RUDOLPH VALENTINOAND ALICE TERRY. “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" 1s now In the second week of Its engagement at the Ohio. Valentino and Miss Terry play two of the ‘important roles In this movie. .

X to her "red peacock" strutting life. The playwright finds her In this sort of a life and accuses her loving only his success. He returns to his home broken hearted. A wire comes telling him of her serious illness. Then his sister tells him that they influenced the girl to leave him. *' Happy ending? Sure It had to be, you know. The settings are placed In France and are massive. Negri wears some dashing gowns. At the Alhambra all week. -I- -I- -IRAT COMEDY ON VIEAV AT MISTER SMITH’S. In "It. S. V. P.” Charlie Ray Instead of being a football player or a fighter, is a painter who lives in a garret. As Richard Morgan, he has a chance to be the same shy and wholesome Charlie Itay as he has been in the past. Charlie

Washington Briefs

WASHINGTON. Feb. 20—Washington | correspondents who complain Os ex- : oesslve caution by our State Department ;In adherence to the proprieties ot tllplomtlc procedure are pointing to the ! latest instance of how Important news is obtained by catde from Europe instead of being released in Washington. The text of the declaration by the T'ulted States to The Netherlands relating to Inspection of Dutch insular pos'-cssions In. the Pacific became known through Jonk--5 beer H. A. Van Karnebeek reading It in : the Dutch parliament on Saturday laat, although It has not been given out here yet | A group of wounded officers sat in the i Senate galleries the afternoon for the debate on the Bursum bill to grant retirement rights and compensation to emergency officers on the sntne basis as to regular officers. Senator Wadsworth of New York and Lonroot of Wisconsin, i spoke against the bill find its chances of j passage did not Reem bright. The meas- ! sure has been urged by the American f Legion. Charles A. Rawson, who Is to succeed William S. Kenyon Senator, from lowa, has many friends and aeqnalntenances In the capital. He belongs to the Kenyon-Kendall Republican group In lowa, and has opposed on numerous occasions the policies and candidates of John T. Adams of lowa, i chairman of the Republican National j Committee. i An editorial paragraph which Is being passed around the Rpnate by a New ; England Senator who found it In his home paper reads: '•* ! “It Is reported from Rome there are |to be four new American Cardinals. Npw, i we suppose the farm bloc In the Senate will demand that at least one shall be a dirt farmer.” Announcement of the elevation of Hubert Work, first assistant Postmaster Genera!., to the postmaster generalship succeeding Will H. Hayes, will be made l by President Harding as soon as Mr. Hayes’ formal resignation has been ten- | derod. The President has Indicated that ! lists have been closed and the naming lof the new Cabinet officer was awaltjing only the convenience of Mr. Hays, who ! let It be known that he will quit March 4. | President Harding has given his personal approval to many phases of th* Governmental reorganization scheme ! drawn up by Walter F. Brown, the Presli dent’s representative on the Joint reorganization committee of Congress, but the Brown report will not be submitted to Congress until conflicting views of • the Cabinet members can be harmonized. Mr. Harding Is willing to acknowledge Government reorganization Is no simple Job bur he hag hopes of representing a workable plan at the present session of Congress.—Copyright, 1922, by Pub- : lie Ledger Company.

in this movie Is the sort of a chap who thinks art is everything. Poverty probably makes him realize that art for arts sake Is the thing. A pretty model enters. Then the love bug gets busy and there is a whole lot of clean and delicious fun revealed. Betty is the name of the model. Jean Calhoun is Betty and what ft pleasing little trick she is. Harry Myers is cast as Benny Fielding who la a pal of Richard. The cast is as follows: Richard Morgan. Charlie Kay Mrs. Morgan, his aunt Florence Oberi ■ Benny Fielding y Harry Myers Augustus Jonathan - Plimpton t....Tom McGuire Betty, his daughter Jean Calhoun Private Detective Robert Grey Butler ... William Cnurtrlght Minnie Meadow* Lla Behumaker Story by Bob Wagner. Directed by Charles Ray. This picture stacks up as a \ leasing Charlie Ray picture. At Mister Smith's all week. -1- -I* -I“AVHITE HANDS" IS NOT A DETECTIVE PLAY. The Isis this week is contributing Its share of honoring the youthful actor. In “White Hands" a baby is t'.- one who sway* the action. It Is not necessary to say that the title of the movie refers to the child. Hobart Bosworth, Robert M<-Klm, Ellnore Fair and Freeman Wood are In the east. In this movie. Bosworth dlvplays his super strength In playing the role of a brutal sea captain who dominates everyone who comes within hi* notice. Together with a Frenchman he runs a tav ern in the Orftnt. This place is a typical oriental dive oriental dancers, wild men and wild women and plenty to drink. Into this place comes a young American girl who is stranded. She Is waiting to obtain passage on a boat bound for the States Bosworth and the Frenchman both fafl in lov# with her. „-. young American chap, who becomes a worthless fellow through drink, enlist* the sympathy of the girl and she undertakes to pestore him to the position of a r-'u! man. 'She nlu mot hors a baby girl--this baby la also stranded. During one of Bosworth’s drunken orgies, lie attempts to assault the American girl but the baby comes toddling across the room and tells the "bad man” to leave That results in the transformation of Bosworth. The ending is happy with all the char acte s turning out as. they should he. The Frenchman Is thrown from the boat ns bait for the sharks. It is all rather exciting. At the Isis all week. N -I- -!■ -1ON THE STAGE TODAY. Robert B. Mantell and Genevieve Hamper opens a week's engagement tonight at English’s In “Richelieu.’’ Mile. Hewe* and her ballot at tho Murat tonight. George MaeFarlane Is the featured Individual at Keith's this week. “The Lincoln Highwayman” Is the chief offering at the Lyric this week. “Golden Crook," with Eddie Shubert Is on view at the Park all week. This Is a Columbia Wheel show. OVERTIME PAY AFTER 9 HOURS Kail Labor Board Rules on Train Dispatches. CIITCAGO, Feb. 20.—Train dispatchers were stripped of ovestlme pay until after the ninth hour of work by n decision of the United State* railroad labor board today. * Kifcht hours remains the regular working day, the board ruled, but the regu* lar rate of pay will be in force until nine hours have been worked. The decree In general Is similar to changes In working agreements affecting other c-rafts made public recently. The board on March 6 will hear applications of carriers for reduced wages and demands of railroad unions for pay Increases.

GOVERNMENT ‘Of the People, by the People, for the People ’

GROWTH OF POLICE POWER. Nicholas Murray Butler says In the American Bar Association Journal for January. “By the use of that very elastic term ‘police power’ and by Its steadily broadening interpretation and application by the courts, we have enormously increased the scope of governifient, greatly restricted the field of civil liberty and worn away .no small part of the distinction between a government that rests upon a written constitution and a government that rests directly upon the will of the electorate or upon the Immediate authority of a representative legislative body.” Few people have comprehended the full significance, trend and dangers of police power and it behooves citizens to be alert to the menace of the extension and multiplication of such powers. Most people, when the words “police power” are used, conjure up menial pictures of huge men in blue cloth and brass buttons, patroling the streets of a city. This is only one phase of police power. The swing of police power, as vested in patrolmen has gone from the minimum and weP defined rights granted under proper re strlctions and safeguards for the individual’s. protection, to the extreme of violating many, if not all, rights formerly held sacred and inviolable and is still being extended and broadened. The Supreme Court stated, “The question as to what are the proper limits of the po li<e power in the United States is a judical one. depending in eaeh case upon the relation of the act in question to the situation of the people and the con ditlon of the Federal legislation.” Chief Justice Shaw of Massachusetts, defined police power, as “the power vested in the Legislature by the Constitution to make, ordain uud establish ail manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statut"S, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the Constitution.” Our Government has always exercised proper police powers, but only in the broadest sense. In the last decade there has developed a remarkable change, and with that change has come the delegation of arbitrary and unlimited police powers to public commissions and boards

Ye TOWJsE GOSSIP Copyright, 1922, by Star Company. - By K. C. B IF ON a trail. • • • THAT WINDS Its way. * • 9 TO THE top of a hill. NEAR WHERE 1 live. • * * I SAT me down. • • • ON A nloy warm rock. • • • AND WATCHED a bandit, • • • WHO WORK a mask. • • • AND CARRIED two g ns. • • • AND HAD come to the place. • • • ABOARD A horse. • • • MAKE A picnic party. ♦ • • HOLD IT Its hands. • • • WHILE ANOTHER bandit. • • • ON ANOTHER horse • * • CAME PLUNGING up, • • • AND ROBBED the crowd. ... OF A piece of pie. ... AND THEY didn’t do It. ... AS IT should have been done AND TUB noisy director. MADE THEM do It again. ... AND I went away. ... AND DOWN the trail. ... AND ON the way. ... I FOUND a horse shoe. ... FRESHLY THROWN. ... AND PICKED It up. ... AND TOOK It home. . . • FOR I’D been told. ... THESE MANY years. ... IN SONG and tale ... THAT FINDING a horse Shoe. . . . IF I picked It up. ... AND HUNG It op. * • * ABOYB MY door. • • * WOULD BRING good luck. ... AND I found a nail. ... AND DROVE it la. . • ABOVE THE door. . • • OF A tittle shed. • • * WHERE I keep my hose. ... AND THERE it was. __ ... I HUSO the shoe. ... AND LATE that day. ... IN THE afternoon. ... I WENT to the shed. ... TO GET my hose. . . . AND OPENED the door. ... AND WAR going in. t • AND THE horse shoe fell. • • • RIGHT ON my bean. * • • AND DENTED it. • • • AND FOR more than an hour. * • * I’D HAD hiccoughs. • • * AND THEY stopped ripht away. * * * AND DIDN’T come bnck. • • I THANK you.

By GEORGE McMANUS.

—powers that have little or no justification under even the most liberal interpretation of the law. The authorization and broadening of police powers and the creation'of departments ot government with such powers do not, as a rule, originate with the Government. Many times they come from citizens or groups of citizens, or bureaus already in existence. These seek extension of power and authority or attempt to meet a condition which is objectionable to some preconceived theory of their own, thereby restricting and regulating another citizen or class of citizens. The police power habit has become so thoroughly fixed in human experience that the first thought which presents itself to many citizens, when some objectionable incident occurs is “there should be a law passed” to stop it. We have three classes of citizens —one seeking power and public office, another believing In and advocating the extension of police power, and another believing that the “Government” can. by slatute, eliminate evils. This makes a fertile field in which unrestricted, unnecessary and dangerous police power can and will thrive If our people do not awaken to the danger. In this connection. Herbert Spencer's “The Coming Slavery” is wonderfully Illuminating. (See “Man vs. the State”). In that essay he sets forth the tremendous grow'h of the police power in England, its Inroads Into the rights of individuals and the threatened danger. He shows with startling oierrness the alarming demand for, and the growth of. arbitrary police powers in the regulation of citizens. Among the many pertinent statements he made arc the following: ‘‘A comparatively small body of officials, coherent, having common interests, and acting under central authority, has an immense advantage over an Incoherent public which ha no settled policy, and can be brought to a:t unitedly only under strong provocation. Hence an organization of officials, once passing n certain stages of grow'h. become.s less and less resistible; as we see In the bureaucracies of the continent. "The final result would be a revival of despotism. A disciplined army of civil officials, like an army of military officials, gives supreme power to Its head—a power which has often led to usurpation, us In mediaeval Europe and still more In Jajan—nay, has thus so led among our neighbors, within our own times.” The Constitution of the United Stages vesta police powers in the National Goverument—powers which are specifically provided for and property limited in the provisions of the Constitution. The police power of the Individual State rests upon the authority granted by leglsla tlvo euactments. ‘The tendency of socalled “modern government” and ’’efficl"vay from original principles and Invade the rights of Individuals and destroy individualism. Limitations and restorations of police powers are disregarded or not recognized by many of the innumerable bureaus, boards and commissions. They seem to regard themselves as the Infallible interpolators of the laws under which they are supposed to operate. Th-> viewpoint of the minor official is naturally restricted; Is Is biased by self-im-portance and dictated by prejudice against all opposition. The spread of officialism, whfch main tains itself by forcing upon the genera] public rules and regulations which It en forces by its self defined police powers, is evidenced In the ever Increasing number of bureaus and commissions with re-delegated legislative and police powers. Police powers as understood and granted under tho llmitattons and restriction of the Coutstitutlon are admittedly necessary to maintain civil! zation, but under the present system ot self-determination of such powers under re-delegated legislative authority they are ruinous to the Nation. Under the guise of operating for the good of the general public, a minority consisting of bureaucrats and th-lr adherents are endeavoring arbitrarily to dominate every phase of American private life. For centuries a guan a home rights have been considered Inviolable, yet every day we hear of the Invasion of private homes for one purpose or another under alleged police power authority. Far from being confined to the splendid fellow In blue clothing and brass buttons. police power has broadened and extended into every walk of life, and Americans are rapldlv becoming a regulated and governed people Instead of a selfgoverning Nation Everything and everybody is rapidly being made subject to regulation, from birth to burial, by police power under commission administration, and this regulation and control Is being rapidly extended. Not satisfied with tho powers of administering for the general public, these power hungry hordes are rapidly encroaching upon the legal rights and privileges of the individual. The bureaucrat's application ol his police power Is so broad, that many times he become* enraged ahonl 1 any one oppose him or his rulings and ho proceeds to persecute the Individual. The disposition of all of the various bureaus seems to be to forget that they were created for the purpose of handling the public welfare and to protect the Individual. They become enraged at the slightest opposition, and make war upon any one opposing them. So gradually, and with all the bitterness of religious persecution, the bureaucratic officials, armed with their police powers, make rules and regulations covering the public in every walk of life. The court of last resort has in nearly all cases upheld the rights of the individual and defended him from police powers which conflicted with the bill of rights of the Constitution. So now, assault is being mrde npon the constitutions of the Stßte and National Government themselves, and wherever the tyranny of the majority has been felled by sueh constitutions, tremendous power Is being brought forth to secure favorable amendments or a complete revision of constitutions. Since the beginning of time, man has defended his private home against ail illegal invasion, and will continue the struggle. The exercise of police powers has overstepped its rights and aroused a storm of protests which should continue with even greater vigor, and demand safeguards against this growing menace.

TERMS WITH MEXICO NOT IN PROSPECT Harding Administration as Far From Settling Question as in Beginning. GO - BETWEENS HINDER Special to Indiana Daily Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. WASHINGTON, Feb, 20—Despite the desire of President Harding for a satisfactory settlement of the Mexican question, recognition of the Obregon government is not In sight. Apparently all efforts of the Harding Administration to obtain from Mexico the guarantees deemed essential to American sanction of tho present regime have proved futile and the prospect of the future relations between the two countries bears much the sama aspect as it did on the advent of the Republican Administration, March 4, last. 1 here Is no change in the situation with respect to the United States and Mexico It is said officially at the White House, and no attempt is being made to approach the Obregon government through personal or unofficial agents. President Harding has made it plain all negotiations with Mexico will pass through accredited representatives of tho State ' Department. f>A v OF SCOUTING El* EDITIONS PAST, The day of the form of diplomacy which consisted of surreptitiously scouting expeditions south of the Rio Grande eonducted by “personal” representatives of the Government or Government official* i * P ast - ,s *he Administration's convlction conviction the Mexican government knows where the United" State* stands and what this Government expect* from Mexico City, If recognition 1* to follow. It is Mexico’s move. As an illustration of the difficulty with which the Administration has been faced ln Scaling with the question of Mexican recognition it was said at the Whit# House that a month ago reports from Mexico City, purporting to represent the I attitude of President Obregon appeared j to °l >en tl) e way for affirmative action I 011 part of the American Government. ’'resident Harding wr.s hopeful of * ! kappy solution and the verge of an announcement, when it anpeared that the information proved unofficial and wholly untrustworthy. Persons purporting to represent Obregon and averting thel* authority to speak for him did not rep* I resent him at all. TROUBLE DUE TO GO-BET’,VEEN 8. The President‘now believes that mnch j of tfc e misunderstanding between the two countries is due to the activities of these self-appointed go-betweens, Americans and Mexicans alike, who seeking personal advantage of aggrandizement, make unsuccessful slabs at a settlement. "Fakirs” is the word that was used to characterize them at the White House and the j President has learned to be chary of their advances and to discount their advice. If Americans are in Mexico representing | themselves os agents of the President or of the American Government, they are acting without the sanction of this Government and possibly laying themselves liable tp punishment for flying false ■ colors. The Administration also declines to be moved by the agitation now going on regarding the Mexican situation. It is , waiting for Mexico to give definite evidence of a willingness to guarantee American life and property rights in Mexico and by affirmative action repudiate ; the principle of the Mexican Federal and j State legislation viewed as inimical to American rights—Copyright, 19J2, by Public Ledger Company.

Library Notes Two new fiction books at the Central Library are “March On,” by Mrs. G. M. Martip, anti "The Girls,” by Edna | Ferber. New music and art books Include: “Kubezahl: a Cantata.” by Frank Abe; "Song-Album,” by Mrs. A. M. Beach; “Requiem for Chorus and Orchestra,” by Hector Bariioa; “Carman: An Opera," by A. C. L. Bizet; “Songs," by C. P. L. (Delibes; “Six Songs," by E. H. Grieg; I “Hansel und Gretel: Marshensplel," by I Engelbert Humperdinck; “Little Gordan,” by Mrs. L. Y. King: “Tony Sarg Marl- | lonette Book." by F. J. Mclsaae; "Songs," !by J. E. F. Massenet; “Designs for | American Homes," by H. G. Outwater; “Small Houses of the Late Georgian Period. 1730-18-0,” by 8. C. Ramsey, and “Twenty Melodies With Italian and Engj lish Words," by F. P. Tosti. New technical and scientific books In- | elude: “Industrial Gases,” by H. C. : Greenwood; “Principles of Chemistry,” iby J. H. Hildebrand; “Simple Weather ; Forecasting for Evrey One," by D. W. Horner; ’French-English Dictionary for I Chemists” (for reference use only), by ! A. M. Patterson. New books of travel Includes “Edge of the Jungle,” by William Beebe; "Outer Circle." by Thomas Burke; “la 1 the Footsteps of St. Paul.” by F. B. Clark; “Noa-Noa,” Ly Paul Gaugln; “Trapping Wild Anlmsls In Malay Jungles,” bv Charles Mayer, and ,7Flashlightes From the Seven Seas,” by W. L. Srldger. Bc#ks of sociology and phllosopbv Include: “Making of a Man,” by J. H. Appel; "Acquisitive Society," by R. H. Tawney; “New Voter,” by C. W. Thompson. and "The Real Business of Living.’’ by J. H. Tufts. New biographies are: “‘William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania,” by J. W. Graham, and “Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Letters." by L. E. Robinson. New children’s books at the Central Library are: “Elementary Science." by J. G. Coulter; “Heroes or Liberty.” by Grace Humphrey; “Days of the Discoverers*” by Louise Lamprey; "Conquests of Invention,” by M. R. Parkman, and “Boy Scouts' Life of Lincoln,” by I. M. 1 nrnefl. New books at the bi.Mnesf branch in "Plnvs for Classroom Interp: etatlon." by E. \ v . Knickerbocker: "The Circle.” a comedy, by W. S. Maugham. New essays are: “Chimnevsmoke,” by Christopher Morley, and “Modern Essays,” by Morll*v. New books at th ebi slness branch Include: "Fundamentals, of Accounting.” by W. M. Cole: “Problems In Business Finance,” by K. E. Lincoln; “Science and common Sense In Working wltb Men." by W. D. Scott, and “Problems In Saleis Management,” by H. R. Tosdal.

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