Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1923 — Page 4

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McCray’S day in court rpIOVERNOR WARREN T. M’CRAY has been charged by the I Marion County grand jury with the commission of serious crimes. The indictments come as a culmination of three months of rumors, reports and charges concerning the activities of the chief executive. They have constituted A BLOT ON THE FAIR NAME OF THE STATE AND ON THE REPUTATION OF THE GOVERNOR. At last the charges have been made in formal form, in such a manner that their truth or falsity can be proved. Governor McCray has complained that he was not permitted to appear before the grand jury. Law enforcement officials have held he had no legal right to go before the jury. But now he is to have his day in court. He will be given an opportunity to tell his story publicly and to defend himself. Around him is thrown the protection of the law given every defendant—the presumption that he is innocent until he is proved guilty. McCray says he has just begun to fight. The indictments make possible such a contest in a court of justice before an impartial jury, the logical place for such a fight to be made. The investigation has moved slowly. The bulk of the indictments indicates the reason. There is no excuse for further delay. Justice should be done by all means AND IT SHOULD BE SPEEDY. Legal barriers and technicalities should be swept aside. Governor McCray should go on trial at the earliest possible moment. This should be done in justice to the Governor AND TO THE STATE. Charges such as made by the grand jury should not be allowed to stand untried a day longer than absolutely necessary. PUNISHING BOOTLEGGERS’ PATRONS B r "““ ARBARIC Afghanistan, mysterious land of southern Asia, is rigidly enforcing its new prohibition laws which ban drugs and all intoxicating liquor. That's about the last news you ever expected to hear from the weird country that causes so much trouble to the British officials of northern India. We are informed a native of Afghanistan, after being fined heavily and paraded through the streets, received seventy lashes. Was he a bootlegger? No, Rollo, his crime was getting drunk. The Afghans seem to consider a customer as guilty as the bootlegger. Just think this over. INJUSTICE, BUT LAW IHE United States Supreme Court has settled another matter. And the law is left unsullied. Praise be the court and the law. ’Wav back in 1850. Dr. William E. Woodbridge invented a process for rifling cannon, which made possible the more accurate aiming of heavy guns. The patent was kept secret in the patent office at Washington for years, on Woodbridge’s request, in order that he might have time to perfect foreign patents. Time passed and Woodbridge died before he completed application for his patent here—a mere technical neglect or oversight. Later the Government of the United States utilized and employed for its own use and purposes the principles of Woodbridge’s invention, but neglected to compensate him or his estate to the extent of a penny. The invention was valuable in a large way. It helped the cause of this country against its enemies. It was like stealing goods to take it without paying for it. Descendants of Woodbridge attempted to collect a claim for compensation against the Government. The case dragged its weary length along from court to court and department to department, for over seventy years. The Supreme Court now has quashed it because of the inventor's technical neglect in completing his patent. There is such a thing as law and justice, one and the same. There is also law without justice—hair-splitting and ingratitude. This, apparently, is one of the latter cases. It looks like indorsement of a plain theft by the highest court in the land.

GIFTS OR LOANS? f\ Y ,SORD comes from Washington that the Federal intermediate IW| credit banks have loaned to farmers some $32,000,000 to aid them in financing the production and marketing of this year’s crops. Think you that this sum has gone largely to wheat farmers? Not at all. Only about $2,403,896 of this sum has reached the wheat tillers. Asa matter of fact, very few of them have evinced the slightest interest in the activities and offerings of these banks, officials report. Only in three districts of the whole country, it seems, have the distressed wheat farmers sought the aid of the credit banks. The Wichita (Kas.) bank loaned $1,508,000 to this class of farmers in its territory; St. Paul loaned $614,411 and Spokane, $281,284. Reading these figures, one is led to wonder whether certain wheat farmers desire gifts rather than loans. It is apparent they are overlooking such aid as is plainly in their reach. THE FOOTBALL season ends and all the kick drops out of education. OLD DOC COOK. He has discovered something at last and no one can deny him. The way of the transgressor is hard. FROM ALL accounts, it appears that Galli Curci reached high C several times with ease while telling the Chicago opera folks her views. EX-SECRETARY COLBY—remember him?—says America faltered. He will have to admit, however, that it did so just in time to keep its feet out of the mud. THE STOKES divorce case having degenerated to a mere whiff, we now turn expectantly to whatever may be turned up by the diggers at Sodom and Gomorrah. It ought to be snappy. PROGRESSIVE party leaders, meeting in Chicago, split hairs and then split their convention; go to Omaha, split more hairs, and split convention again. Then decide to do it again in Detroit. Looks like there must be some good old party man managing the Progressive*.

CENTURY OF AMITY UNDER 1823 POLICY Anniversary of Monroe Doctrine Is Celebrated Sunday, Dec, 2, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Times Staff Correspondent. SHE most daring foreign policy ever set up by any country—the Monroe doctrine—will be 100 years old tomorrow. On Dec. 2, 1823, President, James Monroe, in a message to Congress, swept the whole American continent, from Alaska to Cape Horn, under the wings of the American eagle and defied the world to lay a finger upon it. The Holy Alliance, rigged up by the monarchs of Russia, Prussia and Austria, and assisted by France, was out to crush the idea of self-govern-ment, particularly among the new nations then just emerging from the ruins of Spain's colonial possessions in the western hemisphere. Defies Holy Alliance The American Government saw the danger. Young, poor, ill-prepared for war, with a population of only 10,000,000, the United States did not hesitate to defy the alliance and the rest of the world along with it to interfere with the people anywhere on this side of the water. Don't forget South America was much farther from us in those days than Europe is now and there were no railways and no steamships. The first locomotive did not make its appearance in this country until five years later, and telegraph, cables and wireless were not dreamed of then—not to mention 275 miles an hour airplanes, two-ton bombs and seventy-five-mile guns. I'nited States Had Ideal But the United States had an ideal —self government. . And it had a policy—peace, by warning foreign nations not to start trouble even in an alien land if it might endanger our own national security. So President Monroe. 100 years ago tomorrow, drew a chalk mark around half the world and dared any power or group of powers to cross it. Timid politicians—the isolationists of those times—were terribly frightened. They said such a doctrine would surejy entangle us with foreign peoples and involve us in war with Europe. It was too dangerous. It would never do. Washington’s farewell speech was an admonition against just such as that. It was up to us to mind our own business and let the rest of the world do the same. To prove hindsight is better than foresight, present-day isolationists are strong for the doctrine. Monroe, they say. with pride, was everlastingly right. They admit this now, when, after 100 years of Monroe’s “dangerous. doctrine," not a single war has come of it while several have been spared us. Peace at Stake Next week another president will deliver another message to another Congress. It. too. will in part deal with foreign relations. Peace Is again at stake. What will be our policy, now, to prevent war being forced upon us? Will President Coolldgn, backed by 110,000,000, be as bold as President Monroe, backed by only 10,000,000? Or has Pullman travel, steam heat and safety taken out of our souls the iron put there by the covered wagons, blizzards and redskins of a hundred years ago?

Indiana Sunshine

“Sing Anna’s Go-Cart,” the njost freckled faced kid in Washington, demanded of a vaudeville singer performing there in response to his plea for popular numbers. "How does it go?” the singer replied, apparently stumped, having never heard the song. “Push it” -was the reply that overshadowed the actor’s performance. In want of suitable material three Terre Haute youths used telephone poles for bonfire fuel. Officers broke up the powwow being held before the fire’s flickering light when the telephone company decided its supplies could be put to better uses. Boone County farmers are considering starting along with the many “Do this and do that weeks” “Buy a Hog week.” They claim they want to institute the novel movement to prevent the drastic tumbles in prices which occur weekly. A dog with'a most unusual color combination is said to be the property of William Sparks, Columbus. Although the animal is lost Sparks thinks it wilj not be hard to find. For he says “its a red-headed hound with blue and white stripes and two stars over one eye.” Being so patriotic the dog probably joined the Army.

A Thought

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. —l Pet. 5:8. _ ~'3 ITHOUT your knowledge, the \U eyes and ears of many will see and watch you. as they have done already.—Cicero.

Heard in Smoking Room

f=-| HAT cussed song that's j I raging reminds me of a L i I banquet in our town,” said one of the smokers. “It was largely a banquet of the elite, and there was one old gentleman who seemed to be rather unacquainted and somewhat neglected and so a kindly young lady sat down n*t to him at the table, to look aft#r him. Near them, but out of the old man's reach, were a dish of oranges, grapes and apples and another of bananas. " ‘Do you prefer oranges or the bananas?' inquired the l*dy desiring to be and helpful.

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ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE Lawyer. Republican. Born Primrose, Wis., June 14, 1855. Admitted to bar in 1880. Member Forty-Ninth to Fifty-First Congresses from Wisconsin. Elected Governor of Wisconsin for terms 1901-1903, 19031905, 1905-07. Elected United States Senator Jan. 25, 1905, and resigned as Governor. Re-elected for terms 1910-1916 and 1916-1923. Home. Madison, Wis., and Washington, D. C.

UNUSUAL PEOPLE Love Saves Boy From Dope

By -V F. A Serf Ire KLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. |) I.—A Salvation Army lassie was the inspiration that rescued Benjamin Preleu. young Seminole Indian, from the toils of the drug habit and led him along ~ the road to sue-y-:|S cess. ' More, the las- . sic is the lnsplration that remain with him the rest of his life. They axe planning a home y' together. HH &&&*** uate of the Unihoma, was for six months In nn-c-T r-rr hind the bars at R e 1 11 ngh am. Wash., charged with being a drug addict- He had spent nearly all of $7,000 he had received by the sale of oil lands, when he was arrested. Now he is back here, with his Salvation Army lass, trying to regain his former Independence by working in a barber shop.

/(yOM SIMS i-/- -/- Says

1 ARQUETTE University has given Sousa a degree. He Is a Doctor of Music. Well, music needs one. A Pana (111.) woman who shucked eighty-four bushels of com In ono day Is single, hut she shouldn’t be. Sousa, Doctor of Music, should give some of these too soulful singers a carbolic acid gargle. The letters M. D. may moan Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Music. Among both are men of note. No matter how painful, you can’t get a regular doctor for a song. Now that Sousa is a Doctor of Music we hape he cuts out our “Yes, we have no bananas.” Looking through the paper In winter takes less time than in summer. Fewer bathing girl pictures. Henry Ford, who is npt a candidate, is making speeches by radio. Reading (Pa.) boy went, to school drunk. Reading maketh a full boy. Man of 82 married a woman of 79 in Lima, 0., which gave the neighbors something to talk about. Tn La Porte, Tnd., a boy of 15 confessed five burglaries. Working so hard will stunt his growth. Man was drowned in a big vat of wine in Newark, N. J., proving that wishes do come true. Mail carriers want their pay raised. Let’s hope they won’t bring so many hills then. Hero (Washington Democrat) Senator Watson is about to hurl himself into the imminent deadly breach to save the State for Coolidge. As you can see, Jim was simply born a hero. Unfair (Alexandria Times-Tribune) Bank robbers do not need any police protection just. yet. It may get so afterwhile, though, that they may need it against unfair competition by novices and untrained fellows trying to break into the game.

** 'Eh? I’m a leetle hard of hearing,’ replied the old man. “ ‘Do you prefer oranges oxbananas?’ a little louder. ( “ ‘Eh? Eh?’ from the old gent. ” ‘Do you prefer bananas?’ roared into the old fellow’s ear. “ ‘Oh, no, I still stick to the old fashioned night shirts.’ ”

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‘FALSEHOOD’ GROUND FOR CRAIG CASE Federal Jurist Declares Contempt Citation Is Based on Misstatement, By LOWELL MELLETT Times Staff Correspondent "TTI EW YORK, Dec. I.—Judge N Julius M. Mayer, of the Federal Court, read the newspapers had published a letter written by City Controller Charles L. Craig to Public Service Commissioner Lewis Nixon. There were a lot of things in this letter that displeased the judge, but here is the sentence that offended him most: “Before ahy such conference can be seriously considered, and as an evidence of good faith on the part of those acting by and under the authority of United States District Judge Mayer, there must be a reversal of policy for which Judge Mayer is responsible, of denying to myself and other members of the of estimate and apportionment any access to original sources of in formation concerning the property and affairs of these various public utility corporations holding franchises to operate in the streets of New York.” Receivership at Issue The ’matter at issue concerned the receivership for some of the New York traction lines, in which the city has an investment of $110,000,000, with the attendant public feeling over service, fares and transfers. The receiverships were of some years standing. The quoted sentence was construed by Judge Mayer to he contempt of court. Without going into the technical legal phases of the controversy, extending over nearly a year, with the various pleadings on the record, the judge’s position can be summed up thus: 1. Craig's statement that it was Judge Mayer's policy to deny access to information was entirely false. The record, he holds, shows Craig’s own admission that it was false. 2. Craig's alleged false statement was calculated to arouse great popular feeling against the court and possibly to intimidate the court into a course contrary to his honest judgment. Statute of 1831 Therefore it came within the contempt statute of 1831—it was a "misbehavior’’ so near the presence oft;, court as to obstruct the course cl justice. The fact that he was not Influenced. as a matter of fact, by the letter, is immaterial, the judge believes. It is sufficient, he thinks, it was a letter tending to influence him. Therefore it obstructed the course of justice. But to make his charge good, the judge relies \-ery strongly on the element of falsehood, which he says was injected into the situation by the letter. Reading his two opinions and tl.-:<ng with Judge Mayer’s close friends. It becomes clear that he finds falsehood on Craig’s part to be almost the essence oU his complaint against the comptroller. It appears in the judge’s ’-*’w, if Craig had written an entirely truthful letter that tvas calculated to arouse public opinion aga.nst the court as much or more thr.n tne letter In question, there would have been no contempt of court. This reliance on alleged falsity of statement by the judgo to support his theory of contempt, has caused a great deal of comment among lawyers. Most of them say that the truth or falsity of Craig’s letter would not have occurred to them as a material element in the alleged contempt, had not the Judge raised the point. They have been thumbing over the books to see if the Judge has not Introduced something new into Jurisprudence on the subject of contempt. To see, in other words, if the country has not obtained an additional bit of Judge-made law—m the light of the Supreme Court's sustain* !ng the finding against Craig.

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You f-8n get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C„ enclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Is it necessary to have a State or city license to enter the real estate business? What the cost? What is the legal commission to charge for a deal? Where can a person find full Information on this line of business without entering a real estate office to become a practical agent? GEORGE WEIL. The Indianapolis Real Estate Board 817 Lemcke building. Indianapolis, will answer any questions you ask. The subject is too lengthy to print here. What does SS stand for in a legal document? This is an abbreviation used in that part of a record, pleading, or affidavit, called the “statement of the venue.” Commonly this Is translated “to-wit,” and is supposed to he a contraction of “scilicet.” In what year were the United Mine Workers of America organized and when did they secure the eight-hour day? Organized in 1890; the fight for the eight-hour day took piace in 1897, and the eight-hour day was generally established In 1898. What were the salaries of the members of Washington’s Cabl- * net? Attorney General, $1,500 per annum; Secretary of State, $3,500 per annum; Secretary of Treasury, $3,500; Secretary of War, $3,000; the Postmaster General. SI,OOO, though the Postmaster General was not a member of the Cabinet until 1829. What is the name of the mathat melts glass? Hydrofluoric acid (dangerous to use) is the name of the material that readily dissolves glass. How are cactus house plants cared for? These plants require a good deal of heat and cannot stand cold. They should he kept at a moderate temperature at all times. Never permit the temperature to fall below 60 degrees. They do not require much water. The kind of soil depends on the variety of cactus; as a rule a rather light greenhouse soil is best. What do the initials I. H. S. stand for? lesus hominum salvator—Jeeus, the Savior of men. How did the fuchsia g-et Its name? This Howe; was brought from America in the sixteenth century by Xjeonard Fuchs, professor of botany at Tubingen, Germany, and the plant was named for him. How long was the Old Testament In the writing? It has been estimated that the books of the Old Testament were produced during a period of 1,600 years. How many teeth has an adult? The human being has thirty-two teeth in the permanent set. "What was the largest battleship in the World War? The United States ship Pennsylvania had the greatest gross tonnage, but the British Queen Elizabeth had the most powerful jjrmament. What is the meaning of “Monticello?” Little mountain.

Poor Little Rich Boy!

Wild Longings BY BERTON BRALEY Though my conduct’s pretty generally flawless. With some minor aberrations now and then, There are times when I’m just aching to be lawless, When I’d like to shock and daze my fellow men. There are tendencies suffusing all my system Which would put me very swiftly in a cell. So If you will only listen I will list ’em For they may perhaps have troubled you as well. I would like to take a pie that’s . made of custard And heave it at a waiter—watch It squirt; I would like to mix some grape juice and some mustard And pour it down some pompous Johnny’s shirt; I would like to turn the Are hose on a “copper'’ And hear his curses rising, loud and thick. And I’d find a thrill delightfully improper In smashing plate glass windows with a brick! These are but a few of fancies that obsess me, Os the longings that I’m yearning to obey, And my conscience wouldn’t worry or distress me Were I to do these lawless deeds today; But the courts might not be generourly lenient With this tendency to violence and crime, And a term in jail is highly inconvenient, So I’m on my good behavior all the time! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

Family Fun

Scotch A Scotchman woke up one morning to find that in the night his wife had passed away. He leaped from his bed and ran horror-stricken into thp hall. “Mary,” he called downstairs to the general servant in the kitchen, "come to the foot of the stairs quick.” "Yes, yes.” she cried. "What is it?” "What, is it?" "Yes, yes,” she cried. 'What is it?” "What is it?” "801 l only one egg for breakfast this morning!”—Bison. Ruthie Up to Date “And what,” asked the Sunday school teacher,” Is the lesson taught us in the parable of the seven wise virgins?” Nine-year-old Ruthie held up her hand. "That we should always be on the lookout for a bridegroom.” she answered. —Boston Transcript.

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Safety of Children To the Editor o} The Times Hurry and scurry may be important, i but to my mind thought for the protection of little ones who are to take their place in our footsteps is of far greater importance. Instead of being unconcerned when passing little children, one should give his mind to common thought and be concerned. I notice that children wending their way to school get very little consideration. I plead for all grown pel-sons to exercise the “Safety First” plan for the protection of little cafidren's life and limbs at danger Joints —keep on the alert at all times. ALBERT HEATH, 26 S. Capitol Av*. Likes Proverbs To the, Editor of The Times It is very* of you to give everybody a chance at that thousand dolr lars, first prize, in your proverb competition. But the beneficence does not stop there, by any means. Only one person can get the first prize, but everybody who tries for it is getting something perhaps even better worth while. These proverbs your contestants are scanning so eagerly every day contain the wisdom of the ages, the boileddown quintessence of human nature, a code of advice on conduct, morals i business discretion and churacte.- resd,ing deduced by experience and compiled and affirmed by those who have tested out its truth. In looking through the list most people will be able to how much better off they would be if :hey | had not violated some of these senj tentious bits of advice. Buyers of oil stocks and those who jump at investments offering extra high rates 6t interest may smile wryly in reading: "At a great bargain make a pause.” "Knowledge comes, hut wisdom lingers,” sings the author of "Locksley Hall," but when wise precept la dimmed into a community for sixty days, there should surely be a lot of people who profit more than mere prizes can afford. My compliments to your proverb artist for the clever way he makes his pictures suggest more than one answer, and yet fit perfectly the right answer when one finds it. I hope nobody will get desperate and shoot him before he gets to the end, for I am sure he's doing his darndesL J W. O. B. Athletes (The Daily Clintonian) Not the athlete but the worthless fellow who hasn’t the ambition and I energy enough to play a game or do anything else is the troublesome one in school. Such is a worthy tribute paid by Clinton’s superintendent of schools to the high school athletes. The public applauds this verdict.

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