Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1924 — Page 4

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KEEP THEM LOCKED UP! “Rv/U FEEL FINE,” Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, slavW ers of Robert Franks, declared when they were returned to jail after they had heard Jndge John R. Caverly sentence them to life in prison. Two 19-year-old boys feel fine when they look ahead to long lifetimes surrounded by stone walls and metal bars! They don’t realize the meaning of such a sentence. They have not come in contact with criminals and penal institutions except for the very short time since they were arrested for the murder of Bobby Franks. Thus far their experience has been in the nature of anew thrill to them. But we venture that the thrill will be taken out of the experience after a few years at Joliet. No good purpose would have been served by hanging these bojs. They undoubtedly would have gone to their deaths with the same spirit of bravado they displayed when they were sentenced. But, unless we are sadly mistaken, a few years will see the disappearance of this spirit and they will begin to realize the seriousness of their crime—that is, unless they are totally depraved. Leopold and Loeb should be kept in prison. They are not fit to be members of society. Judge Caverly Jias taken every precaution possible as a judge to see that they do stay behind bars. He gave them what amounted to life sentences on two charges, murder and kidnaping. Besides, he said l ‘‘The court feels it proper to add a final word concerning the effect of the parole law upon the punishment of these defendants. In the case of such atrocious crimes, it is entirely within the discretion of the department of public welfare never to admit these defendants to parole. To such a policy the court urges them strictly to adhere. If this course is observed, the punishment of these defendants will both satisfy the ends of justice and safeguard the interests of society.” These words should be printed on a large placard and posted in the Statehouse at Springfield that future Governors and future pardon boards may read and act accordingly. POLITICS AS IT IS PLAYED aNDIANA is being treated to another demonstration of the manner in which politics is being played. This time it is reaching into one of the most vital parts of the State government, the public schools. A group of teachers has brought serious charges against Dr. H. Noble Sherwood, Republican nominee for State superintendent of public instruction. The group is composed to a large extent of teachers who are active in politics, men and women who are busy mixing campaigns and education. They appealed to the Republican committee, which after due consideration decided the charges were not well founded, although some of them are of record in the office of the State superintendent of public instruction. The committee found that “the charges are made in a spirit of vindictiveness and are not substantiated by facts.” So Sherwood is to stay on the ticket. Perhaps this is justified and perhaps it is not. We have the word of a group of teachers, headed hy a relative of a defeated candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor, on one side, and the Republican committee on the other. This situation is designed to give the public a great deal of confidence in the sincerity of everyone involved and is just another reason for voting for the Democratic State ticket.

GENERAL DAWES. HIMSELF YY/ HEX Hell-’nH-Maria Dawes was just himself and not a ” vice-presidential candidate, he talked right up in public and said what he meant. In his home town of Chicago, where ho runs a big bank and fights labor unions, the gallant swashbuckler was a regular son-of-a-gun when it came to taking the hide off his enemies in a public speech. Addressing the Union League Club of Chicago on Feb. 22, 1923, old Hell-’nd-Maria burst forth as follows : “Governments are framed, among other things, to protect peoples against mob movement and the results of mob psychology. That form of Government which history has proved most futile and disastrous for the proper protection of a people from the mob is a free democracy. Such steps as have been taken in recent years along the line of the initiative and referendum and the extension of the primary system away from the principles of our great constitutional representative and free Government and toward the principles of free democracy are leading in the direction of mob rule under evil leaders.” This gives us an idea of what General Dawes thinks of democracy and cf the people themselves. But he hasn’t lost hope, as witness the following : “Is there any right-minded man in this audience or in the country who fears this coming contest and who does not see in it the regeneration of constitutional American Government? “Does he not already note the progress which has been made by our great, strong and determined President, Warren G. Harding—that progress from the Adamson law to the Daugherty injunction which, in my judgment, future generations will regard as the beginning of anew era of law and order in this country?” Evidently Coolidge’s running mate regards the Daugherty injunction issued against railroad workers as the new bill of rights and charter of American liberty. It was in April of the same year, and right after a conference with Attorney General Daugherty at Miami, Fla., that General Dawes organized the “Minute Men of the Constitution”—probably to stand by the Daugherty injunction. But will Candidate Dawes reallly carry out his threat to “be himself” and say on the stump what he actually thinks of government of, by and for the people? A JUST THE same, it is the long-haired women that bob up jjrCfrmely and carry off all the prizes at the State fairs. SAYS Coolidge will be elected if he doesn’t talk showing, also r that he is a wizard with jokes. SX*IAT THOSE German nationalists tried to convey, when c&gSoy sed the Dawes plan, was “Deutschland über Helen

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————■ ■ gflgS checkroom girl in a Cincinnati (Ohio) restaurant, never uses hat checks. She invests each hat received with the personality of its owner. “Straw lids are stickers.’’ says she. “They're so much alike." But she solved this by noting the face of each owner and attaching that, in her mind, to the lid received. Miss Mohr has checked some 400,000 hats in eight years and has made less than 100 mistakes. THINGS LOOK BAD TO THE DEM OCR A TS They, Unlike G, 0, P,, Believe Conditions Could Be Improved, Tima Washington Bureau. 1322 Sew York Ave. ryJjASHINGTOX, Sept 11—A few days ago the Republicans issued a “Campaign Book.' In it the United States was painted as a haven of the happy and prosperous; as the land where all's well, and where the best that can be de sired is that everything be left just as it is. Now. the Democrats have issued their own “Campaign Book.” A few quotations from it will suffice f > show that the Democrats think there are a number of ways in which conditions in the United States might be considerably improved. “More than 5 per dent of the farmers in the States west of the Mississippi River have been pauperized during the present Republican Administration by bankruptcy pro ceedines. by voluntarily giving up their farms, or by, becoming economic serfs to their creditors,” is the way the Democrats bring up the matter of agricultural conditions. They Quote Figures When the question he protective tariff is reached, the Democrats find little difficulty in making an argument out of figures alone. “The people of the United States,” the Democrats report, “now pay annually through the tariff over six billion dollars (to be exact, $6,504, 841,320) of which only $233,946,020, or one-twenty-sixth, goes into the Treasury for the benefit of the people. All the rest —$6.270.895.300 goes into the possession of favored individuals or corporations.” The Democrats also disagree very completely with the Republicans in estimating the character and ability of Candidates Coolidgc and Dawes.

Not Strong I.c;uler Through Democratic eyes, President Coolidge does not appear as a strong silent leader. Instead, the hook records: “President Coolidge, faced by signal opportunities and national expectations. has lamentably failed as a leader either of the people or his party. He has failed to solve domestic problems and to Improve foreign relations. Although his party had a major'ty in the Senate and the House he has been for the most part unable to persuade Congress to adopt what he has proposed or to reject what he had opposed. “In the midst of revelations of the worst corruption and scandal in two generations, Mr. Coolidge remained passive and Inert and moved, when he moved at all, only under pressure of indignant public opinion.” Dawes and Oil Os Mr. Dawes It Is said: “Mr. Dawes shares with his brother, Beman G. Dawes, control of the Pure Oil Company, one of the largest concerns of the kind In America. This Pure Oil Company is now one of the forty-five defendants in the suit brought by the Government to dissolve the alleged gasoline monopoly. The Government alleges that these corporations have violated the Sherman anti trust law, which Mr. Dawes took occasion to criticise and attack in 1005, 1906 and 1907.” Attention is also directed to Mr. Dawes' close affiliation with former United States Senator Do rimer, who was thrown out of the Senate because he employed corrupt methods and practices in obtaining hi selection. Dawes wrote to Lorimer, after his election in 1909: Your election means that in Its relation to governmental legislation this State will always have the proper position.” After Lorimer was expelled from the Senate Dawes helped him, through questionable means, to start a bank in Chicago. Only recently the Illinois Supreme Court has held Dawes’ own bank responsible for the debts incurred by Lorimer, on the ground that representatives of Daw'es had made false statements to the bank examiners. When Dad Lets Loose “Say. have you any idea what you are talking about?” “I don't believe I have. You see, my wife is away and I'm just sorter letting my tongue run loose, so to speak."—Boston Transcript.

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SEEK ACTION BY WOMEN IN POLITICS Secretary of League of Women Voters Promotes Movement, By CHARLES P. STEWART NHA Sternce W riter ASHIXGTOX, Sept. 11.—The \Y/ National Woman’s Party is not at all satisfied w r ith what the political groups generally have given to women in the way of candidates of their own sex for the coming campaign. The National League of Women Voters is non-partisan, but it deprecates the idea of any party alignment in the country according to sex. The women's organizations of both the Republican and Democratic camps are working to bring women to the support of their respective tickets. Among the Progressives men and women are acting more completely in partnership than at Republican or Democratic headquarters. Progressive women also, however. like the others, are opposed to sex groups. But the National Woman's Party leaders have taken the position ail along that women must “get together” if they want to accomplish much. The recent, primaries, they say, have proved this conclusively. Miss Alice Paul, the party’s vice president, points out that, through out the whole country, congressional nominations have gone to only six women and these only in three States. “The Democrats.” she says, “have given no woman a nomination. The Republicans nominated two, but in districts where it is admitted that they have no chance to win. The Prohibitionists have nominated three; the Socialists one. “This shows that women will not be elected to the next Congress with the backing of any political party. They will be elected only if women themselves determine that women shall be in Congress and organize an effective campaign to put them there.” A “women for Congress” campaign is just what the National Woman’s Party is launching. Miss Mabel Vernon, the party’s executive secretary, is already in the West on this mission. She will visit California, Colorado, lowa, Nr braska, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan to promote independent political activity by women in these States. Other workers will begin tours of the country on the same errand within a few days.

, **?*%>* IfySsMEA /•/ ■ I J “• H, ' MISS ALICE PAUL, WIIO IS SEEKING MORE GENERAL ACTIVITY HY WOMEN IN POLITICS

Old Dobbin By lIAL COCHRAN'. A little ol' buggy, one-seatod and frail, is the only one known 'round the place. As droopy-head Dobbin is swltchin' his tail he is trottin' a lazy-like pace. Right close to the curb goes the shiny ol’ mare and it’s horse-sense that makes It that way. What safety there is. Dobbin knows that it's there by the curb in this speed-crazy day. An auto horn blows and the horse perks its ears: then they droop, just He. suddenly, flown. There still is a spark of the speed crazy fears as she travels around about town. Forgetting ol' Dobbin is sentiment robbin’; how easy we all can forget. How changed is the scene from when Dobbin was queen, but her spirit is hangin' on yet. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) The Bobber Shop By C. A. L. B r " LONDY the manicure got on her birthday, and then the telephone got out of order. Pete the porter says another way to start a stubborn fountainpen is to let the baby suck it. “I may be finicky,” said a man in the end chair this morning, “but I still maintain suspenders should be worn with a dress suit.” The man next door is learning to waltz and run a flivver, but he can’t reverse either yet. NEXT! Mother’s Promise “Mamma, you said last year you'd buy me a little brother when they got cheaper.” “Yes, what about it, my dear?” “See, it says here, ‘Children half price.' ” —Detroit News.

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In New York. By STEVE HANXAGAN NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—“ The Prince is a great guy.” That is the tribute paid the Prince of Wale ; by in- eha.if!-ur. It probably is the most sincere and dependable tribute paid the visiting nobleman, since no man is faultless in the eyes of his valet or chauffeur or masse us. I tat meul for thirty minutes, but he was sworn to secrecy concerning intimate details. .lust a good chauffeur. The Prince appears to be as bored as American crowds are excited to get even a fieeiing glimpse of him.

He probably would give many dollars to spend a week in a one-room flat in Harlem. The other day a thin woman witli a ragged fur collar and a small child hung before the gate of the Prince's i American home. She was Mrs. Fathering Tudor Vermillion, who claims to lie tlie last living descendant of Henry VIII. of England and the ruling family of Tudor. Admittance was refused her. At Belmont Park race track the Prince walked on forbidden ground. A track attendant ordered him away. The Prince smiled good-naturedly and left. Even a prince respects efficiency. It reminds of the time in Indianapolis when Carl G. Fisher, famous sportsman and one of the three owners of the great automobile speedway, attempted to walk across the track of his race course during practice. “You can’t go in there,” he was by a guard. “But I own most of the track,” he answered. “Go tell it to the manager.” said the guard as he edged Fisher gateward. That same day the guard’s salary was increased and his future was assured. As soon as the world became well discovered, world’s fairs became popular. Now', with radio in the best graces of a tinkering public, the first radio fair will he held here on Sept. 22. Music eeks from strange haunts. William Opperheimer, a stage door man, has just had a song published. A Thought It. is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.—Matt. 19:24. A man's true w r ealth is the good he does in the world.—Mohammed.

Another Chinese Puzzle

COALITION A GA INS T U. S. SEEN European Observers Believe Japan Is Organizing Against America, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor ASHING TO X. Sept. 11.—A stu \Y/ pendous coalition of nations, carefully engineered by Japan for war against the Cnited States is foreseen by European observers. Mexico. Central and South America, Russia and China are seen coming into the war on the side of Japan, with England giving the coalition at least her moral support. On the other hand. Canada, Australia, New 7. aland and South Africa Would line up with the United States, perhaps even to the extent of fighting on our side, according to one expert's forecast. “A formidable storm is gathering over the distant ocean ironically named the ’Pacific.’” says “A European." writing in the carefully edited and painstaking political monthly, “La Revue de Geneva” (Switzerland). Immigration Trouble The trouble primarily will be over Asiatic immigration, the review declares, but other factors enter into the situation, to Japan's advantage. “Japan will not fight now," says the critic, “not before she has made careful preparations. These preparations must cover a wide field—financial, military and diplomatic—and will -take time.” At present, he states. Japan is no match for the United States and knows it. “That inferiority can he overcome in only one way—by careful diplomatic preparations.” he explains. “Many forces in South America and in the Far East, both of which feel threatened by the unconscious imperialism and commercial prosperity of the United States, are working in her favor. Japan seems designed by nature to become the center around which all these malcontents shall rally, . . . the coalition that is slowly but surely forming against America. China Bthind Japs “Every intelligent observer in the Far East agrees that public sentiment in China is strongly behind Japan on the immigration question and the rapprochement between China and Japan, unexepeoted as It may seem, is surely making headway.” ’ Japan and Russia are gradually getting together despite apparently wide divergencies and recent political changes in Japan, are expected to facilitate an understanding, says the author. “Simultaneously.” he observes. “Japanese diplomacy lias been active of late in Spanish America, and particularly in Mexico. Lat’~ Americans, who grow indignant henever they hear the United States called ‘America,’ resent keenly the imperialist designs that they imagine are hidden under the Monroe Doctrine. They would prefer less protection against imaginary enemies and more protection against their dangerous patron. “We may be sure that Japan is not ignorant of that sact —or neglecting it.” The writer analyzes the possible effect on the rest of the world in the ] event hostilities grow out of such a j coalition and foresees the possible j disruption of the British mpire. the j Domions siding one way, the mother country the other. He closes with the warning ‘hat ' "premonitions of tragedy lurk in. the ! air,” and expresses the feai ihEti “the clouds we see now gathering over the Far East are breeding a ] tempest that will reach us all.”

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, 1924.

Under Miss Indiana’s Torch By GAYLORD NELSON INTOLERANCE I OWN at Cannelton, Ind., eerTj tain esteemed and reputable ‘ / citizens crave the scalp of Preston Harding, superintendent of the Perry County schools. The reason given is that a Jeej turer, brought by Harding from Chi- | cago to deliver five lectures before the county teachers’ institute, turned out to be a “modernist.” Thus the war againts the “mod- | ernists” goes merrily on in a series lof pitched battles and bush-whack-ing operations. The first killing frosts of autumn, and a triangular presidential race with all its clatter and dust, are coming down the main road. It makes no difference in the war against "modernists.” Postponements and rain checks are unknown in this war. Perhaps the superintendent com- ! mitted a grievous fault in permitting I the imported lecturer to subvert the ' moral and intellectual tone of Can- | nelton. Perhape the indignation of the would-be scajpers is justified. Yet intolerance seldom succeeds in stamping out anything except itself —it has tried and failed too often. Folks who doubted that the earth was flat used to be barbecued before a slow fire. And yet yesterday three American airplanes landed in New York. They had been around the world. No one was burned at the stake as a result. A “modern-. ist” doctrine of 500 years ago has 1 becomes the commonplace of today. So with the doctrines advocated by by the Cannelton lecturer. They may be utterly wrong; they may be true. Truth wifi prevail In the end. Scalping the county superintendent neither proves nor disproves anything. Intolerance is not an argument. JOINERS IIEERFUL individuals, with gaiiy colored ribbons fluttering from their bosoms, or with gilt hardware jingling from their coat lapeis. crowded downtown Indianapolis this week. They swarmed in hotel lobbies and drifted about the streets singly, in pairs, and in flocks. Ribbons and gilt hardware denoted a visiting brother in our midst, come to attend the large convention of his fraternal order. They paraded Tuesday evening. A couple of thousand quite docile savages—braves and squaws—erupted from the Circle and overflowed downtown streets to the distress of the traffic cops. Headed by bands they came in platoons, floats, and in tight shoes. They were beaded, fringed and painted. Some wore the war-bonnets of the Sioux; some the feathers of Woolworth. They looked hostile, but they devastated nothing except the evening traffic. The attitude of enforced spectators from stalled motors and halted foot traffic toward the parade was worth observing. Motors and pedestrians, who would ordinarily foam at the mouth if a mail truck hindered them for a minute at an intersection, took the interruption of the long fraternal procession with perfect good-nature. What's the answer? We are all, at heart, “joiners." Scarcely one of us. but has secret aspirations to be the Great Incohonee, the Back-Drop, the East Wind, or the Bob-Tail Flush in some sociable secret order. Preferably one with many conventions, frequent parades, and rainbow regalia. We cringe in horror if the wife buys us a necktie with a bit of color in it. Then we’ll go out and march ten miles down the car tracks at high noon, with flattening feet and creaking spine, arrayed like Paine’s fireworks. If it is for the honor and glory of the lodge we've "joined.” That's the survival of the kid rpirit in us—our remaining concession to the land of “make-believe." The “joiner" spirit is the kid spirit grown up—hence most of us are “joiners.” Tom Sims Says Bad news from London. This city now maintains ninety municipal bands, in all of which are saxophones The Trince of Wales will visit South America next year, perhaps to compare its bathing girls with ours. Anew lamp, consuming 94 pee cent air. has been invented, but too late to make speeches this campaign. Colleges are opening and if the boys wear their trousers much larger they can slip them on over their heads. There are about 70.000 auto repair shops in the United States, all doing a rushing business every Monday. Player pianos that will run an hour without stopping are being made because there is no law against it. Buffalos, Indians, dodo birds and pedestrians are becoming extinct.