Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1924 — Page 4

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THE WEIGHT OF GOLD ■pTIOLD is a peculiarly heavy metal. If sufficient of it is O poured into one side of a pair of scales it will outbalance anything that is put in the other side. Justice is pictured as blindfolded and holding the scales in her left hand and the sword designed for punishment of the guilty in her right. But when sufficient gold is poured into one side of the scales a strange phenomenon occurs. The hand holding the sword becomes afflicted with creeping paralysis and the blow of the weapon is lightened. We all know this condition exists, regardless of how much we dislike facing the fact. Take two striking cases and notice where they are parallel and where they diverge. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, each 19, each sons of millionaire parents, each well educated and each possessing every advantage possible to boys of their age, deliberately plan and execute a most brutal murder, their victim being the small son of a neighbor. Each ik arrested and confesses. They employ the best legal talent to be had. They can do this because they possess MONEY. They go before the Cook County Criminal Court and plead guilty. They ask for a hearing and are granted it because they can AFFORD a hearing. They employ alienists to show “extent of responsibility” for their crime. They do this because they have MONEY. The hearing goes on for days and goes into the utmost of detail. The boys can extend it to almost any length they please because they have MONEY. They do not have to face a jury because they have pleaded guilty. Therefore, they have only one man to convince. They can take every step humanly possible to present their case to this man because they have MONEY. Finally this man decides they shall not pay with their lives for their crime. They have MONEY. Now take the other case. Bernard Grant, aged 19, son of poverty-stricken parents, uneducated, possessing few of the advantages of this world, reared back of the Chicago stockyards, is arrested on the charge of having a part in the unpremeditated shooting of a policeman. He is faced by his accusers and denies his guilt. He is assigned a lawyer, whoever can be found who will serve. He goes before the Cook County Criminal Court and pleads not guilty. The only evidence against him is the statement of a man who admits he actually shot the policeman and that Grant was with him. This man later changes his statement. He has no expert witnesses to interpret his life history, centering mostly about Halstead St., because he has no MONEY, The hearing is brief. The boy can not make it a long drawn out affair because he has no MONEY. He has to face a jury because he has denied his guilt. He has twelve men to convince. He can not build up his case as he might do if he had MONEY. Finally' the twelve men decide that he must pay with his life for the crime of which he is accused. He has no MONEY. When sufficient gold is lacking on one side of the scales the hand holding the sword retains its cunning and the blow i M heavy. WALL STREET may love but it will not bet ion John W. Davis. Business is business, you see. .SHOWING WHAT persistent and consistent effort may accomplish, an Oregon motor truck recently derailed a locomotive at a crossing.

“I AM JUST an ordinary American girl,” says Miss Cahill, who danced with the prince, and it sounds like a justifiable boast, under all the circumstances. “I DIDN’T mean to kill him—l only wanted to scare him,” pleads the latest lady to slay her husband, and it’s all right. One of those “childish phantasies” had her in its grip, of course.

Tom Sims Says Candidates for office will { tch hay or do almost anything except enter the bathing beauty contests. All we wish i3 that these candidates would slack up on charges untal it is cold enough to get hot about them. In New Mexico, a man lived 122 years, which certainly is lots of just sitting around. If Mars really talked to the earth she had the wrong number. The only elephants in the political parades are the white elephants. The thermometer has bestowed a few honorary degrees this summer. Two former Cleveland newsboys are buying railroads. If they had started out as bootleggers they would own the country. , One really nice thing about an election as it leaves Congressmen no time to tend to Government business. Davis has been so busy he must be away behind with his hay pitching. La Follette hopes to find in unions there is strength. & Silence golden and Coolidge’s •impaign contribution*.

Family Fun Wants to Repeat The girl, blushing a little, had accepted him. He folded her in his arms, pressed his lips to hers and whispered—" Dearest, is this the first time you have ever loved?” “Yes,” the girl sighed, “but it’s so nice that I hope it won't be the last.”—Lehigh Burr. Too True for Reggie "Reggie, darling, why do you want to break our engagement since daddy has given his consent so readily?” “That’s the very reason. He was too darned willing. Seems to me there’s something fishy about It.” —Argonaut. Willie’s Spelling “Spell professor.” “P-r-o-f-f-e-s-s-o-r.” “Leave out one of the F's, Willie.” “Which one?” Carolina 801 l Weevil. Good Reason They wandered by the seashore and listened to the age-old crooning of the waves. The tide was coming in. The girl seemed enthralled by the beauty of the wild scene. "Why is it, George, that the tide moans when it is coming in?" she asked dreamily. “Why shouldn’t it moan when it has passed the three-mile limit and is coming in to dry land?”—American Legion Weekly.

Police Head Mrs. ’Lucille Myers of Hammond, Ind., is believed to be the first woman in the United States to be elected president of a State police organization. She has been a probation officer for a number of years, having been one of the first women of Indiana to accept such a post. PERTINENT QUESTIONS ARE ASKED Dawes Is Embarrassed by Questionnaire Asked in Wisconsin, Bu Time* Special IV7I n-WAUKEE. Wis., Sept. 15. M When Charles G. Dawes I**l came here to make his speech on the “Constitution of the United States,” he found an embarrassing set of fiuestions to answer. The Milwaukee News Sentinel, under the heading, “Get Down to Brass Tacks, Mr. Dawes!," referred brief. Iy to Dawes' denunciation of La Follette as a radical who would destroy the Constitution, and then put the following six questions: “1. Can you name laws enacted hv the Progressives of Wisconsin during the last quarter of a century which have been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States? “2. Can you site one instance in which the Constitution of the United States has been —or is heir*? —flouted under Progressive government in Wisconsin? “3. Will you explain why It is that Wisconsin, under the political leadership of the man whom you describe as a destructive ‘red radical’ is today one of the most prosperous and law-abiding States in the Union? I.orimer Letter “4. You will recall, Mr. Dawes, that following the election, through bribt ry and corruption, of William I.orimer •by the famous ‘jackpot’ I,< gislature in your home State of Illinois, you wrote a letter to Lori mer under date of May 17, congratulating him upon his corrupt elec tion. and that this letter was used by him in the Senate investigation of his election, as a testimonial to his good character. You will recall that Robert M. La Follette sueceeded in reopening this investigation, after Lorimer had once been seated, and that La Follette finally drove I.orimer from the Senate. “When I.a Follette was fighting to oust your friend I.orimer from the Senate and you were fighting to put him and keep him there, were you defending the Constitution of the United States, and was La Follette undermining its basic principles? Supreme Court Acts “5. You will recall, Mr. Dav that on the day of your nomination for Vice President the Kuprer Court of Illinois rendered a decision In a case In which it was alleged that a Chicago hank of which you were president had secretly transferred to Lorimer, on Oct. 21, 1921, without the knowledge or consent of its board of directors, the sum of $1,250,000 which Lorimer falsely swore was paid-in capital of the hank he was then organizing, in order to meet the requirements of the banking laws, and which later failed with losses to its depositors and stockholders of more than $2,000,000. You will recall that this decision of the court compelled the bank of which you were nresident to make good a portion or the sum which it had enabled Lorimer to represent falsely as capital of his bank. “Will you state, Mr. Dawes, whether or not you regard this transaction, which violated the letter and spirit of the banking laws and caused heavy losses to many innocent persons, as conduct in harmony with the underlying principles of the Constitution of the United States? First Primary Law "6. You will recall, Mr. Dawes, that Wisconsin, under the governor ship of Robert M. La Follettet, en acted the first general primary law. and that the primary has now been incorporated in the laws and constitutions of the most of the States of the Union, including your own State. You have always opposed the direct primary and as recently as Oct. 13, 1922, publicly denounced the primary system as responsible for the alleged deterioration of Congress, members of which you branded as ‘damned cowards.' Can you explain to your Wisconsin audience, Mr. Dawes, how, as a defender of constitutional government, you have sought to bring into disrepute this provision in the laws and the constitutions of your own and neighboring States? “In the name of ‘common sense,’Mr. Dawes, we ask you to answer these specific questions as illustrative of your views on constitutional government.” . A Thought He that winneth souls is wise.— Prov. 11:30. * • * A noble soul has no other merit than to be a noble soul. —Schiller.

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STATESMAN OF ENGLAND TO RETIRE Sir Edward Grey Was Accused of Bringing on Worid War, By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor mHE world’s meet successful failure. Viscount Grey of Falloden, is about to disappear from public life. Famous the world over as Sir Edward Grey, British foreign secretary for eleven years prior to 1916, the Germans accuse him of having brought on the World War. Founding his foreign policy on alliances, counter-alliances and balances of power in the sincere belief they would keep the peace of the world, he lived to see his theory smashed to smithereens by the belching guns of all the nations of the earth at war. But instead of sulking in a corner for the rest of his life, and stubbornly insisting he had been right, he admitted his error and none worked harder than he to found the League of Nations, the very antithesis of all his policy had been in the past. By so doing he proved himself big. History will place him along with British’s ablest. Entered Commons at 23 Grey was horn in 1862 and ts, therefore, 62 years old. His father was a colonel In the army. He Inherited his baronetcy from his grandfather. An uncle, Earl Grey, was the noted Whig reformer. He entered the House of Commons at the age of 23 and served the-e for thirty-one years, or until he was raised to the peerage in 1916. Wmile still a very young man ho became under secretary for foreign affairs, serving under the gr< u Gladstone. Lord Rosebry. Ix>rd Kimberley and Lord SaJsbury. Being peers, these foreign ministers sat with the lords, leaving Grey to represent the foreign office in Com mens, a ticklish job for a young man. Sir Edward himself became foreign minister in 1905, in the Camp-bell-Bannerman administration. R--garded at that time in much the same way that the Ramsay MacDonald ministry is now— is visionary, socialistic, radical, even revolutionary’ and believing the RussoJapanese war the last conflict i ■>- tween great powers—he, with Her bert Asquith, then chancellor of the exchequer, alone of all the cabinet saw things differently. Forms Alliance Lord Lansdowne, Grey’s prod.-.-os. sor in the foreign office, bequeathed to Grey the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the entente cordiale with Franco. Grey worked to strengthen these. In less than two years the entente I with France developed into the triple I entente, with Russia as the third ' partner. | ' This sealed the fate of Europe and the world, so far ns the war was concerned, according to the Germans. They accused Grey, the Ibis sian czar and 1 k-lcasse of France of attempting to encircle Germany with “ac : Jc of iron.” Asa matter of fact. Grey w - as working for peace, not war. No sooner was Grey in office in 1305 than the Kaiser began his swashbuckling pilgrimages to Tangier and elsewhere, rattling his sabre loudly as he went. Sir Edward thought he could sec war coming and set about trying to head it iff. The triple entente was merely one of his precautions. He Is Misunderstood Grey might have succeeded had Germany been represented in Lop don by other than Fount Metternich, the Kaiser's envoy, whose subtle mind could not for a second “get" the outspoken, extremely simple and frank speech of the British foreign secretary. Every word Grey uttered was given a diametrically opposite meaning by the Count, whose training had been that words were used to conceal, not express, thought. When the Count was transferred to Constantinople and Von Richerstein (who died), then I’rinee Liohnowsky, succeeded him. Grey talked to a man who could understand him. But, unfortunately for the peace of the world, the Prince did not have the confidence of Berlin. So the war came and Grey’s policy proved a colossal flivver as a maintainor of peace. When he resigned in mid war to make way for the able Balfour, King George offered him an earldom. But at his own request. Sir Edward was made a viscount, instead, becoming Grey of Falloden. Much now depends upon the choice of his successor as leader of the Liberals in England. To a large extent Premier MacDonald's fate hinges upon the selection. Grey has always been conservative, hut today an advanced Liberal, forward-look-ing and aggressive, is lving loudly demanded to lead the party hack to power.

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OLD CUTTER BEAR SAILS LAST TIME Famous Ship Is Stranded in Great Arctic ice Flow, By LARRY EOARDMAN \ EM Service Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. Wrange!! Island again is housing the broken remnants of a band of explorers—more victims of the international controversy over ownership of that barren, ice-bound stretch of land in the frozen arctic. The stranded adventurers are facing the prospect of death by cold and starvation, or arrest by the Russian soviet government. An appeal to go to their rescue has been made to the United States coa-st guard. But the coast guard, crippled by tlie loss of its last ice fighting ship, tho cutter “Bear," is powerless to take action —even though such aeiion were Justified or advisable. In September. 1921, an expedition sponsored by the Canadian explorer. Vilhjalmar Stefansson, arrived at Wrangell Island on the schooner "Silver Wave" and immediately hoisted the English flag. When the ‘Silver Wave" sailed away It left four white men and one

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Eskimo woman in possession. Then came the problem of getting them supplies. Every effort failed. A year later one of Stefansson's traveling companions. Harold Noice, chartered the motor Bchooner Donaldson and headed a rescut expedidition. Arriving at the island, he found the four men dead. In a bottle they had left a paper on which were written their names, together with the statement that they “claimed Wrangell Island in the name of King George.” The Donaldson sailed away, taking the Eskimo woman, but leaving a party of fifteen or sixteen in possessfon. This year the coast guard received an appeal from Brewer, an Englishman influential in financing the Noice expedition, to carry supplies to the island’s occupants. The cutter Bear made a gallant attempt, crashing its way through the ice far into the arctic. Then, its ancient hull cracked and its propellers broken, the old ship was forced to turn back. Coast guard officials declared it was the vessel’s last trip, that its long years of service were over. Following this came the report that the soviet government is sending an armed ship to Wrangell, under orders to arrest all non-Russians found on f--

Friends By HAL COCHRAN How many friends have you really I got, yea, how many friends do you know? Just how do you tell just who | is. or not. and how does real friend ■ship grow? A fellow will claim he's a friend | of yours and his greeting for you is !a smile. He feels that that one little thing assures that he is a friend worth while. You only may see him when things are okeh and you carry no troubles to sift. But supposin’ things change on the very next day; is he ready to j give you a lift? Expressions of sympathy; loans, now and then, will often give folks anew start. A friend set3 you pluggin’ all over again when your own i backing hasn’t the heart. | The answer to friendship is sim pie. at best; it's something that’s \ easy to sum. I'Jl hang to the feli low, and pass all the rest, who's for j me whatever may come. (Copyright. 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Nature j The woods have been silent for some weeks —the birds were moultV ing. Now they are picking up on i their music and soon they will begin flocking. The professional ant killer has ap- : peared in California cities He surI rounds the house with cute little tin ; tubes containing something for. : which ants will desert ail eise. After

eating, the ants hustle into their burrows and "die in the house.” And you pay the killer by the month. Science The most important find in archaeology. greater even than King Tut, is the discovery in Egypt of a papyrus in three languages containing a history of King Darius, written by himself. Darius started the famous Greek and Persian wars. His empire was ihe largest known up to that time—--520 B. C. It included Media. Persia, all the Assyrian and Babylonian empires, Egypt and part of India. The history refers to Ezra and Nohemiah of the Bible. It was written in three languages—Aramaic, Persian written in Aramaic character and Hebrew. It was found on one of the Nile islands, near Assuan. It may have been left there by Darius when he was visiting his Egyptian possessions. Darius was a Mede by birth. It is said he was incited to attack the Greeks by a homesick Greek physician in his court, who saw in this expedition a chance to get back to Greece For years Darius carried on this war, but could not conquer Greece. He died while planning to •* (n suppress a revolt.

MONDAY, SEPT. 15, 1924

Under Miss Indiana’s Torch By GAYLORD NELSON A TIMID DOLLAR

AYO more or less animated human mountains —with scarce- — ly a brain cell between them —lumbered into an arena in Jersey City. Less than an hour later they shuf- ; fled out again. Both mountains were | completely intact; even the single j brain cell was not overheated. | A crowd estimated at anywhere from 60,000 to 80,000 crowded the seats to see them lumber in and shuffle out —for nothing much occurred in the hour intervening between the entrance and exit. This very mild exhibition of huI man ferocity on the part of the i “Wild Bull of the Pampas” and the ! “Black Panther” cost the crowd j from $600,000 to SBOO,OOO. i The money was paid without hesii tation. While this v’as occurring in Jer- ! sey City, Indianapolis officials and taxpayers were struggling over the items and amonuts of the city and | school tax levies. A cent adcU 1 here would break the : back of th poor citizen. A cent pared off time would sap the life blood of public service. The usual sort of argument over the tax rate. Yet a 10-cent increase in either levy wouldn’t produce as much i money as was paid in Jersey City to see the entrance and exit, with an hour of nothing in between, of two husky exporters. No money is as timid as the tax dollar —it is always verging on ner- | vous prostration. HELP WANTED ( ~'"j REPORT of the United States !j /V Labor Department discloses t •**•! a general improvement in the ; employment situation in the Middle i West. A check-up Saturday morning on one well-known class ogf labor in Indianapolis confirms the report. That class is the patient ou- ' looker. Where the Chicago Motor Inn will i he. W. Market and Circle, one steam : shovel puffed in the excavation with : only fifteen spectators watching from the alley. A dozen more could have been accommodated without | crowding. But the fifteen on duty were all | earnest professionals. At the Continental National Bank 1 Bldg., Meridian and Circle, conditions were not so good. The fence is too high for any except most active onlookers—of whom thtre are few. In the rear of the L. Strauss Bldg., where a steel tank crashed to the i pavement Friday, eight veteran on- ! lookers were ready to do their best * gazing to hoist the tank again to the roof. So it is in every city, where construction w T ork is in progress, the patient onlooker is ever in demand. For him the “help wanted” i3 al- : ways out. FIRE A 1- ~1" YEAR-OLD hoy who sent *n a false alarm from a box at Elm and High Sts., was caught the other day and sent to i the Detention Home. Tie wanted to see the firemen, was his explanation for the act. Os course, sending in a false alarm is a serious matter, endangering lives, perhaps. It's also a crime against the peace and dignity of the city. But his uncontrollable desire to pull the box and witness the dash of the firemen is a very normal impulse. Most of us have experienced 1L Moral scruples did not deter us from trying the same thing ourselves. It was only our fear of tho physiacl consequences. There Is a strange fascination about fires and clanging fire apparatus that none of us seem to outgrow. Oberve how quickly the crowd gathers when there is a fire. Who hasn't thrilled as the n---gine, the hook-and-laddder truck and all the rest of the red-painted fire-fighting paraphernalia thundered past. According to scientists each human individual passes through in his own lifetime the whole life cycle of the human race. The hoy from 6 to 60 is still spiritually in the epoch of his fireworshipping savage ancestors. The lure of a large fire still gets ! him. NO SMOKING VIENNA physician. Dr. R. Kofstatter, has written a u~- J book entitled “The Smoking Woman.” In it he claims that the features of women who smoke become sharper. their noses thinner, the cornei-s of the lips wrinkle prematurely, and their eyes are affected.. Some women smokers even become cross-eyed from indulgence in the habit. Nothing remarkable about that. We’ve heard of many boys who became bilious and even cross-eyed' from smoking—the first time. Especially if they tried a well-ripened pipe. But worst of all he claims that women who are heavy smokers lose their fair com plevxions more quickly than non-smokers. Tut! Tut! Doctor! The complexion of modern woman is fire proof. It can't be ignited by a cigaret. A sudden shower is more damaging to many Indianapolis complexions than surreptitious drags on cigareis. But to be on the safe side Indianapolis ladies who are addicted to smoking had better give up the habit. They can chew tobacco. The doctor doesn't condemn that. All in Wife’s Make-Up “Hemmendhaw’s wife nearly always steps to put her face makeup on before she drives her husband down to work in the morning.” "Why is she so particular?” “She didn’t do it one morning and the report got out that Hemmandhaw was running away with another woman.” —Youngstown Telegram.