Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1925 — Page 6

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The Logic in Legal Murder ■jT-jERNARD GRANT w?s in a Chicago jail P under sentence to be hanged by the neck until he was dead. He had been convicted of murder by the preat State of Illinois. Following the law of lan eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, the IState, meaning the people of Illinois, indulges In capital punishment by hanging. And Grant was being held in prison until Ihe State was ready to spring the trap and let ■his body fall until the end of the rope was ■reached and the sudden stop broke his neck. But another prisoner, in jail charged with the same murder, stabbed Grant five times. His blood was flowing fast from the wounds. Unless the flow was stopped and more blood was put into his veins by transfusion, Grant would die. The jail physician, in whom the life-saving instinct was still alive, wanted Grant to let him save his life by blood transfusion. Grant objected. He wouldn’t submit. So there was no blood transfusion and Grant died. Grant’s logic was simple. He knew the State was going to murder him by hanging, so he couldn’t'see any reason to have his life saved by blood transfusion when it was only to be saved long enough to be taken from him by hanging. Just what the State’s argument was we don’t know. It must have been that Grant’s life belonged to the State, and as the State had decreed hanging Grant had no right to die any other way. Hence, in dying the way he did Grant cheated the State of its vengeance. But Grant might have replied that his life was his own until the State took it by hanging, and he had a right to die if he wanted to. He might have reasoned that he was under no particular obligation to take care of his life and help save it until the State took it in its own legal w^y. It may be that the State had the right to tie Grant down and forcibly save his life by blood transfusion, so that the law could solemnly pursue its course and hang him by the neck on the appointed day. But being a physician, as well as an officer of the State, the jail doctor may have been reluctant to exercise his skill to forcibly save Grant’s life for no better purpose than to make it possible for the State to take it away by force a little later. Capital punishment seems simple enough when it takes its ordinary course, but the logic of it gets a bit complicated when one of its victims refuses to be saved in order to be killed. I Public Ownership Gains Ground ÜBLIC ownership is established in the i * happiest of hunting grounds of private exploitation—electricity. In spite of warnings that “this infant industry must be nursed to maturity by competition” and that “to apply the bolshevistic idea of municipal ownership to it would kill development,” the United States census figures show that municipally-owned electric light plants in America grew from one in 1881 to 2,581 in 1922. What is more interesting is that municipal plants are increasing while private plants are decreasing. The latest figures show that of the total of 6,356 lighting plants, 40.6 per cent are now publicly owned. Between 1917 and 1922, muoicioal plants increased 11.3 per cent in num-

Forget Your Degrees

By C. A. Randau. mO BE most useful, newly acquired college degrees should be put away in moth balls and That Is the gist of advice of industrial leaders, as compiled by the National Industrial Conference Board. The business world is glad to make room for the thousands of new technical school graduates, but is not yet ready to place them in full charge. Coming on the heels of glowing graduation addresses in which graduates of the class of ’25 are being tc Id the world is their particular oyster, this cold-blooded statement strikes a discordant note. A degree of electrical engineer, or of any other kind of engineer, may he very neat and impressive, but it will be of little permanent value unless It yets a bit grimy, is the sorry message the new grads are receiving. Close proximity to the dinner pail, the time clock and the golf-less hours of the shop workmen, must be sought by the young grads who want to take a real try at what passes for success. While thousands of technical graduates are being turned out by the colleges each* year, but few of them

ber, while privately owned plants decreased 10.6 per cent. The greatest growth has taken place in the middle west. Nebraska stands at the top of the list with 225 city-owned lighting plants, an increase of 76 over 1917, a 51 per cent climb. Minnesota shows a 16.5 per cent increase and Kansas a 15.6 per cent increase. On the Pacific, Coast the battle between the private interests and the cities is on in earnest. Chiefly because the bulk of power developed on the Pacific slope is hydro-electric and hence productive of huge profits, the private interests are exerting every effort to stem the tide toward public ownership. In spite of these efforts, California, Washington and Oregon have held their own since 1917, and in California private plants have decreased thirteen in number. And on the Pacific three great seaports, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles will soon form the nucleus for a publicly owned super-power system. The beginning of this system is apparent in the Northwest where Seattle’s big plant, showing a net yearly profit of $700,C00, is now exchanging surplus “juice” with her sister city, Tacoma, also operating a big plant of her own. San Francisco is just finishing her first unit of power developed from Hetch Hctchv valley and is now locked in a fight with private interests trying to gobble up the first crop of 420,000,000 kilowat hours at wholesale rates through a political sell-out scheme with her “city dads.” Los Angeles is operating three hydro electric plants as a by-product of her Owens River aqueduct and, while reaping a yearly net profit of $661,000, delivers power and light at rates just one-third cheaper than those charged by the private power combine. In California are-nineteen other city-owned plants, the biggest of which is Pasadena’s. Besides those, irrigation districts and other cities have plans looking to the development water and power to the extent of a billion dollars. r i he final test in the West, or in the nation for that matter, is on in the fight for control of the Colorado River. Some four million horse power, the greatest undeveloped reservoir of riches in the western world, await conquest by the engineers. Whether this wealth will flow into the pockets of the people or enrich the power barons depends on the outcome of the Swing-Johnson bill in Congress, a measure that will develop by the Government and for the people the first unit of 600,000 horse power at Boulder Canyon. R. S. V. P. SHE Ku-Klux Klan has extended a cordial invitation to President Coolidge to review the big parade which it plans to have in W ashington, Aug. 8, and to address its national klonvocation that same day. Coincident with its offer of hospitality, the Klan has issued a statement to the press, saying: “President Cooiidge honored the Holy Name Society by reviewing its procession on Pennsylvania Ave., last year, and by delivering an address to its members on the ellipse. The klansmen figure they are due the same consideration from the Chief Executive.” The Klan officials realize that the President probably plans to be at Swampscott at that time, but they know that he only has to step off his front porch onto the Mayflower and in almost no time he can be in Washington. Not nearly so hard as traveling to Minnesota by train, for instance. They do not, of course, wish to put undue pressure on the President; they merely wish him to understand how greatly they would appreciate his presence and how hurt they will feel if he disappoints them.

ever land jobs of a purely technical nature. Skill In solving theoretical problems doesn’t get the degreeholders very far unless they can also talk the language of the machine shop and mix theory with a portion of business acumen. “Forget for awhile that you ever went to college,” is the summarized verdict of business men to the happy graduates of this month. In passing out this advice business men insist they do not mean to belittle the ultimate value of college'training. They simply say that it is absolutely impossible for such training to replace practical experience. It is the combination of the two which really gives the college graduate the best of the argument in the long run. Too many youths who have been looking at the world through the wrong end of the telescope come into business life with full expectations of being Invited to sit in at the directors’ meeting. When they are told to buy a pair of overalls they are crestfallen. A tip on what kind of soap has been found best for removing grime and greases from the hands is not just what they had expected. Disheartening as it may be, the

truth of the matter is that for the majority of new recruits to industry their- success will depend, not on beauty of their sheepskin, but on their willingness to start work as workmen and not as corporation presidfents or consulting engineers. Conventions By Hal Cochran f y t HAT’S all the thrill and the Yy hubbub?” you’ll say. Why a re the grown-ups all shoutin’ ‘hurrah’? Seems like the whole town has turned out to play.” Know what it is, when affairs are that way ? Hundreds of people step out on parade. Kids reap a harvest through cold lemonade. Stores, in bright colors, are freely arrayed. All sorts of plans for a good time are made. Every one’s happy and carefree and glad—mothers and sister and brother and dad. Sometimes in uniform marchers are clad, havin’ the best time they ever have had. Such are the times when they do things up brown. Smiles rule the day and there isn’t a frown. Everything, really, Is turned upside <fown. Sure, you can guess—a convention’s in town. (Copyright. 1925, NEA Service, fine.)

Tom Sims Says Summer’s going to wear out her welcome. The honeymoon ends when she learns he is human. The auto has become the great

American hobby horse. Men are the most foolish when they are laughing at women. Con versation m a k e 8 some people think, but it’s chief use is to keep most of us from thinking. We had rather have friends than look for a collar

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advertisement. The world's a stage, but most of us are in the audience. —r— When a slickef wants to clean a friend he uses a lot of soft soap. Scientists are still trying to break the tom. Why don’t they talk one Into falling in love? What we need is a child labor law to keep them from working their parents to death. Sooner or later the cat who treats her husband like a dog will find herself up a tree. A woman will pay a quarter for a fashion magazine yet put only a dime in the plate at church. One cure for Insomnia is matrimony. Don’t blame women for smoking. Too much k..ssing has given them the taste for tobacco. Every mun is entitled to life, liberty and restraint in the pursuit of happiness. The blushing June brides are not the only ones who should blush.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

LOW BOND SCALE LARENOE GLIDE WELL, 55 years old, arrested the first of the week charged with a serious crimp against little girls and released on $2,000 bond, failed to appear in city court Tuesday as scheduled. The bond was forfeited. The two professional bondsmen who were sureties were dismayed at their client's perfidy. Because of their failure to produce the defendant, the city judge barred the pair from going on other bonds. Detectives scurry around to find the bond jumper. Asa result of the Incident police authorities severely criticise the bond scale set by the city judge. There is cause for righteous indignation to bubble. A shiftless vagabond, arrested on suspicion, might be compelled to give a $5,000 bond. A man arrested on a SIO,OOO grand larceny charge might be released on a $2,000 bond. And one accused of a crime only a little less serious than murder is permitted to go on a $2,000 bond of questionable value. Apparently the bond scale in city court bears no relation to the seriousness of the offenses, but is fixed according to the varying state of the judge's digestion. Consequently bond jumping is of frequent occurrence in the municipal tribunal. Allowing arrested persons their freedom pending trial, after they have posted suitable forfeit, is proper. To keep persons who may be innocent of wrongdoing, and others charged with minor offenses, confined in jail awaiting trial subjects them to unnecessary hardship. But the sole purpose of bail bonds is to Insure presence of defendants when wanted, not to produce municipal revenue through forfeitures. Police and city court should get together and cut the bond to fit each individual case. Misfit bonds encourage jumping. Both police and court have enough to do without chasing jumpers. BEATING THE FOURTH OF JULY I a "|*°PROACH of the Fourth of I July is already being announced in explosive tones by f recrackers and torpedoes h mar./ sections of Indianapolis. City officials have received complaints from indignant citizens, whose naps have been shattered by the premature celebrations. Noise and the Fourth, in juvenile minds, are as inseparable as ham and eggs, ebb and flow, or other famous fcouplets of history. Some progress has been made toward safe and sane celebrations. A few years ago Independence Day -was not properly observed unless ambulances clanged hither and thither, followed by lockjaw. Fragments of Jimmy and Johnny and Jane were spattered all over the neighborhood. Nothing so successfully offset the mounting birth rate as the cannon-cracker.. We have got away from that sort of thing in Indianapolis. It is no longer considered necessary to burn down the city hall or blow the family tree into shreds to express approbation of the Declaration of Independence. Still, a diluted dose of firecrackers is permissable—on the Fourth of July. But to sell fireworks before the 3d of July is violation of the city ordinance. These premature celebrations are nuisances, as are the dealers who are bootlegging the explosives to the boye who are beating the Fourth. Such dealers don’t show any patriotism above the pocketbook level. V

Ask The Times Tou can set an answer to any question nf fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Waahinton. D. C„ inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and mantal 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. How old must one he to enlist in the United States Coast Guard Service and for how long Is the enlistment? The age limits for enlistment are from 18 to 35. Boys under twentyone must secure the consent of parents or guardian in order to enlist. Enlistment is for two years, when the applicant has had previous military or sea experience: otherwise and enlistment period is three years. Boys under twenty-one must enlist for three years regardless of previous experience. The entrance salary for untrained men is s2l per month. Why do they call Indiana the “Hoosier” State? The origin of the name is uncertain. The best explanation is perhaps that it derives its name from the customary challenge or mohe of greeting in the local vernacular current in the early history of the State: ’’WTio’s yer?” (“Who's here?”), pronounced “Hoosier.” How long has the head tax on Canadians coming to the United States been eight dollars? A four dollar head tax was placed on Canadians entering the United States in 1906. This tax was increased to eight dollars in 1908. Is Godfrey Tearle, Conway Tearle’s brother? When was Conway Tearle bom and what is his real name? Godfrey Tearle and Conway Tearle are brothers. Conway was bom May 17, 1878. .His real name is Frederick Conway Tearle. From what language does the word “garage" come? The word is French and means shelter. It comes from the French verb “garer’’ meaning “keep under cover.”

NOT ENOUGH POLICEMEN? m NDIA NAPOLI S hasn’t enough policemen, is the constant plaint of the chief. But so far his pleas for fifty more men have moved the counoil to nothing more effective than tears.

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eluded in the city. Perhaps the Indianapolis police department needs more men. New York, with a population twenty times as great as the Hoosier metropolis, has a police force thirty times as large. Chicago also maintains a much larger force proportionately. Yet It hasn’t enought policemen to give Its gunmen steady practice In marksmanship. ' Still the effectiveness of a police department Is not altogether dependent on the number of men on the pay roll. There are thousands of horse thief detectives enrolled in Indiana, but there Is no record that they have ever caught a horsethief. On the other hand the Canadian Mounted Police—with fewer men than are on the Indianapolis police force—actually ruled with inflexible Justice all of western Canada. No malefactor escaped them In six reels and mighty few in real life. The answer to the problem of protection of life and property of law-abiding citizens in this city is not entirely more police, but more effective use of the present force at the department’s disposal. THE UNKNOWN DEAD SHE body of an unidentified man was found floating in White River south of Indianapolis the other day. It was removed to the morgue and soon probably will occupy a nameless grave. Just a bit of human clay Involved In an obscure tragedy. The Incident was not unusual. Only a few days ago the body of another man was recovered from the river. It was never identified. Tuesday a youth, victim of an auto crash just oqtslde the city, died at city hospital. Nothing to establish his identity has been found. The motorist with whom he was riding at the time of the accident had merely picked him up —and knew nothing of him. Almost every week Indianapolis buries the body of a nameless unknown. What tragedies are thus interred. Every unidentified corpse was once a human being, vibrant with life and feeling. Some where there are kin—perhaps mothers waiting hopefully—and friends and acquaintances. All a person has is Identity. When that is lost all Is lost. Could tragedy be more complete? No wonder the solemn honors paid the {Jnknown Soldier laid to rest in Arlington cemetery touched the heartstrings of the nation. The Unknown gave his all to his country—life, name, identity.

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Selecting Winners and Others On New Variety Bill at Palace

By Sluifer B. Berkshire It isn’t hard to pick the winners on 4he new bill at the Palace the last half of the week. They are two boys named Parish and Pern, f and they stlye their act “Acme of Versatility.” That does not begin to tell it. About all they do is dance, play concertinas, whistle, ride unicycles, juggle and do a sort of acrobatic dance that embraces hopping lightly in and out of a barrel and on and over chairs. This barrel jumping business is a new sort of acrobatics, done with a dance rhythm and an apparent ease

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THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

which makes It delightful to watch. The boys have personality, ability and showmanship. Benny Barton offers a nifty little revue called “Melo-de Menu.” The idea is to present the different numbers as tho courses of a dinner. Barton's melody dinner is a well planned spread. He has the services of a team of girl dancers, a male eccentric dancer and a small band led by a cute and clever girl violinist. Barton does dance impression of Herman Timberg, which is best personal contribution to the act. Damarel and Vail please with a

little song, dance and comedy turn. Dave Manley, monologist, has a lot of material which isn’t exactly new. Did not interest me. Hickey and Hart open the show with a good comedy, dancing act. The photoplay feature is "Everyman’s Wife," with Elaine Hammerstein. At the Talace today and Saturday, HE KNEW HER ~WELL Rut Hubby Can’t Remember Name of Wife—Divorcee Fifth. Bu Time* Special COLUMBUS. Tnd., June 26.—“1 knew her well, but I can’t recall her first name,” said Noah Reedy, 12, when asked to name the fourth wife he had divorced. He was given a divorce from his fifth wife.