Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1926 — Page 6

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A CHARACTER WITNESS When a man is on trial, he calls in his friends as character witnesses, if he finds that he needs them. Quite naturally the close associates of any man know the most about him. In the present campaign for renomination the best friend of Senator James Watson is the Indianapolis News. It is his character witness. It is, perhaps, something else, too. That newspaper is urging the voters of the Republican party to again nominate Watson, and is pleading that he is a real statesman, a great leader, an invaluable public servant. But there are those who remember that in the not distant past, that same newspaper had an entirely different idea of the qualifications and the abilities of Watson. For nearly a quarter of a century, it has been alluding very frequently to phases of his public life which were anything but commendable, to talents that have nothing at all to do with leadership or statesmanship. It is not too much to say that during that twentyfive years of constant revelation of the weaknesses of Watson, the Indianapolis News did much to create that almost universal distrust of him which is expressed in public meetings and in private conversations in every part of the State. When he is defeated for the nomination in May, if ho is defeated, it will be because tho people of the State know him as a politician who has never hesitated to sacrifice the public good for his own political expedients. The News found Watson a foe of prohibition in July of 1924, when in an editorial concerning the removal of Bert Morgan as prohibition director, it declared that it was a victory “not for prohibition but for politics.’’ In other words, the dry forces were told that Senator Watson had imperiled their cause to satisfy his own purpose. Here was the opinion of the News at that time of Watson: “In dropping Bert Morgan, who was prohibition enforcement officer for Indiana, the main idea seems to be to please Senator Watson. The Senator has been after Morgan’s scalp for a long time and now he has it. It was a great victory—not for prohibition, but for politics. Indiana has just been picked out as a conspicuous example of one State where something of an effort was bring made to enforce the law. In return for this the man responsible for it is told to resign, and not one word of praise is given to him.” Perhaps the News was joking—and perhaps not —when it followed with the comment that “Some of Jim Watson’s valiant friends must have been caught in one of Morgan’s raids.” No suggestion of statesmanship here. Merely the picture of a Senator using his influence to avengo the prosecution of l ost legging friends. If there be any doubt as to what the Indianapolis News then thought of Watson and his ideal of public office, here is another editorial taken from its issue of July 17. 1924: "According to the national commissioner of prohibition, Roy A. Haynes, no charges have ever been filed against Bert A. Morgan, prohibition agent for Indiana, who is regarded as an efficient officer. Nevertheless, Morgan must go. Whether he has or lias not administered his office properly does not appear to be considered. With the politicians the question is whether Morgan has the “right” attitude politically. The man who is talked of as Morgan's successor is said to be qualified, but primarily he is regarded as a Watson man. This alone would appear to he sufficient qualification in the minds of tho Watson politicians. He is also said to be a friend of State Chairman Wall), who apparently regards an interest in patronage as an important part of his job. Perhaps it is, but there would appear to be enough to do this year in managing the campaign. “Os course, appointments to State and Federal positions should be considered on the basis of merit. Morgan, according to reports, is to be put out of the way in Indiana in the guise of a promotion that will keep him traveling. Next the politicians presumably will attempt to pick the right (Watson) kind of distrust attorney to succeed Elliott and the right (Watson) kind of judge Id succeed Anderson.” Well, Judge Anderson has gone. In the northern part of the State the Federal judge would feel insulted were any one to suggest that he is not using all His influence to renominate Watson. This is the testimony of the chief character witness for Watson. It is the evidence given when there was no reason to taint it with suppression or adulterate it with imagination. Has Watson changed his entire character and viewpoint sine* 1924? Has he suddenly ceased to he the master politician and become tho super statesman in the past two years? if not, perhaps the charge being made day after day by Claris Adams that. Watson and his new friend propose to create a political hierarchy in this State which will dominate its officials and distribute its offices should be considered. WELL, WHY NOT ? Now comes a very unusual suggestion and,, because it is unusual, one which will probably not be adopted. A lawyer, studying the defects of our legal system, lias the temerity to suggest that there he added to tho constitution of every State a provision that every law be auomatically repealed at the end of twenty-five years. Here is at least a practical way to keep the law hooks from being cluttered with statutes which are made obsolete by changed conditions of life. The laws of Indiana contain a number of provisions which belong to the museum or the- joke columns. Every city has ordinances that would raise a laugh wore they to be brought to public-attention, and yet they .fitand as laws, dug up on occasion by some vindictive person to furnish an excuse for venting his spite. ' Every condition of living has changed in the last twenty-five years. In the old days, there were laws and ordinances controlling and regulating hitching posts in the center of cities and the manner in which horses could be driven along city streets. Today attention is directed to the automobile

and, -within tw T enty-five years, in all probability, the people will be more concerned with the airplane than with the auto. The old provision that the poll tax could be paid by a day’s work on the public roads was a good law when it was passed. Today roads are built by machinery. If the habits and customs have changed, the viewpoint of the people on many questions has changed quite as radically and completely. Occasionally the old blue law3 are evoked in communities under some special stress. Most of them would be refused a hearing before any State Legislature If It were proposed to enact them as new laws. If we are to keep pace with the spirit of the times and make laws fit the actual thought, pus--and enlightened conscience of anew day, it Is more than foolish to have obsolete laws remain as a drag upon progress. There seems to be more than sense in the suggestion that all laws lose their effect after a term vs years. The laws which fit conditions can be passed again. The dead will be permitted to bury ts dead under such a system. THE PRESIDENT AND THE FARMER President Coolidge at Chicago last December suggested that the American farmer shouldn't ask the Government to help him out of his distress. He should lift himself up by his own bootstraps, the President, in effect, intimated. The President got a lot of criticism for that speech. But it may be the criticism wasn’t entirely justified. For the President has been demonstrating ever since December that it Is quite possible to lift oneself by one’s bootstraps. He has been doing it. He has been lifting himself out of the hole that speech put him in. Conditions haven’t changed. Economic law hasn’t changed. But Coolidge has.’ He has lifted himself several pegs higher in the estimation of tho farmers. It Is a long step from that speech to the present farmer relief bill, drawn by his Secretary of Agriculture and having the President's support. It Is a still longer step from the speech the President made at tho opening of the present Congress, in W'hich he said: “They (the farmer) do not wish to have meddling on the part of the Government or to be placed under the inevitable restrictions Involved in any system of direct or indirect price-fixing, which would permit the Government.to operate in the agricultural markets.” Just how far the President has lifted himself from this position is made clear by a dispatch from The Times Washington bureau, on another page, analyzing the present status of farm relief legislation. In thon ZZaid ln Chlna " Ret thf?y stuck.their shirt tails of -Is* r ' Slng: generatlon ' B S reat Problem Is the cost Your luck could be worse. After a Tullos fLa ) stol" fr °° dS ° Ut ° f hIS burnin S store they were

IS EUGENE V. DEBS A CITIZEN'! By Gilson (raniner — federal authorities are plainly averse to a legnl t".=t of the riuestion whether Eugene V. Debs has been deprived of his citizenship. They will, however, have to face it. W hen Debs was released from Atlanta penitentiary where he served thirty-two months for expressing his ; opinions about our going into the war, he was granted ! a. commutation of sentence, not a pardon. A pardon would have restored rights of citizenship. He declined then to ask for a pardon arid he declines now to make such request, taking the position that he never violated any law and, therefore, there is nothing to ask pardon ! for. The matter is not important so far as the peace of ; mind or physical well-being of Mr. Debs is concerned, ! There is no intention to question DebskjAejji %t> re-! turn from Bermuda where, with Mrs. Detf? fleiiaTbeen seeking health. Assistant Secretary of Labor W. W. Husband. In ! charge of immigration enforcement, says there never ! has been any question as to Debs’ right to return from i Bermuda,. There is a presidential proclamation which | supplements the so-called “quota act” which declares Mi.it residents of the l nPed States rnav visit Canada, Mexico, Cuba and nearby island without passports, and without reference to the immigration acts. What, then, are the "rights of citizenship" of whicli Debs is supposed to have been deprived? Pardon Attorney Finch, who has served thirty years as specialist tn these lines for many succeeding attorneys general, says, "Debs lost no civil rights under the Federal law by reason of his conviction. It is very probable that he did lose, indirectly, by the operation of the law of the State of Indiana, certain civil rights, chief of which is the right to hold office, which may or may not include the right to vote.” It is this uncertainty as to "citizenship rights" in general that friends of Debs and of civil liberty want cleared up. Under what law or provision of the Constitution does a man lose his "citizenship” or his right to vote or hold office by conviction under a Federal statute? This question has been addressed by Morris Hillquit of New York to Attorney General Sargent with special reference to the Debs case. At the office of the Attorney General it is reported that no such letter has been noted. Certainly Mr. Sargent has dictated no reply. This is not surprising, as Mr. Donovan is the real attorney general and Mr. Sargent has a childlike absence of information as to all matters pertaining to his office. Mr. Donovan is the antithesis of Mr. Sargent, but he is ignorant officially also of the Debs controversy. A writ may bring the matter into court. In Congress a bill has been introduced by Victor Berger to “readmit Debs to all the rights and privileges of a citizen of the United States.” "Depriving Mr. Debs of a right to vote is no practical hardship on Mr. Debs,” said ML Berger. “Debs can be candidate for President when he Is still in jail and can receive endorsement of hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens. If elected President it is likely the law nould be altered, which might stand in the way of his taking the office. But, after all, the matter Is very important as a matter of principle. \Ye want t 6 know by what right it is assumed that a political prisoner Is deprived of any of his rights for exercising his plain constitutionalu rights. "I have no doubt that the time will come in this country when it will be regarded as an honor to have had the experience Debs had. In England there are twenty-three members of the present Parliament who served wartime sentences in prison. Thjey have organized their jailbird club’ and hold theitf regular annual pinner.”

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A SMALLER HIGH SCHOOL The Shortridge High School problem approaches solution. The majority faction of the board, it is said, view's favorably the suggestion that the new school to accommodate 1,800 pupils, instead of 2,000 as originally planned, be erected on the Thirty-Fourth St. site, and a system of junior high schools bo started. That seems to be an excellent solution of the dispute. Why didn’t someone think of It sooner? Educational authorities generally agree that more effective work is done in high schools with less than 2,500 pupils. So more and smaller high schools would Improve our system if not add such improvements to our city skyline. W. M. Aiken, a prominent St. Ivouis educator, in a speech in Indianapolis some months ago, stated that the Ideal high school should not have an enrollment exceeding 1,000. How far Indianapolis high schools at present fall short of that ideal! Arsenal Tech sprawls all over a township. It has an enrollment of 5,000 or more. It is not a high school. It is an educational city. Principal Milo H. Stuart, has never seen his entire student gathered together at one time. Manual Training is double the size that the learned. Missourian declares is most efficient. As for the present Shortridge, it is a Wreck. In reducing the size of the new Shortridge to a school to accommodate 1.800 pupils and planning Junior high schools, the board will be stepping right along with the trend of modern progressive school systems. And undoubtedly the decision will expedite erection of the new high school. And that is what plain citizens want. STREAMS AND SEWAGE Indiana Izaak Walton Leaguers are urging legislation to require all Hoosler cities to install sewage disposal plants and are actively engaged in a program to stop stream pollution. Such a movement should have the supi>ort of conservation enthusiasts, nature lovers and plain citizens. Fifty years ago Ind’ana was traversed bv dosms of 1 q .and, sparkllii streams, gurgling .y----fully bet '■ qen grassy banks. There are none such now. Most of them .oist crawl along under a burden if mud sewage, rusted tin cans, industrial waste and a thick encrustation of germs. Some of them emit an. aroma that will peel the paint off a passing au tomoblle and make the motorist’s hair brittle. The Immortal Riley would be tongue tied if asked to sing of bis beloved Brandywine as it i-> today. Borne mo: 'll, ago residents along the St. Joseph River below South Bend complained that so much oil and waste had beVr dumped into that stream that it was inflammable*'.' As for Whi.e Ki'.or. which flows through Indian,aisl:s. it is fid' of sediment, sewage and suicide*. \\ hite River! There i< nothing white about It now. It slinks across country under an alias, viewed with suspicion by health authorities wherever It go?s. Civilization is ceiiuinly hard on rivers—at least. In Indiana. It is Impossible, with intensive cultivation of land and crowding population, to keep streams as c lear and pure s they were origl nally. But they should he sponged off. cleaned up, and unnecessary pollution prevented, to save ns much as possible of their beautV for the enjoyment of future Hooslers. EDUCATION AND CRIME Aren who are well educated do not commit crimes, Recording to the Rev. L. ('. Murr, chaplain of the State Reformatory at Pendleton. In the seventeen years he has been connected with the Institution only four college graduates have been cbnfined there, lie i, said not long ago in a public address. And of approximately 1,600 men now in Pendleton only twenty-two are high school graduates. ,v third grade education Is about the average for all the men. Apparently, from tho statistics, education pays. At least It seems to he a crime preventive. Probably it is. 1 lowever, yesterday a graduate of Kansas University. a star athlete, was arrested In New York charged w ith holding up a restaurant. And yesterday the bandit who staged the sensational Indiana Harbor mail robbery, In which he obtained $37,000 in currency, was apprehended and confessed. He was a ' high school graduate, an interscholastic football star. And yesterday Chicago police arrested a radio burglar, who in a short carter had htolen radio equipment and jewelry, totaling several hundreds of thousands In value, from Chicago homes. He was a graduate of Wisconsin University. he said. No doubt education is a crime deterent. A well educated man Is likely to feel the economic urge to steal. But If we were all college graduates, crimes would still be committed. * ON THE MOVE Dr. Ralph W. Stockman, prominent New York preacher, in a recent Indianapolis address, deplores the nomadic tendency of Americans. He thinks we move around too much. “In New York city,” he said, "people are moving an/average of once every two years.” According to him, the nation would be better off If people stayed in one place long enough to develop ‘‘local loyalties.” We don’t dispute his statistics. Naturally New Yorkers must

either move or pay rent. Who can blame them for moving? But whether the nomadio tendency of our population is to be deplored Is debatable. It is undoubtedly true that we are restless rovers. Families don't stay put. Sons and daughters move to other towns and States and it Is an unusual family tree that, in two or three generations doesn't have its branches ln a dozen sections of the country. One of tho surest ways to get your picture in the paper is to live fifty years ln the house in which you were bom. However if it wasn’t for Hooslers who have left their home State and fared forth Florida and California would yet be undiscovered. If it hadn’t been for the venturesome rovers who left their old homes on tho Atlantic seaboard and moved west, Indiana would never have been settled. If Christopher Columbus had stayed ln Genoa cultivating “local loyalties” ho wouldn’t have bumped into America. Tho very nomadic Instinct that Is deplored Is what settled and developed this country. Perhaps our failure to settle ln some locality and vegetate has rubbed off some of our moral luster, as a people, and withered some of the beautiful fitvwers of stable family life where generation succeeds generation In’ the same locality. But because we are on tho move wo have a single, unified, homogenous nation from coast to coast instead of fortyeight with forty-eight sets of animosities and dialects.

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