Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1926 — Page 6

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THE DEFEAT OF THE FARMERS The United States Senate yesterday afternoon completed the defeat of the agricultural relief bill /proposed by the farmers of the Middle West. / The consequences for the farmers are hard to / estimate, for the method of aid proposed was new I and to what extent it might have restored prosperity to the farming sections is problematical. The consequences to the Senate seejn more apparent. Unless all signs fall, it means that the next Senate will have a majority opposed to the Coolidge Administration. * Senators facing re-election this fall realize this. Those from farming States, nearly all of them, voted for the farmers’ bill. Curtis, from Kansas, Republican floor leader, threw the Administration over to save his own political skin. Other regulars did the same. But.there were not enough of these, added to the Senators who sincerely believed In the farmers bill, to make a majority. The summer ( campaign in many States will be fought over this Issue. The farmers will wish to know why the protection of the Government is thrown about the ’manufacturing industry and withheld from the farming Perhaps some Administration Senators can answer this question in a way to satisfy the farmers. is likely that many can not. Meantime the farmers have made a real gain. They have opened their own eyes to the inequity of the present tariff Bystem. They have discovered that there is nothing in it for themselves. Already their representatives in Washington are planning to take up the tariff issue at tfce next session. That is all to the good. The case against the tariff has been made by the forces In the Senate who were chiefly responsible for the defeat of the farmers’ bill. They argued from the beginning that the proposed relief was unsound economically and every argument they offered can be turned against the present protective tariff. The farmers will have the best of the argument when they raise the tariff issue next fall. "What they will need, however, is not argument but votes. That is up to themselves. The coming congressional elections give them their chance. All members of the House and onethird of the Senate are up for re-election. The farmers can change the nature of Congress, if they wish. If they are intefligent they will test ©very candidate by this question: “Will he vote to continue the present tariff system?’’ That is vastly more important than asking whether he voted for or against the Haugen bill. Many merely voted for the Haugen bill to save their political hides this fall. That doesn’t in the least assure that they will vote to remove the tariff burden from the farmer’s back In case they are re-elected. What will Watson and Robinson say when asked about this phase of farm relief? EXPLORING , Amundsen going to quit? What a pity. Perhaps his genius for following the unbeaten path could be turned Into channels requiring less physical activity. And a little more exploration might find the answers to these problems: , why does your wife have the same thing for dinner you had for lunch downtown? Why Is it moths almost never eat patches? , And why is It the bands in the parade quit playing just before they arrive spot where you have awaited their thrills? Why? Why? A thousand irritating “whys’’ need investigating. Why is it plump people always sit on the aisle seats in the movies and make their more slender brethren squeeze past? Couldn’t Amundsen do good work discovering the answers to these little dally exasperations? I ' “ FRANCE CALLS CAILLAUX Today a huge question mark hangs over The flashy, ambitions, peppery Joseph CaiUaux Is back In the saddle, co-ruler of the nation along with Premier Aristide Brland- Can the trwo of them save France? Brland, himself a brilliant leader, beoomes prime minister for the tenth time. But all eyes are on Caillaux. As minister of finance, his is the crucial post and, knowing It, he yesterday demanded, and was given, almost dictatorial powers. Wittily, Caillaux referred to him and Brland as “the two consuls.” Is this a threat or a promise? Back in 1799 when France was similarly In the dumps it was Napoleon Bonaparte who hurried back from Egypt and made himself first consul. Then he became dictator and later emperor. Certainly France today needs a strong man. And whether Caillaux Is or Is not that man at this writing he does come pretty near holding her fate in the hollow of his hand. ’' ’ Financial problems, stupendous a/nd complex, lie before Caillaux. The most Immediate of these, if not the most important, is that to do with the French debt settlement with the United States involving $4,025,000,000 principal. Our Congress has raified this settlement. Will France do likewise? In this particular matter, Caillaux position Is peculiar. He himself headed the first French debt mission in Washington and he would have succeeded In reaching a settlement but for his insisting on a “security clause” —a clause excusing France from further payment if Germany failed to pay France. As It was, Caillaux returned to Paris to report a failure. A little later he resigned from the cabinet. Then Senator Henri Berenger was named French ambassador to Washington, charged with the task which Caillaux had failed to accomplish. And Berenger succeeded. But—in his settlement the “security clause” was conspicuously missing. Will Caillaux, as minister of finance, now urge France tcf ratify what he refused to agree to as chief of France’s debt mission? Nor is the Berenger settlement quite as generous as the one Caillaux all but put over. The Berenger piap calls for $627,000,000 more from France during the sixty-two years which the agreement runs than did the Caillaux plan. And while the Berenger settlement calls for smaller payments during the first few years, the franc has slumped so since Caillaux war fn this country that this advantage is more than wiped out. For instance: The $40,000,000 a year initial payments called for under the Caillaux plan at that time

amounted to only 845,000,000 francs. The $30,000,000 a year Initial payments called for under the Berenger scheme today foots up to more than 1,000,000,000, thanks to the franc’s decreased value. But what if Caillaux and refuse to back the Berenger settlement? Where will France borrow the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to tide her over the next few year^? Also the franc is on the toboggan and un’ess something js done to peg it, and that soon, there’s no telling what will happen. France’s plight is desperate. It requires desperate gemedies. Will her “two consuls” be able to find them? And If the y find them > w,u the y be able t 0 apply them and get away with It? These are just some of the questions which must soon be answered. A CROOK’S HADES AND HEAVEN Yesterday in England they hanged Mrs. Louise Calvert for killing her landlady. Mrs. Calvert, says the United Press, was the mother of three children, the youngest a baby boy. She was 33 years old. Arrested on April 2, sentenced on May 7, she was hanged on June 24, despite a popular nation-wide appeal for clemency. Say what you please, there Is something awful and sure, like time and tide, about English Justice. You commit a crime. They get you. They try you. They sentence you. - t And they see to it that you are perished exactly as prescribed and forthwith. Commit a crime in Britain and you touch the button that Instantaneously sets the Juggernaut of the law going and before it stops rolling it will flatten you out We are neither upholding nor condemning the execution of a woman. We do commend, however, and most heartily, a system of justice that functions for rich and poor, rfigh and low alike without fear, without favor and without undue delay. So it happens /that today the greatest outstanding menace in America is crime. Last year there were 10,000 murders and more than 300,000 robberies. William B. Joyce, chairman of the national surety, says $2,000,000,000 is taken from us annually by fraud alone. Marcus Kavauagh, one of the greatest jur ists gracing the American bench, says there are 135,000 murderers at liberty in this country right now, and another 350,000 people who make their* living wholly or’partly by crime. Chief Justice Taft says: “The administration of criminal law In the United States ia a disgrace to civilization.” , There are more crimes In Philadelphia alone than in all the Dominion of Canada. There are many times more murders committed in the city of Chicago every year than in the whole of Great Britain. The answer would seem to be that crime doesn't pay In Britain because the law doesn’t let it pay, while it does pay in America because the law lets It pay. In America the murderer runs a 45 per cent risk of detection, according to criminal records, whereas in Britain he runs a 93 per cent risk. Giving accused persons a fair trial is one thing, hut turning our courts flito loopholes of escape is another. “BUNK” IS RIGHT Contrary Ot the opinion of a great many producers, the rottenness of a play does not necessarily assure Its success. Witness the fate of "The Bunk of 1926.” “The Bunk” has shut up shop. Its scenery has gone to the warehouse and Its girls, presumably, have gone home to put on their clothes. "The Bunk” apparently had little to justify it as entertainment save its scantiness of costume. The New York play Jury had ordered it closed as detrimental to public morals, and this, the producers thought would be bound to make the play a success. Any time the censors describe a play as immoral —welL you know the rest. But this time something went wrong. "The Bunk,” remaining open under a temporary injunction, failed to gather the expected crowds and died a quick and easy death. Perhaps tha producers will draw a moral from this.

WE LIVE BY FAITH By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

The general secretary for the advancement of atheism takes issue with this column for contending that mankind needs faith to live. He says, in part, “Yes, we do seek to destroy religion, creeds, ritual, superstitions and belief in a Deity. We are trying to teach men to live by their reason.” From certain point of view this stand may not only be correct, but admirable. The atheist seeks to enthrone reason and intelligence. But what he fails to take into consideration is that the greater part of the race is not endowed with much reason. Os course, if these atheists could educate all humanity so that each man could have the mind >t a Robert Ingersoll, a Thomas Paine, a Clarence Darrow, then, we have no doubt, atheism might never harm the world. But, alas, the major portion of America’s millions have intelligence which falls far short of this standard. And to the man who is endowed with small logical sense faith is a necessity. Convert the Nation to atheism, and with the standard of intelligence we possess, we should be in a state of turmoil that would work a cataclysm. For the average man is not endowed with a powerfuhor a reasoning brain. He does not contemplate life from a scientific or a logical viewpoint. He lives largely by his faith and his creed. And the atheiest stumbles in his argument when he infers that all Intellectual men are on his side. On the contrary, the Nation boasts many brilliant minds that are religious. , History teaches us that faith is good for man. We all live by it, even the/ atheist. For Ije goes through his days, we have no doubt, like the rest of us, looking forward to some fancied happiness or consummation of work in his future. He, too, believes in tomorrow. And that is faith. We have faith in friendship and love; in our fellow mortals and in the importance of the tasks we do. If we did not, how could we go on? I It was faith that made Jesus Christ and Buddha and Columbus and Abraham Lincoln. Whether the Man of Nazareth was the Son of God or not, he still lives in the hearts of men because of the greatness of his faith. For only a short thirty years he trod the plains of Palestine, but his name is whispered today where Voltaire’s has never been heard. No, there is no tenough logic or reason in the world to enaole us to live decently or as we would like to do. Something finer than logic goes into the' jlvaa of most men and woman. „ / ♦ * dm • t /t

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What Will Coolidge Administration Do for Farmers Now?

By M. E. Tracy Now that the Coolidge Administration has killed the Haugen bill, what will it do about farm relief? It certainly faces the necessity of doing something, unless it ready to enter the 1928 campaign with sixty or seventy electoral votes as good as thrown away. The farmers are in dead earnest this trip. Whether rightly or wrongly, they believe that if protection and special privilege are to be the order of the day, they should have their share. Realizing that they cannot get it via the tariff, since imports play such a small part in the problem, they believe that some other kind of a scheme could be devised to produce the same result. They thought they had such a scheme in the Haugen bill, but only to find that the very same crowd which had voted protection and special privilege for manufacturers was unwilling to do as much for them. It might be possible to persuade them that the Haugen bill was not the best that might be had, but only if some substitute measure is enacted. It will never be possible to persuade them that farm relief through Government assistance Is wrong so long as the protective tariff prevails. •I- -I* *l* Protection Amiss We have learned how to protect the man charged with, crime, sometimes to an extent that he should not be protected. We have rigged up a most complicated system of complaint, quiz, discussion in order to give him the benefit of every reasonable doubt. We have not learned how to protect his dependents, however, if he happens to have any. “Better that ninety-nine guilty men go free,” we exclaim, "than that one innocent man be convicted!" But how about the innocent wives and children who are constantly made to suffer? -I- -I- IThe Same Story You remember those Long Island firemen, perhaps, who admitted having started ten or a dozen blazes so that they could Up off their own volunteer company and enable It to

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"ge ahead of all rival©. Taw were sentenced yesterday—two to prison and two to the reformatory—four fine, upstanding young men—and It seems tragedy enough that they should have wrecked their lives through such foolishness: tpit there was more involved than that. The wife of one begged the court for mercy as only a guiltless, heartbroken woman can. She realized her husband had done wrong, she said, and that he should be punished, but there was an old mother and two children to support and no one left to do the work but her if he were sent to jail. “Th|it is so with almost every case that comes before me,” remarked Judge Smith. Whither Drifteth? Dry Czar Andrews says it 1© costing $28,000,000 a year to enforce the Volstead act* If, Indeed, what the Government Is doing can be described as enforcement. He says that, in spite of this enormous outlay, some 30,000,000 gallons of whisky are made from diverted industrial alcohol, and that not less than 100,000,000 gallons of beer are sold. Meanwhile, Congressmen rise In their seats to tell how the Volstead act can be evaded by mixing lawful Ingredients and producing intoxicating liquor in the home, by converting them into solids, etc. Meanwhile, too, nullification virtually prevails in many large centers, ports and border communi-. ties. -I- -|- -1Unstable Stabilizer Joseph Caillaux is one of the most romantic figures in French politics, but he possesses a poor background as financial director of a government in such distress. It i© probable that M. Brland chose him because no one else was available, and while that reason may be better than none, it Is at best a sorry one. If France ever needed a man at' the head of her fiscal affairs who was beyond reproach, and whose career had been such as to command universal confidence, It Is now. Joseph Caillaux simply does not fill the bill. Four times he has been minister of finance, and once premier, but he has also been identified with a sensational murder trial and has faced charges of treason. An able n?an, no doubt, but with something so volatile in his character as to unfit him for the task of stabilizing ths currency. „ -I- -I- -I* They are meeting today—Red men and White—on that grim batttlefleld where Custej fought and fell fifty years ago. They will re-enact the grim tragedy as best they can, but with all the bitter animosities forgotten—a drama in tribute not only to the romantio past, but in tribute to the happier and, perhaps, not less roinantfo present.

Theatre Guild Completes Plan for Open Air Performance of ‘Hiawatha’

Tribal dances of the American Indian will be incorporated in the Indianapolis Theatre Guild’s presentation of “Hiawatha” at Fairview Park on Sunday afternoon, July 4. Featuring the production with a cast of sixty will be Hopl Indian dances, an historic com dance and a dance celebrating the wedding of Hiawatha. An orchestra of forty pieces, conducted by Leslie C. Troutman, will provide music for the dances. Heading the large cast will be Mrs. Carl Lieber, Harry Peel, Lester Han ton, Miss Helen Coffee, Robert Green and Thomas Snyder. A natural ampitheater has been selected at Fairview for the play, with the picturesque canal In the background. The production is timed to start at 4 o’clock In the afternoon so that the closing scenes will be played just as the sun is setting over the west. “Hiawatha** has been produced on three previous occasions by the Theater Guild, once on the D. M. Parry estate, once before at Fairview and once in Martinsville. * • • NEW SHOW ON VIEW AT PALACE Jean Granese. with her brother Charles and Tito De Flore, at the Palace today and tomorrow, have a lot in the way of amusement that is pleasing. First there is Ahe singing of Miss Grense, she uses her voice in an entertaining manner and does not go in for any of the trick effects that sopranos indulge In once In a while. She Is the first woman I have heard sing “Just a Cottage Small,’’and ©he carried this beautiful old melody excellently. , The two men of the act furnish the comedy of the type that make© one think of the Italian Immigrant. They are good showmen and have plenty to laugh at. An excellent song number at the last was one by Charles Granese In which he sang a rather comic thing about “Tony” and his gondola. Raffles and Company, mostly "Raffles” shows some Interesting tricks and escapes on the stage. The feature was an escape from a burial vault. Maxwell and Fields Company, with two Vomen and two men, offer some pleasing melodies on violin!" piano and saxophones and some dances by a man and woman dancing team. Uoyd and Brice have some comedy acrobatics that are full of laughs. They a'so display a high degree of skill in their foolishness. Morton Jewell and Company offer comedy, songs and dances by the two women and two men. Bill includes a photoplay "Pal-

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' Although he is busy most of the time directing all the play© produced at English's by the Berkell Players, Bill Hull finds time to act in nearly all the plays. He also finds time to motor, that being hi© favorite pastime. •

ace of Pleasure” with Betty Compsop and a News Reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Obesrver.) -I- -I- -I- . PUPILS IN RECITAL TONIGHT AT LIBRARY Mrs. Max Leckner will present her pupils In recital tonight at tha Cropsey auditorium at the publlo library, starting at 8:15. Program follow’s: “Prelude O Sharp Min.—Op. 3 No 2” ... Rachmaninoff “Hunting Song—>Oo. 19 No. 3”.... - Mendelssohn Franz Prell. piano pupil of Mrs Leckner. Anderson. Ind. “Elegy” Massenet Miss Jean Roomier. “The Prayer Perfect'. S ten son Marshall Hawthorne. "O Morntnr Land" . . . . .... .. . . . Phelps "Love Came Down From Out the Miaa 'Helen 'PeckV Lowed Springer. “Ridonarai la Calme . . Tostl Mr*. Francis Barlet. “On Wings of Song" ....... Mendelssohn Helen Montgomery. Plano Pupil of Mr*. Leckner. “Sptrlt-Flo ver" Campbeil-Tipton .“Spring Time I. Po!k Miss' Heien Peek. Greenwood. Ind. “Air and Variations .j .j. •• • - ■, Proch Mrs. Fred Stess. Lebanon. Ind •Sacrament" rer '' * " i!.'.'.' ’ 'MaS S sAde Prell. Anderson. Ind.

JUNE 25, 1926

“Somewhere a Voice I* Calling ~..Tate'v Lowell Springer. Greenwood. Ind "Pages Song-—Hug nenottcb . MeyerbSQ^Bh Mis* Sara Lauter. "Give a Man a Horne He Can Rtdf* .OHir^ “When Irish Eye* Are Ball Raymond Ball. "Fantasia Pastoral* Mpngrotes . . Doepplcr Richard lloberg “Ave Marla" I adapted lrom VValter Scott a “Lady of the Lake ) . . . u Miue Brnch Mia* Jeanne Jackson. Mad Scene From "Lucia .. .• • PonUettl Richard tloberg. Flutist. Mrs. I red Sows “Hymn to the Sun". . . . .Rimsky-Korsakoff Miaa Christine llouaemsii. “Armlnta .. 7. ,18th Century Bergercttes “LOiseleur" Lehmann "Serenade' ...... ......... Gounod Miaa Sura Lauter. "Air do Ballet Alreste GUirk-Salnt-Sasns Miss Helen jdouuomcry. DANCE RECITAL TO BE GIVEN HERE TONIGHT Mme. Gano of the Metropolitan School of Music will present her atu-* ck-nte In a dance recital at the Little Theatre. Among the dance© to be given will be the “Walpurgi© Night” ballet from "Faust.” In which all the dancers excepting three are under the ages of 12. Kenneth C. Gano, La Verne Reichl, Mary Loula Schilling, Joan Elliott, Miss Dorl© Uwellyn anil Loretta Von Meter Will be the solo dancers. • • • Indianapolis theater© today offer: "Cheating Husband©” at English'©; V “Outward Bound” at Kelth'a; Lottie V Mayer at the Lyric; Tom Brown and ’ His Orchestra ftt the Circle: movies at the Uptown; ( ‘‘Tumbleweeda" at the Isis. “Say It Again" at the Apollo: "The Johnstown Flood" at the Colonial, and “Monte Carlo" at ~ the Ohio.

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