Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1926 — Page 6

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No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, m any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana. '■

A REAL INQUIRY The Governor of' this State has promised that there shall be an investigation of the charges o graft, corruption and bribery made in the smuggled letters of D. C. Stephenson. The belated declaration comes under unusual circumstances, such as might leave the fair inference that he had been forced to speak by exposures of documents and the fear of more to come. It would have been happier had the Governor not, for five days, used his power of office and his official influence, to smother these charges, and to refuse to permit Stephenson to be seen. The suspicion that a political accident forced his hand will always remain and the people of Indiana will owe this delayed stand to the presence in this State of Theodore Roosevelt, son of the honored President What a picture is sent out from the home of Clyde Walb by the sycophantic press which has tried to belittle and to smother these charges. It is recounted that Roosevelt arrived to speak on Republican principles and his own ideas of world courts. But he would not consent to go upon the platform with men who had for five days permitted this State and their party to rest under the cloud qf fearing to face an investigation of such damning charges. He refused 40 appear with men who are silent while the great newspapers of the nation sent their best reporters into this State to see the peculiar phnonenon of a State Government silent and inactive when its integrity had been challenged. If the reports were to be believed, young Roosevelt wrote his declaration of approval of the action of Jackson in demanding an investigation, handed it to Clyde Walb for his approval, nad then dared the Governor not to state his position as he introduced him to speak. For that thank Roosevelt and remember him always in a kindly spirit. Had he not come, it is not 'likely that there would have been even the pledge of an inquiry. Now the people of this State will demand a real probe, made by men interested in getting the truth and not by those who may be interested in suppressing it. The situation is unusual. Stephenson is a convict, under life sentence for a hideous murder. But he was once the real power in this State. He had claimed, without challenge that he was the Republican party in this State. His associations and his influence were well known. He had been the friend and the political backer of the officials now in power and of the organization of his party. It was he who handed out the laurels to faithful workers and promoted and praised them. It was he who had secured positions or refused them, he passed laws or defeated proposals of laws. No one disputed his influence or his power. His private yacht was at Cleveland when a President was being named and to it went as eager guests high 'officials and their wives. His palace in Irvington was the retreat of those who came as men in other 'days approached a throne. ; Only his lustful nature and the death of a girl unseated him. He did not fall because he was deserted by those he had made great, he did not lose his grip because men who had received his preference iand his praise and his patrimony failed in allegiance. He lost power only when he lost his liberty and a Jury had placed a scarlet letter of killer upon his p row. Five days ago he his first declaration of war against whom? He said that he would prove that $200,000 had been spent in the 1924 campaign for fraudulent votes and for the stuffing of ballot boxes. He said that he would prove how $25,000 had been spent in the State Legislature to kill one certain measure. He said that he would prove that juries had been fixed in certain counties, how officials divided unlawful tributes, how graft reigned. He said that he would and could prove corruption of government. Five days passed before Roosevelt came to place his party on record. In that five days every power and influence was used to smother these charges. The mayor of this city admitted that he had written a letter, a photograph of which was furnished, showing he had sought the influence of this man to secure his old job of treasurer with its fees which are worth more than the salary of a President. The warden of the prison refused to permit Stephenson to be seen. The Governor of this State has repulsed each day beginning with Sunday, to request the warden that he permit The Times to enter that prison and get from Stephenson his story of these charges. Six State Senators listened to evidence of graft presented by Thomas Adams of the Republican Editorial Association and demanded of Governor Jackson (hat they be allowed to probe. The Governor sent back the specious excuse that only the trustees of the prison had power to order the warden to let these law makers visit Stephenson and listen to his charges. The trustees, hastily called to the bedside of one of their members, passed solemn resolutions that the warden alone could allow officials of this State to make an inquiry into this damning indictment of graft and corruption , \ The warden stolid# refused —the warden selected by the Governor of this State—and no rebuke was given him by Jackson, no removal for some man who would take an interest in discovering the truth of the charges. His deputy said "To hell with public opinion.” * ' That was the history until the mayor of this city admitted authenticity of a letter furnished by Adams from the files of Stephenson, a letter showing friendship and intimacy with the convict when he was in power. That was the history until Roosevelt waved his inferential denunciation of corruption in the faces of the Governor and others, and challenged them to refrain from making a pledge to investigate. It took five days for Attorney General Gilliom to

offer the powers of his office to investigate. The people may be interested in his explanation of belated indigilation—if he has one. Under these circumstances, the people have a right to demand that the probe be so open and plain and clear that, it is unmistakeable. It must be made by men who had no truckling with Stepenson and no present relations with any official who received his support and indorsement in any election. It will not do to merely state J.hat there will be an inquiry. The people now have a right to demand more. It must be made by men who under no conceivable circumstance could be connected with any act which Stephenson said he could prove. It must not be made by men who are under clouds because of their lethargy and their indifference when the fair name of this State was being besmirched and muddied by delay. It must be made by men who are In no position to barter or trade for suppression. And it must be under circumstances under which this man can produce his proof without fear of reprisals. It must be a real probe and a quick one.

IT’S MIGHTY HARD TO BE PERFECT Sir Austen Chamberlain, Britain’s secretary for foreign affairs, who is much abler than he looks, has returned to London from Geneva. The League of Nations, he told the correspondents, is a great force for good in the world, but, he added sagely: “It’s a mistake to suppose It’s an assembly of archangels and expect the delegates to behave as such.” Here is something that has needed to be said for a long time. There’s no job in the world as hard as trying to live up to somebody’s idea of perfection. More marriages are wrecked because husbands and wives turn .out to be regular folks with human frailtier; instead - of demi-gods and angels as they had pictured each other in their sweetheart days, than because of any othe* one thing. The league has been a great disappointment to some because it has not turned out to he altogether perfect, which the world, to commence with, seemed certain it would be. How silly. The league, of course, is neither all good nor all bad. It’s just human. It is merely a step, one step, in the right direction and that is all. Under the old bystem nations leaped to war at the slightest provocation or minus any. There was no common ground where they could meet and talk peace even if they wanted to. Pride kept one from going to the other and suggesting an amicable settlement. 1 % Today the league gives quarreling nations a change to settle their differences without a bloodspilling. And—what is perhaps just as important—the league makes It possible for the world to gauge pretty accurately which nation is In the wrong in the event of war. Wars of aggression indisputably would be harder to get away with today than they were before the league was born. The league has made mistakes? Os course the league has made mistakes. Who or what is perfect in this world? But who- can put a finger on any one thing and truthfully say: “But for the League of Nations this thing would have been better?!’ On the other hand there are innumerable situations to which the league may point and say but for me this would have been much worse. Let’s accept the good the league does, much or little, and quit grumbling because it has not lifted heaven itself out of the skies and planted it on earth at our feet. London scientists have found that sawdust yields sugar. Os course, America has learned that, too. Through the grocers. ~r> —i Gertrude Ederle thinks a rainy day brings her good luck. Change the platitude to "Fine weather for Gertrude Ederle today.” A London professor says a mosquito will not bite a moving object. Now we know why that messenger boy is always scratching himself. What’s in a name? Well, Abe Buzzard was arrested the other day in Pennsylvania with a wagon load of purloined poultry. Prince Asani of Bangkok refused an invitation to visit the Chicago stockyards. Maybe he’s been near one at home.

DEATH OR DARNING? By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON . Probably a number of us feel that the man in lowa who choked his wife to death because she refused to darn his socks, should be given the death sentence. It is hoped that such a villain will not escape the penalty. It may be all right to murder your wife under certain conditions, but assuredly not for protesting darning. If. however, the judge and the jury, with some sensation of pain on tender feet where a wife has carelessly drawn up tho hole in the hose, find pity entering into their natures, let us hope they will think upon the thousands of women who have longed to rebel from this unpleasant task, but had not the courage to do so. Let them, then, sentence this cruel husband to life Imprisonment with hard labor at darning. This Is the only punishment to fit his crime. For even the nether regions, If we are to believe all we are told, can hold nothing worse than an eternal basketful of wornout socks to be mended. If men only had some of these hideous menial tasks to perform they would not be so hard upon rebellious women. Only bitter experience can gauge the miseries of darning. No imagination can encompass its hateftflness. This woman, who has so bravely gone to her death rebelling the task, is a martyr to a great and noble cause, a leader in the vanguard of woman’s emancipation. Would that we could all muster up the courage to fling their socks in the faces of the men, even though we die Jor it. May we follow In the footsteps of this noble leader and take as our slogan these inspiring words. Die rather than darn. And if the men object, let them sit down and do this work a while. If they had had to look after the family mending we would all have gone barefoot through the ages.

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Tracy Mine Battle in England More Social Than v Political,

By M. E. Tracy Visiting delegates from England tell the labor convention at Detroit : that the coal strike is not over by any means, and that the threat of a general strike has not disappeared. They say there is far too much class Interest mixed up with the controversy for it to end without some sweeping reforms. At the same time come reports that miners 'have rejected Premier Baldwin’s peace proposal and are going to call out the 90,000 ’‘safety” men who have been keeping the mines dry and clean. -j- -|. -IMines Centuries Over 'it Is startling to think what might happen were the-coal mines of England to he flooded —mines that have been operated for two or three centuries and JAvit constitute the very backbone of England's Industry. But there are a lot of startling things in connection with this great struggle between the Democratic masses and the aristocratic proprietors. There are medieval customs in England called law, medieval holdings called property right* and medieval distinctions called society. The battle is more political than economic and more social than political. The workers are not fighting for a living wage, as ours once had to, or for a cultural wage as ours can now, hut for the very privilege of existence. -1- -I- -INationallzation Only Way Nationalization of the coal mines, about which we hear so much, Is not a mere socialistic draem, hut the only feasible med\is for putting a lot of separate and small holdings together so htat modern enterprise can find patches of ground big enough to warrant tho installation of up-to-date machinery. This all goes back to the feudalism landlordism, entail and a hundred and a hundred nnd one handicaps which persist with the old order. -I- -I- -IRight to Be Thankful We have a right to be thankful that the American revolution freed us from most of the social and economical disadvantages which still plague England. She has splendid laws from a civil standpoint but a rotten setup from the Industrial standpoint. Our situation Is quite the reverse. There is plenty of work, but too much crime in this country. We have learned how to live well, hut not orderly, how to butter our bread, but not how to keep tramps from stealing It. -I- + + Prosperity Drunk Prosperity has made us kind of drunk. We have grown careless of the finer Ideals, listened to IJabbitt and mistaken him for rt philosopher. There has been much good In our exploitation and boost schemes. We have made ten bungalows bloom where not one existed, and have equipped them with electric water heaters and vacuum cleaners. We have made It proper for two. out. of every thrpe families to own a flivver, or at least buy one on the installment plan. We have made the radio a veritable nuisance and accumulated enough spare change to send, all the children to the movies twice or three times a week. With It all, however, we have laid down on the Job of thinking. A good many of ua find it hard to put our feet on the porch rail and really go over a subject In our minds. It has become common to fall back on Borne slogan when a question pops up.* You heard people disposing of the most knotty political problem, of complex moral issue with, a catch phrase. -!- -I- -IChange Coining For one, I feel a change coming, a reaction in favor of the slower and more thoroughgoing attitude. The people, I think, are getting tired of so much purposeless speed and spending. They want something solider from prosperity than they have been getting. The wish may be father to the thought, but that Is how I feel. -I- -I- -IThat Five-Day Week Like disarmament, a five-day week would be all right If everybody agreed to it, but some won’t and i some can't. Nature still has considerable of a say-so with regard to how long men shall work and how their work shall be distributed. The home still operates on a seven day basis, and It would be pretty hard to give housewives a five-day week. The five-day week, a& Introduced by Henry Iftn-d, and as is now being considered by tho American Fed- ! oration of Labor, Includes nothing hut steady Industrial trades —the mill, factory, machine shop where climate doesn’t play an all-important •part. Mr. Ford says his experts, after careful study, have reported that the five-day week will not lessen production and that he can maintain the same scales of wages as for a six-day week. Judge Gary, head of the United States Steel Corporation says that somebody will have to show him. Meanwhile, the question is not wholly what we can do ih comparison with what we have donq, but must do to hold our own with the rest of th 4 world. nations are not only standing by the six-day week, but are lengthening the day! More Important still, they are installing modern machinery, which means a stiffer competition than we have ever been called upon to meet. . - 1 i Do more deaths occur from heart disease than from tuberculosis? Recent statistics show heart disease to be the cause of the greater number of deaths.

Vitaphone Now Reproduces the Tone Beauty of the New York Philharmonic

A little less than three months ago New Yorkers journeying along any of the main arteries of the five boroughs saw staring them from the boardings huge posters trenchantly shouting with all the strength and power of large type that “Vitaphone would thrill the world!” New Yorkers did not know what Vitaphone was or meant: maybe they didn't care, but were willing to be thrilled. In the course of time, Vitaphone was announced in connection with John Barrymore in “Do Juan” at the Warner Theater and the curious New Yorkers went to see this thing which was going to do the thrilling. In all Justice to Vitaphone it must be said that if its first night’s audience entered the theater in sceptical mood, it left it convinced and enthusiastic. Just how solid and substantial a hit did Vitaphone score, that in the eight weeks it has been the prelude to John Barrymore in "Don Juan” there has never been a vacant seat at any of its presentations at the Warner Theater. To the benighted ones, if there are any such, who do not know what Vitaphone is, it may be described as the amazing invention which synchronizes motion and sound. From the instant motion pictures became a successful reality, men have sought to couple them with sound. Just how many Inventive minds were bent on securing this end no one knows. Suffice it to say that the failures were many and as dire as numerous. The way the perfection of the idea came about is interesting. Bothered by long distance telephone problems, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company turned them over to the research engineers of the Bell Telephone Laboratories for solution. In working over these problems the engineers came upon some acoustical discoveries. Following these findings came the light that showed the way to the solution of the problem of synchronizing motion and sound. Then it was found that the transmitting instrument and the moving picture camera could be electrically geared to work from the same shaft Rnd the engineers knew that success was within their grasp. Only those who have seen and heard Vitaphone can really grasp Its amazing features. Critics have been unanimous in describing it as uncanny. One of the numbers on the Vitaphone programs at the Warner Theater is furnished by the New York Philharmonic Orch. tra of 107 men. This large organization is shown on the screen, Henry Hadley, its conductor. raises his baton and the strains of the Overture from "Tann hauser flaot out into the auditorium with all the clarity and power that would come If the orchestra was there in the flesh. Where different effects are sought by groups of instruments these groups are shown, and it is easy Anr one to find that the synctironizntion is perfect. Anna Case and her limpid soprano tones seem to come from her throat as she stands in shadow upon the screen. For MarUnelli. who stngs an aria from ’’Pagliacci." there is as much enthusiasm as if the tenor was there in person. And the same is to be said of Mischa Elman for his masterly violin solo. Vitaphone i.<* the biggest development that has been made in the way of entertainment that the theater has known. Is possibilities are enormous and they are not all confined to the theater. The possibilities In the educational world alone are many, and so they are in the world of business. " -I I- -!- LOOKTNG OVER NEW EVENTS AT THE PALAC®. If we remember right the last time Miss Lindsay and her horse were in town on a vaudeville bill, Sultan, the horse, was rather Inclined to bad manners, but this time, at the Palace today and tomorrow, this fine looking piece of horseflesh under the direction of Miss Ldndsay is giving an entertaining performance. v In fact he is so well coached that he starts doing tricks ahead of time. The act Is mostly counting done by the horse in picking out numbers and so on. Reflects credit on Miss Lindsay for her patience in training the horse to mind her so well. June Hovick and Company present a song and dance act with many varied niimliers. Miss Hovick Is the outstanding feature of the act in company with another woman who has a couple of peppy songs. Two young men who sing some harmony are also worth while. Best numbers weri one with Miss Hovick in an old-I'ashioned atmosphere, a solo by one of the men from a box and a character song by one of the women about “Hard Boiled Rose.” Jerry O’Meara and Company center their comedy on a beach and rely mostly on the personality of Mr. O'Meara In getting their skit across Have some good comedy in the act. Quigg Burnell and Company have an act dealing with experiment ill ultra high frequencies of electricity! Have several novel features. Gold and Edwards are to be seen In a dance act featuring some snappy stepping. Included on the hill Is a. photoplay “Senor Daredevil” with Dorothy Devore, also a news reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) I- I- ILETTTNG ONE OF THE HOFFMAN GIRLS TALK The physical perfection manl fested by the eighteen Gertrude Hoffmann Girls in “Artista and Models” —Paris Edition—which comes to | English’s Monday, never fail to exj cite envy. In the following article. Mile. Florence, one of the ' troupe tells how the girls keep fit and lncldently takes occassion the theories of health faddists. By Mile. Florence A girl in the first place must be supple, strong and sound, to gain a position with the Hoffmann Girls. We must be healthy to do all the acrobatic stunts we are called on to

do and the very exercise Itself keeps us fit. • Some of the girls are more full of vigor than others but I’ll venture a wager that there Is not a superfluous ounce of flesh In the whole troupe. On the other hand you don’t see any of the anaemic, flat chested, wish-I-had-a-square-meal kind. In other words, we are just natural and as nearly like the Almighty intended us to be as possible. We eat anything. None of the girls go in strongly for sweets. Physical culture experts say we eat more red meats than Is the case of the average woman. We require the strength giving flesh for our arduous acrobatic labors. If we had the

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Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Paul H. Havens, Apt. 2 of 420 E. Thirtieth St., Essex, 506-577, from Sixteenth and Pennsylvania Sts. Jones-Whitaker Sales Company, 434 N. Capitol Ave., Chevrolet, from that address. Earl Adolph, 3221 Adams St., Ford, T-3368, from Thirtieth St. and Sherman Dr. J. K. Conkner, 5554 Guilford Ave., Chevrolet, 6905, from Pennsylvania and Louisiana Sts. Orville Clifford, S. Delaware St., Marmon, from that address. FRANCE NEEDS LEADER Butler Professor Says Activities Should Be Solidified. Solidification of tho nation’s activity by a leader of strength Is the greatest need of France, declared Prof. Glno A. Aattl, Butler University Romance language teacher, who has returned from a visit to France. “Poincaire is sincere as politicians go. but he is controlled by his party. His party must follow the dictates of the Communists,” declared Ratti. DENTAL SCHOOL GAINS \ ■■ ■■ Enrollmtnt in the Indiana University School of Dentistry totalled 308, at the close of registration for this semester Thursday evening. There Is a marked increase in enrollment In the freshman classes and the three upper classes also are larger, according to Dean F. R. Ilenshaw.

OCT. 8, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can get an answei to anj question of fact or information by writing to The Inuiananolis rimes Washington Bureau 1322 New Vork Ave. Washing- - ton t> C. inclosing 2 cents in stamti'H for reDly Medical legal and mania* advice cannot be given nor can research tie undertaken. All other ouestions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. AH letters are confidential.—Editor. What Is the best method to clean jeweery? Common jewelry may be cleaned by washing with soap and warm water, rinsing in cold water, dipping In spirits of any kind and drying in warm boxwood sawdust. Good Jewelry only needs washing with soap and water and polishing with rouge and a chamois leather. What is the "American Oroed” and by whom was it written? It was writtten by William Tyler Page, Clerk of the United States House' of Representatives, and is as follows: "I believe in the United States of America, as a Government of the people, by the people and for the people, whose Just powers are derived from the consent of the governed: a democracy In a Republic; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity, for which American patriots sacrificed thetq lives and their fortunes. I therefore believe it my duty to my country to love It, to support its Constitution, to obey Its laws, to respect Its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.” Does Mrs. Calvin Coolldge bobbed hair? No. Are there any cities In the United States not located in counties? St. Louis, Mo.; Washington, D. C.; Baltimore, Md., and a considerable number of cities and towns In Virginia are not In any county. Can you give me the name of a recent D. W. Griffith production, the plot of which was laid In Chicago; and the names of the leading actors? "That Royle Girl” In which Carol Dempster was the leading female star and W. C. Fields played the part of her father. James Kirkwood and Harrison Ford also had Important roles. What Is a perfect no-hit no-run baseball game and has Walter Johnson of the Washington Americans ever pitched one? A perfect no-hlt no-run game Is one In which no player reaches first base, and an Imperfect no-hlt no-run game Is one in which one or more players succeed In getting on the bases either through errors or walks. Walter Johnson has never pitched a perfect no-hlt no-run