Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1926 — Page 6

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THE WALE CHARGES What can Clyde Walb do to explain his failure to demand an official investigation of his own wholesale charge of corruption? Two days have passed since Walb charged that there is “evidence everywhere” that International bankers have their money in every precinct In this State in the pockets of “fakirs” who are spreading slanders concerning politicians and officials for the purpose of defeating Senators and Congressmen. Walb did not qualify his charge. He declared, as lioad of the Republican party, that there is evidence and since he makes the charge, it is to be presumed that he has the evidence. It would be Impossible to hire even one “fakir” in e,very precinct to engage in a campaign of slander without some follower of Walb bringing to him concrete and absolute and convincing evidence. He made this charge in a letter to Senator Borah, although. Walb knows well that the Senate has a machine set up for the specific purpose of investigating just such conditions as that which he says ‘exists. I k The investigating committee headed by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri has authority and orders to inquire into corruption. It has an appropriation for the purpose of bringing in witnesses. It. has lhe v >authority of the United States Government to compfel unwilling and reluctant witnesses. was, it might seem, a body to which Walb would -have taken his charge immediately, especially ijts|he light of his statement that there is ‘‘evidence -everywhere.” It was The Times which appealed io Senator Reetf .to Investigate this charge, a charge quite as grave as that which Stephenson relayed from his prison cell to Thomas Adams when he cried corruption tfnd.evidently did so for the purpose of frightening his former associates and the beneficiaries of his political power into doing something to set him free. The times invited Walb to join in Its appeal for this-" inquiry. It pointed out to him and to the people that there was a chance for Walb to get a hearing, ’•prove his case and defeat these “bankers” who, he says, are corrupting the State. Why has Walb failed to ask this inquiry? Certainly it cannot be because ho mistrusts the efficiency x>f this comndittee. It has already uncovered gigantic frauds in Illiftois and -Pennsylvania. Sena tor Reed is known as courageous, with a fervent hatred of graft and corruption, and a patriotism that is unchallenged and unblemished. / The failure of Walb to demand an inquiry into his cten charges and his further failure to support his charge of wholesale corruption with a single bit of evidence, suggests that perhaps Mr. Walb may not wish such an inquiry. Certainly the head of the organization which is trying to elect these Senators and Congressmen will not admit that he made this charge for the purpose of distracting attention from the other charges and that he has no proof or evidence. Certainly he will hardly admit that he has no evidence to produce And that he uttered a wholesale slander in order'--tp draw public attention away from the amazing story! told by the convict In letters which are now shown to have been genuine. What will be the conclusion if Walb falls to follow his charge with a demand for the Reed committee or names? __ What must be the conclusion of fair minded men who resent any effort to mislead them by false and unsupported statements that reflect upon the State and its honesty and Its integrity? The friends of Mr. Walb should urge him to act speedily in this matter or he will rest under suspicion of being a good deal of a “fakir” himself.

STILL UNEXPLAINED The people of the State, may, it seems, quite properly ask for an. explanation of the official silence which for five days followed the charges made by Thomas Adame, the Vincennes editor. Sometimes circumstantial evidence is better than the spoken word. ' Often the actions of men are more important than their words. ' ■ f*? The grand jury to this county has the task of discovering evidence - ahd attempting to And out, not whether D. C. Stephenson once the political power in this State, maker of Governors and Senators, has any documentary evidence of graft and corruption, but also whether there was such graft, corruption and bribery. _ The people will not forget that when this most amazjmg charge was made; The Times demanded permission to talk to Stephenson in his cell. So did every other newspaper in this part of the nation. So did six State Senators, at least by representatives. They will not forget that the Governor of this State refused to order Warden Daly to grant th4se interviews. They will not forget that shere was a hastily summmied meeting of the board of trustees, so important that it was held at the bedside of one of its members, and that these trustees officially announced that Warden Daly was correct in his attitude of refusal. They remember that the first promise ,of an investigation came from Governor Jackson at -La Grange when Theodore Roosevelt demanded that the party for which he spoke make some statement. |They know now that Senator Watson made his first denunciation of graft and edrruption several hours later, and that earlier in that same day he had given out an interview at Kokomo that the whole thing was a “trivial affair’’ and a family which he was not interested. They know that the first man who saw Stephenson vtas one Maroney, a Federal agent, and that Senator Watson, without any suggestion that he /might' have been at all concerned in this visit, found it expedient to p'ublish in his official organ a denial that he,had sent Maroney. Then there was an eagerness to have,Stephenson talk to a grand Jury and attention .was directed to the thought that if Stephenson did not produce these letters, and checks and {t was conclusive proof that there had been no corruption and crime and graft by those he had put into office. That argument, of course, will not be accepted shell people realize the situation the circumsianees. If Stephenson has such documents, they are his only abset and only weapon. He is under a life sentence. He is in position to 1 * ■!

defy all courts and lie as much as he wishes. Refusal to answer questions cap bring no penalty which he does not already suffer. What would you do if you were in Stephenson’s place and had such documents? It is possible that he no longer has them. Three citizens have stated that they know- that he did have such documents at the conclusion of his trial. They have stated that he considered them so important that he had them photographed as a protection against the possible theft of the originals. That Is the evidence. That is the situation. The whole matter is too important to be dropped until the last trail has been followed to its end. And in the meantime the people are entitled to some explanation of those five days of silence. / SCHOOL KIDS AND AUTOS The “school kid and flivver” question is agitating the craniums of school officials no little these days. School board after school hoard is ruling that children of public school age shall not drive cars to and from school. Some boards are less stringent, and rule cnly that the cars‘*?nay not be taken out at recess or on the noon hour. “School kid driving” presents the problem of boys and girls under legal age endangering their own lives and the lives of others, of congested parking space and traffic about school buildings, and too free-and-easy conduct before and after school hours. Parents complain they never know where their children are. A few hoards pay no attention, calmly saying that “as long as we live in a motor age we can not expect our children to go back to a horse and buggy age.” It is this very wholesale belief of parents that, if necessary, fhey themselves can live with “horse and buggy day” necessities, but that their children must have “motor age” luxuries, which keeps hundreds of parents in the rut, doe3 no good to their children, and makes wholesale trouble for our educators. a lTTtle boy no longer Jackie Coogan’s bob is gone. The Coogans have seen the writing on the wall for a long time. They knew Jackie’s baby cays were numbered, and that the time would come when that bob of his, instead of being the symbol of sweet babyhood, would bring forth raucous jeers as the rabble yelled, “get a haircut, Jackie”’ Parents who own no million dollar chicks shed a little tear for the Coogans, not so much because their treasure child grown up may not mean treasure, but because they no longer have a little boy. The British have banned women as radio announcers. But we’ll bet they’ll get word around anyway. Ford’s flve-day week is o. k. with us, but we hope the repairmen dou’t get the same idea. The sight’s off. Harvard and Princeton will play. Dust off the dominoes.

CHRISTIANITY, F. O. B. DETROIT "By N. I). Cochran - I’m so much of an optimist that I can And some good in everybody and some hope in almost my situation. On the face of it that rumpus in Detroit over shut ting the Protestant church doors in the face of labor leaders looks pretty bad for the churches. They're in for a lot of red-hot criticism. But a good pounding will do them good and won't dp religion any harm. Certainly Christianity won’t suffer. It may get a chance in even the eminently respectable churches. If the Detroit row starts a campaign for free speech in the pulpit it will be well worth while. By free spech in the pulpit I menu the freedom of Christian minister to preach the Christianity of Christ, instead of the spurious Christianity of Churchianity of Big Business. Not that there is anything wrong with business merely because it is big. Bigness is neither legally nor morally wrong, but business isn’t necessarily moral because it is big. A man can be rich and still be a Christian, but his influence In any church should be determined by his Christianity rather than ~by the size of his pile. Too often, however. hi|i importance as a church member is gauged by his ability to contribute and get others to contribute-toward the pastor’s salary or building anew and bigger church. Fortunately >for His gospel, Christ’s time wasn’t taken up in raising money to build churches. He had a message and He preached with no roof over His head and with no deacon to pass the plate. And because He had a message the crowds followed Him wherever He went, whether in the open fields, the market place or ‘the seashore. While there is not only room but need for real Christianity in every walk of life and all relations of men. still Christianity is something different from making automobiles, selling town lots, practicing law or printing newspapers. Let the manufacturers, merchants, lawyers, doctors, editors, bricklayers and mechanics mind their own business—and let the minister of the, gospel mind his. The business of \the minister of the gospel is to preach Christianity, and particularly the gospel of love. When he turns over his pulpits to propagandists of controversial subjects \vhlch involve the greed and selfish ambitions of men, his congregation is more apt to listen to the gospel of hate than the gospel of love. That’s what happened when some of the Protestant churches turned their pulpits over to the hired professional propagandists of the Anti-Saloon League. The Catholic churches were too smart to permit secular controversies in their pulpits. If capital and labor must keep on fighting over the closed and open shop, or if wets and drys want to fight over prohibition, let them do their fighting outside the churches. Then after fighting six days a week let them rest on Sunday and go to church to hear preaching that will make them feel like Christian brothers instead of like capitalists and laborers. If we are all the children of God and the church is temple, th6n, for God’s sake, keep the temple a 'place where all men may gather as brothers and forget the fool and distinctions that lead some to believe they are better than others because they have more clothing, more automobiles, bigger houses and richer food. When preachers learn that when they can’t fill their pews there is something the matter with them and the Christianity of their particular churches they can begin to set their houses in order; for there is nothing wrong about either religion or Christianity. When hungry souls go to church for bread they don’t want a stone. And they won’t feel comfortable or much at home if they find the money-changers sloshing all over the place. \ —Next—Business is Business.

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Tracy Knickers, Little Girls and School Heads —Another Triangle,

By M. E. Tracy Little girls can’t go to school in Port Fulton, lnd., if they wear knickers. Little girls can't go to school in Grand Island, Neb., unless they are provided with bloomers for the gymnasium. Big girls can’t go to school in Genoa, Neb., if their skirts fall short of the knee. -I- -I- T Superstition King James believed that old women could produce thunJer storms by pulling off their stock ings. Are wo less superstitious in imagining that society can be wrecked by the cut of the dress? •I- -I- -I*. An Angel's Powers School men of the middle ages argued whether an angel can be in two places at the same time. We pretend to think them silly, but argue whether a woman can be straight and wear breeches. -I- -I- + And Crime Stalks On While gray-haired judges are asked to dispose of questions that any sensible mother could settle in live minutes, and that should be left to mothers, crime stalks not only the byways, but the broad crowded thoroughfares of this country-. Chicago has been afflicted with a gang war that should have shocked us, hut didn’t, because we were so busy discussing bobbed hair, why Browning married Peaches, wnether Richards should have turned pro and other matters of equally grave importance. And now comes this terrible thing in Elizabeth, N. J., with two carloads of banditti shooting up a mail truck with a machine gun, killing one man, wounding two others and getting away with $200,000 in stolen j cash, while scores of people were too , stupefied with amazement to do more than look helplessly or.. -1- -I- IQueeifs Business The West minster Gazette says that Queen Marie is coming to America for - which is something Ameri ;-' I. -rs have known all along. They will be ready for her when she arrives, not only with the cash, but with the most accurate appraisal of the security she has to offer. While entertaining her in splendid style, they will be calculating just how much the traffic will bear. The Queen must not suppose that she is coming io a country of shallow emotions, or that she can cut the interest rate by eating Simonpure American dishes. It is all right to dismiss the Leviathan's French chef, but that will have little effect on Wall Street. Even if us common folk have not acquired the international mind, there are bond houses in New York that have, and that can tell you to a "t" just how much oil, coal and iron the undeveloped regions of Roumaula contain. -I- -I- -I* Profitable Governing The Angli-Persian Oil Company has just declared a stock dividend of one share for every two. Since the British government owns 51 per cent of the stork, it will come ITT for a large slice of the melon. For a decade now the British government has been interesting itself in oil fields, not only to obey- a reserve supply for its navy, but to make a litttle profit on the side. Thus fhr its ventures have paid about 1,000 per cent. ‘ -!- -!- IBusiness on the Job Though the United States has taken little interest in such matters, either at home or abroad, and though it has permitted Itself to be mulcted by such transactions ay’ that by which former Secretary Fall turned over two valuable holdings to the Sinclair and Doheny interests, American financiers have paid more attention to what is going on. If the United .states finds' itself able to draw on foreign oil fields at some future date, it will be because private enterprise has shown more far-sightedness than the Government.

Salesman Who Did Not ‘Deliver’ Taken ' Spied by a woman’s eyes at a downtown corner. Howard Humphrey, 45, of 309 N. Hast ‘St., is in city prison charged with obtaining money under false pretense. Mrs. William Crouch, 1445 Massachusetts Ave., caused Humphrey’s arrest this morning when she told Traffic Officer McGuire at Illinois and Washington- Sts. that Humphrey was the man who defrauded her of $2 on an order for silk hosiery. She said the man, representing himself as a salesman for a Dayton (Ohio) company, took her order for five pairs of pure silk hose at $2. Mrs. Humphrey said she paid the money, received a receipt, but no hose, and that she had not seen Humphrey again until she met him at the busy corner. PATENT OFFICE SMALL Inadequate to Handle Business; Grant 70,000 Annually. Rv Tin tc* f’nrrinl WASHINGTON. Oct. 15.—Because of an accident, inadequate building, the patent office here ts unable to handle the thousands of patents filed annually, and as a result American business men are losing potential millions of dollars, according to Commissioner of Patents Thomas E. Robertson. When the present building was designed, shortly after Thomas Jefferson’s death, only 200 or ,300 patents were issued a year. *The number now is close to 70,000.

Ace Berry at the Circle Books Ibanez’s ‘Mare Nostrum’ All Next Week Here

Vicente Blasco Ibanez, the noted i Spanish novelist has retraced himself as a boy with all his youthful aspirations and his overpowering love for tho sea in “Mare Nostrum" (Our Sea), which Rex Ingram produced in Europe, and which will be shown the coming week at the Circle Theater. Vicente Blasco was born in Valencia, a small and quaint Mediterranean fishing village in southern Spain. His father’s name was Blasco and as is the custom in Spain he added on his mother’s name Ibanez. His father was a middle class notary. The boy’s ambition was to be a sailor, but his family bitterly opposed it. On his sixteenth birthday he ran away from home and after several weeks travel reached Madrid. There he worked as a secretary to the Spanish writer Manuel Fernandez Gonzales. The i>olice found him and sent him back home. In Valencia Ibanez attended all the Republican meetings and was an enthusiastic worker for the cause. While still in his early twenties he founded a paper, “El Pueble” (The People). Asa result of his bitter attacks on the royalists and individuals of the party he fought a number of duels, was Imprisoned several times and finally sentenced to penal servitude. He escaped on board a ship and spent three months in Italy. From here he went to Paris, where he lived for more than a year earhing by his writing baiely enough to keep him from starving. He returned to Valencia and led an agitated political life. It was about this time that he first gained recognition as a writer. His best works of that period are “Flor de Mayo” (Mayflower) and “La Barraca," (the name of tho typical Valenla cottage). After many trips, through Europe and Asia. Ibanez left for South America in 1 DOS. He made a triumphant journey through Chile and Argentina, finally settling near the Negro River, where lie had two large ranches. In 1914 he returned to Europe, and in Paris wrote “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” his first great war romance, which was followed by “Mare Nostrum” and “Enemies of Women.” In 1919 he made a trip to the United States and upon his return settled in the south of France, where he still resides. Ibanez has one of the most beautiful villas along the ; French Reviera. It is called Fon- 1 tana Rosa and is located in the foot- j hills overlooking the Mediterranean Monte Carlo and the Italian border, j “Mare is Ibanez' favorite of all the stories he has written. | That was one of the reasons he refused to dispose of the motion picture rights until Rex Ingram could produce it in pictures. Ibanez and Ingram are the author-director com-i hination responsible for "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” which made motion picture history. They have Jeen close friends and mutual admirers since that time. Alice Terry and Antonio Moreno have the leading roles in “Mare Nostrum.” This picture was filmed on the original locations in Spain. France and Italy described by the author in his book. -I- -I* + GOOI> DANCE ACT AT THE PALACE Some original ideas in stage set - | tings and drapes give “Dunce Flashes.” at the Palace today and tomorrow, an atmosphere a bit different from other acts of it’s kind. With three women and three men a program of dances is given containing about all the steps that are popular on the stage today. First is an ensemble number by nil and then an acrobatic sort of offering by one of tho man and woman teams. Then follow the different specialties and feature numbers. Os the numbers offered I think one by a girl, a song and dance about “Rose Colored Glasses,” and a specialty by a man at the close were the best. Cleveland and Downey have some rather good comedy in their dialogue between a tippler and a woman, who like to reform him. There is nothing boisterous to the act and the comedy is handled in a quiet way that makes it go over fine. In tho act “At 4 P. M.,” there is

A ‘Tough Guy'

The actor shown in the accompenying picture usually takes the role of a “hard’’ man with a soft heart. The answers to these questions can be found on page 28: 1. Who is shown in the accompanying picture? 2. What State has for its motto, “In God We Trust?” 3. Where is Colgate University? 4. Who wrote “David Copperfield”? 6. Who -wrote "Uncle Tom’s Cabin”? 6. Who was Richard Hakluyt? V.Which Is the largest lake in the United States with the exception of the five Great Lakes? 8. What is the name of the longest river in the world. 9. What is a caribou? 10. What is the date of the World War armistice?

not a whole lot to offer besides the comedy part of the old man. Concerns a couple of lovers, who meet at 4 o'clock in a park and on old man, who happens along the same place. All three members of the act make a good appearance, especially the girl, but the big feature is the old man part. He has a variety of ways to make you laugh. Athlone is a woman, blues singer. Her voice is not bad for the type of melody she ofiyrs, but the act is flat. The woman has abundant personality if she would learn how to use it. What she needs is some real life in the act, not a prop smile and a restless eye. The Five Mounters open the bill with an acrobatic act in which the principal feature Is walking up and down some tables, that have been piled high, on their hands. Bill includes a photoplay “Meet the Prince” with Joseph Schildkraut and a News Red. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) *1- 'l' -I“PASSING SHOW” TO OPEN AT ENGLISH’S Curious how the thing called personality flashes its way into the affairs of the theaftr, upsetting all the rules disturbing folks’ calculations, bestowing eminence whimsically upon the just and the unjust with no rhyme or reason about it at all. Miss Betty Healy, acting with beautiful, quiet effectiveness in the comedy and skits in “The Passing Show,” coming to English’s Monday night, takes to herself most of the talk of the town among persons who find such matters worthy of discussion. A player of keen Intelligence, Miss Healy, knowing precisely what she is going to do before she does it, and accomplishing what she seeks with a minimum of flourish. Not often is reticent skill so widely appreciated; esteem goes more frequently to the actor who makes noise, with gestures. Nor do tho neophytes of stageland usually blaze into quick popularity when they devote themselves in business fashion, as has Miss Healy, to serious endeavor. / That, for most, is the long, hard I

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