Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1926 — Page 4

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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, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana.

WHY A GRAND JURY'S Has the grand jury lost its usefulness in our scheme of justice and should it be abolished? The next Legislature should investigate this question rather seriously, for the people would probably not object if they had a chance to vote for an amendment to the constitution which would abolish it. In its search for facts concerning the workings of grand juries, the law makers could probably find a fund of information in a study and a close investigation of the report of the graft investigating body which just submitted a most remarkable and unusual report. "That it failed to indict high officials or low officials of corruption would not have caused any particular discussion or suspicion. But the jury itself invited suspicion and inquiry when it wrote into its own report the statement that no other report would be possible "under conditions which now exist in the grand jury.” The people and the legislators, surely, have a right to know what these conditions were and why it was necessary to comment at all upon them. Could it mean that it is possible, in this or any other county, to so form a grand jury that guilty Wen may escape, no matter how much proof of their guilt is produced, or that innocent men may not escape pursuit, no matter how slight the evidence against them? It is difficult to interpret it in any other manner, especially as this grand jury was so well fortified with legal advice. This grand jury had the one unusual condition that its special prosecutors were paid from the contingent fund furnished by the Governor of the State and such expenses as were paid came from that source. . * If that fact had anything to do with the creation of conditions which made the significant and suggestive report the only possible one, the Legislature should know about that before it provides any more money for the Governor to be spent without any check or curb. The grand jury was devised to protect the people, all of the people, and not a few of them. It was presumed to be a check upon prosecuting officials who might be tempted to give immunity to the privileged or to carry their hates into the courts. It was designed and provided to let. no guilty man escape and to protect the innocent from the humiliation and expense of defending baseless charges brought by the irresponsible or the hateful. Does the grand jury today accomplish these purposes? Has the grand jury in this county saved any Innocent men from malicious prosecution? Has it saved guilty men from just punishment, because of power and political influence, working through that law which demands five of the six jurors agree upon indictments? Are grand juries, generally speaking, so formed as to protect the guilty rather than the innocent? Would there be a better chance of justice in Marion County, as an example, if grand juries were abolished and the prosecution of the law given en tirely into the hands of the .ifosecutor? The Legislature should investigate. It has had thrown in its face the assertion of the last grand jury that unusual conditions prevailed in its deliberations. 1 When the Legislature discovers what those conditions were, it will be in better shape to answer the question "Why a grand jury?” STEVE STAYS IN Why did the people of this State, and especially of Indianapolis, watch with interest the court proceedings at Michigan City, under which D. C. Stephenson, the maker of governors, the dictator ok' the last Legislature, once the idol of a half million followers, sought to escape the prison cell where he was sent for the murder of a girl? Only, of course, because there was a half expectation on the part of many that the prison doors would be thrown open for him and he would be started on his way to liberty. Those who had that opinion did not know the particular judge. They might have compared him to some much nearer home and thought that it was an even wager, at least, that most any plea, specious or otherwise, would be sufficient. And the reason for that belief was the fact that Stephenson, a few months ago, startled the State with his assertion that he could prove by documentary evidence the existence of grave corruption and gigantic frauds and then very suddenly and very inexplicably refused to give any evidence or any documents to the grand Jury which investigated. It is true that he may have been wise in his generation when he refrained, if he has any documents, for he might have suspected much before he made the sago prediction two weeks before any vote was taken that the grand jury would stand four to two on every indictment and any revelation he made might be useless. But it is also generally believed, and this is very unfortunate for the state of public mind, that Stephenson might, had he so desired, furnished the very evidence he said was in his control. Quite as general is the belief that someone, perhaps the lawyers who made the futile effort to release him on the slimmest of technicalities, told him that he could use them for his own liberty. Certain it is that one of those lawyers visited him in advance of every mission sent by the prosecutors. So Stephenson, by his gesture and his later failure, had added anew black chapter to the record of hate and betrayals, corruption and graft, and finally death which he wrote into the history of the State. He had painted himself, tb those who believed that he has or had such documents, as one who trafficked with them and perhaps still hopes to complete what the attorney general said was an attempt to blackmail his way to liberty. To those who may doubt their existence, in the face of statements from photographers and lawyers and others that they had seen these documents, he becomes a braggard and bombastic boob. He stays in his prison cell,, and there will be non-s to mourn that fate for him. It there were any before who might have believeiLJiis loud assertion that he was sent there by

conspiracy of former friends, by those he hart made rich and powerful, they will agree that a prison cell is a place for a man who had his chance to help redeem the State from infamies he helped to bring to it and failed. His own confession, in his challenge to the people of this State was sufficient to keep him there for many years, unless he had exhibited some penitence and some desire to help decent people escape the evils which he boasted he contrived and of which he was a part. His single chance of claiming anything of sympathy or of forgiveness was in his producing the documents he said he had, rather than in relying upon their use as a threat and for private bargains. He chose the path of silence and of welsher once again. He still exhibits himself as against decency and against order. He still relies on the anarchy he brought to this State when he uttered no idle boast in declaring, “I am the law in Indiana." He has not repented. The law is still strong enough to hold him. Steve Btays in. CONVICTIONS AND COURAGE President Coolidge spoke Wednesday night in Trenton, N. J. Summarized, by himself in liis concluding paragraph, he* said: "The world has been striving to advance in this direction, to discard the old theory of relying entirely on force and to adopt the method of relying more on reason. Wo are in danger of slipping back into the old formula. The habit and tradition of ages call us in that direction. We can not establish the new principle unless we are willing to make some sacrifices, unless we are willing to put some courage into our convictions- We have met to celebrate some of the events which secured our independence. I believe we are strong enough and brave enough to resist another domination of the world by the military spirit through our own independent action. This is the holy season. All humanity has laid aside the burdens of the day that they might rejoice in the glad tidings of ‘peace on earth, good will toward men.’ Remembering the sacrifices that Washington and his patriot army endured for us, we ought not to shrink from sacrifice to make that inspired vision a practical reality.*’ We would like to believe these are Mr. Coolidgo’s convictious. To do so, however, throws some doubt on his courage. For it is impossible to see any manifestation of those convictions in the Government’s present course in Nicaragua MR. MELLON VS. MR. WHEELER “If a man wishes to violate the Constitution he should be tree to commit suicide in his own way,” said Wayne B. Wheeler, active director of the AntiSaloon League. He was speaking of the deaths that result from poisonous denaturants placed lu industrial alcohol by the Government to make it unfit to drinkHappily, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, who has charge of prohibition enforcement, isn’t the same sort of patriot as Wayne B. Wheeler. He apparently doesn't like to enforce the Constitution, not even the Eighteenth Amendment thereof, by the use of poison. The Government, he announced Thursday, is working now to achieve a method of making industrial alcohol unfit to drink without being poisonous. The first of these new denaturants will ba placed on the market Saturday. Mr. Mellon’s attitude on this subject is somewhat saner than Mr. Wheeler’s,. CENSORSHIP IN NICARAGUA NOW ADMITTED Tuesday the charge was made that the United States. Government had clapped on a censorship in Nicaragua. Wednesday Secretary of State Kellogg denied the allegation indignantly. Thursday night the State Department issued a formal statement admitting the censorship, but, it added, it had now been removed. So goes our Nation’s business abroad. Merrily chaos and confusion chase each other round and round the mulberry bush. And Mexico looks on—Mexico, with whom our relations are on tender hooks—and all Latin-America, where our prestige is at stake and our future, in a large measure, is involved. THE BETTER PLAN As between the system of pensions for the aged and a great State almshouse, there should be no hesitation on the part of the Legislature. The suggestion for a centralized poorhouse, to cost several millions, is brutal as well as costly. To herd into one place all those who have reached years when they can no longer support themselves and who failed to save for such a day, is rather shocking in its theory as it is hideous in its possibilities. • That something should be done to change the present system of dealing with those who Lave committed the double crime of growing old and heiDg poor is admitted. The present system of county poorhouse lenrta itself to abuses, and abuses exist. It is a system which has existed, with little change, for three hundred years. • The proposal to abolish the county poorhouse and substitute a great State institution only means that the abuses will be centralized and multipliedInstead, the system which organized labor and one fraternal order is sponsoring and which has been tested in other States, is to be preferred. The granting of pensions for the aged solves the problem with less heartbreak and with less cost. The measure providing for local option by counties on this subject is mild enough to allay any fears that it is socialistic and should be adopted without opposition. We'll be able to see and talk across the ocean within ten years, says a scientist. Vacations are getting harder and harder to take. They’re investigating Speaker and Cobb for a game played In 1919. Why not go a littlo farther and look into the affairs of those fellows Napoleon, Custer and Lee? • —. -J I

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Tracy Coolidge Is Right Change of Heart Needed for World Peace,

By M. E. Tracy President Coolidge says a change of heart is necessary for world peace. It is, and more so In America than other countries. I As things now stand, this Government Is lined up against most every cooperative movement for anew International order. It has repudiated the League of Nations and won't join a world court without such reservations as no other government has asked. Its attitude toward Ijatin-Amerlca has developed an unprecedented lack of confidence. Its cry for disarmament Is made incomprehensible by a threat to contruct $170,000,000 worth of cruisers. For a century the United States stood forth as a solitary exponent of arbitration, a small military establishment, noninterference with the domestic affairs of other peoples. Now that the rest of the world seems In a mood to adept these Ideals Its coldness toward them Is surprising. Must Meet Issue Seventeen oil companies, controlling 70 per cent of the trade in Mexico, have thus far failed to comply with the law which goes into effect tomorrow. Their request for the postponement of the time limit has been refused. This brings the question to a showdown, and our State Department, which has made it the subject of several declarations, must meet the Issue. The firmness of President Calles leaves no room for anything but candor on our part. The time has come to admit frankly that Mexico Is acting within her rights, or to take more drastic means of forcing her to recognize the demands this Government has made. My own opinion Is that the American people are not sympathetic with the idea of mrfking the Issue which this new oil law presents a ground for trouble with Mexico. Less to Shout Within a few weeks New Yorkers and Londoners can talk with each other if they have the price. While $75 for the first three minutes and sl6 for each additional minute may seem high to you and me, it represents cheap service for carrying news and international affairs across 3,000 miles of sea by word of mouth. One of the most interesting features of this achievement is the fact that a quiet, steady voice will be required. It seems to be a characteristic of human intelligence that the farther It goes the less it has to shout. Human Normalcy Professor Gesell of Yale has given some children red blocks to play with and discovered that it is possible to tell whether they are normal, abnormal or subnormal. Wouldn't the process work Just as well if the blocks were yellow? Putting that question aside, what have you proved about the later development of the child by discovering his comapartive mental growth before the age of 5? It frequently occurs that apparently subnormal , children become bright men and women, while bright children become subnormal. There is as much difference in the time and order of development as there Is In the color of the hair. Child prodigies are constantly burning out, while those who are considered dull in their early years are taking places in the front rank. More Scandal Another ousted baseball player is ready to add his bit to the Bcandal. He is Charles "Swede” Rlsberg and was one of the unfortunates let out In the Chicago White Sox scandal of 1919. "I can implicate twenty big leaguers," he says, "but Judge Landis will never ask me what I know.” He says further that he could tell a lot about the Speaker-Cobb affair. Meanwhile, Speaker and Cobb are threatening suit for a million dollars on the ground that they have been libeled. Organized baseball Is obviously skating on thin Ice, and If the magnates can get by without hurting It as a business, not to mention what may happen to it as a sport, they will have to walk softly. Profit Nineteen hundred and twenty-six has been a year of prosperity, achievement, crime and scandal. You wonder if the four are Inseparable. Can’t people become rich without abusing the opportunities it affords? Must we remove the element of profit from activities In order to keep them clean? These are questions fqy 1927 and succeeding years to answer. URGES A SHOT FOR FIDO Immunization of Dogs Advised by Dr. W. F. King. Immunization of all dogs against the rapidly spreading rabies was advised today by Dr. William F. King, secretary of the State Board of Health. At a special meeting Wednesday the board declared a quarantine on all dogs to be effective Jan. 10. They also adopted a resolution regarding immunization. Copies of the resolution and announcement of the quarantine was sent to public health officers charged with the enforcement of the order. All dogs are to be muzzled when at large without leash. If dogs are vaccinated against rabies they may be permitted to roam unmuzzled.

A Lot of Good Resolutions Are Now in Order

Spanish Dancing of Oakes and De Lour Is the Chief Event on New Palace Show

Spanish dancing and the Spanish effect of a small orchestra composed of violin, piano, accordion and banjo are the chief offerings of Oakes and De Lour at the Palace for the last half of the week. Present in the act is some very good melody as featured by the orchestra with solos and several dances of a first rate type by the team and the solo dancer. Featured are a song by the woman violinist, an accordion solo, an opening dance by one of the women and the work of the dancing team In all their numbers. Hooper and Gatchett, with a company of five, are presenting a comedy sketch based on some humorous happenings behind the lines in France during the late war. There is comedy In the act and some good dancing. It lags a bit once in a while, but is an entertaining number, considered as a whole. Walzer and Dyer, a man and woman, rely mostly for their comedy on the eccentric actions of the woman. Personally, we are not wild about this type of comedy, but it does succeed In getting quite a few laughs for the act. Clark Morrell, in company with a man accompanist at tho piano, sings several very well known song numbers. Think ho should mix his program up a bit, some people like a little music along with the sentimental songs that are always heard. Also think the pianist could do a good solo number. The Mann brothers open the show with some work on a tight rope. Included on the bill is a photoplay, "The Belle of Broadway," with Betty Com peon, also news reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.)

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Among the artists who will appear on The Times radio program tonight over WFBM, from the studio at the Severin will be, upper, Miss Mary Elizabeth Cordes, and, lower, Miss Bobble Gray. Both are members of the order, Job’s Daughters, Bethel No. 1, which will give the entire program tonight. *

“VAGABOND KING” TO OPEN MONDAY HERE The engagement, opening the week of Jan. 3, at the English Opera House, of “The Vagabond I<|ng,” should provide a fitting Inaugural of the new year so far as theatrical amusements are concerned. This organization, accredited the largest numerical singing force that has left New York In a long time, numbers among its forces many of the finest singing actors and actresses now on tour, many of them enjoying international reputations. Among the notables in "The Vaga bond King” company are H. Cooper Cliffe, veteran English actor, former co-star with Sir Henry Irving, Wilson Barrett, Sir Forbes Robertson and the famed Kendals. Mr. Cliffe it was who created the brilliant role of "Nobody” In the play "Everywoman.” Mr. Cliffe now has the part of

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any que*tion of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. JL322 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C.. incloatng 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot lie given nor can extended research be undertaken). All other Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned request* cannot bo answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. Who played the leading part opposite Percy Mannont in “If YVinter Comes?” Ann Forrest. What does. “Auld. Lang. Syne” mean? It is a Scotch and Northern English phrase meaning "days gone by,” especially happy days. How are pumpkin and squash canned? For pie filling cut into convenient sections, core and remove skins. Cook for 30 minutes to reduce pulp. Pack In glass jars or tin cans, add one cup sugar and one teaspoon salt to each quart of pulp. Place rubber and top in position, partially seal and sterilize for 60 minutes In boiling hot water. For canning for special dishes (fried, creamed, or baked) cut into small uniform size cubes, blanch In boiling water for TO minutes, plunge quickly in cold water, pack In jar until full, add boiling water, and one level teaspoonful salt to the quart, place rubbers and caps In position, partially seal and sterlliae 60 minutes in hot water. Is pastry flour made from dlft ferent wheat than regular bread flour? Pastry flour is made from winter wheat, which is sown in the fall and lives through the winter. It is white and soft. Bread flour is made from spring wheat which is sown In the spring. It is red and hard. Both are milled by the same process. Will water boil sooner on the top of a mountain than on a level plain? The boiling point is the temperatt re at which the pressure of the saturated vapor first becomes equal to the pressure existing outside. On a mountain top the air pressure is less than on the plains, on account of the rarity of the atmosphere, and water boils on a mountain at a much lower temperature than at sea level. What was the cost of the battleships Maryland and California? The Maryland cost $23,000,000 and the California $25,000,000. On what day did March 10, 1907 fall? Sunday. Who are the Scandinavians? Scandinavia Is a peninsula including Norway and Sweden. The name formerly included Denmark and Iceland and was the land of the Norsemen. Today the Scandinavian peoples are those of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland, and

"Louis XI” in the musicalized drama, "If I Were King,” a character he played In England with that country's best-known dramatic stars. Rudolf Friml’s score to “The Vagabond King” is said to reveal tho young Bohemian composer’s talents, at their best, noted music authorities agreeing that, in many of its passages, the lyric setting borders very closely upon grand opera. Other theaters today offer: The Princeton Triangle Club at the Murat: Helen MacKellar at Ktith's; Burns and Kane at the Lyric;" "Stranded in Paris,” at the Apollo; "God Gave Me Twenty Cents,” at the Ohio; "Twinkletoes,” at the Circle; "Butterflies in the Rain,” at the Colonial; new show at the Uptown; "Prowlers of the Night,” at the Isis and burlesque at the Mutual.

constitute a branch o htfe Teutonic class of the northern division of Aryan. Is Mt. Ranler higher than MtShasta? Mt. Ranler is 14,408 feet high. The height of Mt. Shasta is disputed between 14,380 and 14,400 feet. It is possible to draw a perfectly straight line and a perfect circle? For all practical purposes a straight line and a circle can be drawn. But actaully there is no such thing as a perfectly straight line or a perfect circle. How can I clean a lizard skin pocketbook that is soiled from handling? Moisten a cloth well with strong ammonia water and rub until clean. Where Is Buffalo Bill buried? On the top of Lookout Mountain, twenty miles from Denver, Colo.

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This great foreign statesman is often referred to as a "tiger.” His name and the answer to the questions appear on page 12: ‘ 1. Who is shown in the accompanying picture? 2. What is the capital of Canada? 3. Was George Washington born at Mt. Vernon? 4. On what important river is Memphis, Tenn.? 5. Who was President of the United States at the time of the declaration of the “Monroe Doctrine”? 6. What card suit has the lowest value in the game of bridge? 7. Where is radio station WOC? 8. What character in ancient history cut the gordian knot? 9. Was Abraham Lincoln assassinated before or after the end of the Civil War? 10. What States bound Oregon?

DEC. 31, 192

World

Take-Out Bid on Stron Suit Should Be Sure for Game,

By Milton C. Work I The pointer for today is: With unusual length and strength in some other suit a take-out bid should be made even with normal support. In considering the bidding and playing problems of Auction Bridge (especially the bidding), it should be remembered that unusual types of hands may turn up which make exceptions to the usual rules advisable. That is the case when holding normal support for the partner’s Major suit and having also some other unusually long and strong suit—especially when that other suit is the other Major. An example of the usual: South one Spade, West Pass; North holding x-x-x in Spades and Ace-Klng-x-x-x in Hearts should not bid the Hearts as it would be most unwise to deceive the partner by denying the normal support for Spades, merely to announce a Heart holding of Ordinary length. J An example of the unusual; Iff North’s Spades were x-xoc and hlff Hearts Ace-Klng-Jack-x-x-x-x, iff would be advisable, on the round, to deny the normal support (although It is there) bid tho Hearts. To make a false denial of partner’s Major in order to bid a Minor, is justified only by very . extraordinary strength in the Minor, which makes that seem to be the most probable game-producer. All these points are best explained by illustration and, therefore, I am giving today a series of five hands all containing normal support for Spades and also sufficient strength for denial. I urge my readers to study these hands and make up their minds which way each one should he declared. Look for the answers tomorrow and note carefully the reasons given for any answer which does not tally with the reader’s decision. Hands of North; South having bid one Spade and West passed. 1. Sp; x-x-x. Ht.: Ace-King-Jack-x-x. Di.: x. Cl.; Ace-Jack-x-x. 2. Sp.; x-x-x. Ht.: Ace-King-Jack-x-x-x. DI.: x. Cl.: Ace-Jack-x. 3. Sp.: x-x-x-x. Ht.: Ace-King-Jack-x-x-x. DI.: None. Cl.: Ace-Jack-x. 4. Sp.: King x. Ht.: Ace-King-Jack-x. DI. x-x. Cl.: Aee-Jack-x-x-x. 5. Sp.: King-x. Ht.: Ace-Klng-x-x. DI.: King-Jack-x. Cl.: Ace-Jack-xx. (Copyright, John F. Dill) Work, (he international authority en Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the game lor Times readers who write to hint through J The Times, inclosing a self-ad- I dressed, stamped envelope. I SiPLIFIEOMELAWS MIGHT State Official Says Present Statute Is “Conflicting.” Simplification of ths Indiana game laws by the oomlng Legislature is desired by George N. Mannfield, superintendent of the fish and game division of the State conservation department, who terms tho present law regarding closed and open seasons as “conflicting and confusing.” According to Mannfleld there hag long been a misunderstanding on the open season for rabbits. “The net of 1913 makes it unlaw, ful to hunt any kind of game, except wild duck and other water-* fowl, at any time between Dec. 1, and April 1,” he explained. “It also provides that ‘nothing in the act shall be construed to prevent the hunting of rabbits between Dec. 20 and Jan. 10.’ Some persons construe this to mean that the only open season on rabbits is between Dec. 20 and Jan. 10, and that wild duck nnd other waterfowl may behunted in Indiana until April l.m The facts are that wild ducks anefl other waterfowl can no longer bfl lawfully shot until April. to Federal regulations, treaty with Great Britain, .Tnndffifent is the last day for the open seajHlH: The season opens Oct. 1, and closeH Jan. 16.” II DELAY STREET HEARING* Contractors Desire Time to Study Board’s Specifications. Desires of some contractors for more time to study the proposed city street specifications resulted In postponement by the board of workß Wednesday of a public hearing on . specifications from today to Jan. 12. All persons interested in paving will be invited to attend. DOG SAVES FAMILY Animal Then Hushes Back Into Burning Homes; Dies. FT. WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 31. Frantic barking of a small dog, the household pet and children’s playmate, saved the lives of Mr? and Mrs. G. C. Runkel, and their six children, when their Waynedale home burned. After awakening tho family the excited dog rushed back into the home and perished in tho flames. SECRETARIES ELECT James W. Cole, Huntington Chamber of Commerce secretary, A ■ elected a director of the Indiana merclal Secretaries’ Association at their meeting Thursday at the local Chamber of Commerce. John B. Reynolds, president, appointed William H. Arnett, secretary of the Indiana State Chamber t'.’ Commerce, head of the legislative committee to push a number of changes in freight rates and State taxes before the General Assembly which it is aiid. is hindering industrial development!