Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 258, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1927 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN. Bus. Mgr. Member of (be Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * • Client of tbe United Press aud tbe NEA Service • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except. Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos„ 214-220 W. Maryland St.. Indianapolis • * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week • • PHONE—MA in 85UO. /

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.

THE BEST RECOMMENDATION Perhaps the best recommendation for the city manager form of government comes from the Evansville politicians who are attempting to prevent second class cities in this State from adopting it. The Senator who introduced the measure does not live in a city of that size. The fact that no Senator from any second class city would sponsor this measure is at least significant. It is a real issue down at Evansville. The peo pie of that city are tired of their present sort of government and its control. The mayor of that city, it may be remembered, testified before Senator Reed as did Hie mayor of Indianapolis, that he had traveled to \VaoulngtoD at the expense of the Klan to discuss his appointments with the imperial wizard. That explains why the people of Evansville may have come to the conclusion that they would prefer a different government, on a business basis, and not one by suft'rance from an unofficial dictator. In order to preserve themselves in office, the politicians of that second class city want to destroy the law which permits citizens to select the city manager form of government. There are no appeals or petitions from citizens to the Legislature asking for this law. The people, strangely enough, believe that they can either take :t or leave It alone. They show no great desire for protection against themselves. The people of this city are interested in the measure, not because it applies to Indianapolis in its present form, but because if there was any sentiment for the measure, the local machine would welcome a broadening of Its provisions to include this and all other cities. When political machines, discredited and wobbling, ask for sucit a law, decent citizens might at least show an interest in what that law can give. The answer to this measure should be petitions in every second class city for the adoption of the modern type of government. Indianapoiis might take the lead by getting busy in giving expression to the almost universal demand for its adoption here. There is no question as to sentiment in favor of the law. Longer delay by those who have assumed responsibility for obtaining the necessary number of signatures to petitions will need an explanation.

THE BOSS LOSES Something more than the mere defeat of one egislative bill was involved in the vote which killed a measure which would have sent Indianapolis back to the old ward system of councilraen with fifteen members. It was the defeat of the boss of this county. It was his bill and his scheme. It was his plan to perpetuate bossism and himself. It means something when the members of the Legislature from out iu the State begin to understand the conditions of this city and refuse to trade with that presumably solid block of twelve votes from this County, not solid at all in fact. It means something when these out-State lawmakers shy away from bossism in the State capital, not because the boss is not a fine affable gentleman who always keeps his word and tries to deliver for their own projects, but because they know that people at home will begin to ask questions. A boss, to be a boss long, must always win. •lie cannot afford to lose, for when he loses, his supporters held together by a very definite bond of selfish gain, begin to desert ami go elsewhere. This particular measure was bossism at its worst. It was a step backward and indefensible. It would have abolished the small gain that comes through minority representation In the council which is an advantage. Machine government depends largely upon the ability to hide the shells of the sucked eggs. Bossism depends always in providing an alibi for the agents it uses. It needs a camouflage of doubtful responsibility. That was exactly what this bill sought and what the city is'saved from by the fear of the Legislature to tie too closely to the man who has undertaken the task of governing the city on behalf of the citizens who take too little time to govern it for themselves. The rebellion in the ranks at home helped some. The fight made by the city clerk, who is not one of the followers of the boss, was a factor. Most important was that growing dislike of lawmakers to go back home to explain why they helped out a city boss. For the people, under the knowledge given them by a free press, and that means The Times, are beginning to understand an<| Inquire. The political boss lasts only as long as people who object to being bossed permit him to rule. He exists only when he is able to preserve the appearance of Invincibility which frightens timid souls. He passes when the people really understand that he has no power at all and when it becomes unpopular to traffic in secret places for him. Score one victory for real freedom. There are other trlumpjhs in the offing. “FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL” Federal Judge Frank Cooper of New York will begin now, perhaps, to see justice in anew light. Here - is a judge w - ho. according to allegations before Congress, conspired with prohibition agents to trap and entice men into violating the law. And, in cases so arranged, he sat in judgment, assessing fines in excess of .$50,000, sending victims to the penitentiary for from one to two years. Asa result he now faces possible impeachment. Charges are before the House Judiciary Committee In Washington. The charges are made by Representative La Guardia of New York. If Impeached, will his honor consent to stand trial with Representative La Guardia as judge? Os course not. But would it he worse for La Guardia to judge the case he has helped institute against Cooper than for Cooper to judge the cases he helped institute against men and women in the northern district of New York? The judge summoned Prohibition Administrator R. Q. Merrick to Albany, according to Merrick's official report, and said “he wanted me to take action to get the higher ups who import liquor from Canada.’’ Merrick states: “1 suggested to the judge that I would provide agents with money anti an autorno-

bile, have them buy liquor oh t lie Canadian border and bring it to Albany, and store it. The judge said . . . that I could go farther and sell same and make a conspiracy between the persons selling the liquor to our agents and the persons to whom they sold at the other end.” Two under cover agents were provided-w ith an automobile and SI,OOO and instructed.to become rum runners. More than forty men and women were subsequently arrested as a result of this conspiracy. The whole business strikes at the very roots of justice. And the mockery is that Cooper, if impeached, will demand for himself all the auc.ent rights of men accused. THE NEW 18 ALWAYS FEARED The new thing is opposed for reasons which almost always are proved by history to be wrong. The railroads .oppose inland waterway development for heavy traffic. Failing to prevent it in case of the Big Warrior River, they find and admit that the Government's barge business is helpful rather than hurtful to them. The express companies fought for fourteen years legislation for a parcel post. The express companies have never been so prosperous as since the parcel post act passed. The banks opposed for years the postal savings banks. It has been one of the many feeders to their bulging savings vaults. Grape growers in California posted signs on their lands reading: “Prohibition would destroy these vineyards.” Prohibition boosted the price of grapes to a point never known in pre-Volstead days. The bottle makers gloomed over the day when there would be no more booze for theii bottles. But since the awful constitutional amendment was achieved the demand for belly wash has opened up fortunes to the bottlers of Which they never dreamed. When the construction of a Panama Canal was broached, there were incessant warnings against the huge drain it would be on the Nation's resources. The canal has been making so much money that now we are itching to dig one at Nicaragua. When it was talked that goods could bo sent dheaply from coast to coast ofTne North American continent by cutting the isthmus of Panama, it was predicted that freight rates would thus be made cheaper across the continent. The water route ia in operation, but the transcontinental railroad rates are enormously higher than before the canal was built. x And so It goes. The big “wise” prophetic business man may well say with the calendar philosopher, '“The things from which I have suffered most are those which never happened.” Can he mean muzzles for the boys? Coolidge requests machinery for dehumidizing the stagnant ahMn the Senate chamber. But hot air by any other name would smell as sweet. Senators have complained that they have felt “depressed and tired” after a day in the Senate. Read the Congressional Record and you'll aee the reason.

JUDGES AND JUSTICE 1 3y N. 1). Cochran There is little reason for surprise at the opinion of the Supreme Court of Tennessee in holding the antievolution law constitutional and letting Scopes go free on a technicality. It would have been more surprising if they had kicked the fool law overboard. It. Is to be presumed that the judges of that court are educated and intelligent men; otherwise they wouldn’t be on the Supreme bench. Being educated men, they know that we have learned a whole lot more atyout astronomy and hiology in the past few thousand years than was known when the book of Genesis was written. And they know what one doesn't have to believe he is the lineal descendant, or ascendant, of a monkey to believe in the theory of evolution. But those judges are human beings and politicians as well as educated men. They have to be elected by the people of Tennessee in ordej - to become judges of the State Supreme Court. And that law was enacted by a Legislature elected by and supposed to be representative of the intelligence and the will of a majority of the people of the State. It might have been heroic on the part of the judges to be guided by their intelligence and learning, but it might have been politically suicidal at the same time; and we must not expect the heroism of learning) in politically elected judges. When ignorapee saves one's job 'tis folly to be wise. What seemed cowardice to some was merely political discretion. And the effect isn't so bad after all. There is some good in the people generally losing their notion that judges are infallible, or at least made of different clay than that from which the rest of us are made. Judges, whether Federal or State, are no different in human qualities than justices of the peace, constables, bricklayers, editors, hod carriers and preachers. They work at another trade, to be sure, but they are not Judges by divine light. They don’t get their permit to judge from heaven. They get it by a count of Democratic and Republican noses. If there are more Democratic noses than Republican noses, a Democratic politician lands on the bench. Nor does his human character change when lie covers it up with a black robe. If he was a just man before the political noses were counted, he will be a just judge on the bench. If he was a political crook before election, he will probably be a political crook on the bench. Public opinion sways judges just as it sways Governors, Senators, Congressmen and State legislators. Even the august Supreme Court of the United has been known to change its official mind witli a corresponding change in public sentiment. The Dred Scott decision isn't the only instance. The constitutionality of the income tax law changed over night when merely one little judge changed his mind. On some issues before the Supreme Court it isn't difficult to figure out what the decision and the vote will be. All you have to do is to figure out what the mental slant of most of the judges was before they got on the bench; for opinions of the Supreme Court are determined by a count of noses. We have had numerous decisions when there were live noses one way and four another. Many minority decisions of today will be regarded as better law in the future than the majority decisions. Anyhow, the Tennessee judges were human; aad it’s Just as well. Public sentiment in Tennessee will change on evolution with the progress of education, and Supreme Court decisions will change with It. Ignorance can't be set In concrete for all time. Tennessee has so many splendid people among its citizenry, including the Fundamentalists, that it will continually evolute toward a higher and higher standard of enlightenment, y

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Tracy Time and Space Shattered—For Good.or Evil?

By M. E. Tracy SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb, 2.—There is peace here. The lawns and gar 'lens have a midsummer aspect. Golf is popular and real estate is boomng. .' * The newspapers contain much in•rmation witli regard to the per- . rmanees and possibilities of liorselesh. One would think that Mexico had no problem but a race track. The blue Pacific rolls lazily in from the west, giving no hint of the ugly strife that rages on the other sale of it. But for the inventiveness of man, we could enjoy the decep- , live illusion. Sometimes you wonder whether the shattering ot time and distance has done more good than harm. ! Let philosophers answer that question if they can while their wives take in washing to feed the j children. Gamut of News ■ But what a merry iak- telegraph instruments click, merry with ! the sublime, the ridiculous, the vulgar and the tragic. A foursome passes on the green to discuss the details of w’lint Mr. Browning said about ills young wife in a New York court only a few hours before: a visiting capitalist rushes out to place an order for stock because he has just gotten an inkling of a bullish mov.ement. in Street. A heart-broken mother weeps as she reads how her son was sentenced to prison in some faraway i States, and hopes her neighbors will miss the item. An operator presses the keys of a typewriter in Denver and it prints the words in San Diego. A prima donna thrills the “Watch Song” from Jifliet in Chicago and a Texas ranchman, sitting by his radio says, "Gosh:” Nature Unchanged Ihe lark flics straight up at dawn as she always did, the crow! kaua and the barn swallow builds under the eaves unless the martin comes to drive her away. Only the life of man is different. You don’t have to go into formal •written history or believe that man descended from monkeys to realize this. -v The community of 100 years ago was regarded as quite complete if it contained a blacksmith, carpenter, justice of the peace and minister. Today it needs a hundred kinds of expert mechanics and half as many professions. What Is more important, it needs to know where they fit in order to make the most of their services. Someone has said that education should teach us how to find out things. It should also teach us how and where to get things- done.

Back of the Scenes Twelve hundred marines are scheduled to leave here for China on Thursday. There is a lot of trouble over there. American missionaries are coming out of the Interior, and Americaiffcwned property is threatened with destruction. . The big idea ie to protect our interests, but beyond that what do we really know about the situation? If we are going to dip into such situations as a matter of natural duty, Why shouldn’t wei know more? Foreign affairs have come to take a big part in our lives, mainly because of the trade, cables, radio and increased intercourse. We arei glad to push business for the sake of the profit there is in it, but shy at the knowledge of what is back of the scefies. Nothing does more to make our foreign policy the confused, halfbaked contrivance it has become than Ignorance on the part of the average people. The average Englishman can talk intelligently about China and her troubles or Mexico or any other nation, but the average American cannot. The average American is content to know but one language. His idea is to make other people talk, think and act the way he does. There are more Mexicans on the border who can speak English than there are Americans who can speak Spanish. , ' “* Shy on Diplomacy When it comes to mechanical skill, to mass production and the promotion of vast enterprises, the -United States can show the world a clean pair of heels, but when it comes to diplomacy, language and a good understanding of international affairs, the United States is five ticks slower than a dumb watch. This is peculiarfy surprising when you remember that the United States has a larger foreign trade than any ojher nation, fcspenris more money i trax-eling and has better facilities for ! finding out what is going on. Others Don’t Believe The trouble with us Americans is i that we don’t try to learn, don't ! want to learn, don’t think there is j anything worth learning outside our ■ own country. We have become infatuated with j the notion that it is our fate to makf j the world over, that we have solved | all the problems and that nothing reJ mains' for us but missionary work, j This may be true, but nine-tenths lof the .human race won’t believe it j and that is a factor to be reckoned with. Other people have worked out I moral codes and political systems 1 which suit their ideals and eireumj stances. We must make allowance Tor all j that, not ip a superior, patronizing way, but intelligently, if we would | get along in peace, which is a phase I of education we are neglecting. When was the body of John How(aril Payne, author of “Home Sweet Home,” brought back to the United ! States and where is it buried? • Brought back in 1883. thirty-one |*years after his death, and mterred in Oak Hill Cemetery, VVaonington, D. C., June 9. ISB3. /

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Fifth Annual Exhibition of Indiana Society of Architects On View Here

The Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Indiana Society of Architects at the Herron Art Institute will remain on view to the public from Jan. 27 through the month of February. The society lias been at great pains to make this a memorable showing. • As items of special interest, architectural drawings by well known architects outside the State have been gathered by the Indiana Society and are included in the exhibition. together witli examples of leaded glass, tile and mosaics. Each year a keener public interest in architecture is evident. Housing problems of every sort are vital matters in the growth of a city and everyonee has come to realize the Importance of beauty that will endure both In homes and in public buildings, together with proper engineering and solid construction. There has been a decided advance made in recent years in the type of private dwelling that meets the needs of modern living and is acre, table to the aesthetic sense, and a modern office building must now conform to a high standard of elegance in appearance is a record of all that has been accomplished during the year along these several lines. Prints by twenty-five American etchers remain in Gallery 11 and continue to interest all who have a taste for this form of artistic expression. Arrangements have been made for the Claude Dragon Theatrical Exhibition to open on or before Sunday, Feb. 6. On Sunday, Feb. 5. several members of the Indiana Society of Architecture will be present in the galleries to explain the architectural exhibition and to answer questions, particularly those relating to domestic architecture.

Indianapolis theatres today offer: William*Hodge in “The Judge’s Husband” at English’s; The Colleano Family at the Lyric; Healy and Cross at Keith's; Gordon and Gross at the Palace; “Lady in Ermine” at the Circle; “Flesh and the Devil” at the Apollo; “Don’t Tell the Wife” at the Uptown; new show at the Isis and burlesque at the Mutual. "Craig’s Wife” will open a three day engagement at English’s Thursday night.

This Is Betty

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You’ve probably seen this actress many times. Do you recognize her picture? Her name and the correct answers to the questions appear on page 14: 1 — Who is shown in the accompanying picture? * 2ls a knot longer or shorter than a mile? 3 Who is governor of Texas. 4 What is the capital of Mexico? 5 Who is conductor of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra? fi—Muscle Shoals is a part of what river? 7 Were the Whigs or Tories the pro-English faction during the Revolutionary War? 8 — Who plays the lead in the comedy. “Stepping -Along?” 9 What is the popular meaning of “Laissez-faire?” 10— Who was Don Quixote’s squire?

It’s No Go, Frank!

House Stenographers

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Alice Kleling (left), Goldie Grinim (conter), and Etta I.aer are three popular stenographers that assist members of the Indiana House of Representatives in the preparation of their bills and in answering their heavy mail.

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to an.v question of fact or information by writing to Tbe Indtanaooli* I'iraeg Washington Bureau. 13'h: Nex York Ave.. Washington. i). C. Inelontns “ .x-nt- tti Man;> •or reply, Medi'-al leant and marital uilviee ca.nnot be riven nor can -xten led rrvearob be midertaltrn. All other novations will re-eive a oer-onal retny Uosiß-ried reiue-t- .-ann”t l>e ansnen-d All letters are confidential.—Editor If a crown prinre marries a woman not of royal birth is he debarred from succeeding A) the throne? Not necessarily although his descendants may be barred if the laws of the country provide for that contingency. Usually it would; require an act of the legislative body to determine the .matter of succession whenever such an occasion arose. Who won the popular contest in 1923 for King and Queen of the movies? Rudolph Valentino and Marion Davies. What was the New England dark day? The expression refers to May 19, JB7O, when a remarkable and unexplained darkness extended over all New England. According to one theory, it was due to forest fires, but the exact cause remains unknown. Does the Government still coin silver dollars? Y'es. Some silver dollars were minted at Philadelphia in 1926. When did tlie most brilliant meteoric shower occur? Astronomers believe that the shower that occurred early in the morning Nov. 13, 1833, is the most brilliant ever seen. It is usually referred to as the “falling of the stars.” The display began about midnight and lasted until dawn, being visible more or less over hajf of the earth, including North America, but not Europe. The largest number of meteors was seen about latitude 24 degrees north. At Boston, Mass., the number was estimated at 250,000 or more. Negroes in the Southern States were terrified. The shower consisted of Leonids. The United States observatory says that this stream of meteors was supposed to be the result of disintegration of Temple's comet, which xvas not seen when last due in 1900. How man railway mail clerks are employed by the post office department and how many appointments are made a year? About 20,000 railway mail clerks snd 2,500 substitute clerks are in the service. It is estimated that about 1,100 new appointments are made each year. What is the difference between the cold-pack and the open kettle method of canning? In the cold-pack method the fruit or vegetable is packed cold in jars and the jars set in boiling water until the contents are cooked after which they are sealed while hot. In the open kettle method the product

is cooked in an open kettle until done then packed in jars and sealed. is the author of “Helen's Babies” alive? John Itibberton. author of '’Helen's Babies," died Feb. 25. 1921. He had been living at the Soldiers’ Home. Kearny, N. .1., but died in the Mountainside Hospital. Glenridge. N. J. Did, Charles Dickens have any children? There were ten children: Charles (1837). Mary (1838), Kate (1839), Walter Landor (1841), Francis Jeffrey (1843), Alfred Tennyson (1545), Sydney S. IT. (1547), Henry Fielding (1849). Dora Annie (1850) and Edward Bulvver (1352). What does the name Pocahontas mean? One authority says, it means “a stream between two hills.” What is the fuel value of evaporated milk in calories? Seven hundred and eighty calories per pound. How may the taste of fish be removed front steel Knives and forks? Bx - rubbing them with fresh orange or lemon peel. On what date did Jan. 1 of (he year 1 A. I). fail? Saturday, by the Julian calendar. Is there a re presen at ive in Congfss from the District of Columbia? No.

Little Theatre

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Arthur B. Raitano

Tonight the Little Theatre at the Playhouse will present for the first time in this city “The Liar,” with Arthur B. Raitano flaying the part of Florindoin.

FEB. 2, 1927

Work Be Sure You Know Your Rights When You Are Dummy.

Isy Milton C. Work The pointer for today is: ' Be sure that you are familiar with the lights you will have if you become the dummy. When the game of Bridge was first introduced, the player who pul idevni the exposed hund was stripped of practically every privilege and became what his name implied—a dummy. As the game has developed the tendency of Hie lawmakers has been to enlarge Dummy's privileges provided lie do not transgress tin ethics, of the game by intentionally looking at a card in the hand of a player. One of the greatest nuisances "f Bridge is the' “rubbering Dummy,' who deliberately watches the play of one or both adversaries, or. worse still, walks around the table and watches the play of his partner. Such a Dummy, very properly, is shorn of all privileges, but the Dummy who can “make his eyes behave” lias these valuable rights: lie may call attention to any legal right of Declarer, to a card exposed by an adversary, to an adverse lead out of turn, to an adverse revoke, or to the fact that the Declarer has refused (failed to follow suiti. But to 4j Dummy who has intentionally seeW any unplayed card, these five privi leges are denied, ahd heavy penalties may be imposed if he attempt, to avail himself of any of them. Two prlveleges are withheld from Dummy, evep when his ocular be havior Is irreproachable; he max neither warn Declarer that he is about to lead from the wrong hand, nor—what amounts to the same thing—tell him which hand has the lead: neither may he suggest a lead or play by touching or naming a dummy card. Law 30 (b) provides tbe penalties when Dummy does not observe either of the above restrictions. (Copyright, John F. Dille Cos) Work, the international author ity on Auction Bridge, will answer questions on the game for Times readers who write him through The Times, inclosing a self-ad dressed, stamped envelope.

MR: FIXIT Street in Front of Church, Letter Subject.

Write yout- troubles to Mr. Fixit. The Times riprescnlath r at Hie city hi He- will be glad to present them to tinproper city officials. Write him in cure of The Times. One person wrote Mr. Fixit todoM that the condition of the street in front of a church was bo bad that the worshipers lose their religion, going and coming from the church. Mr. Fixit realizes this condition mun be very bad. He immediately took the matter up with George Wood ward street commissioner. Mr. Fixit: Help! Help! Help! Can't you do something for Belmont Avr. at Jones St.? The street is ankle deep with mud and water and the people who cross this street to go to church lose their religion both coming and going. By the Way, tlvholes on Belmont Avc. won't nerd fixing in a week or so. They xxlll be full of various automobiles and other little piles of rubbish. YOURS NOT A CLOD HOPPER Woodward promised Mr. Fixit that he would look into the situation at once and do all that he could to remedy It. He stated that anything pertaining to a church should receive first and Immediate attention. Dear Mr. Fixit: Will you try and get the board of safety to install a fire alarm at the corner of New York and Meridian Sts? The nearest alarm is two blocks away and can not be seen from this place. Please do all you can for me. E. E. .T. This letter was presented to the board of safety at its meeting Tuesday by Mr. Fixit. O. D. Has kVtt, president of the board, said that the matter would lie looked ® into at once. He stated that the board was going to make a stir vey of tbe city soon and determine hoxv many new boxes were needed, and where. Dear Sir: We almost have to have a mud boat to get to our homes on S. La Salle St. in the 200 and 300 block. Come out and see it and you will be ashamed that Indianapolis has such streets. Please see tt you can get us gravel, cinders, tin cans anything that will keep us from wading in mud over our shoe tops. Street Commissioner George Woodward said that he xvould send a man out to inspect this street at once. Something will be done about It soon as possible, be said. t TEMPLE HEAD RENAMED The Rev. Alfred O. Wustrow Again In Psychic Research C hair. The Rev. Alfred O. Wustrow. head of the Psychic Research Temple and the Temple of Occult Science at 1137 Central Ave.. was re-elected national president' of the organizations at a business session of the national convention Tuesday at the Denison Other national officers elected: James Monroe, vice president: .William 1. Watts, recording secretary; Mrs. Emma E. Brown of Lima. Ohio, financial secretary: Mrs. Ellen Trow, treasurer, and Charles G. Kessler of Lima, Mrs Katie Rader. Clifford Tucker. Mrs Lillie Glover and Mrs. Clare Watts® national trustees. Officers chosen for the mother temple here: Mrs. Watts, president: Mrs. Rader, vice president: Mrs Glover, secretary treasurer, and Mrs Lulu Leiuth, assistant secretary. The Rev. Wustrow was renamed pastor and Mrs. Brown appointed his as sistant.