Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1927 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROX VT. HOWARD, President. „ BOXD GURLEX, Editor, WM - MAXBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • * Client of the United Press £nd the 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 3500.

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 ol Indiana.

WHAT IS LIBERTY ? Because there was delivered in this city an address that clearly and definitely raises the question of human liberty, The Times today prints the address delivered by Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri. Many thousands listened to this address as it came through the air. The Times had arranged for its distribution over the radio. This was done because this is the most important speech made by a public official in many months. Senator Reed believes that every man is capable of controlling his. own actions. He summons the shadow of Thomas Jefferson to warn the United States of America that men are born equal and are endowed yrith the inalienable right to govern themselves. He is the last defender of the doctrine that the individual man is important. He summons these United States from the ban-, quet table at Indianapolis to turn back to the days of Jefferson and discard all that has been added through bureaus and encroachment of'Federal power to the traditions of the fathers. He declares in simple language that he believes that Jefferson is the true apostle of Americanism. He insists in this age that every law places limitation upon Government and not upon the individual. He declares the true faith to be that doctrine and principle that Government and not the individual be limited. It is the distinct cleavage between socialism and democracy and Reed stands, almost alone, as the apostle of Jefferson in its implications and its applications. He does not believe that law can make a man good nor that law can make a man bad. He believes that every man, born in this world of trouble and of sin must work out his own problem unhampered by Government and unaided by bureaus. He snarled at tie Wright law and the suggestion that a 'few men smell the breaths of other men and send them to jail because they might violate a sumptuary law. And at the finish of his speech, he made honesty of the ballot the final test of Americanism. He brought to this city and to the nation anew question as to just what is liberty. He put character above statute. He summoned the ghosts of-the past to testify in his behalf. His Indianapolis speech is the most important utterance in recent months. He has raised the question of liberty. He has asked men and women of this nation to decide. Can men be made free by law or must they free themselves by character and restraint? Shall mankind be free through the fear of law or through the building of character? Read the speech of Senator Reed, it is important. It is the voice from the wilderness. It is the final summons to action between socialism and democracy. What is democracy? His declaration that thje red road of corruption reaches to the White is the most important declaration made by a significant man in recent years. He indicts Coolidge. He indicts the Govern ment of the United States. He traces corruption to its source. His indictment of Coolidge for his silence and his approvel is the most important utterance made by oy statesman in recent years. Corruption of the ballot is a live Issue in Indiana. Senator Reed traces it to the White House. Is that charge true? Reed reads the record. Discount as much as you wish the personal magnetism of the greatest orator of the Senate. Forget the fact that he left an audience wet eyed and svmpathetic. Forget the fact that he is a master of emotion. He has raised anew issue in America which must be answered. What is liberty? What is character? What is Americanism? Possibly it can be answered with anew law. Or again, we must turn back the pages of history and depend upon our faith in human beings and their ability to govern themselves. To once more embark upon the theory that Government is to be curbed in its power to govern and control the individual and thht main be left free to work out his own destinty in his own way. Feed raises anew question. Shall Government control the individual or shall th individual curb the Government? What is human freedom, after all?

THE GANN* BILL Very wisely the Senate has killed the Cann bill which would have abolished the public service commiMinn and left no control of the public utilities. "u have passed that bill would have meant chaos. „ But if any member of the Legislature should interpret this vote as an indorsement of present condition, he is mistaken and doomed. The Cann bill, intended to abolish all" States regulation of utilities* represented blind hate and disgust. It did not represent public opinion. If the public utility lobby for which the public pays, takes function to its soul for this victory, it is mistaken. The people demand, in unmistakable terms, that the present commission, be ousted and replaced by one which has a fair chance of public confidence. This present commission has convicted itself in the court of public opinion. Its decisions have been so uniformly in behalf of the utility companies that the people have lost confidence in any decision it may make. That may be unfair. The Federal courts have given the extortionate utilities much more than have this 'commission. But when the Governor replaced one member, just as an important decision was to be made with an unknown man, he gave circumstantial evidence t the charge that the Goyernor had been bought with campaign contributions by the utilities. Whatever else happens, this present utility commission must go. Whatever else happens, there must be placed a check upon the power of Governor Ed Jackson in naming members of the public service commission. No one trusts that commission. No one trusts

the Governor to appoint a commission that will really represent the people. But the people do demand that there be a State control of utilities. They demand that the State Senate approve and confirm his appointments. They demand that this commission go and that Jackson name men who can stand inspection and investigation. The people demand that they be represented by men who at least dare to demand an investigation of the charge that they were named because the utilities paid to the Governor $19,000 as the price of their appointment and did not have the courage to demand a Legislative inquiry into the truth or falsity of that charge. The people want no cowards to defend them from the exactions and the extortions of the utilities. The defeat of the Cann bill may be interpreted as a victory for the utilities. It was really a victory for the people. But the people want something more. They want anew commission—and must have it. WHEAT—FLOUR—BREADPROFITS The big baking combines, tjie Ward Baking Corporation, the Continental et al. are opposing the McNary-Haugen bill on the ground that it will make necessary an increase in bread prices. Senator Nye of North Dakota made the following statement the other day: Four and four-tenths bushels of wheat are utilized in the manufacture of a barrel of flour. Not all of this wheat stays in the flour. Only 70 per cent of it is utilized there, the remaining 30 per cent being finished in by-products. Consequently the actual bushelage of wheat in a barrel of flour is only 3.08. An increase of 50 cents per bushel in the price of wheat, it must therefore be seen, adds only $1.54 to the cost of barrel of flour. “Three hundred and thirty-four one-pound loaves of bread are available from a barrel of flour. Divide the $1.54 increased wheat cost by that number of leaves, and you will find the added cost of each loaf of bread to be not necessarily more than one-half a cent —46 hundredths of a cent, to be exact. The average consumption of bread in the United States is about 334 loaves of a pound each per year. An increased price of fifty cents for a bushel of wheat would not add over $1.53 to the average living cost in the United States.” So much for wrhat. The Federal Trade Commission has just reported to Congress that the average earnings of wholesale bakeries in the United States from 1920 to 1925 was 15 per cent. If only the strictly baking investment is considered, the report said, the earnings would show an annual average of 25 per cent. PERCY STICKNEY GRANT In the death of the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant the church loses a good liberal. Nor is the loss one to the church alone. Grant was a liberal in other matters than creed. When it was necessary to stand against prejudice, for the civil liberties, this cleric could be found always with the unpopular minority. He was not afraid of being regarded as a heretic, either social or church. The term did not frighten him. He thought more of truth than orthodoxy. And because of his obvious sincerity and his brilliant mind the congregation heard him gladly. His recent years were clouded by physical weakness, but they will not blot out his years of courageous and happy labor. When February ends we can settle down to an earnest discussion of the March weather. Pillow fights have a bad effect on juvenile nerves, an eastern college’s home economics classes have discovered. Legislators, there’3 your chance.

NOT THE TIME FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ■ 1 By N. D. Cochran Agitation for a constitutional convention to revise the United States Constitution is premature. The Constitution might profitably stand a lot of revision, especially with regard to some of the patches put on it since the fist Ten Commandments, but now is no time to tackle the job. Public opinion is too unsettled, unstable and unripe. It is too fluid. Some people think they know what they want, and they may feel sure they know what all of us ought to want; but our national wants are not deflnte enough to be imbedded in concrete in a Constitution. Many wouldn't care what else is put in the Constitution so long as the Eighteenth Amendment stays In. and others wouldn't care so long as it is left out. There are some who would like to monkey with the guarantee of religious liberty, and there might bo attempts to define 100 per cent Americanism. That is, the religious war now on would get into the scramble for delegates to the constitutional convention. Until we can come to our sfenses in this country and get into the same tolerant frame of mind the makers of the original Constitution were in as to religious liberty, it' is better to let the old document stand as it is. As for the Eighteenth Amendment, we can fight the battle over that all by itself, and not open the door to let in more controversial issues that mean bitter factional fights and more bad blood than we can work out of our national system in a generation. We seem to be, just now, passing through a period when the country is too full of busybodies who are boiling over with a passionate urge to do something to somebody. They want to pass a law every time somebody does something the busybodies don’t like. Not satisfied with regulating human thirst with a policeman's club and hiring snoops to smell people’s breath, they want to prohibit the use of tobacco, regulate the length of women’s skirts, set the legal style for . bathing costumes, outlaw rouge and the lipstick, forbid science to learn anything newer in biology, geography and astronomy than was told in Genesis, and would like to prohibit the writing of books and plays by anybody but Sunday school teachers. And there are some who would like to fix jt in the Constitution so nobody could vote or hold ffice unless he belonged to their church and could trace his ancestry on both sides clear back before the Revolutionary War. In short, all of the bitter controversies that now stir up hatred and strife in this country would be carried into a campaign to elect delegates to a constitutional convention—and with mighty little chance of coming out of it with a Constitution half as good as the one we have now. * The people are too hot. Wait till they cool off and with clear eyes can see some other color of the rainbow than oed.

IrirSJ il racy Student Suicides Lose Force by Comparing Figures.

By M. E. Tracy DENVER, Colo., Feb. 16.—0n Tuesday a boy of 12 stood up in a New York court to answer a charge of murder. On Monday an lowa boy of 14 took his own life because, as he said, it would be a glorious adventure to die. Since Jan. 1, sixteen school and college students have committed suicide. An appalling record if looked at by itself, but let us not lose our sense of proportion. This is a Nation of 110,000,000 persons. If you were to count them at the rate of one a second for ten hours a day and work continuously it would take eight years ahd eight months to complete the job. In the midst of such a multitude any phase of life can be isolated and made to seem stupendous. Babies are born in this country at the rate of four a minute and there is an average of more than one murder for every hour. Last year 23,000 children lost their lives by accident. Half of them were under the age of six. Before concluding what a record means we must view it in perspective and measure it by the laws of percentage. Cloture-v Good, Bad For the fourth time in history the Senate has invoked cloture to force through a bill. Opinion as to whether this is right or wrong farms according to time honored lines. Those who favor the bill are glad while those who don’t are mad. The Senate usually permits unlimited debate which means that members with sufficient lung power can talk a bill to death near the end of a session. Filibuster is not debate. It has little to do with a free expression of opinion. It merely enables a minority, sometimes a single member to hold the floor and prevent legislation. If the minority or the single member happens to be right, filibustering serves a good purpose. If not, it only gums up the works. Brotherly Love, Too Representative Blanton should remember that if Christianity calls for observance of the Sabbath, it also calls for brotherly love. He certainly added little to the strength of his argument for a blue Sunday in the Nation’s capital when he interrupted it to choke Representative Bloom. Those who saw the rumpus say it was a disgraceful thriller. Before it ended several Representatives became involved, as well as a member of the Lord’s Day Alliance, a stenographer had been knocked down and her feminine voice inspired to scream for divine interference.

Railroads Wane Great railway mergers in the offing and nobody alarmed. Fifteen years ago it would have been different, but that was before autos and good roads had emancipated us from the fear of a transportation monopoly. Inventiveness is more potent than politics, or law, when it comes to solving modern problems. This Is because most modern problems are rooted in invention. Time was when the railroads appeared to dominate the economic life of the Nation, when their subordination to the Government, or the laws of competition appeared necessary for the safety of public interests. Now we load up the truck and laugh. The railroad still is an essential agency. It probably never will be replaced. But its power to exercise absolute control of industrial development has vanished. The competition of automotive vehicles is nothing less than a guarantee that, no matter how railroads may merge and combine, they cannot get a sranglehold on business. Problem Waits Secretary Kellogg has thus far failed to find a formula for arbitration with Mexico. Some critics of the Administration suspect that he is not trying very hard, and that the chief object of his strenuous attitude is to delay action until Congress has adjourned. This is strenuously denied, Administration spokesmen claiming that no drastic move is contemplated unless provoked by the Calles government. Meanwhile the temporary injunctions granted by Mexican courts, which permit oil companies to go on with their wofk, though they may not have complied with the new law, serve to create a temporary truce. There still is talk of lifting the embargo on arms, especially in political and religious circles unfriendly to Calles, and the Administration quite regardless of its own inclinations, is still being suspected to considerable pressure. The Mexican problem, thought in abeyance, has not been solved. Asa matter of fact it stands about where it did two months ago with each side standing pat and no real headway made toward a solution. Sooner'.or later the issue will to be met. If it can’t be met by arbitration. as the State Department seems to believe, what is the answer? How many islands are there in the Philippine group? There are 7,033 islands; of this number 462 have an area of one square mile or over, 2,441 are named, and 4,642 are unnamed. Luzon, the largest island, contains 40,814 square miles. Who was the father of the American patent system? Thomas Jefferson, who drew up the earliest patent laws and while he was secretary of state under Washington, gave his personal consideration to every application that was made for a patent. How many milliners are there in the United States? According to the last census there were 73,255 milliners and millinery dealers in the United States.

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An Exhibition of Bragdon’s Costume Designs for Walter Hampden on View

Claude Bragdon has made the designs for all of Walter Hampden’s productions from the time he became an actor-manager to the present. An exhibition of these designs of scene and costume sketches for “Hamlet,” “Othello," “Cyrano de Bergerac” and others is now on view at the Heron Art Institute. In addition to the stage sets and figure sketches displaying costumes, there are many patterns for dyed fabrics and drawings of furniture, chairs, Screens, chests, siools and other properties, such as in the ancient coach for the Cyrano production. In several Instances, as in the case of the coach,' the original design is shown in full color, and with it a photograph of the scene in the play in which the object or arrangement was used. The screen backgrounds, doorways and all the details of the various stage sets are worked out with exactitude and finish and suggestions for lighting effects are skillfully indicated. The mechanical drawings and blueprints and the instruction sheets for the carpenters will Interest those who have struggled with the mechanics of play producing, or those who have the type of mind that likes to see how the wheels go round. But the costume paintings will hold the attention of everyone who admires fine clothes and is- stimulated by bright colors. Such velvets and satins and jewels and feathers, such reds and blues and yellows as deck the small figures that line the gallery walls! Any rainbow would be hard pressed to outshine them. Character, apart from clothes, is manifest in the

A War Veteran

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This man is one of the world’s famous musicians. During the World War he served with distinction in the Austrian army. You’ll find the answers to these questions on page 14: . 1 — Who is the man in the accompanying picture? 2 Who edited the famous “fivefoot shelf” of books? 3 What western railway is commonly called “The Katy”? 4 Who composed the opera, "11 Trovatore"? 5 What two brothers, were formerly famous in the movies for their portrayal of villains? o—What0 —What two kinds of snakes grow to the largest size? 7 What body of men electes the pope? 8— What famous author recently rejected a Pulitzer prize for literature? 9 Who wrote the much-quoted essay, “The Message of Garcia”? 10— Who is supposed to have introduced tobacco into Europe?

delineation of each manikin. They strut or prance or mince or droop according to their natures. A sympathetic imagination has conceived thkm and a skillful hand portrayed them. A gold medal, a silver medal and an honorable mention have been awarded by the architects in their fifth annual exhibition, now in Galleries IX and X. Robert Frost Daggett and Thomas Hibben, associate architects, won the gold medal offered “for the best building of the year,” their entry, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce building, receiving the high distinction. This fine building, shown in a remarkably effective photograph, deserves the honor it received. It is a type of office construction that is ushering in a nbw era in its field. The etA’er medal went to Pierre and Wright for “completeness of display and variety of design.” This firm of architects displays many and varied items of different sorts and styles of architecture, all of them marked by originality of design and sturdiness of construction. Honorable mention was given to Willard Osier and Lee Burns, for a particularly successful example of domestic architecture. This house, built at Woodstock for Dr. Frank Hamilton, is one of the distinctive homes of the city, adequate, harmonious and authoritative

MR. FIXIT Police to Round Up Viscious Dogs.

Mr. Fixit is The Times’ representative at dt hall. He will be (flad to present your case to the proper city officials. Write him in care of The Times, signing lull name ami address. Name will not be published il anonymity is desired. Persons who wrote Mr. Fixit about the loose dog situation in Indianapolis will be glad to know that the board of safety has taken up this matter. They ordered Police Chief Claude F. Johnson to make a survey o{ the city and kill all vicious dogs and try to have the Jceep the rest of the dogs corralled. According to Don Roberts, assistant city attorney, an ordinance is now being prepared porviding that all dogs that are tuined loose to roam the streets shall he muzzled or they will be shot by the police. This will be presented to the council at its next meeting, Roberts said. This refers to the letters of E. J. P., A Taxpayer of Meadluwn, a Reader of The Times, C. P. L., A Parent, and S. J. E. Dear Sir: I wonder if you can tell me how many weeks I have to leave my tin cans and empty bottles out in front of my home befroe they are collected by the city cleaning department. I have had two basketsfull out in front for four weeks now and it sure looks like the garbage man could make at least one trip in that time. Mrs. I. W. This letter was turned over to Truly Nolen, superintendent of the ash and garbage collection, who promised Mr. Fixit that he would see to it that this garbage is collected at once. Mr. Fixit has repeatedly told his readers through this column that the city does not have sufficient money or equipment to cinder alleys or fix unimproved streets at this time. Letters asking alleys be cindered or improved streets repaired are turned over to Street Commis sioner George Woodward, who tells Mr. Fixit that they will receive his attention as soon as the necessary funds are available. Thia refers to letters of A Very Old Times Reader; J. E. C., C. E. S., A Times Reader, D. C. R., Mrs. C. S. and J. F. H.

in every architectural detail. An admirable feature of this exhibit Is found In the very beautiful photographs of houses, churches, gardens and the like. Some of these were taken in our own town or State: some have come from other parts of the country or from abroad. Among these are “Mary Anderson's House in the Cotswold Hills," “Cottage at Laverton in the Cotswolds.” “Old Church of St. Michel in Southern France” and the “Chateau Victot in Normandy.” These were taken by Richard Philipp of Milwaukee. W. W. Bonns contributes a beautifully toned photograph of an “Old House at Madison, Ind.," that shows a finely proportioned and dignified doorway and a wonderfully pleasing wrought-iron railing at the stoop. There are several such In Madison. Redecorating has been in progress for some time in the upper galleries. Gallery XI is now fresh and clean and an interesting group of paintings has been arranged there. This Includes canvases loaned to the institute, a number from the Ball collection being in this class, and others belonging to the permanent collection. A portrait head and two landscapes by J. Ottis Adams are displayed. Tito very recent death of Mr. Adams brings his work into particular prominence at this time. - Two of these paintings are from the Bell collection; the other is the property of the Institute. “Pierrot,” a charming figure study by Lucy Taggart, recently purchased for the institute from the D. P. Erwin fund, is on view in this gallery, as are two portraits of the Victorian era, painted a number of years ago in tlie South by Chester Harding and procured through the James V. Swcetzer fund. Indianapolis tlAters today offer: "The Green Hat,” at English’s; Kitty Doner, at Keith's; Heidelberg Chorus, at the Lyric; George Lovett, at the Palace: “Altars of Desire,” at the Ohio; “Sensation Seekers,” at the Colonial; "Love’s Greatest Mistake,” at the Apollo; “It,” at the Circle; new show at the Uptown, as well as'the Isis, and burlesque at the Mutual. A change in the date of the opening of “Rose Marie” has been made for next week. This hit will open on Wednesday night of next week at English's, instead of Thursday night. The engagement will close on Saturday night. There will be u special matinee on Thursday of next week.

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Here Is Katharine Cornell the wearer of the green hat In "The Green Hat” now on view at English’s. Here Is great acting.

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Work J Contract Bridge Originated in Europe Years Ago.

Biy Milton C. Work (In response to numerous requests Work will write on Contract for the next few days instead of Auction Bridge. During that time, ills daily Auction Bridge Pointer will be omitted, but will be resumed later.) Continuing the subject of Contract Bridge, it is important to set aside at once the prevalent Idea that it is a new game. The game appeared in Europe and was known about in America years ago; It became a recognized game in the early part of the last decade. As early as that, the Card Committee of the Whist Club was asked to draft laws for Contract, so that there would be a standard American code. ‘This the Committee refused to do, being unanimously of the opinion that tho game was not fitted for club and social play In this country. The Club and Its Committee are still of the same opinion and, therefore, there are no Contract laws emanating from the organization that for years has supplied the card players of Auction with the laws, first for Bridge and then for Auction Bridge. There is, however, no dearth of Contract rules and customs. ThrfJß may be found in various spots In trnP United States and Canada and the divergence of their provisions (particularly in the matter of counting) is even wider than tho distribution of the spots. In this series of articles an effort will be made to clarify the most Important of them and explain their principal differences. All Contract counts, however widely they diverge In trick and game values and bonus allowances, have the game basic principle, viz: that It is necessary in order to count for tricks (below the line), to bid the number to be counted. This same principle has been followed abroad for the last fifteen years; the game there being known generally as “Plafond.” It has never attained great popularity In England, but has found more favor on the Continent—particularly In Paris, where It was christened. Another article on Contract tomorrow. (Copyright John F. Dllle Cos.)

Questions and Answers

, You can ret an answer to any question of lact or information by writing to Tha Indianapolis Tlmoa Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave...Washinrton. D. C.. incloainr 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, leral and marital advice cannot be riven nor can extended research be undertaken. AU other questions will receive a personal reply, unsigned requests cannot be answered. AU lettera are confidential—Editor. What la a “peon" and bow |i * pnonounced in Spanish? The word has a varied significance in Central and South America, hut In general It means a common laborer and is pronounced “pay-on." When were Mary Pk-icford and Douglas Fairbanks married? Did they have an elaborate wedding? They were married at Los Angeles, Cal., March 28, 1920. Very few persons witnessed the ceremony. Marjorie Law, a moving picture actress, was the bridesmaid and Robert Fairbanks, brother of the groom, was best man. • Who organized the Grand Army of the Republic?! Its existence Is primarily due to Dr. B. F. Stephenson and Chaplain W. J. Rutledge of the 14th Illinois Infantry, who. in February, 1864, conceived the idea. What was (lie longest prize fight under the Quecnshury rules? The longest was at New Orleans, April 6, 1893, lasting 7 hours and 19 minutes and going 110 rounds to a draw, between A. Bowen and J. Burke. When was (lie Parcel Post system established in the I'nited Slates? Jail. 1, 1913. At whose suggestion was (he first I’nited States hank established? It was established by act of gross in 1791 at tho suggestion nfl Alexander Hamilton, first Secrotarj/ <j£ the Treasury. What President of the I'nited Stutes served four years without changing his cabinet? James K. Polk, 1845-1849. How many Negroes have served in the United States Senate? Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi served from 1870-1871 and B. K. Bruce of Mississippi from 1875 to 1881. What is the value of a United States twenty-eent piece dated 1875? From 25 to 30. cents. How old Is Tiy Cobb, manager of the Detroit American Baseball Club last year and when did he begin to play baseball? He was born Dec. 17, 1886 In Banks county, Georgia. He is • feet tall, weighs 173 pounds, bats left handed and throws with his right | hand. He started playing baseball with the Augusta team. Then he went to the Anniston team. He began the 1905 season again, with Augusta. He finished that season with Detroit, being sold Aug. 28. He has beeit with Detroit ever since. In 1921 he became manager of the Detroit club. Can the life sentence of a prisoner ; be commuted for good behavior the same as a sentence for a definite ! term of lyears? A person sentenced to life i prisonment is by law required tf| ■ serve his prison sentence for the rest jof his natural life. But the Gov- ! ernor of a State Is vested with a pari doning power, and may exercise It by commuting the sentence of life imprisonment to a certain length of time, if he chooses to do so. Id several cases, life sentences have twen commuted to twenty years or less-