Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 277, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1927 — Page 6

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

WHAT IT MEANS Let no one be misled into thinking that the fight at Muncie is the battle between an editor and a judge. Let no one be misled into any thought that it is a fight between newspapers and the judiciary. It is a tight for free speech and for freedom oi' tne i*ress, and is more important to the nian or woman who buys a newspaper to read than it ever can be to any editor or publisher. We have had a free press in this country so long that it is almost beyond imagination to picture a country which does not have it. There are only two, at present, in which it does not exist. In Russia, the bolshevists, embarking on a career of executions and bloodshed, of suppression of the masses by ’the sinister force oi sovietism, suppressed all newspapers which did not reflect their view. The other country is Italy, ruled by Mussolini. When he seized power through his armies and their castor oil; he knew that to wholly suppress revolt against fascisti he must keep the people in ignorance. So he, most prudently, destroyed issues of newspapers which criticised him, jailed the editors who wrote them, applied his force to keep the people in ignorance of everything except what he wanted to tell them. The guarantee of freedom of the press to print the truth at all times, unhampered by any censorship, unawed by any power, was written into the constitution by Thomas Jefferson. That same guarantee is written into the Constitution of Indiana and every other No State would be admitted to the Union which did not give such a guarantee of Freedom and Liberty. That guarantee does not mean that any one may slander and libel and defame. There are laws to curb such practices. But the remedy is given under the law, not through arbitrary power. The seizure of newsboys and the confiscation of their newspapers at Muncie is something new in America. It has never been tried before. No other judge except Dearth has ever claimed the power to take away property without a trial and a hearing, to suppress a newspaper by the police. Others have tried to suppress at times through that coveted power of publishment for contempt. They have gone a long way along the road in so subtle a manner that they did not alarm. In this State there is a decision certain circumstances the truth may be no defense against such punishment. That decision is revolting but it may be law. It. will only result, perhaps, in courageous editors showing more skill when they determine that judges need criticism and that injustice in courts he curbed by exposure. But the final issue of- suppression of the press is now presented in its bold nakedness. The question at issue is simple: bhall judges he permitted to order issues of newspapers which criticise them to be confiscated and destroyed, without a hearing, without a jury and without a trial. If that power is to be given to judges, what becomes of the Constitution and what defense yas any community against injustice and tyranny? The Times once more today insists that the Legislature, under its oath, owes a solemn duty to this State to impeach a judge who dares to assert such a power and did assert it. If you believe that you will be better protected with a free press, telephone your legislator to act. THE WORLD MOVES When a man reaches the age or eighty or thereabouts, the world assumes that his long life has taught him many lessons. Reporters flock to him when he has a birthday and sit at his feet while he emits oracular dicta on the meaning - of life and the secret of success. This is done, that is, when the man has positiou and money. If he is broken down by poverty, clinging like grim death to sopie nightwatchman’s job or other, we feel that he is presumptuous for hanging en so long. If the reporters visit him at all it is only to ask him how he managed to get so old. But octogenarians of the first class are expected to hand forth nuggets of wisdom. And usually the burden of their song is this: The world is growing worse, somehow; men do not work so hard as formerly; young folk have it easier than grandpa did; women do not pay as much attention to their household duties as of yore; youth is less inclined to be obedient; and, on the whole, things are going to pot generally. We are used to this, and most of the time we let the graybeards get away with it. But wouldn’t if be refreshing if, some day, someone would get up in meeting and say to the old croaker: “Most of the things you say are true—but what of it?" £ There is altogether too much of a tendency in tjiis land to lament the “good old days” and to adnjit that the present era is badly askew. We take it for granted that we are somehow less virtuous than our forefathers because we use electricity where they used whaie-oil lamps; because we burn )gas in our stoves where they burned wood that

they themselves had split; because our laboring men earn more in an hour than theirs did in a day; because we ride in autos where they rode on horseback; because we see movies where they went to see troupers play “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”; because we travel by Pullman where they journeyed by rickety stage coach; because we live in safety and security where they lived in fear of Indians and wolves. But are we? Have we lost anything. afte* a’l? . Our guess is that, we have lost precious little, if j life is easier now - than it used to be why, that s a ; cause for rejoicing, if a modern woman can run her household, bear children and still be a business woman or mix in civic and social activities more power to her! If our young people can ride in flivvers and go (at Dad's expense) to college, we ought to congratulate ourselves. If our workmen do less work and get more money than they did in 1850, shouldn’t everyone be glad of it? Why lament that it takes twenty hours instead of j two weeks to go from Chicago to New York? Why , grieve that the poorest hamlet can have the rigors of j existence made less stern by the movie, the telephone, the washing machine and the auto? Let us insist, once again, that the world is not going to the'demnition bow-wows. Let us declare not only that we are glad life is easier for us than for our grandfathers, but that we are going to see to it that it is even easier for our grandchildren. Let us rejoice in progress and turn a deaf ear to the wails of old-fogyism. The world does move. And It always moves forward—not backward. CHICAGO ELECTION RETURNS Dead, 1. • Injured, 40. Missing. 4. Capt. Patrick Harding, according to dispatches, led a successful assault on the headquarters of Michael S. Winek, candidate for alderman. Twenty-six of Winek’s men were captured, along with two machine guns and a store of revolvers. A ; dozen or more men escaped. Camille D. Hooge, a noncombatant, was shot four j times through the stomach in the course of a ma- j chine gun engagement in the Thirty-Second ward. Forty slugged voters were treated at casualty ; stations. , • Three election officials in the Twenty-Sixth ward were seized by gunmen, thrown into a fast automobile and carried off. A precinct worker in the j same ward was blackjacked and kidnaped in the same manner. The four men are still missing. WHY BE A BIRD AT ALL ? The day is approaching when the people must decide what kind of a country they want this to be. Liberty Magazine has decided that it should be an eagle country. “Southward the bird of empire ! wings his way,” says this magazine's editor, in a screaming two-page headline. “The eagle has flown in ever-widening circles over the old Spanish Main, what next?” The answer to the question had been given the week before. The editor of Liberty in the issue of Feb. 12, had said; “Destiny is still busy and seventy- ; five years from now the inhabitants of Nicaragua, j Mexico et. al., will he singing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ and scoffing at the idea that any one would leturn to the old governments.” Annexation of Mexico, Nicaragua et. al—meaning Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and British Honduras. That is the program frankly avowed by this little weekly, owned by the owners of the Chicago Tribune. We’ve simply got to do It, as this editor sees it, for—" The-eagle's flight never narrows. He sweeps in an ever-widening circle.” If we’re bound to be an eagle country, then we're bound to annex everything in sight. That seems logical enough, doesn’t it? It i3 more logical, at that, and much more honest than a lot of the reasons that are given in Washington for our course in the Caribbean. —i But do we have to be an eagle country? Do we have to be any kind of a bird? Can’t we be a human country? We’re a country of humans, not of birds. Human beings, most of us earning our livings as best we can, trying to live in friendly fashion with our neighbors, not wishing to impose on anybody or to be imposed on by anybody; something useful to do in the world and no time to be flapping around in ever-widening circles just to satisfy somebody’s idea that we are eagles. We are strong enough to annex Mexico and the smaller countries south of Mexico. The army general staff would know just how to go about it. At a cost of many thousands of lives, the army estimates, Mexico could be conquered, and not only that, but ‘pacified’ in about ten years. Do you happen to have a boy that you’d like to give up for that purpose? Why not? While your boy was down there in the cactus country, shooting and being shot at, dying perhaps, and being buried iu the sand, you could sit at home and be an eagle. Your conquered spirit cotold soar and soar—in everwidening circles, as described by the flapping editor of Liberty, all over the old Spanish Main! What could be nicer than that? A little rough on your boy, maybe, but the boys will have to put up with it if we decide that God intended us to be eagles and not human beings. We offer as today's miracle the man who played a piano v for two days in Chicago and lives to play again. The Arkansas Legislature i3 trying to find out when a pup becomes a dog. They haven’t got around to that one about the men and the egg yet, but they’re progressing. . . . Pennsylvania legislators would have to wear high*hats, frock coats and striped pants if a measure in that State passed. We’d like to see the woman lawmakers r if that proposal got by. . . . Ichabod Crane died too young for the New Hampshire Legislature, but the members are trying to make up for it now with a law providing that all beds be seven feet long and all awnings seven feet above ground. . . . Maryland, my Maryland, is In the throes of legislation to protect green crabs and sponge crabs. And all this time we’d thought all ths sponges had moved to Ontario.

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Tracy Imagination Distinguishes Bandit Who Stole a Bus

I By M. E. Tracy OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb. 24. —An imaginative bandit stole a bus here yesterday. He proved imaginative, not only by stealing the bus, but by telling the driver that he wanted to go to a country bank which he proposed to rob. The driver conveyed this bit of useless information to the authorities as soon as he could get to a telephone, which was all right, and they swallowed it, which was all wrong. Up to a late hour last night everyone was wondering what had income of the bandit and the bus. Lack of imagination on the part of law enforcement officers helps the criminal to get away with such thin ruses. Away From Tulsa Oklahoma City has little time to worry about the fine points of crime. Too many wells are being brought in north, south and west of the town. The importance of the oil fields being discovered is reflected in a na-tion-wide price cut. Hitherto Tulsa has had the advantage in location, but this latest sweep is far closer to Oklahoma City. Oil men say it has been years since there was such excitement and optimism. Both the Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandles are being blocked out and leased. If it hadn’t become an old story in this section, one would take the situation as prophetic of a boom. Why Not Vote? There is no excuse for the Senate sleeping over the Boulder dam bill, except that it Is all talked out. If it Is all talked out why not vote and have done Avith the matter? Century of Rule It looks as though President Diaz were making a virtue of necessity when he asks this Government to take control of Nicaragua. Or was the idea put in his head? Certainly, this Government is in control of Nicaragua and can remain in control as long as it wishes. Diaz says he wants ten years of definite supervision and a 100-year protectorate. That is one way to solve the problem, especially for him and some people think it is the best way. • Those people have a right to theyOpinion but neither they, nor the rest of us should have any illusion as to what it implies. Eating Words If this Government takes control of Nicaragua for a long term of years, it will have changed its policy toward Latin-America, especially as that policy was established by the Monroe Doctrine. We have always told Latin-Ameri-ca that the Monroe Doctrine was designed to uphold national sovereignty in this hemisphere. That barred us as well as Europe from interfering with national sovereignty. If we take contl-ol of Nicaragua we cat our own words, and the request of a political leader can't make it otherwise. * The “System" Wins “Big Bill” Thompson’s comeback as the Republican mayoralty candidate in Chicago means nothing, except that politics is an art, profession, or trade, as you prefer. “Big Bill” knows tl.*e game and plays it. knows how to build up a machine and keep control of it, how to pander to popular prejudice, how to hand out the right kind of gags. After 140 years pf bitter experience, we stiil fail to see the force of practical polities, but go on chasing the beautiful dream that we can beat the system by a lot of theorizing. Russia Should Listen England again warns Russia to stop talking world revolution, especially in the East. Russia should be wise and heed it. Her chief offense is minding other people's business. She may not be the only offender in this respect, but she has carried it beyond all reason. If they only knew it, the sponsors of her new regime have all they can work at to keep it going. Before they tell the rest of :he world what to do, let them prove that they can dance to their own music a little longer.

Politics Quiz Today’s intelligence test will stump you if you never pay any attention to current *politics. If you read the papers fairly thoroughly, however, it ought not to be hard. I The answers are printed on page j 16. 1— What Republican Senator from i | the Far West recently challenged 1 i Nicholas Murray Butler to debate ; the prohibition issue? 2ln the 1924 Democratic conven. j ! tion, what State consistently cast j i twenty-four votes for what candi- j | date? 3 Docs it take a two-thirds ma- j | jority in the Republican national 1 convention so nominate a President, j i as it does in the Democratic con- : ! vention? 4 What southern politician served as President Coolidge's secretary during the first part of Coolidge's j Administration? 6 —Who was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920? 6 What son of a former President made an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of New York two years ago? 7 What prominent Republican Congressman is married to an equally prominent daughter of a former President? x 8 — What is a cloture, rule? 9 What son of a -famous American author is a member of the Supreme Court? 10 — What Senator was elected to | succetti his father, who recently

Miss Beaulah Berson Gives the Stage a Charming and Pretty ‘Rose Marie’

By Walter D. Hickman A sort of a school girl charm and ' freshness are the chief qualities that Beaulaii Berson gives to her characterization of Rose Marie in “Rose Marie.” Possessed with a good voice and a beautiful personality. Miss Berson sings tlie title role of this hit of several seasons with much individual charm. She does not make a prinia donna role of the “Rose,” but rather plays it with the charm that one expects to find in a sweet girl graduate. This is not to convey the impression that Miss Berson does not know her stage, because she does. She is more than adequate in every scene. Rut it is this quality of simplicity as wall as charm which makes her a most interesting as well as-an unusual Rose Marie. At this late date in the history of “Rose Marie” about all that one is interested in is the quality of the performance being given at English's. The costumes are still very beautiful and the totem pole number is as much a hit as ever. “Rose Marie” is blessed with some of the prettiest melodies that the stage has ever had. 1 Marie Eilen as Lady Jane and Harry Koler as Hard-Boiled Herman are two others in the cast who stand out with the quality of the work of Miss Berson. Koler has his own comedy method and he wins with ease. Hazel Gaudreau as Wanda Is best while doing the Totem Pole number. •She is not strong on the voice and her dramatic powers appear to be limited. But she shows -real talent in her dance numbers. Thomas Chadwick is Sergeant Malone and Paul J. Gregory Is Jim Kenyon. Gregory is more of a matinee rdition of Jim than a realistic product. But I am sure that you again will find “Rose Marie” a mighty satisfactory reason to see “Rose Marie” at English's. NEW SHOW ANNOUNCED AT THE PALACE TODAY Featuring “America's Premier Tiano Ensemble,” with four “piano girls,” the Orplieum Jr., combination show No. 5 comes to the Palace theater today for the last of the week. Before many unusual drops the ensemble plays melodies arranged by Geraldine Valliere, the Jerry of the “Jerry and Her Baby Grands” fame. “The Magic of Music,” is played by Priscilla Holbrook, Dorothy Dale, Hildcgardc Sell, and Florence Shewell. The Eight Dancing Models weave their steps through the offer- ! ing. ! Day and Aileen are dancers, who I were starred last season in “Rhythmic Toes.” Harold Day has ! played with Tom Brown of the Brown Brothers and for several years danced in California cases. Miss Aileen plays the saxophone and has ' added a novelty to the “Dance j Club,” which Is billed as a riot of j color, music and dance. Gibson and Price are comedians, t who bring forward anew twist to the | juggling act. In addition to the road show are ! two acts of vaudeville. I Bert Lytell is the star of the photoi play “Obey the Law,” which gives i him another opportunity to portray ! the gentleman crook. Pathe News, i a comedy, and topics of the day are : the short reels. ■ Othey theaters today qffer: Wati son Sisters at the Lyric; Frank Fay at Keith’s; “The Taxi-Dancer” at the Ohio; “Taxi Taxi” at the Colonial; Tom Brown at the Circle; “New Y'ork” at the Apollo; new show at the Isis; “Just Another Blonde” at Sanders; “Waltz Dream” at the South Side and burlesque at the Mutual. t Who discovered the Falkland Islands and to whom do tliej now belong? They were discovered by John j Davis. August 14, 1592. They were settled by the French, English and Spaniards, successively, but the English ultimately took possession ' in 1832. •

Poisoning the Well

Denny Beats Hot Music on Drums

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Here is Dennis Dutton getting warm over his drum wilh (he Kraus* Cardinals. “Denny” will he with th® orchestra on The Indianapolis Times program over WFBM from H e Severin Friday night, starting at 9:30 o’clock.

Questions and Answers

You van get an answer to any question of fa< t or information by writing , to The JnclianaDolis Tunes SNashnigton lllire(.u 13”! Ne Y'ork Avc.. Washington I> C. i Imlostn* 2 ei-nts tn starans or reply. Medical, legal and marital aclvktj cannot bo clvennor can rx tended bo undertaken. All other ar.ostio.iH will reueite a nerunai reply Unsigned cannot be answered All letter** are confidential. — Editor Does a pound of feathers weigh less than a pound of gold? Feathers are weighed by avoirdupois scale in which a pound consists of 16 ounces containing 7,000 grains. Gold is weighed by the troy scale in which a pound has twelve ounces and 5,760 grains. An avoirdupois pound of feathers therefore, weighs more than a troy pound of gold. Has Gene Tunney engaged in any fights since he won (he heavyweight championship with Jack Dempsey? N’o. When was “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” by John Fox, Jr., published? * * In 1908. What Is legerdemain? A deceptive performance that depends upon manual skill or dexterity; slight of hand; lienee in general, any adroitness that tends to deceiveHow does the number of motor cars in the United States compare with the population? There is one motor car for every 6.5 of the population. Does Mussolini hold any other office than Prime Mlnljter in Italy? He is minister of foreign affairs, minister of war .minister of marine, minister of aviation, and commanaer of the fascist militia besides being prime minister. Are Redwood and California trees the same? How Is redweed used? Redwood is one of two species of Se&uoita, the other having the name “Bfc Tree.” They are coniferous anclgrow on the -Pacific coast mountain. Redwoods often attain a height of 260 feet and aitfnetlmes 300

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feet, with a diameter in the largest | l of 15 feet. The young wood is red ! hut on exposure to the air and light i it sometimes fades. The timber is soft and straight grained, easily j worked, durahte and well suited for | Inside finishing of houses, since it takes a good polish. Does (he President's Thanksgiving . proclamation make (lint n holiday throughout the United States? There are no national holidays in , the United States. When the Presl- ! dent fcsues a proclamation declaring a holiday, it is effective only In the District of Columbia. Holidays are created by State laws or by proclamation of the Governor as In the | case of Thanksgiving. In answer to a question in this ; rofiiniii as to the terms of Governors of the several States, the term of the Massachusetts Governor was stated ns one year. This was formerly the case, but the State constitution was amended and the Governor in Massachusetts now holds office for two years. Where were the scenes of the motion picture “Men of Steel" made? Much of the picturo was filmed : In the steel mills at Gary. Ind-. tn the Mesaba iron range of Minnesota, | and at the ore docks on the Great Lakes. Interior scenes* were made j I at the New York studios of First | l National Pictures. I What would be the depth of a rectangular tract of land of two acres i where the frontage is 531 fret? [ 372.30 feet. What is a groundhog? The groundhog or woodchuck is 1 similar to the gopher, In its hai iti* and lives in burrows. It eats greui vegetables and is destructive to grass | and alfalfa crops and garden patches. I At the approach of cold weather it j goes into its burrow and hibernates j until March or April. It does not need food during th® winter.

FEB. 24, 1927

Work Knickerbocker Contract Count Grows in Favor.

(In response to numerous requests, Work Is writing on contract for several days. His daily Auction Bridge Pointers will be resumed next Monday.) By Milton C. Work Yesterday this article contained the Contract count adopted by the Racquet Club of New York and In general use In that city. Today we give a more recent count adopted by the Knickerbocker Whist Club of New York and rapidly growing In favor. Trick values are the same as in Bridge: Clubs 6. Diamonds 7, Hearts 8, Spades 9. No Trumps 10. Game, as in Bridge, 30 points. Os course there is the Contract provision that only the number of tricks both bid and made are scored in th® column. Four honors In one hand count 100, ftvo honors in one hand 150, four aces in one hand 150. (No other honor scores.) * The premium for winning a game is 200, and for winning the rubber (in addition to the 200 rubber-game M premium) 300. For making the contract; If undoubled, nothing; If doubled, when not vulnerable, 50; If doubled, when vulnerable, 100. Redoubling doubles these values. For overtricks (extra tricks in excess of bid); when not vulnerable, if undoubled, 50; if doubled, 100; if redoubled, 200. When vulnerable, these values are doubled. Slams bid and made; Little Slam, when not vulnerable, 500; when vulnerable, 750. Grand Slam, when not vulnerable, 1.000; when vulnerable. 1,500. If Declarer fails to fulfill his contract, ho scores nothing whatsoever except honors, if held, and the opponents score for undertricka as follows: when not vulnerable, if undoubted, for each undertrlok. BO: If doubted, for each of the first three undertricks 100, for fourth undertrick 200, for all subsequent undertricks (each) 400. If redoubled, for first three undertrieks (each) 200, flufourth undertrick 400, for all subsequent undertrlck (each) 800. For failure to fulfill contrail, when vulnerable, if undertrlck 100; if doubled, for first three undertricks (each) 200, for fourth undertrick 400, for all subsequent undertricks (each) 800. It redoubted, for first three undertricka (each) 400, for fourth undertrlck 800, for all subsequent undertricks (each) 1,000. The Revoke Penalty: Two tricks for the first revoke; for each subsequent revoke, regardless of whether it be made in the same or in another suit, 100 points in the honor column. - Tomorrow the main differences bc-jfl tween the two popular counts will noted. (Copyright John F. Dllle Cos.)

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor of The Times: In referring to the newly organized Elephants Club here, Mayor Duvall, is alleged to have made the statement: “It's a peach, we can do anything we want to,” and others which are not on any higher plane of thought. Some of our public of ficials are sponsors of this organize tion. The mayor predicts a membership of 15,000 “In no time" and informs us that all of the activities will lc "square and honest.” None of the political organizations with which any of these gen'lenmn are now identified have achieved any fame for ethical precepts and examples. 1 concede, with no small amount of shame, my inability to- see anything over which to be elated in this enterprise. It will, however, possess the advantage of having the sheep of the flock in one fold. This will make the diagnosis easier and a quarantine more effective. I have no objection to George V. Coffin, Schuyler Haas. John Duvall, some of our present legislators "at all,” getting their flock under one roof, but I do liopo that no M self-respecting person wtll bn ™ inveigled into that fold. The caliber of the proposition is well indicated by the mayor’s indictment of it in his words, ns alleged, "We can get the political situation In Marion County by the tail,” and he was probably “honest” In that too. That is a terrible thing to say with the idea ,of securing recognition of any organization, whether political or otherwise, by respectable people. It is most reprehensible to think that is the brand of patronage which will be solicited for the Republican party in this country, friends of decency, that is your hint. To crush this movement now. GEORGE H. MATTHEWS, 3419 College Ave. HONOR VET EMPLOYES E. C. Atkins Company Banquet at Severln Saturday Night. Three persons who have been emj ployed for fifty or more yeara by the B. C. Atkins Company will be the I honor guests at the annual banquet j of the Atkins Pioneers at the Severln Saturday evening. They are John H. Patterson of the Memphis (Tenn.) branch, who has been employed by the company fifty years; Charles Aumann, Indianapolis, who has been with the company fifty-seven years, and Charles Fenton, Indianapolis, who Is rounding out fifty-four years of service. The club Is composed of employes who have had twenty or more years 4 | of service. ™ Where can I find data abont the height and weight of the prominent baseball players and the way they bat and throw? The data is contained in tha bulletin “Baseball and Fistic Staff 91 Today,” which can be obtained from our Washington Bureau far five cent* ‘ ijd _