Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1927 — 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. ( *

AN AMAZING SITUATION As long as a judge stays out of the penitentiary lie cannot be removed from office. lie may tear the Constitution into ribbons, ride rough shod over the Bill of Rights, perpetrate any tyrannies of any kind and remain on the job. The Legislature can not remove him, as it could remove a Governor who betrays his trust. The higher court cannot touch him. Only and after in some court, probably his own, he has been convicted of corruption or “high crime” can he be removed. Such is the amazing situation if the law is correctly interpreted by the attorney general of the State. It is true that other lawyers have declared that the Legislature has th 6 power of impeachment. ' It is certain that the Legislature at one time tried to take that right to protect the people from tyranny and injustice and to write several pages of laws, describing in detail the method, the procedure and the means by which judges who had outraged public decency could be tried before the Senate and removed from office. It is also true that the Supreme Court of this State has never passed directly upon the right of the Legislature to impeach a judge and that the opinion of the attorney general on the subject is just as an opinion. On other matters this Legislature has not accepted the opinion of the attorney general. That was notable in the opinion in which he held invalid the attempted raise of their own salaries. The members of the Legislature con r sidered that so grave a matter that they sent lawyers to the Supreme Court to discover whether or not he had interpreted the law properly. If the opinion of Mr. Gilliom is accepted as the law of Indiana and no step is taken by this Legislature to test it or to remedy it, then the Constitution in this State has ceased to operate and there is no such thing as freedom of speech. There is no debate as to the facts in the charge made against Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie. Not even his attorneys, who shout in glee that there is no power that can remove him, have denied that he ordered thirty-eight newsbobys arrested without warrant, that hd took away their papers and by that act actually did suppress an edition of a newspaper. He stands alone in all the history of this country as the one judge who has dared to do this thing. The incident is the first of its kind ever attempted by a judge in this or any other State. The only explanation given by his friends and defenders is that he acted in haste*, “on the spur of the moment,” and that he might not do the same thing again. There is no question that Muncie is muzzled. Lawyers privately admit that they do not dare to express their opinions. Ministers have consulted lawyers as to how far they dare criticise this judge and stay out of jail on charges of contempt. Merchants and bankers admit fear. There is no denial of the fact that the judge, acting as a judge, invaded two rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Yet he remains on the bench. The Legislature is asked to surrender, without a test, the right which was written into the law in 1897 to remove judges by the impeachment process. The people of Muncie who ask the removal of this judge that their lips maybe unlocked and freedom of speech be returned to their city are told that only after a judge has been convicted of corruption, or “high crime,” can he be removed. If there be a higher crime than judicial denial of constitutional guarantees of the right of free speech and of freedom of confiscation of property without process of law, only a slave could name it. The situation is more than amazing. It is appalling. , And jn that sitqhtion, certainly the Legislature can not hesitate to do one-tis two things or both: 1 It shbuld* submit an amendment to the Constitution which will make clear that judges can not perpetrate tyrannies, defy the Constitution and hide behind the thought that the Legislature can not remove them. It should not accept any opinion as to the invalidity of the present laws giving the power to impeach until the Supreme Court of the United States has so declared. Certainly, also, the attorney general, conversant with the facts in the case and asserting that there are legal remedies for the wrongs charged against Judge Dearth, should take the first train to Muncie, or whatever place those remedies can be found, and lend the full power of the State to an effort to apply them. Indiana must not become the empire of the padlocked lip and judicial Simon Degrees. •

CENTRALIZED POWER . This paper was warned repeatedly during the past year that the electric power industry is becoming dangerously centralized. The Federal trade commission report on tljjß situation, just submitted to the United States Senate, substantiates emphatically every charge made. This report shows that: Three great independent power organizations, the General Electric Company, the North American Company and the Insull interests, joined late in 1926 in purchase of the North American Light and Power Company, itself the chief holding company of another large power organization, the McKinleyStudebaker group. The General Electric Company disposed of its purchase interest just twenty days before the commission report was made public. The Electric Bond and Share Company, supervising operating companies in every region, is still about 79 per cent controlled by General Electric stockholders. The Electric Bond and Share Company and affiliated officials own important blocks of stock in two power financing organizations, the American SuperPower Corporation and the Electric Investors, Inc. The American Super-Power Corporation owns stock in the North American Company, mentioned above, and in other large operating units, such as the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey and the Northern States Power Corporation—a Byllesby interest. The Electric Investors, Inc., owns stock in some of the same group in which the Super-Power Corporation has invested, and additionally in the Middle West Utilities Company, chief of Insull holding organizations. The Alabama Power Company, chief of the thirteen associated companies seeking to lease the Muscle Shoals Government power plant, is connected with the Electric Bond and Share Gompany. The American Super-Power Corporation, the Electric Investors, Inc., and the General Electric Company, all own stock in the Commonwealth Power Corporation, another independent organization and owner of the Tennessee Electric Power Company, which alone of the thirteen Muscle Shoals bidders is not connected with either of the Electric Bond and Share Company, or the Insull interests, and which will get half interest in all eleven Tennessee River dam sites above. Muscle Shoals if present Government recommendations are approved. In other words, the commission report proves that the power industry has, to say the least, gotten itself into a very strange tangle. And the Senate should adopt the resolution for a Senate resolution which Senator Walsh of Montana has introduced.

* 'CLOTURE Enlightenment regarding cloture, its meaning and Jts uses, have been presented to the country within the last few days. Advocates of cloture in the past hi ve argued that its purpose is to prevent filibuster by small minorities, and enable Congress to transact its business within reasonable time. Yet this Congress has seen a discrimination In the use of cloture which casts serious doubts cm the Integrity of this argument. Cloture was invoked for farm relief when public demand for enactment of the legislation had become very great. It was invoked for the McFaddeu banking bill when pressure from the banks was brought strongly to bear upon the Senate. There was no filibuster in progress against either of these measures. , • Yet, when the Boulder Dam bill \nd the disabled officers’ retirement bill came before the Senate, cloture was overwhelmingly rejected. The Boulder Dam bill was favored by a majority of the Senate. * Four men conducted a filibuster against it. It was a reclamation project involving protection of a large number of communities from flood. It carried no appropriation from the treasury, but was to be a self-supporting project. Yet cloture was denied this measure, the one case when cloture would have been justifiable if its purpose is to enable transaction of the Senate's business. THOSE “DANGEROUS” JAPANESE Japan, as everybody knows, is a very dangerous nation. It has dark designs on our possessions in the Pacific. It is just watting for a chance to go to war with us. Its statesmen stay awake nights thinking up ways and meank to get possession of California. All of this, of course, is on the word of our best alarmists. In view of the above, it's rather strange, Isn’t it, that the first foreign power to accept President Coolidge's call for a conference on naval armament reduction should be—that same Japan? Furthermore, Japan's acceptance was cordial. The Japanese profess complete eagerness to meet this country half way In peaceful plans to reduce navy ratings. Perhaps Japan isn't as bloodthirsty and designing as some people would have us believe. Perhaps, indeed, a little effort would make it one of our firmest friends. Because she had to get meals for her husband an Eastern woman wants a divorce. Men are so oldfas loned. ♦ Scores of gunmen were arrested in Chicago op primary day. If they can get that, many out for a primary what'll the election be like? Headline says “Germ’s home life bared.’’ But it was a story from some laboratory and not'a divorce court at all. New York held a pedigreed oyster show. When they get this pedigree business down to cheese then we’ll take a look. We’ll know it’s sprin! when the fall millinery begins to .appear in the show windows. I t One scan s liquor is another man’s poison.

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Borga Was Put on Map of Texas by Oil Eight Months Ago.

• By M. E. Tracy FT. WORTH, Texas, Feb. 28. Last Saturday two State rangers and twenty Federal dry agents swooped down on the shanty district of Borga. Well, you ask, where is Borga, and why pick on it by calling attention to one of a hundred dry raids which probably occurred in more important places throughout the country the same day. That is the point of the story. Borga has not existed long enough to be properly catalogued in time tables and postal guides which make it a vivid illustration of what is going on in the Texas Panhandle ! because of oil. Eight months ago the population of Borga consisted mainly of horned j toads and bull snakes. The railroad j was sixty miles away when some- j body struck oil, and before it could , get there promoters, reformers, drillers, realtors, gamblers and boarding house keepers had dragged in enough'matefial to house andentertain a community bigger than New York was when the revolution broke out.

After Oil, Growth Ft. Worth looks out from her skyscrapers across the endless rolling prairie, where dozens of sucli towns as Borga arc springing up and dreams not only of the dbllars to be made out of oil, but of the development that follows oil. Oil means power; power means manufacturing; manufacturing means wealth, and wealth means—well, what does wealth mean? Texans Bet It is a wonderful thing to see fossil fuel take shape in tall buildings, miles of bungalows, flivvers and art museums. Scientists are saying that it will play out In the course of time and leave the landscape cold. Texas people are betting that the schools and colleges which oil enables them to build will produce enough brains to invent a substitute before the supply of oil is exhausted. You can be a Babbitt and holler yourself hoarse, or a philosopher and worry yourself insane, or just sit down and enjoy the show. No matter where they may be leading us, the Babbitts are certainly piling up rocks, both figuratively and literally, in a most interesting way. , Big ill Resources Most everybody knows that Texas is the biggest State. What most everybody fails to realize is that she is as big in resources as in acreage. Not more than one-fourth of her available land has been put into cultivation and not one half of that is being intelligently cultivated. Oil booms and political scandals have served to obscure the picture of her latent wealth, her waterpower, lignite beds, pottery clays, natural cement, mica, iron and the variety of fruits, vegetables and grains which her soil can be made to produce.

Time's Changes Fifty years ago Texas was known as the Cattle State, with only small towns and two-gun sheriffs tc; make life amusing. Twenty-flv# years ago she was known as the Cotton State, with only a few towns grown big enough to have pated streets and high schools. Now she is known for Ma Ferguson; the Rio Grande valley; fruit and such a procession of oil and real estate booms as no one can keep track of. Her present population 1s estimated at 5,300,000, about 10 per cent of which is colored. Her Federal Land Bank has loaned more money than any of the other eleven. Loneliness "Passes This column is not designed to sell real estate, or get people to move, but to convey ;i sketchy idea of what is going on, not only from the standpoint of current news, Ijlit from that of industrial and social de\elopinent. The most vivid Impression I get from traveling about this country is one of common aims, common met hods and common aspirations. The melting pot has apparently done its work. The average American will feel it hard not to feel at home In any part of the United States. Some complain that this represents too much standardization, but I do not think so. It seems to come about as an inevitable aspect of modern life and to have its compensations. We used to get variety as a matter of location. Not only the next State but the next town offered something different. Now, we get variety through change all along the line, through invention, new work and a constant parade of innovations. We look to time, rather than place, tor something new, and I am not so sure that this is for the worse. Meanwhile, not only anew civilization, but anew race, is taking shape in this country, a race with a common outlook on life, if not" a common ancestry, and that can adapt itself to New York City, the p'ains of Texas or the Pacific slope, without loneliness or inconvenience.

Movie Verdict APOLLO—“TeU It to the Marines” is among the ten funniest and most human comedies , that the screen has produced. It is a triumph for Lon Chaney and William Haines. CIRCLE—“The Winning of Barbara Worth” concerns the making of a' new bed for a river. OHlO—John Gilgert in an w type of a role in “The Show,” a drama of sideshow life.

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Lon Chaney Wears His Very Own Face in ‘Tell It to the Mari nes’ at Apollo

By Walter D. Hickman Lon Chaney is wearing his own face this time. Meaning that it is jthe real Lon Chaney face that you see on Chaney in “Tell It To the Marines.” Chaney is a hard boiled marine sergeant. in this intimate story of marine life. Ever since Beery and

Hatton glorified the Navy I knew that somebody one of these days would do it for the marines. And so the job has fallen to Lon Chaney and William Ilalnes. And what a great job they have done. t Here is a story that is truly Amerjcan. It breathes oif an American instltutution and at the same time it has played up marine life in such a hu-

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man manner that one has the feelirig that a special coin should have the head of a marine on It. Anyway, here is a bully American comedy that hits the bullseye every second that it is flashing across the sereen. LOn Chaney's disposition may not be hardboiled, but his face is sure hard. Asa marine sergeant of many years of experience. Chaney now has a role which will make him more popular 'than anything he has ever done. Ts an ugly, hard-boiled man may turn out to be one of the best comedians we have on the screen. Chaney in “Tell It to the Marines” does not have to be funny to get the laughs. When he asks a bunch of new privates if they want to drive the car of the head officer—well, the unlucky guy drives everything but that. And yet Chaney keeps a big Idea back of his characterization —the Marine sergeant may be hard-boiled, but he has a heart of real human gold. He will go through thunder for his men and he knows the trick that will knock out all the yellow in a soft fellow. William Haines, as “Skeet” Burns, a private and a big-headed boy at heart until Chaney knocks a big heart Into him, commands about as much interest as Chaney. Os course, Bill Haines has often used his own

ROMANCE OF THE WEST — . *The conquering and settling of America’s western empire is one of the most romantic stories our country affords. How well do you know It? This intelligence test will try your knowledge of western history. You’lt find the answers on Page 12. 1. War with wljat country was precipitated by America’s acquisition of Texas? 2. When the United States got California, the land was sparsely inhabitated and poor. In what year, and why, did a tremenduons influx of settlers from the East occur? 3. What famous western scout and Indian fighter later organized a show which toured America under his nickname? 4. On the banks of what river did Custer and his men meet their death? 5. Who led settlers into Utah and made a garden spot of the Salt Lake basin? 6. What famous author and humorist prospected for silver in Nevada during ar,_. after the Civil War? 7. Name a man who was Influential in the development of railways from the middle west to the northwest? 8. What is the “Golden Gate”? 9. What man, who' led in the securing of California for the United States, was the Republican party’s first candidate for President? 10. What was the name of the pioneer system* whereby messages > were sent across i the plains with great speed? /

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face, and so it is no novelty to see J Haines so attired. But Haines wins by the breezy and rapid way in which he takes his many lessons to ,be a good Marine and love it. As far as I am concerned, “Tell It to the Marines” is the best comedy I have seen since last September. It is a sure winner for MetroGold wyn-Mayer. The cast is as follows: Sergeant O'Hara Lon Chaney Private "Skect" Burns .. . Wiliiam Haines Norma Dale Eleanor Boardman Corporal Madden Eddie Griblon Zava Carmel Myers Chinese Bandit Leader Warner Ofand Native Mitchell Lewis General Wilcox Frank Currier Harry Maurice Kaiue “Tell It to the Marines” is a genuine comedy treat. It opened yesterday to so much capacity at the Appilo, that this house didn't have enough room. ■ ' Bill includes Emil Seidel and his orchestra, Lester Iftiff at tlio organ, Dick Powell in song, and other events. At the Apollo all week. JOHN IS DIFFERENT John Gilbert, who at present holds the screen honors for being the greatest lover, does something a little different this time in “The Show,” with Renee Adoree. The setting of “The Sho4v,” is laid in Europe, not just certain where,

but it Is over there some place. Gilbert is cast as the announcer for a side show. It is his personal charm, that induces the ladies to spend their money ttfid see the show. His attraction resembles the side shows to be seen in the carnivals and circuses of our land. Renee Adoree plays the part of Salome a dancer with the company.

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She is the mistress of the owner, played by Lionel Barrymore, but has an almost uncontrolable passion for the handsome and egotistical young announcer. Gilbert does no great things in this show and those who like him best when in good looking clothes and doing bold deeds will a bit disappointed at times. His acting in “The Show” In our opinion ranks only second to the things he did in the “Big Parade.” Perhaps it is better, but the spirit of the former story is missing. Anyway Gilbert really plays a part and does not waste foot after foot of film in educating those who are inefficient in the manly art of “mugging.” Os Renee Adoree about all that can be said is that she furnishes a very complimentary background for Gilbert. Barrymore is given no chance to do anything and so is not much of a success: Charlie Davis and his Gang are in Sweden this week and have a pleasing program worked out including a hit of Charlies "Copenhagen.” Included on the bill Is an O’Henry comedy and News Reel. At the Ohio all week. (By the observer.) * MUSIC CLUB TO HOLD AIR CONTEST The Indiana Federation of Music Clubs, sponsored by the State Board of Education, will give a radio contest on March 29th, of tho State Music Memory numbers, over WFBM. the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, 268 meters. Prior to this contest the four Schools of Music, of the city, will co-operate by broadcasting these numbers at their regular hour, Wednesday, 7:30 to 8:30, over this station: First in charge of Mr. Fred Morris, Wednesday, March 2. Second in charge of the Conte School of Irvington, March 9. j Third in charge of the Indiana ColI lege of Music and Fine Arts, March 10. 'Fourth in charge of the Metropoliton School of Mußic, March 23. ' Final contest, by the Federation of

Music Clubs, Tuesday, March 29, 7:30 to 8:30. Two radios as first and second prizes will be given to any school In the State sending in the greatest number of correct papers in proportion to the enrollment. The rules of the contest will be the hands of all county superintendents and county supervisors of music, and will be published In the radio announcements of the Indianapolis newspapers and papers throughout the State belonging to the Associated. Press. Children from every school’ in the State are eligible to this contest, and we hope that every school will ba represented when the final papers are sent m. A FLOOD AND MANY COVERED WAGONS HERE The second that the reading public became acquainted with Harold Bell Wrights .“The Primer of Udells,” his popular fame and fortune was assured. He has what I call the “writing bug,” and although it takes a lot of copy for each of his books, yet

he Is able to turn out one popular success after another. “The Winning of Barbara Worth” is a story of the not too ancient West, dealing with the days when engineers began turning the desert into good soil. This story of Wright’s is not so intimate in form as some of his other stories,. When the Colorado River floods the desert this is

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the signal for some sensational movie shots. The cameras have been placed in such a way that one gets the impression that the flood will soon sweep everybody out of the seats of the theater. Asa movie story, I did not get as interested in the two chief characters, Willard Holmes and Barbara Worth, as I expected. The fact is their affair of the rfeart Is of secondary interest to the flood and to many covered wagons. This novel as a movie does not make a great epic story, sucji as * The Covered Wagon.” It is really sectional In theme, as It deals with science using the river by giving them anew bed to turn the desert into, flourishing ground. The cast is satisfactory, as it includes the following: Willard Holmes Ronald Colman Barbara Worth Vtlma Banky Jefferson Worth Charles bane The Seer Paul MeAl lister James Greenfield E. J. Hateliffe Abe Lee Gary Cooper Tex . Clyde Cook Pat Erwin Connelly The Circle this week is using a .Tames A. Fitz Patrick melody overture. This time the music and the movie deals with "Songs of Central Europe.” As the melody Is nearly folk songs, the entire Idea takes on the spirit of a revival of well known tunes. Stolarevsky and the Circle Orchestra brings out the beauty of these melodies. Dessa Byrd this week Is playing anew melody, "When Twilight Comes.” She has a splendid introduction to the new theme as she asks the question: “When Is the most romantic time?” She then answers it by playing romantic song hits that have titles which indicates, day or night. Splendidly done. The bill includes a news reel, a Circle comedy and other events. At the Circle all week. Other theaters today offer: Eddie Leonard at Keith's: "Dance Classic,” at the Lyric; the Transfleld Sisters, at the Palace: "The Canyon of Light.” at the Isis; ‘JK id Boots,” at the Sanders; “The Framing Forest," at the South Side; “The Marriage Clause,” at the Uptown, and burlesque at the Mutual.

FEB. 28, 1927

Work, Back to Auction Bridge— More Tips on Bidding

B.v Milton C, Work THE POINTER FOR TODAY IS: . When the suit to be bid contains more strength than oue i quick trick, but less than two ; quick tricks, it should not be • called without some side strength; that side strength need not necessarily be a quick trick. The advice to bid a suit initially without what seems to be two quirk tricks in the hand, involves what In one way Is an exception to a rulo,, and In another way is merely an afflrmation of it. A hand which does not contain two actual quick tricks,, but has compensating strength aggregating more than their equivalent/ is obviously too strong to pass; It being dangerous to pass, for fear a game hand may be passed out. To illustrate: a King with one or two small may or may not take a trick; the Ace? may be adversely hold and, if so. It Is an even chance that it will he on the right of the King. In the same way, Ace-Queen, with the King adversely held, has an even chance of finding the adverse King on tile right and taking an extra. trick In addition to the Ace. In first case, with the Ace in hand, and in the second, with King there, the doubtful card must win unless trumped. It is therefore conservative to reckon two such partial chances as equal to a wh<*r one; but it is not wiso to depend altogether on partial chances because, when all go wrong, the result may be dangerous. The hand should contain at least one actual quick trick, and It generally Is essential that it be in the suit to bo bid. For example, it would be sound to bid an Ace-Queen-Ten five-card suit with a side King, or an Ace-Queen suit \%lth a side King-Jack; but reversing tlio holding, a King-x-x-x suit or even a King-Jack-x-x suit, either of which contain a quick trick, should not bo bid without two sure tricks on the side, and Ace-Queeir does not measure up to the requirement. Tomorrow we will consider the following hands: 1. Sp.: King-Jaek-x-x-x. Ht.: Ace-x-x. Dk: x-x-x. Cl.: x-x. 2. Sp.: King-Jack-x-x-x. Ht.: Ace-Queen-x. Di.: x-x-x. Cl.: x-x. 3. Sp.: King-Jack-x-x-x. Ht.: Ace King-x. Dk: x-x-x. Cl.: x-x. (Copyright, John F. Dille Cos.)

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