Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1927 — Page 6

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CHICAGO’S SHAME Chicago has been hit by a scandal that hurts worse than gunman terrorism. About three years ago a great farmers’ cooperative concern was organized to take over certain Chicago grain elevators. At the time there was much discussion of the nerve of the farmers’ leaders in thus entering into business competition with Chicago’s shrewdest traders. There were predictions that the ambitious enterprise would fail. It did fall, within a year. Now the reasons for the failure are becoming known. Certain Chicago business men were too slick for the farmers, just as predicted. One of the properties taken over by the Grain Marketing Company, the Farmers’ Cooperative, was the Armour Grain Company, the latter company with a name almost synonymous with Chicago, operated the largest grain elevator in the world. Now it is publicly announced by Edward E. Brown, vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago, whose word is accepted by any Chicago business man, that the Armour company w'as guilty of plain thievery, in its deal with the Grain Marketing Company. Not shrewd business, not clever trading, not any of the things in which a Chicagoan might take pride. Just simply dishonesty. Brown, arbitrator of the dispute between the two concerns, has made this his official finding and awards $3,000,000 damages to the Grain Marketing Company. He relates a number of acts by the Armour company that can only be called crooked. One will suffice for illustration: There were some millions of bushels of wheat in the elevator bins when the property was sold to the Grain Marketing Company. Brown finds that the value of this grain was falsified. Inferior grain was listed on the books as good grain. After board of grade examiners had taken samples from all the bins for appraisal, Armour’s superintendent substituted other samples. He did this in the dead of night, with four illiterate employes to help him. When appraisal was made next day, the examiners reported the wheat of good quality, as shown on the company’s books. This fraud, Brown holds, cost the Farmers’ Cooperative $2,400,000 directly. Business men of Chicago are seriously concerned. They should be. The reputation given the city by the Armour Grain Company will not be lived down in a long time.

WE CAN’T DUCK OUR RESPONSIBILITY Most of our major ills, says a Moscow professor, are due to sun spots. These spots, he adds, run in cycles, and have so profound an effect on mankind that wars, revolutions, faminese, social and political upheavals of all kinds follow in their train. This sun : got business apparently is something that science hasn't quite made up its mind about yet, and the ordinary man is entitled to believe it or not, as he wishes. It's a comforting doctrine, in a way. ft relieves us of responsibility. When someone mentions the World War or the present uprisings in China we can blame these terrible tragedies on the far-distant sun, which can’t answer back, and absolve ourselves, and our generation of all blame. But somehow it seems just a little bit too easy to be true. For all we know the sun spots may, as it is c almed, have a profound effect on all of our activities. Yet we might as well remind ourselves fliat all of the sun spots between here and the pole star would never bring about a World War if mankind had not already planted the seeds. The World War, to cite a single world upheaval, was the crop of the seed many generations had sjv n. It was the fruit of blind greed and autocratic seif-seeking and narrow nationalism and bitter trade rivalry. As the world had planted, so did it reap. We may talk about sun spots until we are blue in the face, but that will not enable us to look on the World War as something for which no one was to llame. Nor will it enable us to sidestep responsibility for what may be ahead of us. * What we, as a Nation, are now' will determine what is going to happen to us in the near future. If we are blind and reckless and selfish and materialistic, as the nations of Europe were before 1914, we may rest assured that we will garner a crop similar to the one they garnered. Fortunately, on the other hand, if we make justice our daily ideal and work forever for the establishment of the kingdom of righteousness, in its broadest sense, we can rest assured that certain tragedies will be spared us. But, either way, we mustn’t try to blame the sun spots for all of it. SUNRISE IN THE CITY Tilting at old, well-established traditions is a risky business. Yet today we feel impelled to break a lance with the time-honored saw which has it that nature Is more easily to be enjoyed in the country than in the city. - To be sure, the city parks and lawns can never compete with the rolling fields and wooded uplands of the countryside. Nor can the city offer anything like the broad rivers and quiet pools of the open spaces, when the wind is whipping up little ripples in the water and the sun is high overhead. But early in the morning the city can meet the country on an even footing. Morning iu the country is a time of delight. In the city it is a time of transfiguration. This is best observed by the fortunate man whose journey to his place of work takes him duo west, so that the sun rises behind him. This man, if he has eyes, sees his familiar city in anew light. ‘ , Before him stretches the street, cutting a geometric line through the buildings on either hand. The buildings in the foreground are of medium height, with the piled terraces of the downtown office buildings and department stores rising behind them, step by step. The morning light brightens ’hem strangely, magnifying their height, so that the arthest seem .to stretch upward unbelievably.

The air is clear and fresh. Streets, sidewalks and buildings—all somehow look cleaner than usual, as if the night had in some way taken away the city’s grime and soot and refurbished th*em so that they might greet the sunrise properly. The city-bound worker suddenly discovers that the city which rises him is not the 'sjty he knows. It has changed, grown more spacious and jliry, undergone some strange kind of purification. The windows in the tops of the most distant buildings catch the sunlight and greet theddarnw r n with myriad sparkles of reflected radiance, shining like beacon lights over the narrow streets below. For the moment reality is gone. The downtown district, so noisy and unromantic by day, is transfigured and turned to a gleaming mirage from beyond the horizon. Its prosaic skyscrapers become turrets and dazzling towers, built for beauty and not for profit. This lasts but for a few minutes. Presently the sun is higher, and the colors of dawn lapse into the ordinary lights and shadows of day. But the vision has been there, and it will come again, reminding the earth-bound toilers what fair cities they some day will build, when the dawn reaches their hearts. JUSTICE HOLMES, 86 ' Today the country has reason to be pleased by the kindly manner in which time has dealt with one member of its United States Supreme Court, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Mr. Justice Holmes became 86 years young yesterday. It is not in empty compliment to the word young is used. The mind which still sees clearly, remembers accurately, reasons acutely and retains sympathy for fellowmen and women, is still young. Such is the mind of Mr. Justice Holmes. If you doubt, read on a Monday the decisions handed down. Perhaps—quite likely in fact—there will be a dissenting opinion by Justice Holmes, in which Brandeis joins. Or a dissent by Brandels in which Hilmes joins. And that is the real thinking of the s court; and the real speaking. In a decade or so j it will be, like other dissents, the majority opinion : of the court. He likes to be called Colonel Holmes. And who would not who had been shot through the chest at j the battle of Balls Bluff back in the early sixties j and who had been shot through the neck at Antietam ; and through the foot at Maryes Heights, and had been everything military from a first lieutenant of Massachusetts volunteers to aide de camp to a general. He might be called by some title indicating au- J thorship. He has published a shelf full of law- ; books, things like the twelfth edition of Kents commentaries, early English equity and so on. And he has degrees from all the fresh water colleges like Amherst and Williams, as well as from Harvard, where he taught in the school .of law. He served on the Supreme bench of Massachusetts before Roosevelt appointed him to his present place. Once in a while he seems to forget that he is Mr. Justice and talks in a way to recall the rjemory ,of the poet who was his father. As in an address on law: ‘‘No man has earned the right to intellectual ambition until he has learned to lay his course by a star which he has never seen—to dig by the divining rod for springs which he may never reach.” Let us hope that Mr. Justice Holmes Is spaled until such time as we may feel certain the successor named by the President will be, not his equal, perhaps, but of the same breed.

THIS HELPS SOME The Treasury Department has returned hundreds of millions of dollars to certain taxpayers in recent years. These are taxes said to have been wrongfully assessed. There has been no check whatever on these refunds and during the recent session of Congress an effort was made to require the controller general's o. k. on any refunds over $50,000. This legislation failed of enactment. The next Congress may take up the matter. In the meantime, Chairman Green of the House Ways and Means Committee, makes a statement that may serve a useful purpose: “Any member of either House who desires investigation of any refund or other matter connected with the administration of the internal revenue laws, has only to call the matter to the committee's attention. The committee will make a thorough investigation.” A BOY THAT WILL SUCCEED ' A 12-year-old boy in New Jersey wanted to, buy a $5 dog kepnel. His savings bank contained just a few cents over $3. And he simply had to have that dog kennel. So the lad trudged to a banK and told the president he wanted to borrow $2. The president, no doubt suppressing a smile, asked him what security he could give. The boy gravely replied that he was going to get a job working in a store after school. So the president made out a regular three-months promissory note, bearing 6 per cent interest, the lad signed it and the $2 was given him. “Industry and sincerity are security enough,” the banker remarked. We think hanker was right. And we also think that this boy is going to be a real success later life. Somehow, he sounds as if he were made of the rig-ht stuff. TEN THOUSAND PIES A Western gentleman has just been awarded a medal by somebody or other because he has baked his ten-thousandth apple pie. We don’t know just what kind of medal he got, but it strikes us the reward was all wrong. The man who has baked 10,000 apple pies deserves either far more than that or far less. If they were good pies—well, hardly any sum is too great to be given the man w'ho has spread that much joy in this sorrowful old world. And if they were bad pies—by the same token, he who would profane the name of apple pie with a soggy, pasty concoction, and repeat his offense 10,000 times over, should be flung at once to the lions. ' The English people are not drinking enough, according to the undergraduate magazine at Oxford University. Maybe prohibition would help some.

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Tracy Scripps - Howard New York Paper Starts Radio Innovation,

By M. E. Tracy The New York Telegram, recently acquired by the Scripps-Howard interests, has inaugurated a policy of full and complete news with regard to radio programs. This is something new for the metropolis. Hitherto, New Yorkers have had to tune in to find out what was really on the air. For some inscrutable reason, the great metropolitan dailies singled out radio artists as unworthy of too specific mention. They were more than glad to give not only the initials but the nickname of pugilists, golf players and “ham fat” actors. When it camd to performers on the air, however, they seldom W'ent beyond pronouns. The poor radio fan couldn’t tell whether he was going to get jazz or grand opera by reading in his paper that such or such a station w r ould broadcast “music.’’ Policy Explained In announcing the Telegram’s new policy over stations WJZ and WEAF last Tuesday night, George B. Parker, general editorial executive of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, said that “It grew out of a belief that the several million radio listeners of the New Y’ork section were being compclledsby New York newspapers to grope in tile “dark.” “The New York Telegram contends,” he went on, “that it is the simple duty cf a newspaper to tell* the news. It believes that the news of radio has not been told under the system of merely labeling the ‘Happiness Boys’ as entertainers, or the ‘A. and P. Gypsies’ as stringed music.” News Values Radio is a peculiar institution. As ; a commercial venture it includes j more than the sale of receiving sets, j Owners of these sets are within reach of more free entertainment j than any class of people ever was j before, but only if the newspapers | tell them where and when they can j get it. In view of such a set-up, it is strange that New York newspapers j should have conceived the idea that radio programs were less deserving of free publicity than a baseball game or a prize fight. Editors in other parts of the country have certainly shown a better sense of news values.

Blind Morality A 10-year-old girl lying on the floor of a cold, dark basement at midnight, with a new-born babe cuddled against her breast; a gun in the trembling hands of a distraught mother, who stood over her —it was blind morality at grips with blind infatuation. Mrs. Christine Stoble, 39, and the mother of ten children, is now in a New Jerfsey prison facing a charge of murder. She couldn't bear the shame her wayward daughter had brought upon the family, so she sought to correct it by the greater shame of homicide. • Free love brought one life into the world and straight-laced conviction took two to prove it wrong, for tiie baby died as well as its unhappy mother. How would you decide the case if you were on the jury? Your Decision? Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil magnate, is on trial at Washington, charged with contempt of the Senate. He refused to answer questions with regard too certain oil leases and contracts. The Issue is whether the Senate had a right to make him answer those questions anji whether ho can be punished for not doing so. Again, how would you decide the case if you were on the jury? Law and Ignorance “Ignorance of the law avaiieth no man," we say, yet the basic principles of law find no place in our educational system. We teach our children how to weave baskets, though the art has long since gone out of date. We do not teach them the rudiments of justice, though justice is coming to play a more important part in life. It was ignorance of the law, of justice, of the right and wrong of thigs, that led to the tragedy in that cold, dark basement where a mother slew her own child. It was the same kind of ignorance that made possible the oil scandal, the conflicting decisions of the Sinclair trial. If the law has become a game of technicality and red tape it is measurable due to ignorance on the part of the public. Teaching Justice The old Persians taught their children justice in much the same way that we teach ours arithmetic. They gave them problems to solve that illustrated and revealed the underlying principles. The Persians brought up a race of people that did not lie or steal. They had little need for an elaborate legal structure, because of their intelligent understanding of what was right and wrong. If we were to adopt a similar method we would soon get rid of the hypocrisy which confuses our system of justice, which makes it possible for a group of highly trained lawyers to play tag with life and liberty, and which breed crime, because a vast portion of the people have no clear conception of what crime is. Where Is the largest naval prison on the Atlantic coast? At Portsmouth, N. H. Do bumble bees make edible honey? They make small quantities but not sufficient for commercial purposes.

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Jean Oliver and Milton Byron Will Be Chief Players With Berkell Here

Jean Oliver will be leading woman of the Berkell Company when it opens its fifth annual summer season at English's March 27. Announcement to this effect is made by Harry Benneke. personal representative for Charles Berkell, who is here completing preliminary arrangements for the season. Miss Oliver, whose personal charm and beauty and acting ability has placed her in the front rank of matic stock stars, is well remembered here for her work with the Berkell Players during the summer seasons of 1923 and 1924. Since leaving Indianapolis she has headed stock companies in Buffalo, N. Y'.; St. Louis, Mo., and Los Angeles. Miss Oliver is now in California on a vacation but will arrive here for rehearsals Monday, March 21. Milton Byron will again be the leading man, and the personnel of the company will be practically the same as it was last year, including such favorites as Jdabelle Arnold, Larry Sullivan. Robert, St. Claire, Bernice Marsolais, Herbert Dobbins, Mildred Hastings, Frank Marlow and director William V. Hull. Indianapolis theaters today offer: Thurston at English's; “Jerry and Her Baby Grands,” at Keith’s; Ma-son-Dixon Dancers, at the Palace; Brewster-Pomcroy Revue, at the Lyric; “Patricia,” at the Murat; “McFadden's Flats,” at the Circle; "Heaven on Earth,” at the Ohio; "Great Deception,” at the Uptown: “Tell It To The Marines,” at the Apollo; movies at the Isis, and burlesque at the Mutual. PLAN HISTORICAL TOUR Reduced Rates for Shortridge Pupils and Parents on Eastern Trip. An educational tcur for pupils of Shortridge High School and their parents has been arranged by the school authorities and the Pennsylvania Railroad to be conducted during the spring vacation, March 27 to April 1. The itinerary includes Washington, Mt. Vernon, Gettisburg battlefield, Annapolis, Baltimore and Ft. McHenry. Registration for the tour is in charge of Paul Seehausen of Shortridge history department. The trip will be under faculty supervision. BOND MEN PLAN DINNER Event Friday Night Will Honor Investment Expert. Indianapolis Bond Men’s Club Is completing plans for a dinner Friday, at the Indianapolis Athletic Club honoring Paul Clay, New York City, vice president of Moody’s Investors Service. “The New Era in the Bond Market,” will be the topic of Clay’s address, to be followed by a general discussion of the financial outlook and business conditions, J. Craig Fisher, Ernest G. Mueller and C. W. Weathers are in charge of the event.

Worked Nights to Install Vitaphone

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“Ace Berry, mairiger of the Circle; J. J. O'Brien and J. Patrick DeVine

By working nights and in the mornings, J. Patrick DcVine and J. J. O’Brien were able to install

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You can ert an answer to any question of fact or information by wntilUf to Tli- Indianapolis Times Washington ilurqau. 132"! New- York Ave.. Washington. D C.. inclostnc 2 rents lit stamp.* for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice -annot be given nor can extended research W* undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal ropiv. Un.s'srned requests cannot no answered. AU letters are confidential. —Editor. Does kerosene ever eause rust? Kerosene will not rust or cause rust, but it prevent rust from forming on iron oc steel. It is condensation of moisture from the air that cauases receptacles containing kerosense to rust. In what form does gold occur in its natural state? Usually it is uncotpbined with ■other minerals Loss commonly it is found in combination with tellurium, as tellurides. of which calaverite is a well-known example. Native gold is often mixed with iron pyrites, the mixture being called auriferous pyrite. Both the tellurides and auriferous pyrite most often occur in fissure veins in the rock, where it is presumed to have been Introduced by hot waters and from deep seated igneous activity. What are the comparative figures on mileage, passengers and freight of United Statps railroads and the United Kingdom of England, Scotland and Wales? In the United Kingdom the mileage is 23,734; passengers carried per year 1,591,146,000; tons of freight carried per year, 416,672,532 tons. In 1924 railway mileage in the United States was 250,222; passengers, 951,067,086; freight, 2,331,291,297 tons. How do graduates from Junior Colleges rank witii graduates from accredited colleges and universities? JuriTor colleges give two years of high school and two years of college work. The graduates do not rank as high as graduates from accredited universities and colleges but they may enter an accredited university as Juniors, instead of Freshmen. Was Sam Langford ever knocked out or defeaed by a white fighter? He lost to Gunboat Smith (white) in 12 rounds at Boston, Mass., Nov. 17, 1913. He was defeated several times by white boxers, but according to the records he was never knocked out by one. How many newspapers and magazines are published in New York City? There are seventy-one daily newspapers, of which thirty are published in foreign languages. There are over 300 weekly papers and 500 monthly publications. To whom does Transylvania belong? What is its area and population? Transylvania was joined to Ru-

on time the intricate apparatus of the vitaphone. The picture shows Ace Berry, manager of the Circle, with the

mania in December. 191S. It was formerly an Austrian crownland, incorporated since 1867-8 with the kingdom of Hungary. Its area is 21,518 square miles. In 1919 it had a population of 2,678,367. What is the value of an old eight dollar bill, issue of 1777? An eight dollar bill, issue of 1777 United Sates Continental currency, is valued at froth 5 to 25 cents when in good to fine condition. MUSSOLINI DISDAINFUL OF HYPHEN Americanized Italians Drafted for Army While in Native Land. Times Washington Pureau, 1322 A'rto Yorfc Avenue WASHINGTON, March 9.—ltalans who have become naturalized Americans are thinking twice these Jays before visiting their old country. Many complaints are reaching Government officials that such citisens have been drafted Into the Italian army. The most recent cases have Just been cited to Secretary of State Kellogg by Representative Clyde Kelley of Pittsburgh, to whom relatives of two naturalized citizens appealed for lid. One, Leo Libcrto, a Wilkinsburg fanner, was drafted while visiting his mother, though he had been an American citizen almost ten years. Kelley said he has been informed the second draftee, Joseph Laberde if Swissvale, had been a citizen since 1913. Secretary Kellogg advised Kelley our Government Is practically helpless to aid him because Italy does not recognize our naturalization laws as taking away their claims on a subject through birthright. Kellogg said, while the United States objects to such drafting, it can give no assurance of relief. The department has issued a pamphlet advising naturalized citizens who come from countries not having naturalization treaties with the United States, to ascertain in advance, from foreign officials, whether they will he immuno from military service should they return for a visit. Representative Kelley believes the many complaints against Premier Mussolini’s actions will result in steps to conclude such a treaty with Italy.

two vitaphone experts who are responsible for the splendid record being made by vitaphone at the Circle this week.

MARCH 9, 1927

Work Double of One Bid After Bid by Partner Is Business.

By Milton C. Work Thto pointer for today tot A double of a bid of one is usually informatory, but when made after a bid by the partner it is business. At one time an exception was made to the rule that a double after a bid by the partner is business, in the case of the double of a suit-bid of one. After a bi£ by partner, the double of a bid of one No Trump has always been business; but In the case of—let us say—South one Club, West one Diamond, North double; North’s double at one time Was treated as an exception and considered informatory. It showed the two unnamed suits and directed the partner to bid whichever he preferred This worked satisfactorily when North was strong In the two unnamed suits; but It did not work well when North had great strength in the adverse suit and was looking for a profitable business double. In order to keep the penny and hate the cake too, the exception has been eliminated and that double again is considered business according to the general rule. Now, when South and West have bid one of a suit, and North has a strong two suiter which he wishes to show by a single bid, he bids two of the suit named by West; in other words, South bids one Club, West one Diamond and North holds. Sp: AQ-J-9-x Ht: A-K J-9 x DL x Cl: Qx. By bidding two Diamonds, North instructs South to bid the Major in which he is the longer. This bid could not confuse South if he understood the convention. If North had Diamond strength he would double the one Diamond, a that double, if made, would be business: if strong in cither Spades or Hearts, he would bid his strong suit. With a hand only suited to assist Clubs, ho would bid two Clubs; but When in a position In which a double, if made, would be business, he bids ono more of the adverse suit. His hid of two Diamonds shows that he cannot have that suit as with it ho would have doubled, and it therefore shows the two unnamed suits. It is better than bidding first the higher-valued suit with the expectation of subsequently bidding the lower because, with such North strength and South strong enough to bid, the second opportunity for North to bid is not apt to arise; partner may prefer Hearts and not lie able to show his preference. (Copyright, John F. Dlllo Companj )

aPftntlq LmjenPrtotiDiiVy Prepared by Row Cterfca Emerson Barton, D.D„ for Commission on Evangelism of Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. c—TTtghi xan

Topic for the Week: “Man Is a Spirit.” Wednesday: “The Sptrit Should Dominate.” Scripture: Read Rom. 8:5-17. “For If ye livo after the flesh, ye must die: but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall livo” (Ront. 8:13). “To therrforo shall be perfect even as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Mat. 5:48). "And If thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast It from thee" (Mat. 18:8). See Rom. 8:2; Fphes. 4:22-24; 1 Tim. 4:8. Meditation: If It is a question between love and luxury, if it is a question between using possessions selfishly or magnanimously, the spiritual-minded man suffers from no uncertainty; he values the spirit above everything. Yet so strong are the bodily appetites and the lesser instincts that rigorous discipline is necessary to attain spiritual dominance. “No man can steer his way throtfgh tho ocean of lifo whose wu is not on the stars.” ™ Hymn: Christian, rise and act thy creed, Bet thy pray'r be in thy deed: Seek the right, perform the true, Raise thy work and life anew. Hearts around thee sink with care; Thou canst help their load to bear, Thou canst bring inspiring light. Arm their faltering wills to fight. Come, then. Law divine, and reign, Freest faith assailed in vain. Perfect love bereft of fear, Born in heaven and radiant here. • —F. A. Rollo Russell, 1893. Prayer: Pray for spiritual power; j the alert mind that sees clearly; tho! discouraged. Collect —O God. who dwellest in the beauty of holiness embodied In j noble men and for the revelation of | Thyself In Jesus Christ the lncarna- f tlon of thy conquering love. We are j covered with shamo at the thought j of Thy faithfulness for we have not j been ever true to Thee. Keep ua from infidelity to Thy friendship. Save us from treachery of soul. From the choice of evil and from the enthronement of the lesser things deliver us. Awaken in us a living sense of Thy spirit. Give us hunger and thirst for righteousness. May our hearts burn with the presence of Christ in us. So would we enthrone Thee, trust Thee, love Thee, obey Thee; all by the grace of Christ. Amen. What is tho language of the original Magna l harta? Has it been* translated? / The original was in Latin. The most accurate and complete ropy I* preserved In Lincoln Cathedral. The board of commissioners on public records ordered a facsimile of It to be engraved. It has been frequently translated Into Lnglish.