Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1927 — Page 6

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Ko laiv shall be passed restraining the free inter change of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana

Same Old Story Well, the members of the State Senate will get their pay for acting as judges In the Dearth impeachment. With four exceptions, the members have swallowed the insult to their dignity and have taken the cash. The vehement denunciations of the fact that the appropriation bill passed by the Legislature was not the same which was signed by the Governor and is now the law governing the spending of the people’s money have been echoed only by the jingling of the dollars paid In salaries. Gone is the fire of indignation and the determination that the power of the Legislature should be recognized at last to the extent of haviug the laws it passed go into effect as it passed them. Instead of a government as contemplated by the Constitution of distinct legislative and executive departments, we now have government by bargaining. The Governor promises to go into that very convenient contingent fund given to him for money for the vegetable growers whose appropriation was passed and missing, promises not to divert certain funds from the Butlerville institution and, most important, to pay the Senators from the contingent 'unci. In return there will be no special session as demanded by the fiery Senators who first believed that they had been tricked or flaunted. The change, very significantly, followed the visit to the city of the leaders of the utility lobby who are very watchful over government in this State and who can always be depended upon to serve as guardians in a crisis. The utilities did not want a special session. There was fear that some members who have been home since the regular session might have heard from their neighbors and been convinced that the voice of constituents were more emphatic than the siren songs of the lobbyists. Voices sound different at home than they do in hotel rooms. Likewise, certain officials who escaped investigation by the Legislature were terrified by the thought that perhaps a special session would be less suppressive than the regular meeting of the Assembly. All the powers of the utilities and the powers of the professional politicians were against a special session—and there will be no special session. The only tangible result of the furore for a special session to legalize the appropriation bill ami make it conform to the will of the Legislature is an exposure of the nature of the contingent fund given to the Governor to be spent by him at will. It is now discovered that he can spend it for anything he pleases and no official opinions rise to c heck him. Out of that fund went SII,OOO last year for attorneys to act as advisers for the grand jury which was charged with the task of investigating State officials. The law's provide, for payment for expenses of grand juries. Nowhere in the law does there come any suggestion that the Governor pay high priced lawyers for matters In which his official family is vitally interested. In the payment of the State Senators for the impeachment, the condition is even more absurd. The Attorney General ruled that the impeachment proceedings were illegal and that therefore the State Auditor could not pay the salaries of Senators from funds directly appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose. But there is no objection to paying the same Senators exactly the same amounts from the Governor's funds for a purpose which the Attorney General says was illegal. Just how payment by the Governor for an illegal purpose can be reconciled with refusal to pay under orders of the Legislature can be explained only by Senators who took their pay in this manner. To the ordinary citizen it would seem that if it is illegal to spend State money for the impeachment from one fund, it would be illegal to spend it for any fund. Under the theory of Gilliom, the Senators meeting as impeachment judges, had no more legal standing than a gathering of newsboys in a back alley for the same purpose. Under his ruling that impeachment court simply did not exist, but was a gathering of men without official power and entirely in an unofficial capacity. They could have been ejected by a janitor had the custodian so desired. But they do get their money from the Jackson fund. If they can draw it, why not others? Why should not the Elephants get some to conduct their meetings? What is to prevent personal gifts to any one whom the Governor might wish to remember? , Same old story. When the politicians and tho lobbyists want anything they get it and there is always a way to crash into the people’s pocketbook. New Words Needed New conditions necessitate new words. The dictionary grows as new phenonena appear in so'ciety and old words fail to describe them. Comes now a member of the State Senate with the suggestion that Hie prohibition question demands the introduction of at. least Iwo new words to designate the defenders of the present age of Volstead ism. The Senator has had a chance to observe. He has the background of experience. He has been in position to understand. "Prohibocrat” is his suggestion for one branch of the dry forces and by this name he would identify all those who really believe in prohibition in principle and believe in it so firmly that they would cast aside all tho safeguards of the Bill of Rights in order to destroy alcohol. He has discovered that this question of prohibition is of such strong appeal to many that they believe that if necessary, all force and power of Government should be used to search homes, invade automobiles, tap hip pockets, smell breaths, and fill jails with those who offend. He w’ould thus distinguish those who believe in Government by force and correct human habits by jails and fines. The other word he believes would characterize a much larger following and these ho would classify

as prohibocrits, a combination of the word prohibition and hypocrits. For he has discovered that very many men, especially In public office, are very damp in their personal habits and very dry in their official actions. He would use this word as an epithet of contempt and would have it rigidly applied by both the prohfbocrats and the frankly wets. That there are vast numbers of men in public office, in Legislatures, in State capitols, in county offices, who pledge the dry voters their support and then openly violate the same law as often as opportunity presents, is no secret. The disappearance of whisky from Federal buildings suggests that not all Government officials are opposed to whisky or its use. Sometimes a word destroys. If the word prohibocrit would drive from office all those who gain it by an appeal to dry forces and then flagrantly violate the law themselves, the State Senator would deserve the thanks of those who really want the law enforced. But as long as there remain in office men who give word allegiance to the law only, prohibition must remain more or less of a farce. Too Many Weeks In a Year One booster nuisance Is about to be put to a restful sleep, if we can believe the United States Chamber of Commerce. We refer to the special week atrocity. The civic development department of the chamber has gone into the subject, and come forth with the information that there aren’t enough weeks to go around. At least 100 claims have been staked out, ranging all the way from “Achievement week, “Y. W. C. A. week,’’ “Pay your bills week,” to “Cranberry week,” “Eat corn week,” "Parents’ week,” “Temperance week,” “Be kind to animals week,” and just plain “Courtesy week.” The foodstuffs are especially hungry for weeks. There are weeks for apples, milk, oranges, prunes and canned foods. Other virtues in addition to those enumerated above are clamoring for seven days’ special notice per year so that we have “Pride in appearance week,” “Honesty week” and “Self-denial week.” The list also includes civic, hygiene and esthetic weeks, such as “Good roads week,” “Poetry week,” “Bicycle week,” “Reindeer week,” “Good English week,” and “Good health week. ’ The chamber says the special week method of harnessing public attention has been overdone. It certainly has. A Connecticut professor spends his spare time on street corners in New York and London taking notes on people and things. We wonder how many bets he has been offered on the ponies. War Minister Painleve of France recently decorated his stenographer for "exceptional services.” Mr. Mellon has some ideas of decoration he’s been trying to get France to adopt. We always have wondered what these little girl evangelists want to be when they grow up. It is a quaint and curious fact that all the bunkers are not on golf courses.

How Will Republicans Manage the Democrats? By N. I). Cochran

About the time Congress adjourned some Demo- j cratic leaders got their heads together in Washington | and solemnly decided that prohibition will not be an issue in the next presidential campaign. The other day Secretary Mellon bowed to the iron ! will of the Anti-Saloon Deague lobby and appointed Roy Haynes prohibition commissioner. There may be some connection between these seemingly separate events, and it inay spell trouble for Democrats who want to dodge the prohibition issue next year. If Democratic leaders care to Indulge in a little historical research they might discover that through the Anti-Saloon League lobby the Republican strategists have played the game of divide and conquer in the last two presidential elections. Through control of the prohibition forces in the solid South and. through the Ku-Klux Klan, fanning into a flame of fanatacism the intense Protestantism of the same Democratic section. Republican strategists split the Democratic party into warring factions, the climax coming at Madison Square Garden in 1924. On that memorable occasion over 300 delegates to the Democratic national convention were practically directed by Republican politicians from a hotel across the street. To get light on recent political strategy it should be remembered that the Anti-Saloon League was organized by a coterie of Methodist preachers at Westerville. Ohio—all of whom were Republicans. Through a working alliance with Harry M. Daugherty, the league helped nominate and elect Harding President in 1920. Daugherty played fair and Haynes was put at the head of the prohibition fortes of the Administration. The league's influence was also largely instrumental in putting Willis and Fess in the United States Senate from Ohio. Under Coolidge, Secretary Mellon side-tracked Haynes. During the Administration of General Andrews, Haynes was kept on the pay roll, but had little or no authority. Now he is back on the job, stronger 1 than ever, and Wayne Wheeler is in the saddle. i' °r a time it seemed as if the political power of the league was waning. Then last year it threw a scare into Republican leaders by putting a third candidate in the field in New York and defeating Senator Wadsworth, who had defied the league. Anyhow, when Wheeler demanded the new prohibition job for Haynes he got it. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, if Wheeler and iiis Anti-Saloon League lobby would now get busy, revive the demand for prohibition in the solid South and pi event the amiable purpose of Democratic leaders to dodge the issue. But that won’t be all. One of the political forces closely allied to the league is the KuKlux Klan. Both drew their strength in the South mostly from the Baptist and Methodist churches. ‘ s irewd political strategy will doubtless suggest that these two forces, guided by Republican strategists, get behind the same old wedge and drive it once more between the South and the Northern and Eastern Democrats. Another fact worth remembering is that prohibition succeeded only when the fight changed from a rnoial crusade to an economic campaign. The .Eighteenth Amendment went over when Big Business, meaning in this case the big employer of labor, put up the campaign fund. And Big Business is generally back of the Republican party. Certainly it is well satisfied with the Coolidge Administration. Unless the Anti-Saloon League has lost its grip on the South, Republican strategists will put the Democratic party right back in the same hole it got into in 1920 and 1924.

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Forged Document and Bolshevist Tales May Have Common Source

By M. E. Tracy Stories coming out of Washington with regard to those forged Mexican notes sound very much like the tale of a Bolshevist hegemony in Central America which one news service so blithely fathered for the State Department last November. One may be pardoned for suspecting that they emanate from the same source. . They certainly presented the same other marks —anonymity, hidden meaning and an obvious desire to throw dust in somebody’s eyes. We are not only told that the forget is known, but just how he worked. This being so, why is it necessary to leave out his name? He washed the contents off the State Department's papers, it seems, leaving only the head and Mr. Kellogg’s signature, and then wrote in what he liked. Sometimes, it is insinuated, he didn’t wash off all the contents, but only a word of phrase here and there. The mystery of it is how he came by the papers in the first place. Did he steal them outright, like a common thief, or was he in a position to make use of them w’ithout. having to employ such methods? If theft was committeed, did it occur in Washington, Mexico City, or while the papers were in transit? Hypnotism, Defense. Henry Judd Gray, accused of murdering Albert Snyder along with the latter s widow, now says that Mrs. Snyder hypnotized him. This brings up an interesting question. It is popular belief that a person susceptible to hypnotism can be made to do most anything. Most scientists hold, however, that hypnotism cannot make a person do what is contrary to his or her moral nature. France and China France is preparing to give up her Shanghai concession to the Cantonese, according to one report, and Japan is ready to take drastic action against them, according to another. You couldn’t blame France very much if she did take such action, I because when the international j settlement was barricaded, her con- i cession was left out. Still it would complicate matters not only in China, but in other ! places. The situation has become ] so tense that public opinion in i Europe and America would resent * any move that weakened the com- 1 mon defense or that p.aced foreigners in more danger than they already are. As for Japan, she is merely making a virtue of necessity by lining up with the English.

Simple Philosophy Meanwhile that grand old bandit, Chang Tso-Lin, is marching down from the north with what is supposed to be the best equipped army ever mobilized in China. He has no illusions about religion or politics, but goes on the simple plan “that he should take who has the power and he should keep who can.” This is a philosophy that even coolies can understand. The crisis will come when Tso-Lin meets the Cantonese, which will certainly happen if some good diplomat doesn’t show' a way to divide China between them. Averages Warner H. Hays, secretary of the Clock Manufacturers Association of America, says that the average man earns one cent and a half every minute. The trouble Is that averages do not mean much to the Individual. In order to find out what the average earning capacity is, you must take into account such men as Babe Ruth, who earns fifty times as much as a common laborer; Douglas Fairbanks, who earns 500 times as much, and Henry Ford, who earns 30,000 times as much. I was on a jury once which couldn't agree as to the number of years a Texas prisoner should be sentenced to serve. We finally hit upon the happy idea of letting each juror put down the number of years he thought just and striking an average. One juror put down 5,000.

Y\j AfK OH2 Today being All Fools’ day, VNow You Ask One” is a sort of hash questions on all kinds of subjects, most of them kinda tough. You’ll find the answers on page 28: 1. How far is it from the earth to the North Star? 2. What kind of people prefer blonds? 3. Who provides a home at the bottom of the ocean for drowned sailors? 4. What does the novel, ’’Jurgen.” say is rather more than likely to happen on St. Walpurgis’ eve? 6. Who is the finest baby in America? (Skip this if you aren’t a parent.) 6. What did Clarence Darrow and the late William Jennings Bryan have in common? 7. When did Senator Heflin of Alabama express admiration for Harry M. Daugherty's regime as attorney general? 8. What qualities or things are absolutely lacking when two strong men meet face to face? 9. Where did a famous big league ball player once advise batters to hit the ball? 10. Who will be Peggy Joyce's next husband?

Marie Walsh and Frank Ellis Collect Real Comedy for Their Variety Act

Marie Walsh and Frank Ellis may not know what it Is to be really serious, but on the last half bill at the Palace this week they certainly know how to turn in a great collection of comedy. Ellis on first appearance impresses one as one of those informal types that just doesn’t care what it is all about. He develops the idea and it is not long until every one is with him. He is especially good in a sort of singing monologue in which he tells us of “what a good little house ours is.” He makes this little specialty carry a lot of real honest comedy. Miss Walsh is an able partner in all the fun and contributes a charming appearance and personality to their offering. One of her numbers that she. and many out front, apparently liked very much is an Egyptian dance that she does following a song by Ellis. This team has a good sense of comedy and th£y use it well. Hewitt and Hall offer some good harmony singing asid a little comedy. They are a likeable pair of men and their musical numbers) are

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Frederick V. Bowers Heading his own revue, “Revue De Luxe of 1927,” Frederick V. Bowers is at the Lyric this W’eek. He states he believes that old hands in the show business should help and encourage new talent. He is doing that this week.

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Topic for the Week “SPIRITUAL INTERCOURSE” Friday "Friendship With God Involves Mutual Self-revelation and Answering Trust” (King) SCRIPTURE: Head Hosea 14. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us” (I. Jn. 1-9). "Come now and let us reason together, saith Jehovah” (Isa. 1:18). “Thus saith Jehovah that created thee . . . Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by name: thou art mine” (Isa. 43:1). “He wakeneth morning by morning. He wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught” (Isa. 50:4). See—Micah (5:8; Romans 8:26-28. MEDITATION: God has revealed his mind to us. How clear I really am on many things concerning the mind of God! How God trusts me! If I doubt It for a moment I have only to stop and think. It is strange I should consider any of my concerns hidden from him. But I will bring all my Interest to him voluntarily. I will trust him. I will listen to his words to me. I will bring to him the confession of my sins and the fervor of my desires. “God. often speaks to me in a cloud—reveals Himself through that which seems an absence of revelation.” HYMN: Christian, rise, and act thy creed, Let thy pray’r be in thy deed; Seek the right, perform the true thy work and life anew. t Hearts around thee sink with care: Thou canst help their load to bear, Thou canst bring inspiring light, I 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: Thanks for the Great Friend. Pray so of self; strangers to God. Collect —O God, who dwellest in the beauty of holiness, we praise Thee for the beauty of the earth, for loveliness embodied in noble men and for the revelation of Thyself in Jesus Christ Ihe incarnation of Thy conquering love. We are covered with shame at the thought of Thy faithfulness for we have not been ever true to Thee. Keep us 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.

catchy enough to appeal to most every one. Under the title of “The Vaudeville Doctor,” is an act that misses fire in several spots. Some dancers seemingly will never learn that it is best to try to conceal something. A little mystery is much better than complai'* frankness in some things. The two girs singing harmony have severel pleasing offerings, and there is a good number where the man plays a saxophone and one of the girls dances. This would be a real good act if a little thought was indulged in by whoever manages it. Arthur Jarrett and company present a comedy sketch concerning the marital troubles of a young pair. There are quite a few laughs to the offering, and it does not slow up at

C Auction bt/J/Hilion -CMrk K J Case Where Small Card Is Played From Dummy Hand,

Tlie pointer for today Is: With Queen-x In Dummy and Ace-Ten-x in Closed Hand, play small from Dummy. The idea of playing Queen from Queen x in Dummy on a small card ied against No Trump, is so firmly planted in the minds of many, that they fail to appreciate that in some cases—and notably in the one covered by the above pointer—it is inadvisable to do so. When the Closed Hand has Ace-Ten-x, the play of the small card from Dummy ensures the making of two tricks in the suit; with the Quean played only one trick may be made. If the Queen be played and it be covered by the King, the Closed Hand probably will take with the Ace, and have left the guarded Ten. That Ten will take a trick if the next lead of that suit he made from the adverse hand on the left; but if it be made from the adverse hand on the right, the Ten probably will be captured. By playing small, two tricks must be made regardless of the location of the adverse King and Jack. If both be in the hifnd of the leader, the Ten will take the first trick and the Ace a subsequent trick. If both be in the Third Hand, the Ace will take the first trick and the Ten the third trick. If the lead be from the King, the Third Hand having the Jack, the Ace will take the first trick and the Ten the third trick; and if the lead be from the Jack, the Third Hand having the King (as in the hand given yesterday), two tricks are assured for Declarer: Yesterday's illustrative hand was as follows: North S. Q-4 H. 8 6-5-2 D. K-Q-6-2 C. K-9-3 West East S. J-9-7-5-2 S. K-8-3 H. 10-4 H. A-J-7 D. J-7 D. 10-9-5-4 C. 10-8-7-2 C. Q-J-4 South S. A-10-6 H. K-Q-9-3 D. A-8-3 C. A-6-5 With the Five of Spades led. Dummy should play the Four, East the King and South could win with tho Ace, or duck and take the second and third tricks in the suit. The duck would be better because, if the first trick be won, command of the suit must be given up on the second lead. Playing a No-Trump, it is generally wise to keep a winning card of the adverse suit until the partner of the leader has no more of it. The balance of the play tomorrow. (Copyright, John F. Dille Cos.)

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any time, as is customary with such things. As for George N. Brown, we cannot say very much. There is nothing in the act that comes under our classification of entertainment, and we did not like several things done in the act. The photoplay feature the last half is "Better Way,” with Ralph Inee and Dorothy Revier. Also comedy and news reels. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) Theaters today offer: “If I Was Rich,” at English’s, Ledova, at Keith's; George N. Brown, at the Palace; Frederick V. Bowers at the Lyric; “Slide, Kelly, Slide,” at the Ohio; “The Fire Brigade,” at the Apollo; “Orchids and Ermine” at the Circle; “Sweet Rosie O’Grady,” at the Uptown; “Obey the Law,” at the Isis, and burlesque at the Mutual.

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al leadership through her spiritual teachings. The individual referred to In the advertising as Mrs. Eddy’s successor deserted Mrs. Eddy and her Church before she passed on and lias since endeavored to estnh lish one of her own. It. is obvious that she is not Mrs. Eddy’s sue cessor. q'he allegations and arguments concerning the Manual Mother Church are merely Mynal opinions. Tho Christian Board of Directors of the\ Mother Church lias equal right, of opinion but in the administration of that Manual, it has not relied exclusively on the views of Its members. It position is supported by letters and documents of Mrs. Eddy, the counsel and aid of many individuals who worked personally under Mrs. Eddy’s instructions, and by the best legal opinions, and the highest courts having jurisdiction. Moreover, the Board of Directors have never attempted to assume Mrs. Eddy’s spiritual leadership. The by-laws of the Mother Church havo not been abandoned or perverted by officers and members of Mrs. Eddy’s Church. They ere, diligently and closely followed by all loyal followers of Mrs. Eddy who refuse to permit individuals dissatis fled with the Church established byMrs. Eddy to interpret those by-laws for them. CHARLES W. HALE, Christian Science Committee on! Publication. Willi what opera companies are Gigli and Schipa associated? Gigli is the leading tenor of tho Metropolitan Opera Company of Nei\ York and Schipa is the leading lyrictenor with the Chicago Grand Opera Company. What are ilie “Lauda”? The name was given to early Italian religious and spiritual pongs dating from the thirteenth cjftery They gradually became more dramatic and thus playK a,-, important part in the development of the Italian drama. They were produced in largo numbers till tho fifteenth century.