Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 323, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1927 — Page 4

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

Another Lost Chapter One more of the ancient bulwarks slipped away, apparently when the'Supreme Court decided that the members of the Legislature will draw $lO a day instead of six as salaries for the session just closed. The Constitution of the State and the charters of most cities provide that lawmakers cannot raise their own wages. This safeguard against the greed of officials has always semed to be reasonable. When men seek public office and are given power over the expenditure of money, it is not unreasonable to limit that power or spending money so as not to permit them to take It from the treasury in the form of higher salaries. But the last Legislature, when it assembled, thought that it* could jimmy more dollars out of the treasury. The former Legislature had decided that the members were underpaid and following tradition, fixed salaries to take effect at a time when none of the members voting for the increase, would be in office. The theory that higher salaries would attract a better class of officials and candidates did not apply until two years hence, for no member when a candidate had any idea of drawing more than the usual $6 a day. Whatever may bo the legal argument of the three members of the Supreme Court who finally decided to let the lawmakers have their increase, the plain truth is that, members of the Legislature did raise their own salaries above a sum which they had expected to get. Two members of the Supreme Court say that the action was against the constitution and that these members who voted an increase of salaries are no more entitled to the money than they would be had they taken a jimmy and a gun and walked away with it from the treasurer's office. # "What is the Constitution between friends?’’ was the cynical comment of a very shrewd politician of this State. The Supreme Court gives the answer. We Hope Mr. Stimson’s Been Misquoted Former Secretary of War Henry L. Stlmson, sent by President Coolidge to war-torn Nicaragua to make a special study of the situation for him, has arrived at Managua, the conservative capital. Interviewed upon landing at Corinto he said ho planned to study the entire situation from an impartial standpoint. He would listen to both sides and entertain suggestions from any responsible peisons, whether liberals or conservatives. Which sounds very well, but for the fact that there are no "responsible” liberals in Managua. That is, none outside of jail. Then maybe Mr. Stimson is going to cross over to the east coast of Nicaragua or go to some neutral interior point and there hear what Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, the liberal president, has to say.. Not so, according to .the dispatchos. If Dr. Sacasa wishes to visit him} he is quoted as saying, he will receive him. But, he added, apparently for fear he might be misunderstood, he was “not suggesting such a step. Imagine a European visiting the United States during the Civil War to make an impartial study of that conflict and visiting only one side. Imagine him calling on Jeff Davis, then saying: "Now if Lincoln wishes !o visit me here in Richmond* “I’ll receive him.’’. Or, imagine him stopping off at Washington and in an off-hand sort of way suggesting Davis might make his way through the Union lines to tell him his side of the story. There's a civil war on in Nicaragua. One capital Is at Managua. The other is at Puerto Cabezas, clea|* over on the other coast. An impartial investigator would call at both places and talk to the Liberal Sacasa as well as to the conservative Diaz. We siucerely hope the President’s envoy has been misquoted. For unless he has been, he might have saved himself both time and trouble by writing his report without having left this country. We don't believe his chief wants that kind of a story. Why Not Bring Them Here? It was an excellent thing, that debate on prohibition arranged by the Roosevelt Club in Boston. Two men whose motives are above suspicion stood before an eagerly interested audience and argued the pros and cons of the subject. Each gave the other credit for sincerity and intelligence and each treated the other with respect. Yet, it was not a dull affair, but the contrary. The stenographic report of the speeches bristles with brackets reading (applause, laughter and cheers.) The audience not only was edified, but had a good time. Even those who paid as much as S2O for a seat evidently thought they got their money’s worth. Why not bring Senator Borah and President Butler to Indianapolis for a similar debate? Neither has said his last word on the subject. Each has given the other cause for thought and, no doubt, aroused a desire to further drive home the ideas expressed in Boston. If not Butler and Borah, then two others of prominence—providing that two men capable of conducting a debate on the same high plane can be found. Tricky, demagogic orators of either side would not do. We've heard enough of them. What is wanted is honest discussion by men who have studied the question from the standpoint of the general welfare, men who are scholars grounded in the history of this and other nations. Paid speakers for the Anti-Saloon League are out. Likewise are paid speakers of the other side. The issue is great and important, too much so to be trifled with. The president of Columbia University and the senior Senator from Idaho approach it in the right spirit, the spirit that lends hope to enlightenment. It is their type that Indianapolis should hear. The very fact that such debate could" be arranged and carred through in the excellent manner reported from Boston is encouraging. “The subject is not debatable,” has been the attitude of the Anti-Saloon League. Yet we now read that Wayne B. Wheeler himself has agreed to debate it with Clarence Darrow. The people of this country recognize that the temperance problem still remains and they are seeking a solution. ' Honest debating bound to help.

Self-Made Men Dr. Edward A Fitzpatrick, dean of the graduate school of Marquette University, took occasion to remark the other day that all men—even college ] graduates—are “self-made men.” “Education can in the last analysis be only a process of self-development, where a man is master of his fate, and the artist creating his own life out of the raw materials of his experience,” he says. That's a point worth stressing. In school or out of it, every man is constantly meeting new experiences, each one of which has a certain effect on him. His reaction to these experiences determines what he will be. He is, after all, arbiter of his own destiny, to that extent at any rate. We are, as Dr. Fitzpatrick says, all self-made men. Where Are the Farm Leaders? Here’s something the farm leaders of the coun- j try might explain. Since 1920 most of them have been advocating various forms of government relief for the fanners, j At the same time they have charged that the railroads gouge the farmers and have demanded rate reductions. Since 1920 there lias been almost continual controversy over railroad valuation. Freight rates depend on the outcome of that controversy. The interstate commerce commission has one theory of how railroads should be valued; the railroads have an. other. If the railroads win their contention, the commission predicts that freight rates will go higher instead of lower. The money stake involved directly is something like $30,000,000,000. The indirect stake-*-freight I rates on farm products as a striking example—makes the sum vastly larger. No class is so. vitally affected, perhaps, as the farmers. But, where have the farm leaders been during this long controversy? Absent, moving up and down the highways and the lanes shouting for rate reductions in general, they have kept out of the controversy that probably will determine whether they are ever to have any reductions. What is the reason? This May Explain It was revealed, when Senator Reed was asking Sam Jnsull embarrassing questions about the money he had contributed to the Illinois campaign, that a certain amount of Insull money had gone to the Chicago city organization. It was in resisting inquiries concerning this money that Incull got himself charged with contempt of the United States Senate. There may be some light on all this in two things that have happened since Big Bill Thompson regained the mayor's office. firs!, he appointed Samuel Ettelson corporation counsel. Sam Ettelson is Sam Insull's attorney. Second, he made a speech in which he declared: “Electrification as on the Illinois Central Railroad must bo extended to all other railroads.” Sam Insull owns all the electricity in or about Chicago. A United Citizenship “It is time to stop thinking about the good of the party and to think about the good of Indianapolis,” was the slogan raised by J. W. Esterline, outstanding citizen, in behalf of the city manager form of government. The bad government, and Had government in the past and present is admitted, as far as this city is concerned can be traced directly to the effect of partisan politics. The desire to build up political machines which can be used to promote the ambitions of men for State and national office is responsible for the misrule of this city. Men go into office hampered by partisan affiliations and party promises. Public office is looked upon not as an opportunity for service, but as a means of advancing private interests. Men are appointed to the jobs not for their ability to perform work in behalf of the city and not because they are fitted by training and experience, but because they have influence at election time and in the primaries. The attention of the voters is centered not on the capacity or the integrity of candidates, but upon their party labels. Republican and Democratic voters, who want exactly the same thing from a city government, are divided at the polls by their prejudices and their traditions. The city manager form of government makes of city government a business institution, designed to give the people an efficient administration of their affairs. The city government has to do with streets, not with tariffs, with law enforcement, not with the League of Nations. Yet the people are divided on their beliefs on national problems when they go to vote. In cities which are operated under the city manager form, and there are over 360 of them in this country, partisan politics has been replaced by efficiency. It permits good citizens, and by good citizens is . meant the men and the women who want honesty, decency and efficiency, to stand together at the polls and not to work under the burdens and handicaps of a politically controlled machine. One of tfie fine results that will come from this change to be voted on June 21 will be an opportunity for a united citizenship in behalf of a greater Indianapolis. A man can’t kick just because he has only one leg. The Chinese row reminds us that it’s time for spring housecleanmg. Maybe the reason the United States takes so little interest in the rest of the world is because it takes so little out. There are worse things than a car that won’t start. For instance, a car that won’t stop. The civil war in China Is almost all over—china.

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Tracy V Says: Some People Think We Are About to Enter an Era of Free Love.

By M. E. Tracy The news is not only thick with murder, but with murder of a peculiar kind. The Gray-Snyder is one of three now stirring the East, in which a man and a woman are charged with conspiring to kill the woman’s husband in which their infatuation for each other has turned to hate. There have always been such cases and doubtless there always will be, but they are coming too fast to be explained on the ground of coincidence. It is justifiable to assume that they are sympathetic of something new in our scheme of life, especially when considered in. connection with the increase of divorce. Why Not Prepare? Some people think we are about to enter an era of free love, and that instead of being shocked at the prospect, we should provide for it in sensible and scientific ways. Judge Lindsay has suggested that we might adopt "companionable marriage,” and Judge Lewis of Chicago predicts that we will eventually permit prenuptial unions, though not for a few hundreds years perhaps. If prenuptial unions are ever permitted, isn't it common sense to suppose that the wedding ceremony will be done away with altogether? Those who think we can substitute something for the marriage contract in one respect without destroying it in all respects, ignore the tendencies of human nature. Fruit of Idleness Much of this free loving and intriguing is due to idleness, especially on the part of women. The *young married woman with nothing to do has become a veritable pest. It was commonly supposed that she would use her spare time and energy for self-improve-ment, that the vacuum cleaner, the electric washing machine and the apartment which virtually takes care of itself promised an age of such culture and intellectuality on the part of the women as was never before known. Instead, we get a multiplication of bridge clubs, dancing parties and sex triangles and sometimes murder. Raging Mississippi The Mississippi boils over. A dozen persons have been drowned already, 25,000 have been made homeless, and the worst is yet to come. Nobody shows must interest, however, except those immediately concerned. Here is something which we might philosophic" with profit and our best writers might analyze to advantage. •Scared by Figures Some years ago Senator Newlands presented a program for taming the Mississippi. It required the expenditure of $600,000,000 and would have taken ten years to complete. The Government took fright at such staggering figures and sidestepped. A little later, however, we entered a war which cost fifty times as much. Here again is something we might philosophize about with profit. Bunk for ‘Boobs’ There are plenty of opportunities to work in this country without quarreling, to do big things and to make investments on which we can look back with pride. Why don't we build more, instead of wasting our energy in disputes and fracases that get nowhere? Why don’t we give the doctor, the engineer, the chemist a bigger chance and put more of a premium on constructive thought? Rykoff says that the capitalist world is preparing to make war on China and Russia. That is “bunk for the boobs,” as a great New Yorker once said after delivering a speech in Indiana. The capitalist world is doing a lot of things it would better leave undone, but it is not paying bolshevism the compliment of preparing for war. Tammany a Handicap Tammany is ready to establish wigwams throughout the country, we are told, which was what its founders intended. No matter what its founders intended, Tammany would better think twice before taking in so much territory, especially if it wishes to help Governor Smith. Tammany is already one of his greatest handicaps. Tales of Finance The recent stock dividend declared by the United States Steel Corporation makes It a billion-dollar corporation. That the transaction was a paper one.-is shown by the fact that it caused little excitement *n the stock market. United States Steel is worth no more than it was a week ago, but the stockholders have been given a look-in on prospective earnings. Meanwhile, the American Telegraph and Telephone Company outranks United States Steel by a few millions, while such gigantic concerns as Standard Oil, General Motors and the Pennsylvania Railroad trail far behind. As for Henry Ford, he has the capitalization of a fifth rate national bank in New York, but the greatest cash reserve of them all, and he isn't passing any stock dividends to anyone but himself and family. Where is the story of Gideon and his men found? Gideon was a Judge of Israel and the story concerning him Is found the book of Judges in the Bible, , chapter 6 and 8.

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Looking Over New Events in Painting World at the Herron Art Institute

Let us journey today through the Herron Art Institute. The conventionalizing of both form and color in the work of Max Bohin imparts to it a decorative value that enhances the poetic imagery of his motifs. His forms are achieved by flat areas of unbroken mass and a restrained use of line. His color is rich, with no suggestion of vibration or reflection or glancing light. Bohm was no impressionist. He expressed himself after the manner of the “old masters," but with a spontaneity—a happy realization of the charm of unstudied technique—that is wholly modern. Five of the paintings shown deal with the sea. Before they were painted Bohm. with the thoroughness that characterized him, went to sea and studied his subject at close range. Then he produced those canvasses and others, and they represent his intimate reaction to life on the fathomless depths. They have a somber quality that is for the most part absent from his other work. They were painted in no holiday mood. They show grim skies, heavy water and dark old ships, but in them the artist's unerring feeling for beauty of pattern

Your Brains 1 Daily

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If you follow present day drama, either at first hand or in the magazines, today’s list of questions ought not to be hard for you. The answers are printed on page 14: 1. What famous American actress is this? 2. Name five of the best known plays written by Booth Tarkington of Indianapolis. 3. In which of the Tarkington plays did Otis Skinner appear? 4. In what way dis Miss Ann Nichols playwright, earn a huge fortune during the last four or five years? 5. Who wrote “The Great God Brown?" 6. What Shakespearean play was given some months ago in modern costumes? 7. What actress starred for a long time in the play “Rain?” 8. What husband and wife have acted for many years in Shakespearean plays? 9. What prominent actress is the daughter of what equally prominent poet? 10. Who wrote and acted in “Is Zat So?” 11. What producer stages musical revues under the title “The Scandals?" 12. Collaboration in the authorship of what play mads Laurence Stallings famous?

persists and they have much fine, deep color. After a study of these pictures of the sea. it is interesting to turn to the Ritchel paintings in the adjoining gallery. These are for the most part marines. Ritchel is preeminently a marine painter. Ilis is the gift of encompassing the boundlessness of ocean wastes within a three-foot frame. In "The Trade Wind" a gallant gray ship churns .through choppy waves of a marvelous blue color. There are porpoises, too, their shining, curving forms leaping from the water. For sheer romance, a great ship under full sail has no peers, and this painting has caught th" same spirit of high adventure that is associated with the golden galleons of an earlier day. There is blue water also In “The Derelict"—a keener, more smarting blue—and white foam and a heavy smothering tlf . “Ktormbeaten (.'oast” shows a green sea and black rocks; “A Morning Hour" purple rocks overgrown wfith warm brown weeds and tumbling. splashing waves, all clear blues and greens and lavenders. These paintings hold the very essence of the tempestuous sea and will prove gratifying to esthetic appetites satiated with the fields and hills and winding roads of the Indiana landscape. Among the artists represented in the present showing of “Modern French Prints and Drawings,” the names of Ingres and Delacroix appear anachronous. in (heir day they both were moderns, but their day is long past, and Ingres appears distinctly formal to art patrons of 1927, and Delacroix tfresomely emotional. Ingres (1780-1867) was, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, considered an iconoclast among the classicists, and though recognized as a leader of the young classicists, was subjected to the most hostile criticism by the established school. The Romanticists, under the leader-

Questions and Answers

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ship of Delacroix, were at this same period violently protesting their modernism to the disadvantage of Ingres and his revised classicism. The dominance of Delacroix's dramatic sense overweights his compositions with passion and exposes him to the derision of the epithet “sentimental," which is the crudest word in the critical vocabulary of today. The exhibition in Gallery II includes a lithograph made from the Ingres painting, “Odalisque." This portrays a graceful reclining female figure—wonderful in its flow of line and beauty of composition. The very patent exaggeration in the drawing marks it as a departure from the early sehool of classicism, but in its present company its delicacy and elegance seem oddly out of pi me. Delacroix's “Lion rte I'Atlas” has little to recommend it either in inspiration or composition, but its “naturalness,’’ Its “individualism'’ proclaim it a bold departure from the dignified conventions that bound Ingres. Among the drawings. “Pont St. Michel,” by Paul Signac is a crisp, fresh water color with sprightly unrelated color spots through which form and harmony are achieved. “Pontreuse,” also by .Signac, is a study of boats —bright splashes washed over a bold pencil drawing. “Pnysage," by Jean Duffy, is a vivid sketch, less vibrating than the Signac water colors and distinguished by decisive outlines. Indianapolis theaters today offer: The Booth Tarkington play night at the Murat; “Whispering Wires,” at English's; Will Mahoney, at Keith's; Gene Austin, at the Lyric; Gordon and Healy, at the Palace; “Beau Geste,” at the Colonial; “Special Delivery," at the Ohio; movies at the Uptown: "Fashions for Women,” at the Apollo; “Three Hours,” at the Circle; “The Rambling Ranger," at the Isis and burlesque at the Murat.

you are going west until you come back to New York, having circled the globe. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean at the 180th parallel of longitude, you gain a day or lose a day depending on whether you are traveling around the world in an easterly direction or a westerly direction. The direction does not change at that parallel of longitude; only time changes. Can I get a Victory button from the War Department to replace the one I lost? ' The War Department does not supply duplicate Victory buttons. They can be bought from Bailey, Banks & Biddle, 1218 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, upon presentation of honorable discharge papers. How soon after one receives his second citizenship papers does he become a full citzien of the United States? Immediately. * How old is Lillie Langtry, the actress? Is she still on the stage? She was born in Jersey, England, Oct. 13, 1852. She has retired from the stags, and lives at Regal Lodge, Kentford, Suffolk, England. Where did the expression "All roads lead to Rome" originate? What does it maen? Rome was the focus of the ancient Roman empire and from that center a net work of roads radiated. The expression, “All roads lead to Rome," has taken its meaning from that ancient fact and signifies that for those who have an objection any path of conduct will inevitably lead them to it in the end. How many letters are there in the Bible? There are 2,728,100 in the Old Testament and 838,380 in the New Testament making a total of 3,566,480,

APRIL 20, 1927

OT\ eduction byjmton X i Pre-empt to Limit or Not at All —Don’t When Strong,

The pointer for today is: Pre-empt to the limit or not n( all; do not pre-empt when very strong. The four dealers’ hands given ye • terday were: So. ft No. • * 7-81 A-K-Q V A-J-9-4 8-2 O 4-8-2 O 7-8.8 A A-K-Q Jfk Q-10-t-i-J No. 7 No. 8 4 A-K-Q-J-8-8 Nolle A-Q-7-2 y A-K-Q-7-5.J.J O A-K-Q O A-K-Q Jf, None jf, 7-8-8 My answer slip reads; No. 5 Dealer should bid one Heart. No. 6 Dealer should bid one Club. No. 7 Dealer should hid one Spado. No. 8 Dealer should hid four Hearts. My reason in support of these bids '* are: No. 5. Too strong to pass and un- • sound to bid a Club with only three cards. The Heart suit is shorter and weaker than is usual for an initial bid. but the compensating strength more than makes up ißr the Heart deficiency. • No. 6. Queen-Ten-five-card suits are bid when the hand lias two quick tricks on the side. No. 7. This hand has more than sufficient strength for a bid of four spades, but is too strong to preempt. The Clubs, even if adversely held, cannot force the Dealer to a higher Spade bid than lie is willing to make. With great strength, bid one at a time. Such bidding occasionally produces an acceptable double. No. 8. With no Spades and trickless Clubs, the adversaries may Have as great strength for Spades as Dealer has for Hearts. It is therefore a hand with which to pre-empt .. lo the limit. Today's hands, again are held by - Dealer; score love-all. No - 9 No. t* 4 A-Q. 10-6-4 a A-K-4-S-S J-10-7 co 4.J.J O I®’*’* A 4-S.S * jf. 3-2 >o. II No. i * A * K * A K-Q !• J-19-7-8 C? A -J-4 O S--8 O 8-MI 4> s --< 4 8-8-4 Bridge Answers Slip of April 20 No. !) Dealer should No. 10 Dealer should No. 11 Dealer should No. 12 Dealer should (Copyright John F. Dille Cos, Jfc

Building Cornice Menace Will Be Looked After.

Building Commissioner Bert J. !\ estover has taken the complaint of V\. 1. that a building cornice at Delaware and Court Sts., Is in a dangerous condition. Westover promised inspection and immediate relief. The letter: Dear Mr. Fixit: The building on the northwest corner of Delaware, and Court Sts., is dangerous to ■pedestrians and the sidewalk In front of it should be roped off. Re cently a cornice fell from the top of it and struck a passerby, breaking his shoulder. \v. V. Some action should have been taken before you read this. The complaint of the Rathbone St. resident that the street needs repairs was referred to the street commissioner's office. A request grading was already on file CJfP action is promised when weather permits. A complaint also is on file on tha alley between Sugar Grove Ave. and Dexter St. The city Will get to the work after a while, Street Commissioner George Woodward said. L. C. M's request that the first alley north of Tenth St. and east of Denny St. be put in condition already had been turned down by the street commissioner. The reason given was that there are few residents in that locality. What is stainless steel? Stainless Iron and steel are alloys of Iron or steel combined wltfi chromium.

A Real Night Many people had an experience last night at the Palace when N. V. A. night was observed. I understand that the three variety theaters played their part. The statement is the truth. Names have nothing to do with this, but the spirit behind it. The audience was there, the best ever. It was a celebration for a real reason. I know that the managers of Keith's and the Palace do not need nor even think of haying their name? used. Its was a night for the actor anJj the public. It was a vaudeville night with the Palace, Keith's and the Lyric linking arms In a common cause. N. V. A. had its greatest success !■ night at the Palace. I mu' that Will Mahoney gave liis very best for the best. (By Walter D. Hickman.)