Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 329, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1927 — Page 4

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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge The First Citizen of Indiana is dead. The voice which ever spoke its principles, its ideals and its hopes is stilled. ♦ The pen which wrote indelibly the meaning of America is idle. The sudden and untimely death of Albert J. Beveridge brings more than the sudden shock of grief to mourning friends. It brings a sense of loss to countless thousands who cherish in their hearts a love of liberty and found in Beveridge the interpreter of all their hopes. As statesman, author, citizen, he was chief in Indiana and passes into the pages of history as its greatest contribution to the Nation. His great talent, his enormous capacity for work, most of all his fidelity to the faith which was his, permitted him to play a part in history given but to few Americans. As Senator, his voice was ever lifted against oppression. His was the first to attack the insidious forces which would betray the heritage of liberty received from the founders. He did not choose the easy path to fame or honor. He battled for principles and did not falter when opposed to mighty and powerful forces. In the Senate, his great contribution was his championship of laws to curb the greed of those who exploited children in mills and mines. And when the revolt against control of this Government by special privilege took form, Beveridge stood at the side of Roosevelt as one of the leaders in that cause. The same dauntless courage with which he fought entrenched power, he threw into contests with waves of popular emotion which he believed boded ill for Americanism.

There was no servility in his soul. His mind gave no lodgment to the demagogic. jy When he wrote liis famous “Life of John Marshall,” lie gave to the ages a conception of Americanism that will live. Destiny ordained that he did not finish what he believed to be a greater contribution in his “Life of Lincoln,” into which he put the energy and strength that hastened his end. To few is it given to leave so deep an impress upon the trend of the age in which they live. To few is it given to leave behind so unbroken a record of fidelity to principle, so great an example of courage, so clear a message for all time. While his voice is silent, his pen idle, his work lives. In days to come, the words of Beveridge will bring inspiration and hope and courage to other men who love their country and their flag as he loved it. The grave takes only his clay. Indiana mourns her gifted son, but through its tears must pause in reverent tribute and gratitude to his memory. He goes to the ages as one of the very few who could say, in all truth, with the prophet: “O Death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” They’d Be Poor Students Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Grover Cleveland would never get degrees from American colleges if they were young men today, says, Professor Whittlesey of Princeton. He explains himself thus: Lincoln probably wouldn't go to college at all because of the expense. If he did his mind “would have outrun all bounds and been unwelcome in the average university.” Cleveland had a very slow and deliberate habit of mind, and lacked the glibness and quickness demanded by modern instructors. Franklin and Jefferson would probably be expelled very early in their college careers because they would not abide fey the restraints placed on i?iodern student#. , One man's gitess on all of this is as good as an-

other, no doubt. It does seem as if the professor had, in the language o? the day, said something. Just what it proves, however, is another matter. At first glance his statement would seem to imply a sharp criticism of our modern educational institutions. And, doubtless, these institutions have many faults, which it would be easy to enumerate at considerable length. * Yet their supposed inability to cope with youths like Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin and Cleveland doesn't prove much of anything except that genius is always hard to handle. A Lincoln or a Tefferson is separated from the rest of us by a wide gulf—a gulf that is as wide in youth as it is in manhood. He is not normal and never can be; will not and cannot abide by the rules and formulas that the rest of us live by. We never understand him. Often enough we dislike and suspect him. But he ends by leading us and helping to shape the course of our civilization. Professor Whittlesey may be right in what he says; probably is. But it doesn't necessarily mean that our colleges and universities are all wrong.

Too Much Personality The current history of American politics is written largely around personalities active in the political arena. Right now Calvin Coolidgc has the undisputed center of the Republican stage. A1 Smith, for the moment, at least, has crowded his competitors out of the Democratic limelight. Most of the political writings convey the impression that the course of American politics in the immediate future will be largely determined by the actions of these and a few other leaders. It is lamentable that this is so. It distorts the picture of American political life, and increases the difficulty of straight thinking on this complicated subject. While it is true that political personalities play an important role in our lives, it is not true that they have the trafcscendant power which the attention devoted to them would indicate. Coolidge is now securely intrenched in the White House, but two crop failures and a business depression between now and November, 1928, might well leave him thoroughly discredited. And by the same token if business continues good and it farmers begin to enjoy prosperity, it's a reasonably safe bet that nothing A1 Smith or any other Democratic leader can say or do can dislodge the Republican grip on the seats of the mighty. In 1920, the Democrats reaped th(s whirlwind of economic depression and war disillusionment and were thrown out of office. Since then Republicans have reaped the benefits of more or less general prosperity. The Democrats were not to blame in any major degree for the economic distress which us in 1920. The Republicans are only incidentally responsible for the general prosperity which exists today. The roots of conditions which make for the general well being or distress of most of us generally lie far deeper than the surface of political personalities. If we would trace these roots into the laboratory, the farm house, the field, the factory, it would give us a much clearer understanding of American politics. We would realize that leading personalities, although always interesting and important, are at times little more than corks bobbing along on the surface of a current or events over which they have at most only a slight degree of control. Such a realization might remove some of the zest from American politics, but it would compensate for the addition of more intelligence. The Army is to have anew cook book. You can lead an army cook to a cock book but you can’t make him change his stew. It would seem honesty is the best fallacy these days.

Why Coolidge Sits Tight By N. D. Cochran “* The man who is criticised for talking too little escapes the graver danger of saying too much. There’s Calvin Coolidge. for illustration. Just now other Republicans, anxiously nursing presidential ambitions, want him to say out loud whether he intends to retire or be a candidate for another nomination. And canny Calvin doesn't say a word. Just keeps on sawing wood. That bothers the other fellows. They don’t know just what to do. If Coolidge were to say now that he won't run again, all the jobholders would get busy hunting another coat-tail to tie to. At the next session of Congress, the President's influence would be nil. We are told that it is the nature of rats to desert a sinking ship. The tight-lipped occupant of the White House, by keeping his own counsel, commands the situation. The job-holders are afraid to desert him, because they ■would be out of luck if he should, later, decide to rup; for they know he can get the nomination if he wants It. They also know that unless Democrats show more sense than they have shown since they got all messed up in 1920, Coolidge will be elected hands down. Any Republican president is sure of the Solid South—for there is a Republican as well as a Democratic Solid South. It is made up of federal job-holders and their lieutenants of both races, together with some others who are Republicans because they hope to get jobs. Political expediency demands that there be enough Republicans in southern states to hold the jobs under Republican presidents. Coolidge can get most of the delegates from Republican states, too, because there are not only the holders of federal jobs, but also those who hold state, county and municipal jobs and want a presidential candidate who can pull them through to victory. But that isn’t the only advantage held by the President -who knows how to hold his tongue. If the Democrats should surprise the country and get together a smashing liberal, progressive Jefferson ian platform, with a candidate to match it —if the Republican administration should get into an unpopular mess because of its foreign policy below the Rio Grande or across the Pacific—if things get worse for farmers and they get mad enough to revolt—if business goes bad and things are in t\te doldrums—why, then, President Coolidge can take it or leave it alone. So it’s a safe bet that practically all of the delegates to the Republican national convention of 1928 will have been chosen before there will be an informative from the speechless spokesman\of the White Hjpuse.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Says: Aristocracy and Amusement Find a Common Level..

By M. E. Tracy Stocks suffered a general decline Monday. The fact that they recovered on Tuesday shows there was no good reason for this. You cannot help believing that the stock market operates too often on gambling, and that much of the money made in it has little to do with the promotion and maintenance of genuine business. There is a deal of difference between trading in stock to make money out of its fluctuations and trading in it for an investment. In so far as the stock market offers an opportunity to investment, it helps business. In so far as it encourages speculation, it hurts business. The problem of how to clear it of gambling without destroying its service is one that our financial experts should try to solve. Heroes and Money The movies are getting into society. Pola Negri is going to marry a prince and Queen Marie is pleading with his affinity to stop Carol from staging a film. It seems to be a law of human nature that aristocracy and amusement find a common level. This comes about from the fact that amusement not only creates popular heroes, but large incomes. There came a time when Roman emperors thought it an honor to mix with the gladiators, and there may come a time when European royalty will look upon it as good business, if not an honor, to marry into the first families of Hollywood. Where Apostles Lived Speaking of Rome, a house has been uncovered which scholars believe was once occupied by St. Peter and St. Paul. This house lay buried beneath llie foundations of a great basilica. One room of it is in almost perfect state of preservation. On the walls of the building are inscriptions .and prayers apparently written by the earliest Christians. One inscription declares "Peter atid Paul lived in this house,” while another asserts “Peter and Paul brought Christianity to the Romans from this house.” The Christian prayers and inscriptions are super-imposed on pagan pictures, from which it is supposed that the house belonged to a Roman, who was converted. Scholars who have examined the house beleve it was inhabited from at least the first century B. C. to the third century A. D.

Romance Endures No matter how interesting modern life becomes, it can never obscure the romance of the past. With all our inventions and discoveries, we are still lured by the relics and records of previous generations. This comes about from a deepseated realization that human experience is the greatest teacher of them all, that the basic problems of life are old as the hills and that the more we can learn of how other men met and solved them the better we are off. Danger Drives You are reminded of the Dutch at Leyden by the proposition to cut the levees of the Mississippi and flood a large area in order to save New Orleans. Those people down there are fighting for their lives ajtd homes. The idea of saving everything, or even a large part, has long since given place to the question of what to save and what to sacrifice. It has come to a point where the authorities can deliberately think of destroying smaller communities in order to spare larger ones, where they can drive people from danger zones at the point of the bayonet, and where martial law has become necessary to safeguard public Interests. Cost of Flood It is estimated that the Mississippi flood has already caused property damage of $100,000,000 and that it will shorten next year's cotton crop by at least 1,000,000 bales. These are staggering figures, but they tell only part of the story, and perhaps the least important part. Not only have several hundred persons lost their lives, but 200,000 have been made homeless. Os this 200,000 probably one half are children, who must carry the handicap of this disaster throughout their live3. Many a boy and girl will have to quit school for the cotton patch because of what the Mississippi has done, and many a college career has been blighted. Useless Charity The American people are responding generously to the call for relief funds. This is typical of their kindness. It is also typical of an attitude which makes so much of their charity useless. If we help more people to help themselves, we wouldn’t need to do so much for the helpless. The only intelligent charity is that which tends to prevent disaster. We must assist the flood refugees, of course, and no matter how much we give for that purpose, we cannot give too much. At the same time our generosity will count for little unless it finds [ expression in a sensible effort to prevent such disasters in the future. H'liat is the greatest sea depth at which moving pictures have been taken? Probably it was around the Tortugas Islands, where Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of molluskr in the National Museum at Washington, D. C., has been making tests with the most modern motion picture camera yet perfected for recording scenes under sea. Exactly what depth has b*en reached is not known.

Let's Show the Old Valley a Real Flood!

Greatest All Star Cast in History of Theater to Be Seen in 'Trelawny'

A bestarred cast, fitly called “the greatest in history," including in its roster celebrities no less than John Drew, Peggy Wood, O. P. lleggie, Helen Gahagen, Otto Kruger, Estella Winwood, Rollo Peters, Mrs. Thomas Whiffin, Wilton Lackaye, Henrietta Crosman, John E. Kellerd, Effie Shannon, Lawrence D’Orsay, J. M. Kerrigan, Eric Dressier and Frieda Ineseort will appear at the Murat on Tuesday night. May 3, in Pinero's comedy, “Trelawny of the Wells.” • “Trelawny” has seen many revivals since its first production in America —at the old Lyceum Theater in New Y’ork in 1898, with Mary Mannering in the leading role. Ethel Barrymore appeared in the same

“Old Bill ”

SYD CHAPLIN' to “THE BETTER ’OLE." AWarntr ?ietm Here Is a good picture of Syd Chaplin as Old Bill. As you know, Old Bill is the chief fun character in "The Better ’Ole,” at the Circle all week.

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This list of questions contaips a little bit of everything. You’ll find the answers on page 14: 1. Rearrange the groups of these words so that words having directly opposite meanings will be paired: glory love publicity heroism energy secrecy cowardice lassitude ignominy hate 2. Is “fugue” a term used in painting, music, poetry or drama? 3. What is the family name of the reigning house of England? 4. In what sports did the following men become famous: Jim Maloney, Joe Sewel, Roland Locke, Vincent | Richards Bennie Friedman? | 5. What took place at Hog Island [ during the World War? 6. What railroad system has the • Fred Harvey dining car service? , 7. In what l State is Lake Winnebago? t 8. What is the function of the differential in the automobile? 9. At what point in Indiana can foreign ships dock? 10. What cape forms the southermost tip if South America? 11. V'Jiat is the largest lake in Indiana? 12. What are Brazil's two most noted products? Is “dreamed” or “dreamt” the correct past tense for the word dream? “Dream” is one of the verbs which varies between “ed” and “t” (and) in the past tense and the pt.st particle. In writing, the “ed” forms are preferred in mort cases; in speaking, the “t” forms are more common.

part in 1911, and more recently in 1925, Lauretto Taylor headed the cast when the Players’ Club in New York produced the Pinero comedy as its annual revival. Yet it Is certain that even Pinero himself could not have dreamed that his sentimental comedy of the English playfolk should ever he given such a cast as Mr. Tyler has assembled. And in so doing, Mr. Taylor could not have, chosen a better play for so distinguished a group of players. For “Trelawny” is a comedy all actors must find difficulty in not loving. It tells a story of actors and their love of acting, even of their love for ono another, their loyalty their vanities, their humiliations and their successes. Actors can’t help

Questions and Answers

You can set an answer to any qucition of tact or information by writing to The Indiananolig Times Washington Bureau 1322 Sew York Aye.. Washington. D. C inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legsl and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research he undertaken All other questions will receive a personal reply. Uns'gned requests cannot he answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. Did Napoleon hold the pope of Rome prisoner for three years? Napoleon's attempt to control the continent of Europe brought him into conflict with the papacy. Pope Pius VII refused to enforce the blockade against England and further presumed to disregard other commands of Napoleon. Thereupon Napoleon declared that the pope was no longer a secular prince and took possession of his domains (May, 1809). Pope Plus straightway excommunicated the emperor, who thereupon arrested him and for three years held him a State prisoner. What is the total amount of public land unappropriated and unreserved in the United States? The amount remaining at the close of 1925 was 184,726,846 acres. In addition to this the government had 158,395,056 acres in national forests. The unaallotted Indian reservations account for 49,347 acres. The lands withdrawn from public entry are: Coal lands, 31,442,263 acrer; oil lands 5,940.521 acres; phosphate lands, $2,319,863 acres; power site reserves, 4,243,768 acres, and public water reserve 357,307 acres. How did rubber get its name? From its first use which was to erase marks from paper, etc. How old is “Red” Grange and what is his first name? I he still in college? • He is 26 years old, and liis first name is Harold. His address is Wheaton, 111. He is not attending college. He played professional football last fall and and is under contract to appear in several moving picture productions. When and where was Hans Christian Anderson born? At Odense, Denmark, April 2, 1805.

Times Readers Voice Views

To Editor The Times: We are hearing a good deal these days about “Checks and Balances.” I am a working man and the check which interests me is the one I have to give Ed. Ramasy for my taxes next week. When I have done that there won’t be any “balance.” What good have “checks and balances” done during this administration? They didn’t "check” College avenue bridge, which is now badly out of "balance.” Perhaps they mean that we have had to “check” up our speed in order to keep our “balance” when driving over our worndut streets. The cities which have the manager plan seem to have the ‘.‘check” on the politicians and the balance In the city treasury. A WORKING MAN.

but play the famous old comedy affectionately. Not strangely, old as is “Trelawny of the Wells” it is still an appealing play. Its sentiment Is sure, its technique inerrant. It is expert play-making of a kind that can never lose its interest. Pinero must have written it lovingly, giving it a Historical importance. For it chronicles the birth of modern realism in the English theater. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Little Spitfire” at English's; Roy Cummings and Dave Apollon at Keith’s; "Dance Moods” at the Lyric; “Wigginsville” at the Palace; “Beau Geste” at the Colonial; “Johnny Get Your Hair Cut” at the Apollo: “Lady in Ermine” at the Uptown; “Mr. Wu" at the Ohio: “The Better ’Ole” at the Circle: “The Last Trail” at the Isis and burlesque at the Mutual.

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APRIL 27, 1927

eduction iyJMilion i CWorti K J Informatory Double Calls for Four-Card Major Bid,

Tlie pointer for today is: AN INFORMATORY DOUBLE ASkS PARTNER TO ANSWER WITH A FOUR-CARD MAJOR NO MATTER HOW WEAK; DO NOT DOUBLE UNLESS PREPARED FOR THAT KIND O' ANSWER. Yesterday’s hand was held by West, who had to decide what to do after a declaration by South. 4b B ‘ B A-K-lfl-f O A-J-4 Jj, J-10-M My answer slip reads: No. 5. South pass; West should bid one Heart or one No Trump. No. 6. South one No Trump; West, should puss. No. 7. South one Spade; West should double. No. 8. South one Club; West should bid one Heart. My reasons in support of these declarations are: No. 5. When choosing between a strong four-card Major and a No Trump with three suits stopped, the selection is an optional one. In this case it is a reasonably close choice. My preference would he the Heart because it contains three honors the defenseless suit is composed but two cards, hut I give both bids as correct. No. 6. Too weak to bid two Hearts over a No Trump on the right, and furthermore that bid might steer the adversaries into Spades, at which they might be more dangerous than at No Trump. The hand has the strength for a double, but East is apt to answer with two Spades, which would not fit. West's best way out of the difficulty is to pass. An adverse game at No Trump is not probable. No. 7. The double is fully justified by West’s strength and by his desire for a Heart take-out if East have four Hearts. No. 8. The adverse suit being stopped only once, the Heart is safer than No Trump, and a bid is preferable to a double, because of the danger of a take-out by East with four small Spades. Today's West hand follows: £ A-K-10.t y A-Q-10.6-J 0 9-7.2 $• * Score love-sill, what should West declare after South's declarations, as stated in the answer slip that follows? Bridge Answer Slip of April 27 No. 9. South pass; West should No. 10. South one No Trump; West should No. 11. South 011 c Diamond; West No. 12. South one Club; West shou^B John F. Dille Cos.