Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1927 — Page 9

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WOULD YOU BREAK A LAW TO SAVE A LIFE?

BORAH MAY TAKE MEDICINAL LIQUOR WAR 10 CONGRESS ‘One Pint in 10 Days’ Limitation Hit, ApprovedBroadside by Wayne B. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 26.—Senator William E. Borah (Rep.), Idaho, noted dry, will support and may foster abolishment by Congress of its “one pint in ten days” liquor prescription limitation. Borah said today he had been conferring with a medical authority and believed liquor had some medicinal value. If doctors succeeed in curbing unscrupulous dispensers of medicinal whisky, he “wouldn’t mind” fostering a bill lifting the limitation, set in 1922. Others Might Follow Other dry Congressmen might follow Borah, especially since the American Medical Association, in fighting wet-dry issue and has made its campaign nonpartisan. Fresh interest was given the problem here today by the controversy over whether the Governor and the Attorney General of Indiana were justified in violating that State’s law against all medicinal liquor by obtaining whisky for ill members of their families. Welcome Death Pastors of two former Presidents, Wilson and Harding, disagreed with I Dr, John Roach Straton, New York j Baptist Fundamentalist preacher, i who said the Indiana officials should j have welcomed death for their kin j rather than break the law. Dr. James H. Tyler, whose Presby-! terian church here President Wilson i attended, said: “The great rule of j common sense should prevail. The j decision should be left to the doctor.” I “Whisky or death were not the only alternatives,” said Dr. W. S. Abernethy, President Harding’s Baptist pastor. “Other remedies* could be used just as well as whisky, (which I do not regard as necessary for medicinal, purposes. As good an authority as Dr. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., said so recently.” Wheeler Broadside Wayne B. Wheeler, Anti-Saloon league, whose opposition is believed to have checkmated Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews’ plan to have private distilleries renew the present diminishing stocks of medicinal whisky, issued a new broadside. \ He declared no evidence had been offered to show necessity for manufacturing medicinal whisky now. Present stocks, he said, will suffice for six years,'and besides this stock, “there are 802.000 gallons of gin and between 600,000 and 1,000,000 gallons of aged alcohol which may be reduced to a whisky base if necessary.” “The fact that every therapeutic reaction from whisky may be obtained from alcohol eliminates the plea of serious necessity for more whisky being distilled immediately,” Wheeler said. Damaged Liner Will Be Towed to Port Bu United Press NEW YORK, May 26.—Coast guard cutters this afternoon will remove from the damaged Matson liner Malolo all those aboard not necessary for operation of the ship and the vessel then will be towed to New York or Philadelphia for repairs, the Matson Navigation Company’* offices here were advised today. The Malolo was damaged when she collided with the Swedish freighter Jacob Christensen, off Nantucket Light late yesterday. The Christensen was proceeding slowly to port under its own power. U. S. ASKED $65,000,000 Poland Seeks to Borrow Huge Sum* of America. Bu United Press WARSAW, May 26.—Negotiation of a $65,000,000 7-per cent loan by American banks to Poland was announced today. A representative of the Chase National Bank of New York was expected to arrive here the first week in June to sign the agreement, and th first instalment will be payabl before the end of that month. The loan will be marketed in the United States at 91 or 92, including discount and a 3 per cent banker's commission. An American “observer,” who also will be a director of the Polish State Bank, will be appointed to supervise financial conditions. SILK GARMENTS TAKEN “Unmentionables” Listed in Loot of Thieves. - Burglars entered the A. Harmes dry goods store at 926 W. New York St. early today and took goods valued, police said, at several hundred dollars. Patrolman John Dalton found a front door lock pried off. He called Harms, who said the loot consisted of ladies’ silk clothing. Mrs. R. E. Johns, 3639 N. Illinois St., told police a suitcase filled with ladies’ silk lingerie, valued at $309, waa taken from her auto parked in front of 48 E. Washington St. Mrs. Lenora Goad, 932 Union St., reported that her home was ransacked and valuable pawn tickets and letters stolen.

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Many Hoosiers Agree Governor Jackson Acted Wisely. (Continued From Page 1) mercial gain, I would favor it,” Judge Johnson said. "But I fear the utilization of whisky for suffering humanity would not remain the principal issue. As long as it is a law to do without whisky, even for medicinal purposes, I favor rigid enforcement. The law must be respected." A visit to four towns, Franklin, Edinburgh, Greenwood and Columbus, and talks to representative citizens showed that the weight of opinion favored Governor Jackson’s action in using whisky to save his wife's life in violaton of the law, although opinion was more divided on modification of the Indiana law proposed by Attorney General Gilliom. Emphatic for Change Dr. "Walter Portteus, Franklin, secretary of the Johnson County Medical Association, was emphatic in his stand for modification of the law. “Physicians should not he restrained in the use of such weapons as they knew to be effective in the treatment of disease," Dr. Portteus declared. “Why should we not be allowed to use whisky when it is needed, just the same as morphine or any other drug” Upholds Governor “I doubt whether any one with a j normal affection for a loved mem- ! ber of his family would have done i differently from the Governor,” Dr. j C. Province, of Franklin, declared. I “I know, because again and again I I have had relatives of critically ill | persons say. ’ls there anything on j earth that can be done? Tell us, we’ll do it'. Before a desperate condition of thought engendered by impending death, a bone dry law will I miserably crumple.” ! Both Dr. Province and his brother, j Dr. O. A. Province, told of a case in Franklin where a woman suffering from pneumonia was revived and her life saved by use of whisky, E. C. Miller, president of the Franklin National Bank, favors modification of the law, but ’enforcement as long as it remains a law.” Ben P. Brotvn, ex-county auditor of Johnson County and now engaged in real estate and farm loans, said he was “for reasonable modification of present stringent dry laws. The most vicious fact now existing about | it is that the law is not balanced in its application. The rich man does ( not obey. it." “The present law is a violation of the bill of rights," asserted A. N. j Crecraft, editor of the Franklin Democrat. At Columbus, sentiment favored a modification, although conservative opinions were not lacking. William Irwin, president of the Irwin Na ional Bank, would not commit himself freely. Referring to such an emergency as had confronted Governor Jackson. Irwin indicated that he would not accept a physician’s ultimatum unless his own judgment and inclination approved. I m afraid I’d be derelict about obeying,’’ he smiled. “After all. though, don’t people do as they want to, anyway? Don't they accept the opinion they wish to accept—do the thing that they want to do?” Declare Whisky Favored Most conservative was Charles Dehmer, cashier of the First National Bank, who would express no opinion of the Jackson case and said he was not convinced that physicians believed whisky to be a truly curative measure. "I iftiderstand that the American Medical Association has not gone on record as favoring it,” he said. Incidentally, several physicians In the towns visited stated that the American Medical Association is now in session in Washington, D. C„ and that the consensus of expressed opinion at the association favored the use of whisky in certain diseases. Although stating that ’’one might be justified in committing homicide under extraordinary and terrific conditions of stress.” Cassius B. Cooper, mayor of Columbus, declared himself In favor of the present law with no modification. Judge Julian j Sharpnack of the Bartholomew County Circuit Court said that, although he would want to abide by the judgment of his physician in ?ase of acute illness, he did not favor the public at large having the ability to do so. “I was assistant chief counsel of the Washington (D. C.) prohibition unit. That experience makes me feel that the modification of the bone dry law might lead to dangerous abuse,” he said "Present Law a Menace” Ralph Spaugh of Columbus, prominent attorney, said: “I certainly favor modification. The present law has so many teeth it is a menace. Indiana alone, of the States of the Union has such an absurdly stringent law. Confronted with Governor Jackson’s situation, I would procure the whisky, if I had to beg, borrow or even steal It.” "I’m pretty sure I’d do just what Jackson did, if placed under simila” circumstance,” asserted C. M. Setser, cashier of the Union Trust Company of Columbus, “although I am for enforcement of the law. When prohibition went into effect, I bought the gallon of whisky allowed, because I thought it valuable for medicinal purposes. My mother-in-law was , benefited by this commodity when her health was in prevarious condition. Nevertheless, I’m for the law, as long as it remains a law.” At Edinburg, A. R. Mulkins, merchant, who has been politically prominent for years, said he was for modification. “The bone dry law of Indiana is absurd,” he said, “when I have traveled in the east—in New York, in Jersey, various places, I’ve again and again heard laughing and contemptuous references made to It.” Too Drastic, Say* Attorney Walter L. Neible, attorney of Edinburg said, "The present law is too

MONDAY TO BE DAY OF DAYS FOR THREE AT INDIANA BLIND SCHOOL

Left to Right: Lillian Scott, l ari Avise Guthrie and Lucy Matilda Burke, this year’s .graduates from the Indiana School for the Blind.

Out at the Indiana School for the i Blind, Meridian and North Sts., j they’ll be holding their graduation i exercises Monday night and for three persons the event will be the realization of years of hope. Not the idle hope which ends with the expression of a wish, but the kind of hope which spurs along that “do-or-die” spirit and lifts persons above the masses. For besides being hopeful, the three blind persons who are to be graduated—Lucy Matilda Burke, Clinton, and Carl Arise Guthrie and Lillian Scott, Bedford —have gone along on the theory that “God Helps Those Who Help Themselves.” Inspiration to Many Their determination to make their lives successful —their plans for the I future —should be an inspiration for j the thousands who will graduate from other Indianapolis schools this j spring. I Already they've mapped out the highway of life they want to travel. Miss Burke expects to become a teacher. Miss Scott will do governess work, and Guthrie expects some day to prefix his name with a degree. He's going to college to become a Doctor of Chiropractic. To say that all three are optimists it putting it lightly; to say j they are idealists —well, talk to them one* yourself. | One. Miss Burke, has no hesitancy in saying what she intends doing.

drastic. It hasn't even common sense elements. Any ragamuffin, under the present rulings can, if he feels like it, cause your house to be search for liquor, no matter how unsupported his suspicions may be. Right now. with other attor neys, I am engaged in a case which certainly brings out the point that the present search warrant law is unconstitutional.” W. H. Porter, proprieter of a case in the town, said: “I hate a drinking man and would not want to lend support to putting down the prohibition bars, but I do think whisky should be admitted for medical purposes, through some modification of the present law.” At Greenwood, cashier of the First National Bank, Albert Johnson. was emphatically in favor of modification and entirely approved Jackson's stand “The present dry law is out of reason," he said “The punishment regarding its violation should fit the crime. As it now stands, it does not.” Dr. C. E. Woodcock, Greenwood, does not believe, whisky is ever positively necessary. "Patients who feel that it is and who want to use it—well, that’s their own affair, but I think they are mistaken in such a conviction. I would never prescribe 4t because I think there are substitutes for it.” Opposes Compromise "I am opposed tqany compromise with the Volstead law,” said Emerson Carson, proprieter of Greenwood's only furniture store. “If I had a physician who prescribed liquor. I'd hasten to change my physician.” “I would do the same thing Governor Jackson did. I’m afraid,” smiled O. W. Stevenson, proprieter of the leading drug store. “I think--90 per cent of the citizens would under like circumstances. However, I favor prohibtion. It has its evils, but I think it the lesser of two evils.” POLICE CHIEF JOHN SMOCK, Terre Haute, president of Indiana

Gilliom for Real Prohibition

By Arthur L. GUIom Attorney General of Indiana The suggestion made in my letter of April 23 to the Governor of Indiana that a-proviso should be added to the Indiana prohibition statute so as to make possible tho lawful acquisition of reliable whisky for medicinal purposes in cases of serious illnesses when attending physicians advise its use as an indispensable medicine, was made in recognition of the natural right and duty that every one has to use every means to save the lives of dependents. The idea of such a proviso is not new in view*>f its presence in the national prohibition act, as well as its presence in most State prohibition statutes. My suggestion is not to be construed as an argument against prohibition. It is rather to be taken as being in the interest of prohibition. Prohibition laws, to be successful, can only be aimed at the qbuse of liquors for beverage purposes; when they

“I'm going to become a governess,’’ she said, smiling. "I already have a position with State Representative William Henry Harrison.” When Miss Burke smiles she smiles, and they say of her at the school that she smiles continually. And that smile of hers is so contagious that one immediately forgets her affliction. But Not Abashed Dark of hair and brim full of that quality called personality, she seems not in the least abashed by blindness. In fact. Socrates might have been speaking of her when, after observing a blind man. he said: “The blind have one thing to be thankful for. They can picture the beautiful things in their mind and not have to look continually at the sordid things of the world.” She forgets her ailment and looks at the more pleasant things and if anyone over had a right to hold a grudge against fate she has. Beginning life in an orphanage at Plymouth, she reached the eighth grade in the school and suddenly went blind. * Alone I.i World. ■ “It was then I did my first really serious thinking.” she said. “I was alone in the world and facing blindness. I decided the best thing 2 could do a blind school and get* an education. So I came here.” It took several questions to find

Association of Police Chiefs—l think the Governor's action was justified to save the life of his wife. The people should decide whether the law should be mo lifted. POLICE CHIEF CHARLES BOLTE. Wabash —I think the action was perfectly all right under the circumstances. CHIEF D. ELBERT BROWN. Peru—l'm for the eighteenth amendment. CAPTAIN E. B. REED. Pennsylvania Railroad Police—l believe liquor should be permitted for medical purposes. . •POLICE CHIEF JOHN HAFFNER, Frankfort —There would be too many sick people if we had medicinal liquor. POLICE CHIEF D. A. NEAS. Lebanon —Administering of liquor if needed to save human life should be allowed. POLICE CHIEF P. F. NEWMAN. Martinsville —That would be a good stunt to allow medicinal liquor. POLICE CHIEF A. G. EVERSOLE, Lafayette—l am heartily in favor of the sale of whisky for medicinal purposes. Comment of South Bend tlnd.) citizens: RABBI WILLIAM STERN—If medical science decides that whisky is necessary to save a life It should be used and the law should grant a physician the power to secure it for his patient. REV. ARCHIBALD M'CLURE — A great many doctors feel that there are substitutes for whisky, so I naturally feel that it is unnecessary to make a change in the Wright bone dry law at this time. However, should the majority of physicians decide that whisky is absolutely neces-

seek to prohibit the legitimati use of whisky in violation o. natural rights and duties and in disregard of the professional Judgment of physicians, such laws lose much of respect and support that is needed to make th?m successful In their proper objects and purposes. I have always favored, and now favor,, honest prc*Mbltlon. And because I do favor it is the reason why I only suggest that a carefully guarded proviso be added to the existing statute so as to take out of its scope and operation an object that cannot be justly made prohibitive. Such a proviso will strengthen, not weaken the prohibition statute of Indiana. Os course the dominating reason for such a proviso is the natural right and duty that every one has to make use of all available scientific agencies that physicians may prescribe In an effort to cave the lives of the sick.

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out that she ha? worked her way through the school. “Yes, she said, since you're so inquisitive, I’ve made all the money it took to come here. How? Well, I worked in the summer as a governess for different people and saved my money. Didn't get much, but it doesn't take so much. See Some Now “All along doctors kept telling me I could never regain my sight. But I kept plugging away to different doctors and finally found one who said he might help me. Ever since then my eyes have been getting better and I can see some now.” She hurried down the hall, calling back. "I’ve got a class now.” Guthrie already has bought a newsstand near Hotel Lincoln. "It cost me a thousand.” he said, “and I expect to work at It for a couple of years. I figure I can average atyout forty a week and save thirty during that time. Then I'm going to a chiropractic school. His Blind Friend "I have a friend in Terre Haute, who is blind and who has made quite a success as a chiropractor." Miss Scott has majored in the literary school and Intends doing governess work or possibly teaching later on. “I don't know Just yet what I’m going to wind up doing, but It’ll be something and I'm not worrying about it. 1 figure I’ll get a job as a governess first."

sary for saving life, I will naturally : govern myself accordingly and do ' whatever they think right. I I FATHER FRANCK?—I do not see any reason vhy the law permitting the sale of whisky for medical purposes should be any more stringent than that of selling certain other drugs. THE REV. ELMER WARD COLE —lt is a matter of opinion, clearly, whether whisky saved the life of Governor Jackson's wife. Personally, I am not convinced that it did. Some of our best physicians frequently testify that liquor is not necessary. THE REV. J. BURT BOWMAN— I am not convinced that it is necessary to serve whisky to any patient. If it could be proved that liquor is absolutely necessary and as good as other medicine it might be different, but I am still of the opinion it is riot. The moral effect it would have in the community at large would also be bad. CAR CUTTER ORDERED TO TRAIN CAMP Judge Flays Youth for Despoiling Auto in Fit of Despondency. "I didn't think much about it at the time, but as soon as I had done It I knew it was foolish,” John Gard, 17, Knightstown, Ind., told Special Judge Paul Rochford in municipal court Wednesday afternoon, when charged with burgariy, petit larceny and mal'eious trespass. Used Auto as Bed The boy came from Knightstown, May 10, he told the court, and except for two nights spent in a vacant house, he slept in an automobile stored In the Reece J. Hedrick garage, 3678 N. Delaware St., until his arrest a few days ago for slashing the upholstery of the Hendrick car to ribbons, cutting the Ignition wires, ruining the dash board instruments, and breaking the headlights. The boy ran away from home, he admitted, because he felt sorry for himself. He had ruined the automobile In a fit of despondency. “Just Spoiled Boy” “You're just a spoiled boy,” Judge Rochford told him, and added, “maybe you’re to bright.” as the defense attorney told the court that John had scored several points above average in a high school Intelligence ‘ test. Upon suggestion of Deputy Prosecutor John Caylor, Judge Rochford ordered the boy to enlist in a citizens' military training camp. S2OO Raised at Party More than S2OO was raised at a bunco and card party given at the Spink-Arma Hotel, Wednesday night, by 400 employes of the Pettis Dry Goods Company. The fund will go to the Mississippi flood relief. Member* of the company's office force were hostesses. . . 4 YV

PLANS TO HONOR DEI HEROES OF WARS UNDER WAY Annual Parade of Civil, Spanish, World Veterans Vets to Be Monday. The happy existence that is peace will give way to memories of the times when this land was enshrouded in the throes of war, when citizens of the city bow their heads Sunday and Monday in memory of the dead of the Civil, Spanish and World Wars. The principal services will come at the graves of the boys who died. But prior to this, and in keeping with the annual custom, the veterans of the three wars will parade through the business district before assembling at Crown Hill Cemetery. The parade will form at New York and Meridian Sts., at 2 p. m. Monday, and go south through the business districts to Pennsylvania and Maryland Sts. Transportation to the cemetery will be provided from this point. Leaders of Day Clarence C. Moon, veteran of the Spanish-American War. will be grand marshal. Wilson C. Oren, Spanish American War, is to be chief of staff and two World War veterans, Willard S. Boyle and I George Hawkins will serve as aids. John M. Gainey and George U. 1 Holmes w ill be the marshals of the I parade. The decoration ceremonies at Crown Hill will be in charge of Frank M. Hay. The General Memorial Association of Indianapolis, made up of representatives of the various patriotic societies will have charge of the entire ceremonies. Daniel 11. MeAbee, president of the association, and Mrs. Marie C. Williams, seeretary, have arranged the program. Cemetery Sendees Monday at 8 a. m. on the steps of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument other ceremonies will be held. At many of the cemeteries services will be held. Services will be held Sunday at Floral Park cemetery. Holy Cross cemetery, and Monday morning services will be held at Mt. Jackson cemetery, Anderson cemetery and New Crown cemetery. Monday afternoon services will be held at the Hebrew and Lutheran cemeteries. The annual memorial services for soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, who died at sea, will be held at 4 p. m. Sunday at the Meridian St. bridge over Fall Creek. Pilots from the 113th Observation Squadron, Indiana National Guard, will drop flowers on tl e water. STREET CAR FARE TO STAND-TODD But Bus Petition Will Follow Wage Raise. President Robert I. Todd, Indianapolis Street Railway Company, tocfay denied that the company would ask for increased fares following the 3-cent an hour raise granted to all carmen and bus drivers, Wednes day. Another petition, however, will bt filed with the public service com mission in an attempt to merge city bus lines by purchase of the People! Motor Conch Company, he said. The fact that the company adopt ed the commission’s wage scale ii granting the raise will have no bear ing on the new bus merger attempt he said. The commission turnet down a former petition of the com pany to buy the Peoples lines foi jr.OO.OQO and Issue securities in notes The w age scale, which effects more than 1,000 conductors, motormet and bus drivers, was made by th! commission in a decision in the case of William Green extra hoard env ploye, and was to apply only ts him. It increased wages from e minimum of 37 cents to 40 cent! and maximum of 42 cents to 4( cents, on a f\ve-year sliding sonh based on seniority. GOVERNOR HAS GUARC Trooper Stationed at Office of Mas sachusetts Head. Bi/ United Press BOSTON, May 26. —A guard wai assigned today to the office of Qov ernor Alvati T. Fuller. Alfred F. Foote, public safety com mlssioncr, ordered Corporal Georgi A. Smith, State policeman, to dutj at the executive office. It was un derstood that the Governor had no requested a guard. Although no significance was of flcially attached to the action 0 Commissioner Foote, it was recallei that the Governor had lately re ceived tneee death th>-at con nection with the Sacco-VnnzettYmur der case, w htcli he Is now consider ing. CHARGE MANSLAUGHTEF Terre Haute Woman Killed; Illlnoi Man Dies in Car. Bu United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., May 38.Police today are holding Albert Wt son. 18, for involuntary manslaughl er. Mrs. Mary Hughes, 56, struck b: Wilson's car died. Floyd Stout, 24. Palestine, 111,, wa killed last night. His automobil skidded. f