Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1927 — Page 13

MAY 27, 1927

WOULD YOU BREAK A LAW TO SAVE A LIFE?

>REP. VESTAL TO ATTEND AFFAIR CAUSINGBREAK Klan Participation in Gettysburg Exercises Brings Dissension. Times Waahfnuton Bureau. 1322 New York Avenue WASHINGTON, May 27.—Representative Albert Vestal of Anderson, Ind., who left Indiana Tuesday en route to speak at a Memorial day function at Gettysburg, Pa., accordig to his office here, is,heading for a very tense situation because of Ku-Klux Klan participation in the exercises. According to a dispatch from Gettysburg to the Baltimore Sun by a staff correspondent, not one active clergyman of the town will take part in the exercises, withdrawing because of Klan participation. The National Guard, the American Legion post and Catholic school children have refused to join the parade, the dispatch says, in which 1,000 members of the Klan intend to march. In previous years the town’s own clergy have been called (upon to take leading parts in the exercises. This year two retired pastors and a minister from a nearby town will have charge of the rostrum. The Rev. L. B. Hafer, one of the retired ministers and chairman of the Sons of Veterans committee which arranged the program, extended the invitation to the Klan. The Legion will have its own parade, and exercises in the morning, although H. T. Jennings, its commander, says the Klan participation was not the cause of its withdrawal from the community function. The National Guard will not march as a unit, but members will be permitted to march with other organizations. Thus any Catholic need not march with the Klan unless he desires.

POLICE STOP 200 CHURCH RIOTERS Blessed Was the Squad in Washington, D. C. 13U United Press WASHINGTON, May 27.—Blessed was the police riot squad here today. It was a peacemaker when two hun dred men and women parishioner:; fought it out with fists and elbows in the street after a motion to oust the Rev. Alfred B. Barrows of the Eastern Presbyterian Church was voted down. Alfred D. Calvert was the only casualty. He suffered bruises of the flesh because he was said to have wounded the spirit of the church by attempting to dislodge the pastor. On his complaint, two fellow parishioners were arrested. John M. Chisholm was accused of striking him in the fade and breaking his glasses. William Samuel Pool was charged with disorderly conduct. INJURIES NOT SERIOUS Auto accident injuries of Miss Laverne Hughes, 21, of 814 Highland Ave., and Joseph Whittman, 23, of 2166 Wheeler St., yore found to be less serious than first expected after X-ray examinations at city hospital today. Whittman attempted to pass an intqjrurban car at Brookside Ave. and Steele St., Thursday night and struck a traffic signal.

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BANDITS’ LOOT PUTATRO67 Robbers Believed \to Have Fled in Small Car. Bandits who robbed the Central State Bank, Thirtieth St. and Central Ave., Thursday morning got away with $4,067, J. L. Bray, cashier, said today. Police today had found no trace of the two young men who calmly scooped up all the currency in sight in the bank while Assistant Cashier Orville Dendo and a patron, W. R. Horne, Washington Floral Shop proprietor, were forced to lie on the tioor. Detective Chief Claude M. Worley has his men retracing the crime from the start. The bandits are believed to have left the bank In a. Ford. An abandoned Ford was found it Fortieth St. and Central Ave. Porridge, cooked in the best Scottish manner, is prepared every evening for M. P.’s in the House of Commons.

MANAGER FORM WORK TOLD Diamond Chain Employes Hear L. V. Sheridan. Workings of the city manager form of municipal government was explained to workmen of The Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company, 502 Kentucky Ave., today at noon, by L. V. Sheridan, landscape architect. The Diamond Chain meeting will be the last noonday factory gathering until after Memorial Day. The educational meetings will be revived Tuesday follownig the holiday. according to Blythe Q. Hendricks. speakers bureau director. Central States Envelope Company, 16 S. Sherman Dr., has scheduled a meeting for Tuesday. Veritas Degrees Awarded Awarding of degrees featured the thirty-first anniversary dinner of the founding of Veritas Lodge No. 008. F. A. M„ Thursday night in the lodge hall, Roosevelt Ave. and McAdams St. Maj. Earl F. Hites, Volunteers of America, was speaker.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Mayor of Noblesville Declares Gilliom and Governor Jackson Were Wrong in Getting Liquor for Sick Members of Family.

By Eldora Field In seven Indiana towns visited, in north and south directions— In interviews with leading; citizens of those towns, including bankers doctors, judges, lawyers, merchants, thinkings persons of varying political and religious persuasion—- , I found only one man who absolutely, coldly, inexorably condemned Governor Jackson's recent action of giving his wife whisky when her life hung in the balance and physicians said whisky was needed to save her, and Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom's action in urging a change in the State dry law to permit use of whisky for medicine. Tills man was th\e mayor of Noblesville. He is filling the unexpired term of another and his future political life will depend upon his pulling votes from whatever stronghold he thinks they're stored. He claims to reflect the sentiment of many others, yet Julius Joseph, mayor of Noblesville, alone, of dozens of thinking, intelligent, successful persons interviewed, said: ‘‘l condemn both Jackson and Killiom. 1 positively condemn what they did, what they said and what they’ve left unsaid. Even if Jackson's wife's life hung in the balance, I think he should not have done what he did. I think Gilliom should not have helped him, no matter what the circumstance. His Own Situation “I don't say this without realizing the situation that confronted Jackson. My wife has had heart trouble for five years. In that time she has again and again been at the point where some would say whisky would have saved her life. I never dreamed of, and would not have given it to her, no matter what the outcome.'' and Joseph glanced at a large, unsmiling portrait of Calvin Coolidge which hung on the wall of his shop (Joseph is a tailor). In the same town two physicians had just expressed the opinion that they thought a law which refused a dying person a saving drug, though we call it hv the name of whisky, is too stringent and should he modified. They were Dr. J. D. Sturdevant and Dr. S. \V. Hook. Here, too, a leading merchant, John Sperry, said, *‘l don't believe any man with human feelings would have done differently from Governor Jackson.” Another Noblesville man. Frank Head, county highway superintendent, said: ‘‘Would I allow anything to stand in the way of saving my wife's life, call it quinine or call it whisky? Nc, and I would have done the same as Jackson did under like circumstnaces.” Sees Annoyances Dr. Hook explained why many physicians who would like the privilege of using alcohol in the treatment of certain diseases, such as pneumonia and typhoid, whcio it has undoubted value, yet hesitate to declare themslves. "It would make us sort of licensed bootleggers,” he said. ‘‘lt would create difficult situations because pressure would be brought to bear by those who would not need whisky. In Illinois, where each physician is allowed forty pints a year for prescription purposes, it is no easy ; matter to wisely dispense th? whisky j as a drug." Emphatic for Change At Kokomo, J. E. Fredrick, sec-retary-manager of the Kokomo Steel and Wire Company, and State Chamber of Commerce president, was very emphatic in his opinion that the dry-bone law of Indiana should be modified. ‘‘ln the face of progress, we can- j not legislate against one science— j the medical, any more than we can | against any other science," he said. "In the laboratory, we can obtain needed alcohol. Why should physicians, in the fight for suffering humanity, be denied any weapon that their judgment dictates?” "Os course, there wuold be abuse

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of the law if It were modified. Bound to be. There is abuse of any law by those who are so disposed, yet we cannot let that possible abuse interfere with Justice and common sense. "We don’t abandon the'manufacture of firearms because murder can be done with a gun. We do not abolish autos because criminals use them to make quick getaways. We allow the use of morphine by physicians. Why ip the name of common sense do we interferee with the physician’s weapons when he fights for a life, just because that weapon, whisky, is erroneously used and trafficked by certain elements?" Banker for Modification Charles Shemon, cashier of the Citizens National Bank, was equally emphatic. "I certainly favor a modification of the bone dry law of Indiana. When it makes self-respect-ing citizens, in their effort to save human life, law breakers and bootleggers, it’s high time something should be done. "I would have acted just as Governor Jackson did —any man who , loves his wife or his family would have done as he did. I have talked with numbers of physicians who have told me that they don't want to be forced Into bootlegging but that they are handicapped by being unable to use whisky in the treatment of certain diseases." Deems Law Ridiculous Frank McCarty, president of the Citizens’ National Bank agreed with Fhernon. “I think the present bonedry law is ridiculous," be said. "I don't drink myself—have no possible desire to do so. so this opinion has no personal tinge, but I certainly would have done just what Jackson did. The law should be sufficiently modified that medicinal whisky could be used when the attending physician requires it in his treatment.” "If I had to go to the penitentiary for so doing, I would certainly have broken the law which involved a possible death of my wife," said B. P. Kingsbury, manager of the Thomas Dye Lumber Company of Kokomo. “I certain approve of what Jackson did. Although whisky is, I believe. an economic menace, yet the law should be sufficiently modified to allow its use when needed. "Fear that a modification of the bone-dry law of Indiana would get out of control, is an unfounded one. Narcotics are controlled by law. The Harrison nareotiv law has beautifully taken cart of the illict dispensing of narcotics. Some sucli law could bo worked out in reference to whisky which would make it possible for physicians to use it as they would any other drug." Cites Drug Ln.v Success Dr. Nathaniel Hamilton, a leading physician of Kolicrao, also f:: cd to the Harrison narcotic law as a successful one. "If through such a law the dispensing of morphine—a deadly drug and the use of which can become one of the most terrible of habits — is successfully controlled. Os course, the dispensing of whisky, to be used as a drug, can be controlled by proper legislation," he said. ‘‘There are diseas’s such as pneumonia, typhoid, and conditions following surgical operations, and phases of pregnancy, when no other drug is as good as this condemned one, whisky. Certainly a physician is handicapped by not being able to use it. Certainly it’s a bad law we have in Indiana which causes law abiding citizens to feel that they I have to transgress the law in order 1 to save life. "It is true that som A physicians j differ as to -he curative properties t of alcohol. However, there is a difference in systems of medicines, yet we do not therefore contend that some system should be thrown out,

Watch Wallets, Warns Chief Keep your hands on your pocketbooks. That, in substance, was the warning issued today by Police Chief Claude F. Johnson to persons expected to attend the race at the Speedway Monday. "Pickpockets will be active in crowds,” Chief Johnson said. Out-of-town detectives will be here to identify known criminals, who will be locked up on vagrancy charges. Chief Johnson also warned motorists not to attempt to use Michigan St., between White River Bridge and Holmes Ave., due to repairs being made to the street.

and if a physician feels that alcohol is really an effective weapon, he should not have his hands tied.” Would Discharge Him Judge C. \V. Mount, Tipton, known widely for his strict liquor law enforcement, favors a modification sufficient for physicians to use whisky when considered necessary. “Fa two and one-half years’ I have rescinded onltr two liquor law violations,” he said, "so you know how I stand on the subject, yet if a man came to me, charged with giving whisky when human life was involved, I would discharge the man quicker than you could say ‘Jack rabbit.' "Confronted with Jackson’s predicament, I would violate the law. j “Certainly there would be abuse of j the law by unscrupulous persons in j case of a modification, but were ; there one thousand violations against [ the saving of one life, I think the modification would be justified.” No Effective Substitute Dr. W. H. Martin, Kokomo, who arrived Thursday from his winter j home in Wintherhaven. Fla., said I he had not read the Incident of the Jackson illness but, “I do think some modification of the dry bone law of Indiana should be made,” he said. • “Certainly physicians should have the protected privilege of fighting diseases with every weapon that they know of. Whisky has its legitimate place in the treatment of certain diseases. In my opinion, thene is no effective substitute, especially in the treatment of that subtle disease, pneumonia.” Russel Martin, cashier. Citizens’ National Bank of Tipton, said brusquely, “There is a time to talk and there is a time to keep silent. In my opinion, this is not the time to talk on this subject of modification of the dry bone law.” ‘‘A Poison” Mrs. Alice Waugh. Tipton, wife of it former congressman, thought otherwise. She is past president of the Tipton W. C. T. U. “Whisky is a poison. It should be as strictly controlled as any other poison. I am opposed to any modification that might put it in the hands of the public. It’s no argument that the Volstead law is violated. All laws, from those of Moses down, have been violated.” Dr. M. R. G fford, Tipton, favors a modification, “if a law can so be worked out that as in the case of narcotics, there could be absolute control of whisky and so it could be put into the hands of physicians who need it in their fight against disease.” Sympathize With Governor Druggist George Arkanau agreed. *T favor modification,” he said, “with some provision so that not more than four ounces could he given out as ! doses at one time. Four ounces is sufficient dose to ascertain it whisky I will be effective in the disease in which it is to lx- used. I sympathize with Governor Jackson’s action, by the way. I would not let my wife's life hang in the balance if confronted with a similar situation to the Governor’s.”

DOCTOR BACKS GILLIOM IN WHISKY CONTENTION Orvall Smiley Takes Stand on ‘Would You Break Law to Save Life?’ Issue.

That thousands of aged Indiana residents are “suffering the torments of the damned" because doctors in the State are not permitted to prescribe whisky is the contention of Dr. Orvall Smiley, 242 Bankers' Trust Bldg., who wrote to Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom congratulating him on his bold stand for Intelligent modification of the Wright law, taken In a letter to Governor Jackson. OilUom pointed out that whisky, illegally procured, was resorted to in saving the life of Mrs. Jackson and the Gilliom children when they were seriously ill and urged the Governor to recommend that the next Legislature modify the law to permit whisky for medicinal use. "I prescribe whisky whenever I think it necessary, law or no law," Dr. Smiley declared. “1 believe in law enforcement and I heartily disapprove of whisky as a beverage, but in the matter of health natural rights must be beyond dictation." The doctor cited many cases from his own experience. "I had a case of a woman, who what is commonly known as a bleeder," he recalled. "For two weeks she hovered between life and death and had become as limp as a rag. Nothing seemed to rally her. Finally I told her husband to get some whisky and gave him a note to a doctor in Louisville, Ky. “The man vowed that he would bring back the liquor if it cost his life. I also gave him a letter to show any officers that might stop and search his car. He was frightened, but resolute. He took two revolvers and, thus armed, made the trip as fast as his car could travel. The whisky did the business and his wife's life was saved. "Can such a nonsensical piece of legislative poppycock Vie called sane —let alone intelligent? "I have ordered dozens of pa-

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tients to get whisky and they do get it in Ohio, Illinois or Kentucky. But what of the poor whose relatives cannot afford to make such trips? Are they to take a chance with moonshine and perhaps be poisoned or blinded? Law Is a Curse 4 "I know from personal experience that there are thousands of aged persons suffering from arteriosclerosis, whose pain might be alleviated by the use of whisky. Other remedies relieve the artery situation, but cause suffering of other organisms. The law is a curse to them and should be modified as soon as possible. "Beer, malt and vinous liquors should also be allowed by prescription. In my own family I prescribe beer as a tonic at ,t time when nothing else seemed to be able to build up the system. Personally I have never drank a pint of whisky in my life and am against its use as a beverage, but I do know that 1n many cases there is nothing in the entire pharntacopae that will take its place." Other persons who expressed an opinion on Governor Jackson's action in violating the law to save hia wife's life: DEPUTY PROSECUTOR JUDSON L. STARK—I am for the prohibition and any other law until it Is properly changed. I would decide the question as to what I would do, when the necessity arose, but I would not say in advance that I would or would not violate the law to save my child. COUNTY AUDITOR HARRY DUNN—Would 1 violate the liquor law if It meant saving a human life? Yes, sir, you bet I would. JACOB MORFGAN. Attorney— I believe the law should be revised. LOUIS MEYERS, County File Clerk—l know of cases where liquor was used because of illness, and approve of it. GEORGE L. FOOTE. Chief Deputy Internal Revenue Collector — Well, I never did like for members of my family to die. "I believe a person has a right to vitiate a law such as is enforced in Indiana banning liquor for medical purposes when the life of a member of his family ts at stake,” said W. D. Jones, assistant prohibition commissioner at Columbus, Ohio. "Morally, Governor Ed Jackson did not violate the law when he obtained liquor to save the life of a member of his family." Jones said.

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