Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1927 — Page 4

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The Shumaker Attitude Attorney General Gilliom should resign, says n<k - . Shumaker, the head of the Anti-Saloon Le*gu. in Indiana. * The frank statement of that official that lie had fcisn compelled to violate a law in order to save the lift c.f his little son is called "sob stuff’ by the tlijf leader, who says that such an act has made thie highest legal officer of the State untrue to his on|ce * jl Ti him, the fact that the life of the boy was B£#ed that the father resents being made a criminal, haa discovered by a most tragic experience ths fanaticism of the law in this State, that he beli&et at other fathers and mothers should be permuted without inviting jail sentences to follow the achtlce of their physicians means nothing to the man wftp boasts that he has kept the law upon the statute oks. tj In order that there may be no mistake as to the attitude of Mr. Shumaker, read once more this rather remarkable statement: *• "Attorney General Gilliom’s boast that he hss at least twice violated the law, a law which he lf|d taken a solemn oath before God to enforce.ajjd that, according' to many physicians, unnecessarily, then this sob stuff in his appeal for booze a* a medicine and his public appeal to the Governor nearly two years in advance to ask the next Legislature to legalize once more a long since outlawed traffic certainly would justify the people In demanding his resignation from an office to which hS has been untrue. 1 a "In the meantime Governor Jackson's silence, since he has been accused of being a party to at one of these violations, is a disappointment tp' law-abiding citizens.” *’ If Mr. Shumaker really believes that the action sf'billiom in saving the life of his boy by following :he* advice of his physicians should drive him from )fl!ce, he has a very easy manner to accomplish it. '*.■ The act violates at least, four provisions of the Iry act. Men have been sent to jail for those viola;ios. The prosecuting attorney of this county is •edited to be a very close friend of the head of the irj£ forces. A demand for a warrant and an affidavit :harging Gilliom with these violations would accom)li*h his purpose—if he really believes that saving i life under these circumstances is a crime which nakes Gilliom “untrue” to his oath. JJ Why not have this test of sentiment? And ceraijily if public sentiment would resent such a prose:ution. len the law itself is an absurdity, and has lowplace upon the statute books of this State. WThat law is intended specifically to limit the jhjSsicians of this State in their treatment of dislag? 1 . It tells them what they may not do even if ,h43r judgment and experience directed the use of wlfisky to save life, as happened in the case of the Jifliom boy and of the wife of the Governor of this stale. ft Does Indiana approve the attitude of Shumaker, prfcflch would drive a. man from office for saving the if* his son, or does it believe with Gilliom that in&h a law is murderous fantaicism and has no fijfce in an enlightened age and State? On one point the people will probably agree with Shumaker. They will agree that the attitude >f Jackson is disappointing. They perlajfts had a right to expect that the Governor would leiy the use of whisky in saving the life of his wife, :f fie used no whisky and his physicians did not prescribe it, or, if he did use it, that he would be as legless, as frank and as courageous as was Mr. Siljiom. * The people really are interested in knowing tvhifether the Governor, after his personal experience, stands with the demand of Gilliom for enlightened aw or with Shumaker for relief by bootleggers.

rile President’s Speech As Others Will See It It is a matter for deep regret that a President of,rthe United States should have his fair words offsei by the not so fair acts of his Secretary of State n ( Our relations abroad. >1 Yesterday afternoon at Arlington, surrounded by*the moldering bones of our warrior heroes whose gallant souls have gone to join those in the great Vsflhalla, President Coolidge told his hearers: l “All peoples have points of excellence. . . . Tl|eir ways may not always be our ways, and their thoughts may not be our thoughts, but in accordance with their own methods they are attempting to maintain position in the world, and discharge their obligations to humanity. We shall best fulfill our mission, by extending to them all the hand of helpfulness, consideration and friendship. , “We wish to discard the element of force and compulsion in international agreements and conduct,” he said again, “and rely on reason and lay. ... “While we wish for peace everywhere, it is our defeire that it should not be a peace imposed by America, but a peace established by each' nation for Itself. * “We want our relationship with other nations based not on a meeting of bayonets but on a meeting f; Fair words and worthy, surely, but our relations with other countries have not always, of late, been based on these principles. ■ With the great powers we have been circumspect enough. And so far, we have admirably withstood pressure, both from without and within the country, to throw such scruples to the wind in our treatment of China. In the Far East none can say th|t we have have done badly. j But nearer home, notably in Nicaragua and Mexico, our Department of State has violated each arid every one of the President's proclaimed rules of conduct. j It has not remembered that other people's ways arfe not always our ways, and their thoughts not our thoughts. Nor has it seemed to understand that Jt*was in accordance with their own methods, liberal forces within Mexico and Nicaragua have been atjfettiptlng to maintain their position in the world arid discharge their obligations to humanity, as they Bek them. i In these countries particularly our State Department has not proceeded on the theory that ‘‘we shall bq?t fulfill our mission by extending . . . the hand rs helpfulness, consideration and friendship.” F*>m the very beginning pf our more recent rela-

tions with Mexico and Nicaragua, “force and compulsion” have been constantly to the fore instead of being, as the President recommends, in the discard. “While we wish for peace everywhere,” President Coolidge declared, “it is our desire that it should not be a peace imposed by America.” Nevertheless, such peace as there is in Nicaragua today is not only imposed by America, but our relations with that country are based solely “on a meeting of instead of "a meeting of minds," as the President would seem to desire. In short, seldom if ever, have fine sentiments from presidential lips been so completely negatived by the blind blunderings of his Secretary of State. So it would appear to the friendlier critics within the great American family. Outside the family—and that is the important thing—the more unfriendly critics would simply say the President was indulging in familiar, but insincere, platitudes. What Can We Do For Him Time after time the American movie Midas has trundled his way to the American embassy in Paris. Four times in one day. fondling his glorious check book, he has offered Capt. Charles Lindbergh that award ot awards, that shining certification of virtue and valor—a home in Hollywood. Even like Chaplin the lad can have a close-up. Instructed by megaphone, he can smirk and smile and register heroism. He can clasp saccharine-faced beauties to his manly young breast, and, while the organs play all stops open, sail away through Kleig-lighted skies to the land of forever afterward.' Nor is that all. Additional honor, he can spend his spare time in a song and dance for the two-a-day. Wedged between tumblers and. black-faced comedians, he can bring down the house and stop the show. Let's be honest. Is there any one. even in this land of the stunt and exploit, who doesn't sicken at such a future for the boy who flew to Paris and found a world at his feet? Thus far, he lias turned his back on the hero baiters. He has laughed at money as superbly as at death. His words have been as fine as his achievement: “The expedition was not for profit. My career is in the air.” But how long will a very young man be able to keep this simple, charming dignity without active encouragement by his country? Something must be done. Some way we must find a reward worthy of him. It will be no simple problem for we lack the machinery of honor and glory that exists in the older lands. The lack will be no excuse, however, nor will it prevent unfortunate consequences should we fail to meet our occasion. Unable to offer Charles Lindbergh anything better than billboards and footlights, we will have lost more than he, and we will find ourselves ridiculous in the eyes of all the world.

City Parks and State When lands were acquired for city parks, years ago, the officials who bought them were almost invariably criticised by a portion of the public for their ‘‘extravagance.’’ Yet there was never a city park created which did not more than pay for itself by the increase in taxable value of the surrounding land. Today the penny wise seek to check the present, movement for the acquisition of State forests and parks. But the future will vindicate officials who are courageous enough to embrace the State park program. For State parks will pay for themselves not only in the public health which comes from outdoor life in contact with the wilderness, but in the flood control which comes from thick forest growths w'hich hold back the rain water. The Problem Is National The Albuquerque State Tribune presents an impressive reason for the calling of Congress to deal with flood relief. The present situation in the South, says this new-spaper, offers an opportunity to the President to demonstrate the meaning of our national political union. The waters of the North are drowning out the South. This creates a national problem that can only be dealt with properly by a national agency. “What a time to prqve the equality in brotherhood of all Americans and tjie impartial solicitude of the Federal Government for all its people,” says the State Tribune. “It is surely a 100 per cent American suggestion.” Flying for Safety When Louis Bleriot flew the English channel in 1909 the world held its breath. Today the trip is safer by air than by ship. Air freight from London to Paris is, insured in England at 2 shillings per 100 pound sterling. Insurance on the same freight by surface transport costs 6 shillings and eight pence. The Imperial Airways, Ltd., and its predecessors, have flown more than 5,000,000 miles in seven years and carried some 75,000 passengers, with only four fatal accidents. Fifty German air lines flew 3,814,000 miles last year, carrying 56,268 passengers, with only one fatal accident. American mail planes flew 3,108,720 miles without a casualty in the fourteen months from Feb. 12, 1926, to April 22, 1927. This growing safety of routine air transport merits more attention than it receives. It demands especial attention in this time of daring w’hen stunt and regulated commercial flying may become confused in the public mind. Lindbergh doesn't smoke, chew or drink. His only bad habit seems to be flying. Vaccination is required at Harvard. The Princeton student’s report that it was for rabies is being investigated. Now' that unexpurgated editions of certain books have been admitted by port authorities of New York, the sale undoubtedly will be a total failure in America.

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Says: Lindbergh Is a Flier First, Last and All the Time.

Lindbergh is a flier first, last and all the time. That being understood, he is willing to consider any serious proposition that promises to help the art to which he has dedicated his life. "I want to do the things that are natural to me,” he says, which reveals the solid side of his character. With a world-wide devotion ringing in his ears and with ease, luxury and untold fortune to be had for the asking he is still able to think of his chosen career. Lindbergh is doing quite a3 much for aviation by the way he wears his laurels as by the way he won them. , Provided Death When Reese Bachelor killed his father-in-law. Judge Lamar Smith the Alabama law provided for death by hanging. Before he was sentenced that law had been repealed and one had been adopted providing for death by electrocution. The court sentenced him according to the later law. His attorneys now raise the point that this sentence is illegal, because the law did not provide for electrocution at the time he committed the crime. They also contend that he cannot be re-sentenced to hang, because the law which provided for hangring has been repealed. Makes Encouragement This is the kind of quibbling that affords criminals encouragement while it fills honest men with despair. There is no question of justice involved. or even of basic law. Whether by hanging or electrocution, Alabama decrees death for murder in the first degree and it was for murder in the first degree that Bachelor was convicted. Attorneyism is ready to have him, however, not because it is right, but because a change in the law.makes it technically possible. Asa playwright has aptly put it. "we used to call them courts of justice; now we call them 'courts of law.' " Law Responsible Law is responsible for most of our lawlessness—too much law, too technical law: law as It is administered by hired experts; law that has become so clumsy with professionalism that it cannot. function. Give a shrewd attorney and a jury of morons which le not too exceptional. it is surprising what- the criminal can get away with, no matter how clear the law may seem with regard to his crime and its punishment. Bachelor probzbly will not escape death because the murder he committed was peculiarly revolting, but thousands of thieves, forgers apd even killers are walking the highways and byways of this country bv virtue of no sounder argument than are being made in his behalf.

Call for More Mr. Hoover calls for an additional subscription of 12,000,000 as the flood crest enters the sea. It will be forthcoming, of course, and more still if need be, but let no one suppose that it will provide for more than immediate relief. The hour of desolation comes to an end only to make room for the hour of reconstruction. Seven hundred thousand persons have been saved from drowning and starvation, which is splendd, but their crops, their cattle, their homes and their equipment have been either wiped out or seriously damaged. Solution Three-Fold Solution of the problem with which this flood disaster confronts the Nation is three-fold. First, there is the work of relief, which has been and is being carried on with remarkable efficiency. ’ Second, there is the necessary credit for reconstruction w’hich remains to be provided. Third, there is the program of development and control which perhaps, the most gigantic engineering task ever undertaken by the United States. Violent as Lenin Mussolini’s recent speech was quite as violent an attack on the ideals and institutions of democracy as Lenin ever delivered. He chortles over the idea that Fascism does not have to think of votes or consult public opinion. He proclaims with obvious glee that all opposition newspapers and magazines have been suppressed. He calls bn Italy to produce a population of 65,000,000 within the next decade and to create an army of 5,000,000. He declares that having freed Itself from the restraint df popular government, the Fascist movement has come to look upon them as belonging to the middle ages. v Sneers at U. S. Mussolini sneers at the United States more distinctly than at any other land, yet It is no offense for an American to praise his dictatorship or advocate his doctrines. While leaning backward to' frown on Bolshevism, which is perfectly proper, a good many Americans have fallen into the royalists’ pose without realizing it, and have come to look with favor on some of those principles and ideas which their great grandfathers died to overthrow. Is there any provision of law that requires aliens to become American citizens after a certain period of residence in the United States? No alien car. be compelled to be- ! come an American citizen. After he | is duly admitted an alien can stay I here as long as he lives peaceably and independently and observes the laws. *

The President Is Planning a Trip to the Black Hills

‘Last of Mrs. Cheyney’ Turns Out to Be Comedy Gem of the Walker Season By Walter D. Hickman - ■■

At this time it may be said with the greatest ease that "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" is a gem of a comedy in the hands of the Stuart Walker Company. And it may be said with as much ease that this comedy is the treat of the Walker season so far. We have waited a long time for this hit and Walker has dressed

this elegant bit of theater with a cast of Broadway Importance. Here we have George Gaul doing a dress suit character with that elegant ease which he gives roles of such character. Gaul this week Is giving us a performance which ranks close, mighty close, to his most effective work in "Seventh Heaven.” of last season. Here you

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see George Gaul in a human, but smart comedy role which is full of worldly wiseness as well as truth. I am sure that in the months to come I will recall with the greatest pleasure the work of this man in the iv>le of Lord Dilling. who discovered that even a woman crook may morally be a good woman. Gaul this week is giving a performance so full of the zest of life that he becomes a real triumph. Just give this man a real part and you will see really big acting. Gaul in this play is blessed with

some of the smartest scenes that the stage now claims. My enthusiasm for Gaul in no way reflects any discredit upon the glorified acting of Ann Davis as Mrs. Cheyney. The beauty of the work of Miss Davis is that she keeps one guessing as to just how good or how bad Mrs. Chex-ney really is. And that is really the secret of the play. She is blessed with a magnificent entrance and at least two wonderful curtains. She rises to that nervous but determined mental state in the last scene of the second act which makes one realize more than ever that she is indeed a gifted artist. And she is wonderful in the little moments of the play, and that, you know, is a good test of genius as well as sustained big acting. She brings Mrs. Cheyney to life; she radiates power and even wisdom. With careful character strokes. Miss Davis becomes, in my judgment, the Mrs. Cheyney that the author intended. It is in the last act, when Mrs. Cheyney “reforms,” that we see Miss Davis as a sureme artist in smart fun. This last act is charming as played by the company. And there Is much good acting, actually fine work to be seen in the cast directed by George Somnes. Gavin Gordon as Charles, the butler, who is always the butler even in his spare moments in his service to Mrs. Cheyney, does some of the finest high comedy work that I have seen in a long time. This play makes him a real favorite on the grounds of merit. France Dendtsen has one of those “Willie" roles xvhich fits him so well. In this sort of a role, it is my honest opinion that he has no equal on the stage. And I have thought that for some time. Margaret Douglass takes full advantage of her opportunity in the second and last acts. She is magnificent when haughty but wise. Elizabeth Patterson is seen as Mrs. Webley, who owns the jewels and who has a “flare” for interesting people. The role doesn't make much demand upon her, but when she is on the stage she gives the Patterson touch to every scene. Another fine characterization Is given by Ernest Cossart as Lord Elton, rich but dumb. Here is really big acting. The cast includes Willard Joray, Muriel Kirkland, Pauline Breuatedt, George Huber Eleanor

Martin. Albert West and Valerie Cossart. Rich and costly settings are demanded. Somnes has seen to It that the sets match the elegance of the story. Beautiful .every set. Splendid handling of lights. You will agree with me that "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” displays the Stuart Walker Company at its very best. At B. F. Keith’s all week. BERKEI.L PLAYERS HO MIGMTY WELL WITH COMEDY The men are the important factors in making “Is Zat So" at English's a success this week. Those whor are most responsible are William V. Hull in his first long and important part of the season: Larry Sullivan. Milton Byron, Herbert Dobbins and Robert St. Clair. Sullivan and Hull are teamed together in two of the fastest comedy parts that the stage has had for many months. They get off their prize fightln' slang in a prize way. These two are “tough” in language, but pure gold as to heart. The cast is as follows: Ertill*" (Chick) Cowan .... Larry Sullivan A. B. (Hap) Hurley . William V Hull £ Ollnlon Blackburn Milton Byron Sue Black burn Parker. Mildred Haatlnr* Florence Hanley Idabelle Arnold Robert Parker Herbert Dobbins Marie Mestretti .ie an Oliver Master James Blackburn Parker. . . . r. • • <"arl Pflueger Grace Hobart Bernier Mandate Fred Hobart j r Varlnw Major Maurice Filz-Stanley . . . --L -1, Robert St. Clair John Duffy Morty Lamer Angie VanAlstyne Edna Jonea •*•••■• Joe Reynold* The Berkell Players are Retting all the laughs possible out of this show. They did It last winter in Davenport with some of the present cast. The opening performances here were smooth. As this department has concerned itself during the regular legitimate season with a lengthy discourse on the art of slang as expressed in this comedy. It is not necessary to repeat it at. this time. The fact is that to repeat the "gag" lines would only ruin the show for many people. This much you can he sure of—l the Berkell Players are doing a splendid job with this prize fight comedy. In it Larry Sullivan and William Hull are the prize winning "babies.” • At English's all week. (By the Observer). POWER OF PUBLICITY PROVEN BY "PEACHES” As "Exhibit A," “Peaches" Browning is making a personal appearance this week at the Lyric. Before "Peaches” walks on the stage, a man tells the audience that “Peaches" went on the stage because she had to make a living. "She Is no actress," the announcer said. “She knows it and wishes that she knew more about the stage." Before she appeared. the announcer asked the audience to give “Peaches” a good Indianapolis welcome. With that "Peaches" walked on the stagqj forced a stage smile, said she thought this was a

Stage Verdict KEITH’S—“The Last of Mrs. Cheyney” is the treat of the Stuart Walker season so far. It will be received as one of the best and smartest things that Walker has ever given this city. LYRIC—It is admitted that “Peaches” Browning is no actress. That is true, but she is breaking all box office records here. PALACE —One of the best shows of the season al this house. A prize winning show. ENGLISH’S—The Berk ell Players are pleasing about everx’body who sees them in “Is Zat So" this week. '

lovely city, walked off the stage to change her dress and then returned to do one dance number with a man. And that is about all there is to "Peaches" as far as the act is concerned. Judged by every standard by which I judge the very best acts in vaudeville "Peaches” Browning has one of the most pitiful acts I have 1 ever seen on the stage. And that is in line with the words of the announcer that "Peaches Is no actress.” Her job is to draw people into the theater. Charles Olsen, owner of the Lyric, told me that the first day that "Peaches" was at the Lyric all box office receipts at this theater were broken. Also on Monday afternoon when I went into the Lyric I had to have the assistance of an usher to get me •near the door. I was allowed to stand because I was there In a critical capacity. Olsen told me that they were selling no standing room and as soon as the house was filled they stopped selling tickets until the theater emptied again. "Peaches" is doing the thing that she is being paid for—drawing the biggest crowds so far into the Lyric in its history. Alexandria and his gang have an act made up of a lot of hokum. For a hokum act it pleases. "Al's Here" is a funny little sketch showing the interior of a saloon in the days when such things existed. Here Is a lot of "souse” fun. It is well done. Joe Browning Is still wearing his| undertaker's looking uniform. He sings the "blues" and howls for reform. He is a good showman. and Kay are blackface entertainers. Early and Knight have a merry routine in the art of domestic. argument which catches the attention of the audience with ease. The bill Includes Sylvia Loyal and company aftd movies. At the Lyric all week.

CORKING GOOD SHOW ON VIEW AT THE PALACE Will state right at the beginning that the Palace the first half of the week has a corking good show from the beginning to the ending. To Bernadlne De Grave, dancer, and her assisting artists, probably goes the honor of being the best on a mighty good bill. Here is a dance revue act which is of tWe big time. The work of Miss De Grave is of the quality that one would expect to see in Ziegfeld revue or musical comedy. She has been in both. The dance xvork of an eccentric team is splendid. Act is beautifully dressed and as well presented. The Abadula Troupe of acrobats and tumblers certainly got the audience going when I was present. The spinning work of one of the women is the best I have ever seen. The act starts out rather slowly along melody lines, but as soon as the men and the women become acrobatic the act turns into a riot. Brown and LaVelle center there fun around a song counter in a store. The woman sings a song about how awful it is to just sell songs, especially popular songs. There is lot of snappy comedy in thifs act. Well done. Gets real laughs. The man ha3 a good xylophone number. Fenton and Field in “Imported From Scotland" go in for some eccentric fun. They dance between jokes. Nora and Sydney Kellog have an offering in which the man plays a number of novelty musical instruments. The movie is “Getting Gertie’s Garter.” In the cast are Marie Prevost, Charles Ray and Fritzi Ridgeway. At the Palace today and Wednesday. Other theaters today offer: “The World at Her Feet” at the Apollo; "Senorita” at the Ohio; “Fast and Furious” at the Colonial; “The Scarlet Letter” at the Circle and “Lightning Lariats'’ at the Isle.

MAY 31, 1927

<yT\ eduction . Bridp'e iyJHilton /"V Don't Bid No Trump Unless Opposing Bid Is Stopped,

The pointer for today is: SITTING OVER AN INITIAL SLIT DECLARATION, DO NOT BID NO TRUMP UNLESS YOU HAVE THE SUIT STOPPED; RARELY DO SO UNLESS YOU HAVE IT STOPPED TWICE. Below are the four West hands given yesterday. South has bid one Heart score love-all; what should West declare?

NO.l NO. 2 4 K-10-3-2 4 K-10-3-2 V A-7-5 9 AJ-5 4 A-J-J 4 K-J-9 4 A-Q-6 J, K-Q-6 NO. 3 NO. 4 4 K-10-3-2 K-10-3-2 f 74 4 A-Q-5 4 A-K-Q-J 4 A-K-Q 4 A-Q-6 4 7-6-5

My answer slip reads: No. 1. West should double. No. 2. West should bid one No Trump. 3. West should double. 4. West should bid one No Trump or double. My reasons in support of these declarations are: No. 1. West has three Aces and other strength: but the adverse suit is stopped only once. If East has four spades there is more probability of game at Spades than at. No Trump; but if West bid No Trump East would not over-call with exactly four Spades. If East answer the double with a Minor. West can let It stand or bid two No Trumps, as then seems best. No. 2. With so powerful a hand and the adverse suit stopped twice, a No Trump is better than a double. It is not the number of Aces held, but the general strength of the hand and the stoppers that should determine between a No Trump and a double. * No. 3. An ideal double; more apt to go game at partner's take-out than at Diamonds. The Diamond honors may count more than the honors at partner's suit, but games are worth more thap honors and there is a chance that East has the. Hearts guarded and after a double, will bid no Tpump. No. 4. With two stoppers and three cards in the defenseless suit, a No Trump is thoroughly justified, so is a double, with the Idea of letting partner's Diamonds or Spades stand, but of bidding No Trump over partner’s Clubs. Today's hands again are held by West, South having bid one Heart; score love-all, and the question is what West should declare in each case.

NO. 5 NO. 6 f 54-3-2 * 9-74-2 4 A-7-2 4 A-Q-5 4 A-104 4 A-104 NO. 7 NO. 8 4 A-K-10-7 4 4-3-2 V 5-3-2 9 74 4 7-6-3 4 A-O-104-3 4 9-5-2 4 7-5-5

Bridge Answer Slip of May 31st. No. 6. W’est. should No. 6. West should No. 7. West should No. 8. West should

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To the Editor: Whiskx*. recognized fqr centuries by the medical profession as the one ideal preventative and cure for certain aliments was outlawed ae a medicine by the Indiana State Legislature, and now we have the sorrowful spectacle of the governor and first citizen breaking a law In order that his wife might live. We also note where the attorney general, sworn to uphold the' laws of the State and Nation, confesses that, he, too, became a criminal in order to save the lives of his children. The National prohibition law and the Indiana bone dry law in particular are the greatest outrages ever perpetrated upon a more or less careless and Indifferent people. Any law that makes It a crime to use whisky or any other Item for medicinal purposes is stupid, criminal and unworthy of any State or Nation that boasts of living under a Republican form of government. If I have been informed correctly, Indiana is the only State In the Union that forbids the use of whisky for medicinal purposes, and Indiana is also the only State in the Nation that Is controlled body and soul by such organizations as the AntiSaloon Leaguo and the Ku Klux Klan. A* long as this State allows bigoted and narrow-minded men and organizations to control the public officials, so long will It hold the reputation that It has so justly deserved as being the hot bed of bigotry, intolerance and hatred and the paradise of the hypocrite and professional reformer. CONNOR J. O’ROURKE. What is the value of a United States green three-cent stamp, issue of 1870-71 printed by the National | Hank Note Company, bust of Washi ington facing to left in oval? If uncancelled it is worth $3.50; If cancelled 8 cents. Same stamp, wlthoyt grill, printed on both sides. $2.00, If uncancelled; if cancelled, S oeaUb