Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1927 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ( A SCKIPPS-HOWARU NEWSPAPER ) Owned and published daily (except Sunday) by The Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Price in Marion County, , 2 cents—lo cents a week; elsewhere, 3 cents —12 cents a week BOYD GURLEY, ROY W. HOWARD XV. A. MAYBORN, Editor. President. Business Manager. PHONE—MAIN 3000 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1927 Member of United Press, Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Newspaper Information Service and Audit Bureau of Circulations. “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way” —Dante

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The Governor's Opportunity Some day this week George Dale of Muncie, will be sent to the penal farm to serve ninety days. Dale is the editor who defied the Klan when it was runpant at Muncie. In his newspaper he boldly declared that the court was biased and unfair. He mkde grave charges against the grand jury and protested that it had been drawn by a jury commissioner named illegally by Judge Dearth. His jail sentence is the result of his published charges. He was sentenced by Dearth for contempt. He had offered to prove the truth of his charges. That was denied and the law seems to be that the truth is no defense. That was the rule laid down by the supreme court of this State in his case and the supreme court of the United States has ruled that it has no power to interfere. Many things have happened since Dale was sentenced to serve this term. The House of Representatives in the last Legislature voted 93 to 1 to impeach Dearth on charges of confiscating copies of Dale’s papers, of appointing a jury commissioner illegally, of so conducting the juries of his court that justice was impossible. The State senate which heard the evidence voted 32 to 17 to convict him. He escaped being driven from the bench by -the bare margin of two votes to make the necessary twothirds of the senate as the constitution requires. The point is that the Legislature of this State has repeated officially some of the things for the printing of which Dale is now slated for prison. There is but one power in this State which can save Dale from serving that sentence. The Governor alone can prevent it by giving a pardon now, before the prison gates close upon him. There can be no question of the injustice of sending an editor to jail for printing what a State Legislature has confirmed. As shocking as was the bold declaration that the truth is no defense in contempt cases, it would be infinitely more shocking-for Indiana to send Dale to its prison under such circumstances. The governor of the State should look upon this power to pardon as the big opportunity of his administration, his chance to tell the nation that Indiana does not imprison editors for printing what its State legislators later officially charge, that the press is still free in this State. The governor should save this State from the shame of locking its doors upon Dale under such conditions and with such a background. A pardon now would do much to save the courts of this State from contempt and restore them to public confidence* Diplomacy and Business There are more ways of fighting than with guns. With modern weapons of war Japan easily licked China, but when Japan got cocky and made her twenty-one demands, the Chinese replied with an economic boycott that brought the powerful military nation to her knees. There is no use in licking weaker nations unless you can exploit their people, sell them goods and make money out of them. Japan found that she couldn’t sell goods at the point of a bayonet. Wherever Japan came in economic competition with the Chinese, she discovered that they were smarter merchants as well as better agriculturists. So there was no chance for Japanese victory in that kind of competition. The only thing left was the building up of business on a foundation of good will. What will happen as a consequence of Britain’s break with the Russian government nobody knows. But if the result is a loss of business for British manufacturers the pocket-book nerve will be touched, and that s about the most sensitive of human nerves. The blundering diplomacy of our own State Department in Central America will be understood when it touches the pocket-book nerve of our American interests. We can send marines to Nicaragua and bully the people of that small country into military submission, but we can’t make them buy goods from us. We can set up an American-controlled government by force of arms, but we can’t make the people love us by any such diplomacy; and we can’t make them prefer American-made goods if they’d rather buy from somebody else. We have among our financiers and captains of industry some who think that because they are sue-

To the Editor: Dear an’ Kind Sir— I see by th’ Times o’ a few days back that some o’ th’ elite o’ Indiana has been bustin’ the law as promiscuous as hick’ry nut fiends afore a blazin’ fireplace on a cold winter night, an’ air proud o’ th’ fact that they air slippin’ their home State th’ razzberry from forty-seven others includin’ Washington, D. C. Also there seems to be a lot o’ perfessnal elite which is backin’ ’em up in their broad an’ personal liberty status, sick as doctors, school teachers an’ various other intellectuals, which knows dern little about whisky an’ the savin’ grace o’ God. I thought mebbe if you was goin’ to publish th’ warblin’s o’ a lot o’ mental canaries that mebbe a squawk from a old time Hoosier crow wouldn’t do much damage. I uster know Jim Riley, who in his time raised hell with whisky an’ didn’t miss none o’ the phases, an’ many others o’ the old timers. In them days folks was intelligent an’ in these days they air intellectual an’ filled with the wisdom which is foolishness' to God. In them days folks used whisky to git drunk on so’s they could raise the devil, but nowadays they use whisky to save what God made indestructible. Intelligence wouldn’t never try that, but intellect would attempt anything so long’s it aint bounded by th’ law o’ cdmmon sense. Jes’ becuz folks aint intelligent enough to know that God keeps all life agoin’ in spite o’ their foolishness aint no reason that God aint dcfifi’ His stuff right alonjj, but jes’ |ecuz folks thinks whisky kin save

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life is the very danged reason that life seems so be as irregular as White river at low ebb er modern gubernatorial politics o’ Indiany. Down here in this here choice corner o’ th’ earth folks don’t use whisky to keep life agoin’ they roll out in th’ sun an’ th’ salt breeze. Sometimes th’ same sun knocks ’em cockeyed with too much heat an’ the salt breeze scratches their bones, but it don’t make folks drunk an’ it don’t save any life, it jes’ changes their idee o’ life. Mebbe that’s what whisky does in Indiany. If God made whisky who in hell air we that we got any right to prohibit it? If he didn’t make whisky I ask th’ same question as to why we got any right to use it. Tell them Hoosier wisecrackers that when they kin settle them two questions correctly that they don’t need to worry none about huntin’ fer a alibi to indulge in a secret sin under the shadder o’ a drug store, pinchhittin’ perscription with a bad habit o’ sheddin’ a few dimes in favor o’ th’ bird who uses th’ Post Offis ink to write it out with. When a lady o’ the State o’ Indiany is so provileged that she kin tell th’ law to go jump the river an’ th’ law has to jump,* I kinder had a hunch mebbe I could say somethin’ with, as much sense to th’ intellectuals o’ Indiany an’ ask ’em to study somethin’ about God, which aint one, two, three as bad as Jumpin’ in th’ river. A hijacker thinks his hijackin’ is a personal liberty an’ of anyone kin show any difference twixt breakin’ the law hijackin’ an’ breakin’ it by gettin’ whisky, why I’d like to inter - duce a bill in th’ same session o’

cessful in their own lines they know just what our government at Washington ought to do, in its diplomatic dealing with Mexico, Nicaragua and other governments. Unfortunately, the present admihistration appears to believe that business judgment is diplomacy as well as business is infallible. So Big Business is in the governmental saddle. The strange thing about it is that they go on the theory in our own country that good will is the surest foundation for successful business, while in dealing with other nationals they want the government to help their business with marines and bayonets. If there is to be no idealism in our diplomacy wc might have, at least, some plain business sense. Debt Reduction Vs. Tax Reduction Secretary Mellon announces a record breaking treasury surplus for the year ending June 30. This means that Federal tax rates are considerably higher than required to meet the present operating costs of the Government. What’s to be done about it? There are two alternatives. One is to reduce taxes. The other is to reduce the national debt. Tax reduction will not be without abundant advocates, as evidenced by those already in the field with various proposals. It has an immediate political appeal. It seems like money saved right now. Debt reductions seem a more remote sort of thing. Consequently it is a poor vote getting program and has few noisy backers. - Debt reduction, however, is a form of permanent tax reduction, the advantages of which extend to all taxpayers and not to the limited class now hoping to get a special tax reduction. This fact was illustrated yesterday in a speech by Treasury Undersecretary Ogden Mills to a group of New York bankers. He said: “Interest payments next year will be less by $63,000,000 than they have been during the current year, due entirely to debt reduction and refunding operations. When you read the surplus figures for the present fiscal year do not be regretful that Congress might have given you the benefit of greater tax reduction, but rather realize that this entire surplus having been applied to the reduction of the national debt, the reduced interest charges will represent a permanent annual saving which will inure to your benefit in reduced taxes with just as much certainty as would the more direct method of taxation.” Mr. Mills might have gone further. He* might have said that debt reduction benefits the taxpayers not “with just as much certainty,” but with a whole lot more certainty. It permanently reduces the operating costs of Government and consequently the tax burdens which must be met. Immediate tax cuts contribute nothing to a solution of the high cost of Government. Let s hope that these facts won’t be submerged by the deluge of tax reduction proposals already under way. Turtles were found in the back yards of an Illinois town after a recent heavy rain, says a news dispatch. If they ever have a cloudburst, the natives can dine on that Japanese delicacy, sharks’ fins. * Well, everybody is about to fly everywhere.

Law and Justice by Dexter M. Keezer

The proprietor of a meat business became bankrupt. His wife, who had work;, and for four years as bookkeeper in the establishment, submitted a claim for wages for that period. Although no wage account had been kept and there was no contract to pay her, she claimed that it had been understood that she would be paid for her labor. She said she was entitled to submit her claim along with other creditors of her bankrupt husband. Other creditors opposed allowance of the wife’s wage claim. They said such an arrangement would reduce possible payments to them for the direct benefit of the bankrupt meat dealer. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: United States District Court for the Western District of New York refused to allow the wage claim of the wife. It said that “the mere rendition of services by the wife for the husband did not impose the liability to pay,” and suggested that such a payment resembled a payment by the bankrupt husband to- himself.

Indiany legislature in behalf o’ th’ hijacker bein’ made a bonifide perfession in order to save th’ population o’ th’ truck drivers union. Nonsense? o’ course its nonsense, why dad burn my hide it kaint be anything else but nonsense—an’ let them death feann’ folks who thinks God aint able to hold a candle to forty fingers o’ rOtgut, jes’ remember that even Luther Burbank never was able to grow peaches on tombstones, to put it plainer, folks ort never to imagine that plums grow on potater vines. The folks in Indiany aint broke no law on account a law which kin break er be broke aint much o’ a law in th’ fust place. There aint much about folks breakin’ a law o r God, they kaint break it, but they think they kin break th’ highest human concept o’ God’s law which might not be anywheres near th’ fact o’ law at all. Onct this feller Paul had a young lady to run behind him an’ his followers an’ holler that these men air the teaches from God an’ Paul didn’t waste much time in showin’ her that she was tryin’ to break a law an’ braggin’ about it—then a gang o’ intellectuals o’ Pauls time got peeved becuz their graft was cut off an’ they would have to go to work. Now it wouldnt sprise me much if some Indiany lady quits braggin’ that she broke the law an’ the intellectual grafters dont git sore as thunder. I vlunno, feller never kin tell, but hell, i wouldn’t be a bit amazed. Yores truly, PARKE VAWTER. Admiral Hotel, San Diego, Calif.

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: Congress Will Cut Taxes and Grateful Big Business Will Donate Liberally to G. O. P. Campaign Fund.

Mr. Mellon sees a surplus of more than $600,000,000 in the Treasury. Last year he couldn’t see anything but a deficit, when the Democrats insisted on a bigger tax cut than he proposed. It is hard not to suspect that the country was flimflammed and that Administration leaders deliberately nursed this surplus along so they could make a’grand stand play for votes just before the next election. Taxes Will Be Cut When Congress assembles there will be a reduction in taxas, of course. It will come just in time to persuade the people what a fine administration they have and what a great misfortune it would be for then} to lose it. Incidentally, it will benefit corporations and men with big incomes most, and they would be ungrateful if they dod not show their appreciation by giving liberally to the Republican campaign fund.

Thread of Fatality The Russian minister is shot down at Warsaw, which suggests that, although other countries forever are denouncing Russia for preaching ; violence, her representatives are more often the victims of violence than theirs. In this particular case there runs a thread of fatality, if the London Evening News is to be believed, since the slain Russian minister is supposed to have signed the death warrant of Czar Nicholas and his family. Whether this is true or not, the young student, who assassinated him seems to have believed it and seems to have been inspired by no other motive than to seek vengeance on a man, who had destroyed the idols of his romantic nature. He did not even know the Russian minister by sight and trumped up an excuse to go to the embassy some weeks ago so that he would be sure to recognize him.

Strange Faculty The faculty of being able to hate or love whom we do not know is not only one of the strangest, but one of the most powerful, we possess. Young girls go crazy over movie stars whom they never have met, and young men murder leaders whom they do not know, for the sake of political beliefs, nor is all the madness confined to those who have read communist pamphlets, or grown up in a radical environment. With all Germany roaring a welcome to the Bellanca fliers, and with Lindbergh returning after such a reception in France as no private citizen of any country ever was given before, who can doubt that the airplane is a greater instrument for peace than war? Aviation View, Wrong Aviation has been held back by the idea that its greatest field of usefulness lay in conflict. Continuous demand that it be developed by the Government as a means of pational defense has tended to create an impression that it was not adaptable to private enterprise. Until very recently, airplanes have been regarded as in the category of battleships and submarines, rather than in that of automobiles. The public has not looked upon them, and has not been taught to look upon them, as vehicles of pleasure and business which could be employed with profit. Plane Prices to Drop Even now it is possible to buy light, but serviceable, single seaters for as little as $1,300 apiece. Prices will run much lower when they are manufactured in volume. In England private owners of airplanes keep them in garages and tow them to and from the aviation field behind automobiles, just as we tow trailers. When the American people once get it into their heads that the airplane is comparatively inexpensive and comparatively safe, that it can be used like a motor boat or a flivver; that there is less congestion in the sky than on the average road; that one can see vastly more from a thousand feet up than by riding On the ground, and get vastly more of a thrill out of the experience, this country will find no trouble in gaining and keeping supremacy of the air. Still Close to Jungle In spite of cathode rays, insulin, television, and trans-Atlantic flights, we still live close to the jungle. A wealthy Georgia physician is accused of whipping, threatening, and withholding the pay from laborers on his plantation, for no reason in the world, except to play the tyrant and make money. Barnett Arwood, a white laborer, says that though he was promised $1.25 a day, he has received practically nothing. He says, also,.that he was struck down with a pistol and threatened with death on one occasion. Benny Dorsey, Negro laborer, says he has worked more than a year without pay. James Tyler, another Negro laborer, says that he and four other Negroes were whipped, and his story is confirmed by a clerk, who testified that he was present and saw them whipped. It is hard to reconcile such things with what men are doing in a scientific way. \ There never was a time in history when there was less necessity for a mean and sordid viewpoint. We have come to a condition where we no longer need to be ruthless uo get a living, or hint each other to get thrills.

Winning the West

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Annual Exhibition of the Art School Is Now in Progress at the John Herron Art Institute Here

The annual exhibition of the art school is now in progress at the John Herron Art Institute as a part of the commencement week features. A selected grouping of exhibits are on view in the museum and the remainder, including all the work of the junior department in the school building. This exhibit will remain on view at the institute for the rest of the month. Twelve pupils last night graduated from the art school. The Art School Pageant will be presented at the museum on tonight and Wednesday. Tonight will be known as Indianapolis night, and seats will be reserved at this performance for those members of the Art Institute who have returned the slips that were sent out, announcing the Pageant. June 9 will be Indiana night and out-of-town visitors are expected. The pageant of other years has been attended with great success, and the prophecy this year is for a spectacle more splendid than those preceding. On Friday, June 10. the annual dinner of the Art School Alumni Association will be held, followed by a party for the members and the students. A special entertainment will be given by the children of the Junior Department of the school on Sunday afternoon, June 12, in the school building. A feature of the program will be a talk by William Forsyth. The work of the department will be on display as part of the annual exhibition of student work. The summer school will open at Winona Lake on June 20 and con-

Mr. Fixit Boulevard Chuck Holes to Be Remedied Soon.

A north side resident today appealed to Mr. Fixit to obtain relief from chuck holes in W. ThirtyEighth St. Blvd., where Crown Hill Cemetery Association built a subway connecting cemetery property. The letter: “You are able to bring attention and action to so many of the citizens’ ups and downs that I turn to you in hopes of your putting in a word for me. “West Maple Road Blvd., or Thirty-Eighth St., where Crown Hill has been constructing the tunnel, has been in deplorable condition all winter. Now that the heavy, disagreeable weather is over, it is not askirjg too much of either Crown Hill or the city to have cinders or gravel dumped in the series of chuck holes, which no doubt, will not be ready for pavement until fall. Very truly yours, “COMMUTER.” Raymond Siebert, Crown Hill superintendent, today informed Mr. Fixit the condition will be remedied in two or three weeks. The park board contemplates resurfacing the boulevard and the cemetery will fill in with crushed stone. Dear Mr. Fixit: Nineteenth St., especially between Koehne and Harding Sts., is in a deplorable condition. Pits eighteen inches deep make traveel of the roadway almost impassable, and the filling of the alley bettween Koehne and Harding Sts., has caused a permanent lake to form on one side of the street. The pits hold water for days after a rain. An ideal mosquito hatchery, with attendant unpleasantness and a health hazard, is provided. Do you know of any way to drain the lake? A GRATEFUL RESIDENT. The street commissioner has promised relief. The request for grading and graveling of Haugh St., between Wilcox and W. Vermont Sts., and opening of sewers has been listed for action. What is the meaning of the names Margaret and Marguerite? Both mean “a pearl.” Marguerite is the French form of the name.

Charting the Course

tinue in session for six weeks. William Forsyth, Oakley Richey and Frances Hoar will be in charge of the classes. Winona Lake and its environs of groves and woodlands is a delightful place for a vacation

Sings Songs

Eva Mandell

Possessing many pounds of personality, Eva Mandell is singing her way into popularity at the Lyric this week.

Questions and Answers

You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to. The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau 1322 Now York Ave.. Washington. D. C inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All Utters are confidential. —Editor. How Is pineapple candied? Peel, slice and weigh the pineapple, allow a pound and one-half of granulated sugar to each pound of fruit. Put fruit and sugar together in a kettle and add just enough water to cover fruit. Boil until fruit is tender, remove and spread on a dish to cool. Boil the liquid until very thick, lay the pineapple back in the syrup and cook for five minutes more. Spread the sliced fruit on platters to dry. Directions for making candied fruit of all kinds are contained in the bulletin, “Candied, Crystallized and Glazed Fruits and Nuts, Caramels and Nougats” issued by our Washington Bureau that can be obtained for 5 cents in stamps or coin. Can an official serve the Federal Government without pay? The Government cannot accept the services of any official without pay, but anyone may accept a nominal salary of a dollar a year and return any amount he receives above that to the Treasury. Senator Borah has refuseed the increase in a Senator’s pay (to $10,000) and accept* only the old salary of $7,500. Was King George 111 of England a German? Both on his father’s and mother’s side, he was of German descent. He was born in London, England, June 4, 1738. What does “Carte de Visite” mean? “Calling card” or “visiting card.” How large is Greenland and Hudson Bay? The area of Hudson Bay is 400,000 square miles') that of Greenland 827,300 square miles. What President of the United States was born in Vermont and practiced law in New York? Chester A. Arthur. Is there an inheritance tax in the District of Columbia? No.

and the opportunities for study afforded by the summer school enhance its attractions as a summer resort. An exhibition of first importance will be shown & the institute during June. Twelve bronze models of “The Pioneer Woman” will be placed on view on June 10 to remain for one week only. Twelve prominent American sculptors were commissioned by L. W. Marland, oil magnate of Oklahoma, to prepare these models, from one of which a replica of heroic size will be made. This wall surmount a monument 40 to 70 feet high to be erected on the Cherokee Strip near Ponca City, Okla., the land opened to homesteaders by the United States government. Mr. Marland’s object is to perpetuate the memory of the heroic wives and daughters of the pioneers, and he proposes to spend some $350,000 on the undertaking. The sculptors, chosen a year and a half ago, having been supplied with specific information regarding costumes and character, were left free to follow their individual inspirations, and the result is as startlingly varied a group of figures as could possibly be assembled. Marland has asked for a popular vote on these bronzes. He does not intend to be guided solely by this vote in deciding upon a suitable model, but he expects it to influence his choice. Ballot boxes will be provided with the exhibition and the public is urged to attend and make a selection of the most appropriate and significant of the bronzes. Indianoplis theaters today offer: “The Enemy” at Keith’s; “Easy Come, Easy Go” at English’s; “Babe Comes Home” at the Circle; "Rough House Rosie” at the Apollo; “The Understanding Heart” at the Ohio; “Around the World” at the Lyric; Eddie Ross at the Palace; movies at the Isis and Michael Strogoff” at the Colonial.

Lake and Ocean Trips

Round Trip Fares Indianapolis to New York or Boston $55.48 to $79.67

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AUCTION BRIDGE by MILTON C. WORK Dealer Often Might Bid When Third Hand Should Pass.

The pointer for today is: There Are Many Hands With W’hich a Dealer Should Bid, But With Which After Two Passes Third Hand Should Pass. Yesterday I started a series of North hands which will be continued during the current week. Each day the previous declarations are given in four cases, the question in every case being what North should declare. Yesterday’s North Hand (Score, Love-All) * A-10-8 A-9-6 O A-M-3 * 7-4-2 My answers and reasons follow: No. I—South pass, West pass; North should pass. North is called upon to declare after two passes; he has the strength to bid a No Trump either as Dealer or Second Hand after Dealer's pass, but he has not the strength to bid after his partner's pass. No. 2—South one Diamond, West pass; North should bid one No .Trump. While North has much more than normal assistance for his partner's Diamond, that should not prevent his changing his partner’s Minor to a better declaration. Such a bid over a Minor is not a denial, and the No Trump is more apt to produce game. No. 3 —South one Spade, West pass; North should pass. North has more than normal assistance for his partner's Spade. To bid No Trump would deny normal assistance; and, with unstopped Clubs, would be a very foolish declaration. No. 4—South one; No Trump West pass; North should bid two No Trumps. With a hand of this type, materially assisting partner’s No Trump, it is advisable for North to try to shut out a possible leaddirecting bid by East. Today’s North Hand (Score, Love-All) * 6 A-K-7-6-J' 9 J- 8-4 O A-10-7-5 * 6 Bridge Answer Slip of June 7 No. 5. South pass; West pass; North should No. 6. South one Diamond, West pass; North should No. 7. South one Heart, West pass; North should No. 8. South one No Trump, West pass; North should

Brain Teasers

The first five of the questions below are about the Presidents of the United States. The answers to all the questions are found on page 14: 1. What President claimed no affiliation with any religious denomination? 2. What two Presidents once were tailors? 3. What was President Coolidge’s baptismal name? 4. What two Presidents were of Dutch descent? 5. What President never married? 6. What is the time difference between New York and Los Angeles? 7. What is an antitoxin? 8. What medal is called a "D. S. C.?” 9. How are malaria and yellow fever transmitted? 10. How many legs have most winged insects.

See Niagara Falls, historic old Boston, the New England seashore, the Adirondacks, Green Mountains, White Mountains and the Berkshires. Visit Lake Champlain and Lake George. The Hudson River trip, New York—Washington—a steamer trip from Boston or New York to Norfolk if you choose—all will bring you new thrills. Many attractive routes with stopover privileges, including Niagara Falls. Tickets on sale to September 30th, return limit 60 days; final limit October 31st. For booklet and complete Information call or addreaa City Ticket Office, 112 Monument Circle, phone Main 0330, or Union Station, phone Main 4567. J. N. Lemon. Div. Fata. Agt., 112 Monument Circle.