Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1927 — Page 4
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That Red Flag If, as Bishop McConnell of the Methodist Church predicts, this country is about to see another epidemic cf red hunting, it may be well to examine what the forces that fatten on such national hysteria were guilty of in the period immediately following the war. John Francis Neylan, prominent California attorney, has just filed with Governor C. C. Young of that State, a brief in behalf of Miss Anita Whitney, for whom he asks a pardon. Miss Whitney, an aged gentlewoman who has spent her life and her fortune in work for the poor, stands convicted cf what the State statutes call criminal syndicalism. Specifically she is alleged to have been a member of the Communist Labor party and that party is alleged to believe in the overthrow of this Government by force, providing it can somehow find the force with which to do it. To establish this waman as a menace to the Government, the police proved she attended a meeting of the party in Oakland, Cal., in 1919. They didn't bother to prove that she favored use of force. The fact, as shown in court, happened to be that she voted against the use of force and offered a resolution to commit the party against it. The police, however, make much of the incident Involving the red flag. The jury was told of a red flag being draped over the American flag. Now, in his brief, Attorney Neylan presents the sworn testimony of a newspaper man to the effect that Fenton Thompson, head of the police “red squad,” was responsible for this incident. Thompson says this reporter “caused one of his squad, during a recess of the workers’ convention to throw a red piano cover over a glass case in which there happened to be an American flag.” And that is how they made a “red” of Miss Whitney, a kindly, cultured woman, granddaughter of a famous justice of the United States Supreme Court, a woman who all her life has abhorred war and violence. It required some such trickery as this. Her home had been raided, her private papers seised and every nook of her long life searched for damaging evidence, but in vain. But the police frameup did the business. She was convicted. That Miss Whitney should be pardoned goes without saying. Indeed her attitude that she should not be asked to accept a pardon can be understood. The State of California should instead beg her pardon; the State should hang its head and admit it is ashamed and sorry. But that won’t happen. The Governor is weighing the evidence. He may, as an act of gracious condescension, announce presently that he sees fit to pardon this woman, while admonishing her to go and sin no more. A handful of radicals in this country is hoping otherwise. They would like to see Miss Whitney compelled to serve her prison sentence. That would make more radicals. Common sense so clearly indicates the issuance of a pardon that it is fairly safe to assume it will be done. Meantime, let us hope the country is not heading into another hysteria that makes convictions cf this kind possible. A Tribute to Hoover Any plan that Herbert Hoover may bring forward for permanent flood control and rehabilitation of the devastated districts will have to stand the test of engineering and political criticism. That is as it should be. The problem calls for the best thought the country can give it and all the best thought may not be found in one man’s brain. But unanimous and unstinted praise can be offered the Secretatry of Commerce for the work he has already done in bringing order out of the chaos created by the flood. It was as an organizer of relief measures that Hoover first became known to the world. The work he did in behalf of Belgium won international acclaim for him. The same clear head and the same decisive confidence in his own judgment has enabled him, after eight weeks, to set up an effective working organization where a less capable man might still be seeking to grasp the confusing elements of the problem. Only six lives were lost after Hoover took hold, according to John M. Parker, former Louisiana Governor, who has been working with Hoover. Three hundred lives had been lost before Hoover reached the scene. There is a fine tribute in those figures. Anew camera makes home movies possible in four minutes. But they’ll surely fail because the woman in the adjacent seat won’t be there to read the titles aloud. . . . And no movie can get very far which doesn’t bring “into this valley of divine love a human jackal stalking.” ... Os course there need be no lack of comedy as long as the pantry holds out. There are 90,000 orchestras in the country, says a statistician. Maybe that’s the secret of these boxers’ terpsichorean tendencies. Go through life seeking a “kick” and you’ll probably get several.
The City Manager Plan Committee Says:
The first-thought objection to the commission-manager plan is that it is undemocratic to make its most important single official appointive instead of “directly responsible to the people by election.’’ Democracy, however, consists in controlling public officers, not necessarily in electing them, and that way is most democratic which gives the people the surest control. The most effectiw way st>r the people to get a firm grip on the neck of the governmental organization is by sending a representative group of citizens down to city hall to see what the executive is doing, with power to fire him and get another any day of the week if he is unsatisfactory or insubordinate. Compared with tlpt- method, direct election and re-
The Middle West Looks Abroad It used to be that very few people, even on our seaboards, cared a rap for what was *ing on in foreign countries. In dull times a Balkan war was played up a bit in the newspapers, but more as a space killer than for any real interest the public might have displayed, while a Chinese famine or earthquake that only snuffed out fifty or a hundred thousand lives got pretty scant attention. But times have changed, as Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, tells us in the current issue of Foreign Affairs. Says he: “The sincere way in which the Middle West is studying foreign affairs these days is one of the worthwhile facts to be noted along the relatively difficult trail which it is traveling. “This development should mean much in a broader national outlook, for it brings the last section of the country up out of the slough of indifference that so frequently has characterized the attitude of a large proportion of our people toward other nations.” . And what is the reason for America’s new-found interest in other nations? It’s simply that we have discovered the world is small; that it is just a community broadened out; that whatever happens anywhere, even in the most remote corners, ultimately has a very definite effect on every one of us over here. For example: A young fellow of unpronouncable name in the Bosnian city of Serajevo shot Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife. That was June 28, 1914. On that day wheat was selling in Kansas at 57 cents a bushel. By the following spring it was selling at $1.50 and a couple of years later saw it soar above $3 a bushel. That is the way it works. An incident in an obscure corner of the Balkans quintuples the price of wheat in Kansas and Nebraska, pays the mortgages off thousands of farms in the Mississippi valley, buys tens of thousands of automobiles for American citizens and does a world of good and mischief besides. In fact, much of the exampled prosperity which the United States has enjoyed for years and much of the rin some have suffered, are a result of those pistol shots at Serajevo. This'is an extreme example, of course. But it shows how foreign happenings have their effect on us all. Sometimes the effects are great, sometimes small, sometimes for good and sometimes for evil. An instance of this last may be found in the present agricultural depression throughout the country. Were England, France, Italy, Germany and tho countries of the old world prosperous; if Russia wero not still in a chaotic condition; were not the near and Middle East in a state of unrest and the Far East torn by war, it is likely we could dispose of our surplus farm products at a good price and stimulate the market at home. In other words,” to quote Senator Capper, “wherever we turn we find the Middle West and its economic woes tangled up in the elusive ‘foreign situation with which it used to concern itself very little.” Senator Capper is a Middle Westerner himself and is talking mostly about the Middle West. But what he says goes with equal force for our country as a whole and for us as a people'. The war in China, the row between Britain and Russia, Premier Mussolini's edict calling for six million reserves in eight years, the fuss between Albania and Jugo-Slavia—any one of these things—and many others besides, may easily double the price of our next year’s shoes or make us so rich we don't care how high they go.
The Ghost of Langley By Gilson Gardner
If the ghost of S. P. Langley, once secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, could rise and walk for long enough to take a brief part in the Lindbergh doings, it is pretty certain the ghostly figure would first draw from a dusty shelf a copy of the Smithsonian annual report of 1900, and turning the dusty pages to Page 216, would point a spectral finger to a paragraph beginning and reading as follows: “I have thus far had only a purely scientific interest in the results of these labors.” (It concludes an account of the flight on May 6, 1896, of the sixteenfoot model airplane built by Langley and run by a steam engine developing one and a quarter horsepower. The flight was made from a houseboat on the lower Potomac near Quantico and was witnessed by only one other person, namely, Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, who took the first photograph of a self-driven heavier-than-air flying machine.) “Perhaps,” says Mr. Langley, “if it could have been foreseen at the outset how much labor there was to be, how much of life would be given to it, and how much care, I might have hesitated to enter upon it at all. And now reward must be looked for, if reward there be, in the knowledge that I have done the best I could in a difficult task with results which it may be hoped will be useful to others. I have brought to a close the portion of the work which seemed to be specifically mine—the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight—and for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical development of the idea, it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it does not realize that anew possibility has come to it, and that the great universal highway overhead is now soon to be opened.” “Now„” the ghost would say, “you laughed at me. But you see who was right.”
call are crude, clumsy, insufficient and lelatively undemocratic. Furthermore, a capacity in government for vigorous, effective execution of policies is essential to true democracy. A policy desired by the people and obediently voted for by
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their representtaives may yet be defeated' by jellyfish inefficiency in execution. Administration by a trained manager is therefore more democratic (i. e., obedient) than by Tom, Dick or Harry. This new government is not a cure-all. It is capable of going in the wrong direction like any other human organization. A city charter is like an automobile—nothing mechanical can be deviled that will keep the owner from driving it up the wrong fork of the road. The makers must strive to make the car infallibly obedient to the steeringwheel and completely under the driver’s control. It is the best make and the easiest for the general pubI lie to drive without the help of poli[tician chauffeurs.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
M. E. TRACY SAYS The Character and Quality of Lindbergh’s Reception Are Without i Precedent in American History.
For three days, the capital and the largest city of this country have given themselves over to a celebration in honor of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. The character and quality of his reception are without precedent in American history. Indeed, it is probable that no nation ever before accorded a private citizen such applause and distinction. The wholehearted enthusiasm with which he has been acclaimed is reflected in nothing so distinctly as the news. The press and its allied services have shown a wonderful spirit of cooperation with the public, carrying fuil and detailed accounts of all that has occurred, not only in the usual way, but by radio, for the benefit of those millions who could not be present, but who were equally interested. Life Like Tide Meanwhile, life has gone much as usual, with its routine activities demanding attention and with important events taking place, even though they have received scant notice. Life is like the tide, waiting on no man's honor or misfortune. The family that is stunned by death at twilight must prepare breakfast the next morning. Thirteen breaths a minute, three meals a day, sleep over night, pay envelope at the end of each week or month—that’s life. The individual can take a holiday now and then and the Nation can pause to celebrate a triumph or observe an anniversary, but all too soon each must return to its routine way of working and thinking. Is a Good Thing It is a good thing, too, this insistence of life on a work-a-day world, when you come to think of it. We would not only go off on many a wild goose chase, but follow the chase to our own hurt if the lungs did not call for air, the stomach for food, the landlord for rent and the tax collector for tribute every so often. We keep our heads mainly because these things have to be attended to, and we naturally marvel at a man, especially a young man, who can keep his head when apparently freed from the ordinary restraints of life for a moment. Head Not Turned Much is being made of the fact hat Lindbergh’s head has not been ; turned by all the uproar and ap- ' olause. A more important question perhaps, is whether thousands of other brains have been turned. Lindbergh’s triumph is an accomplished fact and he has weathered the storm of public excitement it, produced in a remarkable way. What about thousands of young i aviators, who have witnessed it? | Will they expect such an out- ! pouring of public enthusiasm if they establish anew record by blazing ; some lonely trail through the air? Gives Advice Lindbergh says that trans-At-lantic flying must look to multi- j motored planes equipped with all possible safety devices and that it would be foolhardy for anyone to try it under such circumstances as he did. This is obviously sound advice, but how can it be heard above the noise of his reception? How can our young aviators remember it after they have seen the cheering crowds and waving flags? What brooks it to them that a one-man plane is impractical, after it arouses the nation in this way? Discusses Safe Method Multi-motored planes, with radio, soundproof cabins, berths, lunch counter, lifeboats and double crews, offer the only hope of transAtlantic traffic. No one can recognize this more clearly than Colonel Lindbergh, or try harder to make the public understand it. In this he is probably rendering quite as substantial a service to the development of aviation as he did in flying from New York to Paris, but he will find it hard to make the young aviators of this country believe that they should not pursue a course and try a stunt that brought him such heroic rewards. Lindy Ideal Man Lindbergh is an ideal man and has enjoyed an ideal triumph after an ideal adventure. His method of flying across the Atlantic Ocean, however, is not ideal, as he himself constantly declares. To put it bluntly, he has demonstrated an unsafe, unpractical method of trans-Atlantic flying which no one expects to become common. The problem is to make our young aviators realize this, to persuade them that the future of aviation depends upon entirely different feats than Lindbergh performed, although we have glorified his feat beyond anything that has occurred in recent history.
What is the law regarding the citizenship of alien women who marry American citizens? “That any woman who marries a citizen of the United States after the passage of this act, (September 22, 1922) or any woman whbse husband is naturalized after the passage of this act, shall not become a citizen of the United States by reason of such marriage or naturalization; but, if eligible to citizenship, she may be naturalized upon full ancA complete compliance with all of the naturalization laws.”
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Bill Hull May Be Just Himself As Herby Brewster of Indiana Mam St., But He Is Real Comedy Goods ■- —— By Walter I). Hickman
Herby Brewster just grew up on Main Street of Clayville, Ind., and he grew up mighty tall and thin. Overalls he wore six days of the week, but on date night he dolled up iff pants that didn't fit and a coat with a belt to it.
To Herby the belt signified not only speed, but class, and he personally possessed neither of these attributes in his make up. Am trying to tell you that William V. HuU, g e nerally known as Bill, this week is playing the role of Hsrby in "Sure Fire.” Hull is one of those elongated individuals
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who actually unbends in a comedy role. He is so naturally funny as Herby, just a carrier of the mail bags from the station to the postoffice, that he is walking away with the comedy in a role that many actors would refuse to play because it is so small. It makes no difference to a man like Hull whether the role be slim or fat. This week at English’s Hull takes the slimmest sort of a role and with his own comedy sense makes this character stand out like a mountain. Hull gives a natural twist to about everything that the character does. He elevates it from a cartoon type to a real comedy character. “Sure Fire” this week is a fair hot weather stock bill. It has many laughs and gives Hull. Idabelle Arnold and Larry Sullivan mighty good comedy opportunities along hokum lines. Sullivan seems to fit very nicely into the role of a “hick” constable. Robert St. Clair has a lengthy part this week. It is in the second and third acts that he has his real comedy chance and he certainly makes the best of it. On the opening night of “Sure Fire,” St. Clair certainly ran into bad luck. He slipped and fell flat upon the stage and a second later, when he wanted to turn off the lights, someone back stage failed in his duty. St. Clair kept at the job and bridged over a fault, no blame of his, which should never happen upon the stage. Milton Byron is the hero who writes a play and lives it. Others in the cast are J. F. Marlow, Bernice Marsolais. Jean Oliver as the daughter of the village postmistress; Sidney Jerome, Mildred Hastings, Joe Osborne and Herbert Dobbins. “Sure Fire,” a play new to this city, remains on view all weeks at English’s. ELLIOTT NUGENT AGAIN IS SEEN IN “POOR NUT” Really it is not a far jump from the legitimate stage to the stock stage for any success when you have the author and the man who created the chief role in both productions. That is what you find this week at Keith’s, where Stuart Walker is
presenting Elliott Nugent, the author of “The Poor Nut,” and at the same time the man who created the leading role and played it in its long and successful runs in New York, Chicago, and other places. Then you also have Larry Fletcher in the same role that he played in Chicago and other places. It is not necessary to go into detail either about the play or Nugent in the chief role. I
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told you plenty about this really good theater when Nugenc was here at English’s. Nugent is giving the same performance at Keith’s this week as he gave in the legitimate season. You know that I consider “The Poor Nut” mighty good .theater, even fine theater, as well [as a mighty healthy play. Here is youth and all that goes with it.
Crossing the Mississippi
Here is college atmosphere with a real spike in it. To my way of thinking this is the best of the college ’plays and I am not forgetting "Brown of Harvard." of other years. It is needless to say anything more of the work of Fletcher. He knows his theater in this play. - Vivian Tobin is sweetly and nicely cast as Marjorie Blake, who loves the “poor nut” all the time. Adelaide Chase is a mighty good Julia Winters, who finds out all about the complex of the “poor nut.” You would expect Eugene Powers to be the right sort of a Professor Blake. And he is. The college youths who inhabit the campus and the frat houses are fairly well played in most instances. The cast includes Jack Storey, .drich Bowker. Ruth Conley, Eric Kalkhurst, Harry Ellerbe and many others. The settings arc right. Just as good as they were in the production that I saw ac English's last season. “The Poor Nit” is on view all week at Keith’s. .WRITE THIS DOWN: REAL HITS AT LYRIC So says Bert Walton—‘ I can't sing and I won't dance.” And also—“My contract says that I have to be out here for fourteen minutes. I certainly pity you.” He takes out a smoke, and, without a word, pulls out a match and starts smoking. Calmly he looks over the audience. He sighs and then—the talk begins.' He tells you that his act is clean and the “majority will be dis-
appointed.” And then he starts that silent and wonderful showmanship which proves to me that this man knows his audience and himself. Then he starts talking about his girl and she isn’t so “forty” as they in London or some place. Suddenly there Is a command from a box and a sweet little
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voice finds fault with the words of said male. And again individual showmanship wins. The result is that Walton gives a curtain talk and he goes back to a fine memory, that of Nat Goodwin. Real entertainer is Bert Walton. He is the leading individual hit on a quality bill, both quality and hokum. Joe Rae and his California Nighthawks Revue have the spot known as headline and they do not cheat one bit. Just because I have given Bert Walton first place does not reflect upon this organization. They use a stage within a stage for song pictures while the orchestra is playing." A good idea. Also well done. The act runs to revue form. The melody is right. The boys look right. And so you have a pleasing success. These words from me, and I don’t sing “California. Here I Come.” Roy Byron and company in an allegd sketch, “When a Man Marries,” is a wild and noisy affair. Can’t call it acting, just loud speaking and more yelling. Marie Walsh is in the cast. Ann Todding has a voice and a
Stage Verdict ENGLISH’S William V. Hull walks away with the comedy honors in “Sure Fire,” the current Berkell offering. PALACE—A dance act, Forbes, Prout and company, and a comedy team, Lazar and Dale, have everything their own way here. KElTH’S—Elliott Nugent is just as good in “The Poor Nut” at Keith’s this week as he was when at another theater last season. Real healthy, good laughing theater. LYRIC—A bill which boasts of the outstanding personality of Bert Walton. Here is a man who sells a different sort of individual entertainment. A soild hit.
“visiting” sister who dances the Black Bottom. Ann makes the terrible mistake of giving a gesture with every word. Thank goodness, she did not peal onions. Her gesture then might have been natural. You are a good artist, Miss Todding, but don’t overdo the thing in the way of gestures. Be yourself. Paul Gordon is a wire walker with a good finish. His swing and jump is right. Hayes and Tate have rapid talk, atmosphere and all that is needeed to put their present little sketch across. Clifton and Derex are two fine eccentric women. These two girls belong to the big revue. They are right. Loads of real material and showmanship as well as personality. One of the big hits of the bill. They spell success in big type. Movie is a Ben Turpin affair. At the Lyric all week. SOME GOOD EVENTS ON VIEW AT THE PALACE Pretty good line-up of entertaining events on current bill at the Palace. As most people just now I have the Lindbergh complex or something of that nature. The Palace on this bill in the Pathe News have complete views of Colonel Lindbergh arriving in Washington, the grand parade, his honor at the hands of the President as well as the nation and several fine closeups of the hero. Here is another fine news accomplishment, especially the speed by which the films were developed and delivered in the theaters of the country. Splendid. Os the variety acts, interest probably will center upon the dance offering of Forbes, Prout and company in “Dance Fashions.” One of the men is a wizard on his feet. The chief woman dancer is clever and gifted. Good dance act. Along comedy lines, Lazar and Dale with their nonsense on “The Bogoona Hunter,” have a comedy act which is a wow. Os course all their material is not new. but they have so much that Is individual that everything they do actual; y appears to be brand new. They stop the show cold. A good comedy offering. Sergeant Franklin has a shooting act of merit. Miss Ruby Royce permits Franklin to aim and fire at her. John and Mary Mason have a skating act. Currier. Roy and McWilliams have a hokum act built around the efforts of the men to get a girl upon the stage. Fair act. The movie is Vera Reynolds In “The Little Adventuress.” At the Palace today and Wednesday.
Other theaters today offer: Isham Jones and his orchestra, at the Circle; “The Whirlwind of Youth,” at the Ohio; “Tillie, the Toiler.” at the Apollo; movies, at the Isis and “The General,” at the Colonial.
Times Readers Voice Views
To the Editor
I have been a subscriber of The Indianapolis Times for fourteen years and I have never been so dis-. gusted as I am now on the whisky question. If the Governor and his wife and the Attorney General and his wife, knew my Christ (the Savior of the world) they need not depend so much on whisky. We as a Nation call ourselves a Christian Nation. This does not sound much like it. We had better recall our foreign missionaries and put them to work here in our own country, where we have a powerful lot of heathens; and whisky is their God. I am a wife and mother. I am teaching my son that the stuff is poison, and Jesus is his Savior and not whisky. If the officials of the State do not uphold thee laws of the State, how can they expect any one else to? MRS. GOLDIE RAE CLARK, Noblesville, Ind.
JUNE 14,1927
AUCTION BRIDGE by MILTON C. WORK Ability to Answer Partner’s Informatory Bid Is Essential.
The pointer for today is: ABILITY TO ANSWER A PARTNER’S INFORMATORY DOUBLE PROPERLY IS MOST ESSENTIAL TO PARTNERSHIP SUCCESS. How the partner of an informatory doubler should answer when the intervening adversary passes, will be the subject of this week’s questions and answers. Many who know when to make ean informatory double do nto know how to answer one. Beginning today and continuing daily until Friday hands will be given in which Dealer bids. Second Hand doubles and Third Hand passes. The resultant problem will be: What should Itourth Hand declare in answer to partner’s informatory double? Four hands per day. twenty in all, will be given. There will be a daily answer slip, and beginning tomorrow the answers to the questions of the previous day will appear with full explanations. I urge you all to compete in this contest. Write in pencil now on the answer slip at the end of this article the declaration you would make in hands 1 to 4. Tomorrow compare your answers with mine and note whether we agree. Do this each day this week and see how near you can get to a perfect,! score of twenty. Induce the bridgeplaying members of your family and your friends tto start today and see who has the best score at the end of the week. No bridge contest could be more interesting or instructive than this. This week’s hands are held by East: South is the Dealer, who bids, and West the partner, who doubles informatoritly. North always passes. New hands every day. Today’s Hands: South one Spade, West double North pass; what should East declare, holding:
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Mr. Fixit Oiling of City Streets Awaits Shipment,
I Write a slpnfd complaint to Mr. Fixit. The Times cltv hall reporter, at The Times, about vour troubles. He will Rive vour complaint, to the proper cltv official. Your name will not be printed.) Requests for oiling of street received by Mr. Fixit cannot be granted for three or four weeks until the city receives a shipment of oil from Shreveport. La. George Woodward, street commissioner, informed Mr. Fixit that this year’s budget will allow for oiling of only principal unimproved streets. It will be of no use tor property owners to request oil for side streets, Woodward said. Dear Mr. Fixit: Wc have had no oil on Bright St. from New York to Wabash for two years. The city scrapes the street and piles the dust in the center. It is so bad we can’t sit out for the dust. Do what you can, please. W)ur request can not be granted because there is no oil here. Give a report to the street commlsloner in about a month. Dear Mr. Fixit: Now that Riverside Park season has opened, please, help us in getting Montcalm St.f from Eighteenth to Twenty-First Sts., graded and oiled. Also Nineteenth St. from Ghent to Sugar Grove. PROPERTY OWNER. The street department said all work had been done on the street that the budget will permit.
Brain Teasers
Today being Flag day, all the questions are about the history of American flags. Answers to all the questions will be found on page 14: 1. In what battle did the Stars and Stripes get its baptism of fire? 2. Under what flag was the Declaration of Independence signed in Independence Hall, Philadelphia? 3. How are the stars arranged in the American Flag today? 4. Are the stars five-pointed or six-pointed? 5. What is the president’s flag? 6. How were the thirteen stars arranged in the original Betsey Ross flag? 7. How many stars were there in the flag at the time of the Civil War? 8. What is the American Jack? the flag ever have more than thirteen stripes? 10. What was the official flag of the Continental Congress, flown before the adoption of the Stars and Stripes? What is meant by “Persona non grata?” J A person who is not agreeable! or acceptable. Where does the following line occur: “Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn?” It is from Burns’ “Man was made to mourn” and is in the verse: •Man.—whose heaven-erected fae* The smile of love adorn,— Man’s Inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn.