Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 36, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1927 — Page 4

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A Cause Conquers The two years’ crusade for public ownership of. city government has won. The people of this city have decided that they will no longer be held in slavery to the political manipulators and the bosses. They have decided to take charge of their own affairs and no longer permit themselves to be divided into hostile camps by shrewd schemers who put labels on tickets and candidates to disguise their real character. They have decided to operate under a sane, sensible and business-like system instead of under a rule by hate, greed and superstition. The adoption of the city manager plan by so emphatic and decisive a vote means that Indianapolis has at last awakened to the true condition of its government. The people who want nothing from government btit service and a square deal have won. The politicians .and the self-seekers have lost. The Times feels unusually happy over the outcome of this election because it takes a most pardonable pride in the fact that it alone, of public agencies and institutions, has steadfastly and persistently championed this system of government. The first suggestion that Indianapolis try the method which worked so well in other cities CSme from The Times. than two years ago it urged the citizens to system and escape the political plunderers. believed that it was inevitable that would grow worse, instead of better. Wro nominations having been made, it did not know who would be mayor, but it believed that whoever he was, under the old system, he would be worse than Shank, and that would be sufficient reason to avoid such a catastrophe. The fears of The Times in that respect were more than realized. Instead of a Shank, who would have been sufficient reason to change a system which produced him, there was a Duvall. The Times then urged the people to adopt the city manager system. The people responded. They showed a desire to petition for such an election. Unfortunately leadership was lacking and no election was held at that time. For two years The Times has urged again and again that thi£ city manager furnish a solution for the problems of this city and its bad government. It was the only newspaper which championed this cause. But the people understood and finally the fej,rs and timidity of those who believed in it were overcome and the campaign was launched. At the start this movement was opposed editorially by both the Star and the News. Both of these newspapers advised against it. Both fought. But the seed planted by The Times had grown and flowered. The sentiment of the people was unmistakable. The committee in charge had but to announce its program to bring universal support from all parts of the city and all classes of citizens. It was only when the battle had been won that the othpr two newspapers changed their policies over night and became supporters for the cause which had been a basic battle with The Times for two years. The Times points with some pride to the fact that when the Legislature took away the power of the people to obtain immediate benefits of this change, it alone sounded the warning. .A vigorous protest at that time by the same citizens who voted for the system Tuesday would have, perhaps, have saved that right to the people. More important than even the change in system is the fact that the people of this city have demonstrated that they can run their own government. The election was the most orderly ever held. There was none of the old frauds and trickery and coercion. The machine knew when it was beaten. It did not even dare to attempt the usual steals and frauds. /' For once the decent elements of this city stood together. They were not divided by tricks and party labels. They had decided that the city is more important than party success and scorned the idea that their parties need improper and illegal use of public office to sustain their power. A cause conquered. It was a good cause. It was the cause of self-government. It was the cause of honesty in public office. It was the cause of equality K rights and duties and privileges. And for the part it has been permitted to play, r the opportunity to aid this city, The Times is more than grateful. ,

Big League War In China In the great American game of baseball, the teams in the two major league groups hammer one another all summer in an elimination contest. At last one team downs the rest and wins the pennant of its league. But the battle is not yet over. The two winning teams must meet in a battle of giants and light it out for the championship of the United States and the world. The war in China is like that. The various war lords in the north and the various war lords in the south seem to have pretty nearly settled things among themselves and a world series stage approaches. In the north, Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, ex-bandit and super-tuchun of Manchuria, has come out on top. Having bested the lesser fry in his league, he now' calls himself dictator and has assumed definite leadership at Pekin. In the south things appear to be coming to a similar head. Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, moderate nationalist; Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, the “Christian general’’ of doubtful political affiliations, and the Hankow', or radical group of nationalists are reported about to merge. This done, they will begin a combined march on Pekin. Thus some big league war, world series stuff, is likely before so very long as north and south fight for national supremacy. The two sides are about evenly matched •as to man power. Each has approximately 500,000 men. Chang, at Pekin, has one big advantage, however, in that he has at least the moral support of both Japan and Britain. Another of these empires desires a Strong, nationalistic China. Britain fears loss of prestige in China would mean revolt in India. She also has vast commercial interests which are not Entirely compatible witll an independent China, Japan knows a progressive, modernized China, with six times

her population might soon have her playing second fiddle in the Far East. But a finish fight between the north and south this summer would riot mean lasting peace in China. Any truce patched up now between radical and moderate groups in the south would last only until Chang, in the north, was licked, then they would go to war to settle scores as between themselves. Should the radicals win in such a contest a coalition between southern moderates and the northern forces under Chang would almost surely follow to defeat the radicals. Whereupon, the radicals being eliminated from the picture, southern nationalists and northern reactionaries—Chang’s faction—would begin still another war. And so forth and so on. Permanent peace in China, therefore, is still a long way off, a state of affairs highly satisfactory to at least one great Asiatic power whose chronic nightmare and constant bugaboo is a mighty, virile, united states of China. Ultimately nothing can prevent the nationalization of China. Decades may come and go as the turmoil and bloodshed continue in the celestial republic. But the handwriting is already on the wall. Intervene what will, the Chinese will one day be masters in their own house. Are the People Big Enough? Not because she is a kind old lady, a woman of gentle breeding and refinement, whose life has been spent in service to others, should Charlotte Anita Whitney have been pardoned by the Governor of California. Not because her uncle was a member of the United States Supreme Court and her friends throughout the country include the intellectual elect. Not because the circumstances of her life were such that at her age, imprisonment as a felon would work exceptional hardship upon her. These, it is true, are not the reasons given by the Governor for his last-minute action in saving Miss Whitney from prison. But they are the reasons that seem to weigh with most people who discuss the case. Miss Whitney herself has been distressed by the sympathy that grows out of these reasons. She despise* the suggestion that she ask for a pardon, conscious that she was guiltless of any crime. If pardons were to be written by the Governor she urged that they be granted to men no more guilty than herself, already serving sentences in prison. Better reasons were given by the Governor. Os these the most important is this, in his language: Because abnormal conditions attending the trial go a long way toward explaining the verdict of the jury. Os the abnormal conditions attending the trial, the principal one was the hysteria of the people of the State, the readiness to rise and strike out blindly whenever the cry of '‘red" was raised by any person. True, the people were victimized by selfish interests who raised the cry for their own advantage, but it was the people's attitude of mind that made gross injustices, such as that in this case, possible. No Jury could be expected to escape the effect of the people's passion. It was necessary for the Governor to pardon Miss Whitney in order to prevent this injustice being earned to its tragic extreme, the machinery of the courts having proved unequal to the correction of their hideous mistake. And every lover of justice, every humane citizen is pleased that, after seven years, the Governor has done this and removed the shadow of prison from this woman's person. But one thing more remains to be done and that is this: The people of California, in whose name this gross and brutal folly was committed, should, one by one, step forward and sign their names to another petition for pardon. They should ask Charlotte Anita Whitney to pardon them. She fought their fight! and they turned on her to rend her. They are ashamed now, the thoughtful ones among them. Hav£ they the grace to tell her so? . As brave in her way as a young Lindbergh, as patient and kind as an Abraham Lincoln, as farseeing as a Thomas Jefferson, she offered her feeble! woman’s frame, a sacrifice to their ingratitude. To defend the rights of this minority—in which group any citizen may one day find himself—she allowed the majority to trample over her. Will the majority admit the wrong it did? Will it ask this woman’s pardon? Colonel Lindbergh wrote his name in a telephone booth at Streator, 111., Jan. 3, 1926. We just knew some sin would find him out! Now Chang Tso-lin says China must have peace. They might as well have peace, with no place left on the front page any longer. v Water’s good enough to drink, if you take it in the right Spirit. Baseball isn't such a simple game after all. There’s usually a catch in it. Speaking about the weather, are you going South for the summer?

Law and Justice by Dexter M. Keezer

A construction company stretched a hose from a city hydrant across a public sidewalk without guarding it or posting danger signs. A woman, walking along the sidewalk without paying close attention to where she was going, tripped over it, fell, and was In', jured. She sued the construction company for damages, claiming it was negligent in stretching the hose across the sidewalk and leaving it unguarded. The company replied that the woman should not be allowed to collect because she was also guilty of negligence in not paying closer attention to the condition of the sidewalk. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS? The decision: Wisconsin Supreme Court decided the woman was entitled to damages. It said. "Travelers on sidewalks are not required to keep their eyes constantly on the sidewalk.’’ It cited shop windows, street signs and conveyances as inevitable distractions from watching one's feet.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. ' TRACY SAYS This Country Passed a Lot of Foolish Laivs and Did a Lot of Foolish Things During ihe World War.

With at least a score of transI oceanic flights in progress of prepaj ration; with a Dempsey-Sharkey j fight in prospect; with Ford ready to bring out anew car; with New I York City talking about buying and ! consolidating all its subway systems; with the Sacco-Vanzctti case still to be decided and the SnyderGray case on appeal; with Coolidgc fishing for delegates in the West and A1 Smith feeling out sentiment in the South; with the Chinese situation running to a dramatic third act. in which Chang-Tso Lin and the Cantonese will fight it out; with Balkans ready to boil over at any moment and Musolini broiling • over all the time; with Germany ! planning to stage a real come-back 1 as mediator between Russia and the I rest of Europe, and with Poincare i trying to throw cold water on her ambitions by waving the bloody shirt, this should be an interesting ! summer. War Hysteria Over Governor Young of California gives seven reasons for pardoning Charlotte Anita Whitney, and they are all good. Boiled down, however, they simply mean that in the Governor's opinion Miss Whitney is not a criminal and would never have been tried, much less convicted, but for abnormal conditions incident to the war. It is impossible to read this brief but punchful statement without gaining the impression that he thinks the anti-syndicalism law, under which Miss Whitney was convicted, should be laid on the shelf. This country passed a lot of foolish laws and did a lot of foolish things during the World War. Miss Whitney's conviction and pardon is just an illustration of the wild conclusions to which we rushed in our excitement and of the revision of opinion that now becomes necessary. We even insisted that sauerkraut | be called liberty cabbage, as themgh that had anything to do with beating the kaiser. Rules Seldom Perfect No matter how good their intentions may be. or how worthy an end they seek to attain, men seem incapable of making rules that work well all the time. You can hardly think of a law or regulation but can be violated with propriety under exceptional conditions. The problem is, of course, to so frame laws and regulations as to make allowances for exceptions, but we certainly have a hard time doing it. When Tufts College adopted the rule that no women should remain in the dormitories over night, and that if a student connived at violating it he should not be allowed to graduate, they intended no injustice to any one. Yet here is Isadore Charles Zwerling, denied a diploma because he allowed his sick mother to occupy his room contrary to the rule. Doctors Who Haze Six doctors of the Kings County Hospital, one of the greatest institutions of its kind operated in New York City, are charged with hazing three Jewish colleagues. More specifically, they are charged with tying the Jewish doctors to bed posts, gagging them, submerging them in tubs of cold water and smearing their bodies with shoe 1 polish. It is said that animosity towards Jewish doctors on the part of certain Christian doctors has been smouldering in the Kings county hospital for some time and the outbreak came as an inevitable climax. One finds it hard to reconcile such an episode with twentieth century ideals and more especially with the boasted liberalism of New York City. Conduct Inexcusable It goes without saying that we are afflicted with more or less of a hangover of racial and religious prejudices. and that the Jews must bear their share with the rest. It goes without saying that pollticians frequently capitalize these prejudices, just as they capitalize anything and everything that seems to serve their purpose. One can make allowances for them because of what the game calls for, but when it comes to the medical profession, and particularly to a public hospital, one can find no excuse for such r ildish narrowness. Mayor Walker Firm “If it be true,” says Mayor Walker, "that these men were hazed especially because they are Jews, or of any other faith. I will see that the guilty ones are prosecuted to the last ditch. I will conduct an investigation to fix responsibility and the guilty ones will not be allowed to remain in the city service. You can depend upon that.” Such attitude will strike a responsive chord, not only in New York City, but throughout the country.

Questions and Answers

Who was C'ybele? In classical mythology she was a goddes of Phrygian origin, identfled more or less completely by the Greeks with Rheg, the mother of the gods; often called Great Mother. What is “dry farming" and what crops are raised that way? It iSjthe production of crops without irrigation and with a rainfall of 20 inches or less. The underlying principle is the storage and conservation of moisture in the soil. Cfops best adapted to dry farming arc wheat. oats, barley, rye, corn, potatoes, sorghums, alfala, field

The Annual Tug-o-War Is Now On

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To the Editor: I see on page 4 in The Times dated June 9 John L. Niblack’s statement on the action of Gilliom’s announcement ‘that he and Governor Jackson had violat3d the ’ Indiana bonehead liquor law." Niblaek says "Mr. Gilliom’s action was unwise and unpolitic." I denounce Niblaek s statement as the argument of a "hypocrite.” It is an old and true saying that "an honest confession is good for the soul." I dare say Gillioni has not only done his own soul good, but millions of other good souls besides. He has shown himself an honest and fearless man. And his action has been the hardest blow the fanatics have received since the enactment of this “infamous bonehead liquor law.” Niblaek admits that he. himself, would have violated the law to get whisky to save the lives of his dying children, or even steal a loaf of bread to feed them if they were starving—but he says "he would not say anything about it.” The ancient law of Moses says "Even though a man steals when he is hungry, yet he should restore 'if I mistake not) four-fold.” I dare say Gilliom could be safely trusted to keep the just law of good old Moses. but on the contrary. Niblaek not only says he would steal, but he would not restore the stolen goods—no, he would say, nothing about it. There are three abominations of the earth, that are most generaly found in company with each other, viz., fanaticism, hypocrisy and dishonesty. Niblack’s confession that he would not say anything about it. proves conclusively that he is a hypocritical fanatic under suspicion of not being honest. Again Niblaek says our laws

Wins Again

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Elizabeth Patterson

This week at Keith's where Stuart Walker is presenting “The Butter And Egg Man," Miss Elizabeth Patterson is playing one of the funniest comedy roles that she have ever had here. She is “walking away - ’ with the show.

peas and field beans. Among fruits, dates and olives are essentially dryfarm crops. What is the meaning of Nadine? It is a Serbian name and means “hopeful.” Can a Roman Catholic become President of the United States? There is nothing in the Constitution to prevent it. W’ho wrote "Break the News to Mother” and when? Charles K. Harris m 1897.

Times Readers' Editorials

against adultery, gambling, larceny and murder all fall under the same class as our liquor laws. It is putting it mildly, to say that he knows that he is not telling the truth. We all know that murder is a wrong that works good to no one. And the same can be said of gambling, adultery and larceny. All honest. God-fearing people join in denouncing such sins, but not so with violations of liquor laws. The Bible says "strong drink is for them that are ready to perish.” And the experience of countless millions of good people serve to bear witness to the truth of this statement. Jesus Christ made wine and the Apostle Paul advised Timothy to take a little for his stomach’s sake, but the fanatics say “No.” A vast majority of our people, physicians and all. would, if It were put to a vote join in demanding that this "bone-head liquor law” be repealed. Not only that, but the State should regulate the sale of whisky for medicinal purposes at a very low price. People should not be required to pay anything like a dollar per pint for whisky that can be made for not to exceed 25 cents per gallon. I am a man now 67 years of age. And I have twelve children born to me. all of whom arc now living. It goes without saying that I have experienced human life in all its fullness. I am familiar with all its ups and downs in sickness and in health. With the exception of a few years of my early life as teacher in our public schools I have been a plain dirt farmer. I am confident that whisky has saved the lives of my wife and two or three of my children. I could go on at greater length and relate ray experience in detail, but it is not necessary that I do so. I will close by saying "hurrah” for Mr. Gilliom and Governor Jackson. JAMES H. JOB, Bedsville. Ind.

New Events On the Stage

New York this week is getting Its first view of “The Way of All Flesh,” which is the first movie that Emil Jannings has made in this country. All of his other movies have been made in Germany and interest this week on Broadway centers upon this American made picture on view at the Rialto. Jannings sent the following telegram to Adolph Zukor, president of Paramount: “In ‘The Way of All Flesh’ I believe to have done the best and happiest work of my life and hope from the bottom of my heart that a little bit of the happiness I felt during the making of my first American picture will flow over to the American public. For Victor Fleming, my director, it is a triumph; for Paramount, which gave me the opportunity to create such a work, my gratitude is greater than I can say.” “The Way of All Flesh" is based ! upon a story by Perley Poore Sheehan. It was adapted by Lajos Biro and the continuity is the work of Jules Furthman. It -is a simple story of a methodical middle-west bank cashier of German descent, who goes the way of all flesh. Jannings has predicted that his first film produced in America under American direction wil please critics even more than his foreignmade "Variety.” The producers believe that Jannings' characterization of August Schiller, a thrifty German-American banker, who becomes the victim of a gold-digger, vfcill be recognized as the most vivid piece of screen acting in screen history’. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Butter and Egg Man’’ at Keith’s: “Grounds For Divorce” at English’s; Bert Fitzgibbons at the Palace; “Sunbeams" at the Lyric; “Resurrectiata" at the Circle; “The Prince of Head Waiters” at the Indiana; “The Sea Tiger” at the Ohio; “Rubber Heels'' at the Apollo and movies at the Isis.

To the Editor: Governor Jackson and Attorney General Gilliom should be prosecuted. I was once given up’to die with pneumonia. No whisky was used. That was fifty-five years ago. I had two children sick with typhoid fever one seriously, but they are now in good health and no whisky was used. One of my sons was seriously ill with pneumonia, but he is now stout and healthy and no whisky was used. Another son was believed to be at the point of death for eighty-seven days with typhoid fever. He recovered without the use of whisky. I believe there is no medicinal quality in whisky. D. O. ROACH.

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JUNE 22, 1927

Why the Weather?

By Charles Fltzhugh Talman Authority on Meteorology

WILL-O’-THE-WISP M Ignis fatuus, or will-o’-the-wisp. both a mystery and a paradox. For centuries its name has been a household word; or rather its names, for it bears at least fifty in English and a great many in other languages. Though so often reported over a great part of tjic world, it has never been the subject of thorough scientific investigation. Nobody ha;; ever studied its light, with the spectroscope, for example. Chemists have sometimes tried to reproduce the phenomenon, but the chemical explanations of it that liavr appeared in reference books down to a recent, date are quite untenable. The tendency nowadays is to regard most of the appearances described as will o'-the-wisp as due to the phenomenon of luminescence. This phenomenon is exhibited by many species ot plants and animals; especially by fungi. In Euiope thera arc certain kinds of gnat that become luminous through disease. Little swarms of these dancing creatures have probably often been described as Ignis fatuus. The luminescence of decaying wood, known as "fox fire,” may explain otner cases. This phenomenon' is very common in the Dismal Swamp and is fairly well known elsewhere. Barn owls are said to become luminous at times through rubbing their feathers against such wood in emerging from their holes. One authority believes that swarms of luminous bacteria are sometimes carried up from marshes by bubbles of rising gas. Will-o’-the-wisp though it nas ncu obvious connection with weather, isl generally classed as a meteorologica* phenomenon. Formerly it was discussed in most treaties on meteorology. but it is completely Ignored ill nearly all the recent works on thW subject. All rights reserved by Science Service. Inc*

Brain Teasers

A wide variety of knowledge is required to answer all the questions in today’s test. Answers will be found on page 12: 1— Who is Guiseppe M. Bellanca? 2ln what sport is the Samuel Ryder cup awarded? 3 What is the fighting name oft Ovila Chapdelaine? 4 What is the fastest train time from Atlantic to Pacific coasts? 5 Who is William B. Stout? 6 What is a pulmotor? 7_What was a pterodactyl? 8— What is psychiatry? 9Os what machine is the aileron a part? 10_Where did Batik decoration originate? 11— How wide is the city east and west? 12— How many miles of streets in the city? What arc the lull names of Presidents Harding, Coolidge, Grant* Polk. Hayes and Garfield. Warren Gamaliel Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Ulysses Simpson Grant; James Knox Polk; Jam* Abram Garfield; Rutherford Bird™ wood Hayes.