Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1927 — Page 4

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The Only Danger Those who prophesy disaster from the city manager system of government and a continued rule by the bosses are needlessly alarmed. The only chance that the same old forces of greed and prlvlege and plunder have to get control of this city is in the hope that the ordinary citizen will not vote. With even as large a vote as is generally cast in a city election, the people will be reasonably sure of a commission that will provide an honest and efficient business' manager. The one danger to good government, whether it be in cities or in the State or in the Nation, is in the apathy of ciitzens toward their government. In the election of Tuesday the total vote was less than half of the number entitled to take part. This means that a most fundamental change was made by a minority of citizens. It also means that more than half of the citizens of this community are willing to let the other half decide public questions. Very fortunately the decision of those who are interested in making Indianapolis the best governed instead of the worst ruled city of the Nation decided to make it very easy to permit the decent and honest voters to cast the same sort of ballots. The election of Tuesday wiped out partisan politics in city affairs. When the first commissioners are elected they will be chosen because of their character and not by any affiliations with gangs of political workers who delude honest men and women with party labels. No political machine could endure for a second term unless it depended upon the prejudices of very many people who get the habit of voting for an elephant or a rooster or some other animal or bird and never look beyond that label. The city manager form of government will automatically direct the attention of every one who votes to the personality and the character of those who are suggested as candidates. The one question which will be asked is whether the candidate is a man who could be trusted to act honestly and intelligently in selecting officers for a private business enterprise. The people will be informed as to the private interests and prejudices and character of every man who is suggested or who desires to be a commissioner. Any suggestion of alliances with those who have profited in the past, and this means more respectable influences and interests than the boss and his jobholding henchmen, will be sufficient to defeat any candidate. The people will have an easy opportunity to defeat not only the old political bosses and petty tools, but the larger interests which have found it profitable to trade with these bosses and keep them in power. The only danger to the plan just adopted lies in apathy and lack of interest. That can be avoided if seven men of standing and character to arouse enthusiasm are suggested as candidates. It’s Different When You're Asking For Something It makes a lot of difference whether you are giving something away or asking for something. At the Washington conference of 1921 we were giving. At the Geneva conference, now on, we are asking. At Washington, after Secretary of State Hughes, our chief delegate, had risen and volunteered to sink a third of our finest capital ships, built and building, Lord Balfour came as near being fulsome and effusive as that undemonstrative statesman was ever known to come. The British accepted the Hughes proposals, he said, almost emotionally, not with cool approbation but with full, loyal and complete cooperation, agreeing with their spirit and purpose as the greatest reform ever carried out by courage and statesmanship. At Geneva, where our chief delegate, Ambassador Hugh Gibson, is asking Britain and Japan to extend to cruisers—of which they have more than we—the identical principle Lord Balfour so gratefully accepted for capital ships at Washington, the British tone is markedly changed. “In plain blunt words instead of rhetoric,’’ as Britain’s first sea lord, Eridgeman himself, icily expressed it, we were curtly told there was nothing I “Great Britain,” said Bridgeman, “depends upon Hntrol of the seas for her existence. And Japan, beislands, is coming around to the same point of' view. But for the United States an equal program is simply a luxury and a political by-play.” Why has Britain changed her tune since 1921? Because cruisers are now the main point at issue and instead of the United States having more cruisers than Britain, Britain has between two and three times as many as the United States. Even Japan is our superior. So Gibson is answered “in plain blunt words” instead of the rhetoric Balfour employed in his reply to Hughes six years ago. No longer do the British tell us they accept our proposals “not with cool approbation but with full, loyal and complete cooperation.” No longer do they regard the American plan to junk fighting craft as “the greatest reform ever carried out by courage and statesmanship.” Not much! For us, equality on the high seas has become “a simple luxury and a political by-play.” The United States made its colossal blunder when, instead of maintaining its Navy strictly up to the 6-5-3 ratio laid down by the Washington conference, it allowed both Britain and Jafcan to gain a sweeping superiority. We have repeatedly called attention to the fact that our voice would carry weight only if Britain and Japan saw we did not intend to be outstripped by either. They firmly believed that at Washington and quickly came to terms. Since then, however, this Government has openly announced a policy of refusing to build, regardless of what other powers might do. Today, therefore, our influence at Geneva is academic rather than real. Whatever kind of Navy Britain wants, that’s the kind of navy we must agree to or there will likely be no agreement. It is already practically a foregone conclusion that we will leave Geneva facing the alternative either of accepting third place as a world sea power or

BOYD GURLEY. Editor.

“Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way” —Dante

ROY W. HOWARD, President.

spending anywhere from a third of a billion to a half billion dollars building new ships. By spending considerably less than that in the past six years, we could have maintained the strategic position we occupied at the 1921 conference and so left Geneva with our national defense and world peace both more secure and more money in our pockets. Wrong, As Usual As usual, Dr. Shumaker, head of the Anti-Saloon League and most powerful politician of the State, is wrong. His speech in one of the neighboring cities on medicinal whisky is important only as it indicates the unfairness and falseness of the arguments by which he gains and retains power over public officials. He makes the statement openly that Attorney General Gilliom and wet Interests are trying to open up “whisky drug stores” for the purpose of defeating the dry laws. The record is otherwise. Gilliom has a life-long record as a prohibitionist and a sincere one. He happens to be one of the very, very few public officials of this State who not only believe in it but practice it. Not so much can be said of ninety-nine out of every hundred of other State and county officials who obey the orders of Shumaker. Gilliom happens, also, to be a father. The doctors ordered whisky when one of his little sons was dying. He got it, illegally. The doctors say it saved the life of this boy. As Attorney General he was asked by the Governor of this State as to how to get whisky legally for use when the wife of the Governor was dying. The Governor, so says the Attorney General, got whisky in violation of the law. Mrs. Jackson recovered. What Gilliom asked was that the law of this State be changed so that orders of physicians might be carried out without becoming criminals. He asked that the law be amended so that science would not be driven to the criminal in order to save human life. It is significant that when he made his courageous demand for a law that meets conditions and would release science from fanaticism, Gilliom wa3 immediately upheld by many other incidents of law-breaking such as he himself admitted. The first answer of Shumaker was that James P. Goodrich, when Governor, was dying and that he got well without whisky. He gave some very grewsorX" details as to the pathology of his case. He failed, in his recent speech, to refer to Goodrich. There was a reason. For it developed that his one outstanding case was all wrong and that the life of Goodrich, according to statements of his closest friends who got the illegal whisky and saw it administered, was saved by whisky. The unfairness of Shumaker is indicated by his failure to give his audiences the facts or admit his own misinformation when shown conclusively that he had misinformed the people who trust him. What Shumaker is really fighting is not the fear of a wet State through use of medicinal whisky, but the loss of his own power. He Is fighting to keep his grip on government through fanaticism and misrepresentation. There is no wet or dry issue in the matter presented to the evasive and silent Governor by Gilliom. A law drafted by Gilliom to control the use of whisky as a medicine would probably do more to prevent bootlegging and take away excuses for bootleggers than the present dictum of Shumaker. The day of government by Inspired orders from the professional dry leader is about over. For he < is wrong, always. Golf is the third most dangerous sport, according to an insurance company. What could you expect, with all those broken bottles around the nineteenth hole? The President can watch the mountain goats near the game lodge playing tag of evenings. No novelty for the President. He has seen almost every kind of game you could think of, in Congress. Mustapha Kemal has prepared an address of 1,000 pages reviewing the republican regime in Turkey, the address taking two full days to deliver. Turkey, It seems, is not to escape filibustering, either. The newspaper is a poor man's university, says a speaker. Oh yes, the editor adds, and some of the subscribers seem to be working their way. Women voters turned out in large numbers for the recent Irish election. The gentle sex all over the world is becoming more proficient at strenuous games. A crowd in St. Louis didn’t know Lindbergh but gathered around to look at his new silver-gray roadster. Oh, well, St. Louis is a pretty big town. Scrapping of navies seems to have started the best scrap on hand at present. Some of our party lines, especially the rural ones, are as democratic as you’d wish. Now a Czech claims anew record for swimming the English channel. Let’s see, where is that stream?

Law and Justice by Dexter M. Keezer

A city set aside a street for coasting, placed placards warning motorists not to enter it, and placed guards at cross streets to keep it clear. An automobile entered the, street and a boy engaged in coasting collided with it. He was killed and his parents sued the city for damages on account of its negligence in not keeping the street safe after setting it aside as a place for children to coast. The city contended that it was exercising a governmental power in setting aside the street for coasting, and that an accident resulting from negligence in the exercise of such power could not be the subject of a suit for damages. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The Supreme Court of lowa decided that the city could not be held for damages on account of the boy’s death. It said that the arrangement for coasting on the street was the exercise of a governmental power which “cannot be submitted to the judgment of courts, since, government is not the subject of private law,”

W. A. MAYBORN, Business Manager.

THURSDAY. JUNE 23, 1927.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. TRACY SAYS We Labor Under a Tendency to Think in Terms of TFar and Conflict.

Ttyree hundred Kansas prisoners stage a mutiny over cigarets, a cleverly constructed tunnel is discovered in the Ohio prison just in time to prevent a wholesale delivery and thirty-five Texas prisoners escape. There never was a time when prisoners were so well treated a.4 they are today, but kindness seems to have made them no better contented. Prison is prison, no matter how comfortable the bed may be or how good the food. Men prize liberty more than they prize anything else. Tuberculosis Licked Dr. Allen K. Krause, of Johns Hopkins University, estimates that 1,500,000 lives have been saved in this country by the fight against tuberculosis since 1900. This is a wonderful achievement, but clouded by the fact that other diseases have made progress while the white plague was being beaten back. Fewer people are dying of consumption. it is true, but more are dying of paralysis, heart failure and cancer. Cancer Increases Dr. George A. Soper declared that one out of eveiy ten deaths of adult persons in this country is now due to cancer, and that the economic loss caused by this great affliction amounts to $1,250,000,000 annually. He says that health authorities are doing little to combat the situation because they do not know what to do. This would be more discouraging if the same attitude had not prevailed toward tuberculosis fifty years ago. People are always slow about doing anything when they do not know what to do. Businessman Aids Otto Koennecke faces the likelihood of having to give up his proposed Berlin-to-San Francisco flight for lack of financial backing. Financial backing is an essential element of every such venture. Those who have put up the cash for recent trans-Atlantic flights have been given small share of the credit, yet without them such triumphs os those of Lindbergh and Chamberlin would have been impossible. The American business man has played an important part not only in promoting aviation, but in promoting many modern innovations. Without his spirit the world would be far behind where it is. N, Y,-Chicago Planes Giuseppe Bellanca, designer of the plane in which Chamberlin and Levine flew from New York to the heart of Germany, has just signed a contract for five big passenger aircraft, to be operated between New York and Chicago on a seven and one-half-hour basis. This is reducing the interest that has been aroused in aviation to practical results. Out of the startling records recently established there comes tho| realization cf what flying can be | made to mean in a commercial way.! Flights Show Way A German manufacturer complains that Koennecke and others like him are being held down because the Government will not give them proper support. The idea that the future of aviation depends on Government support is a handicap. It has played too much of a part in the opinion in all countries. Ever since the airplane was invented it has been touted and advertised as something for the Government to promote, as an instrument peculiarly adapted to war or the carrying of mail. This has made it hard to interest business men. but the Lindbergh and Chamberlin flights, which'were undertaken and carried to a successful conclusion by private backing, has done much to overcome the difficulty. Aviation Petal Industry Men with money and sporting blood are going to get behind the airplane from now on, just as they got behind the automobile, the motion picture and radio, and Americans are going to lead the way. Aviation will presently become a real industry in the United States, an industry that visualizes its future, not because of wliat. aircraft can do for the Government or what the Government can do for aircraft, but because of the way this great invention can be adapted to the needs of peace. War Still Popular We labor under a tendency to think in terms of war and conflict. Scarcely an invention ccuncs to light, but what we visualize it as an instrument of trouble. Scarcely a dispute occurs between nations, but what we take it as the possible cause of strife. History, filled as it is with brass buttons and blood, inspires us tc pay altogether too much attention to the destructive forces of life. This is noticeable in nothing more distinctly than in the universal disposition to exaggerate rumors of war. The Russo-Polish situation is a case in point, where, as one shrewd correspondent observes, “everybody talks war. but nobody believes war will come.” OTHER THEATER OFFERINGS Other theaters today offer: “Grounds For Divorce” at English’s; “The Butter and Egg Man” at Keith’s; Jue Sutai at the Lyric; "Resurrection” at the Circle; “The Sea Tiger” at the Ohio; “Rubber Heels” at the Apollo; “The Prince of Head Waiters” at the Indiana and anew movie bill at the Isis,

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Irving Bacheller's ‘Dawn’, a Story of the Time : of Christ, May Become the ‘Ben-Hur of Today

Many of those who knew Jesus are the characters to be found in “Dawn.” Jesus is the human background of his day—that is the task accomplished by Irving Barhellcr in his new novel. “Dawn.” best described as “a lost romance of the time of Christ.” As I read “Dawn” and became more and more fascinated by the characters living before a human background, I had the feeling that probably this novel by Bacheller will become the “Ben-Hur” of today. “Dawn” probably will never be as widely read as “Bcn-IHL'” because if. has been claimed that the “Hur“ ranks closely to the Bible as one of the most read books. The day has arrived in our own life when men and women are not afraid to study the Christ before the human background of his day. Daring as Bacheller’s idea may seem on the surface, yet he is supported In the major facts of his story by certain ancient records. In “Dawn” you meet Doris of Colossae. known as “The Woman of the Great Memories,” who. in the twelfth year of the reign of Domilian, wrote down the story of her life, a life lived when Jesus was starting his ministry, and even when many of his prophecies started to come true. Doris was a Grrek girl whose first love affair was with a young Jew who suffered persecution because he believed and loved Jesus. From this experience of a beautiful love affair, Doris, by cruel faith, becomes the plaything of Roman rulers and even soldiers.

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Editor The Times: May I. as a layman, call your attention to what appears to me to be obvious error on the part of both the lawyers and the doctors in thqjr conception of the law concerning medical whiskey in Indiana? I have been unable, after due search, to find any Indiana statute which either forbids a physician to prescribe whiskey for a patient or limits the amount of whiskey the physician shall or may prescirbe. The act of 1917, which was embodied in the Wright law merely undertakes to forbid the sale of whiskey for medicinal purposes and to circumscribe the acts of the vendor. not the physician. * Consequently, it appears to me

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By Walter I). Hickman

But when she met Jesus He said to her: "Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more.” Then anew light, anew vision and a better purpose in life, came to Doris. She saw Jesus heal the blind and she helped lead one blind man to Him. For her faith in Him she suffered the anger of Rome; saw death dealing serpents turned upon the Christians; saw white crosses raised bbfore the walls of Jerusalem and saw human bodies nailed to these crosses because they believed in Him. She saw Jerusalem live up to the words of Jeremiah—“ The carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fouls of heaven....l will turn Jerusalem into heaps. I will make

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that those members of the medical profession who are growing indignant at what they term an attempt on the part of the layman to regulate their professional acts should quarrel with the Volstead act. rather than the Wright law, for it is the Volstead act that limits the amount of whiskey they may prescribe and the Wright law makes no attempt to restrict them. Further, I can find nothing in the Indiana '.aw which forbids any one to possess whiskey except for beverage purposes. Certainly, there is nothing in the statue that makes its unlawful to administer whiskey as a medicine under a doctor’s orders to his patient and it is not reasonable to presume that a person who in good faith possessed whiskey for the purpose of so administering it would be guilty of any criminal offense. Careful reading of Indiana's prohibition laws indicates a legislative intent not to interfere with the physician in the practice of his profession, but with the vendor of intoxicating liquors who, the doctor will admit is a wholly different entity. Os course, it is not the fault of the framers of the prohibition law if the lawyers who interpret it have read into the act inhibitions that they never intended and which are not clearly and reasonably contained thehrein. i If any Indiana law waswiolated in the use by Attorney General Gilliom of whiskey in the treatment of his son, it was not by the physician who prescribed it, the nurse who administered it, or the father who obtained It from a friend, unless that friend could be regarded as a common carrier. The violation of law would appear to be wholly on the part of the person who provided the attorney general with the whiskey and if he could only show that he had the whiskey for some other than beverage purposes he could easily show that he did not sell or give ic to the* attorney general to be used as a beverage, and hence was not guilty of law violation. A LAYMAN.

it a den of dragons. I will make the cities of Judah desolate.’’ And when you reach that part in "Dawn.” you also approach the end of Doris because she had disobeyed an order of Rome —she had told her story. She writes finally as follows: “I sit by *the window as I write so that I may see them when they come to take me to my deatn. Then will my Arab servant hide the sheets of vellum in a place we know. They may be destroyed, but the whispering dust of the multitude of the slain will tell its story. Men forget, but humanity does not forget. The soldiers are coming. Good-by, my beloved, whoever, wherever you may be. I am come at last almost to the gate of my Father's house whither my love has led me.” It is my opinion that the Macmillan Company, publishers of “Dawn." has a story which will receive the intelligent appreciation of those who read only for pleasure and for those who read only with a purpose. For serious romantic reading, I do not hesitate to recommend "Dawn.”

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