Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1927 — Page 6

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The Next Move Under the laws the city council may impeach any emplc- e or official other than its own members, on charges of malfeasance in office. The people of this city have registered their opinion pt me present c?ty government in rather emftjihat** term*. I,' It is inconceivable that after such a verdict this i pity should be officered and directed for two more ! years by its present head and mayor. It can hardly be by accident that the special prosecutors discover such indications of fraud and graft on the part of the major appointees that charges in the Criminal Court are becoming about as staple as news as the market reports or the baseball score. f| it is not the best advertisement for this city that its head stands charged in the Criminal Court with having violated laws to obtain his office and that there seems to be no evidence on the part of his attorneys to obtain a speedy judicial determination of |that charge. h|L The courts, of course, will eventually decide upon r guilt or innocence. J But there are acts in his administration which I Ire so outrageous in their character and so monstrous in their implications that the council can haidjly fail to recognise them. ® s :\ When the mayor and his brother-in-law, both financially interested in the establishment of a daily newspaper in this city, hand out subscription blanks to firemen, policemen and other city employes with orders to become solicitors, the limit has about been |feached. There can be no more reason for their use in this manner than there would be if the mayor ordered the policeman to become his valet at his home, another to sqfl oil stock to bootleggers or sent firemen out to peddle pies in a vending machine. Had the mayor used the city employes to establish for his own profit and interest anew department store, the merchants of this city would very properly protest. The use of public employes for private profit is about as gross a malfeasance in office as can be imagined. ' Yet it is exactly what might have been expected when the history of the political machine of this city is remembered. That is exactly the theory of the machine politician. He looks public office as a power to be used, not as an opportunity to render service. The people of this city were robbed of their rights to an immediate city manager system when the State machine forced through an amendment to the law under which Mayor Duvall was elected which provides that no change may be made until the end of his term. Duvall was elected under an implied contract, then a part of the law, to get out if the people voted to adopt this system of government. His friends changed that part of the law'. The Governor gave his approval over the protest of the decent citizens of both this city and Evansville. Since the people have very definitely indicated what they desire and since the mayor has very definitely shown that he looks ripon city employes as his private servants, the council should not hesitate. <&nd if the members of that body take the same view', the law provides for charges by citizens. Those who are now devoted to redeeming Indianapolis could do much worse than file some very definite charges against the mayor and other employes and get some immediate relief from an intolerable situation^. The Elysiaij Fields A big and shining yellow car swirls out of the Bois de Boulogne and into the sunshine of the Champs Elysee. Down this famous boulevard it sweeps, catching every eye. Behind the wheel is a large black man with gorgeous golden grin. Beside him is a very blond and very pretty girl. The car is a Hispano-Suiso. The girl shall be nameless. The man is Jack Johnson. And the place, let us repeat, is the Champs Elysee—the Elysian fields. The Elysian fields, where one may be happy kforever and forever. K And Jack Johnson is happy. Dethroned heavyweight champion of the world, admired of all men some women. He has found his spiritual home. IHris! What docs he care now for the troubles he behind him in Chicago, what does he care if rfMcan not go back without being arrested? He isn't !9ng back. Here he has all that a man may want lßßlife and a little bit more. Nothing like this in Chicago. He wouldn’t go back if he could. So it was for many months and then Jack Johnson got restless. He dropped down into Spain for a while, but he got tired of Spain very soon. He sailed across to Cuba and there the truth came out. Jack Johnson w f as pining for the streets of Chicago. He opened up negotiations with the Government. How long a stretch in the penitentiary did they propose to give him if he came back? The Government wouldn’t say. Jack went to Mexico City. That’s a delightful place, too, but presently he appeared at Tia Juana. Tia, Juana Is right on the border. Jack could stand in Tia Juana, Mexico, and look into Tia Juana, U. S. A. He couldn’t see much thereby, of course; in fact, the two places are so much alike that he had to be Careful not to step over the line onto grouricl where arrest aw'aited him. And then one day Jack gave up the struggle. He walked across the line and asked them to arrest him. It cost him one year in the Federal penitentiary. But Jack Johnson thought it was worth it. He was a free man once again. He could go where he pleased—- • and what was much more important—he could come back! Henry M. Blackmer was chairman of a big oil company. He had knowledge, so it was believed, of a deal whereby a Cabinet member received $230,000 for turning Government oil lands over to Harry F. Sinclair. In any event, the Government wanted him as a witness. He fled to France and all efforts to persuade him to return have failed. Occasionally he v has visited other countries of Europe, it is told, but he stays away from the United States. Now the Government has cancelled his passports. He cannot leave France unless it is to come to the United States; the Government will see him safely khoola if he changes his mirid and decides to come.

Do you think he will come? There is no lovelier land in the world than France, no land better provided with amusements for an American millionaire. The races at Longchamps, the steeplechase at Auteuil. The night clubs—Zellie’s, L’Abbaye, Maxim's and the Chateau de Madrid in the Bois de Bologne. Montmartre with its Dead Rat, Red Dog and what not. The terraces of Montparnasse where American artists may be found, and the girls! A book could be written about the girls; indeed, a few have been. flie millionaire goes in for culture, there’s the opera, the Comedie Francaise; there's the Louvre and the Luxembourg. Or, if a millionaire wearies of the city, there's Deauville, the elite among water resorts, and there's Vichy, where one may go to drink the water or be boiled in it. There are the Hautes Sayoie and the Vosges mountains, where one may be cool. All inside the borders of France. What more might a millionaire want? Well, he might want to come home. We’ve a notion that one day Henry M. Blackmer will make the decision that Jack Johnson made. One day he will get up from his chair on the sidewalk in front of the Case c>e 1?. Oh, yes. About that. You know what the" say: The Case de la Paix is at the junction of the Boulevard de la Madeleine and the Place de L'Opcra, the very heart of Paris. And they say that if you sit in front of the Case de la Paix long enough you will see everybody you’ve ever known. Henry M. Blackmer will come to sitting there, seeking the faces of those he once knew. And one day, unless his love for the country of his birth is less than the love that troubled the heart of Jack Johnson, he’ll get yp from his chair and walk around to the United States consul’s office to ask for a passport that will bring him home. Back to the United States. The United States, for her homesick sons, certain always to be— The Elysian fields. General Wood and the Philippines Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippines, is back in the States after an absence of six years. We sincerely hope President Coolidge will see his way clear to keep the general on this side of the Pacific, now that he is here. Come next October, General Wood will be 67 years of age. For a statesman this is certainly not superannuated, but twelve months in the tropics ages the average Nordic more than double that time in a temperate zone and the general is older than his years. Before being sent to the Philippines in the spring of 1921, the general was none too robust. In all that time he has not been brought back to the States on leave, nor has he had wh*t might be called a real vacation away from his job since he sailed. His constitution has gradually weakened. He has been seriously ill and has undergone a couple of operations. And on top of all that, he has been in political hot water from the day he landed until the time whereof we speak. Temperamentally General Wood is as unfitted for higher duty in the Philippines as he is physically. From start to finish he has constantly clashed with the 'Filipinos. In fact, for the entire six years he has governed by might alone, native officials, including the Philippine legislature, have been virtually on strike against him. It is all very well for superficial observers, and American officials who see only what they want to see, come back from the Philippines, telling how wonderful everything is out there. Even Col. Carmi Thompson, old guard Repubhcan through and through, in his report to the President upon his return from a tour of inspection through the archipelago, painted a vast different picture. All is not well. The natives are not happy. Indeed, life is pretty much at a standstill in the islands as both Americans and Filipinos await a clarification of an impossible situation. There is ample room for differences of opinion as to whether we should stay in the Philippines or get out. But there can not be two minds on the urgent necessity of sending a governor general out there with the personality and the tact to get along with the people. General Wood undoubtedly has meant well. And he had a difficult job to fill. The Congress of the United States for twenty-five years has been holding out to the Filipinos the promise of early independence. Telling them their independence is still a very long way off w'as not calculated to make the people fall on the general’s neck and embrace him. Today the Philippines are in a state of mental and moral rebellion. A civilian governor should be sent out in our military governor’s place. Probably nothing short of independence will appease the islanders completely, but certainly there is room for vast improvement, with the islands still under the American flag. Anyhow, we’re glad Lindbergh didn’t fly to Germany. ; How many amateur poets do you suppose would have discovered suddenly that “Hindy” rhymed with “Lindy”?

Law and Justice by Dexter M. Keerer

Two men were playing in a poker game. One of them, who was losing heavily, assaulted the other, who was the big winner, and took his money back. He was convicted of robbery and sentenced to five, years in prison. He appealed the case on the ground that the trial judge had refused to admit evidence to show that the man from whom he had recovered his poker losses by force was using marked cards. He claimed it was not robbery to recover money that had been taken from him by cheating. The opposing contention w'as that the possible element of cheating did not legalize assault and forced recovery of the monfey. ‘ HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The decision: The Court of Apeals of Texas decided that it would not be robbery to use force in recovering money taken away by the use of marked cards. It ordered the trial court to adjust its rulings accordingly.

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: The Effectivetiess of Our Laws Is Being Slowly but Steadily Destroyed by a Flippant, Distrustful Attitude.

Interest in two successful transAtlantic flights and in the possibility of discovering what happened to Nungesser and Coli has caused us to forget that St. Roman and Mouneyres undertook the great adventure first and that they were heroes even though their machine failed. Reports that wreckage of thenmachine has been discovered in the mouth of the Amazon suggests that they came very close to triumph, but whether they did or not, they displayed all of the human characteristics that are necessary for such a triumph—imagination, ability and the willingness to try what had never been done before. FJifis or Worms? Should "rainbow trout" be caught with angleworms or flies? This has become a burning issue and we might just as well settle down to a long argument, though it may prove nothing in the end. According to some sportsmen, President Coolidge violated the rules of the game when he impaled ap angleworm on his hook. His explanation is that he tried flies first, but the trout woudn’t take them, and he justifies worms with a string of seven beauties. There are sportsmen who think he would have better come home empty handed than commit such a breach of piscatorial etiquette, but those simple minded laymen who go fishing to get fish probably will not regard it as disqualifying him for lenomination. Jeering ai Law Attorney General Sargent deplores jeering at the law. He does not believe intelligent men can assume a flippant attitude toward it without encouraging ignorant men to disobey it. Carefully, avoiding the mention of prohibition by name, he leaves the impression that this particular law is responsible for most of the jeers. He says it is inconsistent for a citizen to declare in the same breath “I believe in and demand enforcement of the laws of the country, but I will pay well any man who will violate these laws.” Why it Exists The attorney general is eminently correct. The effectiveness of our law is being slowly but steadily destroyed by a flippant, distrustful attitude. Merely shouting that such a condition exists, however, is of little avail. What wc want to know is how it can be corrected, and this involves the question of why it exists. The attorney general is pleased to infer that modern life is somewhat responsible, and perhaps it is. Pleasure First We have more time and money to spend then we ever had. The tendency is to think of pleasure rather than serious things. A comic strip is more likely to be read than a learned article. Even the attorney generals able adddress before the Pennsylvania Bar Association will probably not attract as wide attention as Will Rogers' latest quib. Law at Fault, Too Making allowance for all this, the law is somewhat to blame for the contempt in -which it is held. People have not turned against it because they want to laugh or because they have forgotten how to think. Neither the eight-hour day, the automobile nor high wages account for the unprecedented indifference, not to say disgust, with which the law has come to be regarded. Apologists for the law can argue that the public is all at fault and that the only thing required is for it to pull a long face, fold its hands and strike an attitude of submissive respect, but they w'ill not get anywhere, either w'ith the arguments or the remedy for this deplorable condition, until they admit that the law has come to be a clumsy evergrown, inefficient, meddlesome factor in life. Defects Stand Out You don’t have to thirsty or believe in bootlegging to realize how stupendously the law is failing. You can forget the irritating regulations from which we suffer, the censorship, the tagging of automobiles and stiff find monumental defects in the law. You can forget the petty crimes which have been made out of whole cloth, the volumes of new statues that nobody ever reads arid still discover that the law Is not working effectively. Respect Required Take the Sacco-Vanzetti case, for instance, with which the law has been fooling seven years and of which it has made such a hopeless mess that the Governor of Massachusetts has had to call in a committee of citizens to advise him what to do. Take the case of Russell Scott, who was sentenced to hang three years ago, who has been declared both sane and insane and who now faces anew trial on the original indictment. The first requirement of respect is to be worthy of it. If the law would be respected, let it look to Its own shortcomings. How old is Milton Sills? Is he married? He is 45 and married to Doris Kenyofe., film star.

Yes —All Broadcasting Should Be Regulated!

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Several Song and Dance Recitals Will Be Given Tonight by Students of Local Art Instructors

Several song and dance recitals will be given tonight in various parts of the city. The second annual dance recital of Mme. Leontini Gano will be given tonight at the Playhouse of the Little Theatre Society on N. Alabama St. A program of many dances will be presented by Loretta Vah Meter. Doris Llewellyn, La Verne Reichle, Mary Louise Schilling, Joan Elliott, Eleanor Wild, Virginia Dicks Elva Johnson. Clemencc Barnett. Dorothy Fitzpatrick. Dorothy Lawrence, Harriett Rosensweig, Virginia Steinhart, Marie Austis. LaVeme Baus, Vivian Showalter, Mme. Gano and Kenneth C. Gano. One of the features of the Gano recital will be the appearance of Mme. Marguerite Bailhe Steinhart,

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor: Let me express my personal appreciation of your editorial of last Thursday entitled "They Also Serve.” It happens that I have twice w'ithin recent weeks mentioned in pubic addresses the service John R. Kissinger rendered public health some years ago, in volunteering with a Sergeant Moran, to be used for a demonstration test in mosquito transmission of yellow fever, under Dr. Walter Reed. In your article you stated your belief that Moran was still alive in the Canal Zone. I recall reading an announcement of his death in Chicago some time during March of this year, I believe. This was commented upon by Brisbane in his syndicated column—l\ don’t know where he got his information. Kissinger, I know well. He used to be brought to my church by his wife when I was minister of Hope Presbyterian Church of South Bend. I have talked with him a number, of times. He is helplessly incapacitated as a result of the disease. Life then (about 1915) was rather difficult on a pension of SIOO per month, which he still receives. May I report one conversation? We had discussed his difficulties, and the hardships they involved. And I asked him if he had it to do over again, whether he would have volunteered again? He paused, looked out of the window reflectively, and then, looking me square in the eye, replied, “Yes, I think I would. I think it was w'orth all it has cost me to have had a share in killing off ‘yelloy Jack.’ ” John R. Kissinger may have been heroic w'lien he first volunteered for this test in 1899. But he was a greater hero in 1915, w'hen he attested his willingness to abide by the distressing personal result to himself, Jor the benefit of the race he so w’ell served under the great doctor for whom he had unbounded admiration. I intend to do my utmost to secure for him an adequate pension. And any assistance which you and your paper can contribute to this end I shall greatly appreciate. Again expressing appreciation for what you have already done, I am, Sir, Very cordially yours, GEORGE WILLIAM ALLISON. Pastor Irvington Presbyterian Church. A correspondent of Mr. Fixit today sought assistance in removing an eye-sore near Seventeenth and 'Belefontaine Sts. Dear Mr. Fixit: There is a\ concrete mixer in the alley just north of Seventeenth St. on Bellofontaine St., that has been there since last October. It belongs to a construction company which has been notified to move it several times, but still it stands there. It is an eye-sore to the neighborhood and will you please do what you can for us A RESIDENT. Chief Inspector Al Middleton I ordered the mixer removed by the I contactor. So you’ll miss it some

•By Walter 1). Hickman

concert pianist, in two groups of numbers. Under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid of Beech Grove Christian Church, the Anti-Can’t Players will present “Jayville Junction.” a comedy in one act, at the Beech Grove school auditorium. There -will also be a number of musical numbers under the direction of Clarence Ledwith. Roy T. Combs is president of the players. The cast of “Jayville Junction” is as follows: Charley Grab, the ticket seller / Ua.moiKt Hockersmlth Smash A. Trunk, the baggageman Homer Hurley Will Bawl, the train caller .Stanley Masioe Rastus. the porter Roy T. Combs Tommy, the boy with a wish Stanley Mascoe Samp L. Case, the drummer Walter Ferguson Booth N. Barret, the actor. Maurice Hiatt Gus Hamburg, the German....Bascol HIU Happy Happrn, the tramp Earl W. Hunter Doorlock Bones, the detective Robert Sutphtn Willie Rawraw, the college boy John Baker Mr. Spoon A. Whyle, the groom Court land Coghlll Georgie, the mama's ‘-precious'' Verlln Weaver The College Girls ...... Gertrude McNerse. Nora Hughes Mrs. Spoon A. Whyle. the bride ...... Lorraine Crons Carrie Bunn, the lunch counter girl... Pauline Johnson Lima Light, the actress Hazel Carter Tessie and Bessie, the girls with a giggle .. Louise Carter. Corrlne Carter Mrs. P. Runa. the nervous party...'... Kathleen Spear Mrs. O'Callihan, the scrub “iadv' Little Dean Ttllle Tung, the village gossip Beulah Weaver The Goodbye Olrls Olline Johnson. Jeanette Rinehart Luclscious, Rastus' long lost brother. . Russell E. Tucker Policeman Harvey Sparks The Sahara Buds will hold a fashion show at the Lincoln in the Lincoln room tonight. Dances will be given by pupils of Mrs. Ruth Kersting. Those who will appear will be Delores Spaulding, Agnes Weddle, Dorothy Malvey, Maxine

OHH| GRAND BEACH JffISBPR TT*S playtime now at the Golfmnra. * iL Cries of “Fore” ring out on the spacious fairways of a 27-hole course that will rouse T ' S:' ] ,] t the sporting blood of every golfer. A IBU. group of restive thoroughbreds trot with dignity on the bridle path. A merry party, '' basking on the beach, venture again and again into the clear, cool waters of Lake : ' a. ■ ■ ■* -- Michigan. V V' yf i, The merry strains of a superb dance or* ” Jy-i'Wg. chcstra fill the vast dining room and out* <£T,\ door terrace with dancers. t " Playtime at the Golf more—playtime for you! We cater to gentiles exclusively. Come now—by motor over Dunes Highway M 11—by rail on the Michigan Central Railroad to Grand ' Beach. 5 miles North of Michigan City. f . $7 per day and up—- - Ajli \our Rni/rond With Meal*. PlflKlliliTlMMF 1 AfTtif about Roynd 7rit> HaU ‘ For Rnrryaltonj JUrttt J . Manager, Golfmora v | . Hotel, Grand oeack, ff ****ltJ*^*4— p* . m _

Lambert, LaVonne Maloof and Lydia Kersting. Miss Roberta Trent, a pupil of Olive Kiler. and Miss Mary Packer from the faculty of Oakland City College, will give a recital at the Woodruff Baptist Church tonight. LOOKING OVER NEW EVENTS AT THE PALACE Things seem to run to singing and dancing on the current bill at the Palace. There is no one particular act which stands out. because there is s much music. There can be too much music on a bill, you know. ‘ On Tour” is a song and dance revue wtih a small cast. Two of the boys are rather good dancers, but the act lacks a class finish. The Six Musical Clowns liav<> a routine which reminds one of Tom Brown. The act has melody and color, but lacks pep. Anthony and Rogers, with a routine of mixed up words, seems to get along better than all the others. Hiltin and Chesliegh, two girls, actually put over some ancient material. but they do put it over. Little Piplfax and company mixes falls, i acrobatics and some comedy. , Bert i Fitzgibbons is again acting as announcer. He broke down my reserve this time and made me laugh. The movie Is “Paying the Price.” At the Palace today and Saturday. Other theaters todky offer: "Sunbeams." at the Lyric; "Butter and Egg man.” at Keith's; "Grounds for Divorce," at English's; "The Sea Tiger,” at the Ohio; double movie bill at the Isis; “Rubber Heels," at the Apollo; “Resurrection,” at the Circle, and “The Prince of Head Waiters,” at the Indiana.

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Why the RST TalmMi Weather? isffl&r

MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS THAT HAUNT THE AIR Os all the sounds that liauul (he air probably the most mystrts’ui are those that are best call** by the generic name “brontldes "MfffilVd from two Greek words meaning "like thunder"), though they rejoice in scores of other names in various parts of the world. Bromides are muffled detonations, resembling the sound of distant cannon or peals of thunder, and are heard chiefly in warm, clear weather. There is a reference in one of Lord Bacon’s works to "an extraordinary noise In the sky when there is no thunder.” Probably a search of other early literature" would reveal many notices of mysterious rumblings and explosive sounds such as we should now describe as brontides. The first systematic investigation of these noises was made In India, where they have frequently been reported from the neighborhood of Barisal. a town in the Ganges delta, and are known locally as "Barisal guns." Along the coast of Belgium brontldes are called "mistpoeffers.” They are well known in many parts of Italy under numerous names. In Australia they are called "desert sounds," in Haiti “gouffre,” etc. The “Moodus noises” often heard In the eighteenth century about Moodus and East Hnddam. Conn., probably belong to the same category. The source of these sounds Is undoubtedly subterranean In a great many cases, though perhaps not in all. It Is thought tha slight movements of the rocks, such as would be inaudible under ordinary circumstances may rise to noises when the atmospheric vibrations are reenforced in some way by the configurations of the ground. The explosion of unsfen meteorites may account for some brontldes, while others may be the sounds of thunder, cannoadlng. blasting, etc., heard at abnormal distances because of the refraction of the sound waves by the atmosphere. All right* reserved by Science Service. Inc. i

Brain Teasers

Now' that American fliers have “invaded" Europe, you may want to test your knowledge of that continent. A few of today’s questions relate to European geography and current events. Answers to all the questions will be found on page 2 1. Os what country is Thomas Garrtgue Masaryk president? 2. What French tennis player recently defeated Tilden for the European hard court championship? 3. What were the two former names of Leningrad. Russia? 4. Which is nearer the norti pole, New York or Paris? 5. Near the capital of what country in South America doe;> the equator pass? 6. In going from Windsor. Canada, to Detroit, what direction do you travel? 7. Who wrote the play, "Peter Pan"? 8. What are dungarees? 9. How did the German guns known as "Big Berthas," get their name? 10. In what country were British troops known as "Black and Tans"? 11. How' many miles of boulevards in Indianapolis' 1 12. What is extent of improved streets in the city? How many pardons did Mrs. M. A. Ferguson grant in her term as governor of Texas? Up to Dec. 24. 1926 she had granted 2,936 pardons. 761 being full pardons, 815 conditional pardons, eight death penalties commuted, and 371 former convicts having been restored to citizenship. The Christmas pardons brought the number over the 3.000 mark.