Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1927 — Page 4

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Curing the Disease Adoption of the city manager system of government is only the first step in curing the disease from which Indiana and Indianapolis has long suffered. Three years ago The Times warned the people of what would happen if the selfish forces of hate, fanaticism and intolerance obtained power. That warning was not popular. The State burned with flames of carefully nurtured hates. The appeal to prejudice had been adroit. I Just because that warning went unheeded, this State has suffered and this city suffered most. The men who went into power on the gales of fanatical intolerance are still in power, not only in high offices, but in control of the major political party. The hand of Stephenson, though he himself is in a prison cell for life and is being feared by those he favored, is still upon the State. The men he put into minor offices now seek higher ones. The beneficiaries of his influence in State afi fairs still rule the State. ft In this city the people have repudiated, as far as ■they can repudiate, the administration which had his ■support and which went .into power through his ■followers. ■ Each day the people are humiliated as exposures ■cf the misuse of power are made. ■ Four public officials are charged in the criminal ■courts with crimes. The misuse of official power in factions which are so outrageous that no Legislature ■thought to make them crimes is daily proclaimed. I , The Times has devoted itself to the curing of Ha disease, not merely the parade of symptoms. ■ '' Months ago it alone in this city dared to publish f the news, and it was news, of the charges of po- } litical corruption. The results finally in this county have shown that some of those charges were well founded and that others are indicated by circumstantial evidence. - The exposures have been made in spite of official hindrance. Much of the credit is due to the work of a deputy in the prosecutor’s office. They have come in spite of timidity and fear and political cowardice and worse^. The time has come to cure the disease. ■ The cure lies in driving from power in office and i In political -parties "those who brought about this I reign of intolerant and fanatical hatreds, who profited Iby appeals to prejudice, who obtained power by secret - might be well to take a pledge to never again ■put into power any official Who dealt with Indiana's ■most famous convict. That would reduce the number aspirants for the governorship in this State very Considerably. The Results of Usury special investigator of the Julian Pete Corporation swindle calls the collection of usurious interest by the bankers’ pools involved, the most alarming phaste of that financial disaster. “The situation.” he says, “is one to make every American stop, look and listen.” It- is. Since the Biblical injunction was issued against.lending upon usury to thy brother, the practice of levying-Jjigh tribute for the use of money has been condemned through history as unsocial, disruptive and -criminal. In Biblical days slavery was the result of usury. In the account of the building of the second temple of Jerusalem the borrowers cried but: “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that ugon our jand .vineyards, and, 10, we bring into bondage ouf sons and our daughters to be servants; neither is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands afld vineyards.” In Athens a great part of the population became virtually enslaved through usury. The small landholders, nominally free, had stone pillars erected on their land bearing the names of the lenders and the amounts of debts- owed. Solon found it necessary ' to proclaim a “seisachtheia”—a shaking off of burdens, canceling all debts made on security of land or persons. In Rome the same evils arose to destroy the State; In the course of two or three centuries the small free farmers were driven into virtual slavery by Rates as high as 50 per cent were imposed in Rhe provinces until Justinian by decree set the rate Solon had applied five centuries earlier, but not BnjtiLthji middle classes had been destroyed. ■ cato," according to Cicero, was once asked what he thought of usury. , - * , . “What do ydu think of murder?” Cato replied. The resentment of the English toward usury was such that it reacted against the v/hole Jewish race, driven from England in 1290 because of the practices of some of the money lenders. Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” is full of anti-usury propaganda. It ■was a tract against money slavery much as “Uncle Cabin” was a tract against chattel slavery. dulls and damps all industries, improveHhts and new inventions, wherein money would be Bring if it were not for this slug,” said Lord Bacon. “Usury is the land-shark and the devil-fish of Bimmerce,” said Basford. B The Movies Fail at College B That the colleges of the land have not been up to Bnuff has been rumored in many vague murmurings Hos complaint, but the real seriousness of the situaHtion did not become apparent until the movies an■nounced that a search through a number of large ■ universities had found only one senior worth taking r to Hollywood and making into a screen hero. Picture, if you can, how serious this is. Here are thousands of yoimg men wasting away the v first twenty-two years of their lives getting educations, studying under the delusion that they will amount to something when they are graduated. And then a group of movie magnates, donning their caps and gowns, offering prayer, wrinkling up their brows, simulating deep thought, peer with scientific zeal upon the countenances of the graduates, eager lo find anew species of promise. And, then the con-clusion-only one graduate out of the whole kit and boodle a pdtential screen hero. ; This is far* and away the .best recommendation the colleges have had in years. __

Anything To Be First In the never-ending competition to be first at something or other, there is an inevitable crowd of fol-lowers-up and second string great to trail along after the heroes. There was the first man to swim the channel, the first woman to svWtn the channel, the first mother to swim the channel, the first baker to swim the channel, and now, it is reported, we are to have the first twins to swim the channel, for the 13-year-old Zitenfield sisters are to make the attempt at least. Should they succeed, there is still room for other glory. We have not yet had the first grandmother to swim the channel, nor the first grandfather to; swim the channel. The first mother and son, or father j and daughter combination can attempt it, and the first entire family to do the trick will be \Torth SI,OOO a week or more on any vaudeville stage. Knowing When To Quit Few people who get up to make a speech know when to sit down, and it usually takes a good swift kick in the shins from the master of ceremonies to draw remarks to the ever-so-essential close. Authors have the same failing. Having gained fame with a character, they work him to death. As long as the fictional character provides his or her creator with bread and butter and shoes for the babies, the writer leans heavily upon the imaginary shoulder. There would be much less bum literature in world, though, if there were no sequels. A good character is a good character and he usually plays him-, self out in volume one. Sherlock Holmes in the Hound* of the Baskervilles and the first series of detective stories was great stuff. In recent years he has run to seed, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's decision to kill off the old codger and raze the Baker street dwelling is good judgment. Holmes should retire on hi* early laurels before he ruins his own reputation and obliterates his few really glorious deeds. Presidential Bait Becomes An Issue With farm relief essential, with the Geneva arms conference just going into action, with an election only a little more 1 than a year away, with the Chinese situation darkening, with Nicaragua, Tacna-Arica and Mexico all to be watched, with an extra session of Congress imperative, it seems that there is enough work in store for any number of able heads and unidle hands to take care of. On top of all these things, however, President Coolidge has seen fit to thrust one more issue, thereby making the situation pregnant indeed. This is his stern ultimatum to catch South Dakota trout with worms. Ignoring the proper artificial flies, he has waded into the trout streams with an agenda of angleworms, and has proceeded to catch fish. Senators Borah and Reed, quick to check the Administration .of any weakness, have naturally risen to the occasion, and denounced this nefarious practice with 1 characteristic vigor. / The President’s stubborn policy in this serious matter .is no doubt dedicated by the soundest economy, but in a situation of this kind, with foreign diplomats watching every move, the prestige of the country is at stake. If the Coolidge movement for a third term is entirely exploded, it will no doubt be traced back to the one undiplomatic move of the President’s whole political career—his insistence on worms for his fishhooks. He Finds It Simple World peace, says the Rev. William Sheafe Chase, D. D., of Washington, D. C., is a simple matter. And so he has launched an elaborate drive for Federal regulation of all movies. The Rev. Chase is superintendent of the International Reform Federation. The International Reform Federation is the Rev. Chase. Both believe that movies must be brought under control of the Federal Government. “The steadily increasing evil of the movies is a great foe of world peace,” says Chase. “It is likely to incite a world war. “Films have told other nations that we are rolling in wealth, and have represented us as breaking all moral and civil laws held in respect by other nations. “If this is allowed to continue motion pictures may incite the nations of thq earth to unite in war to seize our wealth and destroy our civilization. “Wholesome pictures for the world will insure universal peace.” So the Rev. Chase has got up some pamphlets telling about the menace in detail, and is sending .them all over the United States. He will have a bill presented to the next Congress. The; bill would create j a Federal motion picture commission of six members, to hold office for life, or good behavior. They would have power to inspect and criticise all scenarios before films are manufactured, and to inspect the staging and acting of a play before it is photographed. The bill will not pass. The radio brings shows, fights, elections and almost everything else into the home—but the young people go out, just the same. us be thankful there is no presidential spokesman in the Black Hills. Think of the whopping fish stories he might weave! Walking is good for the complexion, according to a physical culture expert. Some of the women, however, insist on phoning for theirs.

Law and Justice by Dexter M. Keezer

A lawyer suggested that his client, who was in good health, should pretend to be ill in order to get a postponement of a case. The client did not act on the advice, the lawyer continued to represent him, the case was tried and won. Later the lawyer brought suit to collect attorney’s fees. The client refused to pay on the ground that the lawyer had been guilty of bad faith and unprofessional conduct. The lawyer contended that his advice about the pretended illness had not actually been followed, that he had continued to devote his time to the case, that he had been successful, and that he should be paid. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided that the lawyer was not entitled to his- fee because of his unprofessional conduct even though he had continued to work on the case after making the suggestion about the pretended illness.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Why the Weather?

By Charles Fitzhugh Talman Authority on Meteorology

TORNADOES IN EUROPE In the year 1730 there was published in London a slender book by Richard Bugdon, entitled: “The passage of the hurricane, from the sea-side at Boxhill in Sussex to Newingden-Level, the twentieth day Os May, 1729, between nine and ten in the evening. Containing I. A particular account of the damage and devastations of the buildings, timber, etc., that stood in the way of its course. 11. An account of the weather and bearings of the winds that preceded the hurricane: with the celerity of its circular and progressive motion, the time taken up and distance it passed along over the east end of Sussex. 111. Some observations on the way and manner of its course. IV. By way of inquiry, some account attempted of the causes of tempets, whirlwinds and hurricanes.” The “hurricane” described in this quaint work was a true tornado; a type of storm that is by no means so rare in Europe as most Americans believe. An especially interesting feature of the book is a map showing the track followed by the storm, the houses and woods destroyed, etc.; the earliest map of this kind ever published, so far as we know. This is not, however, the earliest book on tornadoes. Lamy in France and Montanari in Italy wrote treatises on tornadoes and the kindred phenomena of waterspouts in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Olaus Mangus describes tornadoes in his “History of the Northern Nations,” published in 1555, and they are mentioned by the writers of antiquity, including Pliny, Seneca and Lucretius. (All rights reserved by Science Service, Inc.)

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor: In The Indianapolis Times of Wednesday, June 15, 1927, there appeared an article saying that the trustees of the Knights of American Protestantism had sued the national officers for the receivership of that organization and had asked for a $7,000.00 judgment. This article was entirely misleading and was not a statement of fact, j Three years ago the Knights of American Protestantism organiza- 1 tion was forced to eliminate some men for disloyalty toward the organization in Muncie. These men never followed the constitution in appealing their case to the national board of directors of the Knights of American Protestantism. However, at each national convention these same men go into court here in Muncie and endeavor to embarass the great great national organizaton of the K. A. P. while the delegates are here attending the national convention. The men bringing this suit are not members and have not been members for over two years, in this j organization, and they are not the trustees of this national organization and never have been. S. H. BEMENDORFER, National President K. A. P.

Brain Teasers

Here's another chance to test your knowledge of Bible history and people. Answers to all the questions i i

1. What incident from Bible history is pictured in the illustration below? 2. What relationship did Nimrod, the hunte bear to Noah? 3. What miracle did Christ perform with the pronouncement, “Talitha, cumi?” 4. Who was Roman governor of Syria when Christ was bom? 5. Who prophesied the destruction of Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans? 6. In what manner did King Herod meet his death? 7. How was the garden of Eden guarded after Adam and Eve had been banished? 8. Who judged Israel after the arc of the Lord had been returned by the Philistines? 9. What king ordered that every man should be ruler in his own house after the king’s command had been disobeyed by his queen? 10. Who said, “Let the day perish wherein I was born?”

Questions and Answers

Where is the magazine “Our Navy” published and what is the subscription price? It is published semi-monthly at 81 Sands St., Brooklyn, N. Y. The yearly subscription is $4.50. What is a “holographic will?” One written, dated and signed wholly by the hand of the testator himself. When was John Quincy Adams the minister to the Netherlands? From 1794 to 1797. \

One Institution That Still Stands Unchanged

‘ THEHAND __ Bin Qf~ they used J TO be? I- SEEMS TO ? n- HAVE WAVED IT'S ... j. FAG 1C WAND ,

The Faculty and Pupils of Stockman Studios Will , Give Variety Show at Playhouse of Little Theatre

mONIGHT and Monday night, June 27, at 8:30 o’clock, the faculty and pupils of the Stockman Studios will present a variety show at Little Theatre, 1847 N. Alabama St. The program will include a large variety of entertainment, including a one-act play, musical comedy sketches, skating, tumbling, singing and instrumenttal selections. The dancing will include ballroom, step, ballet and acrobatic. The following will take part: Harriett Paine Stella McMahar Ernestine Ewing Robert Monahan Eileen Fletcher Paul Walk Ted Brennen Lester Hale Kenneth Stanley Romane Kennedy Eugenia Magidson Gladys Hawickhorst Ruth Krvter John Cutter Helen Harlan Alberta Gerlach Jack Huntsman Honey Treese Bobbie Stevens Mary Griest Albert Benham Virginia Bird Pearl E. Richardson Relda Rose Antoinette Price Edna Bruner George Gerklng Lucile Grebe Doloretta Solomon Louts Stockman Rosemary Davidson Francis Ewing EVa McLeod The special six weeks term for supervisors opened last Monday with the largest enrollment in the history of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. The following are the subjects taught and the teachers: High school methods, chorus and instrumentation, Frederic A. Barker; eye and ear training, grade methods and piano normal. Flora E. Lyons; harmony and harmonic analysis, Bertha M. Jasper; theory, Arthur W. Mason; history and music appreciation. Lenora Coffin; violin Classes, W. E. Tallentire, and stage department, Ruth Todd. HE choir of the Tabernacle ! Presbyterian Church, ThirtyFourth St. and Central Ave., will give its final musical service of the season Sunday evening, June 26, at 7:45 o’clock. The choir will be augmented with

City Manager Election as Seen by Others

(MARION LEADER-TRIBUNE) The surprise of the Indianapolis election is the unusual majority for the change in government. For several weeks success has been predicted for the new order. But the most enthusiCity astic did not anticipate any such re- ,, ' , suit. The majority was overwhelming, Manager and mus t have been humiliating to Election. the old-time politicians. Indianapolis has had some most unhappy circumstances in connection with its recent political history. They were such as to arouse the people, and to create a demand for anew order of affairs. The size of the vote shows beyond the peradventure of a doubt that when the people are really concerned, and believe there is hope for an improvement that they will not hesitate to express their choice. The next important chapter in the course of events is to insure the right kind of a commission. We know that a commission government is not always a blessing. They can become as unpopular as any other system of government. The lack of partisanship does not of itself eliminate the evils, and there are times when party responsibility is needed to restore efficient conduct of affairs. But the people can have a commission which will insure an honest and efficient administration, and it is important for them to see that strong men are nominated and elected to the new commission. City manager government is not a cure-all by any means. It is probably a step forward, but its advantages may be easily lost by indifference in the selection of the personnel of the commission. ' (BALTIMORE EVENING SUN) The people of Indianapolis, Ind., have finally gotten tired of the Ku-Kluxism and dirty politics generally which have made their city a laughing stock in the country. Yesterday they went to Recipe for the/polls and voted to change the form . of their government. Hereafter, if the Good GOV- election turns out to have been legal, ernment. they won’t have a mayor and a city council, but will turn the affairs of their city over to a commission of seven members, who in turn will choose a city manager to run things. The change will undoubtedly be for the better—for the moment. For the present Mayor of Indianapolis, being a creature of the Klan, is laboring under a handicap. There is a charge of criminal conspiracy pending against him and also against his brother-in-law, the Cityj Controller. But though thfera will be some advantage in getting rid of the present Mayor, the people of Indianapolis are unthinking children if they believe that political evils can be cured by a mere change In the form of government. No system of government has yet been devised which is politician-proof. There is no system which cannot be mastered and controlled by the political machines own purposes. The reasons for this situation are not difficult to discover. The politician works at his trade every day

voices from the Mendelssohn Choir and will be assisted by Miss Norma France and Mr. Elmer A. Steffen. The program follows: "Break Diviner Light” Allltsen Miss France and Mr. Morris "When Thou Comest” (Stabat Mater).. Rossini Mrs. Klnnaird and Choir "The Phantom Legions" .. Ward-Stephens Male Chorus Quartet —"I Have Longed for Thv Salvation ' (Stabat Maten Rossini "Inflammatus” (Stabat Mater) ..Dvorak Miss Norma France "Gloria in Excelsls" (messe Colonelle) Gounod Mrs. Klnnaird. Mr. Chaffe. Mr. Stcflea and Chois Solo ouartet — Mrs. Florence Kinnaird. soprano. Miss Viora Frve. contralto. Mr. Flovd Chalice, tenor. Mr. Fred Newell Morris, bass and director. Mr. Paul R. Matthews, organist. Jane Thorne, violin student of Donn Watson of the Metropolitan School of Music will be solist for Chapel service at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Sunday afternoon, June 26. William Gielow of Burlington, Cal.. a member of the Bohemian Orchestra giving concerts in conjunction with the Grove Players at Los Angeles, Cal., was a guest of Donn Watson, violin instructor of the Metropolitan School of Music during his stay in Indianapolis. Edwin Jones, violinist of the faculty of the Metropolitan School of Music, will give several numbers at the Musical Tea to be given at the home of Mrs. John A. Huetter, Williams Creek Estate, on Thursday afternoon. Miss Norma Justice, dramatic reader of the faculty and Maxine Moore, contralto, pupil of Edwin Nell of the Metropolitan School of Music will give numbers on the Song Service program at the Roberts Park Methodist Chuch, Sunday evening, June 26. Miss Marcia Dirnberger, pupil of Franklin N. Taylor, voice instructor of the Metropolitan School of Music, winner of The Times opportunity contest, left for New York Tuesday

in the week, every week in the year, Sundays included. The ordinary citizen works at politics usually but one day—election day; and by the time that day rolls around he has usually been so befuddled by the politicians and by the newspapers that he doesn’t know how to vote. The people of Indianapolis elected their Klan Mayor with their eyes open. They doubtless thought when they voted him into office that they were bringing the millennium nearer. What they discovered was that they were increasing their taxes. Now they are voting for a city manager. They will probably find—after a few years—that they have voted to increase their taxes again. Good government has little or nothing to do with the form of government. The only thing that makes a government good is eternal vigilance on the part of the voters. That’s why we have so little of it. Watching the lower right-hand corner of the tax bill is the best recipe for good government we have ever heard of. Asa producer of results it is way ahead of the city manager plan or any other newfangled? panacea. . * % • (ANDERSON BULLETIN) The voters of Indianapolis, at a special election, have adopted a manager plan for the government of that city by a 5-to-l vote. The large majority given the plan is a most flattering indorseThe City ment of the plan and also shows the determination of a people to rid their manage ? Cl t y 0 f its misrule by Republican poliPlan. ticians of the Duvall class. The vote is evidence that public opinion is overwhelmingly in favor, not only of a change that will eliminate Duvall-Klan control, but of giving the manager plan a trial. The City Manager style of government has been tried in other cities—in some with success, and in others with failure. The success of the plan depends on its honest and efficient administration. The plan involves a city government absolutely free from any political domination. It involves a management by high grade officials. Indianapolis has taken its first step. It won Its first skirmish. Its real battle is yet to come. That battle will be to choose honest officials. It will take an intensely aroused public opinion to win this battle —because politicians are strongly intrenched and will resort to any corruption to hold and own that city. The success of the recent vote may be taken as a stinging rebuke to the present administration whose Mayor is under indictment in the Marion county criminal court. The people of Indianapolis must realize that they, themselves, must make their city government. Under any form, it will not be any better than the people make it. The result of tms election is indication of their awakeneing. Only one city in Indiana has the man ®; g T r of government. That is Michigan City. If apCßs makes good with the plan, other cities no wilr try it. In Indianapolis the situation cannot worst than at present.

evening, where she joined the Publix Revue Company for an extended engagement. OUR American singers will apI H I pear on the Atwater Kent | | hour Sunday night. The artists will be Charles Harrison, first tenor; Redfeme Hollinshead, second tenor; Vernon Archibald, baritone, and Frank Croxton, basso. Program follows: "Stars of the Summer Night". .Woodberry “Santa Lucia” Neapolitan Boat Song American Singers. "Mandalay" (Kipling) Speaks Dedicated to ana sung by Frank Croxton. ta) "Lullaby" \. Brahme (bi "Sweetest Story Ever Told” Stultz American Singers. "Ah. Moon of Mv Delight Lehmann Mr. Harrison. "Old Man Noah" Bartholomew American Singers. Bertha Ball Archibald will be at the piano. A - 1 Piano recital will be given Monday night in Sculptor Court at the John Herron Art Institute by eight advanced pupils of Percival Owen and assisted by V. L. Cornish, baritone soloist, of the First Baptist Church. The program follows: Program Sonata Tragica Edward MacDoweli Mrs. Pearl Siegwart McDonald Dance iFromotei Debussy Mrs. Mary Purvlance Sanders Erl Tu—Maskball Verdi Mr. L. V. Cornish Grave and Allegro die Molto Cam brio from Sonata op. 13 Beethoven Miss Lucile Pritchard Caprice—Burlesque op. 13 No. 1 ossip Garbilowltsch Miss Irene Coulson Part Two Prelude In C minor op. 3 no 2 Rachmaninoff Les Sylvlans Chamlnade Mrs. Harry M. Chaddock Dramatic Sonata Ist movement. Beethoven Mrs. John C. Sander Sylvia ... Oley Speaks Where You Walk Handel La Mirror Ferrari Mr. L. V. Corni.,h Theme and Variations in F. Minor J. Hayden Valse in c sharp minor op. 64 No. 2... Chopin Mrs. Clifford Folz Romance in D. flat Sibelius Scherzo in E minor op. 16 No. 2 Mendelssohn Miss Mildred Weymer

JUNE 25, 1927

M. E. TRACY SAYS: The Notion That People Can Get What They Want Through Sympathy for Some One They Have Mistreated Is All Bunk.

PORTLAND, Maine, June 25. Measured by the gate receipts which Tex Rickard estimates will be at least $1,000,000, the Dempsey-Shark-ey fight is a very important affair. At most, it can only furnish the spectators with forty-five minutes of fisticuffs. What is there in three-quarters or an hour of such entertainment that can be worth $1,000,000? These two gentlemen, neither of whom is a champion, will drag down more money than President Coolidge. even if he serves a third term. We have certainly acquired a strange sense of value when three quarters of an hour in the ring are worth more than ten years in the White House. Plague of Moose California can brag of her mouse and grasshopper plagues all she likes, but Brewer, Maine, taker the prize in reporting a plague of muose. It is a dull morning, they say. when some Inquisitive moose does not stroll into Brewer lo play havoc with lawns and gardens, frighten children or obstruct traffic by meandering down the principal streets. Those of an unimaginative turn believe it is the same moose given encores. but a more original explana-. tion is the Brewer’s new fire whistle which announces the time twice a day, and, of course, all conflagrations. sounds so much.like the call of a bull moose that it is emptying the nearby woodlands. Mistaken Notion Those Kansas prisoners may have' thought that they were staging a mutiny when they captured their guards and refused to come out of the mine, but instead, they were ! merely starting a hunger strike. Their idea was, of course, that | sympathy for the guards would in- ; riuce prison officials to accede to' their demand. This is a very old idea and a very poor one. The notion that people can get’ what they want through sympathy for someone they have mistreated is bunk. Boston Is Different Most towns regard a man perched on a flagpole as just another stun . Boston, however, takes a different, view, looks behind the scenes, as it were, and regards him. as only one more obstruction to traffic. “Sparrow" Holl might have taken. ! the non-stop flagpole roosting record away from “Shipwreck”' Kelly, except for this very view. He {pund the flagpole endurable, : but he could not stand the Imj portunities of a chief of police, who | threatened to throw bricks, a captain, ar sergeant and a patrolman. : who would have climbed up and j brought him down if the pole had ! not been greased, and a publicity agent, who actually did battle in his behalf. Neither the height nor the narrowness of his seat bothered Mr. Holl, but the show of authority broke his heart. He descended after fifty-five hours of heroic effort, and now he faces prosecution in court "for endangering the life and safety of the public. The theory back of it is that autoists might have run into each other or over pedestrians while craning their necks to see Mr. Holl, and that this made him, as one complaining citizen puts it. a "novel and unique hazard." You just cannot beat Boston when it comes to discovering first causes and applying effective remedies. Always the Exception You > hear politicians rave over the necessity of initiating laws and recalling public officials by popular vote. YOu hear them proclaiming that constitutional amendments should be adopted in this way. You hear them denouncing the incapacity of municipal. State and national governments to decide all sorts of questions. You hear them arguing for the referendum with regard to about everything. When it comes to war, however, you hear only a profound silence. War, it seems, is the one thing that should be left to a chosen few, though war touches life and liberty in a more tragic way than any other public business. People's Primary Right Compared to war. it makes little difference who is President of the United States. Compared to war It is no consequence whether we have prohibition. Compared to war, neither the people nor Congress are deciding anything that amounts to much. Compared to war, the decisions we are now allowed to make at the ballot boxes seem weak and futile. Indeed war determines whether our peaceful pursuits, our political efforts, our industrial achievements mean anything. War has destroyed the labor of a hundred generations in a decade; has wiped out the hopes, ideals and aspirations of an age. has obliterated not only empires, but whole civilizations. If the people have the right to establish and run governments, they have alright to say whether governments shall make war. Who started the style for bobbed hair? Irene Castle is credited with starting the modern fashion. A young woman with bobbed hair Is shown on a wall painting in an English Parish Church built in 1380. Pictures of Joan of Arc usually represent her with short hair.