Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1927 — Page 4

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What Shall It Profit The scene is a little church in Kansas. The worshipers are enthralled by the fact that the Governor of a great neighbor State will hold aloft the upiritual torch to show the way to happiness, earthly and eternal. They listen to that old query which has had but one answer, the question of “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul.” If they be fundamentalists they picture the fires of eternal torment. If they belong to the more modern school of theology they may omit the brimstone but create for themselves another hell into which the souls of the damned shall be cast. They know the answer to the question. But they listen to the voice of authority, a Governor in a pulpit. Kansas is familiar with governors who are evangelists. It had one of its own. It had a man who found in the words of Billy Sunday the message of life and hope and who, after he had listened, forever after held his head high with pride in that faith which was given him. Kansas heard him often in the pulpit. Kansas also knew him in its capitol. It knew that on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday and Saturday he would write into official documents the same spirit and the same faith and the same frankness which he exhibited in the pulpit. Accustomed to governors in its pulpits, undoubtedly Kansas received a great spiritual uplift when the Governor of Indiana spoke from the text “What Shall It Profit.” May it be suggested that Indiana is not in any special need of sermons, but that it does need some very plain and outspoken statements from its capitol on week days. It knows all about those who lose their souls in an effort to gain the world. There are thousands of churches whose spires point to the heavens and whose pulpits have sounded the warning. Back here the Hoosiers are perfectly educated in the fallacy of any such effort to risk either time or eternity by running counter to the immutable laws of honesty, of truth, of frankness with one’s fellows, of following only the path of fundamental virtues. It is just begininng to learn that it cannot follow masked leaders and night-shirted ■\ angels of civic liberty. , Having saved the souls of Kansas, let it he hoped that the Governor of this State on his return will try to save the self respect of IndianaLet it be hoped that he will be as voluble on the same text at home as he was in the State of corn flowers.

What shall it profit a man if he gain the respect of his fellow citizens, their votes and their admiration and then cast it away by re<fusing to explain an accusation from a felon's cell? What shall it profit a man if he, temporarily, is able to lock prison doors and seal them with silence, to cast men into shackled cells upon bread and water, if at last there .comes to light damning documents? What shall it profit a man if he is seated among the mighty, when those who call him chief ask for one word of assurance and no word is uttered? What shall it profit a man if he be given the god-like power of life and death over his fellows, andjyet refuses to break the bonds of silence when those who gave him power ask one simple question? These are the questions which the citizenship of Indiana wish answered, not from a pulpit but from the office of the Governor. Those who sang “It Must Be Told” in Kansas when the Governor ended his sermon were not mere members of a choir. The reporter got it all wrong. They were prophets. Behind the Smoke Screen at Geneva War between Britain and the United States, Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain told the House of Commons Monday during a speech dealing with, but not clarifying, Geneva, “is already outlawed in the hearts and souls of every citizen” of Britain, and, he added, "I hope it is equally so in the great republic of the United States of America.” Sir Austen gets his hope before it was expressed. Americans want to live in peace with all the world, of course, but In their opinion war with Britain would be the crowning imbecility of all time, the unpardonable sin against civilization. Which Is why they find it so hard to understand the deadlock at Geneva where Britain seems determined, by devious ways and means, to retain superiority over the United States on the high seas. Thfe pre-war rivalry between Britain and Germany was well understood. Germany was challenging Britain as a sea power at every turn. Her navy was becoming a dangerous rival and her merchant marine was capturing trade all around the world. It was a life or death struggle. For Britain it was a case of maintaining superiority over Germany or ultimately being wiped off the seas. And that meant being wiped off the map. But no such situation now obtains. Only one country In the world today could possibly challenge Britain on water and that country la the United States. And nothing could be farther from this

country’s mind. We want nothing Britain possesses —neither her dominions, nor anything else. Her sea routes are nowhere in peril from us and neither is her trade, save in the legitimate open-and-above-board game that traveling salesmen play and in which enterprise, coupled with good goods and fair price/,, wins. And if anybody’s merchant marine is in danger, it is ours, not Britain’s. Then why all the fuss and hullabaloo at Geneva? If anything British were in danger it would be Canada, over which we hold a superiority of 15 to 1 in man power and material resources, yet not a gun or a ship exists, or is needed, to save Canada from us. No, the British do not regard the United States as a menace. British imperialists, we suspect, are merely using the present occasion to acquire anew and vast war machine for use elsewhere in the world —in the Mediterranean, the Indian and Pacific oceans. That is to say in the near, middle and far east. Behind the sq|oke screen purposely raised in their apparent battle with the American delegation at Geneva, the British are preparing for a test of strength in the Orient, with Russia possibly in the background. Hence their demand for countless medium sized cruisers. This being the case it is silly to try to fool the world into thinking an armament limitation conference is in progress whereas the conference is likely to increase British tonnage anywhere from 50 to 100 per cent and similar American tonnage some three to six times present proportions. Time 2:12 P. M. Down in Arkansas City the big clock stands still and the time is 2:12 p. m. For more than eight weeks that clock has marked an unchanging hour, melancholy reminder of flood at its worst. , Three times in the year muddy water has swept over the unhappy town by the river. Out on the levee. 1 where tents make two long miles of dismal bivouac, babes have shrilled their first challenges to the world and the old have breathed their last sighs; there has been love and laughter and despair, and a relentless sun has turned moisture into steam and a kinder moon has turned desolation into a mirage of loveliness. But time has stood still. It is a symbol, that big clock lifting its silent hands above the yet swirling waters. For time has stood still elsewhere also. The demand that Congress be called to vote relief funds is already only an echo. The country’s picture of trial and terror is already faded. The Nation’s worst catastrophe has lost its appeal. It's 2:12 p. m. in Washington as well as in Arkansas City.

Paris Refuses to Be Reno-ized Some years ago American middle and wealthy classes used to find Reno, Nev., the most important town on the map. It was the city of easy divorces. Gifaed women went there, established a residence in one of the hotels devoted to divorce-seekers, played bridge there for a few months, and then went gaily back East with a precious piece of paper—a divorce. Reno finally rebelled. There was dismay in Fifth Ave. and Park Lane. And then one bright young thing, tired of her husband, found that Paris was Paradise, It was easy to establish a legal residence in Paris. The Paris courts were very lenient in thq matter of divorces. Immediately the colony of hus-band-shedders began to swarm the boulevards and sip tea in the lounges of the swagger hotels. But now there are signs that Paris refuses to be the French RSno. The procureur of the republic has issued a circular warning judges that French divorce law should apply only to those who have a real domicile in France and not to those who merely rent a temporary lodging so as to procure a divorce between two ships, as it were. Here is a howling good chance to do big business if Latvia or Esthonia or Azirbaijan or some of these other newly constituted nations want to get rich quick. An organization been formed in Washington to try to persuadee the country to stop kidding Congress. We’re ready to quit—if Congress is. The women are taking to flying, say the public prints. How can they ever resist the temptation to pry into the air pockets? For most any political party these days we recommend the sage advice of Bernt Balchen, who piloted the Byrd ship. He seems to know his fog. One reason, perhaps, why there are so many more divorces in Hollywood is that they marry oftener out there. Who remembers back when one of the prime exhibits at the fairs was the old-fashionced phonograph with ear tubes? Maybe one of the reasons why so many marriages fail is that the bride never gets used to boiled I onions. “Foreigri aces up in air over Yank hops,” says a headline. Have those boys been carrying something overseas besides gasoline? Law and Justice by Dexter M. Keezer A city lot was sold with provision in the deed that "no building other than one residence should occupy it. The man who purchased the lot perfected plans to build an eight-apartment house. Property owners in the neighborhood asked for a court order prohibiting the erection of such a building because it would be contrary to the restriction of the use of the lot to one residence. The man planning the apartment house contended that it would be “one residence,” eight families being housed under a single roof. He argued that the restriction should be strictly construed to give him free use of his property. How would you decide this case? how; would you decide this case? The actual decision: The Texas Court of Civil Appeals approved an order prohibiting the erection of an eight-apartment house on the lot. It agreed that the restriction should be strictly construed, but held that, according to a reasonable interpretation of the words, an eight-apartment house could not be classified as “one residence.”

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: Washington Inspires You to Read of National Affairs When You Pick Up the Paper and Ignore the Murder Which Was so Fascinating to You Yesterday.

By United Prcs& WASHINGTON, July 13.—This is the most beautiful city in America, if not the world, but very few people call it home. The reason is that those who live in It did not conceive it, did not plan it, did not build it and do not run it. Here one does not feel the pride and aspirations of a community, but the strength of a nation. The public buildings are all out of proportion to the size of the town. So are the streets, parks and monuments. Washington is not only the seat of the richest government on earth, but is rapidly becoming an artistic expression of the richest people. It is distinctly a political creation. Politics played a part In the selection of its site. Politics is its biggest industry and politics dominates its social order. Big Issues to Front Things that interest you in other cities seem of small consequence, in Washington. There may be a local Chamber of Commerce, but if so, it is too completely overshadowed by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States to be remembered. There may be organizations devoted to local improvement, but one seldom hears of them because Congress is expected to look after it. There is plenty of political gossip, scandal and speculation, but it has to do with the big outside. Guesses and Gossip Will Coolidge run for a third term, will A1 Smith be nominated by the Democrats, will the farmers vote the Republican ticket, why is Reed talking in the South, how is Indiana reacting to the Stephenson expose, have Ford and Hearst made a hook-up—these and other similar questions interest Washington. Then you run into a raft of less consequential, but not less intriguing, queries and tales. You hear of another book that has been written about Harding, or some spicy rumors from Oklahoma, or a bit of speculation as to how Tumulty makes a living. Democratic Worries Washington inspires you to read of national affairs when you pick up the paper and ignore the murder which you thought so fascinating yesterday. Who will the Democrats nominate anyway, and will it make much difference? You had not been giving the matter much thought, but now that you are at the center of the nation’s business you remember that it is ar. essential part of the show. The more popular candidates— Smith, Reed and Ritchie are wet, while it is a foregone conclusion that a majority of delegates will be dry. some little problem for the Democrats to work out and keep their faces straight and the worst of it is they may have their trouble for their pains, no matter how much time they spend on it. Pretty Gestures

President Coolidge has not only gone to the Black Hills, proved himself a passable fisherman and posed in a cowboy rig, but is said to be drafting a farm relief bill. Pretty gestures to the hard hit, but still susceptible midwest, and Washington inspires you to speculate as to how they will work. Reed Speaking Out Down in Georgia. Senator Reed tells an all too credulous Legislature that the Republican claim of fathering our present prosperity is bunk, that the Democrats guaranteed it when they established the reserve system and that about all the present administration has contributed is to fill the atmosphere with scandal and make this a Government of money though it was designed to be a government of men. How that man can talk when he gets started, and what a vast amount of disagreeable truth he can squeeze into a few short sentence! There has been a deal of scandal since the Republicans took office seven years ago—quite enough to wreck two or three Administrations under ordinary circumstances, but we seem to have been too busy, too well off. or too indifferent to mind. You find to explain why the people have not become more excited or at least interested, when you think the thing over in cold, impersonal retrospect. Three Cabinet members forced to resign, two of them charged with fraud; three State primaries debauched in such a brazen, wholesale way as was never before known; two millionaires under indictment for trying to cheat the Government; hundreds of dry agents dismissed or convicted for helping to violate the prohibition law; 40,000,000 people drinking bootleg hooch under an Administration that claims to be honestly devoted to law enforcement—and still it is commonly thought that nothing has occurred to warrant a change. From what book was the photoplay “The Iron Horse” taken? It was not taken from any book. The scenario represents the combined efforts of John Russell and Charles Kenyon, who wrote the story especially for the screen. What Is the state religion of Poland? Poland has no state religion and all denominations enjoy equal rights. About 64 per cent of the population are Roman Catholics.

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WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW _ Dick Halliburton Lives Again the Glorious Days of Adventure of Ulysses in His New Book BY WALTER D. HICKMAN—

To live again the glorious days of adventure of Ulysses even if not to enter Troy in a wooden horse—that is what Richard Halliburton has done. Dick Halliburton is one individual who is not afraid to go back to the other ages and live the old days over again just as the heroes did. This he has done in “The Glorious Adventure,” his second book which is a sort of a beautiful companion to his "The Royal Road to Romance.” First. I want to tell you a little more about this man who dares to live again the good old days of adventure. I like Halliburton the man and I admire him as the modern means of again living romance and adventure. Because I know him well enough to call him “Dick,” and in less guarded moments he may call me “Hick,” that does not prevent me from handling his literary efforts as if I had never seen him. As I write this I realize that there is very little difference from Halliburton the adventurer and Halliburton the man. Both are the same individual. two personalities wrapped up in the same body. It is this honesty of purpose, this natural longing for adventure which makes one believe in him as he tells you about charging up Mount Parnassus; of climbing Olympus, Aetna and others; of covering the tracks of

(INDIANAPOLIS NEWS I The check for $2,500 signed by D. C. Stephenson, purporting to be payable to Ed Jackson, and indorsed by him, has come to the front again. To it was appended a notation by Stephenson to The Ste- the effect that the check was “the, first . one-fourth of SIO,OOO given Jackson j p liens on personally for primary expenses.” SevCheck \ eral months ago there was published a photograph of this check—or a similar one—which brought a denial from the Governor that he had ever received a check from Stephenson for this or any other sum of money for any purpose. Now he declines to make any statement. There is not now, nor has there ever been, any charge that the check was forged, though that was the inference from the Governor’s first denial. In addition to the check we have now the statement of Stephenson, for ; whatever it is worth, that the check was given to the Governor. It taxes one’s credulity to believe that there was any other Ed Jackson sustaining such a relation to Stephenson as to make the latter willing to give him $2,500. Also "Ed” is rather an unusual signature. Os course, it was no crime merely for Stephenson to give the Governor money, or for the Governor to receive it. But if the money was received by the Governor for campaign purposes and not reported among his campaign contributions there might be a question arising under the corrupt practices act which should interest the prosecuting attorney. If, on his return from his evangelistic trip, Governor Jackson lias any statement to make, the public will be glad to have it. It is known that for a time his relations with Stephenson were close and exceedingly friendly, and also that Stephenson was a keen and shrewd investor in politics. The Stephenson disclosures relating to Claude M. Worley, now inspector of the detective department, include a letter alleged to have been written by Worley to Stephenson, acknowledging Stephenson's influence in making Worley chief of police, promising to appoint Foster Strader a police captain, permitting Stephenson to name a detective lieutenant and promising to consult him about other appointments. Worley says that the letter is a forgery. There seems to have been a season of forgery at the time, as Governor Jackson has Implied that his name on the back of a Stephenson check is a forgery, and Mayor Duvall has said that his name was forged to a contract alleged to have been made with Stephenson before the last municipal election. Worlqj says the charge is silly because he was not made chief of police. All the signatures that have been exhibited may be forgeries, but there is nothing unusual in the ex-

Who composed Babe Ruth's 1926 All-Star baseball team? Burns, first base, Cleveland Americans; Hornsby, second base, St. Louis Nationals; Traynor, third base, Pittsburgh Nationals; Jo* Sewell, shortstop, Cleveland Americans; Goslin. left field, Washington Americans; Cuyler, right field, Pittsburgh Nationals; Mostil, center field, Chicago Americans; Hargrave, catcher, Cincinnati Nationals; Pen* nock, pitcher, New York Americans; Uhle, pitcher, Cleveland Americans.

Achilles; of running around the “walls” of Troy and other grand adventures. Knowing Halliburton's personal love of the memory of Rupert Brooke, it is natural that I recognize in the chapter devoted to his visit to the poet's grave at Skyros the best that is in Halliburton. You seem to hear a call of the heart and an answer from a distance as Halliburton writes: "In the starlight the gravestone of Rupert Brooke glimmered wraithlike. How lonely it was—how desolate—how far, far away. “I stood beside the grave alone. The silence of the night enfolded land and ocean in dim mystery. The stars crept close to illuminate the name carved on the jnarble tomb—a tomb that was to me a sacred shrine and the goal of another long pilgrimage.” There are many places in the brain boxes of men and women all over the world that do have “shrines” of the ;;reat. And it is through such a man as Halliburton that many of these shrines are visited and Dick keeps “holy ground” always sacred. Every page of his new adventure is alive with anew devotion and a high purpose of adventure. I am sure that one can not read “The Glorious Adventure" or his first book without realizing the human

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Questions and Answers

Who directed the motion picture “The Ten Commandments”? Cecil B. DeMille. Hew shßtitd jewelry be cleansed? Common jewelry may be cleansed effectually by washing with soap and warm water, rinsing in cold water, dipping In spirits of any kind, and drying in warm boxwood or jewelers sawdust. Good jewelry only needs washing with soap and water and polishing with rouge and a chamois leather.

natural charm and beauty of adventure. Halliburton's real value is that he has created anew reason for going to the library or to the bookshop. He has made adventure a living thing. He kicks adventure from the shadows of one’s imagination and takes it out into the sunlight, permitting it to frolic Just as the hero did years ago. Dick has brought to the youth of this country the conviction that it is not a sin to dream dreams of adventure and that it is no longer a high crime or waste of time to follow in the footsteps of one’s personal heroes. Halliburton has brought more attention to books than any ten other new writers. He is now an institution, even international in character, and I am happy in the fact that the Bobbs-Merrill Company of this city is Halliburton's publisher. Hava a glorious time reading "The Glorious Adventure.” You will, I am sure. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Kismet” at Keith's: “His Chinese Wife,” at English’s; “Meet The Navy” at the Lyric; “Sorrentino Four” at the Palace; “The Magician” at the Ohio: "Faust” at the Apollo; "The Beloved Rogue” at the Circle; “Broadway Nights” at the Indiana and movies at the Isis.

actions that Stephenson is said to have made. He had been ruling the State, and particularly Marion County, and there was no reason why he should have been modest in his demands for power. That is what he was after. (INDIANAPOLIS STAR* High or low, regardless of who may be Involved, an end should be put to the Stephenson charges that are giving Indiana more undesirable publicity. Prosecutor Remy went to Michigan City a Justice few days ago on the announcement to 'hat D. c. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Klan, was ready “to tell Indiana all." He canie back apparently tatis- . fted with the importance of some things Stephenson told him. The public is awaiting expected developments in the prosecutor’s office. Then Stephenson repeats to the papers the story about giving money to Governor Jackson for use in the campaignu. That had been published before ancf the Governor at that time asserted that he had received no campaign contributions from the former grand dragon. Now Stephenson produces a check for $2,500 that was made to "Ed Jackson,” is indorsed by “Ed Jackson,” and went through the banks. Stephenson says it is a part of SIO,OOO. The Governor should clear the air. The people expect, in justice to the fair name of the State, that the facts be made known for once and for all. It is true that the charge is made by a man serving a life sentence in the State penitentiary, but he backs it with what purports to be a check in substantiation of w hat he says. The statute of limitations may have 1 run so far as acts relating to campaign funds are concerned, but that is immaterial, so far as public opinion goes. . Some who are acting as agents for Stephenson let it be known they have other documents in that “black box” that arc to be made public from time to time. They, seemingly, are interested in creating a furore and keeping Indiana before the rest of the world in an undesirable light. The people want an end to the whole thing. They want Prosecutor Remy to act as speedily as possible if anything has been presented to him on which to base criminal action. Get all the facts out In the open without delay. If there is nothing to some of the charges, let the public know that, too. Do not shield or protect any one, high or low, but clean up the whole unsavory mess. Let us have all there is to Stephensonism uncovered, immediately, and then give the State a chance to live down the Injury it has sustained from the source.

How many labor unions are there affiliated with the American Federation of Labor? Are there any labor unions that are not in the federation? There are 107 national and international unions representing 29,417 local unions.-4 departments, 49 State branches, 831 city centrals with 3.303,966 members. What is the earliest age one can join the Navy or the Marine corps? Eighteen years.

JULY 13,1927

Why the Weather?

By Charlaa Pltahugh Taiwan Authority on Meteorology

A CELEBRATED HAILSTORM A hailstorm that lives in history Is the one that occurred in Europe on July 13, 1788. Beginning in the center of France in the early morning, it passed northward In two parallel bands, about twelve miles apart, crossed Belgium, and finally died out In Holland in the afternoon. The western band was about ten miles wide and 420 miles long; the eastern, five miles wide and nearly 500 miles long. Profound darkness preceded the passage of the storm. The hail lasted only seven or eight minutes at any one place. No less than 1,309 communes in France suffered from this visitation, and the total loss was nearly $3,000000. It is said that the distress occasioned by the storm hastened the outbreak of the French revolution. Concerning the immediate effect* of the hall Charles Tomlinson writes: “The whole face of nature was so entirely changed that no per - son who had slept through the tempest could have believed himself in the same part of the world when he awoke. Instead of the smiling bloom of summer and the rich prospects of a forward autumn, which were Just before spread over the face of that fertile and beautiful country, it now presented tne drear-' aspect of an arctic winter. The soil was changed into a morass: th<| standing com beaten into a quagmire: the vines broken to pieces, the fruit trees of every kind were demolished: and the hall lay unmelted in heaps like rocks of solid ice. Even the robust forest trees were incapable of withstanding the fury of the tempest, and a large wood of chestnut trees, in particular, was so much damaged that It presented, after the storm, little more than bare and naked trunks" f All right reserved by Science Service, Inc.)

Mr. Fixit Investigation of Dumping Complaint Ordered.

Relief from an insanitary dump at Miley Ave. and Vermont St. was sought in a letter today to Mr. Fixit. Dear Mr. Fixit: At Vermont St. and Miley Ave. there is property that is used for a dump. Garbage is being dumped on the bank so that it runs down in the street on Miley Ave. It is impossible for us to leave doors or windows open. This has been reported repeatedly to the board of health but notliing has been done. Can you help us? A RESIDENT Dr. Herman G. Morgan, board of health secretary, assigned an inspector to visit the dump and order the necessary relief. Dear Mr. Fixit; Sherman Dr. andNew York St. is a very dangerous m-| tersection and I have asked that a" stop and go sign be erected there for months. I have been unable to get any action from the board of safety. Will you urge something be done. J. J. K. 3100 E. New Ycrk St. Claude McCoy, sale tv secretary, advised Mr. Fixit that the boavd would be unable to erect a sign before the new budget is effective. The appropriation for signals was cut from last year's budget handicapping the board. The street Intersection has been on the list recommended by City Electrician William Griffis for a year. Dear Mr. Fixit—The city oiled Fourteenth St. this spring and so much oil was used that it splashed on my house w r hen machines passed Tt almost ruined b,ish:s and the paint. What can ho done? 1300 BROADWAY Mr. Fixit could not advise j ou of any course to follow. You could file claim for damages against the city which would be both costly and difficult to collect.

Brain Teasers

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