Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1927 — Page 4

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Now for the Clean Up No public official will do full duty if he impedes by one day a full, clear and complete clean -p of the charges which have been made and circulated for the past eight months. The people are entitled to all the falcts. They are entitled to know what happened to their government and to their elections. They are entitled to have the name of the State redeemed if it has been maliciously besmirched or they are entitled to know who besmirched the State if the charges are true. The matter has gone beyond any quibbles or technicalities. It is now out in the open, or should be. and any effort to suppress any fact, no matter whether it be evidence of crime or merely of political duplicity, must cease. The Indianapolis News, basing its editorial upon a copyrighted article in The Times, has demanded that Governor Jackson resign or tike steps to prove his innocence. The Times printed the statement that Ed Jackson, then secretary of State, left a conference in his office with George V. Coffin and offered to "Warren T. McCray, than Governor and facing criminal charges, SIO,OOO for attorney fees and a pledge that no jury would convict in return for the naming of a prosecuting attorney of Coffin’s selection. That is a charge that any one could understand. It was made by The Times without qualification and with a full sense of its gravity. Coffin is reported to have denied the charge. The Governor, in an interview given at Mackinac Island, says that he wishes* to examine more closely the charges before he makes any statement. The Times placed the story before Governor Jackson before it was printed, told him its nature in detail, sent one of its staffmen to find aim in order that he might make a statement and secured only the answer that he haa nothing to say.” The matter is one which is easily settled and must be settled. The special prosecutors have ' ‘ black boxes which were sought, for months. It is announced that they have a large amount of correspondence which is interesting. They are very rightly intent upon discovering whether those documents and the correspondence will constitute evidence of crime. But th'ey should remember that this is a matter which has gone beyond the realm ol grand juries and of secret inquiries. They are hound to take into consideration the law of limitations, under which crimes become impossible of prosecution after a certain period. As prosecutors they would lose confidence if they brought charges which upon their face were untenable under the law. But the people have a right to know the facts, whether they be outlawed or not. There have been too many statements to the effect that no evidence on the part of State officials has been discovered. It must be remembered that it remained for The Times to produce that $2,500 check given by Stephenson to Ed Jackson, a check whose existence was a matter of doubt, a check concerning which The Times was able to give only proof of its being photographed. Now it is discovered that all the time the Governor could have made the way easy by giving the simple explanation that he had received that check for a horse. But he was silent when evidence was being obtained as to its existence. What is contained in those other documents? What does the correspondence of Stephenson show? What are the contents of letters sent to him by men in high places when he was riding high and handsome as the dictator of the State? ' What was he writing to them? What requests was he making and how were his requests met? The secrets of the “black box” belong to the people and must be given to the people in their entirety. The people have but the single purpose of getting to the very bottom of all the facts. They have a-right to kndw what those to whom they gave their votes were doing secretly. They have a right to know what bargains they were making with the former Dragon. The citizens can be depended upon to find the answer. But they must have all the factS. The lid must come off and come off on everything. r Mexican Immigration Definite annual quotas for Mexican immigration into the United States are being urg;d by officials of the Department of Labor. They assert that a serious situation has arisen because of the number of Mexicans who come across the border into the United States and have spread through the country until they are firmly established everywhere except in New England. Surveys are being made to determine just how many Mexicans are employed in industry, what aver-

age wage they get and just how long they remain in employment. The results of these figures will be furnished to Congress next fall in the hope that some sort of legislation will be passed that will put a curb upon immigration from the countries to the south. The number of Mexicans now in the United States is estimated at close to 3,000,000. The number to come in last year was 67,939. This did not include the many who got in without being officially checked at the border immigration offices. Mexican labor has long been looked upon as cheap labor. It is employed by the larger industries of the Southwest, particularly railroads, for manual work at a rate of pay that causes indignation among the white workers, particularly those who are unionized. Migration of the outhern Negro to the North has resulted in the bringing in of more Mexicans to fill in the gap left in the ranks of unskilled workers. The complaint against Mexicans supplanting white men in their jobs has been increasing each year in the South and now it is becoming heard in the middle West where more than 80,000 Mexicans are employed at a wage averaging from 39 to 49 cents an hour. The countries in this hemisphere are the only ones • not yet put upon a quota basis. The Labor Department hopes to start with Mexico and thus offset any great increase of immigration from South American countries. In dealing with immigration on its own continent. Congress is going to find itself up against a more trying problem than when it fixed quotas for European and Asiatic countries. Considerable opposition can be expected from business interests, particularly in the Southwest and Pacific coast States, which find Mexican labor easy to get at small pay and easy to control. Just what ought to be done about this subject is for Congress to decide. But the decision ought not to be reached until after all sides are heard from and the facts have bee|j|horoughly digested. A Fine Selection Let it be hoped that Charles F. Miller, who has been tendered the position of superintendent of the schools of this city, will accept, even if acceptance means some loss to the State at large. The schools have suffered much from the continual differences between the majority and minority members of the board. ) It is a sign of hope that when the electing of a superintendent was finally held, both candidates were of a character and experinece that commanded general respect and confidencee. As between them, there was little choice. Any | difference was purely one of personal opinion as to! fitness, for neither could be suspected of being chosen for the purpose of advancing the interests or prejudices of any group or faction. Not only in perquisites but in importance, the superintendency of the Indianapolis schools is a distinct advance from the position of State superintendent of schools. It is a position of greater influence and greater opportunity. It gives the chance for more personal work and more direct results. The schools of the city must be considered as the city’s greatest and most important institution. Upon them depends very largely the character of the next generation and its ability to meet the problems which must always face every city. That they will be maintained on a high standard and that they will be free from any influences which might menace their usefulness is assured if Mr. Miller accepts, as he should accept, this tender by the majority members of the board. In one New York town they barred a hot dog stand on the ground that “small boys do not know what is good for them.’’ Reading about wars, divorces, murder, gang wars, mortgages and gall stones, we re beginning to think so'me of the large boys don’t either. - Major crimes in Chicago have increased, says the city crime commission. Mayor Thompson says he promised to reduce crime and it has been reduced 65 per cent since he assumed office. Well, what cifold he be expected to say? Social Note: President Coolidge attended a farmer’s picnic in South Dakota the other day. After a little discussion of farm conditions by Governor Bulow it took a banjo player several hours to calm the guests. Tickets for the Dempsey-Sharkey fight, that sold for $27.50 were resold for as high as S2OO. What a triumphant “I told you so!” Mr. Barnum could enjoy these days. A man ran from Boston to New York in 85 hours and when he reached Gotham there wasn't a single band or parade to greet him. New York must be finding the second hundred heroes the hardest. Nature is making oil, says a German scientist. But we'd like to ask the Dame why she makes more cans than oil. Standardization is a handy thing, but we sometimes wish the movies weren't so deadly in earnest about it.

Law and Justice By Dexter M. Keezer

A man anxious to get home with a sick baby showed the gateman at a railroad station his ticket and asked him when the next train went to the town he wanted to reach. The gateman said, “12:15; it’s out there now.” The man, without being asked or asking further questions, boarded the train to which i.e thought the gateman had referred. It carried him to the wrong station and he was delayed many hours in getting home with his sick child. He sued the railroad company for damages, claiming that it was negligent in not seeing that he was properly directed. The railroad company contended that he should not be allowed to collect damages because he had simply taken the first train in sight without inquiring where it went. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The Supreme Court of South Carolina decided that the man was not entitled to damages. It said that In boarding a train “a passenger should use diligence to ascertain if it stops at his station.”

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: . * National Defense, When You Come to Think of It,, Goes Back to Basic Resources, Especially in This Machine Age.

CINCINNATI. Ohio. July 27. Did you ever stop to think that the simplest game may lead to a great industry? Who makes baseballs, tennis racquets and golf clubs? By itself a pack of cards seems rather commonplace and inexpensive. You just cannot associate it with, boards of directors, capital stock and thousands of employes. When twenty million women play bridge, however, and as many men play poker and other games, the number of packs of cards required becomes stupendous. Tangible Results The United States Playing Card Company, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, is but one of several similar institutions, albeit, the largest in this country. It employes a force of from 1,500 to 2,000 people and its buildings would not only house a first-class university, but look the part. It maintains a broadcasting station, provides free medical service and group insurance and serves lunch at cost. Its stock has a par value of $lO, but sells at S9B. On the whole, it can be regarded as the most tangible, if not the most constructive result of bridge and poker. Games Change History It is hard to realize what an important part games and amusements play in human progress. They develop habits just as they develop industries. More than one inventor has won renown by creating some clever device of entertainment. More than one king has neglected Iris duty for the sake of a pastime* More than one people has lost its sense of value through excitement over some sport. There came a time when Rome recruited her army from the ranks of the gladiators, and when an emperor was lifted to the throne for no better reason than that he could run fast. Adventure and Sport If necessity is the mother of invention, pleasure is often its press agent. Perhaps it was a profound understanding of what humanity needed that produced the automobile, but the idea of joyriding sold it to the people After thirty years, 75 per cent of our automobiles are still used for pleasure. The airplane still depends on the desire for adventure to make headway, but the desire for adventure is close kin to sport. An International Issue Automobiles and airplanes are mainly responsible for the world’s! consumption of oil. They have made oil an international issue, which shows where an' appetite for thrills and entertainment can lead. We believe that both the automobile and airplane will become of more serious importance than they are today. We expect the one to revolutionize transportation and the other to revolutionize war. Both are children of the oil field, and that is where tfie thoughts of statesmen and financiers bring up when they try to visualize the future. Good Game Just Now At present the United States Is producing about 70 per cent of the world’s oil supply, and making lots of money out of It. We have much visible wealth to show for all the drilling and refining. We can point out cities and; towns that would never have ex- j isted but for the flow of liquid gold. We can exhibit hospitals, libraries, 1 universities and parks. It seems a good old game to play | —a good old game to keep on converting oil into comforts and con •! veniences. while the rest of the j world drives fewer automobiles and I gets along with fewer bathtubs. But the rest of the world, or some of it at least, is saving its oil. Who knows but that we will some day pay twice as much for a gallon of gasoline a6 we are getting it for now? That would not be such a good old game, would it? Oil Will Win Wars War. of course, would make the situation even worse, for then we might not be able to buy oil at all, even if we had the price, and if oil means what we expect it will In war, we w'ould be left in pretty bad shape. National defense, when you come to think of it, goes back to basic resources, especially in this machine age. Germany was beaten quite as distinctly by cutting off her supply of cotton, nitrate and copper, as on the western front. Unless everybody is mistaken, oil will determine the next great conflict—oil as expressed in the bombing plane and air raid. Shame on Standard Oil! The Standard Oil Company of New York is being roundly scolded for buying oil from Soviet Russia. No American company, critics say, should buy oil from abroad while we have over-production at home. Then as a righteous afterthought they declare that even if this were not so, no American company ought to trade' with Soviet Russia. Mexican Case Different At the same time, other oil interests claim that this Government should assist them in getting all the oil they can out of Mexico. The average citizen finds it hard to understand why the overproduction at home is any better argument against Russian oil than against Mexican oil.

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Some Thoughts Concerning Prohibition and Policemen’s Clubs —Wiggam Broadcasting — BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

Reformers of the high paid salary type will have a cat fit over certain remarks broadcast ift the three "buck’’ book of Albert Edward Wiggam. Time is coming when they will make some people bootleg science. The reform sweepers are cleaning up fiction and some “best sellers." Wiggam has been a best seller. And in his latest, The Bottbs-Merrill Company publication, he has a chance to challenge even the command of his other two "best sellers.” The title of his new challenge is "TUB Next Age of Man," and the author gives no excuses for his title or his subject matter. Challenge No. I—a title of thought on Page 58—“ Why Prohibition Will Not Work.” The definite answer is given under a general discussion of the question: “Can We Remain Civilized?” The thing I like about this question and answer is that Wiggam puts on the loud speaker and doesn't care who reads him and how. Any author daring to title a chapter “Can We Remain Civilized?” and then under that head discuss “Why Prohibition Will Not Work," has the right t# be respected not only in Indiana but in foreign States as well. Cold print in Wiggams new challenge under the two thought titles says _“lt is my belief In moral as well as intellectual education that gives me my strongest hope for eugenics.” He Has Hope And then—“lt gives me the hope that men will in time institute a biological policy as big and as insistent as imperative in its ethical demands and as lofty in its calls to men’s inner drives, as are the appeals that come from the more tangible rewards of civilization.” All so much “Greek" —Maybe, but get his thought when he writes—- “ After all, civilization is not an artificial creation but a natural development. It is simply a fulfillment of organic function. Indeed, civilization is the outcome of man's fundamental trends; and chief among these trends—l shall not venture in this day to call them instincts—are hunger, the sex emotion, the aethetic senses and the desire to be important. Civilizatio gives more prizes to these natural functions than does the jungle, and that Is chiefly why we try to be civilized." And then you ask me—Where does this prohibition stuff come in? My answer is in the way that Wiggam developes his subject. This man doesn’t want you to fall dead when he springs his stuff. He gives one a nice mental carpet of argument to fall upon. And here is his carpet of thought in his new book—” But when a society becomes as complex as ours, these trends must be more and more subjected to control. not only by the individual himself but by the best trained technical intelligence which the race can attain and institute.” And then the landslide of argument in Wiggam’s words in his new book—“And for these reasons, just because man is so little rational and so much emotional, just because he will be a damn fool if he gets half a chance, I do not see the slightest hope of prohibitions and policemfen’s clubs curring him of such a vast trend in his nature as his desires to relax the tensions of his own life and seek either a real or a fictious freedom in alcohol.” And then endelh the chapter of a statement of fact on prohibitions. Wiggams next two divisions of thought under “Can We Remain Civilized?” have these titles—“ Alcohol in History” and “Prohibition Put Over By the Town Drunkard." The Prize Line And the prize line in his thoughts is to be found on page 59 when he writes—"lt is highly probable that the American people prior to prohibition. were rapidly drinking themselves sober. Those family strains that were highly susceptible to alco-

A Study in Values

hoi and could not control their appetites for its excessive use were probably rapidly weeding themselves out.” Do not prohibit yourself or anyone of following the argument of Wiggam on prohibitions or any sub-

Best Sellers Following is the list of the six best sellers in fiction and non-fiction in Brentano's New York stores: FICTION "Losct Ecstasy.” Mary R. Rhinehart. Doran. "Twilight Sle<*p."' Edith Wharton. Appleton. "Power." Lion Feuchtwanger, Viking Press. "Mother Knows Best,” Edna Ferber, Doubledav Page. "Giants in the Earth." L. E. Rolvaag. Harper. "Small Bachelor,” P. O. Woodhouse, Doran. NON-FICTION "Napoleon," Emil Ludwig. Boni and Llveright. "Wilhelm Hohenzollern." Emil Ludwig. Putnam. " Your Money s Worth," Chase & Schlink. Macmillan. "Tristram." E. A. Robinson. Macmillan. •"Frantic Atlantic." Basil Woon, Knopf. "Mother India," Katherine Mavo, Harcourt Brace.

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. How many Presidents of the United States have been Masons? Washington, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft and Harding were Masons. Fillmore was a Mason at one time, but recanted. How much milk and milk products were used last year in the manufacture of milk chocofate in the United States? The Bureau of Agricultural Economics finds .that 66 manufacturers of milk chocolate used 171,542,708 pounds of whole milk: 2,912,639 pounds of evaporated milk and 26,689 pounds of skim milk in 1926. In addition 6.652.127 pounds of w r hole milk powder were used. 5,499,095

(Marion Leader-Tribune) l There is one outgrowth of the Stephenson exposure, if no other. The Republican party in Indiana needs a housecleaning. The Leader-Tribune has watched closely all of the developNeed for ments. It has discounted much of what Stephenson has said. It knows Broom that he Is in prison and would like to Evident be out. 11 knows that he Is heartbroken because of his conviction that those whom he once aided have deserted him. He has lost faith in the power of friendship. He does not trust the friends of, his prosperous days. He feels that in his hour of tragedy he was forsaken by those for whom he labored much and gave even more. He can not understand why men should do this, even if he has sinned. The Leader-Tribune has no sympathy for Stephenson or his kind. This paper believes he is in the right place. But the LeaderTribune is not so sure that “Steve” should be alone. He says others belong by his side. There may or may not be justification for that. He may be slandering unjustly some of his former intimates. But whether this is so or is not so, the fact still remains that the Stephenson mess stinks to the high heavens. There has been sufficient disclosures to warrant a complete reorganization of the Republican party in Indiana. And if that does not come, the people will be neglectful of their duty as citizens should they fail to rebuke the disgraceful record at the ballot box. The Republican party has its chance to clean house, the disgusting revelations have been made soon enough for that to take place before there Is an exercise of the ballot. Whether the Republicans will be equal to the occasion remains to be seen. The average citizen would prefer that the housecleaning come from within. He does not relish the task of doing It himself. But he is determined that it shall be done. Indiana has suffered enough. /

ject that he cares to discuss in “The Next Age of Man.” And Wiggam allows that "a strong case might be made out of the effect that prohibition was ‘put over’ on the American people chiefly by second class men.” And the chorus girl is not over- ] looked in the argument cf Wiggai i on other pages. He proves by figures and facts that chorus girls even rank "in i ranges of genius.” He cites certain results of tc ts taken from chorus girls in “Countess Maritza,” “Naughty Riqugttc,” J "The Great Temptations” and others. An a these girls make high mental averages. I have taken Just a few thoughts from the new thoughts of Wiggam ps recorded in his 418 paged The Next Age of Man.” Applesauce, some may call it. I do not. I honestly believe that Wiggau" reafhes the thoughts that come out of the science of thought which results from thinking and touching elbows with men and women of the world. Read “The Next Age of Man.” Fret and stew if you will. Read it and argue.

Questions and Answers

| pounds of condensed milk powder I and 3.270.577 pounds of skim milk I Dowder. What is the State flower of Florida? Orange blossom. How many active stations arc maintained by the United States Coast Guard? At the close of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1926, there were 252. W’ere the first autos manufactured in America driven from the right or left side? From the right side following the long established practice of driving horses on that side of the vehicle. In England and some other countries of Europe the rule of the road is "pass to the left" and autos are still made there with right hand drive, but in the United States, the rule is "pass to the right” and the drive was standardized on the left side to place the driver where he can judge

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Why the Weather?

FIRING CANNON AT WATERSPOUTS Do sailors still fire cannon at waterspouts? The practice is mentioned in Camoen’s “Lusiad” and other works of the sixteenth century ,and it was not uncommon a generation or so ago. The modern idea about this practice is that the vortex of the spout can be broken up, either by the passage of a projectile through it or by the atmospheric waves,set up by the firing. In former times, however, no such notion was entertained. Cannonading was merely one of several methods employed for the purpose of frightening away what was believed to be a living monster of the deep. In ancient and medieval days waterspouts were thought to be dragons. Before the Invention of gunpowder, several other noisemaking procedures were In use among sailors to keep these creatures at a distance. The mariners who sighted a spout would shout, stamp on the deck, beat drums and gongs, or clash their swords. These practices were kept up long after cannon began to be used for the same purpose. Thus firing cannon at waterspouts is based on ignorance and superstition. No waterspout was ever dispelled by this process, or by any other artificial process. It is just as futile as the process of bombarding the clouds to bring rain. j| All rights reserved by Science Service Inc.

Brain Teasers

Here’s anew game. First ten sentences below are untrue statements, the names of people being incorrect in each case. Put in the hames that will make each of the sentences a true statement of fact. Correct solutions areon page 18: 1. sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a knight of King Arthur's Round Table who went in search of the Holy Grail. 2. Captain Lowell Smith was leader of the U. S. Army fliers round South America. 3. Charles Evans Hughes is the onlly American to have been both chief justice of the supreme court and President of the U. S 4. Admiral Farragut was the hero of the Battle of Manila Bay. 5. Queen Marie of Rumania U mother of the Prince o! Wales. 6. Sir Thomas Mallory wrote “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.” 7. William Howard Taft resigned from the position of chief justice of the supreme court to run for president. 8. The prophet Isaiah received the ten commandments on Mt. Sinai. 9. Upton Sinclair war, the author of “Main Street.” 19. Gughelmo Marconi was the discovered of radium. 11. How many places of incarceration arc there in Indianapolis? A 12. How many streams run! through Indianapolis?

Do You Know — That volunteer workers of the Red Cross have made a total of five braille books, averaging about six volumes to a book, for the blind to read with their fingers, and that nil the materials were supplied by the Red Cross, which shoitea in the Community Fuild.

' the distance between passing vc- ! hides. What is the name es the Pit dent of Harvard University? , Abbott Lawrence Lov ell, How does Commander Byrd pronounce his name? "Bird." Where wav "Tell it to the Marines” filmed? At the Metro-Goldw.vn-Mayer studios, m Culver City. Cal., and at "Dead Man's Point" a rocky ledge near San Pedro, Cal. OTHER THEATER OFFERINGS Indianapolis theaters today offer* I "The Gorilla," at Keith's; “Love ’Em and Leave ’Em.” at English’s: Empire Comedy Four at the Lyric; Nile and Mansfield at the Palace; “Framed." at the Circle; "Firemen. Save My Child,” at the Apollo; “Ten Modern Commandments,” at the Ohio and movies at the Isis.

(Princeton Drmorrat) Whatever comes of the present "political Investigation” that has been going on in Indianapolis for the past few months; and which it is promised will be renewed this week, there has been “Uneasy created in the mind ot the average the cltlzcn of Indiana that there is not i/tt only -something rotten in Denmark.” Head ” but that there is something rotten a good deal closer home. Whatever that rottenness is, we hope it will be exposod whether it affects Republicans or Democrats. But. as the Issue now stands it seems that the Republicans have the most explaining to do. . . . (?**chlnui Clt, Dipatch> It is reported that warren T. McCray, former Governor, will be released from the Federal prison at Atlanta on Aug. 31 when his minimum sentence will hqve been served. McCray should be turned loose as he has suffered enough. _ (Linton Citizen) Those mysterious “Black Boxes." supposed to be the property of D C. Stephenson, which many newspaper readers had thought were merely a convenient reffrr- . ence, have been found. They are now Explaining in the Possession of Prosecutor Remy, ‘ Indianapolis, and their contents are beISOW lng examined. Those people who had Necessary business with Stephenson, In all part! ’ of Indiana during the Campaigns ol 1922 to 1924 and fie Legislature of 1925 which followed will now become restless in reality. So long as these "Black Boxes” remained undiscovered thert was little worry on their part. We will all wait expectantly what they will reveal. It is possible tha politicians In various parts of Indiana might be in* teres ted in this latest find.

JULY 27, 1927

By Chari** Fttzhugh Talman Authority on Meteorology