Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1927 — Page 4

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The Only Question Offers of others to serve a portion of the sentence meted out to Rev. E. S. Shumaker, head of the Anti-Saloon League, by the Supreme Court for contempt are of course foolish and futile. We have gone far in this country, but not quite that far. We nqty have surrendered a part of the theory of individual responsibility for personal morals and actions tc/ the tender mercies of statutes but we have not abandoned, under the law, the theory that every man must pay the price forNhis own acts. The followers of the dry leader are as mistaken in their ideas of what this country is al about as, in the opinion of The Times, was the Supreme Court when it endeavored to say that it could punish any man for commenting upon its decisions in matters which it had ended and decided. They can see nothing in this sentencing of Shumaker but martyrdom for him because of his attitude on the question of prohibition. They choose to present him as a man who is punished because he was making it impossible for anyone to drink alcoholic beverages unless he patronized a bootlegger. They choose to paint him in this role of martyr to a court they presume to bt wet and to credit his sentence to the fact that he was a real enemy to whisky. Os course, nothing could be farther from the facts. The tight made by Shumaker was based upon his sincere, though mistaken, idea that the prohibition law is the only important law in the land and that the constitution and Bill of Rights should be discarded if necessary in order to effectually enforce it. In that he was as blind to the results as are those who now rejoice that he is facing prison for criticising court decisions. He espoused an intolerant attitude of mind. He wrote into the laws of this State provisions that violate the common sense of most people when he made it impossible for physicians to prescribe whisky as a medicine. How well he succeeded is shown in the passage of resolutions by various organizations demanding the impeachment of Attorney General Gilliom because he frankly admitted that he had secured whisky .illegally, to save the lives of his sons. It is shown more by the fact that these same organizations do not include Governor Jackson who obtained whisky from Gilliom in order to save the life of Mrs. Jackson but who has thus far refused to give credit for her recovery to that fact. The placing of Shumaker upon this dry pedestal is taking from citizens a true perspective of the real danger of the decision under which he is sentenced to jail. The test of Shumaker’s ideas and of all theories of government depend upon' a full, frank and unhampered discussion of the question. Shumaker knows better than any one, that neither lie nor the leader of any cause, can succeed unless there be a freedom of speech which includes the discussion of court decisiops. He becomes the center of a greater crusade than any he has waged. For it is fundamental to all progress and to the protection of all liberties. The real friends of Shumaker, the real friends of the so-called dry cause, the believers in true liberty and self-government have a eorilomn meeting ground—but it is not in the dry question. There is only one issue. Shall the Supreme Cq(Urt of this State arrogate to itself the power to decide what men shall say about its decisions, to declare what comments shall be made, to rule upon the truth or falsity of such statements? Here is a grave danger. It is a power never asserted by any other court. It may well become a precedent for all courts. And when it does so become, there is left nothing in the Bill of Rights to protect citizens against any tyrannies which may be perpetrated in the future.

Marcelled Mentality Not long ago a man discovered that crLne was increasing at almost the exact rate that wcme;: were bobbing their hair. He advocated a law against bobbed hair to curb the erime wave. '■ We don’t know whether he subsequently got a job on the Wall Street Journal, but an editorial in that Ingenious publication suggests as much. The line of reasoning is much the same. Noting that “the major upward movement is suspended” in the stock market, the editorial finds a probable explanation to be that Wall Street is uncertain about the political future of the country. It seems that Wall Street “trusts Mr. Coolidge," “realizes that he may not succeed himself, and it cannot see his successor." “There is little doubt,” soys the financial journal, “that Mr. Coolidge could beat Governor Smith, but there is grave doubt if an importation from the West could do anything of the kind. The voterfe might well say, ‘We know A1 Smith, but we don’t know

Lowden, or Dawes or Hoover, as the case may be, in the way we knew Coolidge.’ A western candidate on the Republican ticket may command the confidence of the western farmers. He cannot possibly win the election without the eastern vote.” rule, with a South solid from the ears up,” the Wall Street Journal states, “may defeat the nomination of Smith. Wall Street is inclined to think he can beat anybody but Coolidge in his own State. With these plain considerations, it is not surprising that the stock market is marking time, or reaching what might be called safety levels.” We don’t know anything about the Wall Street Journal as a politcal dopester. It may be first class. But we do recall that the next presidential election Is fifteen months hence, and President Coolidge still has nineteen months on the job. At the rate at which modern business moves, Mr. Coolidge, while still President, may witness most anything in the way of prosperity or depression. No publication should know that any better than the Wall Street Journal. And yet it explains a setback in the stock market by the fact that the New York financiers are awake all night worrying about the next President! Mexico Deports a Writer Joseph De Courcy, Mexico City correspondent of the New York Times, has been deported from Mexico. The dispatch says he was placed aboard a borderbound train guarded by Mexican police agents apparently with the intent to see him safely across the Rio Grande. State Department advices are that De Courcy was arrested on the night of Aug. 9 and held incommunicado. The nature 01 the charges, the report adds, was not made known. Here is a matter which Mexico should clear up. She is not bound to do so, but frankness would be greatly to her interest. Every nation is master in its owr. house and has the fight to Are out any foreigner it wishes to be rid of, nor does it nave to tell why. But it is nevertheless bad practice, particularly when the person is a writer. Freedom of the press is sacred the world over, however, much it may be made conspicuous by its absence, as for example, at present in Russia and Italy. Mexico should not deport a journalist without explanation unless she is prepared to have the worst possible construction placed upon it. Unless Mexico is willing to have the public believe there are things she does not want printed; and unless she is willing for the Impression to get abroad that she seeks to intimidate foreign correspondents by holding over their heads the threat of expulsion, she should explain De Courcy’s exit. Mme. Schumann-Heink, just back from Europe, is 66 years old. She’ll sing with the Metropolitan Opera Company this season and plans a tour of seventy concepts. Our only suggestion is that she get ChaunceysPepew to help her out with the duets. Couple of young men were arrested in Los Angeles for driving an airplane while intoxicated. Next thing you know somebody will be pinched for making a left-hand turn around a skyscraper. A man in Washington caught a white robin with pink eyes. If it had been a pink elephant that would have been news. If you’re contemplating a divorce be sure and write to the Department of War and get the newest literature on the subject.

Big Business Learns By N. D. (Joeinan 1

There are numerous indiatlons that the political organization known as the Anti-Saloon League Is losing its grip. The reason for this, however, isn t that th<f politicians are much, if any, wiser than they were—or less cowardly. The real reason is that Big Business is getting wiser. Men like the two Rockefellers and Judge Gary who are smart in a business way, but quite ignorant otherwise, have been learning something besides oil and steel. They backed the Anti-Saloon League financially and financed one of the stupidest social experiments in all history. 'They and other millionaires who had more money than sense and understanding undertook to take the place of God and regulate the universe. With the best of honest intentions, and having the courage of their ignorance, and the money to back it, they decided to make the people of this country happy and prosperous through prohibition. Naturally they had great influence with most of the preachers. The Rockefellers were espcially strong with the Baptists, having patronized their church with unprecedented liberality. And they meant well. The trouble was that so many people assume that because a man is rich he is wise. So when the two Rockefellers, father and son, contributed liberally to this great experiment in social, moral and industrial reform, they had many followers. The Rockefellers began to get their eyes opened when their man Anderson, head of the League in New York, was sent to Sing Sing as a convict. Possibly they got them open a little wider when they learned that the Anti-Saloon League had Senators and Congressmen, as well as State officials and judges, on their pay roll—like the Attorney General of Kansas and one of the Supreme Judges of that State. Anyhow, they quit backing the League. Others have followed—although I guess Samuel Vauclain, of Baldwin Locomotive, still sticks to the ship—not personally, but financially and oratorically. There are others, but still the financial contributions are falling off. So, now some of the preachers are getting cold feet —especially those who are not on the pay roll; and some of the churches, facing a big loss of membership, are trying to find a way to let go; and without the financial backing of Big Business and the church vote, the Anti-Saloon League will run out of gas. It won’t take long for the politicians to find this out, although they are generally miles behind the lighthouse. Then the professional lobbyists of the league will have to go to work for a living. One of the lessons we will finally learn in this country is that men who are industrial and financial geniuses are not necessarily wise in the ways of human nature, and that human beings are quite different from oil, gasoline, steel, automobiles and dollars. Money may talk and often does. It may think history is bunk. Those who pile it up mountainwise, however, can’t think with it—and when they get out of their element and begin treating human behavior as they would treat the physical elements they are quite apt to learn the difference between an oil well, a steel mill, an automobile factory and a human being.

-SPHE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Why the Weather?

By Cbarle* Fitzhugh Tslman Authority on Meteorology

PILOT BALLOONS As far back as the year 1809 Luke Howard, an English meteorologist, was in the habit of sending up small balloons to observe the movements of the air. About twenty-five years ago balloons of rubber or paper began to be used to a considerable extent for the same purpose on the continent of Europe. A few years later the process was improved by the addition of a theodolite, with which the balloon was sighted during its flight, and its angular positions were then noted. A balloon used in this way is called a “pilot-balloon ’ and is the principal means of determining the direction and force of the winds up to heights of several miles above the arth. During the world war hundrds of thousands of pilot-bal-loons were sent aloft on both sides of the firing line, mainly for the information of the military aviators. The technique of pilot-balloon flights has greatly improved in recent yea's. In the practice of the United States Weather Bureau the balloon, which is of rubber, is inflated with hydrogen immediately before an observation. In this process it is attached to a balance which measures its “lift” and just enough gas is admitted to give the balloon an ascensional speed, under average conditions, of 180 meters a minute. After release, the balloon’s angular position is read from the circles of the theodolite at the end of each minute. As its height is known at any time the angles suffice to determine its distance from the place of observation. The observer wears a telephone head set and reports his readings to a recorder indoors. The latter, with the aid of a special plotting-board an da slide-rule, charts the track of the balloon so rapidly that within five minutes after the last sight is taken a report of the winds at various altitudes is ready to file in the telepraph office for the benefit of aviators and weather forecasters. All right* reaerved by Science Service. Ine.

Mr. Fixit Water Company Ordered to Fix Chuckhole.

Mr. Fixit, The Times reporter at city hail, will be glad to present your com£lalnts to city ofticials. Letters must car writer’s name and address. Names will not be published. Mr. Fixit: We would appreciate your efforts toward the repairing of a chuck hole at 1035 N. Denny St. This was caused when the water company cut the street to put in service lines. C. T. The chief inspector’s office will report this to the water company., and ask them to make the proper repairs. Mr. Fixit: Can you find out why the greenhouse conservatory at Garfield Park is kept closed to the public? I took some out-of-town visitors there recently and found the doors locked. We could not get in. This is a, public place and should be open to the public. Hoping you will look into this. A RESIDENT. The park department officials say the greenhouse is supposed to be open all the time. They suggest that the door might have been stuck when you visited the place. What are the earliest written retords that have been found? They are on clay tablets found in the ruins of ancient Assyria and Baby lonia.

Brain Teasers

Answers to today's Bible quiz are on page 14: 1. What incident from Old Testament history is shown in the illustration below?

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2. What leader of the Israelites i r as the son of Nun? 3. Did the Israelites shout every day that they marched about the walls of Jericho? 4. By what ruse did Joshua capture the city of Al? 5. How long was Christ In the wilderness, following his baptism? 6. Who were the twelve apostles? 7. Which of the two apostles were surnamed Boanerges, the sons of Thunder? 8. To whom did Nehemiah give charge of Jerusalem? 9. How many people came out of captivity in Babylon to Jerusalem, according to the roster of Nehemiah? 10. Which book of the Old Testament begins with the verse, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly?”

Do You Know — That during the first six months of the year 573 individuals were enrolled in clubs, classes and other char-acter-building activities at the Communal building of the Jewish Federation, which shares in the Community Fund?

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Famous Scottish Singers and Dancers Will Take Part in Great Highland Musical Festival at Banff

BANFF, Alberta, Aug. 13.—With a hundred medals of gold, silver and bronze offered for supremacy in singing, dancing, games and piping. the Scottish communities in the Canadian West are looking forward wth keen interest to the Highland Gathering and Scottish Music Festival which is being organized for the first week in September at Banff, and to which the Prince of Wales has given his patronage. Although there have been highly successful Scottish games held in various parts of Canada, these have been mostly of local interest and lasting a single day, but the Banff gathering is planned to last three days and will have a national character. Each of the seventeen Highland regiments in Canada has been authorized to send a piper to compete for the trophy for regimental piping offered by E. W. Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The rules for this competition have been drawn up by Col. Alexander Fraser of Toronto, the leading authority on pipe music on this continent. Many of the finest exponents of Highland dances in western Canada have intimated their intention of taking part, and the tourist capital of the Canadian Pacific Rockies will be ablaze with tartans. Tossing the caber, putting the shot, throwing the hammer, and all the games in which brawny Highlanders are expert will, of course, be conducted.

(Wabash Flain Dealer) Every little while individuals and organizations, suffering from the superiority complex, get the idea that they are bigger than the law. D. C. Stephenson erroneously Imagined that he was "the Not Bigger law in Indiana.” Charley Birger and his gang, in southern Illinois, got the 1 nan the i( j ea the law could not touch Law them. Local bosses everywhere boast that they will “cut the buttons off” of officials who seek to apply the laws against them. Organized forces have similar ideas. Not content with influencing legislation and naming candidates favorable to their causes, they assume a power which is not granted by law. In the latter class the Anti-Saloon League has been especially dictatorial. With a religious and moral background which earned it the support of the best citizenship, its paid leader assumed arbitrary powers and sought to abuse all who refused to put the league’s desires above the written law. The Supreme Court decision in the Shumaker case is a proper punishment for loose, unfounded talk and should have a salutory influence in Indiana. While it permits the Rev. Shumaker to wear the halo of a martyr, and will doubtless speed up collections for the league, it will, at the same time, tend to establish a proper appreciation of the dignity of our courts, without which law and order could not prevail. (Richmond Pallkdium) Just as the many of the scribes and Pharisees of Biblical days were in the employ of the Roman government, selling out their own countrymen for the conqueror’s pay, so today some Indiana Scribes State officials are putting other inter- , ests before the public good, Alvah J. ar}(l Rucker, former -corporation counsel of Pharisees Indianapolis, declared in- an address before the Indiana Yearly Meeting. He was particularly vehement in his denunciation of officials who pay off campaign obligations by the selection of appointees favorable to interests that assisted them financially In their campaign. How far that practice has gone is best known to

To the Editor: As an old-time and regular reade: of The Indianapolis Times, I feel impelled to extend my appreciation and congratulations to you for the very frank and thorough manner in which you have exposed the “under-the-surface” workings of some of our city, county and State officials and others of the parasite type of business. Anew and very important piece of news is contained in your issue of Monady, Aug. 8, in your news item announcing the appointment, by Probate Jj*dge Mahlon E. Bash, of Richard Lowther and E. H. Iglehart as joint receivers for the recently closed J. F. Wild State Bank. Some of the depositors of this

He’s Had His Two Weeks

Supplementing these features will be a series of concerts in the great ballroom of the Banff Springs Hotel for which several of the best known Scottish singers have been engaged. J. Campbell Mclnnes, famous for his rendering of border and Highland ballads, will be there with Mme. Jeanne Dusseau who under her maiden name of Ruth Thom attracted the attention of Mary Garden by her beautfiul interpretations of the old Scotch songs. Davidson Thompson, a resonant barintone of Winnipeg who has sung with the Minneapolis Symphony, and Ruth Matliewson, a fine contralto of the same city, will also be there. "Die Gaelic singers will be represented by the tenor Norman Cameron and by a group of folk singers from the Hebrides who have recently come to make their home in Canada. The program of Scottish music has been drawn up in historical sequence, commencing with old ballads of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, followed by groups of the periods of Mary Queen of Scots, the Stuarts and the Jacobites, followed by selections from the songs of Burns. Sir Walter Scott, Lady Nairne and Christopher North. The Hebridean music recently made popular by Marjorie Kennedy Fraser will also be featured. In addition to these Scottish elements of games and music another Highland feature will be introduced namely, folksongs and dances of the Highland tribes of Indians whose hunting grounds were from time

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now defunct bank are wondering as to the why and wherefore. It might be considered to be contemptuous to try to answer, not knowing what the court may know, but it des look strange, in view of such of the facts that have so far been mate public. What was the State banking department doing to permit this bank to carry on, when it must have been evident to them that the bank has been insolvent for months past. Luther Symons, State bank examiner, is quoted by you as expressing his opinion “that the capital stock of the bai*i*. is entirely gone,” and that “solvency was in question when $275,000 in bonds was stolen some time ago.” If this is the case, and the de-

immemorial in the neighboring Canadian Pacific Rockies. These Indians will be gathered in a picturesque encampment, and with their tepees and variegated costumes will add a note of color to the gathering which will make the affair unique of its kind. Rafaelo Diaz, for ten years a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, has been added to the company of “The Ging’s Henchman,” the Taylor-Millay opera which will tour the United States this season under the direction of Jacques Samossoud. Mr. Diaz will alternate in the tenor role with Ralph Errolle and Judson House. In spite of his name Diaz does not destroy the “All-American” claim for the singing contingent of the company. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, of Spanish parents. Diaz and other members of the travelling company will be released temporarily now and then to return to New York for their special appearances with the Metropolitan. “The King’s Henchman” will carry a double cast for the entire list of principal roles, and in certain instances will carry three alternates for a part. For example Frances Peralta and Marie Sundelius, both of the Metropolitan, will alternate in the soprano role of “Aelfrida.” Other parts are similarly scheduled. The transcontinental tour will open in Washington the latter part of October and will include the principal cities of the country. Indianapolis is included in the tour, it is announced.

Rucker and others who are conversant with the situation in Indianapolis. Some of the charges which Rucker made should be presented to the grand jury which Is investigating alleged political corruption in Indiana. Rucker charged that weak-kneed Governors, under obligation to the utilities, appoint members of the public service commission who are “right,” and that party machines in every campaign take public utility money. But he also added a constructive thought, which should be heeded. “Every man and woman should become a politician in the sense of the original meaning of the term: a worker for the government,” he advised. That puts the proposition before the voter and taxpayer in a simple manner. We have poor public officials because we are not interested in politics. We let the professional politicians pick the candidates, even in a primary system; we refuse to go to the polls; we are negligent about how our officials run the government, and consequently we have a poor administration of public business. (Gary Post-Tribune) We have not noticed the same demand for the preservation of freedom of speech welling up over the State as a result of the ordering of E. S. Shumaker to jaii' as arose when Judge Deartn deStand cided Editor Dale of Muncie was in ‘ ' contempt of his court and must go to By prison. Shumaker And * he two cases are very similar. Dale expressed his opinion of Judge Dearth and Shumaker said what he thought of the State Suprme Court. In our opinion both men were acting within their constitutional rights and deserve the support of all citizens interested in preserving thir rights. Unfortunately Shumaker has aroused a great deal of enmity over the State and this feeling Is preventing many people from taking their stand with him. Shumaker has denounced everyone in the State who has disagreed with him about prohibition and so there is considerable rejoicing in the anti-prohibition ranks.

partment knew it, why did they permit the bank to continue to operate all this time? And why have not the stockholders been compelled to make good part or all of the loss, as provided for by the State statutes? It would be interesting to know how so many of the larger depositors were tipped off in time for them to wtihdraw large sums of money during the several days immediately preceding the final act of closing the bank. The Times would help many of Its readers who were depositors in this bank by making some pertinent inquiries, as only a public benefactor such as The Times can make. * Asa depositor, with my little all sewed up in this receivership, I am signing myself as ANXIOUS.

AUG. 13, 1927

M. E. TRACY SAYS: If Pioneer Feet Could Go Where Rubber Tires Can Not, What About the Pioneer Mind?

It rained the day we drove from Evansville to Lincoln City, and it had rained all night before. This made the roads too slick for us to visit Jonesboro, where young Abraham clerked in a store, or Little Pigeon Creek, where he attended the Baptist Church. He would have trudged those roads without a second thought, but they were impossible for our highpowered car. Is this symbolical? If pioneer feet could go where rubber tires cannot, what abqut tho pioneer mind? Honig Knows Places George Honig, the Evansville sculptor, and a Lincoln enthusiast, went .along to show us the high spots. He knows them all—the houses where Lincoln borrowed books, the old settlers with whom he swapped stories, the hills where he cut hooppoles and hunted wild pigs, the landing at Rockport, where he boarded the flatboat for New Orleans, the g/aveyards where his generation lie burled. Lincoln’s Mother Lincoln’s mother sleeps on a hill that has been taken over and beautified by a grateful public. She was one of the first to be laid to rest there, and few came afterward to keep her company. Peter Studebaker erected a simple stone to mark her grave soon after the Civil War, and some twenty years ago the people of Spencer County erected a monument. Simple, Sincere Grief As we stood beside that graye, with the rain dripping from the trees and no discordant notes of a mechanized age to break the quiet and beauty of it all, the artificialities of present-day life seemed to fade out of the picture. We found it easy to imagine how the simple-hearted mourners gathered around that spot 109 years ago as the young mother was being lowered to her last resting place, especially the little boy, who was the greatest sufferer of them all and who never knew such sorrows or joys, such triumphs or disappointments as could wipe the memory from his mind. Village of Lincoln City The little village of Lincoln City covers much, of the eighty acres that Thomas Lincoln owned. A monument marks the place where the Lincoln cabin stood. A rod schoolhouse is near by, with a well and a pump. Milk Fever Menace She died of milk fever at the oso of 35, and it is a curious fact that milk fever should have made its appearance in the same section this summer. The fever comes from a w/ed which the cows eat and is tAnsmitted to human beings from the milk. Science has learned how to identify and prevent it. Modern life has contributed something to the comfort and security of us, after all. Character Molded Lincoln lived in this place from the time he was 7 until he was 31. These are the years when a man’s character is molded. The people of southern Indiana have a right to claim that Lincoln was a product of their ancestry and their soil; that in later years he represented the ideals and principles which he acquired while a boy in this backwoods community. Homespun, but Broad They tell you of the school teachers who taught him, of the lawyers and political leaders with whom he was on intimate terms, of Grass, Pitcher, Ratliff Boone and Judge Brockenridge, of the hell-fire and brimstone gospel on which he was brought up, of the parties he attended and of the stories he either borrowed or made up. His family was not so poor as some historians lead us to believe, nor were books so scarce. Most of the leading citizens had seen much of the country, even if they did wear homespun, and they dreamed of more than they had ever seen. The vision of anew State was in their mind. If they hunted and cut timber, they talked of towns and cities yet to be, and of constitutions of a far more liberal turn. They talked of national politics as well—of State rights, slavery, the tariff and internal improvement. The school teachers may have known little about the art of pedagogy, but they were strong on the three “R’s.” Making a Lincoln Making allowance for all these things and painting the brightest possible side of Lincoln’s life, it still remains a fact that he grew up under circumstances which, according to our way of thinking, do not produce the best results. Our eugenists would not have picked his parents to produce a statesman, our educators would not have indorsed the kind of school he attended, our social workers would have demanded a different environment and our dieticians would have prescribed a different kind of table fare. We are getting away from the kind of childhood Lincoln led as fast as we can. We are telling each other that such conditions as he faced are Impossible, that they make for degeneracy and crime. The question is whether, with aty of our standardized life and. scientific systems, we can produce a Lincota.