Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 89, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1927 — Page 4

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Will Silence Suffice? It is inconceivable that Governor Jackson can continue his silence in regard to the 'very definite charge made by this newspaper that he, when Secretary of State, went to the office of Governor McCray, then under indictment and offered him SIO,OOO for attorney fees and immuni tyin return for the privilege of placing a Coffin man in office as prosecutor of this county. x Other newspapers, without regard to party affiliations, have declared that the Governor must vindicate himself or resign. The papers of his own party have declared that the charge made by The Times and the frank challenge of the editor of this newspaper, a responsible institution, can not be ignored. The policy of silence is not new to the Governor. It will be remembered that he was silent last fall when witnesses were before the grand jury testifying that D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Klan and political boss, had photographs made of a $2,500 check given to Ed Jackson. While the Governor was silent, his friends, backers and associates were not. They declared that there was no check. They demanded that the check itself and not a photograph of a check be produced. Then The Times produced the original check, showing the indorsement of Jackson. When The Times asked him about this check, the Governor declared that he had nothing to say. Later he broke his silence and after conference with former Judge Gauss, on>, of the special prosecutors of the first grand jury who was paid from the Governor’s contingent fund, gave out the explanation that this $2,500 check was payment for a horse which he had sold to the former Klan leader. That explanation came after the leaders of the machine which runs government and politics in this State had for months declared that there were no checks and that Stephenson was a blackmailer and a bluffer when lie, declared that he had evidence of evil things in politics. How long will the rank and file of the Republican party accept silence from the Governoi concerning this later and graver incident? The Times believes that the vast majority of all good citizens do not desire to elevate men to nigh places who indulge in such methods of controlling public offices. The office of prosecutor„ is a valuable weapon in the hands of a political boss and no one has ever suggested that Coffin, the -ruler of the local machine who was made all powerful by Stephenson, is exactly an idealist. The high office of Governor must forever stand to youth for the ideals of government. It should inspire the young to thoughts of honor. It should be bestowed as a reward for fidelity to the basic principles of honor. It should come as a mark of respect. It should and must be the goal for which young men may aspire, an honor to be won through a which contains no secret manipulations, no dealings with the greedy and the crafty. That is the ideal of the Republican voters and of all citizens. It so happens that Ed Jack son holds his office under the label of Repubxicanism and by the gift of Republican voters. They have duty to perform if the Governor sees no duty for himself. Their duty is to unlock those walls of silence and to force from the Governor at least a denial. Otherwise they will suspect, and that would be bad, that the Governor does njt deny because he does not dare to face the proof. Perhaps a simple method of securing an tmswer from the Governor would be an appeal by voters that their members of the Legislature, who have power to impeach, demand that the Governor answer. i A few letters to these legislators, especially the members of the Lower House, might bring results. A vindication, a resignation or an impeachment. These are the three open courses and the only courses. Which will the Governor choose ? Today In Boston Before tomorrow’s dawn two Italian Immigrants who, for seven years, have held the attention of the world, may cease to be numbered among the living. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzettl may no longer be the names of men. They may be tl\e names of two properly punished murderers, or two martyrs, according to one’s view of the processes whereby they were brought to death. Some will say that justice has been served. That a wholesome lesson has been read to all persons who think that popular outcry can change the course of American justice. For It. is thus they Interpret the long effort to prevent the electrocution of the two Immigrants. Others wiU say that two innocent human beings have been done to death, not because they were proved guilty of any crime, but because they held political opinions that offend the majority of American citizens, American officialdom In particular. For It Massachusetts authorities in carrying out the decree to thus they Interpret the grim persistence of the

BOYD GURLEY. Editor.

“Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way” —Dante

ROY W. HOWARD. President.

of the aged judge who sentenced the men to death. Still others will say that a grave mistake has been' made. This newspaper is among the latter. Unable to find, after careful study of the record of the case, that Sacco and Vanzettl have been proved guilty beyond all dobut, this newspaper had hoped that the death penalty might be withheld. It has hoped that Governor Fuller, as a last resort, might take cognizunce of the world-wide belief in the innocence of the men and commute their sentence to life imprisonment. Time might then resolve the question of their innocence or guilt. If guilty, they would spend the remainder of their lives in prison; if could be freed. Five years ago the State of Tennessee electrocuted a Negro for murder. Day before yesterday a white woman confessed that It was she who committed the murder. These things do happen. Courts and juries do make mistakes. Innocent people sometimes are put to death. And In every civilized country on the globe there are people who sincerely believe It Is happening in the case of Sacco and Vanzettl. It Is not only the lowly and ignorant that believe it, but men whose intellects command the respect of the world. H. G. Wells has called the purpose to execute Sacco and Vanzettl one of the greatest crimes In history. We do not believe that H. G. Wells knows the facts of the Case as well as Governor Fuller does. But we do believe that when the facts, presented as well as Governor Fuller is able to present them, leave men of H. G. Wells’ unquestioned ability and mental integrity utterly unconvinced, it Is the part of wisdom for the Governor to stay the hand of the law. Hatred toward the United States Is accumulating in many lands. 11l deserved as this hatred may be, it is not sound policy to ignore it. It is better* policy to recognize its existence and find a way to dissipate it. Putting the matter in Its very lowest terms, in the terms of dollars an cents, it is the better course. This growing feeling toward America is one of the accidents that mark the history of the world. America has become rich in a day when the rest of the world is poverty stricken. It has earned, as is quite natural, the envy of other nations. But, despite the envy, the poor and oppressed peoples of these other countries have still looked to America as the land of freedom, the land of hope, the land where all are equal. Those who have come to hate us most are those who now feel that America Is not his land of equality they always had believed It to be. They feel America has betrayed their trust and they hate us for the infagined betrayal. Wrong as they may be, we can not deny that their reaction is a natural one. It is the way the human heart works. Os course, we can say that that is their riistake, and that it is no concern of ours. We can say we will go our own way, trusting to our own sense of Justicf and accept the consequences -of our actions. But in a people that wants the world’s good will, is this the attitude of wisdom? We think it is not. What is being done in Boston this day is thd one thing being done in any land that holds the Interest of every land. We wish It were possible to hope that tomorrow morning the world may read that Massachusetts, through her Governor, has this to report: That Massachusetts has found these men guilty, but acknowledging the honest belief of millions that they are innocent, Massachusetts sets aside the penalty of death and will hold these men imprisoned, prepared if time shall show the verdict of guilty to be an "error to set that verdict aside and to make such amends as a great State can make. The Pacific Flight Nothing risked,, nothing gained. A timid people will never get anywhere. The road to progress Is paved with human lives. America is great because Americans are daring. With them it is do or die ; > - This was the spirit of Lindbergh, the spirit of Cham -erlin, the spirit of Byrd and the rest. It was the r-.iiit of those who entered the Dole race across the to Hawaii. Not the $35,000 prize money, but the desire to win fame and glory—to accomplish something—was what led them on. And all we can say to that is, Bravo! But there i> a practical side which must not be overlooked. The race has already cost three lives. The total may yet reach eight or ten. And we can not escape the Impression that this was avoidable. There was too much hurry and disregard for the ordinary margins of human safety in the preparations for the event. “Five days before the start of the race,” writes Martin Jensen, winner of second prize, "not even the fuselage was on my plane . . . owing to the rush job ... we were unable to install proper gas and oil feed systems.” Due to the Improper functioning of the plahe, Jensen and his navigator were five times in peril of their lives, he says. They went into strange tail spins and their oil and gas systems came near throwing them Into the sea. When they landed they had gas only for another half hour in the air, a hairraising margin In a flight of such duration across the open ocean. Jensen admits that but for the grace of God his plane, too, might never have been heard of again. We have a great lesson to learn from this tragedy We must learn it. If aviation is not to be given a black eye, if our progress in the air is not to be set back a decade or so, the Federal authorities must tighten up the rules governing civilian flying and find a way to enforce them. Aviation Is of vital importance to the people oi this country. It is not yet dependable enough to make it our chief reliance in the national defense, but more and more the tendency is in that direction. But ii haphazard stunts are permitted, resulting in manj needless casualties, public confidence will be undermined and flying generally will be set back for years The Department of Commerce Is doing what it can to look after civilian flying. But aviation is new and we have not yet got around to framing laws properly to govern It. situation must be met and met promptly for the good of aviation and for the good of the Nation. \ Tis an ill wind that blows no trans-oceanic flien these days. ( -

W. A. Business Manager.

MONDAY. AUGUST 22. 1927.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

* M. E. " TRACY SAYS: There Is a Wonderful Human Side to Every Enterprise, a Side That Has to Do With Accident, Personality and Impulse.

AKRON. Ohio, Aug. 22.—When the Indians ,came up the Cuyahoga from Lake Erie they bad to carry their canoes over the ridge where Akron stands to reach the streams floowing south into the Ohio, and when they came north 'from the Ohio they had to do the same thing in order to reach Lake Erie. White people followed them as c. matter of course. The “portage,” as it was called, represented too good a sit* for a trading post for some pioneer not to start a town. The important part this idea played in the beginning is shown by the way the word “portage” still lives. There is the Portage Hotel, the Portage beauty salon, the Portage Paint Company and the Portage Insurance agency. Pottery and Rubber It is not difficult to understand how discovery of an abundant supply of clay by a farm hand should have led to the development of the pottery business along stupendous lines. When you come to rubber, however, the explanation is less obvious. All the raw rubber used in this country comes from overseas, and one would naturally look for Its manufacture to center in some coastal city. This probably would have been the case if Dr. B. F. Goodrich had not read an advertisement which interested him in Akron. The point is, of course, that he did read uuch an advertisement add that history contains no "ifs.” Transportation Miracle Akron manufactures half the rubber used in this country. The background of her wealth and enterprise is to be found in tropical lands, where thousands of little brown brothers tend and tap millions of trees. The raw rubber which feeds her twenty-two factories and makes employment for 70,000 or 80.000 people gravels half way round the world by water and then 500 or 600 miles by land. The set-up shows what can -be done where men have the will. Where Product Goes The set-up also shows how progress makes room for r.ew industries. When Dr. Goodrich built his first factory in Akron he looked mainly to drug stores for a market, though he soon had hopes of increasing the output by making rubber tires for buggies and gigs. Then came the bicycle and automobile. Eighty per cent of the 150,000 tons of rubber which Akron uses is for automobile tires. The remaining 20 per cent, however, furnishes the most interesting phase of the industry, for it has come to pass that not less than 30,000 different products are now made from rubber. Human Side of It There is a wonderful human side to every enterprise, a side that has to do with accident, personality and impulse. I happen to have run across more examples of it in Akron than anywhere else. In the first place, there was Dr. Goodrich, quitting his profession, getting tangled up with a business he knew nothing about through some real estate, learning of Akron by mere chance and deciding to locate in the town because his first impressions were favorable. In the second place, there was Fisk, a farm hand, discovering clay while he worked, buying four acres, taking in a partner, the two hiring a boy when the work grew too heavy, and the boy, Edwin H. Mer* rill, becoming father to Akron’s clay industry. In the third place, there was Dr. Eliakim Cosby, who also quit his profession to dig a canal and develop a water power which everybody said was impossible. In the fourth place, there Is the Goodyear company, with an expensive aeronautics department, because it became interested in dirigibles through, tinkering with balloons for which it made the fabric. Dirigibie Figures The Goodyear company, it will be remembered, won a prize of $50,000 by submitting the best design for the mammoth dirigible, which the Government proposes to build. The prize was not accepted because the company felt It could not part with the patent rights involved for such a small sum of money. These patent rights represent more than $300,000 which the company has spent in study and experiment, and as the Government award shows, they represent improvement of a superior kind. What the Goodyear company wants is a contract to build the ship, which it is willing to take on a cost plus or a fixed profit basis, but which it believes should not be let for a definite price. The company’s contention is that, under existing circumstances, no one can tell what the ship would cost or whether further improvement might not be made while it was in process of construction.

Do You Know — That 512 families have been aided by the Volunteers of America, a Community Fund agency, since last November, with an average of 66 a t month reo dying material' help, and the rest being shown how to provide for themselves adequately.

Just Where Are We Going to Land

Jack Mulhall, Looking Like Ed Wynn, Steps Into Elliott Nugent’s Running Shoes in ‘The Poor Nut’

It is easy to say that the movie version of “The Poor Nut” is mighty good entertainment. In the movie version, Jacfe Mulhall, with his hair arranged in an Ed Wynn fashion, steps into the run-

ning shoes of Elliott Nugent, who wrote the play and made a success in the John Miller role on the stage. Mulhall plays the role along the same lines that Nugent intends the role to be played. But all through the picture, I could not give up the thought that Mulhall looks like Ed Wynn when he

Jean Arthur

arranges his hair as he does in the picture. Mulhall fears that his "ego” is not developed and the campus athletic "doc,” Charlie Murray, decides to develop Ithe “ego” to the point of rubbing it out of our “poor nut” hero. The two chief girl roles are sweetly played by Jean Arthur as Margie and Jane Winton as Julia, the campus vamp of another college. Glenn Tryon does a nice job of “Magpie” Welch, one of those campus things, big pants and all. Since we have had Nugent at English’s in "The Poor Nut,” the original company, and again this season at Keith’s in the Stuart Walker production of “The Poor Nut,” I take it that it Is unnecessary to tell you the story of the movie. The movie version follows the show very closely. The bookshop scenes have been handled with a fine eye to comedy that the play possesses. The track meet looks more like a country fair and lacks the intimate touch that the stage gave these scenes. The tent scenes, where the “poor nut” is rubbed and Inspired into winning running form, are well done. You are going to like the movie version of “The Poor Nut” a whole lot. It’s mighty good clean, interesting fun. Edward Resener is doing a good job directing the Indiana Symphonic Orchestra through a “Sakuntala Overture..’’ Intelligent directing and playing of the score is revealed. Maurice Cook introduces the various hidden instruments concealed in the big organ during his solo novelty, "Maurice and His One Man Band.” Good dancing and a nifty burlesque on a classical ballet are the high lights of the presentation, "Non-Stop to Mars.” Boyd Senter, a hot instrumental jazz player, has no trouble shopping the revue. Jack Russell is at the piano for Senter. A news reel and other events are on the bill. At the Indiana all week. MOVIE WRITERS ARE MORE V KIND TO THOMAS MEIGHAN Since I have been complaining about the mighty poor veheiles that Tom Meighan has been having lately, it is best that I tell you right no* that his latest movie, “We’re AH Gamblers,” is much more of a story than he has been having lately. I do not consider Meignan a type actor, as he has been able to It into several different kinds of idles In his movie career. One gets the idea thabCWe’re All Gamblers” at the start will be oitfe of the regulation prize fight stories which seem to be so frequent on line screen this season. We see Meighan as a prize fighter *eady to challenge the champion to a big fight for championship, but when the fight papers are signed, Meighan, as “Lucky” Sam McCarver, meets with an automobile accident which pulls him out of the fight game for life. The picture then takes a turn toward romance. Another new departure in theme shows “Lucky”

BY WALTER D. HICKMAN-

running a night club where there is drinking and much jazz music. Then the story becomes a mystery and a*he mystery surrounds the death of a man in the night club. “Lucky” is still lucky, and he wins the girl he loves and is not held responsible for the man's death. Meighan has a chance to be very much like himself in this picture, and I guess that people go to the theater to see Tom Meighan. I have made more of a protest (.gainst Meignan’s previous bad vehicle than those who pay to see his pictures. Audiences like Tom Meighan for himself, and there seems ot be nc doubt about that. This picture is helped a great deal by the direction of James Cruse. When this man directs you are sure of competent and intelligent direction. The music Ir. in safe hands, as Emil Seidel hau returned to direct the Apollo Meirymakers. Charles B Lines is doir.g the singing and Earl Gordon is at the organ. At the Apollo all week. TWO GREAT FUN MAKERS AT OHIO Two of screenland’i greatest comedians have been cast as the stars in the comedy of the RussoGerman front in the World War. Charles Murray and George Sidney are the two who get "Laet at the Front” in the mirth provoking vehicle which is now on view at the Ohio Theater. Murray as “Michael Muldo >n” is the Irish cop, who makes a prac-

tice of dropping into the saloon of "August Krause,” George Sidney. August Is drafted into the German army and Michael, being too old to fight with any other unit finally lands in the Russian army The plot of the piece hinges on the fact that “August” thinks that, he has a little do-jigger

Charles Murray

that will stop the war and “Michael” tries to stop film, because the American army is into the fracas. New comedy situations are introduced all through the film when the two “friendly enemies” are trying to get out of the war. The biggest laugh is gotten when Murray and Sidney, dressed as Russian peasant girls are having love made to them by two Russian officers, who are more or less under the influence of what came out of the bottle. The battle scenes are those between the Russians and the Germans. Those that depict the night fighting are very spectacular. The “Battalion of Death,” the battalion of women soldiers who fought for Russia, is brought into the picture in a very clever manner. All through the picture Sidney retains that worried, baby like expression that brought him fame, while Murray has such a repertoire of faciallities that he is never at loss as how to Took in the various situations and predicaments into which he is placed. First one and then the other of the comedies take the lead, so that the farce never gets monotonous or tiresome. It is perhaps the best work of either of the men, and entirely different from anything that they have attempted before this. Another of the Smith comedies is shown and is entitled “Smith’s Candy Shop.” Topics of the day and a news reel complete the offering. At the Ohio Theater all week (By the Observer.)

“BIG PARADE” REMAINS ONE OF THE GREATEST “The Big Parade” is one of the biggest pictuers and one of the best ever made. It will always remain so. Judging by the large audiences that attended the first popular priced showings at the Circle Sunday, “The Big Pa-

rade” is still as powerful a drawing card as it has ever been .To my way of thinking it is the best of the movies dealing with' the World War. It’s both beau tiful and cruel because it tells of love and of war. This picture made John Gll bert what he is today. Renee Adoreehas never approached

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hor work in this pitcure. This same picture made a household favorite out of Karl Dane, an expert in chewing tobacco and aiming well. It is not necessary to go into detail about "The Big Parade” at this time. To me it will always be one us, the best pictures ever made. Many people have stopped me on the street and told me that although they have seen it before, that they will see it again at the Circle. Here is one picture that should be seen by every man, woman and child in this country. The orchestral offering this week at the Circle is Tommy Christian and his orchestra. Because of being confused on the time of the supper show presentation yesterday I missed this orchestra. The bill Includes a news reel and Topics of the Day. At the Circle all week. FIGHT PICTURES ON VIEW AT THE COLONIAL I*he main attraction at the Colonial Theater this week is the “Official films” of the DempseySharkey fight which took place in New York recently. The pictures taken from the ringside shows the entire action of the Tex Rickard's greatest production. Because of the comment caused by the assertions of Sharkey’s sympathizers that he was fouled, the last round of the fight attracts the most Interest, as it is given in slow motion so that the spectators may see for themselves the famous twenty punches that made Dempsey the heavy-weight contender. After showing the men in training the picture gives the entire action of the seven rounds, round by round. There, are no subtitles to detract from the interest of the film. All the explaining Is done while the men are vesting between rounds. x Along with the fight picture is shown a comedy entitled “Quarantined Rivals,” which shows the predicaments of a man in love and the way he finally settles the matter to his satisfaction although the house has been quarantined for smallpox. At the Colonial all week.—(By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: “Chkrm” at Keith’s, “The Whole Town’s Talking” at English’s, "Galloping Thunder at the Isis and Ben Hasson Troupe at the Lyric. How long has Judge James A. Collins served on the bench both in po lice and criminal court? What judge has served the longest time on any one benoh in Indianapolis with the exception of United States District Court? Judge Collins has served seventeen years, and at the close of this term he will complete twenty years. Fremont Alford, former Criminal Court judge held that bench for eight years.

AUG. 22, 1927

Why the Weather?

By Charles Fitzhugh Talman Authority on Metaorology

THE FASTEST RAINFALL ON RECORD A “Why the Weather?” note published in April described a remarkable shower in California in which the rate at which the rain fell set anew, world record. The shower occurred in the early morning of April 5, 1926, at Opid’s Camp, on the west front of the San Gabriel Range, and 1.02 inches of rain fell in one minute. The previous record for intense rain fall was 2.47 inches in 3 minutes at Porto Bello, Panama, Nov. 29, 1911. When this event was first reported information was ladking as to the method by which the rain was measured. The following additional detail have now come to hand: Opid’s Camp is a co-operative’* station of the United States Weather Bureau and is also one of a group of stations reporting to the Los Angeles County Flood Control Commission. The observer, John T. Opid, is an educated and intelligent man. His equipment includes a Ferguson weighing rain-gauge, which makes a continuous automatic record. By a lucky chance he had set up a second gauge of the same pattern in order to compare it with the station gauge, previous to its Installation at another camp some miles away. Thus it happened that the shower was recorded by two gauges, and the records were practically identical. The instruments were correctly* exposed as they were located about 75 feet from the nearest tree ori other obstruction. ' (All rights reserved by Science Service. Inc.)

Mr. Fixit Weed Cutting Will Stop for Season Soon

Weed-cutting by city forces soon will stop for the season, street officials announced today. About twenty-five more lots will be taken care of before the halt is called. M’ Fixit: I wonder if you could get it! weeds cut on the vacant lots on both corners of Riley Ave. and Twelfth St. Mosquitoes are very bad. The weeds soon will hang over the sidewalks so that people can not walk along them. Thanking you for any help. \ A READER. Immediate action is promised in this case. Mr. Fixit: There are two lots on the corner of Manker and McKinley Sts. on which the weeds arc so high that we cannot get to the grocery. Along the curbing In front and along Manker to Shelby Sts., the weeds are Just as bad, The two lots on Manker St. are next to my house. M. C. The city is allowed by law to cut. weeds on vacant lots within fifty feet of property owned by person making complaint. The costs are charged to owners of the lots. Investigation of this situa- , tion was promised by the street department. Mr. Fixit: Elder Ave. from Michigan to W. Tenth St. is a disgrace to our city. We have asked the officials several times to grade this street. Our customers and our employes bump along here daily, no need for them to ride Riverside’s "Missouri Mule” for jolts. Unless the street Is soon fixed those coming in from W. Tenth will have to detour as it is almost impassabD now. We also asked, repeatedly for street signs, and’ finally had to put up our own. Elder Ave. is entitled to street signs and a passable street. Will you help us? (, All that can be done in this district at present has been done, street commissioner’s office reports. They may be able to Improve this condition later.

Brain Teasers

Today’s questions are all about dogs, an appropriate quia for this season of the year, when dog daya are drawing to a close. Answera are on page 12: 1. What short-legged German dog Is used to hun animals in burrows? 2. What is the common name ofl the Scotch shepherd dog? 3. What is the correct name for the German police dog? 4. From what do the ter-, riers take their name? ' 5. What dogs were bred to rescur travelers lost In the Alps? 6. In hunting do greyhounds depend more on their sense of smell or their sense of. sight? 7. What breed of dog is commonly used in dog racing? 8. How did bulldogs get their name? 9. What breed of toy dog, related to the pug or spaniel, is named after a city in China? 10. What is the origin of the word terrier? Does the noun “politics” take a singular or plural verb? It is plural in form but singular in meaning and takes a singular verb. Are most aeroplanes guided by means of a steering wheel? Some are guided by a steering wheel, but the most common method of controling planes is by means of a stick called "Joy stick” which is stuck in a socket very much like the gear shift of an automobile.

Movie Verdict APOLLO—Thomas Meighan in "We’re All Gamblers” has a much more satisfactory vehicle than he has been having lately. OHlO—Sidney and Murray walk away with the comedy honors in "Lost at the Front.” INDIANA—"The Poor Nut" is mighty good fun. CIRCLE —"The Big Parade” will always be one of the best pictures ever made. COLONIAL "Dempsey vs. Sharkey” gives one a chance to decide Show Dempsey landed the blow that put Sharkey out.