Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1927 — Page 4

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It’s Paying Time That a time should come when the Chamber of Commerce and all other organizations of business men would begin to protest against high taxes could have been easily predicted long ago. / High taxes were very certain when these same business men permitted professional politics to do their voting and their political thinking for them. They should have known that some day they would have to pay for the indifference with which in the past they have looked upon public wrongs and permitted public affairs (o get into the hands and control of men whom they would not trust with a dime in private business. Those same high taxes were on the way when the conservative and property owning class of this city sat back and said nothing as elections have been manipulated and at times stolen. That excess tax rate is due to many things. It does not come as the result of one act, even though the levy for a refund swells it. The high tax rate is caused by the excess cost of government which has gone to professional politicians. Whenever inspectors fall down on jobs and let favored contractors get away with slack wofk, that fact sooner or later shows Up on the tax books. Whenever the boss fixes things so that contractors get more than a job is worth and some of the crumbs are scattered around among the boys, that extra mony shows up sooner or later in tax levies. In the past the business men may not have exactly applauded when the bosses ran elections, but not many of them have done much to stop these bosses from taking charge of affairs. Not many of them stood up and were* counted when the vicious hooded order kidnaped the government of the State and city. Now the effect of all this misgovernment can be estimated at its cost in dollars. Its cost in other more important directions and ways can not be estimated. Those who object to the high tax rate have a duty which is quite as important ns protesting against the invasion 1 of their pocketbooks. They ought to kick and kick at once against conditions which make such invasibns possible. Right now while the yell against high taxes is being heard, there might be a demand tyiat Governor Ed Jackson tell what he knows about the offer to McCray, when Governor, of SIO,OOO and immunity in return for a Coffin prosecutor. That may seem a moral matter with which business has nothing to do. But it is upon just such incidents and manipulations that boss rule is built and boss rule always means a deep dig in the public pocketbook. The two things are at least first cousions in politics. Why We Must Have a Navy Second to None Secretary Wilbur of the Navy Department says he intends to ask Congress to double our present building program. This is not nearly so startling as it may sound. Since the United States, Britain and Japan agreed to the 5-5-3 principle at the Washington conference of 1921—that is to say, equal sized navies for Britain and America and a navy three-fifths as large for Japan—the United Stated has all but stood still while the others rapidly forged ahead with their building. ... Today, Instead. of. sharing, first place on the seas with Britain, we rank a poor third after Japan, In criuser strength at least. Since the Washington conference Britain has completed, laid down or appropriated for twenty-eight cruisers in-excess of a 7,500-ton average. Similarly Japan has provided for nineteen new cruisers averaging above 8,500 tons. On the other hand America has only two cruisers building and six authorized. It Is this puny program of eight cruisers which Secretary Wilbur wishes to see doubled. If he gets his wish he would have a program of sixteen cruisers against nineteen for Japan and twenty-eight for Britain. Trifly that is not excessive, especially when you consider the modern cruiser tonnage the three countries already have in commission. \ Britain ha,s forty .such vessels afloat and Japan has nineteen, as against ten for the United States. Comparing tonnage, built, building and appropriated for, Britain looms large with 387,410 tons, with Japan a good second with 247,665 tons and America a poor third with only 155,000 tons. Should Congress consent to doubling our present program as suggested by Secretary Wilbur—that is, if Congress appropriates for an additional eight cruisers of 10,000 tons each—our total modern cruiser strength would even then amount to a mere 230,000 tons, or 157,410 tons less than Britain and 17,665 tons less than Japan. And let us not forget that under the Washington agreement we are entitled to parity with Britain and two-fifths more than Japan. The needs of our national defense alone justify S vastly increased program. But there is another reason still and one of almost equal importance; That is to say, if the United States ever wishes to bring about any further naval limitation it must go to the conference armed with something besides words. The first, or Washington naval conference, was a success because we had, huilt and building, the mightiest fleet of battleships on earth. When we proposed drastic tonnage reductions and strict limi-

tation, Britain and Japan fell over one another in their rush to sign. The second, or Geneva conference, was doomed before it started, because since 1921 Britain and Japan had gained undisputed superiority over us. Britain went to Geneva certain in her own mind that if she wanted to maintain her supremacy on the seas all she had to do was to stand pat. The United States, being too stingy to spend money to keep up its fleet, would allow first place to go by default. Therefore, when we, with our insignificant fleet of cruisers, suggested cruiser limitation to the British with their migthy fleet, they simply gave us the laugh. In 1931 Britain, America, Japan, France and Italy —the five powers signatory* to the pact of Washington—will meet again to talk ships. Perhaps limitation may bob up at that time. If so, success or failure will depend once more on the United States. If we go to that conference inferior to Britain and Japan we will leave it inferior—and with the sky the limit, as it is now, on cruiser tonnage. But if between now and then we make it. unmistakably clear to all concerned that we Intend to have a navy second to none, cost what it may, Britain and the rest will not be slow to listen to the voice of reason. We must arm to disarm. What About the Courts? When Legislatures -pass laws nobody ever thinks of reserving criticism either of the laws or the lawmakers. The suggestion that criticism of Congress is unpatriotic would be met by a unanimous guffaw. When laws are being administered by courts, the person who wants to discuss this process critically is forced to face the charge that he is attacking the very vitals of the Nation. Why is this true? The Legislatures and courts are all part and parcel of the same pr >cess—that of making the individual subject to the “rules of the game" imposed by organized society. Why Is the judicial part of this process sacrosanct when the Legislature Is not? One reason for the lack of public discussion of court procedure, of course, is obvious. The courts are so involved In technical details that the man in the street is generally incapable of understanding what goes on in them. But that is an explanation of why there isn’t more discussion of the judiciary, not why there shouldn’t be. It may be that honest indignation against criticism of the courts springs from faith in the fiction that judges are automatons who mechanically grind out justice according to fixed formulas—that in our court* there is, in fact, a government of laws and not of men. \ It is only necessary to study the United States Supreme Court to understand that our judiciary is made up of very human men who have very human disagreements about law and justhe. With great regularity the ranks of the nine justices divide on the question of what is the law. Judicial tribunals where disputes can be settler; vitli finality are a vital part of our scheme of government. Otherwise there would be chaos. But because they are an important cog in our governmental machinery, Is there any reason to believe the courts are not subject to the weakness of other human Institutions? And is there any reason why court procedure should not be discussed and criticised with the same freedom that Legislatures and executives are discussed? % Isn t it true that, in the ultimate analysis, judges are servants of the people? Is their service being performed as well and wisely as it might be? Is the Judicial system keeping pace with the changes in our social and economic life? Earnest discussion of these questions was never more In order than it is today. An advertisement reminds folks that the saxophone was invented almost a hundred years ago. Yes, the evil that men do lives after them. It’s such a relief to hear that the Einstein theory of relativity is to be changed. We ngver could understand why they thought the old way was right. It’s a good thing Charles A. Levine had all his fallings-out b|fore he actually started to fly back to America. 1 A woman recluse in California wrote her will on a corset and it was found to be binding. The garment still staves off obscurity. The woman who wears a fashionable evening dress Is very much out of It. An 82-year-old woman in Tennessee has never seen an automobile. No wonder she lived so long. Usually, the first thing that strikes a visitor to this country is a motor car. All that women’s clothes leave to the imagination is what makes them so expensive.

Law and Justice

By Dexter M. Keezer

A man was accused of violating the prohibition law. ’ Bottles containing the liquor which he was charged with possessing were placed on a tab’e in the courtroom near the jury box. The judge, in instructing the jury said, “You have the evidence before you; you can see whether or not it is intoxicating liquor. One of the jurors understood this to be an invitation to taste the liquor and did so. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty, but attorneys for the man appealed on the ground that the case should have been taxen from the jury after one of the jurors had tasted the “evidence.” They contended that this action by the juror gave him possession of material facts not possessed by the other jurors and placed him in the position of a witness who should be subject to cross-examination. Attorneys seeking to uphold the conviction suggested that knowledge of what was la the bottle* would aerre as a legitimate aid in determining the guilt of the accused. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS.CASE? The actual decision: The Alabama Court of Appeals overruled the jury’s verdict of guilty. It said the case should have been taken away from the jury when one of the Jurors tasted the contents of the bottles because the Juror was thus placed in the position of a witness. The Judge who wrote the decision said he thought the ruling somewhat absurd, but that he was bound by precedent.

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: “If Our Railroads and Steel Mills Operated With the Clumsiness and Inefficiency of Our Courts, We Would Get Nowhere

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 26. What people give their attention to they usually accomplish. Our forefathers thought deeply on law and politics. That is why they made progress. For the last two generations ws have been concerned with commerce and Industry. The improvement in our manufacturing, financial and transportation systems shows the results, so, too, does the decay of our legal system. When It comes to the mill, the mine, the ra'ilroad, the department store or the bank we can do vastly better work than our grandfathers could, but when it comes to the court we cannot. Contest Astounding United states District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle is right when he says, "Sober -minded, honest citizens are filled with anxiety as to whether justice which is slow and doubtful of itself is really justice at all.” He is also right in contrasting our commercial efficiency with our legal inefficiency, No one can travel through this country without being amazed at its ability to do things with precision and dispatch. By the same token, no one can read its crime and court records without being amazed at its inability to do things. If our railroads and steel mills operated with the clumsiness and inefflcelncy of courts, we would ge* nowhere. One wonders now a nation can be so capable in one respect and s\> hopelessly incapable in another. When it comes to commerce and industry we lead the world. When it comes to law and law enforc?ment, we are at the tail end of the line. Chief Justice Taft has called our system of criminal procedure a disgrace. and thus far no one has risen to dispute him. Law Out of Step In every other field of endeavor we have made marked improvement, but with respect to law we have gone backward. In transportation we have moved from oxcart to airplane; in merchandising we have supplanted the old cross* roads grocery with the modern department store; in education we have advanced from the little red schoolhouse to the university with 30.000 student; in banking we have developed from the old, one-man, irresponsible institution to the Federal Reserve system. When it comes to law, however, we have reduced the Federal judge to a level with the police magistrate, and we cannot try an ordinary criminal case as quickly or as convincingly as our grandfathers could. Think and Work The point is. what are we going to do about it? Finding fault does not solve the problem. Our industrial and commercial programs have been made possible by discovery of new and better methods, by thinking constructively, by trying experiments and paying attention to their results. Can we hope to improve our legal system in any other way? Steel, for Instance If we had neglected steel the way we have neglected law we would still be using the old wood furnace, hand forge and bellows. We let imagination and intelligence work with regard to steel and produced a great industrial era, with all the comforts and conveniences it affords. Out of steel we have forged the skeleton of modern life. No one can visit the Youngstown district without realizing this. The thousands of widely varied products into which steel is shaped here are constant reminders not only of the great industrial revolution that has taken place, but of what the dreamer, the inventor and the developers can do if given a chance. Steel Output This country is now producing steel at the rate of one ton per second, but that is just the beginning of the story. Some of it is made into nails that run 200,000 to the ton, and some of it is cast in blocks that weigh 200 tons. The steel business represents at least five billion dollars of active capital and keeps hiUf a million men at work. There are between 250,000 and 300,000 stockholders in the various steel companies. The United States Steel Corporation controls about 50 per cent of the output. The three largest independent companies are Bethlehem Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Jones-Laughlin of Pittsburgh. Youngstown Sheet and Tube produces about 3,000,000 tons of steel annually, under normal conditions, 2 000,000 of which are made into pipe. * ’ *■-. ■ Importance of Pipe Did you ever stop to think what an important part pipe has come to play in life? Without pipe we could not have hot or cold water in the house, could uot drill oil wells, could not bring natural gas to cities from fields 300 miles aw;.,y. Pipe, first made of iron, but later of steel, has brought modem plumbing within the reach of average people.

Alney Alba Will Make Her First Appearance With Berkell Players in ‘The Ghost Train ’ at English s

Miss Alney Alba, new leading woman with the Berkell Players, will make her first appearance with the Berkell company in “The Ghost Train,” a mystery-melodrama which opens tomorrow night. At the termination of the summer season at English’s, she will, with the rest of the Berkell players, take up her work for the winter at the Colonial Theater, their opening play

Inventor of Steamboat Utilized Indiana’s Coal

Hoosier Geologist Discusses Robert Fulton’s Use of Fuel in 1812. When Robert Fullon made his first trip down the Ohio River, in 1812, he landed his steamboat, Orleans, on the shores of Perry County, Indiana, and dug some coal there which he put aboard for ust as fuel, according to T. M. Kingsbury, geologist of the State department of Conservation. This, Kingsbury jays, is one of the first records of use of coal in Indiana. As early as 1804, surveyors, in making the maps of the State, noted and marked several locations where coal was exposed, according to the geologist. In the early days the coal industry made slow development. Small amounts were shipped on flat-boats down the Wabash, White and Ohio Rivers, and it was used locally to some extent by blacksmiths. First Mine in 1850 The first shaft for coal was sunk in 1850 on the John Hutchinson farm, near Newbury, in Warrick County. The discovery of non-cak-, ing block coal a year or so later soon led to the building of many iron furnaces, in which block coal first was used in a raw state. This gave new impetus to the industry. In 1870 the State’s production had reached about 500,000 tons, and ten years later it had jumped to more than 1,500,000 tons. Setback for Coal With the discovery of natural gas in the State in 1886 and the boom which followed, the coal industry had a tepiporary setback. The natural gas supply, however, had much to do with changing the State from a purely agricultural country into an important manufacturing center. When the supply of natural gas began to diminish, coal replaced it as fuel in many of the newly-estab-lished industrial plants. From that time on, the industry has made a steady growth, with few setbacks, until now approximately 25,000,000 tons are taken from the. mines in Indiana each year. The total amount of coal in the State Is approximately 50,000,000,000 tons. Os this amount, about 15.000,000,000 tons are recoverable. There are about 225 mines in the Sta+e in addition to many small local or waron mines. The coal fields in Indiana occupy approximately 7,000 square miles, and contain thirty-five beds, most of which are workable. POSTAL TURNS TO RADIO Mackay Interests Acquire Pacific Coast System ttii United Preen NEW YORK, Aug. 26. —The Postal Telegraph Commercial Cables Company will enter the radio business. It has acquired the radio system of the Federal Telegraph Company on the Pacific coast. The announcement of the Mackay companies, made by George V. McLaughlin, vice-president, indicates that the intention is to expand the radio service of the Federal telegraph which now operates a point-to-point and shlp-to-shore service or. the Pacific.

For His Own Safety

starting Sunday evening, Sept. 18. Miss Alba is a native of New York City. When a small child she entered upon her career as an actress, taking advantage of the many opportunities afforded by such close proximity to the heart of dramatic activities. She later went into stock, having played three summer seasons with the Elitch Gardens in Denver, Colo.; two seasons with the O. D. Wood-

UNIVERSITY GROUP PRODUCES LEADERS Published School Paoer and Became Famous Men Bii United Pree* KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Aug. 26. Brilliance was their requirement. Fame was their goal. And from their group, organized upon these, principles in 1884 at the University of Kansas, has come such men as Senator William E. Borah; General Fred Funston; the late Ralph E. Stout, formerly managing editor of the Kansas City Star; A. Marshall, veteran newspaper writer with the Kansas City Journal-Post; Perly R. Bennett, once managing editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean; the late Col. Edward C. Little, Kansas congressman, and W. Y. Morgan, owner of the Hutchinson, Kan., News. All in all. the group produced a major general, a lawyer, a banker, two statesmen and seven nationally known editors. The young men formed the University Courier Publishing Company, and published the university paper. John Sullivan, a Kansas City attorney, was president of the group. It was his privilege to hire and fire William Allen White on the first newspaper job the Kansas editor ever had. Poisoned By Kitten’s Bite KEMPTON, Ind., Aug. 26.—Frederic Hobbs is in a serious condition at his home here from blood poisoning which developed after he was bitten on a hand by a kitten.

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ward Stock Company in St. Louis, Mo.; one season with the Gene Lewis Company, Memphis, Tenn., and two seasons with the Pierre Watkins Company. She has prepared an extensive wardrobe for her work here. She is youthful, petite, and has an effervescence which is extremely pleasing. The following members of the Berkell Players will support Miss Alba in her work during the winter: Idabelle Arnold, Bernice Marsolais, Adelaide Melnotte, Milton Byron, Larry Sullivan, Robert St. Clair, Herbert Dobbins, Frank J. Marlow, William Hull and Harvey Schlueter. “WINGS” IS A REAL BROADWAY HIT “Wings,” the Paramount picture drama of the war in the air, soared to the top of the New York film list on the night of its premiere showing. The newspaper critics gave it tremendous approval, and the public is standing in line for a chance to see it. The advance ticket sale before the first shewing reached $8,600, which record shatters by more than $5,000 that held by any other special picture ever shown on Broadway. A Griffith Gray,, head of the Paramount road-show department, who has been connected with film roadshows since “The Birth of a Nation.” made the announcement of the bookings. The theater was sold out solid for two weeks in advance. The review by the New York World movie critic indicates the reception of the picture by the newspapers. He said: “‘Wings’ flew into the Criterion—riding on the breeze of an effusive ballyhoo, and justified virtually all the praise its makers have given it. Never has a screen in this country shown such a spectacle of aviation. The audience broke into spontaneous applause at the thrill of sheer spectacle. ‘Wings’ doubtless will have a long run on Broadway.” Indianapolis theaters today offer “Charm” at Keith’s; “The Whole Town’s Talking,” at English’s; Sibylla Bowhan at the Lyric; “Demp-sey-sharkey fight at the Colonial; “Lost at the Front” at the Ohio; “The PQor Nut” at the Indiana; “The Big Parade” at the Circle; “We’re All Gamblers” at the Apollo and movies at the Isis.

AUG. 26, 1927

Why the Weather?

By Charles Fitrhugh Talman Authority on Meteorology

WIND “HOLES” In parts of rural England the curious custom prevails of describing the quarter from which the rainbearing winds blow as a “hole.” The word in this sense, is always ised in connection with the name of some locality. About Shrewsbury, for example, you hear people say, “There’ll be rain, for the wind has got into Habberly Hole”—Habberly being a village to the southwestward of that town. In Ashford Vale, East Kent, it is Bodjam Hole that is said to bred the rainy winds, and at Dunstable, Berfordshire, it is Flammer’s Hole. In parts of Lincolnshire people talk in a simiia : fashion of Wraby Hole and Marn im Hole. Probably these expressions Vare mementoes of the time when even the wisest philosophers believed that many winds had their origin underground, in caves. This belief was, I suppose, founded on the how wellknown phenomenon of “blowing caverns.” A typical blowing cavern has two openings at different levels. In summer the air in the cave is colder than the air outdoors, and therefore flows out of the lower opening, while air is drawn in above to replace it. In winter the circulation is reversed. The air in the cave is then warmer than that outside and escapes at the top as from a chimney, being replaced by air drawn in below. (All rlßhts reserved by Science Service. Inc.)

Questions and Answers

Please give the names of some great conquerors in history? Sargon trite First and Hammurabi of Assyria, Cyprus and Xerxes of the Persians, Croesus of Asia Minor and Alexander the Great of the Greeks, Julius Caesar of the Romans and Caliph Omar of the Moslems, Jengis Khan and Attilla, Charlemagne and Napoleon. What nationality is Renee Adoree? She was born in Lille, P’rance, in 1901 of a Spanish father and a French mother. Does an alien who marries a woman citizen of the United States become an American civizen by his marriage? He must be naturalized to become an American citizen. How can paint spots be removed from linoleum? Rub spots with turpentine and if they do not come off that way apply turpentine again and, while the spots are still damp, rub with fine grained sandpaper.

Brain Teasers

If you know your movies you’ll have no trouble at all answering today’s questions. Answers are dflj page 17: 1. What two film stars are married to princes? 2. What author selected the actress to play the title role in “Peter Pan”? 3. What is the name of Tom Mix’s horse? 4. Who is Marshall Neilan’s wife? 5. What is the color of Clara Bow’s hair? , 6. What is the name of the first woman movie director? 7. Was Adolph Menjou born in Paris, Pittsburgh or Petoskey, Mich.? 8. What is the real name of Chotsie Noonan? 9. What cartoonist created the character of “Old Bill,” who was the hero in "The Better ’Ole”? 10. What was the name qf the director of a recent picture in which an American frigate played the title role?

Do You Know — That 67 social service agencies of Indianapolis, including 36 affiliated with the Community Fund, belong to the Council of Social Agencies, an organization for the study and recommendation of the best possible service to its city and citizens.

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