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Saving the Mayor. No one will be disappointed in the decision ojf the majority members of the council to qttfckly abandon charges by one of their own members against the mayor. The whole theory of the majority members of the administration and of the mayor, apparently, is that as long as an official can keep out of jail, he can hold his job. That theory seems to be held in other offices much higher than that of mayor and councilmen so these can be excused if they at times seem to abandon the public welfare for this viewpoint. That the people have some l’ights and may have .some conscience about public affairs never enters the heads of our present rulers. The charges filed against the m'ayor were definite in their natux-e and in another city might even be regarded as serious. The council member evidently thought they were important. One member, with Courage and conscience, Mr. Springsteen, still is naive enough to believe that the people regard them as important and declares he will fight to have them thoroughly aired. The mayor, in the impeachment charge, was accused of having used his office for his own benefit, of having obtained it by a conspiracy and in violation of such laws as are designed tx> make elections fairly honest and fairly representative in public opinion, that he has disregarded the best interests of the people in the various manners. It is true, of course, that the mayor now holds his office through the favor of the last legislature and not by any Wish or will of the people. The people have already expressed themselves concerning him by voting to put in the city manager system. The mayor, being a political prophet who recognizes the signs, obtained a law from the last legislature which prevented the people from immediately obtaining this change. It is difficult to understand what would be necessary to impeach a mayor if the charges filed were not sufficient. It is even more difficult to understand why the mayor was not before the council insisting that the charges be proved and his reputation vindicated. But these are strange days in Indiana. Men in public life do not demand proof of charges No one seems to object to any charge that is made or grow angry when accused. The whole effort seems to be to hold the job and keep out of jail. Some of these officials, intent on paying tribute to benefactors, should now raise a statute to that lawyer Avho first thought of the statute of limitations. Or should it replace Miss Indianapolis on the top of the Monument ? Cheap Auto Insurance. Governor Smith of New York recently called on the automobile owners ip his State to submit their cars to a free examination. In the course of three weeks more than a million owners complied with the request. The results were surprising. It was found that 39 per cent of the cars examined were defective. Fourteen out of every hundred required brake adjustment. Four out of every hundred needed to have their brakes relined. Eighteen out of every hundred had defective headlights. Two out of every hundred had headlight* that needed to be replaced. The other required only to be adjusted. Three out of every hundred had horns that weren’t working Five out of every hundred had faulty steering equipment. One in every hundred had steering geer that needed to be replaced. Every one of these defective cars offered an extra hazard to its passengers and to others on the road. In almost every case the defects were such that the cost of correction was very slight. Adjusting brakes and lights costs little, but the margin of safety is very great between a car with good brakes and good lights find one with defective brakes and lights. In New York State car owners are busily engaged in putting their cars in order. But the facts found by New York’s examiners are probably no different from what would be found in this or any other State. Citizens of this State would do well to have their cars examined, without waiting for a Governor’s

(Auburn Evening Star) Divorce and marriage statistics for Indiana, made public by the department of commerce, show that 40,409 marriage licenses were issued in Indiana last year, that 7,690 decrees of divorce were Marring 9 granted and that there vere annulment j decrees in seventy-seven cases. Strictly speaking, this can not be taken as Divorce Indiana’s record because it includes Lake and Clark Counties. Marion County, with the largest population of any county in Indiana, shows 3,775 marriage licenses issued last year. Lake County issued 6,422 licenses and the total for Clark County was 3,340. In recent years there have been justices of the pence and even clergymen at Gary, Crown Point and other Lake County cities who advertised for marriage business and offered special inducements. Chicago couples go to Lake County, Indiana, gtain marriage license*, and Kentucky people and

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proclamation. Keeping a car in safe operating conditions is one of the cheapest forms of automobile insurance that has been devised. The Disgrace of Indiana. How much longer will the people of this State accept silence from Governor Ed Jackson as a response to the very specific charge of The Times? On July 25, more than a month ago, The Times very definitely charged that Jackson, then secretary of state, offered to Warren T. McCray, then Governor and under indictment, a guarantee against conviction and SIO,OOO for attorney fees if he would name the selection of George V. Coffin to the prosecutorshlp of this county?* The people had every right to expect that Governor Jackson would at least dfny the charge. They had a right to expect that he would take steps which would 'vindicate himself. There were very easy ways for him to accomplish that and very difficult ways for The Times to force into the open proof of its charge. The lawyers have called attention to the fact that the date of the offer, as charged by The Times, was December 8, 1923 and that if crime was committed, the statute of limitations had prevented any action. If tlie charge was false, The Times has probably violated the laws of this State designed to protect reputations. No statute of limitations has run against The Times, if it had maliciously and falsely accused this Governor. Each day the people of the State and of other States read of witnesses before the grand Jury who might be expected to have some knowledge of this incident and the people of the State again listen to the charge. That is bad for the State. It is bad for the Gov* ernor. It is worse for that faith in government which’ is essential to orderly life. There is a simple way to end this matter. The Governor by a vigorous denial and an official waiver of any protection of the statute of limitations could settle it. That would make unnecessary the more costly and difficult Risk of calling together the Legislature to fix the truth or falsity of this charge. Silence is not an answer. It would be unfortunate if the people construed it as confession. Haven’t heard any statement from Prince Carol saying he doesn’t “choose” to run for the throne of Rumania. The reason so many marriages are failures is because so many failures are married. Italy has put a tax Qn bachelors. In this country only their ingenuity is taxed. Cooks may come and cooks may go, but few remain.

Politics and Happiness BY N. D. COCHRAN

The chief aim of government should be to make all of the people as happy as possible. That should Include giving each of .them the fullest possible opportunity to develop what there is in him to develop, and giving him the widest possible personal liberty consistent with the well-being of all. The aim of too many politicians seems to be to not give people any more liberty than is necessary to get their votes. Theoretically, in a democracy, public officials arc servants of the people. In practice they are masters of the people. To illustrate, most of the delegates to national party conventions will be national, state, county and municipal office holders or members of the party organization they can control. The platforms, which are made up by the expert politicians, are framed to catch votes. Quite generally the people have come to believe that political platforms are made to get into office on, not to be regarded as the law and gospel after they get in. With, each succeeding national party convention the platforms mean less and less to the average man. Today there isn’t a man in the United States who can define intelligently the difference between a Democrat and a Republican; and neither of the parties offer anything tangible by way of increasing the happiness of the people as a whole. The differences of opinion and belief were sharply defined when Jefferson and Hamilton were leaders of factions holding to differing political creeds. But there are no such differences of opinion now between the parties which claim these two great men as their founders. In fact, most modern Democratic party leaders have turned their backs on Jefferson and are following Hamilton. There is more Jeffersonian democracy in Hamilton's state of New York than there is in Jefferson’s state of Virginia. There is less respect and reverence for the Jeffersonian bill of rights in Virginia and the Democratic South than there is in the Republican North and West. More violence is done to religious and personal liberty and to all that Jefferson held dear in the stages that profess loyalty to the party if Jefferson. The great change that has come over the spirit of the dreams of Jefferson in the part of the country that long has traveled on his fame is that the political leaders there have become followers of a cult that believes that the only way to make people happy is to make them miserable; and by sidetracking the bill of rights and making mental slaves of the whites where once they made physical slaves of the blacks. They have come under the spell of a religious creed that can't get away from the -conviction that man can best find grace in the eye of God by selftorture and a determined resistance to any natural form of happiness here on earth. And they have moved a long way from the cry of Patrick Henry to ‘Give me liberty or give me death.” There are millions of liberty-loving American citizens ready to go along with a party that* will get back to Jefferson and advocate making the people happy as the chief end of government.

perhaps others go to Jeffersonville. The law says and has said for fifty years, that the bride must live in the county where the license is issuel, but no attention is paid to that provision by some county clerks. If the direct question as to residence is asked, a little perjury paves the way for the license to be issued. Were it not for the Chicago business, Lake County’s marriage license total would not be much more than that of St. Joseph County, where 2,333 licenses were issued last year. Clark County’s normal quota would be no more than that of any county having about the same population. Marion County, with 3,775 marriages and 1,346 divorces, maintains a ratio of one divorce for every three weddings. For the state, the ratio is about five and one-half marriages to every divorce. Accurate comparisons are impossible because there were about 4,000 nonresident licenses in Lain County and when those marriages go on the rocks the divorces are obtained elsewhere.'

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: We Have Become Terrifically in This Age of Stunts.

ELLSWORTH, Maine. Aug. 30. Brock and Schlee safe in England; no word of Redfem for three days; hope about gone for the seven that were lost in the Pacific tragedy; doubt and triumph still rivet the public mind to aviation “Sorry to keep you fellows waiting,” remarked Brock, as he and Schlee dropped from the sky at Croyden, three hours late These two men had fought thunder, fog and sleet all night over a thousand miles of trackless sea. It was an even chance, If not more, that they would never pull through. Those who greeted them were fully aware of this. Yet no one was startled by the casualness of their attitude. We have become terrifically blase in this age of stunts. Cotton Is Up Cotton is up, thanks to the flood, boll weevil and rain, which is just another proof that it take a short crop to bring good prices. The funny part of it is that we can never seem to get a short crop without some kind of calamity. You would suppose that the farmers could learn something from all the sad experience.® they have been through. If bad weather, or pests can react so favorably, why not a reduction of acreage now and then? Farm Products Surplus In spite of the rush to the cities, we still have a surplus of farm products. Except for the waste that occurs all along the line, the agricultural market would be glutted. On the farm, as everywhere else, machinery has enabled one man to do more than eight or ten could a generation ago. If it were not for the luxuries and ! superfluities of life, nine-tenths of us would be idD. Some day, perhaps, we will learn .to enjoy the luxuries and superfluities of rural life; learn that a rose contains as much happiness as a jazz tune and that an evening in the garden is quite as worth while as one in the flivver. Unnatural Excitement No matter how artificial we become, the commonplace side of our nature still demands room for expression, and lacking a proper channel, becomes volcanic. A headless body found .n a thicket on Long Island, with the print of a woman’s high heels npL'.by, and a human tongue hanging in a tree; a mother shot through the head and buried face down in her own basement; a young man murdered in Kentucky and his fiancee assaulted and beaten; a paymaster killed and robbed in New York; of what do such tragedies speak more graphically than unnatural existence and unnatural excitement? Ready-Made Excuse Who can think of murdered paymasters without recalling the SaccoVanzetti case, which throve in a setting of unnatural excitement from the beginning, and which appears foredoomed to leave a trail of unnatural excitement for* years to come. Physically, these two men have been reduced to a few quarts of ashes; morally, they remain a flaming force in the minds of millions. Many a crime will be committed in their name, and many a crime will be attributed to their influence for which they and their followers will be in nowise responsible. If radicals have been left an excuse for violence, the police of a hundred cities have found a ready made explanation for crimes they can not solve. Save Railroad Fuel A direct drive Diesel locomotive is being made for the Boston and Maine at Essen, Germany. It will be ready for tests about Dec. 1, and if these are satisfactory for delivery early in the winter. It is expected to develop four times the power of a steam locomotive on one-flfth the fuel, and twice the power of an electric locomotive on one-half the fuel. If it fulfills these requirements, the Boston and Maine railroad will order twenty. Germany Beating Back Advent of this Diesel engine proves two things: First, oil is replacing coal with surprising rapidity, and Second, Germany is resuming her place in the field of industry with just as surprising rapidity. Several automobile manufacturers have told me that they feared Germany’s competition in the low priced car market more than that of any other country. Russia Plays to Capitalists The realization that oil has become the all important fuel is reflected in a constantly increasing struggle for its control. Russia has bfeen able to make some very advantageous deals because of her oil resources, having contracted with the Standard Oil Company of New York and the Vacuum Oil Company, to take mqre than 40,000,000 barrels annually. Russia’s idea in doing this was not only to raise cash with which to purchase supplies from abroad, but to embarrass England, as Stalin made clear in a recent speech. It is the hope of Russian leaders to create a friendly sentiment in England and America by offering trade opportunities, especially to large concerns. They have the Illusion that the press and politics of outside countries are controlled by big business and that Jf they can make a favorable impression on big business, they can get what they want from the governments. This is anew, but none the less dangerous type of rtbssian propaganda.

Bernice Marsolais Puts the Real Cold Shivers Into ‘The Ghost Train’, a Mighty Good Mystery

Shivers of the coldest brand are manufactured by Miss Bernice Marsolais this week in “The Ghost Train,” which to my way of thinking is an effective mystery play. It is a pleasure to see Miss Marsolais in an emotional dramatic

role which gives her a chance to turn on the emotional fireworks and at the same time make the shivers run up and down ones back. That is one of the tricks of the play and Miss Marsolais has the needed quality or the right kind of dramatic shivers to give the big 'punch to “The Ghost Train.” It is a trick role, because she has a • chance to become

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a very “tough” baby just before the final curtain. The character becomes so rough that she uses a gun Here is mighty good understanding of how a mystery play should be acted on the part of Miss Marsolais. Larry Sullivan this week has one of the “fattest” roles that he has had this season. He gets most of the laughs and he gets them just as sure as Lindbergh got to Paris. I might add that the acting triumphs this week goes to Miss Marsolais and Sullivan. I refuse to give the plot of a mystery play because the less you know the better you are going to like the play. , And “The Ghost Train” is good mystery melodrama of the modern school. This play marks the first appearance of Alney Alba as leading woman of the Berkell Players. It is impossible for me to judge the ability of this woman by “the Ghost Train” as the author has given her no part at all. So I reserve any judgment until other vehicles give me a way. I wish in all sincerity that Berkell would refuse to permit flowers to go over the footlights. In a mystery play, any break actually hinders the suspense. Whin the curtain goes down on the second act, J. F. Marlow is holding in his arms Miss Marsolais who is supposed to have fainted. On the opening night of the show the curtain was jerked up in a hurry to permit flowers to be passed over the footlights and there was Marlow holding the prostrate body of Miss Marsolais. I ask the world in all sincerity, let us be fair to the women in “arms'' as well as thos? who are supposed to get the flowers. Jerome, who plays the role ot Hodgkin, was not up in his lines on the opening night. He had a splendid makeup but he should have known his part. Others in the cast include Milton Byron, Robert St. Clair, Idabelle Arnold, Adelaide Melnotte (splendid in a comedy part), Herebert Dob-

Stage Verdict

ENGLISH'S—“The Ghost Train” is corking good mystery melodrama splendidly acted in the right tempo, by Miss Bernice Marsolais and Larry Sullivan. LYRIC—AI Abbott is the real artist on this bill. He ha3 the right to be considered the only serious rival of Charles (Chic) Sale. KEITH’S—“In Love With Love” is a mighty light affair, but gives the younger members of the Stuart Walker organization pleasing comedy opportunities. MUTUAL—“The Tempters” are giving the Mutual a good opening show for the season.

Lets Go!

•BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

bins, Harry West and J. F. Marlow. , From a scenic standpoint “The Ghost Train” is right. At English’s all week. LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT IS “IN LOVE WITH LOVE” The Stuart Walker offering this week, “In Love With Love," comes under the head of light entertainment. Its greatest charm rests in the fact that it gives Helen Emert, Harry Ellerbe, John Storey and Paul Wright an opportunity to do some pleasing and effective comedy work. In all fairness to Miss Emert, who I thought was wrong in her way of projection of a characterization in "Charm” last week, I gladly state this week that she reveals a charm, a poise and an understanding of polite comedy which is most pleasing. she is the charming individual this week and she is always resourceful and has hidden every trace of just merely acting. Most pleasing work. Miss Emert. Ellerbe again has a chance to spread that “it” thing all over the theater. He is a good charmer this iVeek and he is playing the role of Metcalde in a good, wholesome, natural way. He is the lovesick youngster and acts like one this week. Storey is giving a nice performance of one of the lovers. I enjoyed every minute of the sure comedy work, especially the shading of Paul Wright as Jack Gardner. Others in the cast are Katherine Hall, Camille Griffith and Aldrich Bowker. From a scenic standpoint, “In Love With Love” is an example of rare beauty. But the play is mighty light and at times as light as air. At Keith’s all week. WE WILL PRAISE ABBOTT FROM THE VERY SKIES I am going to shout the praises of a man by the name of A1 Abbott and I am willing, if necessary, to get on the highest housetop and yell it out to the world. To my way of thinking, A1 Abbott is the only man on the stage who

has the right to be seriously considered as a rival to Charles (Chic) sale. I know lam talking mighty ofty, but I mean 1 ivery word of it. Abbott is a masterful showman and he knows life and above all he knows how to put that touch of life in eve r y character who appears on a home town show at the town hall. His character touches are Just

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as sure and are just as human as those of Sale. Abbott can win over any audience. He impersonates characters with whom we are all acquainted. His knowledge of human comedy is really startling. Abbott is the man who is stopping the Lyric show this week. Gladys Delmare and Boys have one of the regulation orchestra acts which receives its most charm from the singing of Miss Delmare and her dancing. The orchestra makes a pretty good background for the ability of Miss Delmare. Nicholson and Ruckert are champion ice skaters. Emory Manley and Company go in for imitations of birds and animals. Their baby crying imitation is good as the imitation is concerned with the crying of the child. Lee and Cranton apply anew twist to the idea of a movie actress doing her stuff before the big boss. Part of this little skit, which is placed in Ireland, is pleasing. Good dancing is the chief merit of Longtin-Kenny and Company, in addition to the new way they introduce the menders of the com-

pany. The dancing of the two boys is exceptinally good. I have misplaced the name of an 'eccentric team. Mighty good for this sort of comedy work. Movies complete the bill. f At the Lyric all week. i MUTUAL THEATER GETS GOOD START THIS SEASON A tiptoe dance on elongated wooden shoes is the specialty of “Bert” Fay, who is one of the comedians of "The Tempters” which has opened the Mutual Theater this week. The dance is most unusual, in that Fay dances on shoes that have soles at least three feet long. The presentation of> Jordan and Williams is elegantly costumed. The chorus of the show is well tjpined, although the steps are the conventional chorus steps. The Morrows have several specialty dances thet display talent. Many of the songs are new. In several places a female trio fills in between scenes with novelty songs. The numbers selected for them are ill suited for their voices, however. The prima donna has a good balled voice and has several solos. The comedy of the piece is fast and funny and helped along with, organ, Fay and Morrow doing several old stunts in anew way. Acts of magic are burlesqued in a clever manner. Many solo dances arc included in the bill. Some of the steps- are intricate and in many cases the principal is joined by the chorus, which dances out onto the new illuminated runway of the theater. Asa finale to the show there is a dance by an unannounced dancer who has quite a few tricks new to the burlesque stage. At the Mutual Theater all week. —(By the Observer.) Other theaters today offer: “Molders of Men” at the Ohio, “After Midnight” at the Apollo, “The Stolen Bride” at the Circle, "‘The Heart of Maryland” at the Indiana, Demp-sey-Sharkey fight at the Colonial, and “The Desert Toll” at the Isis.

Questions and Answers

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Do You Know — That 450 youngsters, members of the Boys’ Club Association, a Community Fund agency, will have enjoyed camp life at the organization camp near Noblesville when camp closes the latter part of the month?

AUG. 30, 1927

Why the Weather?

Bv Charles fitzhugh Taiman Authority on Meteorology

INSIDE'A THUNDER STORM . We who remain on the ground generally have little idea of what goes on within the great towering mass of thunder clouds above us. The few aviators who have flown through a thunder storm and come out alive are better acquainted with its violent air currents. They agree that the turbulence within a thunder storm is awful to experience. The heavy fall of rain and thw coolness of the air under the cloud produces a downflow of air which spreads laterally in the form of a squall. The air which goes down in a thunder storm is supplied by a return flow above the squall. Many aviators have been caught in this great upeurrent which occurs on the front of the squall wind isssuing from the base of a thunder storm. In one such case the airplane was lifted from an elevation of 2,000 to 7,000 feet in almost no time. An airplane in the squall wind itself will be troubled by gustiness and eddies. In the rain within the thunder storm a plane is likely to be carried down, not only by the weight of the rain, but also by the downflow of the air. Acccording to one aviator, in the main storm mass there was lightning all around, but it was pitch black otherwise, and the plane was tossed helplessly up and down. It is evident that the airplane has opened to the meteorologist anew means of investigating the phenomena of the air. With heavy cloud masses like the th mde# storm, little of what goes on withiP can be observed from the ground. How much more satisfactory, though how much more dangerous, it must be, to be able to fly up and investigate personally what is happening! (All rights reserved by Science Service, Inc.)

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor: My attention was drawn to an article in your paper concerning portable school buildings by Dr. King of the State Health Board, condeming then; as unfit for children to attend. I would like for the school board’s attention to be drawn to School No. 69, Keystone Ave. and Thirtieth St., which was erected seven years ago. The ground has been donated to the school board with an understanding that they should build a permanent school. We have four grades in most of the rooms, the conditions are deplorable insomuch as it is poorly ventilated and insufficiently heated. The children continually complain about being too cold. It has caught fire twice in the last year. The Parent-Teachers Association has tried in vain to remedy these conditions, but the board seems to think it isn’t necessary to build a permanent school* in this locality for approximately 200 chil- . dren or more. A R. S. WINDISCH. W

Hr. Fixit r w,elfth St. Stretch Je Repaired Soon.

Six property owners signed the following request that W, Twelfth St., from Warman to King Ave„ be repaired. A crew of the street commissioner’s department men are working near that location and probably will begin work there in a few days. Mr. Fixit: Won’t you please see if you can’t do something for us on W. Twelfth St„ from Warman to King Aves. The undersigned are property owners on N. Warman and Holmes Aves., and use Twelfth St. quite extensively. The street is almost impassable. It has large holes in it and is very very rough, and most of the time has large mud holes, as they are’so deep they seldom dry out between rains. We would greatly appreciate it if you would do something to help get this street repaired. ' Thanking you in advance for your efforts, we are, PROPERY OWNERS. A foreman is investigating this section before work will begin on • it. Mr. Fixit: Wili you have the weeds cut on two vacant lots tween 1314 and 1404 Lawton Slfl They are higher than a man’s and are going to seed. I have a boarding house for children, and I think they will cause the children to get sick. A TIMES READER. These weeds will be cut right away, officials report. Mr. Fixit: The residents near the corner of Fifty-Fifth and Car- * rollton Sts., would likeyto have the weeds mowed on the lot at the northwest corner so we can get through on the sidewalk. They have* t not been cut yet this year. This condition will be changed immediately, it was learned, when your complaint was turned in.

Brain Teasers

Several of today’s questions pertain to authors. Answers are on page 12: 1. Who is the author of the expression: “Caviar to the general?” 2. Who wrote “Moby Dick”? 3. What was Artcmus Ward’s real name? 4. Who was Boadicea? 5. Who led the Prussian forces , at the Battle of Waterloo? 6. What is a group of atoms called? 7. Who painted “The Angelus”? 8. Who said: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we will hang separately”? 9. What Biblical character is famed for patience? 10. What was "the flela of the cloth of gold”? What has been the mcmbershii{j of the American Federation of Labor for the years 1924. 1925 and 1926? 1924, 2,865,979; 1925, 2,878,297; 1928, 3,803,966.