Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1927 — Page 4

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Make It Unanimous There should be no serious disagreement between Attorney General Gilliom, who is at present the only Republican leader who appears unafraid to voice his views, and Chairman Peters of the Democratic party. The task before Indiana can very profitably use the influence of both political parties. The job is to get rid of “ super-government, ” and if we are to have a system of political parties, it might seem that both parties could agree upon a program that is so fundamentally AmeJcan. Gilliom has openly challenged the forces of super-government in the State and has not hesitated to name them. He points to the Ku-Klux Klan as the force of hate and bigotry and the Anti-Saloon League as the v@jce of fanaticism and tyrannical politics. There can hardly be any dispute that both these organizations have contributed to the present condition, the one through a venal leadership and the other through a blindness to any consideration except that of the dry cause. The leaders of both have assumed to dictate laws and government and through fear of these leaders and of political reprisals, we have had timid executives and more timid legislators and at least cautious judges. Just why there should be any hesitation in Democratic circles in condemning these two branches of secret control o\ officials is hard to explain. No member of the Democratic party who has watched the effects of this super-govern-ment in the other party could wjsh to become the legatee of these sinister influences if they are driven from the party which they have so successfully controlled. If both or either have principles or policies they wish to advance, they should be given an opportunity to come into the open and fight for them. The challenge of Gilliom to his own party can have no other effect than making the matter one of contest within his party. It will drag the matter into the open. A similar challenge from Peters ought to drive any such influence from his own party. Indiana is trying hard to get a chance to clean up and rid itself of its shame and humiliation which has come, almost entirely, from the secret control of these forces. The men who traded and trafficked, with them in the past are fairly well known. Those who bargained and dealt with them can be forgotten by the people in future honors. An unanimous drive in both parties against these influences would drive the agents of these forces into the open. There is room for every one who is willing lo take a stand. Indiana has had too much pussyfooting. '

Make It Emphatic Just how long Mayor Duvall can ignore public sentiment is a question to be determined by his own conscience. His continuance in office or any plan to keep the office in his wife’s name<after he goes to jail is a positive menace to this city. Every business is affected by it. The reputation of the city suffers. No growth or expansion can be expected from attracting new industries as long as the city is the laughing stock oi the Nation and an object of suspicion to the industrial and business world. Is there any one except the mayor and a very few who are drawing more money from city jobs than they could earn elsewhere, who want him to stay in office? If there are they are making no appeals in his behalf. The suggestion of The Times on Monday th%t this was a matter for concerted action in civic organizations which are dedicated to the city’s welfare but are not interested in politics, has been followed by three of the outstanding' organizations. Others are contemplating similar action. • That Mayor Duvall should wait until a court throws hir. tut of office in the face of such protests and demands for resignation merely reflects upon himself and justifies every criticism and accusation. His one and only path to any forgiveness lies in an immediate resignation without any effort to keep the job in his own family. His election is now judicially branded as tainted with corruption. There is need of an administration, right now, that is born in incorruption. A committee of club presidents, each with a resolution of indignation, should march on the city hall and educate the mayor to the seriousness of the situation. Dollar Diplomacy Doomed Old-fashioned dollar diplomacy In the Latin Americas Is doomed. Eventually, perhaps at once, the new dollar diplomacy will make Its bow. The old dollar diplomacy was the diplomacy of cold-blooded exploitation of weaker or more back-

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ward peoples for the money there was to be made out of them. The new dollar diplomacy will seek ’the advancement and prosperity of weaker and more backward peoples because progressive big business men know more money is to made dealing with prosperous, industrious peoples than with peons. The average American a dollar for every penny the average native of India can spend. There are more automobiles In the smallest State in the Union than there are in all China, notwithstanding her people. Some of the oil men in Mexico are typical exponents ol the old-fashioned dollar diplomacy. They are merely Interested In oil wells which will only last a few years at best. They don’t give a hang how many revolutions Mexico has Just so they can continue to pump out the oil. They would rather pay SIOO,OOO to some local native grafter for local protection than pay $150,000 in taxes to a stable, thriving, national government. They wai\t wages to remain as low as possible. They are interested only in shipping oil out of the country, not in the prosperity or advancement of the country itself. They do not care how illiterate the natives are—the more illiterate the better—for higher standards of living would profit them not at all. Not all American oil men in Mexico are like that. But some are. And these have been making tlieir voices heard loudly and long in the neighborhood of Washington in recent years. Sooner or later, however, progressive American capitalists and business men generally will have their Innings in the State Department at Washington. These men have permanent, rather than temporary, interests in Mexico. They own Mexican national securities. These are only as good as the government behind them. They own Mexican railway tends, good only in proportion to the steadiness and volume of business these railways do. They have valuable trade connections which increase or decrease in value as Mexico’s fortunes rise or fall. As MeAco prospers, they stand to prosper. The faster the Mexican peon gets away from coolie conditions and approaches the American standard of wages living, the more money these Americans stand to make. Take our automobile industry as an example. Today Mexico has about 30,000 passenger cars and trucks. On an American footing she would have approximately 3,000,000, or 100 times as many. As Mexico buys nearly all her cars In the United States it is easy to see what prosperity down there would mean to this one industry alone, to the workers as well as to the owners; Now in a money world like ours, nearly all diplomacy is dollar diplomacy, however, much we may dislike to admit it. But dollar diplomacy may be good or bad; constructive or destructive; creative of good will and understanding or of ill will and bad blood. We like to believe—and tlgnk we see reason for believing—that President Coolidge has definitely made up his mind ak least to begin some experiments along these construrave lines.

- Less Crime? Prohibition, we were told, would pay for itself by cutting the cost of government. With prohibition there would be less crime and less need for prisons. The States would all save money thereby. So we were |bld. The United State Census Bureau is making a survey of prisons and reformatories in all* States. The si\rvey is now complete as to fifty-eight prisons in thirty-one States. - It shows that 27,018 prisoners were received at these prisons in 1926. In 1923 only 21,054 prisoners were received. That’s an increase in three years of 28 per cent. Os course the country has grown during those three years, but not 28 per cent. In Pennsylvania, in 1923, there were 13.7 prisoners for each 100,000 population; in 1926, there were 15.9. In Ohio the prisoners per hundred thousand population were 36.6 in 1923, 48 in 1926; in Texas, 30.1 in 1923, 37.2 In 1926; in Colorado, 56.1 in 1923, 76.1 in 1926; in California, 40.4 in 1923, 41.5 in 1926. Obviously In each of these States, as in practically all the ethers thus far surveyed, the prison population has grown much faster than the population of the State as a whole. , Oklahoma Is a shining exception. For each hundred thousand of population, Oklahoma courts committed 78.1 persons to prison in 4923, but only 71.9 in 1926. In any case, on the census bureau’s figures, it is nard to find the economy in prohibition. The two missing oil witnesses send word from Europe through attorneys, that they can shqd no light on *the alleged gift of bonds from Harry Sinclair to Secretary Fall. They have nothing to say, it seems, and just hate to say it. Borah has recommended an increase in the tariff’ on onions. Washington theaters must be that way, too. Now if that 132-year-old Turkish gentleman would like a little publicity, why don’t he fly over? The Asiatic beetle has begun to bother Long Island crops, according to a dispatch. The old world Just keeps sending us one thing or another—if it isn’t a beetle it’s a bottle.

Law and Justice By Dexter M. Keezer

The Jury In a prohibition law case faiMTto agree, aftef several hours of deliberation. The judge called the jurors into the courtroom and asked them how the vote stood. They said it was 9 to 3. No reference was made to whether the majority was in favor of acquittal or conviction. The jurors subsequently agreed on a verdict of guilty. ' An appeal was taken from this decision, on the ground that the judge had committed error sufficient to warrant anew trial by asking the jury how It stood. It was argued that such question had the improper effect of influencing the jury to reach a verdict. The opposing argument was that the mere question of the numerical division of the jury, without reference to whether they favored conviction or acquittal, wa snot sufficient ground to upset the verdict. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The United States Supreme Court decided that the trial judge’s question constituted a valid ground for anew trial. The reasori given was that such a question tended to have an improper decision.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. TRACY SAYS: We Never Shall Lay the Basis of a Permanent Civilization Until We Have Found a Way to Balance the Strata of Society so Far as Reproduction Is Concerned.

Whether the average family should have two cars in order to make America safe for the automobile business; Whether some way can be found to loan the Mississippi flood sufferers the money they need to plant next year’s crops; , Whether there will be a tax cut in spite of Secretary Mellon’s opposition and who will benefit most if there is; Whether Governor Smith should go on letting Judge Olvany put words of political clap-trap into his mouth or say something on his own account; Whether a girl should be barred from high school because she is married, as the New Brunswick board of education has decided; Whether Rear SAdmiral Magruder should be allowed to offer a straight forward plan of reorganization for the Navy, should be muzzled in the good oldfashioned way or should be choked to death with butter; Whether the farmers should be “relieved,” and if so by whom; Whether New York City spoiled a good actor when it put Jimmy in the mayor's chair; Whether Gene Tunney can become a great evangelist after making a couple of million in the prize ring; Whether the political ring at Washington can side-track Herbert Hoover, end if it can, whether it will lose the election; Whether we should face the prohibition question in an honest, straight forward way, or continue to play the part of hypocrites and nullify the constitution. ‘Headed for Ruin!' Thus the endless parade of issues, incidents, problems and speculations passes before our eyes, creating spots of excitement here and spasms of worry there. Comes a Yale professor, Ellsworth Huntington, and the executive secretary of the American Eugenics Society. Leon F. Whitney, with a book which, whatever else one may think of it, calls attention to a deeper problem and a more vital issue than them all Birth control, ak practiced by people of affluence and education and as neglected by those who dwell in poverty and ignorance say these authors, promises to destroy civilization, no matter how many cars the average family has, what we do by way of farm relief or whom we elect president of the United States in 1928.

Practice Birth Control ~ Birth control Is one of those subjects on which we choose to be hypocritical. It is a subject which is and always has been discussed by most married couples in the seclusion of their homes, but which far some inscrutable reason has been taboo in public. Birth control has been practiced by every leisure, luxury loving class that society has thrown off since the jdawn of human consciousness. Childlessnecs on the part of these who could afford it and who preferred to avoid the obligations and responsibilities of parenthood in order that they might pass their time in more amusing ways has been the proximate cause of the collapse of every great age in human history. Men, whether in ancient Rome or modem England, have accepted wealth and knowledge as an excuse for not rearing families and have employed the brains and money with which they were endowed to prepare the way for the lower elements of society to trample them under foot and obliterate their work. Balance Is Required No matter how tall buildings we may construct, no matter what stupendous engines of mechanical power ve may contrive, no matter what vast and higher institutions of learning we may establish, no matter how deeply we may delve in the secrets of science, no matter what beautiful abstractions we may evolve, we shall never lay the basis of a permanent civilization until we have found a way to balance the strata of society so far as reproduction is concerned, to perpetuate strains of strength and genius along with those of stupidity and animalism. Obviously, there are but two ways, either more children by parents who are in a position to endow them with the heritages and advantages or modern life, or fewer children by parents who are not. Side-Step Problem It is a beautiful delusion that blood does not count, that inherited strains and traits are of no consequence, and that the right kind of environment can develop strength and character without regard to parentage. It is a beautiful delusion because it permits us to go on in the good old promiscuous, haphazard way, with those who are best fitted to carry them, evading the burdens of society, while those who are least fit shoulder t’ij load. It is a beautiful delusion, because it allows us to pretend one thing and practice another, to give others advise we do not follow, to side-step a problem of which we are afraid because of its very gravity.

Memorial Exhibition of the Paintings of Adams to Open at the John Herron A rt Institute Sunday

A memorial exhibition of the paintings of J. Ottis’ Adams will open in galleries nine and ten Sunday at the John Herron Art Institute. There will be a brief program, beginning at three o’clock on Sunday afternoon. The Orlofl Trio will render several musical numbers and William Forsyth will give a short talk. Mr. Adams, an Important member of the Hoosier Group, died lin January of this year after a life of distinguished accomplishment. He was born in Amity, Johnson County, Indiana in 1851 and as a yoUng man studied first in the South Kensington Art School In London and later in the Royal Academy of Munich under Loefftz and Benczur. In 1887 he returned to this country and made his home In Muncle until 1898 when he went to Brot :ville. He exhibited his work widely and received many prizes. Three of his prize pictures are shown ill this exhibition: “A Winter Morning,” lent by the Muncle Art. Association, received the Fine Arts Corporation prize in Chicago in 1907 and another prize, later, in Vincennes, Ind.; "'The Iridescence of a Shallow Scream,” lent by the Terre Haute Public Library, received a bronze medal at the? Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904; and “A Frosty Morning. No. 2” was awarded an honorable mention in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1910 Adams excelled in landscape. He poured a poetic feeling into his interpretations of nature, and employed a jewel-like brilliancy of coloring that gives distinction to his work. In many of the landscapes figures appear—particularly in the early paintings—but the studies of hills and woods and streams and sky, with no hint of man’s presence other than a winding road or the roofs of a distant village, constlute the greater part of his accomplishment. There are a number of interesting portraits in the exhibition, several figure compositions and 91 few still life paintings. A majority of the canvases have been lent by individual owners from many parts of the country, and some are the property of the Adams heirs. The Richmond Loan Collection still occupies Galley XI. A landscape by J. Ottis Adams entitled “A Summer Afternoon” Is included in this loan. Though it is not hung with the Adams Memorial paintings, it is listed in the catalog of that exhibition. A group of noteworthy French etchings have been placed in Gallery 11. Included are fine examples of the work of Charles Jacque, Felix Buhot, Jean Francois Millet, Auguste Lepere, Jean Paul Laurens, Jean Francisque Raffaeli, CarolusDuran, Charles Francois Daubigny, Paul Helleu, Albert Besnard and others. Several of the etchings were formerly in the Delavan Smith 1 ->l--and were included in vie collectors bequest to tlje Art Association. “The Apple Market” by Auguste Lepere has greatly increased in value since its acquisition by the Art Association. • It is reported that a print of this etching brought the sum of $1,200 at a recent print sale. NEW BILL DUE AT THE INDIANA The Indiana Theater, starting tomorrow and playing through next Friday, presents another Jack Partington production, “Way Out West,” featuring Charlie Davis and his Indiana Stage Band and A cast of New York artists including Jack Powell, Lang and Voelk, Holly Hall, Kendall Capps, Mooney mid Churchill and the Indiana Girls all set in true western style. The feature picture for the week is “Smile Brother, Smile,” with Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill in the leading roles, telling a terse tale having to do with that famous character “the traveling salesman.” An organ solo by Maurice olayed on the mighty Barton organ, the Indiana News of the world and other novelty reels complete the program. LITTLE THEATRE /, WORKERS TO MEET The “round-up” tea of the membership drive of the Little Theatre Society of Indiaan will be held at th* estate of Mrs. J. A. Goodman in

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Crow’s Nest on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Goodman Is chairman of the drive. At this tea the team captains will give their reports. It was found necessary, due to the lack of time which two of the captains oould devote to the drive, to reorganize two of the teams after the drive had started. Mrs. Stanley Zweible is the new captain of Mrs. Grace Watson Duckwall’s team and Mrs. Harry F. Parr of Mrs. William Allen Moore's team. The leading member of the drive is Miss Hilda Lieber, who reported her full quota of new members on the first day of the drive and has not relaxed her efforts to obtain

You can get an answer to any question ut fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How many fights has Jack Sharkey won on fouls? His record shows that he won three fights on fouls. In 1925 he won from Jim Maloney on a foul in nine rounds. In 1926 he won from Bud Gorman on a foul in two rounds and from Harry Wills in thirteen rounds. What is the per capita income in the United States for 1926? $770. What is the best known star of the northern hemisphere? Polaris or the Pole Star. Who publishes the magazine called Assjciation Men? The International Committee of the Young MenVChristian Association at 347 Madison St., New York; Frank G. Weaver, editor. What is meant by the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise? It if. the famous paradox propounded by Zeno. In a race, Achilles, who can run ten times as last as the tortoise, gives the latter a hundred yards start, but it is im-

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new members during the remainder of the drive. She is a member of Mrs. Raymond F. Mead’s team, which was the leading team the first day of the drive largely through her efforts. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Flaming Youth” at the Colonial; the Tunney-Dempsey pictures at the Band Box and the Rialto; “Chang” at the Apollo; Nan Halperin at Keith’s; Tiny Revue at the Lyric; “Hard Boiled Haggerty at the Indiana; “What Price Glory” at the Circle; “In the First Degree” at the Isis; “The Blood Ship” at the Ohio and burlesque at the Mutual.

Questions and Answers

possible for hi mto overtake the tortoise gnd win the race; for while he runs the first hundred yards, the tortoise runs ten, while Achilles runs that ten the tortoise runs one further and so on indefinitely. The fallacy rests in the use of space traveled instead of in time for covering the distances. No problem in mathematics can be solved if the wrong terms and the wrong formulas are used. What are the meanings of the names Milton, Warren, George, Edna and Alma? Milton means “red colored;” Warren, “protecting friend;” George, "husbandman;” Edna, “pleasant,” and Alma, “nourishing.” Which is the farthest from the earth, Alpha Centauri or Sirius? Alpha Centauri is distant 4.3 light years from the earth while Sirius (the dog star) is distant 8.8 light years. Do trickets eat cloth? No. How did the superstition originate that knocking on wood repels bad luck? It appears to have originated in the custom of touching wood upon every occasion of happiness or -good fortune in gratitude to Christ, who died upon a wooden cross. Through some perverted notion of the mass

SEPT. 30,1927

Mr. Fixit Cornelius Ave. Citizen Wants Weeds Cut on Vacant Lot. Let Mr. Fixit, the Times* representative at city hall, present your troubles to city officials. Write Mr. Flxlt at Tha Times. Names and addresses . which must be given, will not be published. Mr. Fixit today received a request to aid in getting weeds cut on a vacant lot. Dear Mr. Fixit: There is a vacant lot on Cornelius Ave., about 4021, which is covered with weeds, about ready to go to seed. Would appreciate very much to have them cut as soon as possible. Also there is a neighbor who burns loose paper on this lot. It could cause lots of trouble, as the paper blows. Thanking you much, A READER. The health board has begun in- i vestigation of your complaint.

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They said he was a lazy young man— his neighbors because he didn’t work. He felt their insinuating looks as he passed by them on the streets. Ee knew that the grocer would refuse to extend credit to his family any more. And his rent wasi long overdue. He had endured the' privation and the humiliation as long as he could. Laboriously he wrote to the Family Welfare Society. The worker who came to see the family found that emergency relief was necessary. She ialso decided that a doctor would probably know more about this “lazy” young man than his neighbors, so she took him. to a clinic. Treatment failed to relieve the “rheumatism” which he insisted he had, and so he was X-rayed. Thus they learned that his laziness was due to a serious case of tuberculosis of the bones, and that he ought not to work for a year. Thr treatment continues and a weekly allowance for the maintenance of the family has been arranged. Moreover, the theory of “laziness” which the neighbors entertained has been entirely dispelled. The little family has come to taste the sweetness of sympathetic understanding —and now and then goodies from some neighbor’s kitchen. Help for this young man and his family was possible because of YOUR COMMUNITY FUND. What teams played in the baseball world series in 1919? Cincinnati of the National League and Chicago of the AmericanLeague.

mind, the custom of touching ors “knocking” wood came to be looked upon as a means of warding off ill luck. Who was the leading man in the motion picture “The Lady in Er- * mine” with Corrinne Griffith? Einar Hansen. When did Seth Thomas manufacture clocks? During the first half of the nineteenth century. His plant in Con- ' nectlcut became one of the largest- i in the world. When and why did Martha Mansfield, the movie actress, leave pictures? She was seriously burned while, i on location for a movie production,,! Nov. 29, 1923, and died the next*i day. In what year was Calvin Coolidge Governor of Massachusetts? In 1920-1921. —4) In what motion picture did Lonj Chaney play the pai*t of a man without legs? “The Penalty.” What relation are my sister-in-law’s children to me? They are your nieces and nephews* by marriage?