Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1927 — Page 4

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A Saddened City

Today there can be but sorrow and a deep sympathy for the friends and families of those who met death so suddenly and so tragically last night. * / Tomorrow, or some other day, perhaps there can be a serious thought as to what may be done to prevent a repetition of these accidents Ity which human life is sacrified. But for the hour there can come but the thought that human life is a very precious thing and that it is also a very uncertain matter. There is something sobering in the thought that a gay party of friends, intent upon pleasure, happy in their associations, can be in a moment blotted from the earth. A saddened city mourns its loss of human life. A shocked city stands in numbed silence before the magnitude of its tragedy. And perhaps there will come to some the 1 bought that life, ever short, ever uncertain, has no room for little hates and little enmities and is never long enough for friendship and the kindlier sentiment that are too often delayed until it is too late. Life is precious. It may be glorious. We may never learn to protect it from the unforeseen. We will and must learn how to live it while we may. 1 Jim Reed’s Creed In his speech at Sedalia, Mo., Wednesday, Senator James A. Reed sounded what may well be Considered the keynote of his campaign for the Democratic nomination. In any case he voiced a creed which should find acceptance, in large part, by every other candidate, Democratic or Republican, who is seeking the votes of the American people next year. We don’t say it will find such acceptance; we say it should. Listen to Reed’s catalogue of American rights: “The inalienable rights of the citizen, among which are liberty of conscience without coercion, criticism or obloquy. “The right of every man to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience and that ‘none shall make him afraid.’ “The right of free speech, free press and peaceable r scemblage. “The right of every citizen to regulate his own personal conduct—chart his own course through life — determine his own habits and to control the affairs cf his own household, free from all restraints, save •hat in the exercise of these natural privileges he will not interfere with the rights of others.” And his suggestions for a course of action: “Let us reassert the truth of the doctrine that if this people are to remain free, local self-government and the sovereignty of the States must be preserved; the Federal power should be brought within the limits not only of the letter but also within the spirit of the Constitution; the march of centralization must be arrested; government by boards and bureaucracies must cease. “Let us demand the honest administration of government; the swift and sure punishment of all public plunderers; bribe mongers and other malefactors; the equalization of the burden of taxation; the repeal of •all laws creating' special privileges; the dismissal of an army of sneaks and informers; the liberation of honest business from oppressive interference by governmental agents; the prosecution and punishment of those who by trusts, combinations and i restraints of trade make war on honest business and despoil the people.” Food for a London Bishop’s Thoughts "I believe with all my heart,” said the bishop of London to the visiting members.of the American Legion, “that the whole future of the world depends upon our two nations keeping together in bonds of love, fellowship and understanding.” And, he added, “I am perfectly certain that the young people of your great country are not taught to love Britain as they should do; indeed I have been told they are taught to hate this country.” This newspaper believes with the good bishop that a British-American entente is vital not only to our own future but to the well being of the entire world. But the menace to such an understanding is not at all where he would seem to.-see it. American history, no doubt, is sometimes distorted, but our children are not taught to “hate” England. The writer of these lines was privileged to sample the teachings of average American schools and universities, but while he emerged with a somewhat lop-sided view of certain phases of our history, hatred of presentday Britain was not among the inadequate intellectual luggage he carried away from those institutions. No, the danger which threatens the tie between Britain and America comes from quite a different direction. International propaganda, altogether too often inspired by diplomats and statesmen, is the real menace. Public opinion—the minds of grownups rather of children—is being stuffed with the poison of prejudice and misinformation, one against another. There lies the peril—not in the tales of' red coats versus American colonials, however lurid or partial they may be. And it so happens that for the past few years the wellspring of this poison has been in Europe and its principal victim Uncle Sam. Nor, we are sorry to say, have British statesmen and publicists lagged behind in this business of fostering hate against America. It was among them that the name of “Uncle Shylock” was coined and it is among them today that the bogey of American “imperialism” is being conjured up to explain away the fdilure of the naval conference at Geneva. “If you would find out what the English really think of the Americans,” said J. W. Drawbell, editor of the Sunday Chronicle, a Manchester, England, paper, “then talk to former service men who met the doughboys during the war, listen to the laughter and unrestrained applause at an anti-American joke in the theater, or join your jeering countrymen in London’s streets as they watch this pantomimic parade

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of American boosters who but lately arrived from the ranks of the American Legion.” This sort of thing is not uncommon across the Atlantic, otherwise we would not give it a passing thought, and we repeat it here only because it does more damage in a day to Anglo-American relations than all the school histories, even the most biased, could in a lifetime. To picture America as the nation that “collared the spoils of someone else’s war,” as this editor did by way of greeting to these same Legionnaires to whom the bishop of London addressed his remarks, and to hold up to jeers and ridicule the men who offered their very lives in “someone else’s war” betrays a state of mind which certainly could not be duplicated against Britain anywhere in the United States. Yesterday we were Shylocks after our pound of European flesh. Today we are imperialists, building a vast navy with which to make the world ours. These are samples of the nonsensical but extremely damaging and dangerous teachings which Europeans —the British along with the rest—are feeding the minds of all who can read or have ears to hear. And the proof of its efficacity is to be found in the fact that never in its existence has America been so unpopular abroad as now. On the other hand let us not forget that whereas despite nearly 150 years of history teaching in America, the World War found her at England’s side. Here is food for a bishop's thoughts. Atta Girl, Ruth! i Ruth Elder, Florida’s 23-year-old flying beauty, did not reach Paris as she had so long hoped and planned to do, but neither did she wind up in Davy Jones’ locker which claimed so many ocean hoppers before her. For this she and we may be thankful. When she took off from New York in The American Girl and went careening eastward over the moist Atlantic, it was no more than an even chance that she would ever see France. Quite as good were her chances of coming to a final pause at the bottom of the sea. But good luck and bad shared honors with her. A broken feed line brought her down in the region of the Azores, but there was a lowly Dutch tanker standing by, so to speak, to pick her and Captain Haldeman, her co.-pilot, up. Anyhow, it was a wonderful adventure. Anji though she failed to reach her objective she did not fail to make a fine name for herself for her daring. Miss Elder did not have to prove the courage of her sex. It has never been doubted. Women have never flinched from any danger at any time or in any clime. They have unhesitantly done whatever there was to do. Our colonial mothers held nursing babies to their breasts and loaded smoking muskets with bullets they molded themselves to stave off the Indians. The modern girl hops off in an airplane on a flfty-flfiy bet with death—the other side of the sea or the bottom. All honor to them, grandmamas and flappers, all! Mexico-Washington ’Phone Proves Its UtilityNothing makes for world peace and understanding more than rapid communication between nations. This was demonstrated just the other day. Within a few days after direct telephone connection between Washington and Mexico City was established, a rumor reached the United States via Havana that President Calles had been assassinated. Unhooking the receive!- at the embassy in Washington, Ambassador Tellez called up the Palace of Chapultepec and from the president himself obtained the celebrated denial of Mark Twain. The report was “exaggerated,” and before it could be published in this country the ambassador was able to deny it. Os course graver situations than that have arisen in the past and no doubt will arise again in the future. Wars have actually started over false or falsified news —the famous “Ems Dispatch,” for instance, which precipitated the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Rapid communications tend to prevent misunderstanding by making truth easily accessible. The Calles rumor, of course, had nothing to do with Mexican-American relations, but it might have contributed to a further public misunderstanding of an already puzzling situation. The incident proves the value of instantaneous contact between the capitals of the world as a means to a better understanding between peoples. Incidentally it was the prst practical recorded use of the telephone between a Washington embassy and its capital in a foreign land. Rats and cockroaches threaten United States Treasury, says a headline. Haven’t those fellows paid their income taxes yet? Tex Rickard may give another Dempsey-Tunney fight. That’s one way of avoiding those big national surpluses. If you worry you can always find people to help you—to worry. With another election coming on, it seems all that’s needed to dry up this country is a plank.

Law and Justice By Dexter M. Keerer

A man promised to marry a young woman and gave her an engagement ring. He went back on his promise, and she sued him for breach of promise. In the breach of promise suit he made a counter claim for the return of the engagement ring. A jury found that he had broken, the engagement without cause, awarded damages against him, and refused to order the engagement ring returned to him. He appealed the case and argued that as long as the marriage was not to take place he was entitled to the return of the engagement ring. He contended that the gift of the ring was given in consideration of the pending marriage and that calling off the marriage eliminated the consideration and entitled him to return of the ring. The young woman who had the ring argued that it was a personal gift, not made subject to the completion of the marirage arrangement, and that she was entitled to keep it. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The Court of King’s Bench in England decided that the young woman could keep the ring. The court said that the gift of it was personal, and not dependent for its binding force upon the completion of the marriage.

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: Mayor Duvall Will Take the Stump to Prove He Has Been Unjustly Criticised. If It Is Proper for Him to Defend Himself in Such Manner, Why Is It Not Proper for Thieves, Forgers and Embezzlers?

It could not have been an apple that Eve ate, says Dr. H. T. Gould of the Horticultural Department, but it might have been a banana or an orange. Thus one more aged-old tradition goes the way of all flesh, though it is only fair to say that this constitutes no reflection on the biblical account. The biblical account does not specify the particular variety of fruit which caused the fall of man, but some imaginative genius labeled it an apple, and an apple it has remained in the popular conception. This is not the only case in which the Bible has suffered from imaginative geniuses who have narrowed and misinterpreted its words. Duvall to Take Stump Mayor Duvall of Indianapolis, recently convicted of violating the corrupt practices act, sentenced to thirty days in jail, fined SI,OOO and barred from holding public office for four years, not only refuses to resign, but will take the stump next week in an effort to prove to the city that he has been unjustly criticised. This is what you might call nerve, and what might easily set a troublesome fashion. If it is proper for Mayor Duvall to defend himself in such a manner, why is it not proper for thieves, forgers and embezzlers to do the same? Woman's Place in Home? We are all glad that Miss Elder is safe, that she and not her backers will get the money her story brings, and that Thomas Henry McArdle was only “hard boiled” for the sake of protecting her interests. Meanwhile, the question of whether women should undertake such ventures remains to be debated. Like most questions of the kind, it not only finds people divided, but more than willing to express themselves. Whatever else may be said, there is no place in the discussion for that threadbare contention that woman’s sphere is in the home, or that she need* to try every conceivable stunt to prove that she has courage and brains. With two drowned while attempting to fly across the ocean, two rescued after narrow escapes and one waiting to hop off, we are willing to admit that there is nothing on Gods green earth that women are afraid to try, or that is too much for them. Flying for 'Dough' Flying across the ocean to prove that it can be done, to gain scientific knowledge, or even to satisfy sheer love of adventure, is excusable, if not commendable, but flying across the ocean for the “dough” there may be in it an entirely different matter, especially if thos? who hope and plan to get the “dough” sit safely at an office desk while others risk their lives. Class Rule in Italy The theories of Premier Mussolini are as contradictory of this Government as are those of Nicoli Lenin. Both Mtissolini and Lenin stand for class rule, both are dictators, both regard democracy as a failure, both believe in rule by violence, both are against freedom of speech and freedom of the press, both deny the theory of popular government, both advocate the repression of individual and community rights. The only difference between them consists in the fact that Mussolini arrays himself in medieval trappings, while Lenin attempts to make the dirty shirt a badge of aristocracy. One imposes tyranny from the top, while the other develops it from the bottom, but neither has any use for the great middle class. Recognition of Russia If Bolshevism and Facism are in the same boat, as the American Federation of Labor contends, it naturally follows that there is no better reason to refuse recognition of Soviet Russia than of the Mussolini regime. The persistence of this Government in refusing to recognize Soviet Russia, or at least to permit the exchange of views which might lead to such recognition, represents an attitude that is hardly in keeping with time-hon-ored American policies. The idea that we refuse to recognize Russia because she has repudiated her debts involves the correlary that we should not turn a deaf ear to such propositions as she may be willing to make. The idea that we refuse to recognize her because of the form and character of her government is totally at variance with our traditions. Ever since the formation of this Republic it has recognized governments that were utterly opposed to its ideals and principles. Bad as it may be, according to our way of thinking, the Soviet form of government is no more contrary to American principles than was that of the Czar, or that of Turkey before the revolution, or that of China under the old regime.

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Times Readers Voice Views j

Why Think of Movies? Editor Times: I was reading in The Times of the 13th. where Dr. Edward Griggs, in an address before the Woman’s Department Club, made the statement that the modern movie eliminates thought. After paying our hard-earned gold and silver to see a lot of the bunk at some of the movie palaces, just why should any one think? Such as this — “Old Bill Moran lives on the “Bar Nothing Ranch” with his daughter, Sweet Adeline. They are happy as possible considering the Masked Mystery out of 50 cents in a poker game at the Silver Dollar Saloon. The Masked Mystery has never forgotten the awful wrong done to him? Bill Moran has a Chinese laundry ticket for the only white shirt and collar he has in the world and used for Sunday only. The Masked Mystery kills five cowboys while stealing the laundry ticket, and kidnaps Sweet Adeline, Cowboy Joe <Adeline’s sweetie) follows the “Masked Mystery” through thirty-two serial installments, in an heroic effort to save Sweet Adeline and get dear old dad’s shirt and collar out of the landry! If you didn’t see the first installment remember the Sweet Capcral cigarette ads “Ask Dad—He Knows! Why think?” A. BLACKWELL. 2913 E. New York St., city. To the Editor: On the front porch of my home. I found a circular headed, Protestant People Come Out This reminds me of the old story in one of McGuffey’s readers of the boy fooling the people by crying, "The Wolf Is Coming, The Wolf Is Coming.” The comparisons In the circular are ridiculous. One can readily see the attempt to arouse a religious strife to let one slip by with his selfish desires and gains, to smooth over his crimes against our laws that this man Duvall has committee, according to his conviction. It seems to the writer that a circular of this kind, distributed as this, and others have been, should be prohibited and prosecutions follow. It looks like trying to arouse the sympathies of those who were once fooled by the wolf cry. It seems to be a very little act to throw a scare into the people by rehearsing the old, old clan cry of Catholics, Jews, and Negroes, or any other rotten talk of this nature -smooth over and hoodwink the voters. T v hand writing is on the wall. Yi. people will stand only for sound, honest government and are not mixing religion and politics together.

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Questions and Answers

and Congress has established the United States Court of Claims for this purpose. What is the greatest depth in the Atlantic Ocean? The greatest depth is 27,972 feet. This sounding was taken by the ship Dolphin in 1902 seventy-five miles northwest of Porto Rico. On what day does summer begin? June 22, eastern standard time. What is a tree kangaroo? It is one of a genus of kangaroos that lives in trees in the forests of northern Australia and New Guinea. They creep awkwardly ' about the branches, as if not yet well adapted to an arboreal life. The relative

Personally, I am a Protestant, and the same God, the same Architect of the Universe and of all is the same God that I worship, the same God the Catholics, the Jews, the Negroes and all Godloving people worship; then what sense is there to a cry out of thq darkness, “The Wolf, The Wolf.” This circular might be considered an insult to all creeds. The very thought of any effort to bring speakers before the people to try to antagonize and arouse a religious enmity, because some officer has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Our ancestors settled on this continent years past, hewed through the wilderness, fought the Indians, suffered untold agonies, miseries and death, with the everlasting thought that we through their beneficence might worship our God according to the dictates of our own conscience. Shame on any one to try to excite religious strife! J. 3. MOBLEY. 412 Riley Ave.

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length of the limbs is of normal proportions, unlike that of ordinary kangaroos. What is the record for throwing a baseball? It is 426 feet 9!-i inches made by Sheldon Leffieune at Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 12, 1910. Did Lindbergh’s motor make the maximum revolutions per minute during his flight across the Atlantic? According to his log, while flying at an altitude of 4,900 feet and traveling eighty miles an hour, air speed, his Wright whirlwind motor was turning 1,600 revolutions a minute. The maximum number revolutions for that motor is 1,800 per minutes. Whhich States pay the highest snaries to their Governors? Pennsylvania pays the highest, SIB,OOO a year. California, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and West Virginia each pay SIO,OOO per year. Whin and where was the first Federal bank established in the United States? t It was incorporated by Act of Congress in 1791 with $10,000,000 capital and established at Philadelphia, Pa. What does the shield of the United States look like? It has thirteen vertical stripes, seven white and six red, and a blue chief without stars. What is a prosthetic technician? A person skilled in the art of making artificial parts and fitting them to the human body such as false teeth, cork legs, artificial arms, etc. Are the works of Charles Dickens protected by copyrights? The copyrights have long since expired.

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Mr. Fixif^f^ New Street Sign Demanded at Reid PL and Prospect St.

Let Mr. Flxlt. the Times’ representative at city hall, present your troubles to city officials. write Mr. Flxlt at The Times. Names and addresses which must be Riven, will not be Dubllsiied. A letter to Mr. Fixit today complained of the fact that no now street sign had been placed at Reid , PI and Prospect St. Mr. Fixit: The corner of Reid PI. and Prospect St. was neglected when new street signs were passed out over a year ago. The old sign, with the enamel so worn off it hardly can be read, is still there. But we think we are entitled to one of the new style signs. The old sign is so badlly battered dozens of persons a week are unable to find Reid PI. NEIGHBOR. The works board has referred your complaint to the Indianapolis Power and Light Company, which erects signs. If there Js a light standard there you will have anew sign.

Thumb-Nail Sketches

Colored Mary opened fevered eyes on strange surroundings. She lay on a pad on the floor of a jail cell. Through her parched lips came a whispered request for water. So then—she had been delirious again, moaning and crying. Perhaps she was still delirious sot this was not home. Vaguely she remembered that George had tried to quiet her. Vaguely too, she remembered being carried someplace—thinking that some place was her old hom© in Virginia. And then she dropped off again into that night of th© mind that knows such fleeting dawn£ She did not know that her superstitious neighbors called her Crazy Mary; tha| her delirious moans and ravines of late had frightened and disturbed them. She did not knev that they had called the police and told them to take Crazy Mary away from her dreary little house In a poor section of the city. But Mary was not crazy—she was only a poor victim of advanced tuberculosis, lying in her bed worrying, during her conscious moments, because her George had taken the dread disease too. They had carried her off to th© jail because they had thought she was crazy, and intended to have her committed to an insane asylum, but the doctor who was called, pronounced her hopelessly 111 not honelessly Insane. There was but one place in .he whole city where colored Mary could be sent—and that was to the small hospital home of the Woman’s Improvement Club. She lived only a few weeks more, but George was treated for his malady in time, and * is regaining his health and liis good nature thanks to the care he received through the Woman’s Improvement Club and the organization which supDorts it. YOUR COMMUNITY FUND. BIEDERWOLF ELECTED Ft. Wayne Man Chosen President by Walton League. Bit Times S venial SOUTH BEND. Ind., Oct. 15. Charles L. Biederwolf, Indiana Supreme Court Clerk, today is the new president of the State Izaak Walton League, having been elected at the closing session of the league’* annual convention here Friday. Other officers elected are Edward Leever, Terre Haute, vice president; Fred Dobelbower, Lafayette, secretary; Ivar Jennings, South Bend, treasurer: L. G. Bradford. South Bend; Dr. Karl T. Brown, Muncie; Col. Everett Gardner, Montlcello; William Watters, Jasonville, and Joseph Kohler, New Albany, directors. Ft. Wayne was chosen a the 1928 convention city.