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“Indiana Leads the Way” Philosophy, says the dictionary, is practical wisdom. To those who worry about the effect of Indiana’s political clean-up on the State’s reputation with the outside world, a philosopher now gives answer. The answer carries comfort. Indiana’s clean-up, says the philosopher, is a leading of the way, to the outside world. *v That’s the manner in which Will Durant views the recent stirring events in this city and this State. His view is thexview of a stranger, here for a day. But one who has read and heard of what Indiana has been doing toward laundering a long accumulation of dirty linen. And it is not vncLDrobable at all that the view of the author of “The Story of Philosophy” is typical of that prevailing in every corner of the nation to which accounts of Indiana’s wash-up have been carried. In his noon-day talk at the Athletic club Friday, Durant pointed to a fact that is quite evident to all of us who will stop a moment and think,i namely: That Indianapolis and Indiana are not the only places where political rottenness has been allowed to grow. “With few exceptions,” he said, “corruption exists,” in municipal and State affairs everywhere, the corruption being the natural development from an age of political complacency and smugness. As corruption has grown, public apathy has grown with it. That Indianapolis and Indiana have awakened —that the people are na longer apathetic—therefore constitutes both an example for and an inspiration to other cities and other States where cleansing is needed, if government of the people and by the people and for the people is to live. The philosopher sees with a perspective that the man in the usual hurly-burly of life does not possess. Will Durant stresses that corruption and incompetency and apathy, weak and inefficient and unfit men in high places, are the greatest mena'ce to the future, not only of Indiana, but of the nation. He then compliments Indiana on taking leadership and thereby, he gives welcome reassurance to those good citizens who, having awakened, are now busy at the job of turning light into foul and dark places.

Those Amazing “Bandits.’ ’ Dispatches from Managua state that our military forces in Nicaragua have just killed or wounded another sixty-seven of General Sandino’s “bandits.” Such amazing fellows these “bandits” are! According to Henry L. Stimson, President Coolidge’s recent envoy to Nicaragua, General Sandino—-right-hand man of General Moncada, commander-in-chief of the revolutionaries —only * had “about 150 followers” to commence with. Yet with approximately 500 of these having been officially reported killed or wounded since that time, more than 400 have just this week attacked a party of our marines and native constabulary. If that sort of thing keeps up, General Sandino will soon have thousands of Nicaraguan “bandits” under his standard. The truth, of course, is, General Sandino and his men are not “bandits.” Sandino was regarded as one of the best generals fighting on the side of the liberals in their revolution against the conservative Diaz. When General Moncada was weaned away from the cause, Sandino refused to follow. Instead he chose to keep on fighting. Meanwhile Washington has taken over President Diaz’s war and is fighting it for him, using splendid American marines, chiefly, for the job. For the time being, at least, Nicaragua has become an American protectorate, in fact if not in law, and what we are doing down there is not fighting “bandits,” but rebels against our rule. We should at least be honest with ourselves. The truth is less to our discredit, really, than the fiction. For we do have certain, admittedly legitimate interests in Nicaragua—our canal rights, for example. And though people may differ as to method, we do have a duty to perform in safeguarding them. But we certainly have no right to use American marines to shoot bandits in a sovereign, foreign land. The Lloyd George Manifesto The clouds are gathering about the government of Premier Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain. A storm would seem to be brewing. Close on the heels of Lord Cecil’s resignation from the Baldwin cabinet due to differences over Britain’s armament stand at Geneva, comes former Premier David Lloyd George and his liberal party with a manifesto calculated to blow Baldwin out of power. Principally the liberals demand that Britain repudiate all notion of a naval armaments race with the United States, such as the conservative party by inference, at least, envisages, and take her stand boldly for world peace via arms reduction and arbitration between nation and nation or through the world court. Couched in stirring phrases, the document constitutes a battle cry for the liberal party in the next flections. Similar in purport to the recent declaration of the labor party of former Premier Ramsay MacDonald, It begins to look very much as if liberals and laborItes would be able to refrain from cutting each other’s throat, as they undoubtedly did in 1924. Together they polled more votes on that occasion ttian did the conservatives, but by splitting their Toting power they managed to turn the election into f conservative landslide. Admittedly the conservatives have lost strength

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since 1924 while both liberals and laborites have gained. Ci.rtainly the liberal program sounds good to the bulk of the American people. The last thing they want is an armaments race with anybody, especially with the British. They stand willing and ready to reduce naval tonnage with Britain just as low as Britain will agree to go. What Americans ardently desire Is a real , entente based, not on battleships, but on friendship and mutuality of interests with their English-speaking kin. Wiping Out the Anti-Trust Laws Leaders of organized labor want the anti-trust laws repealed because they throttle the legitimate activities of union workers. Bituminous coal operators quite generally want these laws repealed so they can get together and try to set their chaotic house in order. Oil producers find continuance of these laws a constant invitation to petroleum waste, and want them changed. Members of the Federal Banking Board want the laws relaxed to permit what they think would be .an increased efficiency from interlocking bank directorates. Almost everybody immediately affected seems to want the anti-trust laws wiped out and in each instance they can make a good argument to prove that it should be done. In addition to being crude, cumbersome and riddled with conflicting court interpretations, the laws are so badly administered that they serve their original purpose of preserving competition less than they serve to make business for shrewd lawyers who understand legal ways of evading them. But, bad as they are, the anti-trust laws embody a -Government policy to preserve competition which could be enforced if the people of the country showed any interest in having it done. The laws are a sort of public insurance policy which has lapsed for the time being, but which might be reinstated. If that policy is to be cancelled the question is what kind of a poliqy is to be substituted to give the public protection against unbridled private enterprise. If not competition, to which the anti-trust laws are dedicated, then what? On that point most of the advocates of the repeal of the anti-trust laws are yet to be heard. Until they are their contention that the laws ought to be wiped out won’t be complete.

What Is a Combine? (Jennings Countv News) Is there a power combine in the United States? By no means, says Josiah T. Newcomb, addressing the Southern Appalachian Power Conference at Chattanooga. Newcomb is counsel for the joint committee of National Utility Associations, just organized to fight government construction of Boulder Dam and government operation of Muscle Shoals. This joint committee represents the National Electric Light Association, the American Electric Railway Association and the American Gas Association. The first of these is composed of 893 electric operating companies, 324 manufacturing companies, 263 associate companies and 94 foreign companies. The second is composed of 337 operating companies, 35 associate companies and 423 manufacturing companies. The third is composed of 469 operating companies, 25 holding companies, 350 manufacturing companies and 17 associate companies. Practically every utility in the United States is included in one of these organizations. This is not a power combine, Newcomb says, because no one person or organization owns or controls a majority of the electric companies. The fact remains that this mighty group extending into almost every crossroads town in the United States has banded together and created an expensive propaganda organization—of which Newcomb is a part—to fight for possession of two of the greatest rivers in the country. Is there a power combine? Well, what is a combine? Assistant Secretary Lowman says his arm gets tired some days signing dismissals for prohibition agents. Also, he relates, the country is getting dryer and dryer all the time. More power to your good right arm, Mr. Lowman! Eskimo men leave their wives five months out of the year to hunt seals, says a news story. And in this country some of the men have to leave their wives to pay for them. The women have taken over the aviation business, it seems. No wonder, with all the men in the cellars. Perhaps the women aviators are so successful because they can take on more different airs than the plain males. Women fliers should have one advantage, anyhow. They shouldn’t run out of gas as soon as most men. A football season is the time of year when radio announcers are supposed to broadcast their life stories to the people. % Sixty thousand miles of the 170,000 miles of Federal planned roads have been completed this year. Maybe Mr. Ford’s idea is to be prepared to fill up that 110,00 miles just as quickly as they can be built. A Miss Crook is a prohibition agent working out of Chicago. Now all the service needs is a Mr. Hook. Maybe one of the reasons you don’t see women knitting these days is because, wool catches fire from the tiniest spark. The head of the prohibition forces in Washington says intelligence agents have been assigned to investigate at several big colleges. Wonder what they’re hunting for—liquor or intelligence? America is a country where a bigamist usually Is found to be merely an amnesia victim.

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* M. E. TRACY SAYS: What, May We~ Ask, Should Men Do to Demonstrate Their Freedom, and Why Ts Not the Jellybean Just as Essential to Human Progress as the Flapper?

Judge Martin T. Manton thinks not only that the law should be reformed, but that lawyers should do the reforming. “The bar, not the pulpit,” he says, “should be the voice of public conscience.” The general public cheerfully accepts this view, but lawyers do not. The moment lawyers take up the task which so obviously belongs to them, other folks will cease interfering. Youth and Invention Federal radio commission has revoked the license of Eric H. Palmer Jr. to operate amateur radio station 2ATZ for ninety days. This action was taken at the request of Eric’s father, who wrote the commission that as a result of the son’s devotion to radio he had failed in his school work and was suffering from impaired health. Thousands of parents face a similar problem not only with respect to radio, but with respect to many other inventions that fascinate young boys. It may be that working with these inventions affords as good training and education as can be had in the schools, but if that is true we have wasted a lot of money. Flapper as Race’s Hope Unlike most other psychologists. Prof. William E. Sheldon of the University of Wisconsin, has carried the science to a definite, if startling conclusion. He declares, without hesitancy or qualification, that girls should smoke and wear short skirts in defiance of existing custom to prove that they are free, and that the flapper is the hope of the race. What, may we ask, should men do to demonstrate their freedom, and why is not the jellybean as essential to human progress as the flapper? Mechanics Is Mechanics The mind is a most curious structure, and study of it constantly brings us face to face with astonishing revelations. For 1,000 years and more, men have assumed that the teaching of mathematics-developed the intellect and that children .acquire a capacity to think by solving complicated problems. Comes a Boston inventor, with a machine which he says cannot only add, subtract, multiply and divide, but clear equasions and figure curves in the space of hours that it would take an expert months to do. This, as well as the ordinary adding machine with which we have become so familiar, would seem to indicate that arithmetic, algebra and even calculus ares just matters of mechanics after all, and that the great mentality supposed to have been developed through them amounts to no more than a mechanism which can be duplicated in a blacksmith shop.

Cost of Big Cities Taking the population of New York City at 6,000,000, of Chicago at 3,000,000, of Philadelphia at 2,000,000, of Detroit and Los Angeles at 1,250,000 and of Cleveland at 1,000,000, we find the per capita expert of their operation is roughly as follows: New York, $73; Chicago, $63; Philadelphia, $37; Detroit, $108; Cleveland, $27, and Los Angeles, $29. On the same basis their per capita debt is; New York, $247; Chicago, $24; Philadelphia, $160; Detroit, $152; Cleveland, sllß, and Los Angeles, S9B. Asa general proposition, these cities have about the same kind of government, operate about the samo type of institutions and render about the same character of service. What explanation is there for the amazing difference in their per capita expense and their per capita debt? Who'll They Draft Now? With Coolidge definitely out, the booming of other candidates should begin. It is held back, of course, by that time-honored political strategy which demands that everybody wait to see what the other fellow is going to do. There is bound to be several weeks of gumshoe work and shadow boxing before it is possible to get a clear idea of what the boys are about. The first and most obvious maneuver is, for the old guard to make the same kind of an effort to “draft” Hughes that it has been making to “draft” Coolidge, and the chances are more than even that it will experience that same bad luck. Democrats Muddled The Democratic situation is even more confused than the Republican. The Democratic party appears to have come to a point where it is too inarticulate to even recognize its opportunity, much less its problems. This is an astounding condition in view of all the Republicans have done to give it a real opening. v When was the Roman empire established? Who was the first emperor? In the year 31 B. C. Augustus Caesar established the Roman empire.

Looks Like a Big Season Ahead

What Other Editors Think

(Democratic) Thomas Jefferson, roundly denounced by many of the editors of his day, had to bestir himself and his friends to inaugurate a newspaper which would support his* policies. He was a firm beD 7 liever in power of the press and rePress ana peatedly emphasized his belief in the Public value of the freedom of the press. Officers Public officials in many parts of the United States today do not agree with Jefferson. They believe that their acts are sacrocanct. They credit themselves with infallibility, or in case of mistake they would deny the expression of criticism. There are pome reprehensible newspaper editors in the country, but not many. Most of them are honest men, believing in the honored traditions of a free press, but reluctant to antagonize the elected officials unless compelled by the overwhelming demand o? conscience. The average citizen of North Vernon, probably does not realize how soon the affairs of this county, this State and nation would get into a permanent power of a small group of selfish men unless the press was active in disseminating news, and when necessary, uncovering official misconduct and crookedness. Naturally, when a politician is criticised, he dislikes the editor and the newspaper. Unless the journal has the goods on him he goes into court, very often assisted and abetted by other politicians who help run the ring that is always threatening to assume full control of popular government, with an eye on the possible swag. The other day in Missouri the Supreme Court upheld the right of the press to make free comment and criticism of the public policy of public officials in relation to matters of public interest, subject to the substantial truth of the printed matter and the

You can get an answer to any question of 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 research be undertaken. A’l other ques tions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All ietters arc confidential.—Editor. From what was the motion picture “Don Juan” taken? From the poem by Byron and j from the stage play of the same j name. What is “white coal”? A popular name for water power. How often should a puppy be fed? A puppy should be fed frequently; an old dog twice a day, with the heaviest meal at night. What is the seventh wedding anniversary? The woolen anniversary. What foods supply starch to the body? Starch is supplied chiefly by cereal foods, such as cereal grains, meals, flours, breakfast foods, bread, crackers, macaroni and other pastes, cakes, cookies, starchy puddings, potatoes and other starchy vegetables, pastries, etc. What is a quorum? It is the number of members specified in the by-laws of an organization that are necessary to conduct business. It may be less than a majority, two-thirds or three-fourths or any proportion of the membership specified. What is the color of a turquoise and where are these stones found? The color is light blue owing to the presence of copper. The important deposits are in Persia. They are found in the United States, in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado and Nevada. What interval of time is there between the time a ball that is thrown in the air reaches its "enitJs when K begins to descend? According to the United States naval observatory “No sensible interval whatsoever elapses between the cessation of a body’s upward movement in the air and the beginning of its downward movement. In the language of mathematics, the interval is infinitessimal, that is to say, smaller than any assignable quantity.” Can you suggest an Indian name for a club for girls, the object of which is to foster friendship among the girls in the community? “Inawendiwin” is an Indian name for friendship.

want of malice. The Court goes further and says that the burden of showing the falsity of the article and the presence of malice is Ut-;n the public official complaining. Os course, this paper does not, in its political criticisms, venture upon the personal lives of men in public life. That is their business unless it gets into the courts. With their public acts, however, the case i is entirely different, and the press is duty bound to inform its people and to represent their interests until a decision can be had either in the courts or at the polls. (Kokomo Dispatch) (Democratic) The reasons assigned by Governor Ed Jackson for Hot calling a special session of the State Legislature to repeal the law passed at the last session which enables Mayor John L. Duvall of IndianJackson apolis to cling to his post until the c ' expiration of his term, despite the fact Seems that the voters of that city have deAfraid clared for a city manager form of government, are superficial, to say the least. In the face of the scandals with which the Duvall administration is beset, it seems sheer hypocrisy to plead expense as an excuse for not calling the Legislature to undo a wrong. To plead that calling of the Legislature would necessitate the holding of a special elect'on to fill the vacancy in one of the counties where a member died, also is sheer hypocrisy. To seek excuse in the assertion that there is no valid reason to believe that members of the Legislature have changed their minds concerning this particular bit of legislation is another evasion. The people of Indiana, we believe, cannot help but believe Governor Jackson’s sympathy is with Duvall, or that he is afraid of impeachment talk.

Questions and Answers

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encounter extremely hot weather; also if the land is extremely rich and the plants do not get enough water. Tomatoes, com, lima beans and the like will run to tops and not set on land that is too rich. Radishes, beets and carrots will do so, if not properly thinned. * How should a quotation within a quotation be marked? Usually by single quotation, marks (‘ ’).

OCT. 22, 1927

Times Readers . Voice Views

The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but • on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. To the Editor: After seeing a picture at one of our local theaters glorifying our Navy, the thought came to me. what beautiful targets our cruisers would make for an enemy’s sub and air forces. It looks like sheer foolishness to equip such magnificent boats with such a vast expenditure of public moneys, man it with five or six hundred of the cream of our manhood, and set it out as a target for an enemy's submarines and aircraft. Our wars will be with the powers of the world and we will have to meet them on their own ground, so to speak, and try to be three Jumps ahead of them, not three jumps behind. I say, scrap these cruisers, and invest in submarines and aircraft, and more submarines and more aircraft. Why is our Navy Department influenced by a few already rich men, who are trying to keep Mexico and Venezuela bullied, so as to protect their oil Interests, at our expense, not to mention the lives of these young men. The blood of these fine boys will be on their hands if they are ordered out in open warfare, when the Navy knows they will only be “fodder.” If something isn’t done, the Navy will find this out to their sorrow, and every one else's sorrow. E. SHARP. 902 N. Penn. ’ To the Editor: Hear the battle'cry! Those of you that have a bean-shooter, or a pop gun, that you have brought down from childhood: may be able to sell them to Johnny for ready cash in a few days. Our own little Johnny Duvall, has read so much of the dashing Mexican Rebel, that he wants to s'Tee a rebel act also. One with ample imagination can hear the raving commands of General Johnny, and the thunder of his loyal followers, upon floundering long eared steeds from the Garbage Department, as they charge the enemy. Imagine, Maryland Street, Capitol and Kentucky Aves. blockaded, for feet, by the halfscore or so of his Generalship’s most faithful relatives, with pop guns drawn, as they await for the office boy to bring from headquarters the fatal signal to “fire!” The battle would soon be over, and the result would be as that of his million dollar suit against certain Newspapers, a few months ago: Additional exposure of himself, and added humiliation and ignominy for the community. Sounds like kid play? Certainly! To what else can we Justly compare the present administration? On the other hand, the comparative silence of the citizens that live under such burlesque practices seems about as kiddish, when we realize that our industries are becoming more and more demoralized, and that we, as a city, are losing the prestige that promotes prosperity and self respect. There is no compulsory method of obtaining the sentiment of the voter that is being slapped in the face by those that have profited infamously by his vote, but it is the duty of every voter to disregard party affiliations, for the welfare of his family, and the community. Furthermore, we should not let Mr. Duvall detract our attention from the present administration by trying to prove that some of our ex-mayors (those that have passed out of this life), have been criminals equal to himself. He could easily fill the remainder of his natural term with just such excuses— and, no doubt he would do that very thing. To dig up questionable material of past administrations will not rectify the unquestionable offenses of the Duvall regime. J. 8. SADLER. Who is the author of the saying, “If God speaks anywhere, in any voice, to us, His creatures, it is in music”? Beethoven.