Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 150, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1927 — Page 6

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It's Time to Act If there was ever a time in the history of any city when its citizenship should assert itself, that time is now. The courts, for the moment, have decided that the president of the council is mayor and that the council had a right to name the mayor, temporarily and will eventually choose the man who will head the city government until the people regain the right to rule themselves. The council is pot a body which enjoys any great measure of public confidence. It has done - little to deserve confidence and it < has done much to destroy any respect for its decisions. Its membership has been prone to the worst sort of politics and its gctions have been such as to invite suspicion. Its majority lias for months been the pawns of shrewd men and some of its members have Acted in a manner which invited grand jury scrutiny. No stockholder in any business corporation would feel safe for a moment with this council as its board of directors. Every big business man and property owner in this city, if he had stock in such a corporation, would probably take the first price offered for his holdings. He would know that it would be badly managed. He would fear even worse than bad management. Yet this council is to select the mayor and will probably do so, not with any eye on the interests of the city as a whole but solely on political grounds and for political reasons. Just now it appears that this council is in the control of “Ote” Dodson, once the political associate of the discredited George Y. Coffin and now his rival for control of the Republican political machine in this county, Avhich means, finally, large voice in the political control of the party in this State. When Indianapolis was relieved of the impossible Duvall, it deserved better than merely trading a Coffin for a Dodson as the master of its destinies. It is time, right now, for the decent citizenship of Indianapolis to assert itself and demand the selection of a man as mayor who will receive public confidence. It will take a strong man. It will take a man who is not known in politics. It will take a man who will go in unfettered by political purposes and with secret schemes for his own advancement or the profit of his friends. If the civic organizations, acting concertedly, should draft some outstanding citizen, one whose position and reputation place him beyond suspicion, and then force through public sentiment his selection, the council, bad as it is, could hardly refuse. There is no man in Indianapolis too big for this job. There is no man whose private affairs are so important that he could refuse if the demand were made in the name of this city. It is time to quit thinking in terms of politics and begin thinking in terms of Indianapolis. It is time to quit watching the antics at the city hall and betting on court decisions as to who will be mayor, and get busy in the name of Indianapolis and its prosperity and its good name. Os course, if that same pressure were placed on Governor Jackson to call a special session of the Legislature he might reverse his decision and consent to permit Indianapolis to get the government for which it voted and which belongs to it as a matter of right and justice. Something far more important than the spending of the people’s money, and that is important enough with the tax rate at its present figure, is involved. When the council meets on Nov. 8 to select a mayor, there should be a concerted demand for someone outstanding citizen who will redeem this city and whose selection will meet with general approval at home and be blazed abroad as the finest advertisement of this city. Some years ago, when the city of Dayton faced an emergency created by floods, the political government failed and there stepped into power by popular acclaim its greatest industrial leader, who brought order out of chaos. Indianapolis faces an emergency fully as great as could be created by fire or flood. It is a political bankruptcy and the Board of directors are such as not to be trusted to follow their own devices. Thfey need advice, or rather advice which takes on the tone command. Surely there is in this city a man who towers high enough in public respect to save the situation. There are perhaps a dozen, but they do not come from the ranks of politicians. The city has had enough, too much, of politics. Would Hugh McK. Landon; G. M. Williams, head of the Marmon company; Fred Muskovics, of the Sfutz enterprises; Frederic Ayres of L. S. Ayres & Cos.; Charles Kirk, who has made so signal a success of the gas company; Evans [Woollen, Fred Hoke, Thomas Howe, or men of similar high standing as successes in executive positions, dare refuse if the demand were

made on them in the name of the city and its citizenship ? The city deserves a man of this calibre. It wants no petty political mind in this emergency. Straws In the Winds It may be that the hope is father to the thought, but at last' we do seem to see straws in. the wind beginning to drift slowly in the direction of an understanding between the United States and Mexico. Saturday Uncle Sam’s new representative down there rode to the historic national palace and there, in the presence of a large crowd gathered in the grand salon of the ambassadors, formally presented his yredentials to President Calles. Os course such ceremonies follow a protocol as formal as a high church wedding, but, like a wedding, they can be as cold as Greenland’s icy mountains or warmed by a certain atmosphere of cordiality which all present seem to feel. This certain invisible something seemed to surround the formalities in question. Even prior to the ceremonies of Saturday, however, we seemed to scent a possible change for the better in Mexican-American affairs. The new American ambassador was obviously pleased to find himself among Ihe Mexican people, while the latter showed every indication of being glad to have him. On board the train bound to Mexico City, we understand, Ambassador Morrow was already practicing up on a few preliminary words of Spanish which he intends to master that he may approach closer to the people among whom he is now to live and labor. .And, we are told, Mexicans who met and talked with him left saying: “At last we have been sent an American with a heart.” On his side President CalleWast week revoked the embargo against buying supplies for the Mexican government in the United States. This embargo was levied after Washington had refused to permit the delivery of some airplanes, saddles and other goods purchased in this country by Mexico. Under the circumstances it is difficult to interpret the cancellation of the embargo as other than a deliberately friendly gesture on the art of Mexico’s chief executive. We repeat these things are but straws in the wind, but to us they do seem to be wafting in -the right direction. After a heart-breakingly protracted period of bickering and pin-pricking on the part of a State Department which constantly exhibited a most abysmal ignorance of Latin American temperament and psychology, it begins to look as if President Coolidge had personally intervened that a much-needed change might be wrought. Ambassador Morrow has got off to a good start. Rightly proud of our independence and sovereignty as we Americans all are, our new representative in Mexico City seems to take it for ganted, as he should, that the Mexicans are equally rightly proud of theirs. Negotiations conducted on such a basis, each scrupulously respectful of the national rights, pride and honor of the other, can scarcely fail to result in a lasting understanding. By that we do not mean the task is an easy one. It is not. As we have taken occasion to observe more than once before, there are hostile and selfish groups on both sides the border which hope—and may even try to make—it end in failure. Nevertheless the auguries are good and point to ultimate success. Moreover it is high time. It is absurd for Mexico and the United States to be making schoolboy faces at each other across the Rio Grande when everybody knows good relations would be ever so much more profitable to them both. A Place for Family Doctor There always will be work for the family doctor, even though the modern medical trend is toward providing a specialist for every part of the body, according to Dr. Charles H. Mayo of the famous Rochester clinic. The family doctor’s main work now has become diagnosis—telling people what ails them and where to go for the remedy. That, and telling people who only imagine they are ill that there really is nothing the matter with them. Os the latter sort, Dr. Mayo recently said, many come to the Minnesota clinic seeking relief. Perhaps for these people, a f t£r all, there never will be relief. Diagnosis or no, we should hate to lose the personality of the good old fashioned family doctor who “knows less and less about more and more,” according to Dr. Mayo. The specialist, Dr. Mayo described 1 as the “man who knows more and more about less and less.” Whatever he knows, the family doctor always has been a man after our own heart—when we were sick. Who can not remember the reassuring words, spoken in some dim-lit hallway, “We’ll pull her through now, all right, I think?” Those words were golden to us. Who can not remember that pleasant face in the dead of night? And how the boy’s own face lighted up when the doctor’s warm, confident touch closed on his throbbing wrist? Through storms and summer heat, day and night, miles upon miles, the. family doctor has gone on his missions of health and mercy, a sympathetic friend, a sure comforter, patient, careful, inspiring. A place for the family doctor? There always will be a place for him! Job was strong, but we know what would have broken that old man. How about an evening of good radio in which the announcer reads 116 telegrams stating that the “program is coming in fine?” .

Law and Justice , By Dexter M. Keezer

In violation of a statute forbidding such sales on Sunday, a soft drink proprietor sold a man a pottle of soda water. The bottle contained a number of flies which the man swallowed, making him very sick. He sued the bottler for damages on the ground that the company was responsible for the purity of its product. The company contended that the man was not entitled to recover damages because he had been a party to a violation of the Sunday blue law and consequently was equally as much at fault as the company was in bottling flies with its soda pop. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The Supreme Court of Mississippi decided that the man could not recover damages. The reason given was that he was just as much at fault as the company because; he had purchased the soda water as the result of a transaction involving a Sunday law violation. *jL

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: “It Is the Toiler at the End of the Line Who Is S’ the Last to Benefit by Improvement, the Poor Devil Who Can Not Afford to Take Advantage of It.”

On Sunday, Fascism celebrated its fifth anniversary, the emperor of Japan reviewed his entire Navy, Primo de Rivera outlined a new constitution for Spain, Bratianu declared that the Carolist plot had failed in Rumania, the president of Greece was shot, though not fdtally, and Maximilian Harden died. A good sized book could be written about the significance of any one of these events. * * * ‘Big Bill’s’ Example If John W. Smith wishes to make himself sure of winning the mayoralty election in Detroit, he should come out against King George as well as prohibition. That is what “Big Bill” Thomp- * son did in Chicago and it worked ' too well to be overlooked by any candidate for mayor in a large American city. In order to make the imitation perfect, Mr. Smith might say to his constituents, “If Nathan Hale ain’t a hero I am the guy who wants to know why.” * * * v In Open Boat 7 Days Nine men in an open boat for seven days reads like a tale out of the past. No matter how we gain through devices of speed and safety, enough of the old order remains to constantly remind us of the exacting and dangerous toil by which civilization has been shaded. These nine men, who abandoned their foundering schooner j 200 miles east of Bermuda and : spent the next week wondering whether they would be picked up by some passing ship or left to die by the slow process of starvation, furnish an exceptional item. Time was when such incidents were common and when a happy ending did not represent anything like an even bet. * * * Toiler Benefits Last Quite in line with this thought, but far less agreeable to read about, was the destruction of that Gloucester fisherman by an ocean liner in which only three of the crew of fifteen escaped. Passengers on the great ship of steel were hardly disturbed by the shock, but those aboard the little wooden egg shell sensed it as the crack of doom. It is the toiler at the end of the line who is the last to benefit by improvement, the poor devil who cannot afford to take advantage of it. % ' Great Editor Dies Maximilian Harden was the greatest newspaper man modern Germany ever produced, and one of the greatest that ever lived. He not only had the vision to see what was rotten in his own Government, but the courage to tell about it. ' He Kaiserism when few dared to think unfavorably of it, much less to speak. He realized perfectly well that he took his life in his hands, but never flinched from performing a duty which his conscience told him .was necessary. He probably did more to break the back of the military caste in Germany and thus guarantee allied triumph than any single man on either side. ' He did this, not as a revolutionist, not as one who wishes to tear down and destroy, but as a real patriot. Germany has gained a lot through the heroic work of this fearless editor, but other countries could do the same by giving men like him the proper chance. ♦ * * Gain of Gag Rule Mussolini grows great by muzzling the press, and in uotlining the new constitution for Spain, Primo De Rivera is careful to observe that its freedom must be restricted. Fear of Bolshevism makes both seem wise for the moment. Red propaganda has served no cause so well as that of dictatorship. Democracy, even of a mild and limited form is envisioned as a failure because of the liberty it provides for radical speech. Throughout the world, men are invoking gag rule for everybody in order to silence the soap box orator. But how can the ranter’s mouth be closed without closing those of men like Maximilian Harden? ♦ * * Free Speech—Progress Our fathers thought that free discussion was the best*medicine for society and politics no matter how disagreeable some of it might be. They refused to risk the loss of constructive criticism in order to get rid of the other kind. They tolerated the blatherskite to give men of originality and • courage a chance. They did this not only out of consideration to such men, but because they believed it to be essential to real progress. Fascism has worked wonders during the last five years with its steamroller tactics. But it has a long way to go before it can show lesults to compare with those of the founders of this republic. How did the * name “emery” originate? Emery stone originally was obtained from Cape Emeri in the island of Naxos. It has since been found in Asia Minor and near Peekskill, New York and Chester, Mass.

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(Anderson Herald) (Republican) It is interesting to note that it was not politics, nor a sense of civic pride, nor the law that finally forced the abdication or Jonn L. Duvall, as mayor of Indianapolis, but it was the interrupBusiness tion of the natural P rocesses of busi * Before when bills became due, and the Politics money for their payment was withheld because of the uncertainty ‘of Duvall’s position, then it was that the iron hand of business reached over and brushed him aside. It will be that same hand that will finally lead the city out of its Slough of Despond. The ordered movement of men’s daily affairs are of too much importance to them to wait upon the ambition and the avarice of an individual. To a man Who wants a bill paid, or to another who wants his daily wage, due him for work done, a Duvall playing politics means little. And so can Indianapolis .soon hope for peace and a return of civic self-respect, and all of Indiana will rejoice with her. (Shelbyville Democrat) (Democratic) Since it was a few newspapers in Indiana that played a prominent part in exposing political conditions in the State and incurred the disfavor of those accused, it is now the newspapers r e. which are being attacked and aclnaxana cused o{ being une thical. Os course, Newspaper not all the newspapers are under fire, Cristicism but the public speakers who accuse newspapers of ii regularities because of inferencecs they make, are adopting the same policy when they infer that the exposures made by newspapers have been in most cases only personal grievances. Lawrence F. Orr, head of the State Board of Accounts, referred to the activities of the press in a Shelbyville address and inferred that much of the trouble experienced by his department had come from publishers who had pet peeves. Os course, he always limited his remarks to some newspapers, but the inference was clear in most of the cases he cited. Mi. Orr announced during his talk that he was defending the State Board of Accounts, which should need no defense if it has always been as straightforward as it should be. He did not mention, however, the case in which the State Board of Accounts created an embarrassing situation for the State Highway Commission and which has caused endless ill feeling between the two departments. Had it not been for newspapers

You can get an answer to any question ol iact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times w ?i£‘sh?n < e" Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washing for' reply!" Medical? legaT Ind" marital ?e^S a Ke no u^ b d e er?rn.nf te ,tf signed V ’requests V cannot r tie"ans I wered. letters are confidential. —Editor. On what date did Good Friday come in 1918? March 29. What causes an airplane to go into a tail spin? There are several causes; breaking of the wings, improper rigfing, or loss of flying speed. If a plane is nosed into the air at too steep an angle for the power of the motor to retain the necessary flying speed, it will slide into a tail spin. If the pilot has sufficient altitudj: in this case he can regain control of the ship. A tail spin near ground is always dangerous. Is vaccination of school children compulsory throughout the United States? It is a matter of State law and differs somewhat in the several States. In some States it is compulsory ;-ln others it is provisional, being left to local health authorities or school boards. What is the value of a United States 50-ceht piece dated 1825? 50 to 55 cents. How old is John Gilbert, the motion picture actor? 32 years. Where and when was the picture “The Big Parade” filmed? Production was begun in the early spring of 1925 and completed in August of that year. It was filmed mostly in California. Many of the big battle scenes made in Texas. Will a magnet attract a piece of metal that is under glass? This depends entirely on the thickness of the glass. Glass does not totally deprive the magnet of its power of attraction. How is buttermilk made? Buttremilk is the liquid remaining after the butter fat has been separated from the cream by churning. It consists largely of water.

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sugar, casein and ash of the cream together with a small amount of lactic acid produced in the ripening of the cream which gives it a slightly acid taste. It has nutritive value without adding to the fatty tissue. What do lobsters eat and where are they found? They eat living as well as dead fish, and the usual bait for lobster traps is fresh dead fish. The geographical range of the lobster is from Henley Harbor, Labrador, at

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the public would never have known the true story of that case. The press that did not fear to make the expose was probably"lncluded in the list of “some newspapers” which Mr. Orr criticised. He declared that newspapers print only the attacks on the integrity of public officials and revelations of some misdeed and that the good deeds and good administration of publice officials are never read about. That is no against the policies of newspapers, for it is true in every circle of life. Every man and every woman is expected to go straight there is no particular reason why any should be given newspaper publicity for doing the thing that is expected. It is only when men and women, including public officials, do the unexpected, that they receive the publicity they deserve for their misdeeds. (Mancie Press) (Republican) The old tricks in politics still are good ones and William Hale Thompson, having put on a very bbarby side-show, now proceeds to the main tent, where the real fun begins. Twisting The ballyhoo has been excellent, > • J which is to say side-splitting. King ; ; , vj s George of England has been up'to 1 ail terrible tricks. Centering his activities in Chicago, where it seems he has insidiously changed books used in the schools and tampered with nearly every volume in the libraries, you can hardly sit down to read a book in Chicago without finding out what a great mistake our forefathers made when they went to war agaiist the British Lion. It is well that Chicago has a mayor that knows all about these things. We don’t know whether or not there is anybody left in Chicago who drinks tea, but if there is, it's a safe bet that he won’t have to pay the tax on it. He can thank his lucky stars that there stands at the head of his civic government such a mighty tail-twister as Big Bill. Mr. Mencken has been invited to the show, and you know Mr. Mencken hasn’t any love for John Bull, either. He's going to crack the whip in one of the rings. The only mysterious thing about it that we can see is that Mr. Mencken doesn’t seem to be running for any office. Twisting the lion’s tail has proved a pleasant and profitable pastime for various people who have something to sell to the public, whether it be personality, press-agentry, politics or piffle. It we really and truly believe all these Rex-wrestlers, we’d shoot an Englishman on sight. It’s an old show.

the eastern mouth of the Strait of Belle Isle, southward to Delaware Bay, though stragglers have been found off Cape Hatters in thirty fathoms an dat Beaufort, N. C. They are usually found near rocky shores below low-water mark to a depth of ten to twenty fathoms; toward winter they migrate into water from thirty-five to forty fathoms deep. They are bottom feeders, never rising more than a few feet above the bottom. Does the United States have diplomatic relations with Russia and Turkey? The government of the Union of Union of Soviet Socialists (Russia) Republic is not recognized by the United States, and therefore diplomatic relations are not maintained. Diplomatic relations with Turkey were resumed May 20,1927. How long were Indian head 1-cent pieces coined by the government? Coinage began in 1859 and was discontinued in 1909. Can golf balls be repainted at home? Sporting goods stores sell a golf ball enamel for repainting golf balls. Tht ball Is cleaned and dried. A few drops cf the enamel is placed in the palm of one hand and the ball is rolled between the palms until an even coating is secured. Is it wise to use ether to start an auto in cold weather? Ether can be used to start an engine when cold, because it is more volatile than gasoline; that is, it vaporizes sufficiently to form an explosive mixture at lower temperatures than does gasoline. Ether has a strong tendency to detonate, or “knock,” which may damage the engine. If used at all, not more than two drops should be put in each petcock. Use of benzol, which is nArly as volatile as ether and does not knock, is to be preferred. Does any one in the United States Coast Guard hold the rank of rear admiral? Rear Admiral F. C. Billard, commandant United States Coast Guard, Coast Guard headquarters, Washington, D. C., is the commanding officer of the Coast Guard and the only rear admiral in that service.

NOV. 1 1937.

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will net be published. letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. To the Editor: Duvall has finally been smoked out of his den. Let us give thanks. We, of course, realize that no great amount of outstanding courage was necessary on the part of the council in putting the skids under Duvall, and greasing. the runway for his long delayed slide out into a “crool,” cold world. But they dallied along in a disgustingly weak inactivity, till Givan and Ramsay threw a monkey wrench into the machinery, wrecking it beyond hope of repair. The council could have added laurels to their crowns by taking the initiative, and removing Duvall weeks ago. But has Duvallism been removed from our city’s escutcheon? Only the future can tell. Should the gesture to make Ira Holmes mayor for the ensuing twenty-six months be successful then we will learn to our sorrow that we have only taken “a leap from the frying pan into the fire.” An opportunity now confronts the council, whereby they may win the everlasting plaudits of an outraged citizenry! They can, if they but will, give us exactly the type of mayor that we would expect in a city manager form of government, so overwhelmingly voted for last spring. Are they able to rise to this opportunity? Their jockeying tactics of the past twenty-two months leave but faint hope of anything but a miserable fiasco as an outcome of the present turmoil. Let us hope for the best. E. P. McCASLIN, 5901 Dewey Ave. To the Editor: Doesn’t it seem like a farce for the board of trustees of the Michigan City prison to attempt to hear the cases of nearly one hundred applications for parole or prdcn in one day? I am not aeqainted with any member of this board, and suppose they think they are doing what is right. If a hundred cases were to be disposed of and only ten minutes were allowed to each case it would take more than sixteen hours continuous hearing, and if only one minute elapsed between end of the hearing of one case and beginning the hearing of another, this would consume an hour and forty minutes. It is not likeh' that any meritorious case could be presented in twice ten minutes Many of them would require at least one hour if such a presentation of the case is to be made as to enable the moard to act with any intelligence. N I wonder how much time the board gave to the consideration of the case of Ed Kelly, to whom they denied a parole. It took ten minutes to read newspaper accounts of this case, and it is hardly likely that the newspapers could give space to print the whole story. Judging wholly from newspaper accounts of this case, I venture to say a very great majority of individuals who read the story would have voted to grant this application for parole. It is only fair to the board to assume that they refused it because they undertook too many cases in a single day and could not give sufficient time to any one of them. This is wrong practice. If the Governor is to be guided by recommendations of the board, he should know that the board has ample time to hear the case fully, and that they were in a position to make a fair recommendation. Otherwise, their recommendation is worse than valuable. It is a positive injustice if made upon half a hearing. It looks to me as if this is the fact in the Kelly case. I don’t know Kelly or anybody belonging to him. JUST JUSTICE.

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Beaney, a newsie, deposited two ragged elbows on the Scoutmaster's desk and brought a sharp little chin to rest upon his fists. those two grimy little paws his Immaculately clean young face shone earnestly. “I wanna be a scout,” he announced, “how much’s it cost?” and he withdrew from his pocket a large soiled handkerchief in one corner of which some coins were tied. The scoutmaster smiled. “But you’re not twelve years old yet.” Beaney flushed and shifted his newspaper bag around to his back. “Aw, yes I am,” he said, his eyes smiling defensively. For several moments the master tried in vain to catch him in his fib. Beaney was too quick at subtraction to be ensnared about the year of his birth or to give away other vital statistics about himself. It was not until the master asked his grade in school that the calamity happened. His answer: “The fifth—” popped off his tongue like a scared rabbltt before he had time to catch it by the tail and pull It back. “How’s that? Fifth grade for a bright twelve-year old like you?” Beaney tried again valiantly, although he was sure by now that the jig was up. ‘Well, I usen’t to be a good boy—” and then he confessed truthfully, “but I’ll be twelve in two years.” “Come back then, son. and we’ll make a real scout of you—no fibbing!” And they laughed together. Needless to say, Beaney became an ardent scout winning his merits fairly and squarely—a finer boy, and a better citizen through the Boy Scouts of America and YOUR COMMUNITY FUND What kind of a tree is a slippery ehn? A small tree usually found In swampy or hilly woods. Its reddishbrown expanding bud scales, and dull red wood have given it the name of red elm. Its fragrant mucilaginous inner bark is used as a demuleent in pharmacy. How long does it take the rays of the sun to reach the earth? A little over eight minute*.