Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 155, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1927 — Page 6

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Watch Them Vote Let it be hoped that very many citizens will attend the meeting of the city council at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon and watch the members select the new mayor. The members of the many civic organizations whose representatives made, suggestions should be interested. All other citizens have a very lively interest, for upon the action of these members, four of whom are under indictment, will depend to a large degree the reputation that this city will have at home and elsewhere for the next couple of years. The city council apparently clings to the idea that the job belongs to the politicians and that no one who has not been schooled in politics and has made no alliances with some sort of a boss is entitled to hold the place. The civic organizations have suggested the names of fom* citizens whose reputations guarantee a livelier interest in the welfare of the city than in the political ambitions of bosses or greedy gentlemen who know how to make poorly paid city jobs very profitable. It will be interesting, perhaps amusing, to watch these councilmen. It may be just possible that these members, in the presence of large numbers of citizens, will finally a change has come in the spirit of Indianapolis and even though they be the last to learn the fact, will know tint the people really are interested more in government than in politics. It is just possible. It would be very rash to say that it is probable. But miracles do happen. It wohld be very fine if a generous outpouring of citizens should discover that the city council had come to their viewpoint and selected one of the men 'Who were recommended by these erpe organizations. That would be a fine start for better things. But even if they should refuse, the excuses offered by the councilmen for refusing should be amusing. The show ought to be worth the trouble under any conditions. For the council will either do a very fine thing for this city or the members will unmask themselves before the citizens who gather and admit that they are but pawns in a game, moved about the board by the bosses, intent on not the welfare of the city but on their own advantage and the advantage of political groups that have shamed this city. Go down tomorrow afternoon. Hang around. See how the machinery works. Your presence may help. And at least every one who goes will have a better understanding of how this city is operated. The members#of the council, of course, can be expected to welcome a very large attendance. That British Royal Scandal The famous'diary of Charles Greville has now been published in unexpected form and, not very strange to relate, King George V, of Britain, and the whole royal family are reported as simply furious. Greville made his little jottings during the reigns of William IV and Queen Victoria, but such were some of the entries that those who read them thought it best to leave them unpublished until the hand of time had worn smooth some of the rougher edges. Queen Victoria, the volume sets forth, early discovered that her mother, Duchess of Kent, was the mistress of Conroy, her private secretary. And it adds, the two of them plotted to put her behind lock and key, prior to the death of King William, until she should promise a regency making the Duchess and Conroy virtually the sovereign power. This, it seems, is the passage which has so angered King George. Sir Frederick Ponsonby, former private secretary to Queen Victoria and now King George’s treasurer, calls it rubbish. Not a hundredth part of what Greville wrote, he says, is true. On the other hand Prof. Pollard, chairman of the Institute of Historical Research and himself a distinguished historian, justifies the book. “History,” he observes, "has to be based on fact, giving offense to some or not. Historians will know how to sift what is true from what is false.” This, of course, is the right idea. He can but sympathize, however, with King George’s feelings about the matter for all that. After all Queen Victoria was his grandmother and the Duchess of Kent, Conroy and their alleged goings-on are still not quite far enough in the background to make Greville's “scandalous gossip,” as Ponsoffoy calls it, pleasant reading. Still and all the story of King George IV is precious little older than Victoria’s and, when first published, was not as old as Greville’s. Yet it forms one of the most scandalous pages of modernish modern history. He died only ninety-seven years ago and was succeeded by his brother, the Duke of Clarence, who became the King William IV mentioned in the Greville diary. Dissipated, extravagant and the object of whispered conservation all over England, the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV) married Mrs. Fitzthen threw her over to marry the Princess Caroline of Brunswick on condition his enormous debts were paid, only to abandon her in turn. Later, traveling on the continent, the princess was the object of the most infamous reports connecting her name with that of Bergami, her Italian attendant, the prince himself helping to spread them. When, in 1820 —just 107 years ago—the prince became King George IV, he offered his wife an income of $250,000 if she would renounce her title of Queen and never return to England. Refusing the offer and returning to London where ishe was acclaimed by the

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populace, she was tried for adultery presumably by order of her royal husband, and acquitted. The King could, however, banish the Queen from courfcr and he did. She was even refused admission to Westminster Abbey to see him crowned. She died in seclusion and on her tomb at Brunswick are only a few simple lines to remind the world that here lies buried “The Unhappy Queen.” So there you are. Greville, in his diary, wrote of incidents immediately following these. Surely, if he dipped his quill in truth, he can easily be pardoned just as the Duchess of Kent may be. For, after all, she was but continuing a precedent set for her by the court from which she sprang. If we were King George V we wouldn’t lose any sleep over Greville. These are democratic times. Even a king is judged by what he does himself, and from all reports the present George has lived a model life. Bully for him, we say! A Senator Visits Philadelphia Senator Smoot, chairman of the United States Senate finance committee learned Thursday night what they think of United States senators in Philadelphia. He discovered, perhaps, the reason for William S. Vare. Invited to address a business men’s rally in behalf of one Harry S. Mackey, Vare’s candidate for mayor. Senator Smoot appeared, prepared to give the audience the best he had. He had assembled his speech with care; the typewritten manuscript was filled with the most impressive figures and statistics. “Mr. Chairman,” said the senator, bowing in the direction of Samuel M. Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, who occupied the chair. Into the hall marched a brass band, braying lustily, “Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here!” or something equally appropriate. The senator smiled and waited for the band to > subside, which presently it did. “—And ladies and gentlemen,” added the Senator. In marched another band, just as loud as the t first. In time it got settled. The senator pitched into his speech.

“Further reduction in the tax burden—” he began. That apparently was the signal for another band, for in one came, a-tooting. The senator was beginning to feel a little doubtful, but he took -up his tax talk manfully once more. This time he was able to expound quite a lot of facts and figures before anything happened and when it did happen it wasn't a brass band. It was a band of patriotic women, all dressed in yellow slickprs. They marched right up onto the stage, heedless of the speaker, and turned their backs, revealing in large black letters on their slickers, this inspiring thought: “••Vote the straight Republican ticket.” When they had received their thunderous cheers and marched off again, the senator patiently resumed his effort. But the crowd was restless and not listening. They apparently wanted more bands. They got their wish, in part, for more bands did come in. But even in Philadelphia the supply of brass bands is not unlimited' and eventually the distinguished speaker was able to reel off whole pages of his manuscript without musical interruption. So the crowd started shuffling its feet. His patience exhausted, Smoot laid his manuscript down and pleaded with the audience. “Perhaps you are not inteersted in this long array of figures,” he said, “but I was under the impression that I was speaking to business men. I am vitally interested in reduction of taxes. I am giving all my heart and my strength to a study of the problem. The only way we can get at the solution is by public discussion, so that Congress may know W'hat the people are thinking.” This heart-to-heart appeal had an effect, but not the one Smoot anticipated. “Choke him!” shouted someone in the gallery. / Samuel Vauclain took the situation in hand. Stepping to the front of the platform, with an imperious gesture, he restored order. When Smoot resumed, he found himself cheered. The audience cheered everything he said. It cheered high taxes and cheered low taxes. It cheered when he expressed agreement with Secretary Mellon and when he expressed disagreement. It cheered the senator entirely out of the notion of finishing his speech. The papers say he was white with rage when he walked to his seat. But, back in the calm environs of Washington, the senator probably feels more philosophical. He probably feels that Philadelphia has, in William S. Vare, just the senator it deserves. As one bootlegger said to another, “Keep up your spirits.” An English clergyman says he knows a 17-year-old girl who drinks forty cocktails daily. He didn’t say how long she has been living in England. We might take some stock in Big Bill Thompson’s defense of Chicago against King George if we could see any possible use King George would, have for Chicago after he captured it. A prohibition agent recently lost $7,770 in a couple of hours of gambling in a Buffalo resort, we hear. Oh, well, easy come, easy go!

Law and Justice By Dexter M. Keezet

A man agreed to buy a building. After he made the agreement he found that the agent who had represented him in the transaction had also represented the seller. He sought to recover the payments he had made on the building on the ground that the agreement to buy it was not valid because his agent, without his knowledge, had also represented the seller. The seller represented that the agreement was valid because at the time it was made he had not known that his agent was also representing the buyer. Lacking this information, the seller said, he had not been in a position to take advantage of the buyer in such a way as to make the agreement to buy the building invalid. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? Thq actual decision: The Supreme Court of California decided that the transaction was void and that the buyer Could recover the payments he had made. The reason given was that an agent can not lawfully represent two adverse parties in the same transaction without the full knowledge and consent of both.

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m. Ey TRACY SAYS: Nothing Short of a Real Revolution in Public Opinion or a Cyclonic Smash Within the Republican Party Could Bring About a Democratic Victory Next Year.

The romance of Governor Smith’s career lies in the handicaps he has overcome. His success proves that the back alley can mold leaders as well as the backwoods. It is no reflection on the Great Emancipator to describe Governor Smith as a citified edition of Abraham Lincoln. A dozen colleges and universities have been grinding out graduates in New York for the last 100 years, but this man, with only a little schooling, is the only one that the State has elected chief executive four times. He began as a ward politician, a district captain, a henchman of Tammany Hall. He has ended by winning the trust and respect of millions who grew up in the belief that nothing good could come out of such associations. Romance in Religion The romance of Governor Smith’s candidacy lies in the religious issue. Since the formation of this republic, a tradition has prevailed that no Roman Catholic could become President. Theodore Roosevelt, that ruthless smasher of traditions, said there was no reason why a Roman Catholic should not be President, that he expected the day to come when one would be President. In breaking a tradition of this kind and character, it is only fair that the man who undertakes it should have an even chance in other respects. Governor Smith has not an even change in other respects and in that lies the possibility that he might do more harm than good to the very cause he is supposed to serve by becoming the Democratic candidate in 1928. * * * Normally Republican No one can review the political history of this country during the last fifty years, and especially the last ten, without realizing that it is normally Republican. Os the last six Presidents, only one has been a Democrat; of the last eight presidential elections only two have been won by the Democrats and of the last sixteen Congresses, only three have been controlled by them. The situation weald be less discouraging were it not for the drift and size of recent Republican majorities. Up to 1920. no Republican had won his Democratic opponent by more than 2,500,000 votes while Wislon actually had beaten Hughes by more than half a million in 1916. In the campaign of 1920, however, Harding went in by the astounding majority of 7,000,000 and more, while four years later Coolidge beat Davis by 6,000,000 although there was a bolt in his own party. * • • People Fear Change With such figures to go by. it requires no great cleverness to understand that nothing short of real revolution in public opinion or a cyclonic smash within the Republican party could bring about a Democratic victory next year. There has been enough rottenness and corruption in connection with the Republican rule to create such a revolution, were it not for the deadening effect of prosperity. Theoretically we ought to elect officials without regard to economic conditions, but we do not, and the chances are w f e never will. While not committed to the idea that an administration is responsible for good times, many people fear that a change of administration might spoil them. * * * Prosperity Is Issue If the present prosperity continues and there is little indication that it will not; if the average man cannot only possess one automobile, but entertain the hope of possessing two; if there is a radio scratching and growling in two out of every three homes and spare cash enough on hand to pay as much for movies as the Feder-" al government costs; neither Governor Smith or any other Democrat has much of a chance to become President of the United States. This ought to make those pause who are urging his candidacy on the ground that it promises to break an old tradition. * * * Strengthen Tradition If Governor Smith were to run and be defeated, people would say that his religion did it, and instead of being weakened, the antiCatholic tradition would be strengthened. People would say this moreover quite regardless of the circumstances I have outlined, or the obvious fact that he v had very little chance at the start and that his religion played little part in the result. They would say this in obedience to the tradition itself and as a reaction to the outstanding feature of his candidacy. If he were to run and be defeated he would have blanketed men of his faith for many years, would have made it almost impossible for any Roman Catholic to be nominated by either of the two great parties, much less elected.

Well, Indiana Always Did Have Talent

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(Muncie Press) (Republican) If you wish to become famous, don’t expect your home town to give you too much credit. If ybu were “Bill” in school and “old man Smith’s boy” to the neighbors, you will always be more or On Being re £ arded that way. "Bill” in Take the case of Frances Wilson Diu in Grayson, the Muncie girl who has been Home 1 OWU trying to fly to Europe. As Miss Wilson, elocutionist and amateur actress, she was known well to hundreds of Muncie person* Here she was a small-city girl and so she will ever remain to those who are acquainted with her. She may fly to Copenhagen or the moon; she may lead a great army and found anew empire, but the “home folks” -will always figure that she is Frances Wilson, the blonde girl who used to go about “elocuting.” Making his home in Muncie is one of the nation’s most widely known short story writers. In the literary circles of the large cities Muncie is known largely because it is the home of C. Elbert Scoggins. In his home town he is unknown to the majority, and to most of the others who are acquainted with him he is vaguely a man who ‘“does some kind of writing” and carries a cane. Carrying a cane identifies him rather better, it is probable, than do his stories. Not, you understand, that the home folks have anything but kindly feelings for their celebrities. After they understand, the neighbors are inclined, even, to be proud of them, and to hope they make a good living and all that kind of thing, but these noted ones are, after all, “old man Smith’s boy” that was so "dumb" in school they had to take him out, or “that Jones girl,” who was so lazy she left the dirty dishes piled up in the kitchen sink for her mother to wash. (Lake County Times) (Independent) Attorney-General Arthur L. Gilliom of Indianapolis denied that he had “confessed violating the State and Federal prohibition laws,” as was charged by the St. Joseph County Mini rial Do You Association in resolution adopt., at Anr op South Bend. He charged that the /igiee ministers made “a very false stateWith Him?n lent.” Gilliom. referring to his act of obtaining whisky to save the lives of hie children and his sister, said: “I only performed my natural and legal filial duties.” Gilliom’s letter to the ministers continued: “Your resolution is a typical example of the dishonest bigotry that has brought the great State of Indiana into national disgrace. “If such as your membership had been less active in the last few years in promoting intolerant fanaticism through such organizations as the Anti-Saloon League and the Ku Klux Klan, and if you had confined yourselves to the proper sphere of the church

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less sound. The inspiration is often followed by a forced expiration which which is frequently cut short by closure of the glottis. Sobbing is usually the result of emotional conditions, but it may be a symptom of hysteria. Where is the tendon of Achilles and how did it get the name? It is the tendon connecting the heel with the calf of the leg, and is the principal extensor of the foot. It is so called because, according to fable, the Mother of Achilles, when she dipped him in the River Styx to make hmi invulnerable, held him by the heel and thus the heel was the only part of him which remained vulnerable. What is the world's speedboat record? 80.567 miles per hour. What does the word Savannah mean? It is the Creek Indian form of the name of the Shawnee Indians who lived at one time on the banks of the Savannah River. The word is said to mean "southerners.” Who wrote “If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces?” Shakespeare in the Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 2. How often do goldfish spawn? They spawn once a year, usually during April, May or June and lay twenty-five to fifty eggs each) About half of these are hatched. Where is the Yarrow River and where did the name originate? Yarrow is the name of a stream in Selkirkshire, Scotland, celebrated in the poems of Wordsworth and Scott. It is named for yarrow, a plant commonly known as the tansy. the crushed leaves of which have healing qualities.

and had taught true religion. Indiana would not be in her present disgraceful mess and the church would would be more highly respected and would be a greater agency for human good.” We agree with him. (Hartford City News) The picture of Governor Ed Jackson, done in oil, is to have especial electrical illumination, as it stands beside the pictures of other notables of Indiana. This picture will be incomplete unless there Jackson is also exhibited, along with the Done Governor, that famous horse he bought . y.. of Stephenson and the black box. At VI UU no distant day Governor Jacksoft will \be brought to trial for felony charged against him in indictments brought by the grand jury of Marion county. Should he be convicted, the picture should be turned toward the wall, along with that of McCray. If Indiana is not more fortunate with its governor, it ought to divide the pictures, showing one group who served in the penitentiary and the other group who were honest men. A ghastly illumination would be more appropriate for the prison birds. (FI. Wayne News Sentinel) (Republican) Judge Marcus Kavanaugh of Chicago, who is one of the clearest-thinking members of the American Bar, recently leveled anew attack against the antiquated practices which still Inhere In How Crime our legal pr xedure to defeat the ends /<? AIApA °* J ustice - The result of these absurd i. Hiora technicalities, he declared, is that the by Lawyers United States is “the most law-ridden and yet the most lawless of nations." As he sees it, what the country needs today is not so much a change of law as a different attitude on the part of many judges charged with administering the law. When a man may be freed after conviction of a serious crime, merely because the word “the” had been left out of the indictment, there is something wrong. Although this judge recognized the importance of safeguarding every person accused, and insists that all warrants shall be properly and carefully drawn, yet he also recognizes that few innocent men ever have needed a “frivolous technicality” by way of defense. All those who have, even as laymen, made the most casual survey of the record are a ell aware that there have been abundant instances of the disproportionate effect of trivial technicalities in due process of the law—that there has come to be more regard for the letter than for the spirit of the law. A quibbling attorney bent upon having his own way frequently has caused a sacrifice of the ends of justice. In the last analysis, it is upon the courts themselves that the burden of seeing that justice is done must eventually fall. When more courts accept that responsibility, the courts and the law will enjoy a far greater measure of public respect than frequently is enjoyed at the present moment.

Sausage and Wheat Cakes piping hot and delicions are served with real, old-fashioned maple syrup on Monon dining cars to Chicago

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FRANK V. MARTIN Gen. AgU Pass. Dept. 114 Monument Placb Indianapolis

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Mr. Fixit Promise to Wage War on “ Mashers” on Circle .

Let Mr. Flxit. The Times' representative at city hall, present your troubles to city officials. Write Mr. Flxit at The Times. Names and addresses which must be Riven, will not be published. A father was aided by Mr. Fixit today in obtaining more police protection for persons alighting from and taking busses at night on Monument Circle. Dear Mr. Flxit: I have noticed the great amount of good work you have been doing for Indianapolis taxpayers and wonder if you could do a favor for me and scores of other parents who have daughters working do- ntown at night. My 16-year-old takes after her mother and is very beautiful. She works until 11 o'clock each night and has to walk to the Circle, where she catches a bus for the east side. Several times while waiting on the Circle she has been accosted by young men and others not so young, but, nevertheless, much to her annoyance and our distress. Upon none of these occasions has she been able to spy a policeman on said Circle, to whom she might turn for protection. A great many girls work night shifts in the two telegraph offices near the Circle and In stores and would greatly appreciate the selfconfidence the 6ight of the strong arm of the law would give them. Briefly then, is a policeman assigned to the Circle at night? If not, could we have the mayor’s guard there now that the mayor sleeps at night? Sincerely, A FATHER. Police Chief Claude M. Worley said he would grand your request for more police protection. At present traffic officers and the district patrolman are on the Circle practically every few minutes. Worley said he would call the officers’ attention to the complaint and request them to watch for men accosting girls and women.

Old Masters

Dawn—and a magical stillness: on earth, quiescence profound; On the waters a vast Content, as of hunger appeased and stayed; In the heavens a silence that seems not mere privation of sound. But a thing with form and body, a thing to be touched and weighed! Yet I know that I dwell in the midst of the roar of the cosmic wheel. In the hot collision of Forces, and clangor of boundless Strike, Mid the sound of the speed of the worlds, the rushing worlds and the peal. Os the thunder of Life —William Wataon: Dawn on the Headland.

Movie Verdict INDIANA Jetta Goudal make a most alluring oriental spy in “The Forbidden Woman” which is a tale of brotherly love. The Albertina Rasch Dancers let you in on the secret of the Zebra Strut. CIRCLE— ‘Ben Hur” will always remain as one of the ten best movies ever made. Should be seen by every man,’woman and child. OHIO—For her own purposes, Mrs. Wallace Reid has successfully worked out the personal appearance idea in connection with her feature film. “The Satin Women." APOLLO Lane Chandler knows how to ride horses. This is proven in “Open Range.”