Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 165, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1927 — Page 4

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’i Counterfeit As Ever It is reassuring and illuminating to receive the information that the Christmas present which the former grand dragon of the Klan &ave to a member of the family of Senator Robinson was an imitation pearl necklace. That runs true to form. The whole reign of Stephensonism and Klanism and its present heirs to power was filled with the spurious and the counterfeit. Some weeks ago The Times, naive and guileless as always, printed the statement of Senator Robinson that his relations with Stephenson had been limited to those of client and lawyer. It wanted the people to believe that its representative in the greatest deliberative body in the world had never had any close intimacy with the State’s most illustrious guest. And now comes the black boxes and their secrets. Cherished among those secrets and kept perhaps with a fond desire to link himself with respectability, is the note of thanks for a pearl necklace. Perhaps the wives of the other lawyers of this State will wonder why they do not receive such remembrances from their husband’s clients at Yuletide. They may be consoled. The gifts of the man who once boasted that Ee was the law, and proved it, were not real. He dealt in department store stuff, if that term be not a libel on the department stores. His gifts of pearls were fakes. He gave Only imitations. j, The State at last understands and perhaps is ready to act. It may understand that he also gave gifts of imitation Senators and imitation Governors and imitation Congressmen. He put the counterfeit brand on everything he touched. Just as the whole movement he headed was a counterfeit and a deception. But what of the counterfeits he placed in office? j /Will they dare to seek re-election? Will they dare to again offer themselves as real? The pearls were fakes. What about the Statesmen he made whose families he showered With fakes? j Can they be real?

Truth In Error A citizen snooper in Pittsburgh confessed that he had faked the evidence that led to seventy-five liquor case prosecutions. The dispatch relating this, as it appeared in one newspaper, contained the following paragraph: “King’s confession was made before he left Pittsburgh for Des Moines, where he said he intended to Resume his low practice.” It should have read “law pnctice”—perhaps. Is War With Britain Possible? i People have a notion that all wars have causes. That is a dangerous fallacy. Wars are usually “causeless,” senseless and needless, the result of blundering statesmanship plus a state of mind. The World War could have been prevented by England. Had Germany known she would have to face not only France and Russia but the British Empire as well, she never would have joined Austria as Sl belligerent. \ But there was a state of mind in England which led the British to believe that sooner or later war with Germany was unavoidable and that perhaps how was an opportune time. The English looked upon the, German fleet as a menace to the British fleet and German trade as a menace to British trade. Some day Germany would have to be flattened out and now was about as good a time as any. Today British and Americans are swapping the phrase: “A British-American war is unthinkable.” Which is dangerous rubbish. Such war would be Criminal, insane, stupid beyond all comprehension, anything you will, but it is not impossible, and the quicker the British and American statesmen see that it is not the better it will be for all concerned. I Says Commander Kenworthy, British member of parliament, in an interview with the United Press: i \ “Great Britain is laying down more warships than at any time since the armistice. So is the United States. 4 “If things go on as at present, and everything in Great Britain is ridiculed and misrepresented in the tJnited States and everything American is ridiculed and misrepresented in Great Britain, and the fleets continually compared, it will create the same atmosphere as existed between Great Britain and Germany. “It would then need only some trivial misunderstanding for fools in Great Britain and the United States to begin talking about ‘national honor,’ 'Old Glory’ and ‘Brittania, rule the waves,’ and then she mob in both countries would take charge.” I What the commander says is true. We did not know that everything British was being ridiculed and misrepresented in this country—outside Big Bill Thompson’s narrow circle in Chicago—but we do know that foreign countries and peoples generally are 'jnighty little understood in the United States. And fie do know that extremely dangerous thoughts are circulated abroad concerning us, notably in £lreat Britain, where apparently people are coming to have the idea that, like Germany before the war, the United States Navy is out to “rule the waves” and ,that Uncle Sam is out to comer the markets of ;the world. I Now is a time for some real statesmanship on both ! sides the Atlantic. A fool can blunder into a war, :but it takes a wise head to keep oik of one, and Britain and the United States must keep out, particularly out of a war with each other which would spell the doom of both. “The only way,” says Kenworthy, “is to outlaw

war and by so doing Great Britain and the United States could banish it from the world.” Which is no doubt true as far as it goes, but the main thing is first to remove the suspicion and mutual fear which lead to that state of mind which, no matter how much wars may be outlawed, Inevitably leads to mischief. Banishment for Blackmer Henry M. Blackmer will want to come some day. Blackmer is living in Europe so the United States Government can not force him to come into court and tell what he knows about the Continental Trading Company and its Liberty bonds, the transaction which the Government, says was part of the plan between Sinclair and Fall to defraud the Government. The Government has notified him it wants him as a witness and he refuses to come. Billions of dollars, the national defense and the integrity of Government by the people are involved in these oil cases. It is no small matter the United States has at stake. It is no trifling thing in which Blackmer seeks to defeat the nation of which he is a citizen. In spite of Blackmer’s silence the Government has regained its oil reserves from Sinclair. If Sinclair and Fall now escape punishment, it will be because Blackmer has stayed away. But next year, or the year after, if he succeeds in his purpose, Blackmer will try to come home. Shall he be received? This Government has said plainly in the few years just past that it does not want undesirable aliens within its borders. It turns back from its shores all aliens who, in its belief, will not make desirable residents. It subjects aliens who seek citizenship to tests for loyalty. Can anyone contend this Blackmer is a desirable citizen? Should he then be allowed to come back into the country? Is it not clear that he has forfeited all claim and all right to the shelter and comfort of his homeland? Blackmer has chosen his course. He has fled abroad to escape his country’s call. Let him now remain there so long as he lives. Let Congress provide banishment for citizens who refuse to testify for their Government when subpoenaed, unless they can show good and sufficient cause for such refusal. Legislation to this effect surely would have the complete support of the people.

The Real Significance The true significance of Tuesday’s election in Ohio lies in the breaking down of the Anti-Saloon League’s effectiveness in its home States. The league has kept its clammy thumb on the necks of Ohio State politicians for many years. From the little town of Westerville, the league’s national headquarters, the politicians have been accustomed to receive their orders. They believel in the power of the league and feared to defy Its wishes. Tuesday’s election must have been enlightening to these Ohio politicians. It may well be enlightening to politicians in other States, For in this instance the Anti-Saloon League took its desires directly to the people. But couldn’t bully-rag or coerce the people, as it could the politicians. It could only offer its proposal and present such argument in its favor as there was to present. It didn’t have enough argument to convince the people. The bill on which the referendum was submitted was a bad bill and the people smothered it with their ballots. But—and here i3 the points—a similar and worse bill had previously been given to the State legislators by the Anti-Saloon League and the legislators had enacted it! They were afraid to refuse the demand of the league. They passed the law and later saw it declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court. The law in question was the one that filled Ohio with “Kangaroo oourts”—offices into which automobilists and violators of liquor statutes found themselves dragged by enthusiastic constables dividing the money collected. As submitted to the people of the State this law revealed some improvement; the court and constable received some salary and there was a limit to the amount they could make by fining citizens in any onfe month. Still, the people of the State wouldn’t have it. The thumb print of the AntiSaloon League on the measure wasn’t sufficient to persuade the people. This was true in the rural regions, where all hearts were alleged to beat in unison with the league. Country precincts as well as city precincts registered their disapproval. The league must have learned a lesson Tuesday. It is less likely now to intrust its fortunes to an open vote. But, at the same time, there is hope that the politicians have also learned a lesson. There is hope that the legend of the league’s infallibility has been destroyed in the minds of public servants heretofore accustomed to take their orders from that source. Swimming Pools Senator George W. Norris once said that a city government might fairly be judged by the number of public swimming pools it had provided. Concern for the people—their pleasure and health—is indicated by a generous provision of pools. And contrariwise. The city of Vienna, capital of Austria, whose population ten years ago was literally starving to death, has in the past few years built thirty-five municipal pools which can be used by young or old for the price of a street-car ticket. Swimming has been made a part of public school education. The latest pool in Vienna was built at a cost of a million and a half dollars. It is the largest in the world, accommodating 10,000 people a day. It is located in the poorest quarter of the city. In the city of Washington, District of Columbia, capital of the United States of America, there was two years ago one municipal swimming pool. A political promise was made of a second one, and work was started on it. Then ordeis were issued to discontinue both, and both were wrecked. So there you are. Consider the aesthetic dancer. She gets there by leaps and! bounds. Luxuries are almost prohibitive here, but in Russia you can get a divorce for 20 cents.

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M. E . TRACY SAYS: “You Can Almost Measure the Advance of Human Progress by Its Triumph Over Plague and Affliction

Nothing is more unpleasant to talk about than disease especially disease of a loathsome character, but nothing presents a more common or intimate problem for average people. So far as average people are concerned, the greatest battles mankind has fought and the most worth while victories it has won center around the suppression of deadly and painful maladies. You can almost measure the advance of human progress by its triumph over plague and affliction. an a Brought Under Control One hundred years ago tuberculosis represented a real handicap to social and industrial vitality. The great cities of today and the vast manufacturing establishments that constitute the backbone of modern commerce hardly could be maintained if this disease had not been brought under a definite degree of control. One hundred years ago scarlet fever, diphtheria and other maladies peculiar to the young were removing such a large percentage of children that the only way to keep population ahead of death was to exact full capacity from every potential mother. One hundred years ago “yellow jack” and cholera made trade in tropical ports a matter of grave risk and held back the development of a business which has , iw grown to stupendous proportions. n n m Believed God's Scourge Two hundred years ago diseases that we seldom hear of now were wiping out whole communities and fear of them played such an important part in the mental attitude of people as to drape western civilization in a shroud of hopelessness. People had no recourse but to visualize such diseases as the scourge of God and to invoke all kinds of extremes to mitigate His wrath. Dread of old-time plagues no longer acts as a cloak and excuse for superstition. Men and women rto longer dance through the streets whipping themselves and praying, in an effort to persuade heaven to stop the “black death,” as they once did. Commanders of armies no longer hope that some plague will destroy the power of their enemies.

Mind Emancipated Emancipation from those withering plagues which once swept the earth has helped to emancipate the mind. Not only science, but democracy as well, owe a great deal to the medical profession. Belief in the divine right of kings, in class distinction in a born aristocracy and in the evil consequences of breaking down existing customs, habits and institutions was rooted in the dread disease. Until that belief had been overthrown, it was impossible for humanity to embark on that career of exploration, experiment, discovery and invention which is the bedrock of modern civilization. tt tt tt ' Know Value of Health The average, family does not have to be told what an important part physical health plays in its ability to prosper and provide for itself and the average community is awakening to the same idea, but we still lack appreciation of the effect of physical health on the life of nations, much less on the life of humanity. If the League of Nations accomplishes nothing but to make people understand that filthy and negligent countries represent a menace to human health and a handicap to human progress and that every nation is in duty bound too keep well, not only for its own sake, but for the good of all, it will more than pay its way. n u New Group of Maladies The battle against disease is not only more essential than ever before, but must be waged on an ever broadening scale. That very system of transportation which makes it possible to bring food and material from distant points also makes it possible to bring germs and infections. Further than this, the very agencies of speed and power on which that system rests have develoned anew group of maladies. Where we once had smallpox, cholera, yellow fever and the “black death,” we now have paralysis, heart failure, kidney trouble and cancer. tt tt Cancer Most Baffling Os all modern diseases, cancer is the most baffling and the most dreaded. Not only Its cause, but Its increase is inexplainable. It has reached a point where, according to. Dr. George E. Sopor, one out of every ten people in this country is doomed to die by it. The only encouraging feature of the situation is that we are in a mood to attack the problem of cancer from a scientific standpoint, that notwithstanding our inability to discover the cause or provide a remedy thus far, the belief prevails that this can be accomplished some day. The fact that such a belief prevails after all the fruitless effort is a triumph in itself.

Some New Canes Would Help

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(Plymouth Pilot) (Republican) The Pilot regrets exceedingly that Clyde Walb, Republican State chairman, feels that he must resign his place before the reorganization of the committee next spring. It would be much better if Mr. Walb could keep the place until that time. However, if the resignation takes place, we suggest that the .best thing the committee could do would be to elect Ernest M. Morris, thirteenth district chairman, to fill the vacancy. We do not believe Mr. Morris would wish to contine as State chairman under the reorganization, but we are certain that he would carry on the remaining work of the chairman with great discretion and good judgment. If Mr. Morris could be induced to take the place and finish Mr. Walb’s term, it would be a very good thing for the party. Mr. Walb came into the office upon the resignation of Lawrence

Tests Show City Smoke Is Less Than in Others

(This Is the seventh of a series of interviews with Joseph F. Buchanan, city combustion engineer upon how to fire furnaces and eliminate smoke, appearing exclusively in The Times.) ' yl K

BV EDWIN V. O'NEEL When you drive downtown one of these mornings and pick your way through a heavy smog, thinking all the coal smoke in the country must be concentrating on the “mile square," take the word of the city combustion engineer for it that it’s worse in other big cities. This’was proven by a test made in 1925 and which will be repeated this winter by the combustion engineer’s office. Open jars containing water were placed about the industrial and residential sections of the city, so located as to catch the precipitation of residue from smoke during January and February, the peak of the fuel burning time. This residue was measured and analyzed. The combined area of the jars as compared with the entire area of the city of Indianapolis showed 667 tons of precipitation for the city’s area. Staggering, it might seem, but not when it is learned that from 500

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Lyons and has with signal ability and force carried the party through some of the most troublesome times it has ever experienced. It is greatly to be regretted that circumstances have come which cause him to feel that he must resign. We suggest Mr. Morris as the man we could carry forward the work of the committee with skill and ability, combining rare business and political judgment in all his actions. (Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette) (Democratic) Fervid appeal is made by the Indianapolis Star to Senator James E. Watson that he hasten home and place himself valiantly in the breach. As viewed by the Star, leading Republican organ of Indiana, the situation *>f the Grand Old Party in Hoosierdom is precarious, discouraging and likely to become desperate. Chairman Clyde A. Walb is about to resign, to give imperative

to 600 tons fell to the square mile in other large cities, such as St. Louis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and New York. “This substantiates my judgment that smoke conditions have been improved greatly here in the last twenty months,” says Buchanan. “There has been installed upward of $3,500,000 worth of smokeless fuel burning equipment. “A report submitted by the city board of health mentioned that the mortality rate from respiratory diseases was less in 1926 than it ever has been since Indianapolis ceased to be a village.”

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attention to his private business concerns. The law of the succession would in that case make the vice-chairman, Mrs. Vivian Tracy Wheatcraft, now in Washington, the actual head of the Republican State committee. The most charming redolence of * Mrs. Wheatcraft relate to the activities of her “poison squad” and “government by gossip,” as revealed by herself little more than a year ago. There is questioning and misgiving, doubt and despair. Senator Watson is the titular leader of the party and its actual chieftain. He can control if he but asserts his parmountcy of authority. So it is that the hope and the refuge of the sore-disturbed Republican party in Indiana for its regeneration is in Senator James Eli Watson. Prostrate Indiana will turn with prayer and trust to that shining apostle of politcial purity as to the gods themselves. Marlon Leader-Tribune (Democratic) Inquiries are to be made, we are informed, to discover who, if any one, is responsible for the terrible tragedy in the apartment house fire at Indianapolis. This is necessary, we presume. Punishment, however, does little good and cannot replace human life. The main thing is to remedy such conditions as existed which may have contributed to the catastrophe, to the end that the likelihood of others like it may be lessened. The official inquiries should be made before the loss of life, and made fearlessly, and without regard for those who may have wealth, or position in society. When did Earl Carroll’s sentence for perjury begin? April 12, 1927. It was for 366 days. Is silica a conductor of electrcity? The United States Bureau of Standards says i tis not, except at high temperatures. At ordinary temperature it is a good insulator.

NOV. If, 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 wiU receive preference. To the Editor: Being an ex-service man I took advantage of the State’s offer to provide hunting and fishing license to all former service men. Several days ago I was at the Statehouse where the Department of Conservation is located, and applied for a license and showed the clerk my discharge from the army. He looked at it, handed me an application blank to fill out. I did all requested and returned it to him. Then he told me I must go to a notary public and have it sworn to, and pay for it out of my own pocket. I am not kicking about the price of the notary public. If the State is going to put those licenses out free, why is there a charge for the notary public’s service. They have never put out anything for the exservice men, and when they do they want a fellow to pay about halfprice for it. I did not take their license, but went across the street and paid a dollar for one in preference to giving fifty cents for a notary’s service. I do not know whether or not this will do any harm to write to you, as your paper is about the only one in Indianapolis that seems to be able to accomplish anything. AN EX-BUCIt PRIVATE. The State Conservation Deparment advises that the charge was made necessary because the department did not have funds to hire notaries for that purpose, and the fee exacted went to the notary as pay. This practice has been discontinued. The license issued ex -service men is good for life and can be secured through the circuit courts, where no charge is made.—The Editor.

To the Editor: Two different times Mr. James A. Perry, head of the company proposing the erection of anew Baseball Park on the East Side, has been quoted in Indianapolis papers as saying if the people of the Last Side did not want the Baseball Park he would not try to force it on them. Over 400 signatures were easily obtained against the park and over 250 attended the recent hearing on the proposal and objected most vehemently and yet Mr. Perry continues with a high priced lawyer to try to force the proposition through. Was Mr. Perrji quoted incorrectly or has he just been trying to throw out a smoke screen? The citizens of the East Side have shown conclusively that they do not want a Baseball Park on this site. AN EAST SIDER Old Masters Today a rude brief recitative, Os ships sailing the seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal, Os unnamed heroes in the ships—of waves spreading and spreading far as the eye can reach, Os dashing spray, and the winds piping and blowing, And cut of these a chant for the sailors of all nations, Fitful, like a surge. Os sea captains young or old, and the mates, and of all intrepid sailors, Os the few, very choice, taciturn, whom fate can never surprise nor death dismay, Picked sparingly without noise by thee, old ocean, chosen by thee, Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse. embodying thee, Indomitable, untamed as thee. —Walt Whitman: From Song for All Seas. All Ships.