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The Case of Updike Reports from Washington, undoubtedly inspired, state that Senator Arthur Robinson will now withdraw his opposition to the confirmation of Postmaster Bryson. His reason for so doing is that the special grand jury prosecutors in this county reported that in the Black Boxes of Stephenson was a contract signed by Congressman Ralph Updike placing the patronage of this district in the hands of the former grand dragon. The Senator for more than two years has steadfastly refused to permit Bryson’s nomination to be confiraed. The excuse was that Updike objected. The action of the Senator in placing -the stamp of disapproval upon any secret contracts with grand dragons would have more sincerity if he had the courage to openly demand that Updike resign an office which was originally obtained by such a contract. There is yet to be heard any senatorial denunciation of the political immorality of such a contract. It would seem that the offense of Updike, if it be an offense, is not that of signing a cpntract that is frowned upon by the law, but a violation of the machine commandment, ‘‘Thou shalt not get caught.” Merely making a goat of Updike, and he should be driven from Congress if he signed such a contract, does not solve the whole matter. , Every man who bargained, either verbally or on the dotted line, with Stephenson and the machine he created, should be taken out of the public service. The Senator has openly stated that his own relations with Stephenson were merely that of lawyer and client. It is true that he amplified this somewhat later and said that his client, who now reposes in the penitentiary, did send a member of his family a Christmas present of a pearl necklace, an imitation pearl necklace. 'lt may or may not be significant that the note of thanks for the necklace and the Updike contract were placed by Stephenson in the same Black Box for preservation. Perhapu he cherished both as evidences of confidence amd trust, or he may have believed that both would be helpful to him later. The Senator has an opportunity to do something more emphatic than merely carrying on a futile fight against the postmsater of Indianapolis. Real disapproval of contracts with Stephenson could be expressed in plainer terms. Will he ask that any one who trafficked with the famous prisoner step down and out? If not, why? A Medal for Arthur It was quite proper and fitting that a group of very sincere women pinned a ribbon on the coat of Senator Arthur Robinson Friday by passing a resolution praising him for his testimony before the Supreme Court in the Shumaker case. Unusual service should always be appropriately recognized, and it may be taken that the women believed that the Senator had rendered an unusual service. His testimony, it is fairly inferred, differed in character, from that given by thousands of citizens who each day in this country take the witness stand and comply with the oath to •U'tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the'truth.” It is unfortunate that the resolution docs not specify just how the testimony of the Senator differed from that of other witnesses. Specifications might have won for him a place with Meredith Nicholson, Booth Tarkington, General Lew Wallace in the same corridor of the Hall of Fame which they occupy. Our New Ambassador to Cuba President Coolidge went clear out of" Who's Who in America’’ to find anew ambassador to Cuba, the name of Col. Noble Brandon Judah, just appointed to the post, failing to show in that voluminous list of the Nation’s great and otherwise. Nor has the new ambassador ever held a diplomatic post befpre, as far as we can see. A friend of Charles Samuel Deneen, Chicago politician; a World War veteran, a successful lawyer who inherited a comfortable fortune from his father, married to Miss Patterson of the monied Dayton cash register family and a one-term member of the Illinois State Legislature would seem to hit the high spots of his career. This newspaper wishes Colonel Judah success at Havana. In fact, it is highly important that he be a success there. Important in all that touches upon the relations between the United States and Latin America. There has never been a time when it was so vital that true diplomats should be put in charge of our embassies and legations to the south, and Cuba, like Mexico, is one of the keys to that part of the world. Diplomatic experience is not so necessary in Havana at this time as tact, that inborn instinct to £eep off other people’s toes and make friends. There are no outstanding differences between the Utiited States and Cuba to be settled, but there is a vast, growing and damaging suspicion against us throughout Latin America which must be dissipated, and It may be that Colonel Judah is just the man to help 4o it. a

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Simmering Europe The European cauldron in which the bdnes of millions of men have already been boiled and bleached is steaming again. The other day Prance and Jugoslavia signed $ treaty of amity but which, in Rome, was regarded a& a slap at Italy and Italian pretentions in the Balkans. Now Italy retaliates with a treaty of "unalterable” alliance with Albania, Jugoslavia’s western neighbor and Italy’s bridgehead a short distance across the Adriatic from the heel of the Italian "boot.” Italy and Albania mutually promise to come to each other’s assistance in the event of war —L slap right back at France for what the fascists consider her too ardent friendship for Italy’s traditional enemy, Jugoslavia. These latest moves in the war-breeding Balkans can not fail to increase many fold the general uneasiness now so apparent in the old world. Nor was this all the evil tidings the cables brought us from the other side of the ocean as we sat, a little loggy, after one of the most bounteous Thanksgiving feasts in the history of our country. Premier Bratiano, the Mussolini of Rumanie, died quite suddenly after an operation on his throat. At the moment his country is at fever pitch following a plot to bring Prince Carol back from exile in Paris and crown him in place of his own little son, King Michael. But the Carolist movement is not so much in favor of Carol as it is against the dictatorship of the Bratiano brothers. A popular opposition to them had already a distinctly menacing point when lonel suddenly died, and while the regency quickly acted to appoint his brother, Vintila, premier in his place, it is extremely doubtful if the latter is strong enough to stem a tide which seemed about to sweep away the older and more powerful member of the family. A long-dreaded revolution might easily grow out of the present crisis. And should it come, Russia might seize the opportunity to take back Bessarabia, which, she holds, rightfully belongs to her. Lastly, in the same batch of information, comes the news that Moscow has formally warned Poland that her course with Lithuania, neighbor of both Poland and Russia, is menacing the peace of eastern Europe. The Muscovites charge that the Poles have designs against Lithuania's independence, which Russia, it is believed, would fight to uphold. And so the European war pot goes on stewing. Never has it completely cooled off. Sometimes it merely simmers. Sometimes it boils boisterously Sometimes, with a hissing sound that almost scares a war-burnt world into fits, it lets off steam through some sort of makeshift safety valve. But also sometimes the valve doesn't function, and there’s an explosion—as in 1914—and the continent becomes a shambles. Likely enough the valve will work now. But the trouble is nobody can tel! what it will do until it does it. If there’s an explosicn—well, we know if. hasn’t worked. Which, to say the least, doesn’t redound greatly to our credit. Boasting of their intelligence, we seem to sit back and let a thing like that go on and on. The Philosophy of Defeat The president of, a large eastern university was called upon the other day to speak at a football banquet. The season was over and it had not been what coaches would call a "complete success.” The school had lost more than half its games. The players hrd fought liard, but met superior teams In nearly all the games. The president said: "Our team has not been made up of iron men, Just human beings. Even if it was possible to repeat last year’s record, glorious as it was, heaven forbid! We would be swamped by boys who want athletics and not education. The defeats have been good for us. Defeats are life. Not a man on earth always succeeds.” These are wise words. It ie easy to lose life’s real perspectives when your team is unbeaten, when it has rolled up scores superior to every other team in its district, when it has found most of its games easy, when its record outshines the records of each other. A “bad season,” too, brings out finer qualities in the team and its supporters than a walkaway ever can bring. Losses bring a closer loyalty, rather than the disposition to boast, and defeats bring the knowledge that fighting qualities must be improved. There must be these defeats in school and in life to balance careers. To be beaten when doing our level best is hard to take, but the setback betrays weaknesses that easy victories never would reveal. Siddons Takes a Short Cut Harry P. Sinclair and five other persons have been ordered by Justice Frederick L. Siddons to appear before him on Dec. 5, in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to show why they should not be adjudged in contempt of court. The citation for contempt was made on the motion of the United States District Attorney, Peyton Gordon. to whom the judge recently addressed some pointed remarks when Gordon evinced a lack of sympathy with contemplated contempt proceedings. Those cited include two officers of Sinclair’s company, William J. Bums, the detective. Burns’ son and another Burns man. They are accused of having kept the jury in Fall-Sinclair conspiracy trial under surveillance with the object of influencing their decision. This proceeding is the ninth separate legal action growing out of the complicated Fall-Sinclair litigation. It is perhaps the simplest of all. The men accused, it should be noted, are required by the court’s order to show why they should not be adjudged in contempt. The burden of proof is on them, and not on the Government. If they are found guilty, the judge can impose jail sentences as he sees fit, on the theory that their actions constituted an obstruction of Justice which was contempt. The Judge will be both judge and Jury. It is assumed that Justice Siddons will avail himself of the services of two members of the bar whom he recently asked to serve as a committee to consider evidence looking toward contempt proceedings. This new proceeding is independent of and unrelated to the investigation now being madfe by a grand jury. Indictments may still be returned by the grand jury, In which event the procedure would be jury trial, with thb Government attempting to prove jury tampering. Justice Siddons has taken a short cut. Instead of the long-drawn-out process of indictment and trial by jury, with all the delays iiicidental to such a proceeding, we have summary action. It required four years to bring Fall and Sinclair to trial on the charges of conspiring to defraud the' Government in the lease of Tfeapot Dome. It has taken Justice Siddons just about that many weeks to accomplish arraignment of those accused of attempting to tamper with the jury.

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The 1,200 Convicts Who Rebelled and Defied the Law Merely Used the Knowledge Civilization Had Placed at Their Command Without Seitse or Ideals .”

lon Bratianu, who died Thanksgiving day, must have been a real leader, otherwise, he could not have remained in control of a country like Rumania for so many years. He was one of the few war premiers who survived the reaction incident to peace. He not only crushed what seemed formidable opposition at home on several occasions, but he doubled the power and prestige of Rumania in spite of a shifty course and apparent failure. More than a match for allied statesmen, for the plot and intrigue which threatened him for sixteen years and for every kind of coalition that was formed to accomplish his overthrow, this man whom Eastern Europe had 1 learned to fear and respect proved the luckless victim' of little pusproducing bugs. Such is the extent of human greatness. nun Kings Bow to Nature When nature snaps her finger the king collapses as quickly as his humblest subject. Disease is no respecter of persons; neither is medicine, if it functions effectively. When Ambrose Pare put his knee on the breast of the Duke of Guise in order to pull oqt a spear-head which had been thrust through the latter’s cheek, attendants warned him not to treat such an exalted patient like an ordinary man. but Pare replied that he intended to treat the Duke not only like a man but "like a thing.” amm Best and Worst Helpless The mechan.cs of life has nothing to do with character. The best ma i on earth is just as helpless be ore & six-gun as the worst. The same dose of poison that kills a peasant will kill a potentate. People defied kings only when they learned that the latter did not possess charmed lives. a a a JJbertv Cradles Crooks It is a curious fact that the same evolution of thought which inspired men to fight for their rigWts gave tne modem criminal his cue. Outlawry, as we understand It, nSver had a more prominent place in history than at the time when the modern world opened its battle for liberty. The age of revolt in England was the age of highwaymen, kidnapers and cutthroats. The age of free speech and universal suffrage in America is the age of crook, defrauder and thief. Individual lawlessness develops as a grim and seemingly inescapable accompaniment of individual liberty and the same processes by which men organize to maintain order enabled them to organize for the promotion of disorder. m m a Futile Prison Revolt Those 1.200 convicts who rebelled, took possession of a California prison and defied the law for a day merely used the knowledge civilization had placed at their command, without sense or ideals. Their act illustrates the one great danger of civilization. Knowledge is not enough in it--self to make men decent. What we know determines our ability. What we do with it depends on character and that tells the real story. Thus far. the outstanding result of civilizatiory has been to place powerful and’ dangerous instrumentalities in our hands. n m Learn, but Don’t Think Thinkers the world over are beginning to suspect that we spend too much time learning how to do things and not enough studying whether it’s wise to do them. This suspicion is illustrated vividly in the career of that Swedish scientist, who, after devoting his life to the invention and manufacture of explosives, dedicated liis fortune to the promotion of science, culture and international brotherhood through the annual distribution of prizes. mm m Dare, Gain Nothing Putting aside any discussion with regard to the right or wrong of that California prison outbreak, what under the sun could the convicts hope to gain? Even if they lacked ideals they ought to have had sense enough to realize thp futility of it. In the first place, their chances of success was not better than one in a hundred, and in the second, they could have played no part save that of hunted things if they had succeeded. The point is, of course, that they trifled with the idea of staging a mutiny, with the possibility of what they could do when they had beaten down the guards and gained possession of the prison, until reason had no place in their plans. m m m Devil-May-Care! One could be more optimistic if such crazy outbursts were confined to penal institutions. But they are not. Many a strike, many a reform movement, many a drive and even many a war is launched in the same devil-may-care way.

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Attica Ledeer Tribune (Republican) We have two men of distinction in the fife of the state in marked disagreement as to the words of a conversation. We have in mind none other than our esteemed friend, United States Senator James E. Watson and our esteemed friend, Dr. E. S. Shumaker, head of the Anti-Saloon League in the State. Dr. Shumaker asserts that Senator Wat-, son told him in a seemingly knowing manner that he—Shumaker—would not be sent to jail for his alleged contempt of the Supreme

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Court of the State, for him not to worry; that he would escape with a fine. (The doctor got the sentence). Dr. Shumaker challenges such an assertion, and there the issue is joined. It would hardly seem appropriate for a senator to assure immunity from a prison term when the power to pronounce the verdict of conviction or acquittal was with the Supreme Court of the State. Senator Watson is not physically well. We are very sorry. We were hopeful that he would come back to Indiana and testify in person

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tral Europe. Thes* moist rich lands, too rich for tillage, make splendid pastures. Drainage ditches separate from each other the little green fields dotted with feed boxes from which the black and white cows eat bran and grains imported from America. By this means farmers increase the number of cows they can keep. Since comfortable cows give the most milk, they are blanketed in the pastures during cold and rainy weather. These richly fed and carefully tended herds of the wellknown Friesian or Holstein breed make dairy products the chief of all the farm commodities of Holland. Do women live in lighthouses? Nearly all lighthouses are provided with dwellings for keepers and their families. Where was the movie “Chang” made and by whom? "Chang” was made in the northern jungles of Siam by two camera men, Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian Cooper. The principals in the film are a native, his wife and three children, and also a pet white gibbon. Their daily combat with tigers.

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regarding the circumstances. His affidavit lacks much of the personal warmth which has characterized the Senator for many years. It is hardly Watsonian, and leaves regret and some measure of disappointment. But it is interesting to note that even great men do not always agree as to the actual purport of a conversation. There is some excuse for failures on the part of us ordinary mortals to properly understand or interpret the conversations or conclusions which we make to each other.

elephants and other jungli inhabitants forms the basis of the story. Do all States have the.same laws concerning abentee voting? Not all States allow absentee voting and the regulations vary in the several States that do allow it. A copy of the law can be obtained from the Secretary of State at the State Capitol. Where did the proverb, “You cannot make a velvet purse of a sow’s car” originate? John Wolcott in “Lord B. and His. Notions” originated the proverb. It reads, "You cannot make, my lord, I fear, a velvet purse of a sow’s ear.” What are five of the largest zoological. gardens, in. the .United States? The New York Zoological Society, Bronx, N. Y.; St. Louis Zoological Society, St. Louis, Mo.; Franklin Park Zoo, Boston. Mass.; Zoological Park of Philadelphia, Pa., and National Zoological Park, Washington, D. C.

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Mr. Fixit Resident Wants Boyd Ave. Ruts Filled.

Let Mr. Fixit. The Times' representative at city hell, present to city officials, write Mr. Plxlt et The Times. Names and addresses which must be Riven, will not be published. An east side resident today appealed to Mr. Fixit for help in securing some repairs on Boyd Ave.. between Finley Ave. and Walker Ave. Dear Mr. Fixit: Will you please use your influence to get some attention given to Boyd Ave. between Finley Ave. and Walker Ave. This street is nothing but yellow clay, with ruts through it from six inches to a foot deep. It becomes almost impassable with every rain. Some cinders would be a great help. Thanking you in advance. C. K. K. street Commissioner Gdorge Woodward promised to inspect the street and make a temporary repair with cinders if possible. Cinders would only temporarily better the condition. You should file a petition, bearing signatures of majority property owners, for a permanent improvement with the board of works. Dear Mr. Fixit:" At 1145 S. Sheffield Ave., right off of Morris St., there is a va’cant lot covered with weeds and cans. The lot is very unsightly. Isn’t there a way to clean it up? FRIEND OF SHEFFIELD AVE. The street department fund for cutting weeds is depleted arid it • will be impossible for the city to cut the weeds this year.

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When I have tears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, In charaet’ry Hold like rich gamers the fullripened grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starred face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the fairy power Os unreflecting love!—then on the shore Os the wide world I stand alone, , and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink. —John Keats: When I Have Feari. How should white potatoes be prepared for boiling? The proper way to boil potatoes is to wash and pare them and drop them into cold water for a short time. Cook in boiling water until tender when pierced with a fork and just before removing from the water add the salt. The water should be kept boiling constantly. When done, drain and shake the pan over the fire to dry the potatoes and pan. What kind of paint is used on iron pipes to keep them from rusting? Give them at least one coat of pure red lead, mixed from the dry article with raw oil and turpentine, equal parts to which a little oil drier is added. Finish with a good black paint made from pure lampblack, boiled linseed oil and japan, or a good varnish black. Who made the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight? Capt. John Alcock of England and his American navigator, Lieut. A. W. Brown, made the first crossing from St. John’s Newfoundland, to Cliffdon, Ireland, a distance of 1,960 miles, in 16 hours 12 minutes.