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Senatorial Assurance Bootleggers who are convicted can expect no aid from Senator Arthur R. Robinson, or to be more accurate, no Muncie bootlegger should have any such hope, if the press agency that is kind to Senators reports correctly his correspondence. By far thq most amazing bit of news of the day is the fact that Senator Robinson sent letters to dry friends in Muncie denying that he would rush to the aid of the underworld which is now receiving some scrutiny from both State and Federal officers. The' sending of such a letter is evidence of the very widespread belief in this State that officials of high and low degree have used their offices and their powers for the protection of crime and criminals. It is amazing that any one should require from any Senator any assurance that he would not use his high office for such a purpose. It is amazing that any friend of the Senator should find it necessary to call to his attention the boasts of the Muncie bootleggers that they had nothing to fear because of the possible influence of the Senator. There would have been less amazement, it is true', had not the law firm of which the Senator is a member, been listed as the attorneys for many liquor law violators when they carried their appeals to the Supreme Court. ' There are very definite distinctions between a Senator and a lawyer. It is quite proper, of course, for a Senator’s law firm to represent bootleggers in State courts, but it would be decidedly improper for the same Senator to show any kindly interest among Federal officials in behalf of the violators. That the Senator found it necessary to dignify the rumors at Muncie with a formal denial that he would try to interfere with the wheels of justice is its own commentary. He assures the people of the State that he will keep his hands off the Muncie matter. >He resents the implication and that is a step in advance. The time may even come when Indiana will have a Senator whose grip- upon public confidence is so great that he will not find it necessary to send assurance that he will not improperly use his office. The people will have a chance to get such a Senator in the year 1928. The Russian Bomb at Geneva While the dogs of war are snarling all the way from the Baltic to the Black Sea, the great powers of the world—including Russia and the United States —are foregathering at Geneva to see what can be done about disarmament, if anything. Born optimists though we are and a chronic believer in fairies, we very much fear little progress can be made this time. Disarmament, in the final analysis, depends upon world security and what nation today, particularly in Europe, considers itself sufficiently sate to do away with or radically reduce its national defense? Poland, called by Napoleon “the key to Europe,” is pictured as on the verge of swallowing Lithuania. This would mean that Russia would inarch against Poland and the fat would be in the fire. Revolution menaces Rumania, and civil war in that country would almost inevitably tempt Russia to retake Bessarabia, and Hungary to occupy Transylvania. Italy continues to scare the world with her dazzling plans of empire which involve the Balkans, North Africa and Asia Minor, while France ranges herself behind Jugoslavia which country insists Italy has designs upon her. And so it goes. Even the delegates arriving at Geneva admit fear of war broods over Europe and the world today more than at any time since the Armistice, thus it would require a miracle to overcome the handicap which the gentlemen at Geneva now face. The bombshell thrown into the meeting by Maxim litvinoff, chief of the soviet delegation, formally proposing the abolition of all land, sea and air forces the world over, will have little real effect. It was simply a gesture, but one handy to refer to in the future whenever anyone points at Russia’s growing military power. Still and all this newspaper wishes the discussion luck. All this agitation for arms limitation, even if nothing much comes of it now, is bound to lead to something better in the future. Going to the CityDr. Edward A. Steiner of Grinnell College told lowa teachers “the small town is the mediator between country and city. Through it country people draw from the city, and through the small town the city draws from the country.” Which gives ample proof, if any were needed, that the debates about the desirability of city or country as a place to live are so much persiflage. Each has its charm, and each is individual. The simplicity of rural life palls on youth, who finds In the small towns an idea of the opportunity, culture and Income he wants. He "goes to the city” and leaps into its life. Then, there is a time when the city’s cold perplexities pall on him. He dreams of undulating countrysides, of the grandeur of forests and the beauty of crops in midsummer. He craves neighborliness, simplicity. He goes back to the soil whence he came. > There are those, too, reared in cities who find the country more fitted to their temperaments, and those who leave the country never to return to it, but to die In a mansion or rooming house in the teeming center of a city’s life. It ia not our object to make cities bigger—only better. And if we live in the country, we can make life better there, too. and {gius solve its secret.

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Optimistic Mr. Doheny There must be something about a hundred million dollars that gives a man confidence in himself. Edward L. Doheny, “kind old prospector friend” of Albert Fall, is about to ask the Congress of the United States to give him back $13,009,507 that the United States Supreme Court took away from him. Congress has before it a number of claims growing opt of the Civil War which it has never yet determined to pay. Many more claims arising from the World War, now nine years in the background, are pending. In view of this, the fate of the Doheny claim will be interesting. It will be particularly interesting in the light of past transactions between the Congress and Mr. Doheny. It was the Senate, for instance, that started all of poor Mr. Doheny’s troubles. They got inquisitive about the leasing of naval oil reserves, and asked many impolite questions about how Mr. Doheny happened to send a little black bag filled with money down to Secretary Fall’s ranch. When the executive departments of the Government took no action as a result of their inquiry, it was Congress that provided for employment of attorneys to bring criminal and civil actions in the oil cases. But now, after four years in the “calm, impartial atmosphere of the court,” so earnestly longed for while the Senate was investigating, perhaps Mr. Doheny has come to look on the Congress as a less formidable opponent. Mr. Doheny says he should get back from Congress the money he spent biiildlng oil storage tanks in Hawaii. These were the tanks Congress wouldn’t order built, but that Admiral Robison thought were needed. It is possible that Congress will feel a little touchy about this. It is also possible it will consider the country has been more harmed by Mr. Doheny’s activities in the past few years than it has been benefited by the oil tanks it didn’t want. Whatever happens, the fate of this $13,000,000 request is going to be interesting, it will be interesting, too, to learn what is said of it by the budget director, that stern spokesman for the forces of economy. Ed Howe Sees It Through When Ed Howe wrote “The Story pf a Country Town.” he faced plenty of discouragement in getting it published. The Kansas sage sent it first to one of the leaders in publishing of that day and it was returned. “After it had been sent to six or seven others,” says Howe, “and returned each time, I decided to print it myself, being the editor and owner of a small daily' newspaper (the Atchison, Kas., Globe), with job office attached. V “The type was set by a man named Kelley, with whom I had worked as a printer long before in various towns of the west. I recall that Kelley was an old soldier, but not much of a fighter, as he often told me he flayed tenor horn in the regimental band. “As Kelley set the type (it was anew font of minion purchased for that purpose), the printing was done four pages at a time on a job’ press. Two thousand copies were run off, and when the sheets were ready, a local bindery bound' them in cases purchased in St. Louis.” The story was written under adverse circumstances. Howe did the work almost entirely at night, on the kitchen table, where stood a kerosene lamp, in.the house where he still lives today. “I had little children then, lovable and noisy,” he says, “and it was my custom to retire to the kitchen for quiet and work on the story after a hard day’s work on a daily newspaper.” Today the story is being "dolled up”, by publishers who at last have come to realize its value as “a landmark in native letters.” We are glad Ed Howe knew a good story when he saw it, even if he had written it himself. The Junk Heap of Human Life In tffe great army of men at the wheels and machines of American industry, sixty-three men “fall by the wayside” every day—killed by accidents that might have been prevented. In a year’s time the toll of men maimed in this country, the world's greatest industrial producer, mounts to the alarming total of 105,000. Imagine a city of 22,995 population, wiped out to the last man by a sudden catastrophe. That city i3 wiped oqt every year in mishaps mostly due to carelessness, accidents that a little thought or education could have prevented. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, making his annual report of 1927, will say ,! No other industrial nation produces so many goods as w i do, and in no other country are so many men killed and maimed in industry. We have been so busy speeding up this industrial machine of ours that we have turned our backs on the price -we have been paying for this in terms of American workers killed or maimed.every day in the course of their occupation. “Whatever its mechanical wonders, the nation can .not continue to be proud of its industry and prosperity while machinery that produces it kills so many men. “If industry will bend itself to the conservation of life with the same energy it has applied itself to perfecting its mechanical equipment the result in safer conditions will be assured.” Sixty-three men a day killed; 288 men a day maimed. That is the human junk heap of our national industry. Anew debate on arms is requested for the League of Nations. Hasn’t the league enough to do without taking up youth’s problems? On St. Catherine’s day the mademoiselles in Paris kissed spy man they pleased. No, no, St. Catherine isn’t the patron saint of America! It takes quite a bit of spirit to move some people, judging from the way bootleggers seem to prosper. Some people go in for free love because that's the only kind they’re able to finance. z \ , What this country needs is not more companionate marriages but a feW less uncompanionate ones. Pedestrians should be seen and not hurt. ■

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M. Ei TRACY SAYS: “We Are in for Such an Exhibition of Pussyf o oting, Sidestepping and Log Rolling by Congress as Usually Goes With a Pre-Campaign Year.”

As though the assembling of Congress next Monday were not enough to start the fireworks, the Republican national committee will convene at Washington the same day. The official order of business calls for the latter to select a convention city and decide on plans for next year’s campaign, <• but what it really wants to know, and what the rest of the country wants to know is whether President Coolidge meant “I won’t,” when he said, “1 do not choose.” Until that little matter is disposed of, the Republican national committee will find it hard to do much of anything. n m m Wealth of Issues As for Congress, it faces such a wealth of issues and controversies as should satisfy the most exacting politician. Tax reduction, the oil scandal, farm relief and Boulder 6am are already on the calendar, while the senate faces the ordeal of denying seats to Vare and Smith before it really gets going. The problem of tax reduction has been made peculiarly difficult by the den- md of the National Chamber of Commerce for a $400,000,000 cut. which is contrary to what President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon wish, and by the position which certain farm groups have taken for no cut whatever. u 0 0 Interest on Oil Cases The oil investigation will be continued or reopened, and Mr. Doheny will add spice to it by asking Congress to refund him $13,000,000 which he laid out on tanks and terminal facilities at Pearl Harbor, and which he lost when his leases were canceled. The Sinclair case, which recently ended in a mistrial, and which has given rise to a multitude of charges, is sure to come up for discussion, if it does not lead to the passage of new laws. m m m Boulder Dam Up Again Senator Johnson of California' is ready to re-introduce his bill for Government construction and operation of Boulder Dam. This is one of those measures which, though seeming to deal with a local enterprise, really affect the national welfare because they form the basis of a national policy. I First, seven States are interested. Second, these States have been unable to arrive at a satisfactory agreement. Third, the power interests are opposed to public ownership or operation. The Eoulder Dam project not only involves the question of State rights as applied to the development of water power, but the vastly more important question of whether it should be left entirely to private enterprise, or whether the Government should undertake a certain portion of it. Considering the part electricity has come to play in our industrial, as well as social life, and considering the part water power is destined to play in the production of electricity, such projects as that of Boulder Dam and Muscle Shoals have an important bearing on the future of this country. 0 0 9 Pussyfooting Orgy As to farm relief, it has arrived at the state of low vitality where any kind of compromise may be expected. The politicians of both parties are willing to do enough to keep the farmers quiet, but they will be very careful to avoid doing enough to alienate others. Precisely the same situation prevails with regard to all important measures. To put it bluntly, we are in for just such an exhibition of pussyfooting, sidestepping and log rolling as usually goes with a precampaign year. Tax reduction will land about half way between what Secretary Mellon wants and what the National Chamber of Commerce wants. The Boulder Dam project will either be pigeon-holed, or left in such a way that the next Congress can do most anything with it. ' nttu Straddle on Booze The greatest straddle of them all will be attempted with regard to prohibition. oh this question, which has come to interest the whole country, more than any other, Congress will do its best to remain non-commital. It will do this not only to save its own face, but to pave the way for evasive platforms by both parties next year. Whether Republicans or Democrats, the majority of leaders are simply afraid to raise the prohibition issue. Those in favor of Volsteadism are afraid that sentiment has changed too much, while those opposed to it are afraid that sentiment has not changed enough. It is my own opinion that the country would vote for both the Eighteenth amendment and Volstead act if a referendum were held now or even next year, but that it would vote against the Volstead act, and possibly the Eighteenth amendment if the election were postponed five or ten years. I believe that the modifleationists are making a mistake in trying to hurry an election while the prohibitionists are making an equal mistakf in trying to put It

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(Anderson Herald) (Republican) New evidences are furnished daily that crookedness, dishonesty, deceit, fraud, humbug, knavery and other short cuts to riches or fulfillment of desire do not pay. Albert B. Fall, broken in health and dishonored, although once he occupied that high position as a member of the cabinet of the President of the United States, stands accused by the United States Supreme Court as a man who attempted to rob his country —to barter away for a mess of pottage the natural resources he had been sworn to protect. Those associated with him in his naval oil frauds trickery likewise are unmasked and dishonored. D. C. Stephenson, once head of the Indiana Ku-Klux Klan, arch political plotter and a man without morals, puts in the dreary hours, not as the power behind Indiana’s political scenes, but as a prisoner behind the State’s prison bars. John L. Duvall, until recently mayor of Indianapolis, a man who toyed with ideals and politic'!l healthfulness, has been forced from office, dishonored, disgraced and discredited. Governor Ed Jackson, associate of D. C. Stephenson and a recipient of favors from the man who now wears prison strifes, awaits trial under an Indictment that charges he conspired to bribe

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Warren T. McCray when Governor. Five men who could not tolerate a clean, decent newspaper edited by a fearless man, Don Meliett, and therefore slew him, are convicted of their dastardly crime and are serving terms in the Ohio State penitentiary. And his murderers include a former police chief and a police lieutenant. George Remus, who quit a $50,000 a year law practice to go into bootlegging where he could make millions, is on trial for slaying his wife, his ill-gotten money having brought him only grief and misery, and now nearly gone. Right makes for might. Those who may be faced with a choice between submitting to evils and immoral oppression, or fighting for that which is right, square and moral, should have no hesitancy in making a decision. Seeming success that glitters from these who follow evil practices in business or personally, is but sham gold. Lcok over the recent list of the dishonored: Fall Stephenson, Duvall, Remus and others. It pays to go straight in business. in politics and in personal morals. A final check-up on satisfaction with life, position among one’s fellows and health will prove the statement. The people are living too close together for crookedness long to escape a thorough unmasking. But fear should not be the controlling factor against a business or personal life lived such as the ignoble examples cited above. The animating reason should be a desire to win enduring laurels. (Elkhart Truth) (Republican) The twin hobgoblins, the AntiSaloon League and the Ku-Klux Klan. which Attorney General Gilliom sees in almost everything, are after him again, he thinks. This time, he holds them resopnsible for starting a grand jury inquiry against him in Adams County for taking a pint of whisky to his sister who was a patient in a hospital at Decatur. Mr. Gilliom Is nothing if not audible and he wields a mighty pen on the slightest provocation. So we may expect to have a number of statements from him if the grand jury does not act quickly. He hastens to admit that he did what he is accused of doing, so

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You can get an answer to any questl°n Os fact or Information bv writing to The Indianapolis Tlme6 Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washing” ton. D. 0., Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for, reply. Medical legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. AU other questions will receive a persohal reply. Unsigned requests cannot oel answered. All letters are confldenttal.—Editor. Why is the tomato sometimes called a fruit and sometimes a vegetable? A vegetable in the popular” sense is any part of an herbaceous plant commonly used for culinary purposes, and may consist of the root (beet and turnip), the stem (asparagus, celery, rhubarb), a tuber of underground stem (potato); , the foliage (cabbage and spinach), or that which is botanically the fruit (tomato, bean, pea and eggplant). Thus the tomato is both a fruit and a vegetable, though for table use 1 and in the garden and market it ranks as a vegetable only. The pumpkin and squash, jyhich are botanically fruits, are classed as vegetables, while the melon, which is of the same family, is termed a fruit/ How can endive be kept for winter use? ,■> Take up the full-grown but as yet unblanched plants with a ball of earth adhering to the roots and store them in a root cellar, as is done with celery. If kept in the dark, they will soon bleach and be ready for use. How should a snake skin be tanned? Apply alum and salt (one part alum to two of salt) and rub it into the fleshy side aiul stretch the skin until dry. Soften it with a damp cloth and scrape the Inner tissue.

the grand jury won’t have a difficult time in getting the facts. When it makes its report, it would be interesting to (have an opinion from that body on the medicinal value of whisky. Many competent physicians hold that it is not medicine at all, but our attorney general takes it for granted that there is a life-giving touch in every pint. As to the Anti-Saloon League and the Klan, possibly Mr. Gilliom has been reading the poet Riley’s refrain: “Er tne gobble-uns git you es you don’t wa ch out.” Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette (Democratic) Governor Ed Jackson’s laconic response to a grand jury indictment alleging that he tried to bribe Warren T. -McCray while that eminent Hoosier citizen was incumbent of the office Mr. Jackson now holds was that it “was a gigantic frame-up.” Governor Jackson’s lawyers have gone to court with another rejoinder to the bill. It is that the indictment of the Governor is flawed and therefore of no account. The flaw alleged is that the indictment fixes a wrong time for the alleged felonious conspiracy to bribe the Governor of Indiana. Suppose that the indictment is flawed. Suppose the Criminal Court of Marion County so holds and throws it out. Suppose that upon these technical defenses Governor Jackson be enabled to escape trial under the charges a grand jury has alleged against him in true bills, charges that at least one newspaper has made and iterated and reiterated- What then? It may be supposed that Governor Jackson, if untainted with crime, sets his good name even above his liberty. How is his good name to be preserved if mere technicality, the statute of limitations and the like are invoked in his behalf and he be permitted to escape going to court to plead and to stand trial? We had hoped that Governor Jackson, standing upon his coun-ter-charge that the accusations and indictments against him were a "gigantic frame-up,” would waive all technical defenses and courageously challenge his accusers to the proof. He can do that only by requiring his accusers to face him with their evidence. If he can escape trial he will face nothing but suspicion, and that suspicion will outlive him.

Care should be taken not to scrape too deep. After this process add a small amount of sweet oil or neatsfoot oil. Skins are sometimes pickled in a solution in proportion of one part alum, two parts salt and ten parts water. The alum and salt should be dissolved in water, and the liquid is allowed to come to a boil. When cool, submerge the skin and leave it for a day or two. Between what two teams were the 1914 world series baseball games played? Between the Boston Braves and the Philadelphia Athletics. Boston won in four straight games. The scores were: Boston 7, Philadelphia 0. 1; Boston 1, Philadelphia 0; Boston 5, Philadelphia 4 (twelve innings) ; Boston 3, Philadelphia 1. Is Paul Revere the real name of the Revolutionary War hero or Is it fictitious? It is the real name; the Revere family was prominent in Boston at the time of the revolution. When and where did Joseph Jefferson die? At Palm Beach, Fla., April 23, 1905. How old is Ethel Barrymore? Forty-eight years. Who wrote the story of (he motion picture, "It Is the Law?’’ The picture was based on the story by Hayden Talbot and was adapted from the stage play by Elmer Rice. It was directed by J. Gordon Edwards and produced by the Fox Film Corporation, 1401 N. Western Ave., Hollywood, Cal.

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Tha name and addresa of tbs muat accompany every contribution, dub on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will reoelvo preference. To the Editor: I see from the Decatur news dispatches that the grand Jury at the insistence of the Anti-Saloon League is about to indict Mr. Gilliom. It will be a travesty on justice to indict him alone. The jury should indict Dr. Rayl, Dr. Vizard, and Mr. Gilliom for giving the whisky, also Miss Gilliom, and Harry Johnson, the other patient for taking the whisky, even If it did v save their lives. No one has a right to be saved from the grave if the Shu-maker-Wright bone dry law is violated in the attempt. The Decatur hospital should be \ padlocked for a year for possessing . whisky illegally. For a hospital to possess a half pint of whisky and use it to save only two lives is a blot upon the fair name of Bone Dry Indiana, where a man has to search half a day to find even a half pint of whisky. I suppose after the bone dry law i went into effect this half pint of whisky had been overlooked by its owner; hence, the reason for its existence in this dry State! Os course, the bone dry law is not Intended to disturb the illicit moonshiners and bootleggers in and around Decatur who are supplying , booze to people for miles and miles around. It is intended only to prevent whisky from being given to sick people when the doctors are grabbing the last straw to help them. If another patient’s life is saved by whisky, Indiana will have the 4 reputation of being a wet State. It is such a law-abiding State that it will be a shame for even helpless* sick people to get the State into disrepute. Shumaker was about ready to.give us his job, thinking the State was bone dry, when up poped Gilliom, * the doctors and two patients and a half pint of whisky, causing him and the W. C. T. U. to start another dry crusadeU. N. JONES. Elkhart, Ind. To the Editor: I would reduce Ruth Snyder’s sentence to life imprisonment—her whole life—not part of it, but all. She may repent during that time and gain the kingdom of heaven. Someone might say, how can a murderer enter the kingdom of heaven, for the good book says a murderer shall not enter the kingdom of heaven? Then you read further and it says, if you remain a * murderer you can not enter, but if you confess your sins before the Father and he forgives you and you are converted and stay converted, you have a chance, the same as Moses. He murdered a man and covered him up with sand on a desert. He was forgiven and the good book reads that an angel and the devil both claimed him, but the power of God was the greatest and he was taken into heaven. He is still there. The executioner of Ruth Snyder is just as guilty as she is, according to the Bible, and always will be 4 guilty as long as he stays on the Job. He can quit it and be redeemed through repentance only. I do not believe in capital punishment. 1 A READER. To the Editor: A few days ago you had an article in your paper requesting petitions on capital punishment, the electric chair or hanging. I don’t believe in it- I think solitary confinement would be far better. The fellow who presses the electric button or springs the trap is nothing more than a murderer himself and he will have to answer for it some time. If they had solitary confinement instead, the prisoner wpuld die sooner or later. Often you read where an innocent person pays with his life for a crime he never committed. If he had been in solitary confinement he could be pardoned and the right person put in his place. I think if this subject were brought before the public through the papers in a way which they could fully understand, it could be completely banished from our laws, and in its place have solitary confinement instead of capital punishment. If this letter will help to banish the electric chair and the hangman's noose, I am glad to have written it. ROBERT HERRON.

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The last and greatest herald of- - King, Girt with rough skins, hies to the deserts wild, Among that savage brood the woods forth bring, Which he than man more harmless found and mild. His food was -locusts, and what there doth spring, With honey that from virgin hives distilled; ' y Parched body, hollow eyes, some uncouth thing Made him appear, long since from earth exiled. g There burst he forth: “All ye whose hopes rely On God, with me amidst these des- , erts mourn. Repent, repent, and from old errors turn!" —Who listened to his voice, obeyed * his cry? Only the echoes which he made relent, Rung from their flinty caves, "Repent! Repent!” —William Drummond: For the Baptlat. Did the New York Yankees lose any one series of games in the 1928 baseball season? How many did they lose in the 1927 season? , They lost only one series in 1928. They won 9 games and lost 13 to Philadelphia. They were tied with Cleveland with 11 games won and II lost. They won every series in the 1927 season. . v-, . Vrn J\ (