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That Pesky Grape Juice 7 Thirsty individuals who may be inclined $ to rejoice that the Federal courts find the sale of grape juice, sold under a warning to ? r keep it cold if the purchaser does not wish it to become intoxicating, should dqlay their period of cheer. All that has been decided is that it is no | crime to sell the grape'juice. 1 It is still a cr.ime in Indiana to permit it to ,a ferment and become intoxicating. Os course, the buyers and the sellers of r ; the grape juice both understand that the real purpose of the buyer is to get something intoxicating, or at least exhilarating. There !* would be no sale if the juice had been so ' treated as to prevent fermentation. The State law of Indiana makes possession i of intoxicants a crime, and provides jails and fines as punishment. .j So what happens as a result of this new decision is that the grape , juice makers can sell without any fear of the law, but the buyers will have to take a chance on snoopers and smellers and search warrants and the law if V they permit the stuff to change its character after their buy jt. V While the scheme may suggest the impossi- § bility of enforcing the Yolstead act and indicate that there are very many citizens who will ft go to any lengths to violate the law and who do not believe in it, those who believe that it nul* ft lifies prohibition in this State are very foolish./ What may be looked for is a rush to purjJ chase this juice, which is sold under a warning " that amounts to an advertisement of its intoxicating possibilities and a revival of search of V homes, wholesale prosecutions and new zeal v on the part of the dry forces to invade homes | in their efforts to jail any citizen who tries to (i evade the law. , / What may be confidently expected is a •> demand for more snoopers and smellers with badges to stand guard over the great Ameris can home. If the law is to be enforced, there will now v be heeded a guard in every block. "t, 1 • And In Indiana '-V, • Senator James A. Keed of Missouri points || to Samuel Insull of Chicago as the corrupter of Illinois politics and in an address in Chicago £ Thursday night asked: * “Did the silr.ewd investor in public fran- ' chises make a mistake when he invested in a * United States Senator?” I Insull was shown to have contributed very large sums to the election of a member of the * public service commission to the United States f } Senate. 7 The people of this State are interested in f Mr. Insull and especially in the political activi- . ties of Mr. Insull. He controls large utilities in this State and . is even now contemplating a plan whereby he f will throw a lot of little companies into one t large one. The plan will be presented as a sort ' of philanthropic enterprise to the State. 5 Whenever the Legislature meet!} the highly paid attorneys for Mr. Insull are always on % the ground with advice and counsel and guid- : auce for the members of that body. He sends f to the State Capitol his agents, who take coni trol of legislation in behalf of the people, and J? very generally those agents justify their employmept. No laws are passed that have any real teeth as far as control of public utilities j are concerned. If Mr. Insull invests in Senators in Illinois, ■ it may be suspected that he makes other offi- ( cials in this State and that his influence, exer-' ; cised through his lawyers and. agents, is rather important in elections. Perhaps the people of Indiana will some (lay answer the question raised by the Missouri Senator, not only in regard to Senators, • but as to State officials. The people, may decide that they will own their own officials and declare for that very radical thing, public ownership of public offices. j That would be a surprising change in this as in other States. i ' When Stories Get Too Good The story is told of a fiery lecturer who, just before taking up a collection for his foreign missions, related a wonderful story of conditions among the poor heathen. In the audience sat a fellow drinking in every word. Furtively wiping his eyes with one hand, with the other he dug down in his pocket and hauled out ; a roll of bills. But the speaker wasn’t through. He told another story, more vivid than the first. Stirring uneasily, the l man with the roll hesitated a moment and put half , of his money back in his pocket. f And still the lecturer purred on. A third and fourth tale, each move lurid than the rest, poured from his lips, a look of relief crossed the face of the canny listener and the rest of the roll disappeared back into his jeans. As the plate began to circulate he arose and left, muttering: “I almost believed that first yarn; and I sure was ; touched. But those last ones were just too doggone good to be true!” • * • The Mexican embassy in Washington ‘‘finally and categorically” dubs the alleged Calles documents, now being reproduced in Hearst newspapers, as forgeries. ;Of their authenticity or lack of it we know nothing.

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But this can be said of them: If true President Calles stands revealed, not as a dangerous man, but as a harmless lunatic who thinks he’s Caesar or Napoleon. It was not difficult to believe that Mexico aided the Nicaraguan liberals with arms and ammunition. The United States picked one faction down there, and sent battleships and marines to aid it. MFexico had an equal right to aid the faction she believed deserved it. But when poor, poverty-stricken Mexico is represented as scattering millions of dollars in every clime from Dan to Beersheba, including China, Russia and Great Britain; when President Calles is made to address a treaty to the Mexican chamber of deputies for ratification when, in Mexico as in the United States, only the Senate has anything to do with treaties; when weak Mexico is pictured as scheming to block the plans of the mighty Untied States for a trans-oceanic canal across Nicaragua and conspiring to colonize Mexico and Nicaragua with Japanese reserves who would be used to fight the United States in event of war . . . Well, our money goes back into our Jeans. What Is the Fact? Has the House Ways and Means Committee voted a gift of about $180,000,000 to the corporations of the country ht the direct expense of consumers? Democratic members of the committee contend that the application of a 2 per cent reduction in the Federal tax on corporation incomes for the year 1927 amounts to just that.

They say that the corporations have already collected their 1927 taxes from the consumers, and that to cut those taxes 2 per cent simply turns about $180,000,000 back into corporation treasuries. Republican members of the committee argue that since the first payment of taxes on 1927 corporation income won’t be due until March 1, 1928, the corporations have not yet started to collect from consumers to pay these taxes, and won’t start until the first of the year. The validity of either of these arguments is purely a question of fact. Ifs well established that corporations compute their taxes as part of the cost of production, and build up tax reserves to meet the payments when they are due. y Do they build up these reserves during the year the income is earned or during the year the taxes on it are to be paid ? If funds to pay tsgces are set aside during the year the income is earned, then the Democrats are clearly right. By making a 2 per cent cut in the Federal tax on 1927 corporation income, the Ways and Means Committee has simply declared a sißo,000,000 bonus for corporation stockholders. If the corporations haven’t yet started to build up funds to pay taxes on their 1927 Income, then there’s no compelling reason why the cut should not be made effective next March. What’s needed to settle the argument between the Democratic and Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee is a set of facts. If the committee has the facts it ought to produce them. If it hasn’t, it ought to waste no time in getting them. Canada Helps Aviation The Canadian Department of National Defense has made a fine offer to the bona fide aviation clubs of the Dominion. The department offers to supply two airplanes, with engines and other equipment complete,; to any approved club or association which will meet the conditions of the grant. The conditions are the the club provide a flying field or seaplane station; provide for the housing, repair and maintenance of all aircraft and equipment, arrange for the services of a competent instructor and have a roll of at least thirty members who are prepared to qualify as pilots, and not less than ten members who already have qualified and are desirous of continuing to fly. To meet the expected demand more than $1,000,000 of airplanes have been contracted for. Nearly a score of clubs have signified their desire to take up the offer. The Canadians have found a good way' to encourage aviation. The offer should turn the steps of thousands of young men toward flying as a livelihood. Why Not Blame Moscow? The public is being informed, ttiftwgh #* widely mailed pamphlet, that “None but the blind, deaf and durilb are justified in doubting the existence of efforts, insidious and deliberately promoted, to change the essential character of our Government in its relation to business and industry, and to change eventually the form of the Government itself.” This announcement appears - to come from the vice president of the Peoples, Gas, Light and Coke Company, one Bernard J. Mullaney, and it appears to be in the form of an address to the National Association of Manufacturers, at Chattanooga, Tenn. With this introduction the pamphlet devotes itself wholeheartedly to a denunciation of a promised investigation, by Senator Walsh of Montana, into the power trust. Mullaney is the regular salaried press agent for Mr. Insull. They call him vice president when he Is scheduled for a propaganda stunt. The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hand is the hand of Esau. Opinions differ. Some think that when a fellow shows his mettle, it means he has brass. We don’t know about a five-day week. But a fiveday week-end ought to prove popular. Ambition is a longing a lot of people have for a more pleasant place in which to do nothing. For the 1928 presidential campaign is suggested, free of charge, the slogan: "Keep Coy With Coolidge.” Probably the judge who praised a recent verdict was orily pt ry pampering. Somebody has said that the old-fashioned husking bee has vanished. But don’t take that as final until you’ve asked at the corner drug store. * It isn’t always the biggest car that honks the loudest. The same holds true for people. ‘‘Third Wife Charges Man is Bigamist,” says a newspaper headline. A kind of companionate bigamist maybe.

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M. E. TRA CY SAYS: “Europe Is More Nervous, More Apprehensive of Conflict, More Anxious to Be Ready When the Row Begins, Than It Was in 191 b”

Russia has committed the unpardonable sin of breaking up a perfectly splendid international pow-wow. Her proposal for complete disarmainent stunned the boys not so much because of its radical character, but because it spoiled the game they intended to play. They had met to talk about the reduction of armaments openly, but to arrange alliances, coalitions and security pacts less openly. In plain English, idealism was to be mouthed as a smoke screen. nun Pretty Show Spoiled Litvinoff and the other Russian delegates did not come to Geneva under any misapprehension as to facts. They knew perfectly well that their proposal for complete disarmament would be promptly sidestepped as too fantastic. They also knew that it would rip off the camouflage of peaceful intentions which had been so carefully arranged to conceal the real purpose. That they realized not only what they were up against, but what they were doing, is more than made clear in the elevenpage memorandum which they filed the next day, and in which they graphically pictured the imminence of another World War. St tt tt ‘Show Up' World Let us begin by admitting that they are Bolshevists; that they lack faith in capitalist governments; that they would like to ■see world revolution and that they intend to spread red propaganda whenever and wherever they have an opportunity. Let us admit that their proposal for complete disarmament is too ridiculous for serious thought under existing conditions. Let us admit if the representatives of all civilized governments were to recommend such a scheme, it would still fall flat. Let us admit that the Idea of preparedness for the sake of selfdefense has been woven into the traditions and concept of every people to such an extent that it can only be removed by the graduated processes of education. And after having admitted all this, we are still forced to acknowlege that the Russians merely have offered a plan which the rest of the world pretends to favor but has no idea of carrying out. 9 tt n Just Hifalutin The point is, of course, that while vast numbers of people throughout the world want a reduction of armaments not only to prevent war, but to reduce taxes, and while statesmen pretend to want it for the sake of currying favor with them, the whole show is bogged down in hypocrisy. The very delegates who gather at Geneva with fine speeches in their pockets about peace and security for all Europe, if not for all the world, are so hopelessly bound by treaties, alliances and ententes that they could not put an honest, open project into effect even if they desired to do so. tt a Europe Is Nervous The “war to end war,” to establish “the sanctity of treaties,” to destroy “the reign of alliances and counter-alliances,” and set up “a new order of things,” has left Europe more nervous, more apprehensive of conflict, more anxious to be ready when the row begins than it was in 1914. Not only are there as many men under arms and not only are the expenditures for training and equipping them as great, but the coalitions are just as numerous, the intrigues just as raw, the spying and peddling of military secrets just as plentiful and the distrust just as deep. u u n Clash of Interests Ten years ago we were told tha t Germany was the great and allimportant menace, and if Prussianism were removed Europe would settle down to peace. Germany has been disarmed, spoiled of her powfer to make war, stripped of her colonies, her fleets and her munition factories, but you behold the same old line-up, not only with respect to the maintenance of huge armies and navies, but with respect to coalition and counter-coalition. First, there is the Franco-Polish-Slavic alliance composed of nations who made much out of the war and who want to keep it. Then there is Italy, who did not make so much, but who, under the guidance of Mussolini demands her place in the sun. There is Russia, scorned by all the world and scared accordingly. Last of all, there is Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey who lost in the war, who smart because of it and who are disposed to take advantage of anything which offers an opportunity lor them to come back. u n / Scrap Beautiful Dreams The most astounding part of it is that we Americans are becoming infected with the European spirit. We are not only glad to scrap our beautiful dreams, but we display anew and surprising interest in military subjects. •' There never was a time perhaps when the news dealth more generously with war scares and war possibilities, when the magazines were so'fllled with war stories and war articles and when/ one could see so many movies dipicting war romances. V

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(Ft. Wavne Journal-Gazette) (Democratic) Charges more noisily than responsibly made by a Muncie resort keeper reflect on the official probity of Joe H. Davis, prosecuting attorney of Delaware County. It is charged that the prosecutor has taken large sums of money for diverting prosecution from accused persons. The charges have involved him with violations of the Federal liquor laws and perhaps other Federal statutes. Frosecutor Davis now calls upon United States District Attorney Ward to place these matters before the Federal grand Jury in Indianapolis and to press the most thorough inquiry into them. The Delaware County prosecutor is entitled to what he demands. His personal and official integrity are impugned and it is his right to haye, a hearing and, if innocent, a clearing. There is an interesting phase of the Davis case which harks back to. the trial and conviction of George H, Dale, Muncie editor, for contempt of Judge Clarence W. Dearth, Incumbent of the bench in the Delaware Circuit Court. After Dale had been found guilty in those notorious proceedings and had reiterated his charges concerning the manner of impanelling juries in Judge

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Dearth’s court, Prosecutor Davis had the courage to say the charges were true and that Dale had been unjustly convicted and to move that the whole case against the editor be wiped off. Whether or not Prosecutor Davis’ interference In the Dale case has had anything to do with the charges now brought against him we do not know. In view of all that has preceded those accusations and in consideration of the fact that it takes place just where it does, there is room for suspicion that an effort is afoot to take reprisals against that official. Whether or not there be anything of the sort, Davis is entitled to the inquiry he requests the Federal district attorney and grand jury to make. Prosecutor Davis no doubt would have more confidence in the Federal inquiry than in any investigation by local authority in his own bailiwick. The facts disclosed by the impeachment trial of Judge Dearth were not such as to make him feel entirely confident of the integrity of the authorities and the good faith of proceedings in his own county. (Rushville Republican) The Marion County' grand jury has won the confidence of the

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people of Indian^. However, whether it shall be retained hinges on the grand jury's conduct between now and the end of the year. It is reasonably certain that there is much evidence regarding men in public life in Indiana which the people should have. Even though the statute of limitations has run out, those guilty of misusing their offices should be punished. If they can’t be tried under the law, due to the senseless statute of limitations, they can be forever outlawed as public office holders in Indiana if the grand jury will give the people the facts. There is nothing to prevent impeachment'proceedings if public officials are shown to be guilty of wrong doing by evidence in the possession of the grand jury. Perhaps the statute of limitations prevents punishment of the men guilty of framing indictments against the director, one member and employes of the State Highway Commission, but the people of Indiana have a right to know who was so anxious to be rid of the men who were unjustly accused. They have a right to know the men so that they can determine what the motive was.

snakes. It kills and eats the most poisonous snakes, such as the cobra, the bite of which is either avoided by the animal’s agility or else is not fatal to it. The Mongoose is from fifteen to eighteen inches long and has a tail fourteen to fifteen inched, very thick at the base and tapering to a point. The fur is rather long and a grizzly reddish gray. From what is the name Colette derived? There are two derivations, one from the Italian “Cola,” meaning victory of the people; the other from the Cornish (Latin origin) Colan, meaning “dove.” Colette is a diminutive form. How, should the light be arranged for reading? The best way is to arrange the light so that It will shine on the book without shining in the reader’s face. There should be no shadows on the page and no direct reflection to the eye- The light is best when coming over the reader’s left shoulder.

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The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 300 words will receiv* preference. - To the Editor: Concerning Ruth Snyder and capital punishment, in my opinion it is no worse to commit murder in New York that it is in Chicago or any place else, and while a brutal, fiendish murder committed by two young men without any motive is fresh in our minds—having escaped capital punishment—l will ask this question: Should It be called justice to put this woman to death? To commit this woman to prison for life would show little mercy, but it probably would be ’a great deal for her, and I am sure that it would be more the picture of Justice to show our people. M. A. T. To the Editor: Replying to your inquiry, “Would you, if you had the power, reduce the sentence of Ruth Snyder from death to life imprisonment?” my answer is Yes. I woulflfc also do the same for Gray, or any other human being condemned t£o be executed, and my reason for doing this is because I am of the un alterable conviction that no man or body of men has a right to taka from any human being, without his consent, that which they cannot return. But I would also abolish the pardoning powers as they exist today. Instead of placing the pardoning power in the hands of Governors, this pardoning power woultf. rest solely with the court and jury in which the sentence was pronounced, whenever sufficient new evidence was produced to show that the convicted person was wrongfully imprisoned, or that mitigating circumstances had arisen which call for leniency. JOSEFH E. MOUTOUX. ,

Mr. Fixit \ All Money on Improvement Must Be Paid In Before Street Extension Can Be Started.

Let Mr. Fixit, The Times’ representative at city hall, present vour troubles to city officials, write Mr. Fixit at Tha Times. Names and addresses which must be Riven, will not be published. Delay of the extension of Harlan St. and straightening of Lexington Ave. was protested today in a letter to Mr. Fixit: Dear Mr. Fixit: These are troublesome times for the public officials of Indianapolis and it looks like they were going to have to reserve some rooms at the county jail. If they deserve it I hope they get it. While the investigatgin committee is at it, I wish you would have them try and see who got my S2O that I pdid in taxes four years ago for the extension of Harlan St. and straightening of Lexington Ave. It looks like it might have stuck to some one’s fingers or got mislaid in the little black boxes. Over a year ago you asked about this and they said there is over S4OO to be collected. Now we happen to know that property is sold for four-year-old taxes, and if they give you that stall this time ask them for the names of the unpaid taxpayers. Respectfully, A TAXPAYER. Chief Assessment Bureau Clerk Orville Scott declares the law states specifically that the city cannot proceed with the project until all money is paid in. He advised Mr. Fixit there is $68.75 outstanding on the Lexington Ave. improvement and $175 on Harlan St. You can obtain the names of the unpaid taxpayers at the assessment bureau at the courthouse.

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Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led; Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now’s the day, and now’s the hour; See the front o’ battle lour: See approach proud Edward's power, Chains and slavery 1 Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die! —Robert Burns: Lines from Bruce to His Men at Bannockburn.