Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1927 — Page 11

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A 3 Job is an allegory of Judah stricken" ~ and beginning to oubt its god, so Ecclesiastes is the ymbol of a people definitely conquered, scattered in exile to strange lands, and driven at last to denial and despair. . It is a sign that Yahveh was begining to die and that the soul of man,. left empty and discontent, would' soon be ready for another faith.

Already in the Book of the Wisdom of Solomon the new belief appears and center's itself about the hope for-another life; yes, it is true that on this earth might is right, and the just man is crowned with thorns ; but' there is a "world beyond this one in which the rich oppressor will find his punishment and the poor man his reward. In the Book of Daniel and the Book of Enoch this hope and promise become clearer and more positive;.and Daniel sees God coming in a Last Judgment of thunder and lightning to drive the wicked into everlasting hell and take the just with him into Paradise. So was the soil prepared for Christianity. # * # CODA. THE rest is dispersion. Through *ll the years of Greek rule in 11l ;. ine the Jews fled or drifted their cities to every port of lsr 'editerranean —to Antioch, and j” .s, and Alexandria, and Rome, j n Carthage, and Marseilles, be- , by force of. circumstance the met chants par excellence of the ancient and the modem world. By Caesar’s day there were more Jews in Alexandria than in Jerusalem. in the old Temple discord rules. Chasidim and Zadikini, Pharisees and Sadducees, quarreled about the Interpretation of the Law; and strange sects like the Essenes rose to protest against the growing surrender of the younger Jews to the pagan influences of Greece. Scholars began to write commentaries on the Law, and commentaries on the commentaries, until the Talmud was formed, in which the text of the Law appeared on each page as a little island in the sea. But the greatest scholar of them all, Hillel, brought them back to the essence of the matter when he was asked to define religion: “What thou wouldst not for thyself, do it not to thy neighbor. Therein lies the whole Law.” Here again the way was made straight for Christ. Meanwhile, the little land changed rules, but could not keep its freedom. In 165 B. C. Judas Maccabaeus, with an army gathered slowly in the fields, man by man, entered Jerusalem and drove out the Greeks. ’ . ... - The enemy returned reinforced and Judas was killed in battle, but the memory of his courage inspired his followers to fight on till they were free. That year of victory, 154 B. C., became the Independence Day of the Jews, and to this day they celebrate it yearly. But only eighty years; later Pompey cable, with all the power and ruthlessness of Rome. ' He had learned that the Jews would not fight on the Sabbath, and so on the Sabbath he attacked with all his forces. Great siege engines battered down the ancient walls and sent heavy stones like shot into the temple. The Jews, in the midst of death, went on with their services. What if the individual died? The race would remain and return even to Jerusalem long after every Roman had passed away.

So Palestine became a province of the new barbarians in the we3t; the temple was despoiled of its treasures, and Jews by the thousand were sold into slavery. When Titus came, in 70 A. D., to destroy the temple utterly, in a fit of petulant revenge for the insubordination of the Jews, it was the last scene In the tragedy of the Jews. In the Alte Pinakothek at Munich you may see, in Kaulbach’s massive picture, Titus entering among the ruins, while the elders kill their children and the priests kill the elders and the last surviving iabbi presses the sword - proudly into his own heart. It was a noble way for a nation to die. But we do not see only the Parthenon. We do not see merely the Areopagus, where the great councils sat; nor merely the theatre of Dlonvsius, where Socrates calmy .stood in his place while Aristophanes attacked him; nor merely the purple hills whose vines made all dreece ?lad;, nor merely the lakelike seas' •hat taught all Greece to honor beauty. . ‘ ; These are realities, but they are ■ symbols, too; they mean half the world to us because every one of them Is rich with the memory of genius. Here it was that men made fairer -'ods than ever before and gave nature a second life with poetry, and dared to think of joy and loveliness as divine; here first they placed Moira, dark fate, over gods and men, and sought to understand the world in terms of law; here first they called intelligence and courage the highest virtues; here first they named and almost made poetry and philosophy, epic and lyric, his-

i(T AM anxious <o read A every word of ‘The Story of Philosophy’ and fully intend to do so. The Times is doing a great service In providing this intellectual treat for its readers.”—Fred Hoke, Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Company, vice president and treasurer.

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tory and rhetoric, drama and ode, mathematics and mechanics, geometry and physics, biology and psychology, anatomy and physiology, artistocracy and democracy; here first men put kings aside and ruled themselves; here first men carved stone into such statuary that one might say of Greek sculpture what Beethoven said of his music, that none who knew it could be quite happy again. u NOW LET US TURN TO GREECE THESE are the steps to the Parthenon. Broken, ruined steps; masses of marble lying in chaos; stately columns fallen and overgrown with moss; between them, where Pericles walked on Parian stone, weeds and clumps of earth, through which you pick your way patiently upward, careless of the sun.

Near the top of the hill six pillars stand, precarious susvivors of earthquake and war they were the Propylaea, or Gate, to the Temple of the Virgin Athene. It is magnificent, even in its desolation, but you pass through it eagerly; you are on the summit of the Acropolis now; you shade your eyes and catch your breath, and for a long time you are still. It is the Parthenon. Why does it seem so dear to us, this dying masterpiece? Why do tears come to our eyes as we stand among its ruins and see the holes tom in its walls by Venetian gunners’ shells? Is not Chartres or Rheims as beautiful? Yes, perhaps more beautiful, and graced with infinitely delicate detail, which is not here, and lifting us with a thousand spares and arches to some nameless aspiration. But here is majesty, proportion and symmetry in the highest, simplicity and nobility made one, audacity and power, maturity and restraint; this is one of the places where men have touched perfection. But, of course, it is not dead. In Jerusalem enthusiastic students are at this moment helping skilled workman to raise, stone by stone, the gr?at library of the Hebrew

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University. Already four hundred thousand volumes wait to be placed upon its shelves. And the enthusiastic president of the university, undeterred by earthquakes and a thousand obstacles, stands looking down at the foundations and looking out over the hills, as if In a vision he saw the work complete, this library and this university become the intellectual center and home of the Jewish people,, the repository of their learning, the preserver of their language and the alma mater of their youth. Nowhere in history shall we find greater faith or finer courage than this, Would it not be a kindly miracle if on that little hill a nation were being reborn?

Here began the life of reason, which left so vivifying a legacy to Rome, the Renaissance, and the enlightenment; here worship lost its superstition and fear and became consistent with maturity and control; here Prometheus stood erect in the sight of God. What a people, and what a history! Egypt is an epic, Judea is a tragic drama. Greece is a lyric ode—exalted, beautiful and brief. To know the Greeks, to see them grow, almost in a century, from savagery to civilization and subtlety, to linger with delight on their achievement in government, in science, in philosophy, in religion, in literature and in art this in itself is an education; all the world is here. Let us sit down on this cool slab and feast. If it is warm we shall throw aside all that we may and cleanse our bodies with the sun that shone through the Parthenon upon Athene’s golden headWe need not go back today; we shall sleep here on the grass and play Endymion to the moon. (Copyright, 1927. by Dr. Will Durant) (To Be Continued) N6 WARRANT; DISMISSED Harry Wilson, Denison Hotel, arrested by Federal agents Thursday afternoon when he entered a coupe at Meridian and Georgia Sts., containing thirty-six quarts of “Scotch” whisky, was released Friday by John W. Kern, United States commissioner. Evidence showed the agents had no search warrant for Wilson’s car. The agents had waited near the car all day for Wilson to appear.

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Detailed Examination Shows Wild Bank Deals

(Story on. Page One) ( Detailed examination of Otto B. Kern, former secretary-treasurer of the Elevator Realty Company, and director of the J. F. Wild & Cos. Bank, and Stephen M. Davis, accountant, who investigated the books, in Superior Court yesterday, follows. Kern first was questioned. Q—Was any entry made on the books of the J. F. Wild & Cos. carrying such payments as loans to the Elevator Realty Company? A—No,, sir. Q —l will ask you to look at Exhibit No. 1 and point out the first payment carried to profit and loss after the reorganization of 1921. A—That was Jan. 20, 1921. Q—Did the J. F. Wild & Cos. take up payments so made by adding to the value of the common stock of Elevator Realty Company held by it? A—They did. “Did the bank ever get its money back?” the court asked, to which Kern replied: “No, sir.” “On any of these payments that they paid ever since 1921 and 1922?” Dunlavy queried. “No, sir,” Kern answered. Fantzer then asked Kern if this was charged to profit and loss, and Kern said it was. Kern told that two years ago the bank paid a repair bill of $15,000 on the elevators in the building. He said there were numerous instances where expenses of the company were charged to the bank.

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Kern, before being dismissed as a witness, was strenously questioned by the court as to whether he consindered the realty company solvent. “The company has no debts,” he said. “And another company has been paying the debts all these years?” Dunlavy queried. “What is it, just a bookkeeping proposition?” “Yes,” Kern replied. “In which the bank and realty company transfer debts from one side of the book to the other and doesn’t pay them?” “They are not paid,” Kern replied. The court asked Davis to give the total expended by the bank in liquidation of obligations owed stockholders and creditors of the realty company. Davis said this amounted to $117,114.23. He said the first payment was in 1921 and the last in June 1, of this year. Some detailed testimony of Davis when questioned by Pantzer follows: Q—How much was the last payment? A—That was in three payments; SI,BOO in the first one; $8,354.79 in a second, and $14,000 in the third. Q —ls that the last payment that has been made by the bank? A—June 1, 1927, is the last payment. Davis testified that he examined the • books of the realty company Thursday and that $378.41 was owed. He said $450 was paid, which wipes out the indebtedness.

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Q —Now, your statement showing that the amount owing on Nov. 17 was $378.41" and that since then a check of $450 has been received which entirely wipes out the indebtedness does not take into consideration either the liability to preferred stcokholders for the dividend due Sept. 1 or any possible liability to the J- F. Wild Company for the $117,000 worth of payments made by it during the period from 1922 to June 1, 1927? That does not take those two factors into account? A—lt does not. Total More Than $171,000 Daily then asked the court to make that account page part of the court records. Davis said he wanted to make a correction—that he had omitted the 1926 advancement. “Then the total is more than $117,000?” Dunday asked." “Yes, sir,” Davis replied. The court instructed him to give the actual indebtedness to the bank, to which the witness replied that “it was considered indebtedness.” He said it was called “advancements.” “Whatever you want to call it,” Dunlavy remarked. “It is money paid by the bank.” Davis said it amounted to $171,204.17. Davis said the account books of neither company show that this money is an obligation owed by the realty company to the bank. He told Dunlavy the records showed the money paid by the bank to the realty company, but does not show it was repaid. “It was paid for the Elevator Realty Company?” Dunlavy asked, “Paid by the common stockholders for the Elevator Realty Company,” Davis replied.

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“This was paid by the bank and so far, the bank has never received any of that money back?” the court queried. “They never have,” was the answer. He stressed the point that the record of this is entered on the bank's profit and loss account. ’ Pantzer then asked the following question: “Will you explain the bookkeeping effect of the payments made by the bank aggregating over $170,000 in liquidation of obligations of the Elevator Realty Company?’* Bank Owned Stock A—* the bank owned all the common stock. As common stockholders, the amount of money contributed to the realty company was considered paid in surplus. This paid in surplus represented their equity or cost of their own common stock.

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Q—The only was that the payments made by it, aggregating $l7O, 000 odd dollars, were reflected on the books of the two companies was in the increased value, if any, which these payments caused the common capital stock standing in the name of the J. F. Wild & Cos. to assume? A—That is right.

Testimony given by witnesses named the following persons directors of the realty company: 7<vhn J. Appel, real estate dealer, L. G. Wild, J. F. Wild and Kern. Those named directors of the bank are: L. G. and 7. F. Wild, Kern, J. Craig Fisher, V/. F. McNary, D. F. Miller and Don Smith. Kern told the court that Eugene H. Iglehart, who with Richard Lowther is a co-receiver of the bank, said the realty company would be turned over to the stockholders. Kern said Iglehart declared he would vote the common stock in any way the directors desired.

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