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Politics or Education? It would be unfortunate it any Indiana supporter of the Anti-Saloon League should charge that Rev. Ernest a “wet.” That has been the answer in the jaast when j any one suggested that the best way to really *get prohibition is to arouse a real sentiment for it and back up the law with an enlightened citizenship. Now that suggestion comes from* Chetington, who is one of the highest paid officials of' the league, has devoted his life to its service anw now branches out to the somewhat larger task of running the World League Against Alcoholism. Ilis policy differs from that of the present head of the league, who wants to put on political pressure even more strongly and drastically than it has been done before. The Cherington proposal for more education and a larger sentiment is directly in line with editorial suggestions of this newspaper. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the present prohibition laws, especially where* . they have gone beyond the Volstead act as they have in Indiana, cannot be enforced until there is a sentiment for enforcement. Prohibition exists today only in localities which demand it and which will furnish juries to convict violators of the laws. In cities and States where there is no sentiment for the law, it is practically a dead letter. It is unfortunate, too, that in many States and many cities where a dry sentiment existed before national prohibition, it is no longer pos-, sible to enforce laws. The policy in Indiana has been based on the idea that an organized minority may control Legislatures and courts and through them enforce a law which is obnoxious to the majority. It depends on force to destroy appetite and furnish a moral control for the individual. It relies upon terrified legislators and timid judges to carry out its edicts. It depends, first of ail, upon the basic idea that no other law and no other part of the Constitution should be permitted to stand in the way of this one erusadc. There is a better way. It is the Cherington way of educating youth to the dangers of al" cohol instead of enticing them by the illicit hip flask. It is the method of creating so strong a sentiment for the that it operates without bringing into disrespect all law and all law enforcement. A morality that depends upon a ploitical organization and upon political pressure is mighty unstable, to say the least. The Hound's Tooth Os course, it is better to have the air finally cleared of assertions that Coolidge harbors a sneaking purpose to seize the Republican nomination next June. It should not have been necessary for the President to take the step he took recently had not politicians within his own party made it so. They Were politicians of two kinds: Those who would actually prefer a candidate whose words would be llnetningless, and those who wished to use the President’s name to hold State delegations together for trading purposes'at the national convention. Coolidge has finally put a quietus on their talk, let Us hope. And that Is good—but not all good. For it has led to one new announcement that might better have pot been made. Senator Willis of Ohio proposes himself for the presidency. A Joke, you say; but you gqidthe same thing when Senator Harding was proposed for the presidency—and the joke turned on you, a pitiful, tragic joke. Os that kind of joking let us have no more, at least for another generation or two. The wreckage left behind by the Harding Joke is not all cleared up yet. The courts still are struggling with the mess bequeathed by the amiable unfortunate chosen by the Republican party in 1920. Not nearly all of the looters are yet In jail. But Willis Is not or that kind, you say. Look, you say, there’s the white phalanx of the Anti-Saloon League behind him. But remember that the AntiSaloon League asks only one thing of Its candidates. It asks only that they speak and vote in favor of prohibition. It inquires not into such things as personal integrity, concern for human liberties, understanding of political economy. If a man be dry the other virtues are assumed-rfOr the lack of them disregarded. Willis, elected, might not bring a Daugherty, a Fall, a Denby, a Forbes, a Jess Smith or any'other of that godless crew Into his official family. He might not include Harry F. Sinclair In White House poker parties. Probably he wouldn’t; he has worn the pale halo of the Anti-Saloon League too long, perhaps, to change his manner of living. But let’s not forget that the loudly pure Willis was chief defender of Daugherty when the sickened United States Senate undertook the difficult task of ridding the national Government' of his Influence. “As clean as a hound’s tooth 1” shouted Senator Willis on the floor of the Senate. He was describing Daugherty, even then almost burled under the evidences of political filth he had brought into our national life. Willis scarcely would lead the Senate in an Intelligence test, but that assertion was not wholly * due to dumbness. He knew Daugherty; he knew him better than most. He had been associated with him In politics for many, many years back in the home State. As clean as a hound’s tooth? Well, let’s have someI tof a little cleaner In our candidates.

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Smith and Vare Seldom does the United States Senate register bo exactly the country’s state of mind as it is registering It in the cases of Smith of Illinois and Vare of Pennsylvania. The does not want those two men in Its highest legislative body and that Is all there is to it. This newspaper has no Joy in any man’s misfortune and yet it takes peculiar pleasure in the thing the Senate is doing. It was a Scrlpps-Howard newspaper that first challenged the attention of the Senate with the news of the Pennsylvania financial orgy. The now famous Reed committee was born of that expose and it w&s the Reed committee that uncovered conditions under which Smith was elftted in Illinois. Yet this newspaper wasn’t fighting either of these men, as men. It was fighting what they represent in national affairs. It was fighting the theory that money can have anything it wants in politics. It is glad, indeed, to see the United States Senate delivver a crushing defeat to that theory. The Walb Retirement Once more the head of the Republican State Committee says that he is about to give up the field of politics and will resign sometime “before Christmas.” That might sound like a promise of a Christmas present to the thousands of voters in this State who have an affection for that political party. There was a time when it would have sounded like a threat to desert the captaincy of a battleship on the eve of battle. But times have changed. The truth is that the retirement of Walb is important only as an admission that the past three years of Republican party management have led to disaster and to rather lamentable effects upon public affairs. The .viewpoint of public office which he represented Is not conducive to the best public service. He reflected in his acts the prevalent idea that the public offices of the State were to be gained for the benefit of the party and its leaders and its donaters rather than with an idea of service to the •whole people. * There was nothing in the code of the era over which he ruled which suggested that the best way to public confidence was to merit it. When last fall he turned loose his famous statement of widespread corruption by the “international bankers” set on destroying the virtuous Watson and Robinson, and thus brought about the Reed inquiry which quickly exploded that exaggeration, he merely played the game as he understood it. The voters were not to be trusted, but fooled. The coincident sale of stock in his corstruction company and his official interest in the pardor* of a brother of those to whom he sold it was in keeping with the political ideasihe represented. Those ideas were never accepted by the rank and file of the voters of his own party and were repulsive to the independents in politics. Little will be gained by the Walb retirement unless there is a change of viewpoint. The Republican party has not merely lacked leadership. It has been in the control of kidnapers, who used its name and power. The departure of Walb will leave the doors open to other things than merely naming his successor. In Court or In Jail? The American petroleum institute, like the United States Congress, is the final judge of its own membership. It has re-elected Edward L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair as directors. Which it had a perfect right to do. But it should not give the reason that it does sor # its action. The reason given is that the men should not be condemned until they have had their day in court. # Os Doheny, the United States Supreme Court has said: . . . “The consummation of the transactipifi was brought about by means of collusion and corrupt conspiracy between Fall and Doheny.”/ Os Sinclair, the United States Supreme Court has said: “The lease and agreement (Teapot Dome) were made fraudulently by means of collusion and conspiracy.” What the institute means, perhaps, is that Doheny and Sinclair should not be condemned until they have had their day in jail. Or even then? A Wronged Citizen E. L. Doheny has been victimized, it seerm, and Congress is going to be asked to do something about it. The Congress of this great country shouldn't’ let one cf its most patriotic citizens take a loss where it was his obvious aim to help the Government make a little money, as Mr. Doheny’s lawyer tells us. So Congress is to be requested to pay for those tanks Mr. Doheny built, at the Pearl Harbor naval oil base in Hawaii. % The Government has canceleld the lease Mr. Doheny held on Pearl Harbor, the courts having granted judgment against Doheny for oil taken from the re-r serve in the amount of $13,000,000. Mr. Doheny’s attorney thinks that a little too much to pay for trying to help Uncle Sam make a little piece of change, so he has no doubt that Congress will reimburse Mr. Doheny handsomely. / Congress, of course, should give that $13,000,000 back. The citizenry should be encouraged in Its efforts to help Andy Mellon balance that budget of his, and Congress should reward patirotism wherever it pops up. But somehow, we have a feeling that Congress is going to let slip this opportunity to bestow justice where justice is due. The courts had something tosay about Mr. Doheny’s lease on the property from Secretary Fall as “brought about by means of collusion and corrupt conspiracy.” Conspiracy an’d collusion are in different parts of the book than patriotism. Even though certain people have been quite busy of late trying to make the three more friendly. Here’s a good chance for Congress to divorce the three words. We hope Congress does the right thing. *_ Women soon will be receiving as much salary as men, says an economic observer. Lots of women are getting men’s wages now. General Dawes has announced he is not a candidate for the presidency. Now we'll have to be keeping an eye on him,,'too.

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The Way Has Been Cleared for Herbert Hoover, but Hardly More; His Obvious Popularity Still Waits on Leadership and Articulate Expression”

Our leaders are not all trJflers. President Coolidge not only meant what he said, but so did Mr. Hughes. Those politicians who have been manufacturing booms on the theory that neither of these men knew his mind will please go to the foot of the <^3S. Senator Willis of Ohio, takes advantage of the temporary shock to send up a trial balloon. Like a million or so more aspiring citizens, he, too, will run If called. Echo answers with oppressive silence. Senator Willis will not be called. nun Hoover Needs Machine The way hss been cleared for Herbert Hoover, but hardly more. His obvious popularity still waits on leadership and articulate expression. The rank and file of the Republican party are for him, but they lack organization. Political booms, like other movements which affect the masses, make little headway unless they become coherent, and they seldom become coherent without systematic work. A thousand active politicians under the guidance of ten or a dozen trained leaders can outmaneuver unorganized millions. What the Hoover boom needs is a little practical politics to offset the cabal forming against his candidacy. t n v n ' Mid-West on Top Meanwhile, the struggle will be settled on June 12, or soon afterward, at Kansas City, the National Republican committee having decided that the delegates must not be distracted by what trickles in through the Golden Gate, or what lies just across the bridge at Detroit. It is a clean-cut victory for the Mid-West, a majority of the committee evidently preferring to get closer to “Farmer John” than anyone else. The majority is probably right at that, for the Republican party has no weaker spot than the corn belt. Unless all signs fail, “the man with the hoe” is going to cut more of a figure in next year’s campaign that either the Anti-Saloon League or the Association Against the Eighteenth Amendment. n n n Wrong, but Legal? Wrong, but legal, says Harry F. Sinclair's lawyer with reference to jury tampering. That is a glaring fault in our system of justice. Too many things are wrong, but legal, while too many more are right, but illegal. A real difference has arisen between what we ought to do as a matter of conscience and what we can do -as a matter of law. Young people grow cynical when they learn that the morality absorbed at “mother’s knee” can be thrown away for a more mechanical code. They leave home, school and college only to find that what one can get away with is of rather more consequence than the right or wrdhg of it. Specious pleading based on prudish statutes go far toward explaining how the conscience of the country has become so jazzed. I • n Slave Chip's Dark Deed In the middle of the eighteenth century, the captain of a slave ship, found himself in the Caribbean Sea without sufficient water for the 400 blacks in his hold. In order to save the remainder, he shackled 100 or so to the c/iain-cable six feet apart and ran it overboard. On reaching port, he claimed that the underwrters should bear this loss because English law held companies liable where part of a cargo had to be jettisoned to sav-j the rest. An Efiglish court decided that though the law might be on the captain’s side, his act was too inhuman to /be countenanced. The court might have said, “wrong. Trnt legal.” Instead of that, however, it said, “wrong, though legal.” which will strike average people as much wiser. n n n Capone's 'Swan Song' According to “scarface” Capone, Chicago has been suffering from other kinds of propaganda than that favoring England. In a “Swan Song,” which he delivered just before leaving for St. Petersburg, Fla., where he is said to “hold the bag in a land deal, Mr. Capone bewails the fact that he has-been held up as a sort of “millionaire gorilla,” though nothing could be farther from the truth. “I never had anything to do with a vice resort,” he said. “I have never been convicted of a crime, nor have I ever directed any one else to commit a' crime. I don’t pose as a plaster saint, but I neveV killed any one.” nun Young America Flies New classes will enter 1 the primary flying schools at San Antonio, Texas, and Riverside, Cal., in March. . There are accommodations for 100 at each school, or 200 in all. Entrance examinations will be held Dec. 13. One thousand sixtyseven have already been granted the privilege of taking them, and • it Is expected the number wiß reach 1,200. This is good evidence that young America wants to fly.

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(Elkhart Truth) (Republican) Some patriotic Americans resent the announcement of Anita Loos and her husband, John Emerson, that they don't want to work any more and will desert the United States for permanent residence in Vienna. Anita, it will be recalled, is the author of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” and that is why it is not necessary for her to work. Why worry about her feeling that Vienna must be her home because “it is the only civilized city in the world that is not full of noise and dirt?” Although her story about what gentlemen prefer a clever one, our literature can do without any more like it. It might be a good idea for more of ur authors to decide to live elsewhere. What if H. L. Mencken should go to Turkey to live? There he wouldn’t have any middlewesterners. Rotary Clubs, Y. M. C. A.’s and Methodists to bother him. but he might find a few morons even over there. Just for the sake of good cheer, we could spare Sinclair Lewis for an indefinite sojourn abroad. Sherwood Anderson has bought a couple of country newspapers. They will occupy his time, so it will not be necessary for him to leave our shores. Thank goodness! We can’t spare any of our Indiana authors. We want them to stay right here. Booth Tarkington. one of our authors who refuses to become sex crazy, spends a part of the year in Maine, but honors us with his presence during the winter. Meredith Nicholson rarely leaves his workshop in an Indianapolis office building. All our Indiana authors are highly respectable and we don’t want them to stray. It is true that Theodore Dreiser was bom in Terre Hautee, but he lives in New York and hardly ever gets

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What Other Editors Think

back, so we don’t have to claim him. (Muncie Pres*) (Republican) Governor Jackson, quite as much as anybody else, charged with crime, is entitled to take advantage of the statute of limitations if he cares to use it, and if it apply to his case. But seeking to employ that law in order to escape trial is not calculated to inspire confidence in him among the people of Indiana. As it stands today, Hoosiers are by no means convinced that the charge of attempted bribery for which Governor Jackson was indicted, is true, and they are just as anxious to see him acquitted of it if he is innocent—more anxious, in fact—as they are to have him convicted if he is guilty. Indeed, because of the humiliation this charge against the State’s highest officer has placed upon the commonwealth, and because Gs the esteem in which the citizens of any State like to hold their Governor, nothing would please them better than to have It shown that the charge is utterly fajse. But if the statute of limitations should apply and the Governor should refuse to waive its provisions and continue in office, his name always would be under suspicion, perhaps unjustly. The Governor, if innocent, is taking an unwise course by seeking to evade trial. If not guilty he should, rather, welcome this opportunity for vindication, and we can have no doubt the people’s sense of fairness would see to it that he was treated Justly.

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Vou con get. on answer to any questlon of fact or Information by writing (o The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical/ legal and marital advice cannot te given nor can extended research be undertaken. A'l other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. Al) letters are confidential.—Editor. Os what are deer’s aiftlers composed? They are outgrowths of bone, covered with a thin, highly vascular hairy skin, but as they mature the blood supply is cut off and the skin or “velvet” dries up, peels off, leaving the bare bone. Antlers are renewed annually, the fully formed pair becoming detached from the pedicels on which they were developed, and anew pair arising at the same place. Antlers are usually shed soon after the close of the brooding season. Is Raymond Griffith, the motion picture actor, deaf and dumb? No. Due to strain, however, he cannot speak above a whisper. Is it proper to take asparagus In the fingers when eating it? It may -be done, but it is less messy when eaten with a fork. What Ls the proper method of engraving cards for a widow, “Mrs. William Jones,” or “Mary Ann Jones,” or“ Mrs. Mary Ann Jones?” Mrs. Mary Ann Jones is correct. Is there a verse in the Bible beginning, “A highway shall be there and a way?” Where is it found? Isaiah, 35:8 reads: “And a’highway shall be there and a way: and it shall be called The Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those; the wayfaring men. though fools, shall not err therein.” What is a “cinch bet” in a game of poker? It is a bet made by a player who holds a hand which he knows cannot be beaten. What daily newspaper has the largest circulation in the world? According to the Editor and Publisher Year Book for 1927 the London (England) Daily Mail has a circulation of 1,734,350 which is the largest. Probably the largest newspaper in the world, not a daily, ’

(Bluffton Banner) (Democrat) 1 The Indianapolis Star is still pursuing Senator Watson in its demand that he come out here to Indiana and clean up the Republican party. The Star is to be commended in its efforts, of course, fruitless as they will be, and then, there is the added thing to be thankful for—the conversion of the aforesaid Star. Just three years ago the Star was the chief offender in blackjacking the State Highway Commission and kept it up and kept it up, when it must have known, or could easily have known, the charges were a frame-up by some Republican politicians who hoped to throw the department into politics for their own profit. The charges have been dropped, with no show of ever placing any guilt on the members of the commission. Verily, the revival is on, and sinners are coming clean. Even then some of them will have to be watched. So easy to backslide. There is an insistent demand that Prosecutor Remy of Mjarion County make known the contents of the Stephenson black boxes. While there is no hope of prosecuting anybody, to reason of the time limit having expired, the public wants to know the whole story. Putting Senator Robinson in bad because the misses accepted a “necklace of nominal value” from Stephie and a few more of the little secrets that have leaked out, is ample reasoh that all be exposed. Why pick out Robinson and let the others get by!

is the News of the World. Issued in London, England, three times a Saturday and Sunday with net sales exceeding three million copies per issue. Why do pipes burst when water freezes in them? Water expands when it freezes, and the lateral pressure causes the pipes to burst. What is the enrollment of the largest public high school in the United States? The De Witt Clinton High School of New York City, with an enrollment in 1925-26 of 8,611 pupils, is said to be the largest in the United States. On what days of the week did De'. 19, 1907; Sept. 3, 1908, and May 1911 fall? The first two dates fell on Thursday and the last one on Monday. What is the address, of Lloyd George? Eighteen Abingdon St., S. W. 1, London, England. What is mate? The Ilex Mate tree is a species of holly indigenous in South America. It is found wild on the river-banks of Paraguay and in neighboring mountain districts of Brazil, and is cultivated in plantations. The leaves are preparedly roasting and pulverising and the Infusion made with boiling water is called mate. It is an aromatic beverage whose general effect is the same as tea or coffee.* -Drinking the beverage soon becomes a habit difficult to abandon. It is known also as Brazil or Paraguay tea, Jesuits tea and yerba. Are sea otters extinct? They are now confined to the coasts of the North Pacific and are very rare but not extinct. _. J i , Who is the youngest male movie star under contract? Little Sonny McKeen, known as “Snookums.” He was born 'Sept. 1, 1824. Who is the poet laureate of England? Robert Bridges.

.DEO. 8, 1927

Times Readers Voice Views

The name and address ot the author must accompany every contribution, nus on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. To the Editor: I most heartily agree with Mr. Moutoux in the unalterable conviction that no mi or body of men, or fiody of/ women, or man and woman have the right to take the life of an honest, industrioius man like Ruth Snyder’s husband without has consent. There are entirely too many lives taken in recent years without the consent of the individual owners, and the only practical way I can see of preventing this popular diversion Is to give the actors doses of their own medicine. When one, without provocation, contemplates murder, and puts it into execution without any object other than pecuniary gain or selfish gratification, he should be put to death as soon as possible after conclusive proof of his guilt is established This is the surest meihod in the category of remedies to lessen the chances of lives being taken without the owner’s consent. My statement here may seem positive, yet I am not a bigot wedded to any doctrine or creed, and if Mr. M. can suggest a better plan to reduce the number of lives taken without* the owners’ consent and give'his reasons for same, I am open to conviction. I prove all things and hold fast that which reason upholds. In fact, I have a better plan in mind, yet, in the present state of frenzy among the people, it would be as difficult to put it into practice as it was for the prophets of old to popularize their warnings to the Israelites, and prevent them straying after false gods. PETER E. GRIMES. 4934 Broadway. To the Editor: After seeing, last night, at The Little Theatre, the extraordinarily fine performance of the play, “An Enemy of the People,” I feel moved to shout, “Three cheers for Meredith Nicholson”! That he should have had the vision to encourage Mr. Somnes in the very difficult presentation of this striking play, by Ibsen, places every Indianapolitan in his debt. What a fine thing it would be if “An Enemy of the People” could be presented' for an additional week so that more might have the pleasure of seeing it. It has been playing to ,capacity audiences, but even so. only a few can be accommodated with tickets, for the house seats just 238 people. That means that the six nights of i performance will have reached only a little more than a thousand of the several hundred thousand citizens of “our No. Mean City.” You /and Mr. Nicholson ought to do something about it! The play is so very appropriate, at present, in that it points the moral which your paper has been so diligently driving home for months. It is a pity that so many hundreds should be denied the chance to see the play because of the limited number of performances. Mr. Somnes gives a gorgeous delineation of the character of Dr. Stockmann. Mr. Callithijn is so flawless in his very exacting part, that one is reminded of George Arliss. Dr. gives a very arresting performance. Mrs. Schofield does beautiful and deft work. They all do, but then space here does not permit more detail. Mr. Somnes is to be congratulated upon his really great ability in directing, and for his personal performance in this splendid play. The city is even more to be congratulated for its luck in having such a director. ENTHUSIASTIC CITIZEN. To the Editor: In my opinion neither Governor Jackson, Mr. Gilllom por anyone else has a legal right to violate the Wright bone-dry law. A law is a law, and no one has the right to violate it. If a man breaks the law, he should suffer the consequences. I am not for a “one-man” law. It seems that when a rich man or a leader violates the law nothing extreme is done about it, but if a poor man commits a crime, he has to stand the''full extent of* 1 trie law, even though his sister were in a dying condition. Even that is not an excuse to violate the law. Suppose my sister lay dying and I went to Muncie to obtain some whisky to assist her recovery and it was discovered? What would become of me? Charges of possessing and transporting liquor would be placed against me. If there is a law that provides for whisky for medicinal use, I am for Mr. Gilliom, and if not, I say enforce the law. There are hundreds of men serving time today for no greater crime than what Gilliom did. B. H. LANDON, y 2704 Park Ave.

Mr. Fixit Relief in Sight for Chuck Hole Streets.

Let Mr. Fixit. The Times* representative at city hall, present vour troubles to ctv officials. Write Mr. Fixit at The Times. Names and addresses which Street Commissioner George Woodward today promised Mr. Fixit to provide relief for residents desiring cinders or gravel on improved streets, as far as funds permit. Fourteen letters to Mr. FlxlLfrom residents all over the city pictured bad conditions on several unimproved sireets. These complaints will be cared for if possible: Mud hole, 251 S. Arsenal Ave.; 2917 W. Ida St.; several large holes on Burton Ave. and Roache St.; 3200 block W. Pratt St., between Goodlet Ave. and Centennial St.; Hoyt and Denny Sts., and Leland and Ellenberger Sts. Complaints already on file: Alley between 3700 block E. New York and E. Market Sts.; Twentieth St. between College and Broadway; State, south of Raymond and alley west of State; Ohio from Elder t:. Traub Ave. and 3636 fit