Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1927 — Page 2

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WOMAN'S DRESS IS ‘GOOD’ NEWS. SAYSJEP. HEAD Karl A. Bickel Names Seven Persons With Greatest Reader Interest. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Women, women’s clothes and seven internationally known figures in the news havf a constant appeal to the millions of newspaper readers in the worjd today, according to Karl A. Bickel, president of the United Preis, in an interview published in Collier’s Weekly today. “Just let the women of Paris begin wearing their skirts within two inches of their shoe tops and we’ll open all our wires to the news,” said Bickel ‘“How was she dressed?’—there’s a question which arises whenever any woman is in the limelight.” Started In August Bickel has Just returned from a world tour which began when he left New York to attend the press conference under the League of Nations’ auspices in Geneva last August. His interview discusses in detail the business of “importing and exporting news” and various factors which hamper dissemination of truth in the news. “We’re in the business of importing and exporting news just as the Standard Oil Company is in the business of importing and exporting commodities,” said Bickel. “Years of feeding out news to newspapers in thirty-seven countries, watching the ‘play’ it gets—that is seeing how it is handled by various clients—have taught us the business of merchandising news.” Truth Easier to Get Hen Truth, he said, is sometimes the hardest thing in the world to get at. “But it’s easier in America than it is in Europe. In Europe and Asia certain governments subsidize or maintain their own news agencies. They give such agencies special or discriminatory privileges such as advance information on governmental news, faster facilities on government operated telephone or telegraph lines, lower rates and similar concessions. “Naturally, if you rely on such biased agencies as news sources perhaps without your knowledge and certainly without your intent, you may find yourself in a position where you can’t play fair with your clients. That’s why the United Press remains completely and absolutely independent of any ‘official’ or govemmentally subsidized or maintained news services.” Bickel believes that among famous personalities who have tremendous reader attraction are Lindbergh, Ford, Edison, Mussolini, Charlie Chaplin, the Prince of Wales and the President of the United States, with Mrs. CoOlidge. Asked about interest hi the King of England, he said* “No, the Prince • blankets the King.” BOOK DEBUNKS PURITAN Bn Times Bvecial NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 16. Dr. Henry W. Lawrence, author of a book, “The Not Quite Puritan,” the Connecticut College for Women, soon to be published, said today at in speaking of the book’s contents,

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Indiana Should Be Proud of Courage in Cleaning Ul) Politics, Says Butler

INDIANA and Indianapolis should be proud of the fact that the citizens have had the courage to clean up a bad political situation, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University and promient Republican, asserted in an interview here Thursday night, following an address at the Columbia Club. “I was a close friend of the late Albert J. Beveridge and often visited at his home here,” Dr. Butler declared. "The last time I was here was in 1924, when I came to try and pour oil on the troubled Republican waters. At that time the party seemed split among Beveridge, Watson and New and I was invited to speak as the only person upon whom all three factions could agree. “Since then I have learned of Indiana political conditions only through the newspapers. I think, however, that the idea of Indianapolis getting bad publicity because it has had the courage to ‘clean house’ is erroneous. American citizens admire the courage of your municipality and State in correcting evil situations.” Dr. Butler declared that in his opinion neither major political party will have coinage to take a

that the seventeenth century Puritan should be “debunked” with other heroes. “New England in the seventeenth century was probably no more wholesome than it is in the twentieth,” said Mr. Lawrence. “Then, as now, a few great and good men and women, tried in vain to sell godliness to the ihultitude, but there were few buyers, although at that time every body was compelled to attend the sale.”

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stand,” he declared. “Neither parfy declared itself on the matter when it was coming in and I don’t think either will when it is passing out.” Dr. Butler firmly believes that prohibition is passing and declares that his stand is for making it pass out honestly by repeal, rather than dishonestly, by nullification. He predicted that A1 Smith will be the Democratic nominee for President, with a fair chance of election, due to “wet sympathies.’’ He termed Smith “the greatest Governor in the history of New York State.” Asked if Smith was big enough for the presidency, Dr. Butler asked, "What do you mean by the relative term ‘big enough?’ Are you to Judge bigness by the comparative size of some recent holders of that office?” He declared that States like Indiana, with rigid prohibition Statutes, are the "worst offenders against the prohibition law.” “Georgia and Colorado are the only States with laws so strict as Indiana," he said. “They are two of the wettest States I eijpr visited. I haven’t been in Indiana long enough to learn if that holds true here, but I do not doubt it.”

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U. S. BLOCKING PEACE MOVES, BUTLER SAYS Columbia University Head Urges Congress Pass 4 Capper Resolution. Charging that the United States Government “through sheer paralysis,” is the chief obstacle to the advancement of every peace preservation movement to which the people as a whole earnestly are devoted, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University president, recommends the Capper resolution as a step forward toward remedying the situation. Butler spoke under auspices of the Indiana Council on International Relations at a public meeting at the Columbia Club Thursday night. Tracing the earnest efforts of America in the paths of peace, up to the post-World War period, the speaker pointed out that “our record as a people and as a government is clear, consistent, and steadily progressive.” “Our present unfortunate and even perilous situation is due to patrisan differences on the one hand and to personal views and aml- - on the other,” Butler declared, citing the great hatred of

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