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Mr. Hearst’s Charges There was something cruelly paradoxical about the two dramas presented to the world yesterday, one in Washington, D. C., and the other in Mexico City. In Mexico the American hero and ace of aces, Charles A. Lindbergh, a whole people’s envoy of goodwill, was bowing and smiling that boyish smile of his to frantic throngs clamoring for a sight of him as he passed from one ovation to another through the streets of the capital city with the people thundering "vivas!” in his ears. In Washington a committee of the United States Senate was probing charges raised against Mexico by the Hearst newspapers, the object of which publication admittedly being to obtain a Congressional investigation of alleged unfriendly acts by Mexico against the United States. Thus it was against the background of Lindy’s epic flight to Mexico City and his enthusiastic reception there by President Calles and the Mexican people that the Senate’s probe of Hearst’s charges began yesterday and continued far into the night. The end is not yet in sight. Meantime, it is not thp intention of this newspaper to try the case in its columns. Mr. Hearst is entitled to his day in court. The charge having been made that the papers on which he based his sweeping accusations are forgeries he should be given every opportunity to establish their authenticity—or, if their fraudulent nature should be shown, every opportunity to prove that he, at least, bought them in good faith. Now is not the time to pass judgment. Now is the time to determine the facts. Peace between two Republics is at stake and making this peace certain is more important thar. the fitful fortunes of one newspaper publisher. Mr. Hearst is now in court. Let him have his day, without prejudice. Picking Our Ancestors The infant industry of providing family trees for all who think they need them may fill a long felt want. So the enterprise of the thoughtful gentlemen who have gone into the business should be encouraged. Suffering humanity too long has been at the mercy of ancestors, and we have had to take them as they came. It often happened that they were nothing to brag about; and if one searched long enough, or climbed the family tree high enough, he was apt to find ancestors who might better have been left undiscovered. - \ If times have changed and by paying the proper fee one may now go ancestor-shopping and pick out the kind of forebears he would like to have, it will be comforting to him who shops and will harm nobody else. Really any man should be entitled to the ancestors he thinks he deserves; and having selected them their is little trouble, about having oil portraits painted and then hanging them on the parlor wall where the neighbors may view and admire. Moreover, it might add to one’s self respect if he could hand-pick ancestors who are worthy of him. If he has the price it would be no trick at all to have an entire art gallery of lovely ancestors done in oil and gilt frames. They may be pirates, soldiers, statesmen, poets, bandits or any kind of ancestor the fancy desires, to say nothing of grand dames’ clothed in whatever finery the hopeful progeny may select. And certainly there is opportunity to. make art more beautiful than nature and ignore the ugly facts qf pure genealogy. X And the beauty of it all is that once appropriate ancestors have been picked, painted and hung on the wall, about all one has to do is to live up to them; whereas if one stuck to nature it would often happen that, with great loss of self respect, he would have to live down to them or live them down. Besides, most family albums are chambers of horrors when filled with actual photographs, tintypes or daguerrotypes, and with the new system of selected ancestors each album could become a thing of beauty and a Joy forever—or at least until styles of fashions in ancestors change, when anew set could be selected that would be thoroughly up to date. So we think the argument is all in favor of the thoughtful and enterprising business men of Long Island who are making ancestor worship possible In this land of the free. It would advance our civilization almost up to that of China. High-Explosive Language "Calumny,,” the dictionary advises us, is “a false and malicious accusation or report; misrepresentation; defamation; slander.” Strong words, these! Yet Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder had the courage to apply them to his chief, Secretary Wilbur, at a Rearing yesterday before the Naval Affairs Committee of the House. Magruder was asked what he thought of Wilbur’s answers to his (Magruder’s) published charges of injfflciency in the navy. ‘1 could think of a stronger word, but calumny covers it,” he responded. Not only that, but Magruder repeated before the committee the charges he already had made. The navy is over-organized, has too many admirals, is wasteful, and maintains useless navy yards along the Atlantic coast, he asserted. Magruder tempts fate, for the Government often makes sfyort shrift of those in the service who tell unpleasant truth. Magruder knows this, for already he has been deprived of his post of commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard and brought to Washington “to await orders.” It will be interesting to see if Secretary Wilbur has further discipline for this free-spoken sea dog.

(Marlon Chronicle) „ . (Republican) National Commander E. E. Spafford of the American Legion made an unwise move when he attempted to involve the Legion in politics on the prohibition question. As far as Indiana is concerned State Commander-elect Frank McHale effectually spiked the guns of a campaign which could only be regarded as in the interest of wet propaganda when he stated positively that no wet and dry poll of the Legion would be taken in Indiana. Commander Spafford now announces that his proposal for a nation-wide poll of the Legion on prohibition was merely a suggestion, not an order. Regardless cf the merits of the prohibition question any attempt to drag the Legion into politics

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would be bound to react adversely to the interests of the Legion. If it is to become a political factor by taking partisan action on the prohibition question there is nothing to stop it from wielding a partisan club in any other political controversy. A wet and dry poll of the Legion would be productive of no good results. In effect it would only be stirring up agitation over an issue which has been decided and can only be changed by the same process by which it was decided. It is now a question of upholding the Constitution of the United States and enforcing the war. Wet propagandists, who know in their own hearts that the majority of the people have decided for a long time to come the prohibition issue

The Winter Maypole A Christmas tree is the winter maypole and to the season of goodness and peace on earth it adds a bright little note of cheer. There is an economic phase of the Christmas tree, too, and if carried out every family in the country will be able to afford one. Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree Association, explains it. “Trees at retail are comparatively expensive,” he says. “The seasonal demand is sure and good. When such conditions prevail in any business line there is incentive to produce. Christmas trees can be farmed as a crop and produced at a neat profit. Such a proposition provides a profitable adjunct to the farm, a useful way of putting otherwise loafing acres to work.” Mr. Pack points out that there are millions of acres of idle lands in the United States which could be put to work growing the trees that help to make Christmas happy. A forest of Christmas trees is thinned out, if cut properly, much the same as a garden is weeded. This method gives the plants a chance. The energy used in condemning the practice of using Christmas trees might be employed better in urging planting and proper cutting of the trees, according to Pack. Os course the topping of large trees to obtain the petty crown should be outlawed. Christmas trees offer chances for cheer in millions of American homes and profit for thousands of farmers.

Messenger of Mercy The human body has been greatly classified during the last few decades, and there is a specialist for this and that ill which the flesh is heir to. But there remain those emergencies which no specialist hidden away in a busy modem clinic or office building can meet and for which there is one friend upon whom we must continue to rely—the oldfashioned messenger of mercy, the country doctor. High up in the Thunder mountains of Idaho, remote from transportation, fenced in from the world by snow-clad peaks 10,000 feet high, a young miner the other day lay fighting death from influenza. Word of his plight drifted down from that icy fastness to McCall, a village in central Idaho. The word reached the little office where a country doctor—Dr. Don Numbers—kept his liaison of medicine and mercy with a far-flung field. “Seriously ill!” That was the word. It was all that was needed. The message went rapidly around the villiage. Masters of dog teams — dogs that had won famous derbies in the northwest—offered their swift, strong little racers to the doctor for this derby with death. Up into the hills, over mile after mile of dangerous trails and over no trails at all, the country doctor sped on his mission of mercy. Over shrouded hillsides where a false step in the deep snow would havß meant his own death, carrying on and upward, with the dogs scratching, heaving, tugging, for the sake of a life. The feet of the dogs were bleeding and tom when the first stop was made at Warrens. Other dogs were quickly offered and the doctor continued his spectacular dash against death. Up over Elk summit, more than 10,000 feet high, covered with nine feet of treacherous snow! Then to the tiny cabin where the fingers of death were closing about the throat of its youthful victim. A day with a boy who had almost given up the x<iequal battle. A day of brightness as though the sun had dropped out of the skies into that crude cabin. A day of hard work and hope and struggle. Then, a life saved, the long trip back to* the little office, and a longer wait for the call again. Day after dull day there in that drab little officethen the call. That is the life of the country doctor, messenger of medicine and mercy, hero and savior among men. A university demonstrates that a woman can feed her husband on 51 cents, a day. We’d like to listen in at the peaceful hearth about the third day the little woman tried it. The Canadians want free entry to fish into the United States. The idea pjobably is reciprocity, since quite a few of our fish have been going over into Canada lately. The New Jersey dentist who had to pay $11,500 for making a woman lisp was lucky. There are men who would pay twice that much to make a woman listen. A London scientist suggests the use of baboons as housemaids. It hasn’t been proposed yet, however, to train baboons to become scientists. California is excited over development of a seedless lemon. Now if we could just have a seedless Congress. A professor says that free love is now more prevalent than at any other time in history. Maybe it is, but where did the professor get his statistics? Girls in a Kansas school debated with the boys on the merits of installment buying. Some of the grownup girls and boys have taken the same subject. Q King Emmanuel of Italy likes to play poker, according to a dispatch. But if he goes over his allowance, we’ll bet the Duce is wild. >■

by amending the Constitution, have pinned their hopes on the perilous policy of nullification and that is the menace with its widespread criminal ramifications that confronts the nation now. The American Legion represents the forces that faced the supreme sacrifice in answer to the Nation’s call to national defense. And to the American Legionnaires the Nation pays homage for their valor and service in time of war and pins its faith to their vigilance in time of peace. The American Legion has taken its place as an organization that is a bulwark in defense of American ideals of government. It is their birthright. No man has any right to suggest that they barter that birthright for a “scuttle of suds.”

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The name and addresa ot the author mult accompany every contribution, but on request wl'l not be published. Letter* not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. To the Editor: Have been reading the peoples views on the Snyder-Gray case in your columns, and wish to express my opinion on the question of capital punishment. It seems, as one scans the news each day, that “blind justice" is a rather fickle and unstable lady, as far as murder cases are concerned. There is, of course, no fault to be found with a jury who acts upon a murder case as their judgment of the case in particular directs them. However, there are a few cases which I may cite in which I believe capital punishment, as the first degree murder penalty, might have had son. bearing on the fact that lesser degree of penalty than case in question deserved has been meted out by jury. The Lilliendahl case, as the State of New Jersey charged, and reasonable evidence indicated, was a coldblooded, premeditated murder not far removed in motive from the Snyder-Gray case. Why should this case, since evidence warranted convicted, have been found guilty of manslaughter rather than first degree murder as charged? In our own State recently, in the Walser case, the charge was first degree murder, and was in my opinion as atrocious a crime as could be perpetrated, yet a sentence of two to twenty-one years was meted out. Many cases could be cited other than ones in question where penalties are slightly more than ordinary criminal charges usually merit. Public opinion still awaits the results of Remus case, and West case with interest, not in the question of whether capital punishment is recommended, but rather in the question, will the existence of the death, sentence drive a jury to the compromise in meting out a sentence that will only serve to encourage the ever increasing murder docket, rather than halt it? As to Snyder and Gray and every other murderer, life in prison, would be less apt to force a jury to a compromise on lighter charge to avoid handing out a death sentence. THOS E. HALSEY. To the Editor: What is the large Idea in locking the west door to the Statehouse each night at 6 p. m. and forcing the public to either walk around the Capitol Bldg, or walk some two blocks out of their way to get back on Market St.? Somewhere I have read that when the city of Indianapolis permitted the State to close up Market St. and erect the Capitol Bldg., it was agreed that the Statehouse would be left open until 9 p. m. each evening to permit the public to pass through the building. Because the Grand Old Party places “dead ones” on as so-called policemen and they must start taking their nap at 6 p! m. the public is inconvenienced or is it just another case where some two-candle-power politician is determined that he, and not Steve, is the law in Indiana. Wish you would investigate this, for if that door is kept open like the law says it should, a irood many people living in west Indianapolis will be greatly accomodated. A. WEST ENDER.

Old Masters

She is a rich and rare land; Oh! she’s a fresh and fair land, She is a dear and rare land— This native land of mine. No men than hers are braver— Her women’s hearts ne’er waver; I’d freely die to save her, And think my lot divine.

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The Rules 1. The idea ctf letter golf is to change one word to another and do it in par, a given number of strokes. Thus, to change COW to HEN, in three strokes, COW, HOW, HEW, HEN. 2. You can change only one letter at a time. 3. You must have a complete word, of common usage, for each Jump. Slang words and abbreviations don’t count. 4. The order of letters cannot be changed.

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Euripides —He Made Gods Puppets

THE greatest of Greek dramatists was born, tradition says, on the very day of the battle of Salamis, and on the island itself, where his mother had taken refuge after the sack of Athens. Os his father, Mnesarchus, we know nothing; of his mother, “worse than nothing”—for the gossip of the time describes her as keeping a grocery shop and hawking fruit and flowers on the street. Let every grocer's son take courage. Like so many Greek geniuses Euripides combined athletics with scholarship. He won the victor’s crown at the Eleusinian games, and then passed from the gymnasium to science and philosophy. His father must have been a man pf means, for we hear of Euripides receiving instruction in physics from 'Anaxagoras, in rhetoric from Prodicus and in ethics from Protagoras. Euripides became a passionate lover of literature, and the first private individual in history, so far as we know, to collect a lib’ary. His modest home facing the historic bay became a rendezvous for Athens’ freethinkers; here it was that Protagoras read his famous paper “On the Gods,” for which, despite the efforts of Pericles, the Intolerant populace of Athens drove him into exileWe are to picture the age as akin to the French enlightenment of the eighteenth century; economic development and political supremacy had brought, as under Louis XIV. and XV., leisure, letters and irreligion. “Neither side,” says Thucydides, “cared for religion, but both used it with enthusiasm as a pretext for various odious purposes.” In this Hellenic illumination Euripides was the Greek Voltaire, worshipping the Goddess of Pesson with free thought and clever innuendo in the midst of dramas that were staged to elaborate a god. 000 WAS it strange that the crowd at the theatre did not like him or that it clung to its ancient deities and wondered why these blasphemous plays should be presented at all? Euripides produced dramas for half a century, but in all that time only four prizes were given him, and not until 40 did he win the highest award. Nevertheless, the people, after their contrary fashion, thronged to these plays as to no others and talked about them more. Socrates, who would not take a step to see other drama, said he would walk to the Piraeus (a serious matter for a stout philosopher) to see a production by Euripides. The Athenians hated the man and liked his plays. They did not object to his faults of dramatic technique—his failure to weave his plots into organic wholes, his deviation into picturesque details, his lazy (or ingratiating?) way of bringing in a god at last to punish the wicked for their sins and console the virtuous for their virtue. But it was not to save his plots that Euripides imported the gods into his plays. It was to save his face and, perhaps, his head. It was a sop to superstition. So when the angry crowd, enraged at a skeptical line, refused to let his play proceed the dramatist rose in his place and bade the audience be comforted—the speaker of the line would be roundly punished in the end. (One can hear the laughter of Socrates across 2,000 years.) Meanwhile the people enjoyed the lyric and dramatic quality of his tales. It is true that they applauded enthusiastically when Aristophanes satirized the style, the themes and the philosophy of these plays, and it is true that they preferred the “idealism” of Sophocles, in theory, to the “realism” of Euripides. But in practice they found the older poet platitudinous and moralistic and the younger one stimulating, even in his heresiesTheir keen wits relished the subtlety of lines and their excitable minds were thrilled by the romarttlc pathos of the scenes. No one had ever painted human

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. beings for them so sympathetically. No one had lavished such tenderness upon his heroines or revealed so intimately the sufferings of the soul. o#o 'T'HE man had an almost Shelley- **■ an sensitivity to the misfortunes of mankind. Edith Browning felt it and called him “Our Euripides the Human. With his droppings of warm tears. And his touches of things common Till they rose to touch the spheres.” Aristophanes charged him with sentimentality, and had excuse; Euripides is never through with the pangs of despised love and the breaking of maternal hearts. But these were the things the others ignored; their plays and poetry had told of kings and wars, but not of women and men, not of wives and mothers left mourning distantly, nor of common soldiers crushed uider chariot wheels. Euripides, then, is the romantic dramatist par excellence; like Miranda, he suffers with those he sees suffer, and he writes with the resentment of a man who can not understand why men should suffer so. Aeschylus was confident that the gods would reward virtue and punish vice; Euripides regrets to announce that the evidence runs the other way. He stands to Aeschvlus as doubting Job to believing Isaiah; no wonder some scholars have thought the Book of Job a Euripidean tragedy. Human fortune or misfortune, our dramatist thinks, is not a gift or a blow from the gods; a man's history is determined not by- supernatural decree, but by his character; and a man’s character, as Heraclitus put it, is his fate. So Euripides writes with feeling and without apology. He has not the stern sublimity of Aeschylus, nor the classic calm and objectivity of Sophocles; he bears the same relation to these as the emotional Dostoievski to the Titanic Tolstoi and the impeccable Turgeniev. But it is in Dostoievski that we find our secret hearts revealed and our secret longings understood; and it is in Euripides that Greek drama, tired of Olympus, came down to earth and dealt revealingly with men. “Have all the nations of the world since his time,” asked Goethe, “produced one dramatist worthy to hand him his slippers?” Just one--000 THE PACIFIST AE Euripides looked about him it seemed to his eyes that men were exploited by kings, and women by men, and all of them by gods. When he was 20 (in 459 B. C.) the first Peloponnesian War broke out between Athens and Sparta, and raged for thirteen years. When he was 50 the second Peloponnesian War began; for thirty years, like an intermittent fever, it ran its destructive course, and Euripides did not live to see its bitter close. Judge his feelings from his prayer, which has come down to us as a fragment from the lost play, “Cresphontes”:— O Peace, thou givest plenty, as from a deep spring; there is no beauty like* unto thine; no, not even among the blessed gods. My heart yearneth within me, for thou tarriest; I grow old and thou returnest not. Shall weariness overcome mine eyes before they see thy, bloom and thy comeliness? When the lovely songs of the dancers are heard again and the thronging feet of them that wear garlands, shall gray hairs •and sorrow have destroyed me utterly? Return, thou holy one, to our city; abide not far from us, thou that quencheth wrath. Strife and bitterness shall depart if thou art with us; madness and the edge of the sword shall flee from our doors. , Like Plato, Euripides pleaded with his countrymen to make peace and to unite with Sparta in a Pan-Hel-lenic League rather than fight with

her till all Greece should be exhausted and ripe for barbarians. But they would not fear. The war went on, heaping brutality upon horror—a war of Greek against Greek, shot through with all the ferocity of relatives. When the citizens of Melos refused to enter the war on Athens’ side the Athenians besieged their capital, devastated it, put all the men to death and enslaved all the women and children. It was in the very next year (415 B. C.) that Euripides, with the audacity that made and was to break him, produced one of his most powerful plaxs, “The Trojan Women.” All who heard him knew that Troy was a symbol for Melos and that the dramatist had resolved to make clear to Athens the other side of victory. Never was imagination more nobly used nor a greater plea ever made for peace. (Copyright, 1927, by Dr. Will Durant) (To Be Continued.)

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You can get an answer to any question ot (act or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C„ inclosing 2 cents In stamps lor reply. Medical, legal and marital adv.ee cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. AU other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. AU letters are confidential.—Editor. What size ring is prescribed fer championship boxing contests? From 16 to 20 feet square. What was the highest regular price for seats at the DempseyTunney fight in Chicago? S4O. How old was Lillian Russell when she died? She was born Dec. 4, 1861, and died June 5, 1922, at the age of 61. How does the United States rank in consumption of sugar? First in consumption using about one-fourth of the world’s supply. How does the present number of employes in the executive, branch of the Federal Government compare with 1920? On July 31, 1920, there were 691,116 employes, compared with 559,138 on June 30, 1927. What is a “cover charge”? A fixed charge per person imposed by some hotels and restaurants in addition to the charge for food and drink. It is considered by tax authorities as an admission charge. Is the husband of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands a brother of the former Kaiser of Germany? The Prince Consort, Henry Frederick, is of the family of Mceklen-burg-Schwerin and is not a brother of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm. How old is Mrs. Leslie Carter? She was born June 10, 1832. What is the membership of the American Automobile Association? Where and how does it operate? There are more than 800,000 members, and the association operates clubs in Canada as well as in the United States. Members in one city are entitled to service from any club in any other city. What part does Kay English play in, the show, “Rio Rita”? !Beppo, a street musician. What was the average temperature of the English channel when cross-channel swims were undertaken and what was the temperature of Catalina channel when George Young swam it? The temperature of the English channel during months when swimmers attempt to cross it averaged about 60 degrees. It is rarely warmer than 65 degrees. The temperature of Catalina channel during George Young’s successful swim was about 60 degrees.

DEC. 16, 1927

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Armed Preparedness Is the Grim Alternative of Disarmament ; There Is No Middle Ground

Having assembled, in spite of his opinion that it could not do so legally, and having accepted articles of impeachment which made him a defendant, the Oklahoma Senate complacently invited Chief Justice Branson to preside over its deliberations. ,It is not surprising that the Chief Justice declined with such grace as the situation permitted, or pointed out the impropriety of sitting as judge at his own trial. Such proceedings cast doubt on the expertness of those in charge of the Oklahoma show. They may have the best of intentions, but they obviously need to brush up on the law. * nun ‘Big Navy’ Program Ten years after the war to end war, six after the conference to limit naval armaments and one year after President Coolidge has expressed himself as utterly opposed to such an idea, we find this Government proposing the largest naval construction program in its history. Seventy-one vessels, to cost $725,000,000, all to be authorized in one measure—what has happened to cause such a reversal of attitude as this implies? Technically, it may not range one iota beyond what agreements with other nations permit, but practically It represents the most aggressive move America ever made in time of peace. What has happened to cause such an alteration of view as it indicates? 0 ‘lsolation’ Impossible Armed prepardeness is the grim alternative of disarmament. There is no middle ground. That ‘‘splendid isolation” which we enjoyed before the advent of steamship, submarine and airplane has ceased to be a fact. This Government has become hopelessly entangled with world affairs quite regardless of whether it enters a League of Nations or joins a World Court. Its commercial interests have become entwined with those of every, country. Its goods travel across every sea, its markets exist in every land, and It draws raw material from every quarter of the globe. The warp and woof of modern industry make it impossible for anything of consequence to happen in this world without affecting the American pocketbook. 000 Call for Showdown President Coolidge has done about all he could under the circumstances to bring about disarmament. Failure of other nations to agree on such a program forces him to accept the only alternative. Kis apparent change of mind comes as a logical result. If the rest of the world wants to keep up the naval race, the United States is prepared to string along. Not only that, but the United States is ready to let the rest of the world know just how far it is willing to go to bring the whole question of disarmament to a showdown. 0 0 0 ‘Fish or Cut Bait’ However people may disagree with the naval program now before Congress, it is bound to do some good. It can hardly fail to reveal in a clear light what other nations intend. < If they have talked disarmament for the mere pleasure of hearing themselves talk, their obvious blu f is called. If, on the other hand, they meant it, they can call another conference with the absolute certainty that the United States will meet them more than half way. So far as the rest of the world Is concerned, our proposed naval program is merely a polite Way of saying “either fish or cut bait." 000 Ridiculous ‘Expose’ The four senators—Borah, Norris, La Follette and Heflin—for whom it was alleged $1,200,000 had been set aside by the Mexican government, deny all knowledge of such a transaction. THeir denial was unnecessary. Putting aside the reputation which they bear, the charge was too ridiculous to stand alone. What have they or any of them done to merit such a huge gift from Mexico? What could Mexico hope to gain from them to warrant such a huge gift? Putting that aside, if a government paid any such sum of money to officials of another government, would it not take ordinary precautions to cover up the business? Would it leave letters and receipts lying around loose for some clerk to steal and some newspaper man to buy? 000 Mr, Hearst’s Views William R. Hearst says he does not believe the Senators received any money. He says he bought the documents intimating the money had been set aside for them through the kindly offices of ar. business man in Mexico City and from two Mexican clerks. He says these documents had been shown to Ambassador Sheffield who was not impressed and to President Coolidge who was also not impressed. He Wys the Senators were never asked about the allegations they contained. All this is very. interesting In view of (the widespread publicity these documents have been given.