Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1927 — Page 4

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Spending State Money

Asa result of a very rigorous protest on the part of the officials of the Central State Hospital, the patients of that institution will not freeze during this cold weather. The protest was against the coal which was furnished under a contract made with the State purchasing board and revealed the fact that the handling of that particular contract was at least peculiar. The purchasing board was created to combine the purchasing power of the State and to guard against waste and perhaps inefficiency and political influence. It rests upon a very fine theory, but the v handling of the coal contract this year suggests that the membership of that body could be changed without any great loss to the State. When bids were asked from the men who sell coal* the specifications and conditions were such as to insure good coal for the State institutions. Safeguards against imposition were injected. The bidders were compelled to name the mine from which the coal was to be produced. They were bound, presumably in the contract and certainly in their beds, to furnish a duplicate bill of lading so that the State purchasing board and the institution served could both check as to the amount of coal and the quality of coal. On paper the State was apparently securely protected against either poor coal or short weight. But in practice, something else happened. Poor coal was delivered to the insane hospital. It could not be used and for some unexplained reason the rejected coal was immediately shipped to another institution, the one over which the brother of Governor Jackson is in control. At the offices of the State purchasing committee, it is admitted that the very excellent provision of duplicate bills of lading had never been followed and that the State board had no record of the quality or amount of coal. That might be bad enough. But the action of the purchasing board was worse. Admitting that the contract had been broken and violated, the board proceeded to nullify it only as to the one institution whose' officers have shown any independence and courage. This board “permits” the Central hospital to buy coal that will burn and retains the contract for the other institutions. Just why the contract should be voided for one institution and not for all is a mystery. A business concern in the same situation would have certainly said that a contractor who had fallen down on deliveries to one plant was not to be trusted to deliver to any plant. And certainly a board of directors that discovered a purchasing agent who did not enforce its contract would take some action. One of the traditions of this State that might be profitably set aside is that the political manager of successful candidates for Governor be given the job of State purchasing agent. It is altogether too suggestive. The Coal Conference The conference called by Secretary of Labor Davis to consider the problems of the bituminous coal industry, with particular reference to the strike now in progress, tackled its job with commendable zeal, and has adjourned. Presumably recommendations will be carried back to operators not present, and to labor organizations, after which further meetings will be held. It seems unlikely, however,, that much will be accomplished. Secretary Davis said at the outset that the trouble with the industry was that there are too many mines and too many miners, a fact that has long been apparent. The present meeting of operators and union leaders probably will no more be able to find the solution for this situation than have similar conferences in the past. Nor does it seem likely that progress can be made in settling the strike in Pennsylvania, Ohio and northern West Virginia, which is now in its ninth month and affects some 100,000 persons. The largest coal companies in these areas refused to attend the conference. They said their mines are in operation, and that they saw no reason to treat with the ' United Mine Workers, who, they said, were demanding wages that made it impossible to mine coal profitably. The coal barons are simply aggravating a situation that eventually must be settled. Their attitude has already drawn the support of the American Federation of labor to the strikers, and lends credence to the charge that there is a united attempt jm the part of large employers to destroy unionism. It is difficult to understand the unwillingness of the opera-

(La Forte Argus Herald) (Republican) There is no doubt that the American farmer is having his troubles, plenty of them. His ills he cannot attribute to anyone else alone because his present situation was brought on largely by his own activity, or rather, inactivity. For jrears and years the farmer followed ih splow, sowed his seed and harvested his crops as a distinct individual. He worked hard, of course, but the trouble with him was that his efforts were not as effective as they should be because there was no unification. Natural-

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ly, when organization and banding of efforts became the principal of industry, agriculture lagged behind. Finally a far-sighted group of individuals conceived the "idea of organization amqng fanners as a panacea for their ills. Since that time farm fureau federations have sprung up in all sections of the country. The farmer has been helped. He has found a way to obtain what he needs. Just now the La Porte County Farm Bureau and other county farm bureaus of the State are en-

tors to sit down and talk things over with the spokesmen of the organized workers, in an effort to end a condition that harms employers and workers alike. The matter will not be ‘ allowed to end with a conference that accomplishes nothing. Labor is determined, and Congress unquestionably .will take a hand. The coal operators—including the giganticcompany controlled by the Jdellon interests—may discover it would have been better to attempt a solution of the strike within the industry than to have a solution forced upon them. A Difference of Opinion Is it possible that Agriculture Secretary Jardine failed to read President .Coolidge’s annual message to Congress ? This question arises as a result of a speech by Jardine before the Republican Club of New York, in which he said, in effect, that the President did not know what -he was talking about in that part of his message, in which he discussed the relation between farm prosperity and a high protective tariff. In his message to Congress, President Coolidge said, “Any material reduction in either (tariff rates on manufactures or agriculture) would be disastrous to the farmer. It would mean a general shrinkage of values, a deflation of prices, a reduction of wages, a general depression carrying our people down to the low standard of living in our competing countries.’' In his New York address Secretary Jardine said: “I have repeatedly pointed out that trustworthy statistics are not available to show the degree to which the advantages of the -tariff to agriculture are offset by disadvantagesr due to its direct or indirect effect on the prices of commodities bought by fanners. Opinions are many, at both extremes of the problem, but convincing evidence is scarce.” The President treated as an assured fact the prop- } osition that the present high protective tariff benefits the farmer and that any lowering of it would breed agrarian disaster. Jardine said nobody knows just how the protective tariff affects the farmers. Probably Jardine is right. Christmas in the Coal Felds A few miles separate the mansions of Pittsburgh’s coal barons and the clapboard shacks that house thousands of their workers. Yet in many ways they are worlds apart. Worlds apart, for instance, in the way they live. On the one hand, peace and plenty. On the other, cold, hunger and privation, endured for months, with no prospect of a change. It is not easy to realize, in this mo6t prosperous of holiday seasons, that the women and children of these ; miners do not have enough to eat, nor clothes to pro- j tect them from the cold of winter. It is difficult for us in our comfortable homes to picture these gray and desolate villages of the miners, with their flimsy bar- ; racks, cold and uncomfortable, with empty cupboards, and even in some instances without coal for heat. I It is difficult to imagine a woman without a warm I coat, children without stockings, babies without milk. Yet jail these things are. Miners and operators are worlds apart as well in understanding. The strike has endured for months, and the contendiing factions are farther apart than at the beginning. We can not mine coal and pay the ' wages you demand, the. operators say to their workers. We can not live on what you pay, the workers answer, and moreover you have violated the pay contract we signed in good faith. Here is a tragic situation that merits the study of the Nation’s leaders. 1 It is by no means anew situation, but it none-vthe-less clamors for solution. The conference called by Secretary of Labor Davis was a failure, as other conferences have been, largely because the big coal operators said they have nothing to talk about. It would seem that the coal industry, unable to settle its own problems, must have them fettled for it by the Government. / Mr. Day’s Curiosity - Defendants in the Sinclair-Bums contempt proceedings in the District of Columbia Supreme Court are contending it was not improper to have FallSinclair jurors shadowed. No “contact" was established with any Juror hearing the oil conspiracy charges, they insist, and hence no crime was committed. This may be true; Justice Siddons will decide. But now evidence of anew sort has been introduced. The Government, through testimony of several witnesses, has established that Henry Mason Day, vice president of the Sinclair Exploration Company, and trusted lieutenant of the oil magnate, personally conducted inquiries about a $4,000 mortgage on the home of Juror John P. Kern. Day, it was testified, had records searched by a real estate firm, and personally obtained the Information. It will be interesting to learn how Mr. Day discovered that such a mortgage existed. It will be still more interesting to hear his explanation of why he desired this information, and to what use he intended to put it. ______ _____ A professor has gone to Egypt to translate a medical manuscript of the seventeenth century before Christ. And suppose that should turn out to be only another lady telling about her operation! A college girl had 3,000 guests at her wedding. What’ll she do with all those candlesticks? Some people persist in paying rent and buying food, with not a single automobile in the family.

gaged in a drive for more members, a very laudable enterprise. Interest in the local organization is reported to be increasing in a marked degree and the farmer should feel pleased to know this. The farm bureau has praiseworthy aims—efficient production, better merchandising, higher standards of living, well-rounded cpmmunity life and equal opportunity for all. It has proved effective for the good of its members in the past and, we believe, wiil continue to do so. It should not be permitted to grow dormant.

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The name and address ot the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 300 words wIU receive preference. To the Editor: Now that the exclusion of Vare and Smith from\ the United State Senate is assured, the next step is to make certain that no such corruption of the ballot will occur again. We need to set by lav; a limit to the amount of money that can be spent in an election for a national office (Such as Senator or Congressman), and any candidate whose campaign expenses go beyond that limit should forfeit his election. To make that workable every candidate should be required to appoint an agent (and sub-agents if necessary), through whom alone all campaign expenses would be paid. Nobody else should be allowed to spend a cent, under severe penalties. In that way all the money would pass through the hands of one man, and tfffe total cost of any campaign could be actually known and effectively limited: But what should the limit be? Obviously, money enough to conduct a campaign in Nevada, with less than 100,000 people, or in Michigan, sbWi 4,000,000, would not get far in Fegnsylvanla with 10,000,000. Obviously, again, the limit must be fixed at so much per inhabitant or per voter and not at so much per State. The present limit set by Federal law is in fact no limitation at all, for it allows unlimited spending for printing, postage and most other items of campaign cost. The Pennsylvania committee of seventy-six, a non-partisan body, appointed to consider the whole problem of clean elections after certain frauds by the Vare machine became known, last year recommended for primary elections a limit for all expenditures of every legal sort equal to ten cents for each vote cast by the candidates party at the last general election for any office in the candidate's district.That would result in Pennsylvania, for example, on the basis of the election in which Vare ran, in a limit of SIIO,OOO in a primary campaign for the United States Senate. The same^ general principle of limitation, if not the same specific limit, can be applied, of course, to a general election as well as to a primary. The amount of the limit is very important. If the number of cents per voter is made too large, the purchase of emotions will not be prevented. If it is made too small, an independent candidate could seldom or ever win against an organized machine. Since it costs five cents to send one letter to one voter, the limit of ten cents would not appear to be unreasonably high. The punishment for exceeding the limit should be loss of the election. If any candidate (or his authorized agent), spends money beyond the legal limit, or for any purpose not allowed by law, his nomination or election should be void. The point is to make any candidate who cheats lose the office he cheated to get. If a Candidate is guilty of fraud or of conniving at fraud, in that case also he should ,lose the office he cheated to get. That will be a far better deterrent than merely putting some crooked minor election official in jail, desirable as that is also. Other things are necessary, such as requiring all contributions and expenditures larger than, say, $5.00 to be made by check; preventing a number of candidates running together as one ticket from spending more than one candidate running alone as one ticket; and complete publicity of campaign expenses. But' the main thing is to make buying or stealing elections unprofitable. A man who buys or steals votes to win an election should lose it even if he wins. A bill embodying the foregoing principles is in preparation and will shortly be introduced in Congress. If you care to do so, I would be glad to have you make any use you please of this letter on Monday, Dec. 19, or on any later day.. Sincerely yours, GIFFORD PINCHOT. 1 ”

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Euripides —The Woman Hater

IN a fragment remaining from Heracles the Euripidean protest rises again: "Say not there be adulterers in heaven, Nor prisoner gods and Jailers; long ago My heart hath named it vile and and shall not alter; Nor one god master nor another thrall. God, if he be God, lacketh naught. All these Are dead unhappy tales of minstrelsy.” And in another fragment complete negation gets the upper hand: “Doth someone say that there be gods above? There are not; rib there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words No undue credence; for I say that kings Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those Who live calm, pious lives day after day. How many little states that serve the gods Are subject to the godless but more strong. Made slaves by might of a superior army.” He laughs bitterly at the Katana, the inevitable Justice, that comforted Aeschylus:— “These words that thou wilt praise, The Equal and the Just—in all men’s ways I have not found them! These be names, not things.” The good are not rewarded in his plays; everybody suffers; and nearly all his dramas end in a brooding despair, a fatalism without hope:— "Great treasure halls hath Zeus in heaven, From whence to man strange dooms be given, Past hope or fear. And the end men looked for cometh not, And a path there is where fio man • thought: So hath it fallen here." a m a THE LAST PLAY ■JXEHIND this growing darkness of .D the later plays lay domestic tragedy and the advancing terror of .the war. His countrymen spoke of Euripides as a morose and solitary sceptic; his friends observed that “even at his wine he was not gay.” Study the’bust of him in the British Museum; it is a noble face, but furrowed with doubt and suffering. Os him at least Ecceleslastes’ bitter words came true:—“ln much wisdom Is much grief; and he that lncreaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” ' He had poor luck with marriage, for marriage was not madei for geniuses. Hume writes, a little unreliably:—“l have somewhere read that the republic of Athens, having lost many of its citizens by war and pestilence, allowed every man to marry two wives, in order the sooner to repair the waste which had been made by these calamities. The poet Euripides happened to be coupled to noisy vixens, who so plagued him with their jealousies and quarrels that he became ever after a professed woman-hater.” The number “Two” is an unnecessary exaggeration; polygamy is not indispensable to marital happiness. Story also has it that his wife, after living with him fifty years, became his enemy, and Joined the erowd that thought Euripides should be ashamed to be right when his country was wrong. In one of his plays Euripides, predicting failure, had pleaded against sending an Athenian fleet to sttack the city of Syracuse; the fleet had gone nevertheless and had suffered complete catastrophe. Nothing is so perilous for a prophet of ill as the fulfillment of his prophecy; the event proves his complicity. So - the greatest of ancient dramatists, bent with the weight of three-score years and twelve, went into voluntary exile to spend his last days at the court of Archelaus,- King of Macedon.

THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION

Written for The Times by Will Durant

The king knew that his country was barbarous, and, like Frederick with Voltaire, resolved to import enlightenment. There, sheltered and weary, but still a supreme artist. Euripides “broke his staff and drowned his book with a play as beautiful as any, and perhaps the best of all. Here in the Bacchae (Bacchantes, i, e., women whirling in the sacred dance of Dionysus) Nietzsche and Pater found what they thought was Euripides’ apology to the gods of Greece. And it would seem so; for with a magic marvellous in seventy years, the spirit of the wild Dionysian cult is so sympathetically dramatized that our first feelings are all against Penthus, youthful king of Thebes, who tries puritanically to put an end to the Bacchanals. But gradually it appears that it is not these wild revels which offend the young King, iv. is the cruel superst tions mingled with the cult, the growth of a sterile otherworldliness, and the rise of a corrupt and ignorant priesthood:— " ’Tis thou must set Another altar and another yet Amongst us, watch new birds, and win more hire Os gold, interpreting new signs of fire! Gradually the mood of the play veers from reverence to a ruthless exposure of superstition and pious violence. No god of joy this fellow Dionysus, but as jealous of praise and worship as a popular author. His worshipers dance themselves into ecstasy, led by Agave, mother of Pentheus; and when Pentheus, disguised so that they do not recognize him, is caught by them watching their dance, they tear him limb from limb, led by Agave. When the mother comes to her senses and sees the head which she holds in her bloody hands is that of her own son, she is revolted with the cult that has so crazed her and cries out: “Dionysus, we beseech thee! We have sinned!” But Dionysus answers, harshly: “Ye mocked me, being God; th.s is your wage.”

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And Agave wonders with Euripides: v “Should God be like a proud man in his rage?” The last lesson is the same as the first. In the same year in which the “Bacchae” was written Euripides died. As in the case of Aeschylus, legend plays about his death; he was torn to pieces, one story has it, by the dogs of rival poets; he was killed by women, says another, on the way to an assignation. Let us choose the latter tale, for it is a great honor to have assignations at seventy-four. IN the following year his son produced the “Bacchae” at Athens and it won first prize. The Athenians repented now of their treatment of him; they asked Archelaus for his remains, but Archelaus refused, and buried the poet with great pomp. v This insult to Athens intensified its admiration for Euripides, and all enemies become admirable when they "f- dead. Cr._ .& became unanimous in placing him above Aeschylus and Sophocles; Plato and Aristotle preferred him in their quotations from the dramatists: his plays became for the Greek and the Roman text books of tragic art. He became the idol of young rebels and freethinkers; Lucian tefis how the youth of Abdera would declaim in the streets the famous odes from the “Andromeda":— “Love, monarch over gods and men;” and one historian attributes the release of some Athenians captu ed in war to the fact that they ha l charmed their captors by recit ng Euripides. Philemon, a later dramatist, gave the finest testimony of all. "If I were certain that the dead had consciousness,” he said, “I would hang myself to see Euripides.” But it is not certain; let us live. (Copyright, 1927. by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

off very carefully. After the dog seems quite dry let him run about the house for a time. Do not take him out except in the summertime, and even then do not take toy dogs out. Cocoanut and olive oil and vaseline may be rubbed on a dog an hour or so before giving his bath. It improves the gloss of the coat. How did America get its name? From Americus Vespucius, who touched the South American coast somewhere near Surinam in 1499. The name was first used in 1509 and appeared on a map made in Frankfort, Germany, in 1520. Who are the makers of RollsRoyce automobiles and what price are they? They are made by the RollsRoyce of America, Inc., Springfield, Mass., and sell for $13,000 up. How should anew electric waffle Iron be treated to prevent sticking? Grease the new iron and allow it to get very hot. Then wipe the grease off thoroughly and the waffles will not stick. What are the distinguishing characteristics of a bridge, a viaduct and an aqueduct? A bridge is a structure erected across a waterway, ravine, road or the like, serving for the passage of persons, animals, or vehicles or as a means of support and transition, as for a water main. A viaduct is a bridge-like structure, especially a large one of arched masonry, to carry a roadway or the like over a valley or ravine or across another roadway. An aqueduct is ordinarly of masonry, arched over and sometimes forms a foot bridge. They are frequently carried across wide valleys and streams or through tunnels. Is the marking of “excellent” on an Army discharge better than the marking “very good”? Yes.

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m. e. TRAC a SAYS: M “Man to a Measurtm l Extent Has Become U Prey of His Own ~ vices; No Terror jM'3 Ever Stalked the Could Crush Him V Easily as Can Many ■ His Own Creationo.”

Charles M. Schwab says lv would like to live twenty yearfn longer to see what progress will reveal. This is an age that makes everybody feel that way. Life was never so interesting before because it never included so much change, improvement and innovation. For the first time in history, men are really digging into the secrets of nature, really getting results that mean something of value to average people. Big things have been done in the past, but mostly they were for the few. Mostly they never touched the lives of the multitude. This age is distinctive, not so much because of its wonderful inventions and discoveries as because they make existence more comfortable for the great majority. Progress Demands Blood The path of progress is not one of unadulterated pleasure. If it causes the world to shrink, as we are forever remarking, it also causes man to shrink. In the good old primitive days, man was comparatively able to take care of himself alone. That is no longer true. To a measurable extent he has become the prey of his own devices. No terror that ever stalked the jungle could crush him so easily as can many of his own creations. Machinery takes more lives in this country each year than do poisonous snakes in India. Progress, like the ancient gods man worshipped, demands its blood sacrifice. a 'Sub' Rammed; Sinks With the whole Atlantic Ocean to play around in, or even such a small part of it as Cape Cod Bay, it seems as though a submarine should be sailed low enough to pass under ships or high enough to see where they are when out for no more serious purpose than to test its machinery. If such precautions are insufficient, it seems as though the Navy Department would recognize the wisdom of designating certain areas and times for submarine maneuvers on which other craft would not be allowed to trespass. u a tt System in Faulty Thirty-nine men go to the bottom of the sea in broad daylight. There is no congestion, ino bad weather anil no pecularily difficult paths to excuse the tragedy. The men on either ship has no reason to suppose that the other was near at hand. The submarine’s tender was not there to disclose her presence or indicate her presence or indicate her course. Five minutes before, all was serene: five minutes afterward, all was bleak with horror. The chances are that those two ships could not have struck each other with such annihilating directness if they hid tried. Such disasters belong to a faulty system, rather than to personal carelessness. u tt tt Result of War Rivalry One cannot think of that shattered hulk lying at the bottom of the ocean, of the tappings which ' are said to come from the inside, of the slow death which probably awaits the occupants who still survive, without visualizing it as still another reason for limiting naval armaments. This is the third terrific submarine disaster we have had within a few years, and they seem an inescapable accompaniment of that rivalry which is necessary to build the biggest and best navy. tt tt tt Romantic Kidnaping The death of Allen M. Stone recalls one of the most romantic kiqnapings that ever occurred. Though taken in the Turkish mountains, her captor was the redoubtable Bulgarian, Sandansky, who sought to accomplish two ends—embarrass yurkish rr’-r-r-. merit and get money fer A: crowd. He got $66 000, which was not so bad. considering the easy time he had, but he did no injury to Miss Stone. Indeed, he was more afraid of her than she was of him and tried nothing so ardently after the first day of her captivity as to keep away fiom her sharp reproaches. Fiend Murders Child In sharp contrast to Miss Stone’s experience comes news of that a vful affair In Los Angeles. A little girl of 12 is lured Into an ' automobile by being told that her father has been hurt in an accident. Her parents receive .letters, telegrams and telephoen communications calling on them to leave $1,500 in this or that place, the time and circumstances of delivery being changed every few hours. Finally a meeting is arranged. The distracted father meets a man and hands over the money while his daughter apparently sits in a nearby automobile. She is asleep, he is told, and- will be laid on the grass a little way down the street when the transaction is completed. The father waits, as he has beeii ordered. When the car speeds away, he rushes up only to find the little girl on the grass has been foully murdered. Sandusky, the Balkan bandits, appears quite a gentleman, beside this lates edition of the American thug. ■ ~