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Remus Names It George Remus, sometimes styled the king of the bootleggers, shot his wife to death on Oct. 6. For five weeks a jury in. Cincinnati listened to his trial on the charge of murder. It was a combination vaudeville show and trial, judging from the telegraphic accounts.. Yesterday the jury returned a verdict of not guilty—on the ground that the bootleg king was insane when he killed his wife. Remus, confident of acquittal all along, arose in the court room and beamed. “That,” he said, “is American justice. And I thank you, one and all.” Remus appears to have said all there is to say. That does seem to be American j ustice —sometimes. If he now proceeds to convince the probate court that he is no longer insane and is turned loose, that, presumably, will still be Ameriican justice. / The New Tax Bill The lower House,did a creditable job with the • tax bill it has just passed. Because of the very wide margin of error in revenue estimates during recent years, the fact that taxes were slashed 565.000.000 more than the safety limit of $225,000,000 set by the Treasury is less important than the kind of cuts made. These, generally speaking, were of the type designed to give some benefit to the average citizen, rather than the favored few. Os the total cut of about $290,000,000 approved ■ by the House, approximately $200,000,000 goes to corporations. The only other major is that of $66,000,000 by repeal of the three per cent excise tax on automobiles. Although no man alive is competent to explain 'the extent to which corporations and sales taxes are shifted to consumers, there is at least a chance that the great body of consumers in the country will benefit from lowering the corporation tax and eliminating the auto sales tax. That is not true, for example, of the Federal inheritance tax, which the House voted overwhelmingly to keep on the statute books. It only affects those who have estates above SIOO,OOO, and is of scarcely any importance until estates aggregate over $500,000. The House bill also carries a very important provision, eliminating the right of affiliated corporations to file separate tax returns. That means that profits and losses can not be jockeyed back and forth between affiliated companies in such a way as to defeat tax collections. Its rigid enforcement would increase Federal revenues by many millions. The Senate still has its fling at tax reduction. If it follows the House program the country’s sacrifice to political, expediency in the form of preele6tion tax reduction will be relatively harmless. Their War Now Begins A long time ago it was said that the Bourbons never forget and never learn. Were it not so our Bourbons would have learned that it is poor policy—from their point of view—to arrest and harass the "intelligentsia.” Witness this Boston affair. A poet, a playwright, and a novelist were among those who. peaceably protested on the Boston streets against the proposed execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Along with other persons indulging in what they regarded as their Constitutional rights, they were arrested for "sauntering and loitering.” They were tried before a police magistrate and found guilty. They were tried before a court of record, before an unfriendly judge, but a normal jury, and found not guilty. But the story does not end there. The "intelligentsia” are armed with words. Buckel said;/ "The proper answer to words is words; never force.” But how about the proper answer to force being words? The poet arrested, Edpa St. Vincent Millay, lias hurled a flaming shaft of words. In the Nov. 0 number of the Outlook magazine she has done a bit of writing which, quite regardless of the subject, is so remarkable as to challenge the attention of the reading world. Dos Passos, the novelist, has gathered material for fiction. His impressions of courts are not flattering. - "I'd rather spend a week in jail than a day in a Boston court room,” he says. "In spite of an excellent speech by Arthur G. Hayes and an extremely comic outburst by District Attorney Doyle, who was like all the district attorneys in crook melodramas, the trial lasted too long to be a good show.” And without doubt there are other charges in the guns of the long-haired boys and short-haired girls. Bourbons are apt to be books. The Standard Family All this talk of prosperity, it seems now, is merely so much uneconomic prattling of what is really only a relative prosperity. Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale has stepped to the rostrum and kindly showed that the magician, didn’t take the rabbit from the hat at all, and that all this magic we’ve been watching is mere sleight of hand. The prfoessor does it this way. Take a standard family. That is the only real unit by which we can measure prosperity—by comparing the cost of living for such a family with its income. All right, take a standard family of five. Professor Fisher discovers that the income of this group is $2,300 a year. Not $2,299 or $2,301, but $2,300 a year. "Such an income would be little more than enough to buy the minimum requirements of an average family of five among Industrial or office workers in NV York City,” Professor Fisher says. There you are, as easy as pie. Just find our standard family, that’s all you have to do. But we have yet to see tire standard family. Like the mythical All-Ameriican football eleven, it Just isn’t. Hunt New York City and Washington Courthouse, Ohio, from attic to basement, and if you find a family such as Professor Fisher sets up, you are just the man to tell us where the Golden Fleece Is located. Let us be thankful for science anyway. It keeps us amused.
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Smith and Vare It’s easx enough to work up a lovely theoretical argument *n favor of admitting Smith and Vare to the United States Senate on the credentials from their respective States and firing them afterward. The trouble with the theory is that it won’t work. They can be kept out by a majority vote—as they were. But if they had been let in It would have taken a two-thirds vote to kick them out—and the two-thirds vote wasn’t there. Smith and Vare would have kept their seats in the Senate. So the Senate majority played safe and slammed the front door in the hard-boiled faces of Smith and Vare. And the theory that a State can elect any kind of Senator she wants to may hold so far as the State is concerned, but it goes into the ashcan so far as the Senate is concerned. No matter how much the theory of a State’s rights in this matter may be sustained by argument, the net result Is that the Senate has established a precedent which may put a stop to buying senatorial seats—and that’s a good ( thing for Uncle Sam and democratic government . Spying On Homes There was a time when the average citizen had a wholesome respect for the United States Government, and wheq. dignity attached to the exercise of Federal authority. This condition unhappily has changed, and many now visualize Uncle Sam as a sneak and a bully. The manner in which the prohibition law has been enforced Is primarily responsible. Those charged with administering this measure not only have ignored private rights supposedly guaranteed by the Constitution, but have employed methods which violate common decency. Witness the announcement that meter readers of the Blackstohe Valley Gas Electric Company, serving 100,000 customers in and around Pawtucket, R. I„ have been ordered to report all stills and other evidences of liquor law violation they may find while in the homes ofi their company’s customers. This was done at the request of John S. Murray,, United States district attorney for Rhode Island. Dispatches say he intends to request similar co-operation from other utility companies in the State. We predict that the meter readers will report few violations of the dry laws. They probably will resent the attempt of tne Government to turn them into spies. The Walsh Resolution Senator Walsh of Montana intends to push his resolution for an investigation of public utilities, despite the setback of Monday, when the Senate voted to send the resolution to the Interstate Commerce committee. . This is good news, and an examination of committee personnel indicates Walsh may force a favorable report at the hearing set for Jan. 16. Walsh proposes an investigation of utilities mergers, their financing, and the propaganda they have been circulating.. He charges control of utilities is gradually being concentrated in the hands of a few persons, that values are being inflated through financing methods, and that the utilities are banded together to influence Congress and the public against proper supervision and regulation of their operations. Certainly the question is one which merits full examination in behalf of the public. The best place for this to be done is by a committee of the United States Senate. The day is gone when a Senate inquiry can be regarded as an attempt at muckraking, or when politicians can quietly ingnore unpleasant facts affecting the welfare of the nation. The vote in the Senate on the Walsh resolution was not along party lines. Thirteen Democrats voted against Walsh, twelve Republicans, Progressives all, voted with Walsh, as did the single Farmer-Labor member. The really interesting thing about the ballot, however, was the fact that five Democrats and one Republican, who had earlier answered roll call, were absent when the vote was taken. Lady Astor, Right and Wrong Lady Astor, American-born member of the British Parliament, has some interesting things to say about war. When she' say3 men have failed to stop war, none can dispute her. But when she declares that only women’s influence can end war, we are a little inclined to wonder if she isn’t a mite wrong. Granted that all the women of the world wanted to end war, we still would be* skeptical about Mars' demise. There are so many differences in the world that must be faced, and these differences burst forth so suddenly and with such heat, between peoples who seem naturally opposed, that we must retain a doubt that even the women could smile them down. Lady Astor must know, of course, that humanly, men and women are pretty much alike. She must know that all women do not love one another any more than all men share only fine affection for all their brothers. There are dislikes; it seems they simply cannot be avoided, and while this human factor persists, Mars is going to keep his armor shiny. We have a lingering suspicion that maybe back in the dim, dead past somewhere some woman actually caused a war. Maybe some historian will bear us out in this. Within memory, it is easy to recall pictures of Russian women in the trenches. Perhaps they were only fighting to end war, but they were undisputably at war. We do not think women will end war. We do not think war ever will vanish from the world. Os course, its nice to try to stop it, and to that extent we appreciate Lady Astor’s efforts. General ludendorff blames Jesuits, Jews and Masons for Germany’s defeat in the World War. And here we had thought all the time it was the military police 1 When we saw the headline, “Wife Slain at Piano, Mate Held,” we telephoned home, but the good wife told us it couldn't be true, for the lady next door was playing that same piece this minute. Sane or no, George Remus stayed off the witness stand. Which goes to show he wasn't so very crazy. The year has seen quite a little flying by the 1 women—both away from their husbands and at them.
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(ShelbyvHle Republican) (Republican) Once more D. C. Stephenson was brought from the Michigan City prison to tell "it all to the Marion County grand Jury.” The story is that he was before that tribunal for four hours; that he had no documentary evidence; that he did r.ot tell anything new or that would incriminate any one. Only a few days ago Attorney General Gilliom, in a legal document, referred to Stephenson as a “skunk.” Gilliom should know what he is talking about. What Stephenson wants is "to get out of prison, and he is finding no welcome voice or hoping band. Three times he has been before Marion County grand Juries to give evidence as to political corruption in Indiana. He is pretty much of a scarecrow, that and nothing more. The thing to do with Stephenson is to make him obey the prison rules just as the humblest of the humble prisoners must obey them. He should at least be made to know that he Is not the boss of the State Prison. He has Impeached himself, hence is not worthy of belief. (Ft. Wayne Journtl-Geiette) (Republican) An Indianapolis church, taking offense from Attorney General Gilliam’s action against Dr. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, calls the , sentence imposed on Dr. Shumaker I "unjust and uncalled for.” How about the sentences imposed upon men who keep a little whisky in their homes to meet the possible emergencies of serious illness? Indiana’s present "unjust and uncalled for” prohibition law makes it a felony to obtain or possess a few drops of anything containing more than one-half of 1 per cent of ethyl alcohol. We suggest that these Chirstian congregations who are willing to rise up and protest injustices give attention to the injustices inherently resident in certain Indiana statutes before rushing to the defense of men convicted of contempt of the highest tribunal in the State.
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The Rules 1. The idea of letter golf is to change one word to another and do jt 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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1. When, and only when, Is the wording “may I present” used in introductions? 2. Is “pleased to meet you” ever a proper acknowledgement of an introduction? 3. How does one acknowledge an introduction? The Answers 1. Only to royalty do presentations take place. 2. Never. 3. Nod, smile, shake hands and just say about any polite thing, such as “How do you do.” Who played the part of Will Banion in the picture “The Covered Wagon” and who played opposite him? J. Warren Kerrigan ployed the part of Will Banion and Lois Wilson appeared opposite in the role of Molly Wingate. Who were the three leading players in “Oliver Twist”? Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney and Gladys Brockwell. Why do gasoline tank wagons have chains dragging along the ground? i " \ It is a safety device. Vibration and friction generate static electricity in the wagon, and unless that is carried off and grounded, a spark might be' discharged across a gap of gas vapor and blow up the truck.
Stone Robes That ‘'Move in the Wind ’
AS you stand before it (the Parthenon) the first impression is ona of desolation. Under your feet crackle and glisten fragments of marble that once were part of the temple. You take a chip in your hand and examine it; it is of sparkling white and comes from Mount Petenlicus, where you may still see the quarries and runways that provided the marble for the Parthenon. Then that impression of ruin passes for a while, and the combined simplicity and power of the edifice envelopes you. This is no mere beauty, as the Alhambra has beauty, or the Taj Mahal; it is grandeur, sublimity, the masculine majesty of mountains or the sea. Nothing could be less pretentious or more impressive; these unadorned Doric columns, this simple triangular pediment, this plain rectangular design—here are no frills of any kind, no bizarre embellishment of details, no Yomantic dominance of any part over the whole. For its greatness is in its entirety rather than in its parts. It was so placed that one might fcee it all at a glance; it is not suffocated by its surroundings, as are so many cathedrals of the Gothic age; it is not buried in a chaos of dwellings, work shops and stores, invisible except in details; it stands on the city’s peak (Acropolis), with nothing between it and the sun, its golden pillars visible even from the Aegean. You mount the broken stepa (or "stereobate”) to where the columns rise from the topmost step (or "stylobate”). Note the curvative of this stylobate; see how it slopes slightly downward at either end. It is but one instance of Ictinus’ antipathy to straight lines; everywhere in the Parthenon, as in the space of Einstein's physics, straight lines are curved. All horizontal lines are perceptibly convex, all vertical lines incline a little toward the center, all corner lines toward the diagonal. These architects knew life and love and man’s instinctive preference for curved lines; by avoiding mechanical monotony they gave vitality and freedom to dead stone, and mitigated the austerity without losing the sublimity of the Doric style. For this style, as its name reveals, had come from spa.ta, as cold and hard as marble itself; Jts glory lay in its strength, but ’ it needed a touch of gentleness to give it beauty. M 0 tt OBSERVE that the columns In this Doric style have no base; they rise immediately from the plinth (or supporting stone) in graceful, "fluted” shafts not smoothly round, but indented with graceful grooves.
They narrow slightly in a gradual ‘entasis” (or inward leaning) at the top, not merely because this is more pleasing to the eye, nor only because a column broader at its base than at its summit gives a comforting impression of stability, but because. presumably, the temples were of wood and the first columns were tapering trees. Each is crowned at the top with a curved “necking.” a round "echinus” and a square "abacus,” all three uniting to form the “capital.” Across the capitals runs thre "architrave,” or main beam, indicating again the timper origin of the Doric style. Over the architrave In the outer ‘frieze” (Fr. frise, a ruff), alternately of "triglyphs” (three carved vertical lines), where were originally the ends of beams, and “metopes” (ope, hollow, and meta, between), here adorned with powerful reliefs. These metopes, numbering ninetytwo, ran entirely around the Parthenon and told the bat baric tale of how the Lapiths waged their legendary war against the centaurs —a strange blend of animals and men. Above the frieze is the slim triangle formed by the western end of the roof, constituting one of those two “pediments,” which are the supreme glory of the Parthenon. They have been cruelly mutilated by time and war and thievery; all the heads save ene are gone; and yet the sculptor Canova said of the surviving torsos:( “All other statues
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■ Written for The Times by Will Durant
are of stone, these are of flesh and blood.” In the comers, fitted into the narrowing space, are the heads ol horses representing the sun and moon—nostrils snorting and eyes flashing in action livelier than life. Toward the center rise the majestic bodies of decapitated gods. The nude figures are magnificent, with all the power and none of the contortions of Michaelangelo’s giants; and the clothed figures are as perfect in drapery as the drawings of Leonardo. Nothing in sculpture surpasses these robes of flowing stone; even in the cold of the British museum they almost move in the wind. Pass now within the outer colonnade, which runs around the building; in just such porticos as this the pholosophers of Greece founa hrade for their discourse. Before you is another row of columns, as strong and stately as the first. Behind them is the western wall of the temple itself, surviving only in portions; here are the wounds left in the marble by the cannon shot which the Venetian gunners aimed so well. You look aloft to find that inner frieze which Pheldias carved round the top of the temple wall; here the artist placed his noblest statuary, too high to be comfortably seen by men, but, as Pheidias said, quite visible to the gods. Alas, the sculptures are not there; the wise and villainous Lord Elgin carted them away a hundred years ago. It was high-handed robbery; but if he had left them where they were they would by this time, with earthquake and neglect, have fallen into a thousand ruins. Now they form the greatest treasure of the British Museum, as carefully preserved as English air and damp can keep them. * # THE famous frieze ran for 525 feet along the wall, and pictured the procession of Athenian maidens and youths bearing homage and offerings to Athene on the festival day of the Panathenaic games. The most renowned of the panels shows two horsemen riding chargers whose beauty and spirit outshine even the comely nobility of the young cavaliers. Another fragment (in the Louvre) shows a group of women, perfect in loveliness and grace, carrying a veil to the goddess. Near that fragment, in the Salle Grecque of the Louvre, is a marvelous head, detached from the same frieze, still bearing some of its original color, and even In its ruins indescribably delicate in conception and execution. On either side of the temple sacrificial animals moved immovably on the frieze, with philosophic resignation, toward the gods who adorned the eastern wall. There sat Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis. Athene and other deities, magnificent in figure, clear of eye and divinely calm. This is the characteristic repose of classic statuary at its best; the fundamental principle of the grand style, said Wincklemann, "was to represent the countenances and attitudes of the gods and heroes as free from emotion and not agitated by inward perturbations, in an equilibrium of feeling and with a peaceful, always even, state of mind.” Os what use would it be to be a god if one could not be calm? Now enters the naos, or inner temple. Only the marble floor remains, desolate and bare. Near the center rose Pheidias’ great statue of Athene Parthenos, thirty-mine feet high, carved and cast in ivory and previous metal and so placed that the morning sun, streaming through the eastern portal, bathed her golden head. Above, a magnificent ceiling ran, and on every side, along the walls, a double colonnade. Here the people came to worship the patron deity of Athens; and here poets, artists and philosophers came to worship beauty and doubt the gods. Here was the center and summit of a great city’p spiritual life. Now let us walk a little away from
it, back toward the Propylaea through which we came. Turn and give it 6 parting look and see it as a whole. It is not large; many Gothic cathedrals, as at Milan and Seville, are larger; St. Peter’s is twice as large, and the Parthenon would have been lost in the vast temple of Kamak. But the Greeks sought perfection rather than magnificence; Pericles phrased their ideal in three words when he said, "Philokaloumen met’ euteleais” ("We love beauty without extravagance”). The men of Athens idolized moderation because they were not moderate, except in art; they scorned excess and inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphia their aspiration:— "Meden agan’’ (nothing too much). When our own art and taste become fantastic and bizarre, anxious for novelty rather than for perfection, let us go back to the Acropolis and look again on the Parthenon. (Copyilght, 1827. by Will Durant.) (To Be Continued)
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M. E\ TRACY SAYS: “We Can Become a Straight-out Imperialist Nation or Sit at a Council Table With Our Neighbors; Unless We Prefer to Perish by Slow, Internal Decay, There Is No Other Alternative.
Speaking from the pulpit of St. Paul’s in New York, and looking at the pew once occupied by George Washington, the Right Rev. Fred L. Dean, Lord Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, said that God had placed the destiny of the human race in the hands of the United States. “The God of Destiny has made you the greatest nation on earth,” he declared, "the greatest nation in point of wealth. DQWfit human representation. Y" not escape from world power it you would.” * n Halt Exploitation In elaborating this idea, he said that there is more to be learned than hatred of communism or dread of what is now going on in Russia. “None of those abominations would have taken place if the rulers of that great land had lived in service to their fellow men instead of service to the flesh. "You in the United States,” he said, “have watched the British Empire. The British Empire could not exist today by the methods of other empires, nor by domineering, autocratic ways. The racial discontent, spirit of. exploitation, national domination and self-seeking must go, or the British Empire will go.” n * Alter Human Ideals It is a matter of pride for us Americans to picture the United States as standing in the foreground of human affairs, but we blind ourselves to the responsibilities it involves when we fail to consider the background. The same forces of civilization that created this Republic have wrought profound changes not only in the relation of governir -nts to their people, but in their relation to each other. The same discoveries, inventions and developments which have converted a savage, untamed wilderness into) the most powerful nation on earth within the space of three centuries have altered human ideas and ideals.
u tt a Nature Demands Progress If the British Empire cannot survive by pursuing the policies of other days—policies which put it in possession of a third of the world and in control of a fourth of the human race—it naturally follows that our country cannot play the part fate has decreed by clinging to an attitude which it was compelled to adopt for selfpreservation when the world regarded it as a doubtful experiment. Nations are like men. When they grow up, they are expected to assume the burdens that go with maturity, if they fail, they are pushed aside. Nature insists on progress. No individual, no institution and no country can stand still without going to pieces. tt tt tt Strength Is Challenge The United States represents the largest single group of intelligent people in existence. This group has produced the greatest industrial structure, the greatest aggregate of wealth, the most .powerful influence in world trade. Whether we like it or not, we must meet the challenge which goes with such strength. What we ought to do and what we must do has ceased to be a matter of our own choosing. From now on the expectation and demands of other people will have an important ( effect in determining our course. This point was made plain ten years ago when we were dragged into an European war in spite of ourselves. tt u World Obligations We face the alternative which confronts all nations that dare to grow great—the acceptance of those obligations which go with power, or death from internal rot. The only hope of the United States consists in living up to that world leadership which fate has thrust upon her. This again involves another alternative. tt Facing Internal Decay To put it bluntly, we can become a straight-out imperialist nation. or sit at a council table with our neighbors. One hundred years ago there would have been no choice except imperialism because the world had been trained to regard imperialism as the destiny of great nations. ‘ t >t a a ’ j New, Better Vision Thanks to those processes of J enlightenment which produced this J age, and especially this republic, I we have anew and better vision, 1 though whether we have the cour- I age to follow It is still a uoubt-1 ful question. We have seen how trade has knit® humanity into a common mass,® and how this calls for a widened® area of law and order. The issue involved is whether® law and order shall come through® arbitrary rule by those who have® the power, or through a system! of cooperation; whether the United I States shall employ her leader- J ship to introduce the democratic! principle into international affairß or fall back on the philosophy o® Rome and Great Britain H This is the biggest issue we faccH