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It Is a Happy Christmas •' Speaking civically, this is a truly HAPPY Christmas. For the spirit of the city is filled with hope and confidence and faith. There is confidence because the citizens who can recall the events and the conditions of a year ago know that the foundations of the city and the public conscience remain true and firm. There is faith because the city arpir its citizens have proved that they are worthy of faith. There is hope because the forces of hate have faded and there is anew spirit and anew courage. It is but one year and a day since the people of this city read with dismay and discouragement the report of a grand jury which invited suspicion of its own activities by declaring, apologetically, that owing to conditions existing within that body, which is the final guardian and protector of law and order, the report made was the only one possible, but that there was need of further inquiry. That jury had probed for months. But the efforts of its sincere and lionest members, and there were some sincere men on that jury, had been mysteriously blocked. Those who were under suspicion were apparently better informed as to what was happening than was the public. The race with the statute df limitations was a losing one for the people. Witnesses disappeared when sought. The forces of evil seemed to have a strange and peculiar grip upon the direction of affairs and the men who battled for the people were baffled. The forces of bigotry and intolerance were seemingly triumphant and the political machine which came into control through them had supplanted orderly government. The people seemed shackled. It is different now. There is no need to review the events of the year and a day. But things have happened which showed that right does triumph and that truth is ever the victor. It was all so simple, after all. All that was required was that outstanding men of character and intelligence gave their services to a community. It was a sacrifice for these men to leave their business and their work and give themselves to the public duty of acting as grand jurors. But just as such men have always appeared in every crisis, the present members of the grand jury came to this service for Indiana and Indianapolis. They came because there had been a revival of conscience in citizenship. That was the deeply wrapped gift of that first grand jury, a gift so covered with the veils of doubts and suspicion that it was hidden at the time. No longer will it be possible, after the fine example of these men, for any citizen to refuse to give his time and his talents to the public service. Never again will the patriotic citizen find himself too busy in his own affairs to answer the call of duty. It is a happy Christmas—so different from that of a year ago. It is happy because this city and this State have had the great gift of vision and of revived conscience and anew baptism of patriotism. Mr. Capone, Philospher Mr. Alphonse Capone, otherwise known as 3carface Al, leader in Chicago’s gangland, would hardly be suspected of being a philosopher. Mr. Capone, it will be recalled, tried to take a vacation from his labors of gun-flghting and distributing beer and whisky in Chicago, and was promptly bundled on a train and returned to Illinois by Los Angeles authorities. Joliet officials grabbed him and threw him in jail before he could get home. Released after being booked on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, Mr. Capone announced he will resume his travels. He is tired of playing hide and seek with the police, he said, and wants to walk down the street unmolested. Discussing his plans, the king of the underworld delivered himself of this observation: "You can’t cure thirst by law. They call Al Capone a bootlegger. Yes, it’s bootleg while it’s on the trucks, but when your host at the club, in the locker room, or on the gold coast, hands it to you on a silver salver, it’s hospitality.” Al may be right or wrong. His observations are at least an interesting contribution to the controversy over that much-discussed law.

WMM Judicial Despotism and Labor “Jt has long been my opinion, and I have never shrunk for its expression, that the germ of dissolution of our Federal Government is the Judiciary—that irresponsible body working like gravity, by day and by night, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped.” This was Thomas Jefferson’s view a century ago on the encroachment of the judiciary upon the sovereignty of the people. Jefferson knew the power of the.' courts, but he probably never dreamed of a day when the courts would develop such a weapon as the injunction has come to be. Th evidence is ample. Witness the injunctions granted by judges in nearly every big labor dispute, constantly widening in their scope. Acts that orig-

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inarily are lawful are outlawed by the issuance of a restraining order when a labor dispute is in progress. Violation of this order constitutes contempt of court, punishable by fine or imprisonment. The injunction supposedly is an emergency legal instrument designed for the protection of property where no immediate or adequate relief exists in law. It certainly was never intended to be used to deprive men of the guarantees in the bill of Fights. It is strange that a government which recognizes the right of labor to organize should employ its Judicial powers to enjoin activities that make such organization effective. If there is real violation of law or destruction of property, there are laws under which offenses can be punished. The Sherman anti-trust law was never intended by Congress to apply to labor organizations, but the courts have often used it with this effect, they have usurped the power of the legislative branch, and by these interpretations and constructions made increasingly drastic laws of their own in the same direction. Hope to curb this growing abuse of power by the judiciary progressive Senators are soon to seek legislative relief in Congress. Judicial despotism is as foreign to the American theory of government as royal despotism, and the quicker this condition is remedied the sooner we will return to the Ideals of those who brought the nation into being. Is Our Army Unprepared? Startling is mild when used w an adjective to describe Secretary of War Davis’ report to President Coolidge bearing on the Army’s unpreparedness for war. The richest and most envied of all nations, were we suddenly called upon to defend ourselves on the battlefield we’d run out of ammunition in an hour, granted that we could put a million men in the field on short notice. And a million men are not many in this day and time. We sent two million to Prance. And then what would happen—after we ram out of war materials? It would take ten months even to begin producing field guns; fourteen months to begin producing sufficient ammunition to supply them and at least a year and a half before we could keep abreast of the needs of the armies generally. In that time we would be licked to a frazzle If the enemy was a first class fighting power, just as Spain would have licked us in 1898 and Germany in 1917 but for circumstances which, in every day language, may well be described as luck. A national defense dependent upon which way the dice roll is better, perhaps, than no defense at all, but why always trust to chance? Evidently Secretary Davis feels that way about it, for he has suggested that the President appoint a board of nine nationally knowrt men to make a survey of the situation and evolve a practical plan of national preparedness. Obviously something of the kind is imperative. And this newspaper is for it strong, providing the right kind of men are selected. Merely turning out more war material L? not going to solve the problem. It is far more complex than that. It Involves a coordination of all the units of national defense—the Navy, the air forces and the Nation’s industrial and economic resources as well as the Army itself. The Army is just one phase of the problem. To be of service a board would have to weigh all the facts bearing upon the national defense. There is no important land force in the western hemisphere capable, unaided, of invading the United States. The world’s great armies are all overseas. This means our Navy and its aerial arm Is our first line of defense. An air force for duty along our coast is our second line. Third, we must have a small but up-to-the-.minute organized reserve. Fourth, behind the Army and Navy and the air forces we must have an organized industry. Our mills and factories must be so organized that at a code word from the President instant quantity production would begin, each unit doing the particular thing agreed upon in advance. Fundamentally that is the problem a board would have to face. Sheer bulk or quantity of artillery, shell, explosives, tanks and so forth would mean little. Guns become obsolete. Explosives spoil in storage. We would be living in a fool’s paradise to go on depending upon mountains of munitions which, in a pinch, would turn out duds. The only real solution Is to keep up with the latest in aircraft, guns, munitions and war materials of all kinds and, while keeping an ample supply for reasonable needs always on hand, gear ourselves up so that something approaching quantity production of the things most needed could begin almost Immediately. Secretary Davis would seem to have put his finger on a great national need. We had thought, somehow, that the country had been organized pretty much as above described. We had heard that something of the kind was under way. But if it hasn’t been done already, it should be done now ... but with infinite care lest we spend too much on wasteful bulk instead of organizing ourselves in some such way as described. Not such a hard Job for Mr. Hearst, after all. The only thing he has to do is convince the Senate that you can bribe a Senator without even making him an offer. Don’t be afraid to tell your age—and act it. Chinese authorities barred the film "The Big Parade.” Probably they think the people of China ought to be satisfied with home products.

Is There a Santa Claus?

Few have penned a better answer to this question than the late Thomas ” Marshall. He wrote: “I think back through the years, the lean and fat, the good and bad ones, to my earliest recollection. I see a woman with an eye that flashes swift as an archangel's wing and a mouth that breaks with laughter and hardens ae sight of wrong, singing lullabys, a woman who, with a hand grasping the Unseen Hand, walks the briar-bordered paths of life unashamed, unafraid, unharmed. She is clad in garments of beauty, for me, and age does not soil them nor years make them cheap and tawdry. Her tongue is without guile, having never been the messenger of a lie. It is seventeen years since her soul went home to God and her fingers became for me the fingers of an angel, but I have not forgotten all she said. She told me there was a Santa Claus, and I believed her. He brings me no longer drums and fifes. But he still brings to me the vision of my mother and the music of that angelic chorus which sang at creation’s dawn and at the hour of man’s redemption.”

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(Kokomo Dispatch) (Democratic) Decision on a place tor its national convention next June will be reached by the Democratic party on Jan. 12. For months the committee commissioned with this important task has been studying the political situation and the relative merits as convention places of cities hopeful of playing host to the Democratic national cftnclave. Conclusions arrived at will be reflected in selection of a convention city. • Picking a place for a national convention is not a mere matter of choice and chance. Political strategy begins there and not every aspiring city is equipped to entertain so large a body of men and women. Political unrest in the middlewest and south complicates the tack of the convention committee. Should it send the convention into the wheat and corn country, as the Republican party has done? Would it be good politics, if a northerner is to be nominated, to hold the convention in the south? Would a convention in the east aid in breaking the weakening G. O. P. grip on the east? Or should the party heed the advice of Horace Greeley and go west? These are but a few of the questions that enter into the selection of a place for the 1928 Democratic national convention. All will be answered before Jan. 12, and to the satisfaction of the majority. At this time but one thing seems certain, and that is that the committee members will not make the mistake a second time of holding the convention in the east, least of all in New York. (New York Times) The very day when Joseph B. Kealing died at Indianapolis, Henry Allen of Kansas slapped Dave Mulvane on the back in Washington and said he was "for” Mulvane for anything hereafter. It is too bad that Kealing died before he heard about that. He would have appreciated the incident. For during a period lasting almost ten years Kealing, Mulvane and one or two other practical Republican politicians found to their quiet surprise that they were considered "bad ones” by others, also in politics who confidently called themselves "progressive.” They always knew that there wasn’t any real character difference between them and the arch-angels of their party. But it was strange to find that so many citizens accepted the distinction which the progressives made. Kealing, Mulvane and their kind admit that professional politics is a game. What they cannot abide is the pretense that it isn’t; and that is one reason why for years they were denounced by Theodore Roosevelt. They lived to see themselves respectable again, and sitting alongside the lilies of Kansas progressivism. They ha and n’t changed; they realized that it was the "progressive” game that had played itself out and that the Republican party was itself again. Whichever aspirant Kealing would have favored for 1928 will miss a shrewd hand at corraling southern delegates.

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THE'STORY OF CIVILIZATION Aristophanes Satirized the Great Written for The Times by Will Durant

TH the year 432 B. C. Athens and •■■'Sparta plunged into that bitter Peloponnesian War which is the ancient analogue of the recent struggle between England and Germaqy. For thirty years this strife of Cain and Abel continued, ravaging Athens with siege and plague, and draining the life blood of Sparta. When peace came at last, all Greece was ripe for Alexander’s conquest. Strange to say, it was the policy of Pericles that brought on the war. The imperial tryanny of Athens over her “Allies,” her sequestration (as they considered it) of the Confederacy’s funds, her repeated interference with their autonomy, her collection of the Delian tribute by force, her demand that all disputes within the League should be tried before Athenian juries, had roused against her a smouldering anger that watched resentfully for vengeance. Secretly, some members of the Confederacy approached Sparta, and inquired under what conditions they might be admitted to her rival alliance, the Peloponnesian League. Sparta leaped at the chance, and offered them liberal terms; here was her opportunity to put an end to the mercantile supremacy of Athens. "The real cause of the Peloponnesian War,” says Thucydides, "was

You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. AU other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How does the United States rank in the production of iron and steel? The United States produces approximately one-half of the entire world supply of iron and steel which is largely consumed in this country. From whom did Mickey Walker win the welterweight championship? From Jack Britton, on a decision in fifteen rounds, at New York City Nov. 1, 1922. Britton was knocked down three times. Who wrote “Great deeds never die,” and what is the rest of it? "Great deeds cannot die; They with the sun and moon renew their light for ever, blessing those that look on them,” is in Tennyson’s “The Princess.” Wha discovered the element illinium and how was the name derived? / Illinium, element 61, was isolated In May, 1925, by B. S. Hopkins at the University of Illinois who named it in honor of the university. When was the first census in the world taken and when dij the United States start taking the census? The first record of a census is in the Bible in the book of Numbers: "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel,

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The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceedinn 200 words wiU receive preference. To the Editor: On behalf of the deserving poor in Indianapolis, I wish to thank you for the kind cooperation given the Christmas Clearing House. The publicity which you so graciously gave us was absolutely necessary to get the best results for our organization. When you realize that out of about 4,000 names, we find over 1,000 duplicated and some of them sent in on as many as five or six lists, you will know that we are doing a good work. One group turned in a list of twenty-six names and we found sixteen of them on lists of other organizations. Please accept our best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. H. S. KING, v ; jit, : : Chairman.

formally kept out of sight—the growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta.” Corinth and Syracuse were brought into the Peloponnesian League, and Corcyra was induced to cast in her lot with Athens. One by one the states of Greece took arms, and ranged themselves in fiostile camps. The Great War of the ancient world was on. It dragged along with interruptions, for more than a generation. 000 A LMOST at the beginning, because refugees flocked to Athens and found inadequate lodging there, plague broke out in the capital, and took victims by the thousand. Pericles lost a son to it, and then weakened with grief and his failure to preserve peace, he himself, succumbed to the pestilence in 428 B. C. Alcibiades succeeded him, and managed gallantly; but as he was about to enter a decisive naval engagement at Syracuse, he w T as recalled on the charge of having mutilated the statues of the gods. The pious Nicias took his place as commander of the fleet, refrain id from battle for a month, because of the evil omen of a lunar eclipse, and then was utterly destroyed. Now the leadership of Athens fell into the hands of an incompetent democracy manipulated by middle-

Questions and Answers

after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names every male by their polls: from 20 years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.” The first census in the United States was in 1790. It filled fifty-six pages in a book eight by five inches, cost $44,377.28, and gave the population at 3,893,635 the census report filled fourteen volof which 694,280 were slaves. In 1920 umes, containing 12,496 pages twelve by nine inches, cost $23,000,000, and gave the population at 105,710,620. What is a “duck billed platypus?” One of the most primitive mammals known to science and one of the strangest of Australia’s queer animals. It is covered with fur like abeaver, has webbed feet and a flat | bill like a duck, suckles its young | and lays eggs. Like the beaver the j platypus is so wary that it is selS dom seen in a wild state. It burrows into stream banks from below the water line, then digs out apartments in the dry ground higher up. In these burrows it hatches its eggs. How many persons are employed in the border patrol of the immigration service? The authorized force for 1927 consisted of one supervisor, four assistant superintendents, thirty chief patrol inspectors, 170 senior patrol inspectors, 537 patrol inspectors, 24 i clerks, 13 motor mechanics and two laborers; a total of 781. Di> kangaroos climb trees? A small species found in Australia do, but they are seldom seen by man. Only in recent years has its existence become known. Although sometimes these animals run on the ground, they are much more at home among tree branches. These kangaroos move from tree to tree at night and sleep in the day time. What percentage of the highway mileage of the United States is unimproved? Highways in the United States total approximately three million miles. The Federal and State Governments have improved about 783,000 miles leaving more than two million miles unimproved and only partially graded. Who were the Hyperboreans? A' people in Greek mythology who lived beyond the north wind, in the land of perpetual sunshine and in perfect happiness. Their life is described by Pindar and Htrodotus and discusssse the stories concerning them. When did King Albert of Belgium visit the United States? He arrived in New York Oct. 3, 1919, accompanied by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Leopold. They left the United States during the first week of November after a tour of the country.

class politicians; and the Assembly proceeded to prove that Macaulay was right when he said that a war cannot be conducted by a debating society. The excited Ecclesist decreed, and carried out, the execution of six generals (including a son of Pericles), because, though they had won a naval victory at Argimusae, they had failed, in the storm that followed, to rescue Athenian survivors clinging to the wreckage of their ships. We have seen its quick brutality and vacillating repeal of its decrees, in the matter of Mitylene; and we have heard the Athei ’an threat to Melos when the island proved loath to enter the war. Even the now leader of the democratic party, Cleon, saw the conclusion. "A democracy,” he said, "is incapable of empire;” "it ceases where empire begins.” The great experiment of popular rule in Athens went to pieces through lack of discipline within and excess of discipline without. And now. instead of continuing these details of victories and defea ts of armies and navies, of soldiers and generals and politicians, let us see the war from the viewpoint of the people, in the plays of Aristophanes. (Copyright. 1927, by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

At the close of the World War did the United States owe a debt to’any foreign nation? No. How are dustless dust cloths made? Soak clean cloths in a quart of water to which a tsblespoon of kerosene has been added and let them dry thoroughly before using. Cloths so treated should be kept away from fire. What is the purpose of Assuan dam and when was it completed? It was erected to form a reservoir to regulate the flow of the Nile and was completed July 31, 1902. It is now proposed to build it higher so as to impound double the present volume of water. It alternate ever a noun? Alternate is an adjective, a verb or a noun. Its use as a noun is found only in the United States where it refers to one chosen to act in the place of another as of a delegate to a contention. What nationality does the name Mundell belong to and what does it mean? It is Teutonic in origin and means strong defense. How many commercial failures were there in the United States in 1925? The number reported is 21,214. How old is Sue Carol who played opposite Douglas Mac Lean in "Soft Cushions?” Nineteen years. Under what title has Ethel M. Dell’s book, “The Top of the World,” been produced on the screen? Who composed the cast? The same title. The cast included Anna Q. Nilsson, James Kirkwood. Raymond Hatton, Sheldon Lewis and Charles Post.

Life's Niceties Hints on Etiquet

1. When should one plan to stop in a friend’s apartment, on making a trip to New York or other large cities where space is at a premium? 2. Is it ever anything but bad form to make a convenience of a girl’s apartment just because she is a "girl from home,” not a particular friend? 3. What can an apartment dweller do, if “folks from home” drop in uninvited? The Answers 1. Only when expressly invited. 2. Never. 3. It is often better to frankly state the Inconvenience, rather than grow irritable putting them up.

DEC. 24, 192|

M. E. TRA CY, SAYS: Thrift Is Golden Mean', Mexico - America Need Social Relations ; Big Navy Reflects Foreign Policy.

Thrift is not always economy, as Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric Company, points out. "If one spends what can be prudently saved,” he says, “that is to be deplored. If one saves what he can prudently spend, that also is to be deplored. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.” A wise balance between two extremes is generally the desired end. Not only with respect to thrift, but with respect to many other things, civilization has flown from one extreme to another, only to learn that balance is the all-im-portant factor. Neither the miser nor the spendthrift contributes much of value. 000 Messenger of Good Will The royal reception given Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his mother in Mexico City and the cordial relations their visit obviously has created shows what can be done. Mexico and the United States have been plagued by nothing so much as an unsociable attitude toward each other. The intercourse between them has been almost exclusively of a commercial character. Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans have come here to get work and thousands of Americans have gone there to make fortunes.Tourist travel has been conspicuous by its absence. The result is that neither people has become very well acquainted with the other. 00 Disaster May Bring Good Bad as it may be in other respects, the S-4 disaster may accomplish some good oy calling attention to the naval program now before Congress. From a state of dumb acquiescence, the country has been aroused to a point where it is at least ready to ask questions. It does not seem quite so desirable to authorize a great fleet of submarines as it did one week ago. The idea that submarines might be improved by further experiment has dawned on the public mind.

More Money for Research One idea naturally leads to another. From submarines, it is easy to speculate on the wisdom of constructing other ships in such large numlier. 0 Why not leave more room for inventiveness, especially since it has played such a part in the development and improvement of navies? If the situation is such that this country ought to embark on a great building program, why not set some money aside for experiment and research? 0 .O Must Look to Air To go a little further, if it Is desirable to spend $700,000,000 for a navy, how muefy is it desirable to spend for aviation? National defense has ceased to be a matter of land and water. Those nations that would be secure must now take account of the air. 000 Bases Are Needed Water and air forces need operating bases if they are to be effective. So long as foreign-owned islands lie close to the United States, neither cruisers nor aircraft can protect the Nation effectively. Not only does real preparedness Include aviation, as was a navy, but the acquirement oPs such outposts as will prevent an enemy from making direct attack. < In other words, the naval program now before Congress leaves out a lot of things which are required for thorough-going national defense. 0 0 0 \ What Has Happened? Putting such questions aside, what has happened to make thoroughgoing national defense so much more necessary than it appeared to be one year ago? At that time the Coolidge Administration was very firm in the idea that the country needed no considerable enlargement of Its military establishment. Now the Coolidge Adminis l,ation is equally sure that it needs the greatest naval coi\struction program ever proposed in time of peace. The American people are warranted in asking what has happened to cause such a pronounced change of attitude. 0 0 0 Only a Grand Gesture It goes without saying that a foreign policy is bound up with the military establishment, that a big Navy implies a different attitude toward other nations than a little Navy, and that the outside world will so construe it. What is the message we intend to convey to the outside world by this naval program? Are other nations to understand that we have abandoned the idea of limiting naval armaments, or are they to interpret the program as a bluff to scare them? To sum it all up, have we junked those ideals we expressed so ardently during the Worlctf War, or are we making a grand gesture without realizing whatl they mean or how other people! will take it? 3