Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1927 — Page 4

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The Day of GoodWM “Peace On Earth; Good Will Toward Man.” On this day the message which was heralded in that early morn centuries ago becomes more than a prophecy or a command. It is a reality. On this day the store of Good Will reaches that point where pettiness disappears and there is driven from the hearts of meh all of selfishness and greed and enmity and jealousy. Tomorrow or a week hence perhaps this spirit will be forgotten and the shadow of the jungle may again come to darken the hopes and purposes of man. But today from the child who shouts in glee at the gift from the bearded Santa to the man and woman whose minds are filled with memories rather than with the present, the spirit of good will takes command and rules. That peace may come to earth is still a hope. It is here today. But not yet has the world learned how to preserve and keep it. The day when men shall no longer fight and kill each other because of differences of race or religion or nationality is approaching, but it comes slowly. Not yet has the point been reached where nations think that it is safe to abandon the building of implements of war nor to feel secure with armies of men in uniform. Nor will the world ever feel safe until the spirt of this day becomes a reality for the entire year and guides and directs the lives of men of every land and every nation. Good Will is a state of soul, rather than of intellect. It lives in the heart and not the brain. And it points the path to peace on earth, surely and inevitably. Keep the spirit of this day in your own heart as long as you can. Resist the temptation to let hate creep in and stifle it with selfishness and petty greeds and worthless, jealousies. Fol' when we have all come to know that just to be kind and generous and considerate is the greatest of achievements, peace will be here—a glorious peace that rests securely on the foundation of Good Will in the hearts of men and not upon the plans and fears and bargainings that are all so futile and all so worthless until hate finally is conquered. One More Step The indictment in a neighboring county of a former State treasurer is important only as being one more step in the reformation of a State and a determination that public servants shall serve the public without private interest. The courts will decide his guilt or innocence. A grand jury brings the charge. In this matter as in many others that have led to the beginning of a great movement for public control of public office, The Times played its part. The charge that former officials and citizens had received money for services against the public interest was first printed in The Times on evidence which it believed was overwhelming. That politicians, using their influence in politics, should be able to secure commissions on money of the State deposited in favored banks is a condition which should not be permitted. That means that there is inevitably either discrimination between banks or that money is deposited in unsafe or hazardous hands. The Times has steadfastly maintained that when the public knows the truth, the people will protect themselves. It has an idea that the people do not believe that politics for profit is at all necessary. It has an idea that there are men who will com 6 to the public service satisfied to gain only the honor of faithful performance of duty fisd desirous of nothing more than an opportunity to be of use to their neighbors. (The Times believes that the people have been kept in ignorance of many practices and customs and acts which would reveal the fact that very many officials in the past few years riding into power on waves of hate and passion and prejudice have not served the people well and have defied decency and the law. The time has come to end trickery and subterfuge and skullduggery and to usher in a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The Klan in Oklahoma Twice in less than four years a Governor of Oklahoma has been grilled by senatorial investigation. One was impeached and hurled out of the high office which the people had awarded him but one year before by one of the greatest majorities ever given a candidate in the State. The other now faces the crisis in less than a year after his inauguration. In both instances the measured tread of armed forces has resounded through the capitol halls and the flourish of bayonets has been the law demonstration. Without regard to the merits of either Jack Walton or Henry Johnston, it has been the Ku-Klux Klan that is primarily responsible for this havoc in Oklahoma, a State settled by reasonably intelligent and graceful citizens. ■The origin of Walton’s impeachment was that he a klansman. The foundation of the present

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predicament is that Johnston is. The organization of the fiery cross was strong enough to oust Walton, but by its gradual loss of caste is not now powerful enough to save Johnston. The fact remains that the Ku-Klux Klan and its pet doctrine of strong-arm methods are responsible for these Governmental miseries. * The determining factor that "got” Walton and that will eventually "get” Johnston was the declaration of martial law. The people will not endure the insult of having their communities overrun with bayonets. To the Kluxers, again, we must charge the responsibility of such methods. For the klansmen first practiced the system of intimidation by force. This organization brought again into being in America tha idea of Government by might and reform by physical punishment. And the klan psychology still reigns in Oklahoma where an anti-klan and a klan Governor have resorted to guns to uphold their positions. Well would it be for Oklahoma if she could impeach the Ku-Klux Klan forever from influence in her affairs. Aircraft’s Limitations Not so long ago the nation was excitedly told that navies are obsolete and henceforth we should upon aircraft for the national defense. Battleships and such, Col. William Mitchell, then of the Army air service, informed the world in that emphatic way which is his, are as passe as the dodo. The airplane s the thing, quoth he. Yet Army airplanes this week have been trying to destroy the condemned bridge of concrete which spans the Peedee River at Albermarle, N. C., and at this writing is still standing. Splashed are its sides with mud, holed are the nearby banks of the stream and pock-marked by exploding bombs is the neighborhood, but the old bridge seems to be holding its own. To date, according to the dispatches, there has been but one direct hit though the planes were flying as low as 8,000 feet where, in war, they would be extremely vulnerable to anti-craft guns. If airplanes flying in perfect weather in peace time produce a score like the above, what would they do In war time, in all sorts of weather, over the ocean, at a much higher altitude, with anti-aircraft shells bursting all about them and their target dodging about below at twenty miles an hour or more? This is no trick question. And certainly it is not the desire of this newspaper to belittle the value of aircraft. They are of tremendous, even vital, importance and this will go on increasing. They are indispensable to either the Army or the Navy and this, too, will be more and more the case as time goes on. But until the day comes when aircraft can cross seas in any and all kinds of weather with the certainty of battleships, carrying vast tonnages of high explosives; until they can take, and hold, territory, winter or summer, rain or shine, the time has not arrived for scrapping our land and sea armaments to rely entirely, or even chiefly, upon fragile ships of the air. t f AM Lukely enough that day will come. But is not yet. Big Business Those who followed the so-called battle of a century between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey in Chicago last September will be interested in knowing that the gentlemen of wealth have now gotten around to the distribution of the profits. Director of the Madison Square Garden Corporation have just increased dividends on their common stock from $1 to $1.50 annually. This is the concern that staged the fight, under direction of Tex Rickard. Earnings of the, corporation for the year of 1927 were about fifty per cent higher than the directors had estimated, various boxing bouts, the six-day bicycie race, hockey matches, etc., having drawn more dollars into the till than had been calculated. Tex Rickard owns a large percentage of shares in this corporation, but its control is in the hands of a large Wall Street firm. Tex is under contract to the corporation. This melon cutting helps explain why it is necessary to ch&rge S4O for ring-side seats. And it removes any Angering doubts as to the complete commercialization of many of our so-called sports. If a presidential boom could only sweep the country like anew jazz dance the problem of some politicians would be considerably simplified. The Ohio woman who killed her husband before the bridge party should get credit for foresight, anyway.

The Christmas Spirit

We seldom stop to analyze ourselves in an effort to find out why we behave as we do under varying conditions and surroundings. We may speak of the Christmas spirit at this season of the year, but if we are asked to explain what we mean it wouldn’t be easy to find the answer. Somehow or other, we feel different. As we see the, vast crowds moving hurriedly through the city’s shopping district, going in and coming out of the stores, getting on suburban trains with pack- * ages, greeting friends and acquaintances, we are conscious of an atmosphere that is unlike that of other seasons of the year. Gifts are material, of course, but something intangible and spiritual goes with them, belongs with them, at Christmas. We get a heart-warming thrill out of. planning and buying and giving and we get some realization of what was meant when it was said that it was more blessed to give than to receive. In giving to others material gifts, according to our means, we give ourselves a spiritual gift that expands our own souls, which possibly have shriveled some during the rushing remainder of the year. Whatever we have of religion in/our make-up, no matter what our creed, gets a better play as we come to think of others and how we can please them. We actually enjoy unselfishness when we let that spirit have its way with us. We enjoy seeing others happy, and the more we give way to the spirit the happier we are ourselves. So there must be some natural impulse inside our hearts that could make us happier all the year around if we only understood it and knew how to handle it. Now and then something happens that stirs to the depths the best there is in us. The emotional thrill that Lindy gave the world when he sailed across the Atlantic in the sky, and the tremendous and instantaneous increase in human sympathy, is an illustration. Let us enjoy it while we may, for habit will soon throw us back into the rut in which we slide along about eleven months of the year. It is neither criminal nor disgraceful to be sentimental, and there is Joy In unselfish devotion to others.

TOE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright, 1927. by The Reedy Relerence Publishing Company.) BY W. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A—ace; K—king; Q—?ueent J—Jack; X—any card lower than 0.) 1. When you wish to have a suit continued, what signal should you give your partner? 2. If dummy holds trumps that may help declarer cross ruff, what is it advisable to lead against declarer's side? 3. What isc the exception to taking out partner’s no-trump into five-card major when you hold less than one and one-half quick tricks? The Answers ’* 1. Play 7 or higher. 2. Trumps. 3. When you hold bust with K, Q, X, X, X. or K, J, 10 X, X with singleton or blank suit.

They Say

(Anderson Herald) (Republican) The murder of little Marian Parker in Los Angeles last week has filled the whole nation with horror. The little girl was playing happily with her school mates, when she was accosted by three strangers, who asked her to accompany them to her father’s side. He was, they told her, seriously injured, and wanted her at once. She left with them, thinking only of her father’s hurt. No one knows what transpired with the child in the three days that followed. At the end of that time the kidnapers communicated with her father and told him they would return the child to him if he would give them a sum of money. Desperate and worn with grief and anxiety for the safety of the little girl, he ttok the money and went to the place they had designated. When the exchange had been made he found that his child had been murdered, and not only that, but that she had been mutilated in a dreadful fashion as well. It is almost beyond belief that a human being could do so wicked a deed. Every parent in America feels a sympathy with that father and a clutch at the heart when he thinks of his own children. Eveiy one will wish this case to be quickly carried to a conclusion in the apprehension and punishment of the heartless murderers. Crime that involves the life of an innocent child arouses the heart of the whole nation as no other could. (Marion Chronicle) (Republican) While psychiatrists, criminologists and socialogists propound and explain their scientific theories in analyzing such crimes as the kidnaping and murder of a little school girl in Los Angeles one obvious fact is emphasized in the unraveling of the atrocious crime. It is expressed in the homely admonition, "Be sure your sins will find you out.” The melodramatic bravado of the boy whose warped brain conceived himself as “the fox” foiled his hunters so ra brief period. But it was inevitable that his capture would not long be delayed. No matter what the cunning of a degenerate nor the cold calculation of the confirmed criminal there is always the trail that leads to detection. And while in the scientific analysis of such crimes ‘ various motives are ascribed, invariably the dominating motive has been found to be the greed of monetary gain. That, rather than the motive of revenge, first accepted, was back of the murder of little Marion Parker the accused slayer has confessed. The crime that has apDalled a whole nation and brought life's deepest sorrow to the immediate families of the principals, solved as it is now takes its place in the catalog of sordid and dumb tragedies. It, is another example of the penalty of greed and a demonstration of the inexorable law—the wages of sin is death.

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Aristophanes Mocked Chaotic Greece

ARISTOPHANES AND THE COMIC DRAMA IT is an unusual phenomenon that a comic poet should last so well. Comedies die sooner in the blighting winds of time than tragedies; partly because they are less elemental and profound, largely because their humor is bound up in obscure allusions to local and contemporary things. But even to this day, despite the difficulty of translating wit and historical context from one idiom into another, Aristophanes is alive, and we can read him with profane delight. He has given an adjective to every language, and Heine could not die without mentioning his name. If we read him we must be prepared for riotous coarseness and obscenity. He does not hesitate to show Blepyrus in the throes of intestinal congestion, and he scatters among this lines such Rabelaisian quips as must be regretfully excluded from these chaste pages. But such was the custom of the day. The comic drama, as we have said, grew out of Phallic festivals, celebrating Bacchus in vintage and harvest season; the spirit of fertility was worshipped without restraint and when the comic drama spoke, a moratorium was placed on morality. What makes this burlesque forgivable is its rich and endless humor, the crackling play of Aristophanes’ irony and wit; beside him Moliere is a gloomy tragedian. We see in him the vitality of a people that could for thirty years wage a war of life and death, and yet, at its height, give funds to maintain the drama and permit a ruthless critic to ridicule its own stupidities. Never was t # ught so quick, never was life so full and strong, as in those terrible and chaotic days when Aristophanes laughed. We know hardly anything of his life. He was born about 448 B. C., apparently of foreign origin; for Cleon, in revenge for the lashing which the comedies gave him, had Aristophanes indicted for forging papers of Athenian citizenship. The dramatist lived in no ivory tower, he was intensely alive to the events and ideals of his day, and in his writings every interest of his time found honorable or dishonorable mention. As religion and the stories of gods and heroes offered the subjects of tragedy, so politics and the doings of public men provide the material of the comic drama. Lacking newspapers, Athens had oratory and comedy; the oratory served as the editorials, the comedy as cartoons. For Aristophanes was a politician as well as a dramatist; each of his comedies was a political pamphlet, a round in his long duel with the leaders of the popular party at Athens. In form his plays are as low as burlesque; in purpose they are high as the noblest of Euripides. He as a fighter and a dramatist afterward.

ARISTOPHANES AND THE WAR AND yet his great passion was for peace. Conceive a modem playright, at the top of his profession using the stage in play after play to denounce a great war in the midst of that war, ridiculing without stint the popular leader of the military party, and attacking without fear all the forces impeding peace. Imagine a Rebelaisian Bernard Shaw, in plays as well -as prefaces, damning war in time of war. After the death of Pericles and the fall of Alcibiades, supreme power in Athens passed into the hands of Cleon, a rich tanner, reoresentative of the commercial interests that wanted a “knockout blow”—1. e., the utter destruction of Sparta as competitor for the control of empire and sea. In a lost play “The Babylonians” (426 B. C.) Aristophanes, took a fling at Cleon, and with such hypodermic effect that the burly ‘stratege" prosecuted him and had him fined. A later play recalls the incident; “And how Cleon made me pay— I’ve not forgtten—for my last year’s play; Dragged me before the Council, brought his spies

Their ‘Christmas Wreath’

THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION

Written for The Times by Will Durant

To slander me, gargled his throat with lies, Niagra’d me and slooshed me, ’til almost With so much sewerage I gave up the ghost!” The protagonist of “The Achamians” is the farmer Dicaepolis ("City of Justice”), who complains that his lands have been devastated by war, ind ii anxious to resmue his prewar industry of selling wine. Tired of waiting for the politicians to bring peace, he proposes to make a separate treaty with Sparta. “Well,” he says bravely, to a chorus of patriotic neighbors: "Well, the very Spartans even. I’ve my doubts and scruples whether They’ve been totally to blame in every instance? Villian, vagabond, how dare ye? Chorus: Not to blame in every instance? Villian, vagabond, how dare ye? Talking treason to our faces, to suppose that we will spare ye?” He agrees to die if he can nofcj

Questions and Answers \

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 Riven nor can extended research be undertaken. A’l other Questions will receive a personal reply. Unstgred requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. Under what circumstances did Francis Scott Key write the Star Spangled Banner? In 1814 during the attack of the British on Baltimore, he went on an errand under a flag of truce, to the British fleet, but was detained there during the bombardment of Ft McHenry which was the defense of Baltimore. He watched the progress of the fight from the British ship during the night and in the morning seeing the stars and Stripes still waving tri /.iphantly, composed his famous song. How does the rank of commodore and admiral compare? Commodore is now a retired rank only in the navy and formerly was the rank next below rear admiral which is two grades below admiral, the grade of vice admiral intervening. If an alien, admitted into this country as a visitor, overstays his visit without authorization, can he get citizenship papers? No. because he is not a legal resident of the United States. What is the value of a United States half dime dated If 17? Five to ten cents. Is the “Spirit of St. Louis” used by Lindbergh on his lecture tour the same ship that crossed the Atlantic. Yes. On what book was the motion picture "Camille” starring Norma Talmadge based? Alexander Dumas’ “The Lady of the Camellias.” What is a pahmi? An animal belonging to the weasel family, having a bluish color that is found in -the Yangtze valley in China. L What is the nationality of the name Hanbrich? It is from the Dutch and means John’s bridge. What causes a “cauliflower” ear? It is caused by a blow on the ear that breaks and mashes the cartilage. What is the meaning of “Ship ahoy?” It is a call used when hailing a ship. Is better ventilation obtained by opening windows from the top or the bottom? It is better to open the windows a little at the top and bottom because heated air rises to the ceiling and cooler air flows downward toward the floor. If a window is opened partly at the bottom and partly at the top, cool air enters through the lower opening, and when it becomes heated It rises to

prove that Athens is as much to blame as Sparta, his head is laid on a chopping block, and he makes his argument with the understanding that his hearers, if unconvinced, may sever his head from his body. As the argument proceeds, the people of Archarnia divide into two groups, one for killing him, and the other for declaring his justified. The war-group calls in a passing general, Lamachus, who attacks Dicaeopolis with a spear, against which the farmer opposes his meat* spit. The general, worsted, goes off in a huff to battle. Presently he reappears, defeated, wounded, and profane; no modern satire has ever so ruthlessly punctured the military type. The play ends with Dicaeopolis selling "Peace,” in the form of wine, to the Archamians while they dance in revelry with something of the released joy of Nov. 11. 1918. (Copyright, 1027. by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

the ceiling and passes out of the upper opening, thereby keeping a circulation of fresh air in the room. How many offices in the Italian cabinet does Mussolini hold? He is prime minister, secretary of state and minister of foreign affairs; minister of war; minister of marine, and minister of aeronautics. Who played the principal roles in the picture “Too Many Crooks?” Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft and El Brendel. Was George Washington a full general? He was a full general in the Continental armies, but when President Adams appointed him commander-Tn-chief of the Army during the trouble with France, Congress created the rank of lieutenant- general for him. Will you please quote the verse that begins “Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ’Tis woman’s whole existence”? Man’s love is of man's life a thing apart. ’Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition to All up his heart, A few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one. To love again, and be again undone. The quotation is from Byron's "Don Juan.” What Is the rank of the head of the diplomatic mission of the United States to the Irish Free State? Minister. How doe sthc production of grapes ir.Florida compare with the production in California? Florida proudees very few grapes and California’s production in 1925 was estimated at 1,817,000 tons. How is carbon monoxide formed? It is a colorless poisonous inflammable gas formed by the incomplete. combustion of carbon vith oxygen or by de-oxidizing carbon dioxid. Where was a coin that bears the inscription . “Confoederatio. Holvetico” made? It was minted in Switzerland. What are the boundaries of Manhattan Island? Manhattan Island lies between the Hudson River and East River; Spuyten Duyvil Creek and the Harlem River separate it from the mainland on the north and northeast. The Island with tapering north and south extremities is a few hundred yards wide, thirtteer. and onehalf miles long, with a maximum width at Fourteenth St. of two and one-quarter miles. What is the meaning of the name Rhodella? Rhoda is from the Greek and means a rose. Rhodella is a diminutive form meaning “little rose.” Where and when was George Washington inaugurated? At Old Federal Hall, New York, facing Broad St., April 30, 1789.

DEC. 26, 3927

M.E. TRACY SAYS: Celebrates Holiday Season With a Story of Christmas Down in the Hot Valley of the Rio Grande.

Nothing seems more appropriate to Christmas than a good story. I am not saying that this one is good, but it possesses the merit of having been told. Place —The Rio Grande Valley. Time —Christmas, 1909. Characters—A dozen guests at the hotel, three resident families, some Mexican laborers and fifteen or twenty children. a tt tt San Juan has become quite a town since, but then it consisted of a small hotel, a grocery store, three residences, some jacakals, a school house and blueprint, with streets not only laid out, but named, with lots all priced and with sites for churches and public buildings set aside. San Juan was headquarters for one of those irrigation projects which have made the Rio Grrande Valley famous. A sea of cactus, chaparral and scrubby mesquite stretched away on every hand. Tarantulas walked complacently over the dry, dusty soil at twilight, rattlesnakes were uncomfortably numerous and coyotes howled in the night from every horizon. December was like July in New York, though a little more balmy. tt tt tt Most of us were from the North and found it hard to believe that Christmas was at hand. We accepted the calendar’s word for it, however, even if the climate seemed to have gone back on us. Mrs. A. W. Roth, wife of the head of the company, was unanimously drafted as chief of operations, and while the rest of us decorated the school house with thorny boughs, installed a misshapen mesquite as a “Christmas tree” and performed such other offices as the occasion demanded, !she not only nominated her husband, Dr. Roth, as Santa Claus, but proceeded to dress him for the part. She sewed cotton on his sleeves and coat-tails and made him a wig and whiskers out of the same material. When finished and furnished, he resembled anything but the usual production. By no stretch of the imagination could he be regarded as disguised, much less beautified, but we trouped over to the school house with absolute faith that the children would be just as well pleased as though he were dolled up according to the latest department store style. tt a u It was one of those warm, pleasant evenings such as make wildcats want to be wild. The thermometer stood at about 60, a big rough moon beamed down from mid-eastern sky, and the stars seemed low enough for one to shoot them off with a rifle. We sat in the school house, with doors and windows open, while the children spoke their pieces and sang their songs. Then came Santa strolling in with a crocus bag full of toys on his back which he deposited beside the candle-lit mesquite. His greetings was of the commonplace sort—“ Well, you have been nice little boys and girls?” “and “It’s sure good to get down here from the cold and frozen North.”

Santa reached for a present near the top of the mesquite and Mrs. Tracy, who sat beside me, said, “Oh!" in such a way that I knew something had happened. No explanation was required, however, to know what it was, for fire leaped from one of Santa's big cotton cuffs. He slapped it against his thigh to extinquish the flame, but instead caught his coat-tail afire. He put his hand up to his face, as men will when puzzled or surprised, and caught his whiskers afire. We men gathered to his rescue in true Christmas spirit, smiting him hip and thigh, dragging him through an open door and continuing to smite long after it was necessary. The situation looked bad for a few seconds, but Santa Claus came out of it little the worse for wear." His whiskers and ermine were black in spots, but beyond that there were no serious scars of battle. He said things when he got his breath that were not exactly in keeping with the occasion, but went back and finished the job like a hero. We all agreed that it was one of the greatest Christmas shows we had ever seen, and that we had celebrated the day right royally, even if there were no snow, no tinkle of slelvh-bells and no appropriate setting for the customary approach of jolly old St. Nick.

Life’s Niceties Hints on Etiquet

1. Why are good manners most essential at home? 2. Should home folks feel freer to criticize each other’s appearance, manners or taste in books cr friends than they would outsiders? 3. What is the best way to avoid quarrels in the home? The Answers 1. They make life smoother and easier. 2. Less. For criticism is usually fruitless and irritating unless sought. 3. By always keeping anger out of one's voice, and by trying to be fair to each other. How many times has Dc Wolf Hoorcr been married? Six. Who were the numbers of George Washington’s first Cabinet? Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State; Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of Treasury: Henry Knox, Secretary of War ; Henry Osgood. Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph, Attorney General.