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A Year of Growth The year just passed has been a wonderful year for Indiana, wonderful because truth lias dispelled the mists and fogs and suspicions which hovertd over public affairs. It has been a wonderful year because it has seen the rise of conscience in public matters and brought the firm determination on the part of the people to turn away from the strange gods of the past and rely once more upon the traditional principles of real Americanism. Confidence in courts, which was missing a year ago, has been restored and courts have shown that they arc worthy of respect and confidence. It, has been a wonderful year because once again it has been demonstrated that the people, when they know the truth, will find their own way to real and efficient government. The magnificent, and patriotic work of the Marion County grand jury will make the year memorable. In Indianapolis the people have demonstrated their ability to run their own affairs by the adoption of the city manager system. That they will keep alive that same unselfish interest during the coming year may be predicted. They have known the cost of bad government. They have known the penalty that politics imposes on a government, that is partisan. They will never permit that poison to again enter municipal affairs. The year 1927 cleared away the debris from the wreck of popular government in this State and city. The year 1928 must he a year of building and growth—a building of more sentiment for the decent and the honest in government, the growth of conscience and determination. That there will be a material expansion in this city is an easy prediction. The foundations for prosperity are now firmer thffn before. It is safer to invest. There is more security. It is an even more certain prediction that before the ye dr 1928 comes to its close, the fame of Indiana as the most courageous of States, the cleanest in thought, the most patriotic in puiposm the State which dares will be even more impressive than the notoriety of the work of cleaning was unpleasant. Indiana will furnish the 1928 model. Mexican Oil President Calles has removed the chief obstacle to accord between his country and the United States by asking the Mexican congress to amend the oil laws in conformity with a recent court decision. It is expected the congress will readily grant his request. This country has contended since 1917, that Mexico's new oil and land laws were confiscatory and retroactive. It was charged that the laws would operate to deprive American oil and land concessionaries of their property which had been legally acquired. There was a voluminous interchange of notes? which terminated a year ago with what amounted to a warning from Washington that Mexico would enforce the laws at her peril. Mexico has all along contended that there was no Intention to deprive Americans of their rights, suggesting that, until there had been actual confiscation, there could be no cause for complaint. Mexican courts, it was argued, offered ample protection. The first decision, in what was regarded as a test case, was made some six weeks ago in the suit of the Mexican Petroleum Company. The court held, by a nine-to-two vote, that no provisions of the constitution could be used to deprive this concern of rights acquired prior to 1917. Ordinarily, in Mexican jurisprudence, five decisions of the supreme court are required to establish a precedent. President Calles, however, did not wait. Congress having only a few days more to meet. He sought to end the controversy rather than to have it drag through until September. His swift action will not fail to impress Americans. It can not be doubted that the Mexican people are genuinely anxious to maintain amicable relations with this country. Their desire is matched by that of the American people, and now. happily, lhere are no major issues to prevent the realization of this wish. Mexico needs American capital, and American skill and initiative, to develop her resources. America needs Mexico’s materials. All things indicate that we are at the beginning of anew era. in whicii the two peoples will dwell as friendly neighbors to the advantage of both. Poor Britain - It is rather hard on the British. Now their weather has been Americanized. Snow, heavy snow, great drifts of snow like those on our western plains after a blizzard, have tied up the British Isles until airplanes have had to be used to carry food to shut-in villages, kind war tractors have had to be turned loose on the Lads. And worse, the guests of the Hunts-Ball have Ld to detour for miles to avoid choked roads. ■ For some time there has been a very' general Kmplaint of the ‘'Americanizing" of industry. Speeding up, application of modern machinery, cutting Riown of workers, efficiency engineering—all tliat terrible Yankee stuff. But the weather was regarded >as something sacred, something traditional, something which had to conform to precedent and happen more or less as outlined in the calendar. But here is Dakota weather alongside the gulf stream. Whether, as Herbert Janvrin Brown claims, it is i the influence of sun-spots and long neglected ocean movements, or is a bi-product of the World War, or just another of the things to be attributed to Moscow, time only will tell. But suspicion points to the growing influence of America in the meterological as well as industrial world. , ,

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Curing Dementia Praecox What is the most truly important bit of news you have seen in a newspaper recently? That's rather a hard question to answer. But our own candidate happens to be a little story from New York, telling how psychiatrists have discovered a cure for the strange malady known as dementia praecox. It has been a long time since we have seen a story so packed with significance as that one. Most people have only a hazy idea what dementia praecox is. They know it is some kind of mental disorder, but that is all. To read that a cure has been found seems only mildly interesting—until you know something about the disease. Dementia praecox once was called "adolescent insanity." It is a form of mental trouble that usually seizes on a person of extreme youth—one just entering the 'teens—and bit by bit transforms such a person from an intelligent, potentially useful member of society into a helpless defective or a dangerous maniac. One of its worst features is that it afflicts the sufferer with delusions of grandeur or of persecution. The patient imagines that he is a god and can do no wrong; or he thinks that the world is in a conspiracy against him, with every man his enemy. These two states of mind, particularly the latter one, frequently lead to dee'ds of apparently causeless violence. The number of murders caused by this disease is large. To make matters worse, in most cases the murderer is considered a criminal, where he should rightly be looked upon as an invalid. He is electrocuted or locked in a penitentiary for life, instead of being given the skillful, humane treatment which he should have. That is why this message from medical science is of the highest importance. It opens the way to the elimination of some of civilization's most shocking tragedies: and it points to the transformation of many men who otherwise would become menaces to society into useful happy citizens.

Big Business BY N. D. COCHRAN

Cabling from New York to one of his London newspapers, Lord Rothermere deplores what he calls Britain's fatal blunder on navy disarmament, which forced upon President Coolidge a big navy program. In describing the physical wonders of New York City, he says: “Not even the dullest of men could look for the first time on these Alpine precipices of masonry without being deeply stirred. Power, wealth, energy, technical efficiency, richness of resources, confidence in the future—nowhere on the globe are these ideas expressed so forcibly in solid matter as by this city of giants—New York. “Yet it is a truism over here that ‘New York is not America.’ Three million square miles of continuous territory and 110,000,000 of vigorous, ambitious, self-reliant, well-to-do people must be added to the mental image of this commercial, financial and industrial capital of a continent before one realizes what* is meant by the name ‘United States’.” I have capitalized one phrase for emphasis—"this commercial, financial and industrial capital of a continent”—in order to point out how the seat of real government has gradually passed from Washington, the seat of political government, to New York, the capital of the government of big business. The people of the United States take it for granted that the seat of what they think is the Government is still Washington, D. C. That’s what school children have been taught for generations. They think of but one government—political government. Few of the grown-ups, and probably none of the children, know that there is another government—a super-government that governs the political government. It is the government Lord Rothermere has in mind when he refers to New York City as "the commercial, financial and industrial capital of a continent.” There is no purpose here to kick about it. Personally, I think it is a natural evolutionary process that can't be stopped by political government. It has been tried, to be sure. The Sherman anti-trust law was practically the last powerful effort of political government to stop government by organized commerce, finance and industry. But tire Sherman antitrust law is practically a dead letter today. Little business has become big business in spite of it—and the Federal Courts are moving quietly aiong with this development. Congress itself is playing the game. Even the American Federation of Labor has evolved into a big business organization, whether the rank and file membership know it or not. The political idealism of Roosevelt and Wilson is practically dead. With the inauguration of Harding began an era of subservience of political government to this powerful—one might truthfully say irre-sistible-government. Aside from the efforts of a little group of die-hard Progressives, who appear to be making a last stand, no fight is being made for what we know as political government. Whatever there is of idealism in government must be such idealism as organized big business itself may develop. Thus far little of any such idealism has been shown, though some of it has. A few captains of commerce, finance and industry have shown that they have vision. These have seen that high wages and low production cost can harmonize, and that peace between organized business and organized labor is more profitable for both than war. Some of them have discovered that there is no Santa Claus in business, and that justice to the worker is more economical than a handout from a paternalistic Christmas tree. Some of them have learned that justice pays. There have been mistakes, of course. Big business made a mistake when it financed prohibition and made it possible. It employed political tyranny rather than economic education. That policy has weakened the control of the churches on the people, and hence weakened one of the most powerful influences bi r : business has always counted on. However, that won't, go on. The- mistake will be rectified and a saner method of political control than the Anti-Saloon League lobby will be found. This is not written in a fit of pessimism. On the whole, I write in a spirit of optimism. There is a greater incentive to practical idealism by intelligent business than by politicians—when it is learned that what pays the office holder or other seeker in votes will pay the capitalist in dollars and cents. The popularity of two outstanding candidates for President in 1928 indicates that the people themselves are not hostile to big business because it is big. The distinction is rather between legitimate and illegitimate big business. Governor Smith of New York is very popular, and he has shown that he knows how to protect popular rights without injury to legitimate business. Secretary of Commerce Hoover appears to see government in the same light. Vice President Dawes belongs distinctively to another type as banker business man and politician. Here is another entrant for the Dumbbell Championship. He thinks the Boxers’ rebellion was a prizefighters' strike. The woman who wants to put a “chair of love” in a southern university probably doesn t know they have park benches in that town. Speaking of navies and stock markets parity covereth a multitude of sins.

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(Abhru'Utlon*: A —ace: K—kin*; Q—queen; J—Jack; X —any card lower than 10.) 1. Sitting at the right of an initial no-trump bidder, should you bid a minor suit? 2. Against spade bid opponent leads 10 of diamonds. Dummy holds diamonds A Q J X X X. (a> Should declarer finesse holding X, X X diamonds. <b) Why? 3. Declarer bids no trump. All pass. Dummy holds J X X. Declarer holds A K K. What should declarer play, if opponent leads small card through dummy? The Answers 1. Asa general rule, no. 2. <a> No. (b) Second opponent may have King and will return partner's probable singleton. j.

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The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding; 200 words will receive preference. To the Editor: May I "speak my piece” in regard to your editorial, “Uncle Sam Pays”? First I want to commend the admirable character of your policies and editorials. In the main your paper is not swayed by politics nor mere expediency, but conforms strictly to sound logic, reason and plain justice, regardless of who or what interests your reason and convictions may be in conflict with. I Know of no other paper in Indianapolis that can say as much. However, do you not step out of bounds of honest judgment and justice on questions of reparations and war debts generally? Nationalism is well and good, but not to the extent of denying the rights of other nations. Now, in this editorial you do not say in so many words, but your editorial would indicate that you doubt the priority of reparations in the consideration of German obligations. I can not see any question at all. So long as finance has been a well ordered institution, prior loans and obligations have been accepted as preferred claims. If nations and individual corporations have made advances since the Versailles treaty, that is their business and strictly so and should in no way be considered as a prior claim. Except, perhaps, such definite sums as were actually outlined in the Dawes project itself and accepted by the allied ations. As to the question of debt cancellation. It seems to me to be sounder doctrine than not, both from the standpoint of justice as w'ell as hard business sense. This talk of the American taxpayer paying in the event of cancellation is rather puerile. We have the money, and—honestly now, how did we get it? Long before these debts were contracted the allied governments had literally spent their entire cash surpluses, national as well as that of their people and also the proceeds from the sale of their foreign securities and property, in THIS COUNTRY, buying the necessities of war and of life and at extortionate prices. The debts themselves were spent in the same manner and at progressively higher prices. Our enormous wealth in this country now is directly the result of outrageous profits for such material. Our own government, through the collection of heavy surtaxes off of these pyramided profits, shared in the profits of the game. It was certainly a merry little game and I can never be reconciled to the position of our country on this question. In fact, I doubt if any one seriously doubted, in Congress and out, but that these loans were merely meant in the way of contributions toward the conduct of the war. I was not here, but from what people tell me it was rather common talk that we would furnish supplies while the allies fought. I again want to congratulate you up on the usual high plane of your policies and convictions. WELL-WISHER. What kind of a gun is a “falcon?” A small mediaeval gun generally 20 to 30 calibres and light. While some are said to have been of sufficient size to throw shot of six pounds weight, the majority were much smaller.

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Art of Painting Came Late to Greece

FROM SOCRATES TO ARISTOTLE TT'EW nations have been able to achieve the intellectual refinement and esthetic sensitivity of a mature civilization, without sacrificing so much virility and unity that their lavish wealth becomes an irresistible temptation to impecunious barbarians Around every Rome hover the Gauls; around every Athens, the Macedonians. Culture and art arise after economic power and survive it, as the heat of the summer sun lingers in the autumn sea, and the fragrance of flowers remains in a room from which they have been taken away. While Athens decayed in wealth and power her writers and artists continued to adorn her homes, her streets and her life with statuary, painting, drama, poetry, oratory, science and philosophy. The state could no longer afford of art, but private individuals, with the keen taste of a dying civilization, provided a demand which stimulated every form of cultural activity. Doubtless is was the diminution of wealth which brought a close to the great epoch of the Athenian theater. The economic and spiritual resources of the people, broken by devastation and defeat, were inadequate to the careful staging of such spectacles as had marked the zenith of the Periclean age. The comic theatre under the form known to history as the “New Comedy,” flourished on a modest scale, and in the lost works of

Rensselaer Republican < Republican) Industry is to draft a platform to be submitted to the Republican and Democratic National conventions of the coming year. So will innumerable other groups and organizations, hence there is nothing startling or original in the idea. Industry is merely indicating that it yields nothing to certain other organizations in the matter of yearning to press our plastic civilization into moral and idealistic molds of its own peculiar fashioning. It has caught the great American idea that a moral or ethical code meeting the tenets of a group within the whole must necessarily be imposed upon the rest of mankind as the hope of salvation. There is some mention of honesty and morality in the purposes of the committee named to draft the platform. In other words industry seeks to make a political issue of business ehtics. That is entirely inconsistent with the modem practice of making personal habits political Issues, but in the light of experienve with such think it raises dark forebodings. It is the public to infer that the industrialists believe themselves so utterly lacking in business ethics as to justify Congress in amending the constitution making such ethics compulsory ,on pain of fine or imprisonment, or both? The most painful significance attaches to the world “platform” itself. The w'ord has come to epitomize objectives and goals as yet unrealized. It is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. And public honesty and morality are to be listed therein! “Insinuating and insulting,” if the public were to be asked. (Mancie Press) (Republican) Nearly everybody here knows that “Bob” Graves, the Negro who was shot to death Sunday night, following an argument over a game of dice, was a gambler; that he had been involved in liquor law violations; that he once was accused of killing another in a dance hall, and that he had served time in State prison because of a frightful automobile accident caused by hip drunkenness; also, it was known that he often was a power in local Repub-

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Menander it passed from the philosophical burlesque of Aristophanes to a more polite and superficial satire of complex and subtle life in the dying city. But the days of the giants were gone. The arts did not die, but they changed their home, passing more from Athens to the Greek cities and colonies that dotted the Mediterranean's shores. In Athens the new art of painting, which had begun under Pericles, came to its maturity under Zeuxis. The Greeks liked painting moderately, loving color less than line, and suspecting the quick mortality of paint under the enmity of time. They had seen the figures on the Parthenon painted, and probably before they died they had seen those brilliant colors fade or drop away. For many years It was only in this subservience to sculpture, pottery and architecture that painting found a place. a a a THEN Polynotus pleased Athenian fancy by painting on the wall of a colonnaded porch (called thereafter the Ston Poikile or painted porch) a vast panorama cf the battle at Marathon, alive with the figures of Themistocles, Miltiades and Aeschylus. Polygnotus refused payment for this work, and for his similar adornment of buildings at Delphi; perhaps he enjoyed the novelty, as Tom Sawyer's friends were seduced into enjoying it. In a rare moment of gratitude the council of the Greeks decreed that the modest painter should be enter- j

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lican politics, but who until they read it today, knows that “Bob” also was a hero? He was thought of while living and he is thought of now as a lawbreaker, and it is not denied that he was all of that, but who that did not know him personally is aware that except when he was drinking he was so polite and considerate, that he w'ell deserved to be called “polished,” and that he had a cheerful smile and a winning personality which, had he been of white complexion and had tended toward good citizenship instead of away from it, probably would have made him a leader of men? Yet these things are true. He was in the thick of the fighting in the Argonne region and was cited for conspicuous bravery in action after he and a second lieutenant had wiped out a German machine gun nest. And he was in the thick of the shot and shell and gas in the historic battle of

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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. A'l ether questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. Who was Proteus? In ancient Greek mythology “the old man of the sea.” He is described by Homer as dwelling in the isle of Pharos. He tended the flocks—the seals—of Poseidon and had prophetic powers; but any man who desired his advice must seize him and hold him while he changed into one shape after another; if he was kept a prisoner at least he returned to his true form and declared the future. Later stories make him a king of Egypt. What was the Rye House Plot? A real or pretended conspiracy in 1683 to assassinate Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, and place the Protestant Duke of Monmouth on the throne. It took its name from the meeting place of the conspirators, the Rye House on the River Lea near Hoddesdon. The king and his brother were to be murdered on their way from Newmarket to London. But they left

tained at the public expense wherever lie should go. Slowly the new art improved. The chemical experiments required to produce the masterpieces of Greek pottery developed better methods of mixture. Oil colors were unknown; melted wax was used as a base, and the artist paint- ’ ed on wooden tablets while the wax was still fluid, leaving it to harden I as it cooled. Towards 400 B. C. Apollodorus i revolutionized the art by introduc- | ing shadow and perspective. Painting in bright colors the lighted side of every object, and in dark colors i the unlighted side, he gave solidity | to form and brought his figures out I from that flat surface on which Polygnotus had been content to leave them. And by varying the size of objects to indicate their distance, Apollodorus achieved such novel wonders in perspective that his contemporaries called him the “shadow painter” and Plato denounced him as guilty of an outrageous deception. With Zeuxis (420-380 B. C. the art scored such triumphs as to make his name the center of many pleasant tales. His forte was realism; story had it that he painted grapes so much like life that birds came and pecked at them. His rival Parrhasius was not to be outdone he painted a scene partly covered with a curtain, and invited Zeuxis to come and see the picture. Zeuxis came, and trying to draw aside the curtain, found it a painted curtain, as unreal as his grapes. (Copv *M. ’D2’7 bv Will (To Be Continued)

St. Mihiel, where the American soldiers served notice upon the world that they were fighting men come there to help put an end to the world’s greatest conflict. It was there he was wounded. And though there was in his nature something of the jungle, he was noted for the way he stood back of his friends, and he did not care much whether they were right or wrong, just sq they were his friends. This is not written with any thought of palliating the misdemeanors and possible crimes “Bob” may have committed nor whitening his character which seemed mostly bad. But “Bob” is dead now and it will do no harm to keep his record straight, even though he was black and possibly was guilty of all the things with which he was charged. Somewhere in nearly every man’s life can be found at least a few credits to contrast with his social debits; here and there a white mark to be chalked up against the black.

Newmarket sooner than was expected. thereby saving their lives. Monmouth escaped to the continent but Lord William Russel and Algernon Sidney were executed for alleged conplicity in the affair. What Is “Salic Law?” Generally the law by which females and those who trace their descent from the royal house through females are, in some countries, debarred from succeeding to the throne. In reality the Salian or Salic law is a barbarian Teutonic code of law of uncertain date, perhaps about A. D. 460, upon a doubtful passage of which the so-called Salic law is founded. It was the operation of Salic law that prevented Queen Victoria from proceeding to the throne of Hanover on the death of William IV. Who pitched the only no-hit gam* in the American League In 1924? Walter Johnson of the Washing ton American League Club, in r game of seven innings against St Louis on Aug. 25. How can shellac be removed fron linoleum? Wash and scrub it with or denatured or wood alcohoL

DEC. 31, 1927

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Col. Charles .4. Lind, bergh Has Done More Than Any Human Being to Make the Year 1027 Worth Remembering

The year 1927 comes to a clcse in the calm of holiday relaxation. A hectic shopping season, with Christmas as its climax, leaves the country in a mood to take things quietly. In politics and in social life, as well as business, the interim generally is looked upon as a time to take account of stock, to review what has occurred, balance the ledger and get set for another twelve months. a a a Wide-Awake World Like most of its predecessors, 1927 offers many things for which to be remembered. This has come to be a wide-awake, active world. No year can go bv under existing conditions without some of the 1.700,000,000 now living in the world contributing something worth while. We are dealing not only with mass production in materials, but in ideas. Modern means of communication has converted human ingenuity into a great workshop. It no longer is an individual affair. The explorer, student and pioneer no longer are compelled to travel alone. ana Lindy—l927’s Hero Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has done more than any human being to make the year 1927 worth remembering. He has not only revealed the possibilities of aviation in anew ai-d startling light, but has reawakened faith in those old-fashioned heman virtues that jazzy jellybeans had well-nigh put out of business. It is peculiarly fitting that the close of the year should find carrying on, carrying the gospel v • clean, straight-thinking ism to our Latin neighbors. (! His present, Journey promises < dl---bigger results than his imme .Mr flight, across the Atlantic. , It not only represents a pionet ing feat of no little consequen 41 but a mission that already lit improved international relations.rw a a a ,81* He Women, She Men ’ The young people of this country needed a Lindbergh, need someone 1 to remind them that life held* opportunities for adventure and triumph without a hip-pocket flask <y a petting party. Social ideas had slumped to a shoddy level. Lipstick, the Charles* town and joy-riding had taken t™ spotlight. The Horatio Alger philosophy had give nplace to a tawdry collection of smart alee stunts. Too many boys and girls had come to believe that youth must be a little off color to get anywhere. The notion that steadiness counted for much, that honesty was an ass and virtue a charm, lost popularity* Flapperism made way for the jellybean. The he-woman would have left lost and the natural lats defied if a shc-man had not apA peared to balance things. a a a Dissenter to Code Then came this chap Lindbergh. , a non-conformist, a dissenter to the newer code, flying forth alone in the night to challenge world-wide admiration and prove that th> re was still merit in the world. It Is not only Lindbergh’s achle’lfement that makes him the man of the hour, but his character. Ten million boys and girls have a new and better conception of life because of what he did. All they needed was a chance to accept some right minded man ac their model, and he gave it to them. He showed them how to play a. real game without falling for the cheap stuff, .without posing for the crowd or trying to cash in on the first wave of popularity. a a a Ezra Meeker’s Views Ezra Meeker who went across the country on foot before most of us were born, and since who has crossed it in every kind of modern conveyance, looks at the-world in his ninety-seventh birthday and finds it all right, with the possible exception that the present generation rides too much and walks too little. It was nine years before Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States that Meeker gathered up his wife, child, a team, crossed the Missouri at Omaha and set out for the six month’s Journey to Portland. Ore. Seventy-two years later, he retraced the route in an army airplane in thirteen and one-half hours. n a Advancing Civilization Uncle Ezra as his friends and acquaintances call him, sees civilization going steadily forward in spite of weak spots. “It is a slow process,’* he says, “and it takes some time, but things are better even today. Intellectual and artistic opportunities are, of course, much more plentiful. Health work has made life longer. Prohibition has made us happier and more prosperous. As for crime, perhaps we heard more about It today because there are more newspapers and ways of broadcasting reports.” So speaks a man who has lived and labored with four generations, who has traveled a hard road and been mellowed by it, who has seen wave upon wave of folly followed by reaction upon reaction of common sense and who realizes tha no matter how many Jellybeans civilization produces, it never will lack for a Lindbergh to right the situation. What kind of an instrument b a ain guage? It consists essentially of a cylindrical, vertical, metal vessfl, -whose harp edged top of known diameter' s connected with a funnel that conducts the rain into an inner idtasuring vessel. n