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The “New Deal” The fine promise that there was to fee anew deal in Republican politics in this State as a result of the disclosures in the past few months seems to have been lost. With the State chairma'n of that party under indictment, with the Governor elected by that party facing a trial, there was a demand for something drastic. Were it merely a matter of partisan politics, the question of what would-happen, if anything, would not be so important, but there is something more than that. There are many thousands of independent voters in this State who desire a choice between two good tickets next year, rather than being driven to choose between parties. There are more th6usands of voters who traditionally hold to the policies of Lincoln and Roosevelt who are in revolt and who hope for something more than an apology for past deeds. That this situation was serious is evidenced by the fact that Senator James Eli Watson was announced as the dictator, largely because the forces which are now discredited had been his chief bulwark of strength in the past. With the blare of great publicity, the Senator was declared to be on his way home to change the whole situation by selecting anew pilot for the party and picking a candidate for Governor who would be so outstanding in character and so different from offerings in the past that there would not even be a challenge in the primaries. . The Senator has come and gone and the net result seems to be that he left orders to get signatures to petitions which will place him upon the ballot in this State as a candidate for President. dust how the candidacy of Watson * for President will offer anything that is even suggestive of a “new deal” is rather difficult to understand. There arc some that are possible in this country, but that Watson will ever be President or a candidate for President is not one of them. ' There are depths which defy plumbing by Thought or imagination and this is one of them. Probably no one knows his impossibility better than Watson himself and so his candidacy in this State can liaVe no other purpose than preventing the Republican Voters of this State from expressing themselves, as the law provides, on their preference for the presidency. The new deal is the same old dcay— the keeping of the power in the hands of politicians and the taking of it away from the people'. Watson, as a favorite son, is to gather delegates of his own selection and takefhem to the national convention to be voted at the proper time for some candidate that the voters of the State do not want. In the meantime the part}; which Watson commands is left with its chairman facing charges in the Federal Court. No word is said as to what is to happen to the candidacy ot Senator Arthur Robinson, who came into power through the inner group which is so generally discredited. Those who expected Senator Watson to show signs of repentance are disappointed. What he seems to have done is to merely try tq run away with the tangible assets of a bankrupt political concern and take for himself all that was left in s’ght. Perhaps there may come forward some real leaders who stand for decency and honesty and honor in politics who will go to the voters themselves for their certificates of leadership. Banishing the Klan Whether or not the courts will find a4egal reason for banishing the Klan from Indiana, under the suit brought for that purpose by Attorney General Gilliom, will be determined upon the issues. But there can be no question as to the necessity of ridding the State of this organization and more particularly of the sentiments which permitted it to get control of the State. Conceived in hate and bom in fraud, the organization is very largely responsible for the evils which have now been disclosed. The membership of that organization was misled by phrases of the leaders who disguised their real purpose. The men and women who gave fanatical allegiance to this hooded order allowed themselves to be swayed by appeals to passion and prejudice, and while they were misled, their votes were used to capture the government of the State. Whether anything will be accomplished by taking away the charter at this time is problematical. Much more important is the task of preventing a, repetition, under any name, of the events which make the Klan the menace that it was. Thousands of men and women who know how they were betrayed have turned away from the organization. They understand better than those on the outside just how badly they were deceived and it is not probable that any future appeals by hired organizers would lead them back to this particular organization. It hardly seems possible that any wizard from Washington could again give orders to officials of Indiana and have them obeyed. But hate does not die. Prejudice and passion are not taken away by tearjMk up a charter. Banishing the fine gesture. Banishing hate and prejudice is action.

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Naval Investigation Believing with Senator Hale, chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, that the good name of the American Navy entitles it to an inquiry by an impartial body, this newspaper expresses the hope that the President, in naming his commission, will select one which, by its very make-up, will inspire the confidence of the Nation. In fact, nothing could be more important. This confidence has been waiting in recent years, thanks to a somber list of disasters which many consider much too long. Drawing upon the youth of the land for its personnel, and upon the taxpayers of the country for its maintenance, the public’s faith “must be kept unimpaired if our Navy is to be all it should be as our first line of defense—a Navy surpassed by none. That something is wrong somewhere is self-evident. And that the chief trouble is to be found among the higher-ups, is also a patent fact for the simple reason that the lower grades belong to the theirs-not-to-reason-why-theirs-but-to-do-or-die brigade. But in saying this we do not join the ranks of those who would consign all the higher officials to the home for old fogies, though we do urge that something is amiss with the system and that a hidebound bureaucracy has considerable to do with it. The tragedy of the S-4, resulting in the loss of forty lives, illustrates the point. Why aren’t look-outs posted to keep surface vessels off a submarine’s testcourse? Why aren’t telephone buoys built into submarines? Why aren’t grappling rings attached to such craft? Why Isn’t more thought given to the safety of submarine crews? Ask any of these and similar questions and almost always the answer is' unconvincing. “We’ll tie a baby-blue ribbon ta the periscopes if the public demands it,” a high official is understood to have remarked, “‘but every such wrinkle reduces fighting capacity, which is the main requirement of a warship.” Which, no doubt, is true. But it does not answer the questions. There are precautions which can be taken,-unconnected with the structure of the vessels themselves. They should be taken. Precious safety de- ] vices may be added, even to submarines, if sought in the proper frame of mind, devices whiefi would not lessen their fighting qualities an iota. These things should be found and applied. The resignation of Secretary Wilbur has been called for by some. Even were h$ to comply it. would have ho appreciable effect on the situation. The system itself must be changed—the slow-moving, unimaginative, bureaucratic system which actually runs things, whether it be Wilbur or some other figurehead in th£ secreftry’s chair. A powerful personage, like the late Theodore Roosevelt, may make things hum for a time, but they happen along only once every fifty years or so, and not often enough to solve our problem. Perhaps the commission which President Coolidge has asked authority to appoint will be able to offer some suggestions. It certainly can if it is of the' proper caliber. For if it really goes to the bottom of the situation it is bound to uncover much of what' is the matter with the Navy. , Justice for Doctors Sometimes one feels that we do not appreciate our men in the medical profession. We are quick to run to them when we are ill, but how swiftly we forget them when good health comes back. Os late, it seems to me, they have been receiving more than their just share of hard words. They have been accused of fee-splitting, of overcharging, of quackery. I do not believe it of many of them. They have really only one grave fault, which they share with lawyers and opera singers. They are so prone to j converse in an unknown tongue. When your doctor feels your pulse and with a professional scowl opens his mouth and lets fall one of those six syllable, frightful sounding medical terms, it is enough to run your fever up. . The ; good man generally means nothing by it. It is merely his playful little way of impressing you with his wisdom. There is no use in grabbing his coat lapel and, with pleading eyes, asking for verbal justice. He will only hide behind more Latin while looking at you in the same patronizing way that a Congressman looks at a newsboy, and leave you completely in the dark. Nothing can give you such a feeling of inferiority and ignorance as to hear a couple of medical men discussing your symptoms. They utter their phrases with cold indifference to your sufferings. Let us suppose, for instance, that you are troubled with the itih. Your skin specialist—pardon me, your dermatologist—will say that you have an aggravated case of psoriasis. How ca)| you help feeling worse under that blow? Such mouth-filling, staggering words as xeroderma, septicemia and uvulatomy and thermoanesthesia and syrigmus, are mere child’s play for our physicians. Does it not seem unfair, however, that they should inflict them upon credulous patients? But no doctor will use a short word when he can find a long one, or an Anglo-Saxon term if a Latin one exists. Can it be that the length of the word determines the size of the bill? Oh, no. But, all the same, they are very canny men, these doctors, and know how to make us keep our place. It is about this time every year when Old Dobbin has a good laugh on the automobile by pulling people through deep snows where the modern conveyance refuses to budge.—Washington Democrat. It would suit many a man if he could dodge responsibility like he does automobiles.—Auburn Star. There must be a big surplus of uncut dress goods stored somewhere.—Elkhart Truth. I . v ' What’s going to happen? Prince Carol has not renounced the throne for a week.—Warsaw Union. Next to “Bill” Thompson, Scarface A1 Capone is Chicago’s most prominent citizen.—Auburn Star, Don’t get too enthusiastic. The ambition to paddle your own canoe also includes the right to turn it over. '■ *' • /

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Mr. Fixit State Ave., Artery to South Side, Opened to Traffic After Server Workers Finish With Tear-Up.

Let Mr. Fixit, The Times’ representative at city hall, present your troubles to city officials. Write Mr. Fixit at The Times. Names and addresses which Opening of State St., south side artery, was ordered today by City Engineer A. H. Moore on request of a correspondent of Mr. Fixit. Dear Mr. Fixit: State Ave. has been closed several days at the intersection with Pleasant Run Blvd. The important street was closed because of the Pleasant Run main interceptor sewer but they have been working several blocks from there for several days. Will you see if it can not be opened at once. It is an important street. SOUTH SIDER. Engineer Moore investigated the complaint and ordered the street opened as soon as possible. Dear Mr. Fixit: Will you have the city compel the Murphy Cable Company to repair the pavement they dug up at Capitol Ave. and Thirtieth St. and Kenwood and Thirtieth St. The dirt is scattered over the street and is dangerous. a. G. N. The city inspection department promised relief. Dear Mr. Fixit: There arc two electric light poles on my lot at Palmer St. and S. State Ave. A heavy cable almost touches my house. Can you have it removed. c. J. H. The light company promised to remove the cable, according to A. J. Middleton, former chief inspector.

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The name and address ot the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceedinc 200 words will receive preference. To the Editor: I see where someone has suggested that Congress give Lindbergh a pension of $2,000 a year. It is a good suggestion. It takes nerve to “step on the gas” and start a plane, across the ocean and anyone with the courage to do it deserves credit. 3ut why not, at the same time, give the boys who went to France during the war a pension of SIO,OOO a year? It takes more courage to do that—not knowing whether you are going to get blown up or not than it does to cross the ocean in time of peace. Besides, they were going to fight for their country. Lindbergh went for glory. If the soldiers went for glory they lacked a lot of getting it. To think of the “hullabaloos” raised when Queen Marie and Lindbergh came! Oh, that people could learn to give honor where honor is due! JOHN ACKERS, 313 N. Denny St. How much damage was caused by forest fires in the United States last year? It amounted to $26,912,295. The loss was the result of 91,793 fires which burned over 24,316,133 acres. Can fish breathe out of water? True fish breathe by means of gills. Water is passed through the gill openings and oxygen from the water is extracted in the process. The water mammals such as whales, seals, etc., breathe, like other mammals on land, from the air, and they come to the surface for that purpose. Some fish come to the surface and some occasionally jump clear of the water, but neither action is for the purpose of breathing; it is either to feed or to escape enemies.

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Alexander Sighs for New Worlds

Alexander marched on through Persia into India, and stood on the hanks of the Ganges; surely then he must have realized that (here were many worlds to conquer, and that the earth, small as it was, was too large for Alexander . His soldiers grumbled, being men, not gods; and at last their wistful leader yielded to them, and turned his face unwillingly toward home. Everywhere he left garrisons and founded towns; thereby, and through his lenience with local cults and institutions, he hoped to keep the conquered population in quiet subjection while he would civilize them with Greek philosophy and irregular verbs. He had now brought under his sway nearly all the states of Greece, each jealous of its neighbors, and incapable of unity to win a corporate independence; he had conquered most of Asia Minor chaotic with diverse and warring peoples whose history makes the Old Testament read like Creasy’s “Fifteen Decisive Battles;” he had forged a vast chain of empires and nations from Egypt through Palestine, Armenia, Media, Persia. Parthia to India. He did not realize the intense nationalism and separatism of these tribes, the wild heterogeneity of their cultures and beliefs; he did not consider the great distances that isolated them, and the scarcity of means for that persistent intercommunication and exchange which is essential to unity. How much better it would have

(Noblesville Ledger) (Republican > It Is hoped that the management of the financing of the Marion County Courthouse may never come to the ears of Silent Cal • Coolidge. The fact that the original cost of the temple of justice was $950,000 and that the taxpayers of Marion County have paid, in interest, t the goodly sum of $2,546,000 would shock the economical President. Paying interest rather than the principal of any debt is the very poorest kind of financing. It is hoped that the Courthouse at Indianapolis may be paid in full before anew one is absolutely necessary. Carrying a debt on a building for well toward sixty years is an example of financing that should give the taxpayers of Marion County heed. (Marion Chronicle) Sales have already justified the $1,700,000 advertising campaign which introduced the new Ford to the public. The Ford Motor Company spent $1,300,000 and Ford dealers spent $400,000 for advertising during the five days preceding the “unveiling.” Now General Motors is embarking on a $15,000,000 promotion campaign to advertise the new Chevrolet and other automobiles of the General Motors line. This Ford advertising campaign, the most remarkable ever promulgated in this country, was conducted entirely through the daily and weekly newspapers of the 'United States and Canada. Virtually every newspaper carried this advertising, and it is no exaggeration to say that it was seen by more than 100,000,000 people. Since last April the largest manufacturer of electrical machinery, supplies and devices has confined its advertising to the newspapers. This change of policy followed a na-tion-wide survey from which the company arrived at the following conclusion: “Newspapers seem to offer the only medium by which we can both nationalize and localize our various sales campaigns, thus permitting us to conduct a nation-wide campaign on products and at the same time vary our program to fit the needs of specific districts.” Apparently, the automobile wizard arrived at similar conclusions before launching the advertising campaign for his new product. His long and successful years in the manufacturing and marketing of motor cars hav taught him where and how to find his buyers. And the Ford family has never been known spend

THE STORY OP CIVILIZATION

Written for The Times by Will Durant

been If he had let Asia sleep, and turning west, had solidified the cities and colonies of the Greeks, from Thrace to Naples in a realm strong enough in body and soul to withstand the coming Oriental tide of migration and belief. But he missed the chance to be a better Rome to become a genius of organization giving order to a civilization of geniuses. He was, we must remember, a lad of thirty when, like a Colossus, he bestrode the world. He had been led on to victory by imagination; and by imagination he was to be destroyed. a a a ALEXANDER AS GOD HIS plan for the unification of East and West was as romantic as youth;/he would marry Darius’ daughter, and encourage similar adventures among his soldiers and his generals. It was true that he was already married; but this was a consideration unworthy of an emperor; he now took two wives more; he was resolved to give a generous impetus to that ethnic fusion by intermarriage which he hoped would make at least one nation of a thousand tribes. At the same time he adopted for himself the Persian robe of State, and the diadem, Persian symbol of supreme authority. Instead of conquering the Orient, the Orient had begun to conquer Alexander. Finally in his endeaver to Hellenize the East, he introduced to Europe the Oriental idea of the

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its millions with prodigality. One of the reasons for the increasing use of newspaper advertising by national advertisers is the fact that the public has been educated to look for their announcements in the' newspaper. Newspaper advertising has the most readers and is most read. Only th° newspapers are read by everybody. (Richmond Palladium) (Independent) Another politician, high in the ranks of his party, is indicted. This lime it is a Federal grand jury that acts, and Clyde A. Walb, Republican State chairman, is the official who must answer in court for alleged violations of the law. He is charged with a violation of the banking act while he was vice president of a bank in La Grange. Speeciifically it is alleged that he used the bank’s money in connection with a construction company in which he was interested. The indictment of Walb recalls the fight he made to stop the investigation of political corruption in Indiana. He and Governor Jackson, the latter under indictmeent for an alleged attempt to influence the decision of Warren T. McCray when he was Governor in the selection of a prosecutor in Marion County, not only ridiculed the efforts of Republican editors to free the State government from sinister influences, but also tried to kill the investigation after it had gotten under way. Walb also was responsible for the statement that international bankers were spending money in Indiana to influence public opinion, a move that quickly brought Senator Reed into the State to investigate the charge. Senator Reed’s presence assisted materially in swinging public opinion to the support of the investigation. Walb’s indictment, even if it is not in connection with the political scandal, again focuses the attention of the entire country on the government of Indiana. The financial operations of a Stat£ chairman of a political party are under the condemnation of a Federal grand jury. If he were not a prominent figure in political circles his indictment would be only an ordinary news event of the day. Citizens of Indiana in that case would pay little attention to it. But Walt is the head of the Republican orgar. nation in this State. He holds a position of trust apd importance in a political party, whose administration, of public affairs in the last four

omnipotence and divine right of kings. He withdrew the liberties which he had granted to the cities of Hellas. and assumed absolute power. He astonished Greece by revealing that the oracle of Jupiter Ammon in Egypt had named him a god. Two thousand years later Napoleon was to complain that the people of his time were too clever, or he might have tried the same plan. But even in Alexander’s day they were too well informed; it had not been Sophists and Platos and Aristotles for nothing. When it heard that Alexander had become a god, Greece merely laughed. If Alexander had been a mature genius of thought as well as a boy of limitless courage in action, he too would have laughed and made it plain to his friends and to the Greeks that this’sudden divinity was solely for Oriental consumption. Instead of that, the new god issued an edict requiring all who came to him on affairs of state to kneel and kiss his feet. To make himself a little more seductive he shaved his face, so introducing another nuisance into Europe. He dreamed of having Mt. Athos carved into a vast statue of himself, with a town of ten thousand people living in his hand. When the Greeks about him smiled at his new dimensions, he sent them away and surrounded himself with Asiatics accustomed to subservience. (Copyright. 1927. by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

years has been under fire, and justly so, for its mismanagement and its palpable toleration of irregularities in office. With the mayor of the largest city in Indiana ousted from office and convicted of violating the law, with the Governor of the State to be tried' on a serious charge in February, with another Governor on parole from a Federal prison, with a grand jury still collecting evidence of .corruption in the affairs of thq State Government, Indiana may well feel disgusted with its political household and lose respect for many of its officials. The cheerful aspect of the whole sordid affair is the persistence with which the friends of good government have pursued their course to expose the corruption which they knew existed, despite f the efforts and machinations of Walb, Jackson and others, first to ridicule the investigation and then to block its progress. The expose of the corruption in the State government would have been accomplished in a few months if the proper authorities had given their support to the effort. Success was won despite bitter opposition. The indictment of Walb has discredited him thoroughly in his party, and his resignation, which he promised to submit, should be given forthwith. To let him remain as head of the Republican organization in Indiana a day longer than necessary is an affront to the sincere and honest members of his party. (Ft. Wayne News Sentinel) (Republican) State-wide interest has come into the Howard County grand jury’s investigation of the American Trust Company at Kokomo as a result of the inclusion of the State bank commissioner and his deputy among the eleven persons indicted. The State officials are charged with negligence in failing to take prompt action on receiving reports, that the Kokomo bank ■ was insolvent. Their indictment does not establish their guilt, of course, but the seriousness of the charges brought against them demands a thorough inquiry relative to all the circumstances. How much did American tourists spend in Canada and abroad in 1926? American tourist expenditures in Canada"during 1926 are estimated at $200,000,000, and for other countries excluding Mexico about $456,000,000. / . ' i

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Guiding It All (in Latin America) Is a Class of Honest Folk Who Seek Nothing but Civilized Progress and Whom We Should Not Only Respect but Assist.”

Anyone can take $15,000 or $20,000 to Mexico City and buy a bushel of documents which will prove anything from the invention of radio by the Mayas to membership in the Ku-Klux Klan by Archbishop Diaz, nan Marines at Work A majority of the American people does n,ot know why our marines are in Nicaragua today, but believe their presence is justified on general principle, the general principle being a product of tales, stories, rumors and insinuations, nine-tenths of which are pure fiction. The fact that Colonel Lindbergh cannot only fly from one Latin American capitol to another in complete safety, but be received with such acclaim as no native son ever knew, should warn us of the nonsense with which we have been dealing. tt tt Seek Only Progress There are Indians down there to be sure, who cannot even speak the Spanish language, there are millions who sleep on the ground and cook their food on hot rocks, there are multitudes of children who never have seen or never will see the inside of a school-house, and there are tribes who cling to jungle superstitions. But over it all and guiding it all there is a class of honest, earnest, conscientious folk who seek nothing but civilized progress and whom we should not only respect, but assist. tt tt Drop American Btfmbs " American airplanes now are bombing the retreat of General Sandino in the hills of northern Nicaragua, preparing the way for American marines to storm it. The marines will succeed, of course, as is their habit, and the United States will chalk up one more victory to its record. That is one way of putting our relations with Latin-America on a stable basis. The Lindbergh way is another. While the “devil dog” conquers hunreds, "he is converting millions. While a few stubborn rebels feel' the power of our machine guns and bombers, whole nations are thrilled with delight, enthusiasm and cordiality by the feats of this man eagle. > tt u a What’s Best Method Which method is better not only for the broad interests of peace, but for the practical interests of " commerce? Which method means more trade, more profit, more prosperity? Which method is more likely to result in relations that can be depended upon?

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