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No Issues? Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. * * * The above is a statement of a fundamental right. It is from the Constitution of the United States. Volumes would be required to tell the story of the century-long struggle to secure that right. Such a story would lead back through Runnymede to the days when royal persecutions stopped the mouth and paralyzed the pen of every critic of the existing order. It would revert to the time when tyranny and government were synonymous. It would be a story of bloodshed and bitterness to attain those liberties which now in cold type appear as the fundamental law of the “land of the free and the home of the brave/' * * * In Brooklyn, four men are facing trial on a conspiracy charge. Their arrest results from their circulation of a dodger headed, “Down with Government by Injunction.” The dodger attacked the use of injunctions by courts against labor unionism, with particular reference to recent events in the mining and Subway industries. In New Haven, nineteen Yale students are to be tried, following their arrest while distributing pamphlets supporting the neckwear strikers of that city. Such incidents as those in Brooklyn and New Haven are growing common in the United States of America today. How is it that they occur in the face of the constitutional guarantee quoted above? The answer is, that those rights which took so long to attain arc not being as jealously guarded as they once were, by those who control affairs of state. As generation succeeds generation, people of our nation become more and more remote from the struggle w\hich secured the inherent liberties; they are taken more and more as a matter of course, like fresh air and sunshine; modeni society grows more and more prone to forget that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. So here, there, and elsewhere, events are happening that constitute an attack on our structure of free government, without arousing much protest from an apathetic public. • # # A presidential campaign is upon us, and one of the most frequent comments is that both the Republicans and Democrats lack issues. They do not. There are issues aplenty—issues that should be burning ones. It is the business of the statesmen of today to accept responsibility for preserving that for which the forefathers fought. And in the platforms of both major parties, when they assemble in June, should be written a rededication to those principles which are now under attack wherever an event occurs such as those in Brooklyn and New Haven, wherever a home is invaded without a search warrant, wherever a speedy trial is denied, wherever freedom of religion is assailed, or “due process of law” withheld from even the humblest of our citizens.

Keeping It Clean No greater insurance against political corruption for at least five years could be had than is furnished by the unusual offer of Mrs. William E. English of SI,OOO each year to the newspaper reporter who does the most for the political good of the State. There is an additional offer of SSOO cash year for the reporter who accomplishes most in some activity or enterprise that is not political. The part played by the newspaper reporter is not generally appreciated or understood. The reporter is the eye of the community. The editor is helpless without facts. The newspaper depends upon the alertness, the keenness, the integrity and the brains of the men who gather the news for its ability to serve the public. The donor of this annual gift hit upon the right spot in the newspaper to offer an incentive to larger public service. This reward should stimulate activity in every city and county among newspaper reporters. That gift should do much to make the State pafe for the ordinary citizen. That incentive should spur to greater activity every newsgatherer in the State. Eyes will be open a little wider to public wrongs and brains will be centered upon possible opportunities to do a greater service to the community. The State is now cleaning up. The offer of 4(51,000 each year should do much to keep not only the State government clean for the next fivi years but petty grafting is likely to become unpopular in cities and counties where alert

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reporters have this added incentive to expose corruption and protect the public. The other offer for services in matters that have no connection with politics is even more promising. There is a chance for the idea that builds. What the reporters on the many newspapers of the State may accomplish for their communities is unlimited. Every advance is the result of an idea. But ideas alone are futile. There is need of action. What will the reporters of the State do for the State in the next five years? They will keep it clean. That is assured. They will also build. A Marine Mule The list of citations made by the marine corps for gallantry in action in the recent light with Sandlno’s men confirms our suspicion that the leathernecks more than lived up to the traditions of their service on that occasion. But, of all the citations, there is one that, to us, stands out in a class by itself. Here it is: “John A. Harris, private first-class. Harris rendered himself conspicuous by exposing himself to heavy enemy fire in order to obtain ammunition from the back of a terrorized mule.” That sentence, somehow, gives a perfect picture of the flight. One sees the thicket-dotted scene of action. Khaki-clad marines sprawl on the ground, grimly peering along their rifle sights and firing intermittently. The air is full of an unholy noise, and bullets are spat-spatting off rocks and whipping through the bushes. Occasionally a man contracts •with a grimace, rolls over and relaxes Ills grip on his gun. Into this scene comes a mule laden with ammunition. Sweating men, cowering behind rocks and logs, look up and cry, “For God's sake, let’s have some o’ them cartridges!” Private Harris, the mule’s escort prepares to unstrap the bandoleers from the mule's back. But it takes more than a few bullets to knock the cussedness out of a mule—especially a marine corps mule. The mule moves with a contrariness bom of his father, Satan. Buckles and fastenings jerk irritatingly out of Private Harris’ reach. To stand erect unfastening them is highly dangerous, as Private Harris is well aware. The scene that follows is plainly visible to anyone who has had experience either with marines or mules. We are not acquainted with Private Harris —we rather wish we were—and we do not know whether he is given to profanity. But our mind's eye can picture him wrangling with a recalcitrant, triply-cussed mule in the midst of flying bullets—muttering untold threats, pleading, cursing, calling on all the marine corps’ gods, outlining the exact details of the mule's unspeakable ancestry-, consigning mules, Nicaraguans amt jungles to the deepest pit—and at last getting the fastenings loose and handing out to his comrades the sorely-needed ammunition. Yes, we repeat; that one sentence in Private Harris’ citation describes the battle better than many reams of copy ever could. And we’d like to indorse the citation, if we could; to add our qwn cheer to the plaudits for the lantern-jawed marine who wrangled a peeved Missouri mule while Nicaraguan riflemen took potshots at him. Like a Greek TragedyMan is the unfathomable being. You can never tell what is hidden in his heart. You can never forecast what he will do when tempted. You can never write a man's story until he is dead. There’s a case in point, a case like a Greek tragedy. For years the prisoner at the bar had been a faithful letter carrier in a British town. For years he liad been a good father, a good husband, a good citizen. Then one day he fell. He stole from the mails. He took a whole two dollars. He was arrested as a thief. It meant dismissal from his steady Job. He was scon to be retired. It meant loss of a thousanddollar bonus that was due him. It meant loss of a life pension of fifteen dollars a week. But it meant more than that. His wife died heartbreak at the shame that had come to her man. The judge, with a very superior wisdom and human insight, dismissed the unforunate. He rightly observed that no court could punish him as much as he had punished himself. Ohio executed a mental defective of 17 and found the millionaire bootlegger George Remus was just a little crazy when he killed his wife, that’s all. Now we’re beginning to understand the State the “Ohio gang” came from. Astronomer G. T. Elvey of Northwestern University has written an article explaining why stars explode. We were given to understand recently it was the 10 per cent salary cut.—Goshen Democrat. Had the President used that iron horse and had it stuck out its paw at the receptions, he would have saved that sore hand and shoulder.—Washington Democrat. Experts say the farmers did fairly well in 1927. This will make every farmer in Indiana feel better, as they have been doubtful about it sometimes.— Huntington Herald. When all those marines gets into action General Sandino will have to change his name so it will not have much sand in it.—Warsaw Union. Don’t get too discouraged when just one romance proves a failure. Think how often the ocean is crossed in love. The parking ban in Chicago’s loop is declared a success. The aim is now unobstructed. Turks are allowed only three wives now. Following bobbed hair comes the bobbed harem. The ghost that Americans believe in is the one that walks on pay day.—Hartford City News.

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BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright. 1927. by The Ready Reference Publishing Company.) BY W. W. WENTWORTH

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Caesar and Romes Restoration

A LL Italy rose to welcome Caesar. Towns opened their gates to him, and the garrisons sent to stop him joined his army. The Senate, understanding at last the mood of the country, took to its heels and fled to Capua, with half the aristocracy behind it. Pompey, hesitant with age. could not decide upon a definite policy. One of his generals. Domitius, on his own responsibility, wen to halt Caesar at Corfinum; he fell into the snare of the great general’s strategy, found himself surrounded, was captured, and was pardoned on condition that he would never fight against Caesar again. He rejoined Pompey at once in unscrupulous violation of his agreement, while his troops with better judgment, enlisted in Caesar's legions. Pompey retreated to Brindisi. Caesar, following in hot pursuit, found time to make a last effort for peace: he despatched a messenger to Cicero asking him to serve as mediator with Pompey; Cicero tried, and failed: and. though he was a leader of the aristocracy, he wrote to a friend that he was disgusted with Pompey, feeling convinced that Pompey had for two years been plotting to make himself Dictator, and was not resolved on war to achieve his aim. Cicero abandoned Pompey’s camp.

Bloomington Star (Republican) Next to the weather, the subject of dress provides the most universal topic of conversation. Particularly is this true of women's styles—what they wear and how they wear it—with a good example of such gossip provided this week in the ridiculous publicity accorded Indiana University over a ruling of the dean of women that all girl students of the school should wear bloomers. Spiced with reportorial imagination. the story made the first pages of the metropolitan newspapers, poking a good deal of fun at the State university in general and the illustrious guardian of coed welfare in particular. The publicity, as such, has its value, but the bloomer rule is not anew one. Bloomers came as a modest adjunct to short skirts at the State school as well as everywhere else when fashion so decreed, and the rule of the dean of women, which supplemented the ruling of fashion, recently came to the forefront again as a reiteration. But when a dean of women says to her girls, “Mind your bloomers,” the public laughs. Back of it all, however, will be a feeling of satisfaction among several hundred mothers of the State in knowing that their daughters attending the State school do not escape some good and wholesome advice when and where it is needed. Goshen News-Time* (Republican) It is doubtful if Governor Jackson is more anxious to have a friendly judge preside at his forthcoming trial on the charge of attempted . bribes than he is to have one who will not be prejudiced in favor of the prosecution. Ordinarily such a condition does not present itself in court trials. Requests for change of venue usually are urged through fear of being unable to procure an unbiased jury in the jurisdiction in which the alleged offense was committed. In spite of its legal aspects the prosecution of Governor Jackson is largely political and therefore has created State wide interest. It is doubtful if there is in the State a person capable of forming an opinion who has not lined up for or against the Governor, and to a majority extent is being influenced by political consideration. This being true, it is as important for the Governor to secure an unprejudiced hearing of the charges against him as it is the duty of the prosecution to do so. With the best that he can hope for, Governor Jackson will

THE STORY OP CIVILIZATION

Written for The Times by Will Durant

and retired to a mild neutrality, praying that both the generals might die and leave the Prince of Orators king of Rome. On Caesar’s approach Pompey took ship across the Adriatic to Durazzo. The Roman fleet was still under Senatorial control. It seemed a simple matter to blockade Italy and starve Caesar into submission. Caesar, shiplcss, retired to Rome, and set about patiently to reorganize his army and the disordered capital. To those who had opposed him, and were still in the city, he offered amnesty, hoping to heal the wounds of conflict and to restore unity. Instead, his generosity led, his enemies to suspect him of weakness and timidity .and encouraged secret opposition and conspiracy. a WITH almost Utopian impartiality Caesar gave permission to all who wished to side with Pompey to go to him. Then the realistic element in his nature had its turn, and to finance his army and the administration of the city, he raided the treasury: and when the tribune Metellus stood in his way Caesar quietly informed him that he would kill him if he persisted in his obstruction. “And be assured, young man,” he said, “that it is easier for me to do this than to say it.”

What Other Editors Think

be at a decided disadvantage in court. The public doesn't like to have its Governor even suspicioned of an illegal act and when such a thing occurs he is apt to be criticised for bringing the State into unenviable notoriety through failure to comport himself in a manner that would preclude the possibility of being thought of as committing a wrong. This provides a very good reason why Governor Jackson should exert his very best effort to overcome the handicap which public sentiment has placed upon him. Rensselaer Republican (Republican) Now comes the time of the year when the State automobile license department instructs the State police that all Indiana machines must have new' plates by the first of February or be subject to arrest. The same rule was given out last year and years before, but then for some reason or other it was extended for fifteen days. Newspapers throughout the State desiring to cooperate with the State police gave them all of the publicity possible, but then the fifteen-day extension was granted. Such business as this on the department of the automobile license bureau is all nonsense and uncalled for. The newspapers are made the “goat” along with the State police. The statute in Indiana does not alloW any extension of time, but sets out that new plates shall be in use on the first day of January of each year. As it is, a bad precedent has been established in allowing six weeks before the law is enforced. There are 114 branch offices that distribute automobile licenses. It formerly was such that plates had to be obtained directly from the Statehouse so that more time w-as required, but now there should be no excuse for any extension of time, as each branch office could handle all business during the month of December, and arrests begin on the first day of the year. Goshen Daily News-Time* (Republican) In the chorus of condemnation poured upon William R. Hearst for his publication of the spurious Mexican documents, the big fact emerging is the high code of honor of the American press in general. Very few newspapers outside of the Hearst group touched those tainted revelations, except to make a note of the fact that such stuff was being published by Hearst and to express doubts of its authentic-

Then he compelled the bankers and business men of the city to lend him money, knowing that this would bind them to his support. Those who lent were fortunate: they received a good return; and within a short time the financial and commercial life of the city rose to unprecedented prosperity under Caesar’s rule. Meanwhile, to prevent a stoppage in the importation of corn he sent Curio to hold Sicily, the main source of Rome's food supply. Finding that Pompey’s friends had raised an army in Spain and were marching against him, he crossed the Pyrenees, faced and survived a thousand perils, and for a time was so near to destruction that many vacillating cowards in Italy (Cicero among them) abandoned his cause and flocked across to Pompey. But' Caesar's engineering ability saved him; he bridged flooded rivers and made roads over snow-bound hills; and when he met the enemy he overwhelmed them. Among the captured officers he found some who had been released at Corfinum on their promise never to fight against him again; nevertheless, he released them with the other officers, when they renewed their pledge. These pledges were broken at the first opportunity. (Copyright. 1928, by Will Durant.)

ity. It was “sensational news” of a kind that might be used to sell papers and stir up jingo patriotism and possibly punish political enemies. But in deference to journalistic standards of honor, forbidding them to publish matter impugning the honor of a friendly foreign government and a group of our own public men, they awaited proof before giving those documents currency and sanction. The outcome is now known to all newspaper readers. The documents were proved to be forgeries—proved so alike by disinterested experts and by Mr. Hearst's own experts. Which is what anyone moderately familiar with the Mexican situation and possessing a little newspaper experience should have assumed in the first place. Regardless of journalistic morals, it is an amazing thing that a publisher of the experience and position of Mr. Hearst should have taken or published anything of such importance without investigating its authenticity beforehand. Whatever the motive, it was an example of yellow journalism such as has not been seen in this country for many years. The unanimity and vigor with which it has been condemned makes all the more emphatic the fact that the American press as a whole is clean, decent and fair, seeking the truth and standing neither for domestic slander nor foreign insult. Bluff ton Banner (Democratic) Senator Watson hopped a train last evening for Washington, after a two-week stay in Indiana in an effort to "fix things up.” James Interviewed many of the faithful brethren of the party, most of his interviews taking place in Chicago, apparently, where the breeze from the lake has a sort a' purifying tinge, it is said, but so far as the cards show Jim accomplished nothing. Frank Ball, the fruit jar millionaire, says he does not want to run, and the last plan was to get Jesse Eschbach to make the sacrifice. The party leaders hate Eschbach, but they would take him on, in the hope of “breaking him” after they got him in office, as they have McCray and Jackson. Mr. Eschbach is no spring chicken arid, like Ball, has given no whoops, not even three cheers, over the invitation that is said to have been extended to him. Chances are the muddle is just where it was before Mr. Watson came to Indiana.

.JAN. 16, 1928

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The Two Americas Are Being Tied Together in Chains of Gold; Outside the War Debts, the Country Has a Greater Stake in Latin-Amcrica Than in Europe

It is to be feared that the man in the street does not take the PanAmerican conference very seriously, that to him it is just another palaver, which, though excellent in ideals, falls to promise much of practical importance. The man in the street is bothered by lack of knowledge, rather than lack of sympathy. Not only is he without any grievance against Latin America, but without any inclination to be unjust. His trouble lies in the fact that his ideas are based largely on information long out of date, or on conceptions that suit the movie far better than they suit the statesman. He has seen too much of the steeple hat and bowie knife to soft music, has read too much about banditry and revolution, and realizes too little of what has actually been going on. tt tt tt Aladdin Put to Shame Bankers, engineers and managers of branch houses could draw the man in the street a very different picture if they had the time. They could tell him tales that would not only put those of Hollywood to shame, but would make Aladdin seem a second-rate magician. They could tell him not only how modern life has swept Latin-Amer-ica. but how it has attracted no less than $5,000,000,000 from the United States. They could tell him how American automobiles are clogging the streets of Buenos Aires, how American locomotives are drawing great freight trains over the slopes of the Andes, how American elevators are lifting business men in the office buildings of Valparaiso and how American machinery is whirring the cotton mills of Argentina. tt tt tt U. S, Capital Invested Outside of the war debts, this country has a greater stake in LatinAmerica than in Europe. From a total of lhtle more than $1,000,000 sixteen years ago, our investments in' Latin-America have mounted to $5.0000,000,000. This represents an average increase of about 300 per cent, but in some countries the increase has been vastly more. In Chili, for instance, where we had an investment of $15,000,000 in 1912, we now have one of $450,000,000. In Venezuela, where we had an investment of $3,000,000, we now have one of $162,000,000. In Colombia, where we had an investment of. $2,000,000 we now have one of $125,000,000. a tt Chains of Gold The two Americas are being tied together not only with chains of gold, but in such a rapid way as affects their relationship. What was the simple task of preventing the exploitation of a dozen weak and new-born governments by Eui-opean monarchs 100 years ago, when the Monroe Doctrine was first announced, has developed into a complicated network of international problems. tt tt tt The Monroe Doctrine The real difficulty in our relations with Latin America consists in the fact that changed conditions have forced anew significance on the Monroe Doctrine. Originally designed to place this country in the role of protector for Latin American republics, is has become a dogma which permits this country to meddle in Latin-Ameri-can affairs, not only on its own account, but by request from Europe. The Nicaraguan situation furnishes a vivid example of this. It has been officially admitted that we are in Nicaragua not only because the Diaz government asked us, but because England, Italy and Spain informed us that the rights and property of their citizens were in danger and that being prevented from taking effective measures on their own account by virtue of the Monroe doctrine, they would hold us responsible. tt tt Right on Interference It is expedient perhaps for the Pan-American conference now in session at Havana to sidestep the Nicaraguan situation, disregard its essential bearing on the Monroe doctrine and ignore the policy for which it stands. One finds little difficulty in understanding how some good purpose might be served by sidestepping an open debate at this time. That will neither remove or settle the issue, however. Out of the Monroe doctrine has grown a group of responsibilities partly assumed by this country on its own account, and partly thrust upon it by other governments, which cause it to claim and practice such rights of interference in the domestic affairs of LatinAmerican peoples as are not in accord with international law, much less with common justice. Our presence in Nicaragua is justified on the theory that we have a right to send armed forces into a country when the defacto government requests their presence and when European governments demand that we protect the lives and property of their nationals. We may well pause and ask ourselves where such a theory leads, and we may well pay some attention to the arguments of LatinAmerican diplomats that it Is not only unsound, but bound to cause disturbances in our relations with their governments. When walking on a public highway which side of the road should one take? The left side, so as to face oncoming traffic.