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Heflin’s Speech It remained for Senator Heflin of Alabama, in a characteristic speech, to upset the “harmony” the Democrats have been so assidiously seeking since their unfortunate experience in 1924. Had the Alabama Senator deliberately set about to smear salt in old wounds, he could not have accomplished his purpose more thoroughly than he did from the floor of the Senate yesterday. Starting out to discuss the Hearst documents, Heflin progressed into a bitter attack on the Roman Catholic Church and on the candidacy of A1 Smith because he is a Catholic. He made the same fantastic charges that have accompanied other speeches of a similar nature. This so provoked Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic floor leader, that he openly rebuked Heflin from the floor, accusing him of bigotry, intolerance, and of attempting to raise the issue of religion in the forthcoming election. It is most unusual for a party leader openly to denounce a colleague from the floor, and the fact that Robinson did so is an indication of the intensity of his ‘feeling. For that reason the incident is interesting, and it is interesting as well because of the oratorical fireworks. It may or may not be important. It is important if it reveals fundamental differences within the ranks of the Democratic party which will keep it from making a united effort in the coming election. If the party is engaged in settling its own internal quarrels, it will not stand forth as the advocate of important principles, and the country will be the loser. The party can be of no service if its energy is exhausted in fuitle bickering among cliques and factions. Meantime, fair-minded citizens will applaud Senator Robinson for his declaration that a candidate’s religion has nothing to do with his fitness to serve as President; and for this statement: “He does the country no service who lights the torch or sounds the cry of religious intolerance and persecution. The glory of our republic, the luster of our flag, and the promise of our future is locked up with the deeds of American citizens, and no distinction has been or can be made as to what religion they hold.” Dreams and Wisdom He whom a dream hath possessed knowcth no more of doubting. For mist and the blowing of winds and the mouthing of words he scorns. That little bit of verse is called to mind by reading the story of Fanny Read. Fanny Read has lived, a voluntary recluse, in an old tavern in Hancock, N. Y., since the Civil War. When the war started she kissed her sweetheart goodby and promised to wait for him. He never returned; but she is still waiting. Through all the years she has refused to leave the building, lest he come back and find her gone. It is nearly sixty-seven years now since Fanny Read's sweetheart went away. Long, long since it must have become painfully obvious that she never would see him again. Yet still she is waiting for him, a voluntary prisoner. Most people, doubtless, will feel pity for this solitary old lady. Her life, on the surface, seems a tragedy. And yet— One who can nourish a single delusion throughout a long life is fortunate. We born to follow will-o’-the-wisp fires; as fast as one fades in the swamp we seek another; and the revolving cycle of years brings us only new disillusionments. Our dreams die and are eternally, reborn in different shapes, and each death and rebirth is paid for by the loss of a portion of our joy in life. So it is that to be possessed, throughout life, by one unvarying stream—to be buoyed up always by one hope —is an enviable fate. And it does not matter particularly what this dream or hope may be, or where it leads the dreamer. Fanny Read has been led to futility and loneliness, to an abnegation of the com moner joys of life; yet, for all that, she has had her great illusion, has dreamed her great dream, and has kept it throughout life. k It is even beside the point to say that this may have been at the cost of mental balance. For all dreams unbalance us. Columbus, doubt it not, was half mad when he sailed to the unattainable rim of the western world. The great dream that made Daniel Boone consider himself an instrument ordained of God to make the wilderness habitable surely left him partly unbalanced. But that does not call for our pity. For sanity and disillusion are questionable boons, at best. The truly lucky are those who can be seized by dreams, transported to high mountain tops and shown the power and the glory of the world, carried away by a vision beyond the reach of commonplace facts. Poets know the truth of such things better than most. And a poet has written; He whom a dream hath possessed treads the impalpable marches. From the dust of the day’s lone road he leaps to a laughing star. And the ruin of worlds that fa H he views from eternal arches, And rides God’s battlefield in a flashing and golden car. Creating a New Dry Force It is difficult to sympathize with the plea of Prohibition Commissioner Doran that the 1,500 dry agents who flunked the recent civil service examination should be given another test. Congress directed that the prohibition unit should be placed under civil service, and the questions put to 2,000 agents were compiled by men who have been conducting the examinations for the rest of the Federal establishment in a reasonably satisfactory manner. A perusal "of the questions asked indicates they could have been correctly answered by persons with enough education and intelligence to be intrusted with the badge of authority by the United States. Doran offers the unique argument that the examinations have created a corps of malcontents and grafters, who, informed that they must leave the service, are “selling out.” Leaving out of account the notorious corruption of the dry. forces, it would seem reasonable to assume that a man who would "sell out” as Doran indicated is not to be trusted under any circumstances. Meantime, a corps of examiners will inquire into the character, personality, experience and training of those who survived the examination. Others may fall by the wayside. The same tests will be applied to the 4,000 new applicants who passed mental examinations for positions as agents, some 12,000 having been examined. This means that prohibition agents, in addition to passing a comparatively simple mental test, must give some Indication that they are honest citizens. It may be that the disruption of their organiza-

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tion is annoying to the chiefs of the prohibition muchiner. However, if the final result is to give us a better type of enforcement officer than which we have been afflicted in the past, the country will be wellsatisfied. Support the Ball Club For the sake of those who still get a kick out of baseball, for the sake of those who are thrilled at the heavy hitting of “Bunny” Brief, for the sake of t/.oss who hold their breath while Wid Matthews juds3s a long fly and makes sure to hold it in his glove, this newspaper hopes a way may yet be found to retain a baseball club in Indianapolis. For the sake of those who spend winter moments discussing averages, trades, and possibilities it is hoped that some site may yet be suggested that will meet with less opposition than the two so far considered. And for the sake of industrial and commercial Indianapolis it is hoped that some means may be found whereby those public spirited men who believe in this town can spend their money and give us a real ball park. This newspaper hopes that James A. Perry, owner of the club, will change the sentiment he expressed at the recent joint meeting of the city plan commission and park board which rejected the ThirtyEighth St. site, that he and his associates would do nothing more to give this town a real park in which a real club can play. In Milwaukee residences of a high class surround the bail lot, in Toledo the same thing holds good. The Cubs’ park in Chicago is on the north side in a strictly residential neighborhood, while Pittsburgh makes its ball park a part of the civic center and meny churches are found almost within a stone’s throw of the park. Indianapolis needs to show an appreciation of civic enterprise. Indianapolis needs to forget personal complaints and private grudges and really strive to make this “No MEAN City.” i Moving Mountains To widen your horizon it is best to go up on a mountain. If you can’t do that, however, it will serve just as well if you can level the hills and mountain peaks that surround your valley. The mountain peak is better, but the alternative is very good. It is this second plan that we may say American civilization is now attempting. The ordinary man of a century ago had a very limited horizon. He was, in a way, sunk in a valley of ignorance and unhappiness. The fears, the superstitions, the physical limitations and the economic boundaries that hemmed him in were much the same as those that had cramped the spirit of his remote cave man ancestor. There had been some progress, but it had been minute and painful. Then began that amazing series of inventions, discoveries and adaptations that brought about the industrial revolution and the age of science. The old confining hills were cut away. Things that obscured the vision of man a century ago are now sunk below the horizon. A long list of new forces were placed at the service of the common man. Science killed old superstitions, found new ways of healing the sick, arranged in a thousand ways to make man’s life easier and more pleasant. The old guild worker vanished before the modern factory, with the result that things which formerly would have been the exclusive privilege of the wealthy became the matter-of-fact necessity of the average man. Because of all of this, even the poorest man today has, in many ways, a better life than the rich man of a hundred years ago. All of this, we may say, constituted a leveling of the hills, the horizon of each one of us was vastly increased. Today there are certain evidences that we need now to take another step; we need to ascend the mountain peaks. We have our great scientific and industrial achievements, and they have given us a broader outlook than was possible to our grandfathers. Yet, seemingly, we have not yet learned how to use them. Materially we have gone far, indeed; but still we lack the complete vision that will tell us how to use these new servants of ours to the best advantage. In other words, we must advance spiritually and mentally as much as we have advanced physically. We must adjust our minds and our spirits to the new day. We must broaden our horizon now, not by removing any extraneous limitations, but by raising ourselves to a point where we can look beyond those things that can never be moved—those great facts like death and love and loneliness and spiritual hunger—and see more clearly* the way we are to go. Our Drinking Water Cincinnati has Just launched a health campaign which should interest every community in the United States relying upon rivers for its drinking water supply. Cincinnati since the war has been the victim of the great increase of bi-product coke factories which discharge phenol and othre industrial wastes into the Ohio River, rendering its drinking water not only unpallatable but unhealthful. Although able to control somewhat any factories in Ohio which cause the pollution, Cincinnati has found herself powerless to proceed against industries located in adjoining States because of the lack of Federal statutes enabling the Government to prosecute offending concerns. In an attempt to remedy this situation, Representative Charles Tatgenhorst of Ohio has Just introduced a bill In Congress to give the Government power to prosecute any concerns dumping phenol or other wastes into any navigable stream or tributary thereof. While there is some doubtjthat such a law would be constitutional Representative Tatgenhorst believes the power given Congress to protect the public welfare and its power to regulate interstate commerce on navigable rivers is adequate to Justify its legality. Safeguarding the health of our citizens is of such vital importance that Congress should lose no time in passing some measure to relieve Cincinnati’s problem so that its legality can be tested in court. In addition to keeping your ankles warm, jl pair of gray spats makes you look like an actor.—Goshen Democrat.

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

(Abbreviations: A—ace: K—ting; Q—oncen: J—lack; X—ar.v card lower than 10.) 1. Should second hand always play low? 2. Should you always cover an honor with an honor? 3. Should you lead to dummy's weakness? The Answers t. Yes, as a general rule; there are exceptions. 2. Asa rule, yes; there are exceptions. 3. Asa general rule, yes.

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The name and address ol the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. To the Editor: I have read with amazement the j solution of the baseball situation in Indianapolis offered by one of your correspondents. It seems to me that this solution, S first offering us an up-to-date team and plant and then ending up with , a mixed team in the ABC park ! on Eighteenth St., will not suit the ! local fans. It reminds me of the I hunter who started out for bear and j came home with a squirrel. Indianapolis is a “bear” town and should have a “bear” of a team. My suggestion would be for the | city officials to wake up and assist i Mr. Perry in his commendable efforts i to locate a representative plant and team here. He is not getting the t cooperation he deserves from them, evidently they consider him an enemy for disturbing their attention from the fascinating game of putting the skids under a clerk whose only crime is being a Republican and gumshoeing one in his place whose only merit is being a Democrat. The city of Terre Haute itself built the ornate stadium gracing I that city and leases it to the team |at a nominal rental. In that rej spect Terre Haute is far in advance I of Indianapolis. j The officials here should hasten to j rectify their mistake in denying Mr. I Perry’s plea for a park on E. Wash- | ington St., by rescinding their action | on that site and allow him to go ! ahead. The narrow-minded residents of Jefferson and Tacoma Sts. would find the stadium to be an artistic and ornamental structure, dignifying and improving the surrounding proper*/ and a vast im- ! provement over the filling stations, garages, junk shops and shacks which now infest that neighborhood. What the tans of Indianapolis need is a stadium, not in Beech Grove, or Riverside, or Southport, but one close in and convenient to reach. If this is done Indianapolis will take it’s rightful place on the baseball map, and if the attendance of the National League at Cincinnati or the American League at St. Louis does not revive, Indianapolis may take the place of one of these weak sisters. Then the fans need not fear Thfee-I ball, but can enjoy maior league entertainment. Every fan should boost for Mr. Perry and the Indians and put Indianapolis on the map. T. G. FREEMAN. To the Editor: Asa constant reader of The Times for many years, please let my voice be heard through the columns of your esteemed paper concerning capital punishment. It is both unjust and unwise. Nature’s laws, the only source to guide us in the framing of written laws, do not advocate the taking of life, only in self-defense in a pursuit of the necessaries of life, and it is through an ignorance of this fact that legislators enact the law giving man the so-called right to murder another, thus taking that which he cannot give. Only God, the creator of life, possesses that right. Twc wrongs, a murder by the murderer, and the murder of the murderer, cannot make one right, whether it deters others or not, and society can more justly protect itself by the incarceration of the murderer. FRANCIS BROWN.

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Burning His Candle at Both Ends

Caesar, Tired of Life, Restores Rome

WITH a splendid carelessness, Caesar offered amnesty tc all his foes, even to Cassius and Brutus and Cicero, who had sided against him again and again. Cicero was affected by this remarkable generosity, and lavished his finest eloquence in praise of Caesar: “No conqueror in a civil war has ever been so mild as you have been . . . With sorrow I have heard you say that you have lived long enough. For nature it may be that you have, and for glory. But for your country you have not. Put away, I beseech you, this contempt of death. Be not wise at our expense. . . . Your work is unfinished; the foundations are hardly laid; it remains for you to rebuild the Constitution. Live till this is done: live till you see your country tranquil and at peace. Then, when your last debt is paid, when you have filled the measure of your existence to overflowing, say, if you will, that you have had enough of life.” It is possible that this subservient speech was an attempt to put Caesar off his guard. For even as Cicero polished his laudatory phrases, his closest friends were forming a conspiracy, within the Senate and without, to overthrow the man who had forgiven them so intolerably. The most active of the conspirators was Cassius, of “lean and hungry look”; and through his flattery Brutus, son of Servilia, was persuaded to- join the plot. Caesar had given special orders at the Battle of Pharaslus that Brutus should be spared; recently he had appointed him praetor and governor of Macedonia. But Brutus was still uncontent; and when he learned that Caesar had made Augustus his heir, he felt himself justified in betraying the man who had so persistently befriended him, and who perhaps was his father.

B<>uth Bend Tribune (Republican) Edwin F. Kitselman of Muncie, Ind., who has been elected chairman of the Republican State committee, assumes a task that may be more difficult than he and many others suspect. He becomes directing head of Republican activities in Indiana at a time when the Republican party of the State has been brought into bad odor by the actions of Republican office holders and Republican leaders who were trusted and found wanting. He therefore is confronted at the beginning of his administration with a situation which some would shirk and one which will test his ability as an organizer and as a leader. Never has ahy Republican chairman undertaken the duties of the high and responsible position under such a disagreeable situation. The party has been used for selfish purposes and has been, made a factional football kicked about until it almost is deflated. Ridden By the Ku-Klux Klan, with one Governor recently out of prison and another to be tried and a State chairman indicted, what party could be in worse shape? If Mr. Kitselman can bring order and respect out of the chaos and keep himself from unpleasant entanglements he will be entitled to the highest praise. We believe he can do it if he has the courage; the courage that requires him to recognize the welfare of Indiana and its people as paramount to the success of the Republican party and above all else. If he will realize that as Republican State chairman the greatest service he can give the Republican party in Indiana'Ms service to the people he need have no worry about the standing of the Republican party in this great State. We have had enough of factionalism, largely responsible for present conditions in the party in Indiana. We have had enough of personal selfishness that has placed the benefit of individuals far above the welfare of the people and the good of the party. We have had enough of weaklings as public officials. We have had enough of the endeavor of the Ku-

THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION

Written for The Times by Will Durant

Amid all this chaos and danegr Caesar gave himself up to the task of social and administrative reconstruction. He broke up the collegia, or proletarian clubs through which the political machines had corrupted Roman politics; he put an end to bribery and intimidation; he reestablished the reliability and honor of the courts; he gradually cut down the grant of corn to the people, and undertook to restore the idle citizens of Rome to lands In Italy or in colonies; he resurrected Carthage and Corinth, and distributed their soil among the people. At the same time he undertook great works of engineering and science. He ordered the Pontine marshes to be drained so that the air of Rome might be purified;* he laid plans for anew channel up the Tiber,' for a canal across the Isthmus of Corinth. He appointed a commission to reorganize Roman law, and engaged astronomers to revise the calendar. The old calendar had diverged as much as four months from harmony with the movements of the sun and the planets, so that summer came in winter time. The defect was remedied by adding an extra day in every fourth year. Many centuries later the Gregorian calendar made this Julian calendar still more accurate by omitting the last year of each century as a “Leap Year” unless it was divisible by 400. o n a CAESAR’S critics mocked at him, saying that not content with the mastery of the earth he wished to be dictator of the heavens, too, and would hereafter make the sun set by his decree. The new calendar renamed a month in Caesar’s honor as July, as later his successor was to give his name to August. Caesar’s rapid legislation resulted in a steady development in the ma-

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Klux Klan to dominate the Republican party, to successfully dictate some oi its nominations and to govern some of its successful officials. Mr. Kitselman’s task and duty are to eliminate- the causes which led to these things and to see that so long as he is the directing head of the State organization honesty, truth, justice and clean politics prevail. Unless he can and will do this we need not expect the Republican party in Indiana to rise above its present mediocrity. The Tribune wishes Mr. Kitselman well, hoping that he is a man of big and broad mind, of high ideals, of upright and determined purpose and in every way competent to and desirous of restoring Indiana’s Republican party to the high, forceful and respectable position it once occupied and should always occupy. Richmond Palladium (Independent) The people of Indiana will be glad when the trial of Governor Jackson, George V. Coffin and Robert Ir Marsh gets Under way Feb. 7 before Judge Charles M.

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terial well-being of the people, and outlined that great reconstruction which Augustus and Trajan were to complete. Not even Napoleon did as much in so short a time. Caesar had a very passion for coordination, and hated chaos as the basic evil in human life. His was the highest type of genius; boundless energy operating in perfect unity to noble ends. Concentration was the essence of his power; seldom has a brain been able to work more intensely. Clearness of vision united with quickness of decision to make his mind one of the most astounding instruments that any civilization has ever produced. But though the spirit was willing to work, the flesh was weak. “The attacks of epilepsy,” says Ferrero, “were increasing in frequency and violence; body and soul were almost worn out. The striking bust of him in the Louvre gives a wonderful representation of the last expiring effort of his prodigious vitality; the brow is furrowed with huge wrinkles; the lean face bears marks of intense suffering, and the expression is that of a man utterly exhausted.” It was epilepsy that kept him seated once when the Senate addressed him; they were incensed at the seeming insult; and he, perceiving the difficulty into which his developing disease had led him, and yet unwilling to confess the cause, went home weary of life, saying—- “ Jam satis vixi (I have lived enough).” And yet why did he apparently tolerate the invitation to become king? Antony was his intimate friend; he would hardly have offered the crown to Caesar so repeatedly if he had reason to believe that the offer would be offensive. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1928, by Will Durant.)

McCabe. The charges against the three men is an alleged effort to bribe Warren T. McCray, while Governor, to appoint James E. McDonald to fill the vacancy in the office of the attorney in Marion County. This charge is sufficiently grave to warrant a trial without delay or long bickering over legal technicalities. The people of Indiana want to know whether the Governor, while in the office of secretary of State, offered Governor McCray money to influence his decision in the appointment. That charge can be disposed of only in a Criminal Court where both sides will have an opportunity to be heard in conformity with the procedure which has been established by law. There is no disposition on the part of the people to persecute a Governor, but their confidence in his administration has been so badly shaken that they want a jury to hear the evidence and decide the issue. With the date of the trial set for Feb. 7, the whole incident should be disposed of with finality in a few weeks.

of debt from 1913 to 1921, at which time it went in debt for the reformatory. Since June, 1926, the State has been free of debt. Will you please tell me just how large the new cow bam is at the State fairground? It is 731x234 feet. At the death of a father should the son who is named for him drop the “junior” and would his son having the same name then be “junior?” The son becomes senior and the grandson is junior. Who played the part of Hoyd in “The Whirlwind of Youth?” Larry Kent. How old is Lazzeri, who plays on the New York American baseball team? He was born Dec. 6, 1904.

JAN. 19, 1928

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Hoover's Strength Rests Largely on the Belief in His Ability to Deal With Foreign Affairs . , Preserve Foreign Trade and Prosperity.”

Bit United Pres* FRENCH LICK, Ind., Jan. 19. The Scripps-Howard conference here turned to a discussion of politics Wednesday afternoon. It consisted mainly of reports by the editors as to sentiment in their localities and reflected what had been learned by consulting local leaders. To summarize the result, it was about as follows: Hoover on the Republican side and Smith on the Democratic are the most popular candidates. There is widespread opposition to Smith, especially in the South, but it lacks leadership. Opposition to Hoover, on the othei hand, is largely made up of leadership without a following. Though the southern Democratic vote will fall off if Smith is nominated, he will carry that section. u n n New York to Hoover? The conference was surprised when told that the opinion prevailed among political observers in New York that Smith could not carry that State is Hoover were his opponent. Like other people, Scripps-How-ard editors living in other parts or the country had taken it for granted that Smith was practically sure o* his own State. Such a belief has certainly played no small part in his popularity. Democratic leaders who ordinarily would oppose him have indorsed his candidacy on the ground that it virtually guaranteed the Empire State for their party and, therefore, represented the best, if not the only, hope of Democratic success in November. If the idea that this is not so becomes widespread there may be a pronounced change in the sentiment of some sections between now and the Democratic convention. nun Forced to Line Up While considerable Lowden strength we s reported in west Tennessee, Missippi and Arkansas, where he is popular with the farmers, Hoover was said to be practically sure of the Tennessee delegation. He was also said to be practically sure of delegations from California, Colorado and Maryland. Those familiar with the Ohio situation declared that Hoover had a good'fighting chance against Frank Willis if he entered tho primary. Reports from Pennsylvania were to the effect that though Republican leaders preferred some other candidate, they were being forced to line up for Hoover by the rank and file. With the exception of a small area around Terre Haute, Indiana was said to be absolutely indifferent to Hoover on account of Jim Watson’s influence. nun Foreign Affairs Expert Hoover’s strength rests largely on the belief in his ability to deal with foreign affairs. Since the World War foreign affairs have played a leading part in American politics. There is a feeling that American production has been tuned up to a very high pitch and that the only way to make room for it is to preserve foreign trade. What the American people want more than anything else from their next President is a foreign policy that will preserve it. nun Scoffers in Europe If President Coolidge’s address left a favorable impression on the Pan-American conference, it certainly struck notes of discord in Europe. Spanish and Italian newspapers particularly are severe in their criticism. In their opinion, the President not only suggested a league of nations for the western hemisphere, but one that would be dominated by the United States. “The problem is clearly posed for Latin America,” says Lavore D’ltalia, “on how to resist the United States invasion.” The Fascist journal, H Tevere, publishes a cartoon in which Uncle Sam is portrayed as orating to Latin Americans around a council table while he is sitting on and endeavoring to conceal the squalling presence of Nicaragua. The Spanish paper El Imparial scolds the people of Havana for applauding President Coolldge and declares his words “will not ring sincere while American sharpshooters in Nicaragua continue hunting the troops of sandino.” nun Uncle Sam’s Pledge Many Americans see little in the President’s address, except a good booster talk, such as might have been made at a Rotary Club or Chamber of Commerce dinner. Either they do not understand what he said or they do not believe he meant it. Whether great or constructive, as some editorials describe it, the President’s address offers the groundwork not only for a new international arrangement in the western hemisphere but for such a cleavage of interests and alignments as will affect the whole world. Latin American lei iers are delighted, because they accepted it as a pledge by the United States to cooperate with their governments on equal terms. European leaders, especially those representing the “Latin bloc” being fostered by Mussolini, are alarmed at what one writer describes as “the intensive penetration and domination of Latin South America by power protest—and North America.”