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In Bad Company Apparently there are some men who just have hard* luck in their friendship. No matter how fine and great they are, pure in their own purposes, they do seem to be thrown with those of baser clay. Take the latest episode in the career of Governor Jackson and fortunately it can be taken from the inspired record ot‘ the head of the Republican Editorial Association who urges that all Republican newspapers of tlie State print it at once as spot news. Just why there came this rather unusual appeal in behalf of widespread information concerning Governor Jackson may be a matter of debate. It may be very desirable. And facts about the Governor or any public official should always be welcomed. Perhaps we have known top little in the past about our public officials. AYe are learning more. It is from this inspired, not to say pressagented, account of the Governor that we discover that he has again been unfortunate in bis companions. There was a hunting trip, so says this effusion of the Republican Editorial head, and the Governor was a member of it. Someone shot a chicken belonging to a farmer. Not the Governor, of course, but one of the bad boys with either a bad aim or lacking what is called in the Governor a “sense of fairness.” Did the hunting party carry away the chicken? Was that a part of the day’s hag? Unfortunately the press agent is not historian. All that we know is that out of that hunting party, the Governor was the only one with a “sense of fairness.” Next day, we are told, the Governor slipped away from the party, without letting his companions know anything about his intents or purposes and hiding from them his benevolent purposes. He hunted up the farmer who owned the chicken. He paid the farmer for his loss. And not until the Republican Editorial Association head discloses the facts will those companions know of the Governor’s actions. There are missing chapters in the story that are impoi-tant and should be furnished. Who were these hunting companions of the Governor and what kind of men were they? Were they in the habit of such invasions on chicken coops? Why did the Governor sneak away from them and hide his meritorious act? YVhat'sort of boys has he been playing with, anyway? Hughes at Havana Adopting the military maxim that the offensive makes the best defense, our delegation at the PanAmerican conference at Havana has decided not to wait for Latin America to begin bombarding us on account of Nicaragua and our policy of intervention, but to start the firing ourselves. Speaking before the American Chamber of Commerce of Cuba, Charles Evans Hughes, chairman of the delegation, saw fit to explain our position. And while his audience was composed, for the most part, of Americans, he was really talking for the benefit of the world. Far from harboring imperialistic designs on the territory south of the Rio Grande, he said, the United States desires to see Latin American countries independent, strong and prosperous, the more so the better. In fact, he added, independence, stability, good will and cooperation are the four pillars upon which the Pan-American structure rests and it is the policy of the United States to encourage development along these lines. We have intervened in certain of the countries to the south of us, he said, but we have got out as soon as order was restored or we will get out when the needed housecleaning is accomplished. We will get out of Nicaragua as soon as the work which called us there is finished. We seek no territory anywhere. Down to the smallest and weakest of our neighbors, we want them all to be strong, prosperous and independent. Many Latin Americans, we are sorry to say, will smile ironically when they read what our former secretary of state said at Havana. Yet he was speaking in all sincerity, of that we feel absolutely certain. And he was only speaking the truth. Certainly sentiment here in the United States is overwhelmingly against a policy of imperialism and in favor of a policy of good will, cooperation and mutual respect. However, we have no right to blame Latin Americans if they do not always see things as we see them. We feel that we have been particularly free from the taint of imperialism since we started out on our own a century and a half ago, yet the peoples to the south of us are prone to remind us that approximately a fourth of what Is now the United States belonged to Mexico no longer thap 1845. And they point to the Philippines, Panama Canal, Porto Rico, Hawaii and so on. Latin Americans say that we are reaching out. They see that we have increased our territory about 50 per cent within the memory of many men now living. We say we are different, and that we came by everything we have honestly and justly. They retort that Spain, or France, or Great Britain would probably say the same thing of their acquisitions. Anyhow, Mr. Hughes was speaking the truth at Havana, the truth as most people in this country see It. The important thing now is to convince Latin Americans that such is really the case. There is but one way. President Coolidge seems to have hit upon it when he took the Mexican situation into his own hands and sent Ambassador Dwight Morrow down there to clear it up. What is required in Latin America is the ablest diplomacy available. The biggest brains at the command of the United States must be utilized. The day is past when these posts can be handed out as plums

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for the lame ducks of party politics. Men with tact, men with a sympathetic understanding of the problems of the peoples among whom they are to work,' men with long vision, men who can see what will be best for all concerned in the long run, and only such men should receive Latin American appointments. Follow this policy, consistently, and eventually we will win the confidence of our neighbors. “States’ Rights” It is unfortunate Thomas Jefferson cannot be summoned as a witness at the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee hearings on the Walsh power investigation resolution. If he could, it is safe to assert he would resent the twisting of his doctrine of ‘'States’ rights" to defeat those things for which he stood most firmly. Jefferson brought forward the doctrine of “States’ rights" to protect the common man against what he thought was the menace of an irresponsible government controlled by organized wealth. He wanted to give the mass of people power, not to take it away from them. The principal argument advanced to the committee against the Walsh resolution has been that of “States’ rights,” asserting the power and the ability of the States to control the power industry effectively. That argument Is bunk. Even the Federal Trade Commission hasn't the temerity to make such a claii i. In a report recently sent to the Senate the commission said that the States lack power to control adequately the financing of electric power companies, and that they are being Increasingly Incapacitated as effective regulators of rates charged consumers. Representatives of the power industry don’t want Senator Walsh to conduct an investigation. Senator Lenroot, Senator Thomas et al., as lobbyists for the power industry, have a poor argument in pleading States’ rights. Keeping Highways Free More than 100 private promoters have asked Congress at this session to authorize them to build private toll bridges across interstate streams, connecting roads which have been improved for auto travel by Federal and State taxes. It is to the credit of the House subcommittee having charge of these bills that it has reported out about fifty bills for public construction, and only one of the private bills. Rep. Denison of Illinois, chairman of this subcommittee, has told the House that the committee is opposed to private bridges w'here the public authorities will build and is guarding against monopoly in private franchises which would permit their being granted to private promoters for possible speculation and sale. Denison said however, there were situations where no public agency was ready to build a bridge but where one was nevertheless badly needed, and that private toll bridges have a place in such situations. This is open to question. The highway commission of Indiana is now working on a plan by which, private operation of a big Interstate bridge will never be necessary. It calls for public construction and control, the money to be supplied by private firms through State bonds, which will constitute a mortgage on the bridge. The bridge would become free as quickly as the tolls pay off the bonds. Every such plan as this should be carefully studied before bridges are turned over to private interests, even with the safeguards now contained in all Federal bridge legislation.

Well, We’re Not in Hedjaz, Anyway Now and then, from certain disgruntled units of the population, you hear the complaint that there are too many laws in America, that you can’t do this and you can’t do that because you’ll be slapped into jail if you do, and that personal liberty has fled from this land forever. There may be a grain of truth in what they’re saying, but the other day we were reading a dispatch from Hedjaz, Arabia, and there was just a kernel of comfort in it. The monarch of the dashing desert tribes, those wild fellows who look so free and easy when you see them in the movies, has forbidden the use of tobacco among his peoples. Silk garments and perfume may not be worn. Shaving is a crime. Alcohol is taboo. There is no room in Hedjaz for reformers for Boss Ibn Saoud has done the job well. The people of that country aren’t “all dressed up and no place to go” because they aren't dressed up in the first place and there wouldn’t be any place to go if they were, in the second place. We have lots of law's, but we don’t live in Hedjaz. Anyway, we still can shave and smoke. Governor Donahey of Ohio gives a description ot the ideal presidential candidate. Well, he has told the voters that he knows what a president ought to be like, anyway. A golden saw has been unearthed at Ur. But the people who build your house nowadays have discarded that base metal. They use platinum—and if you don’t believe it, just figure on getting a house built. A man admitted to citizenship in New York bears the name Constantine. Pappadimitrakopolous, and announces he will keep it. Maybe he wants to keep out of the heatuines. Mrs. Graham McNamee, wife of the radio announcer, says she likes to hear her husband talk. We knew a woman would come along some day and say that. New York City last year paid more than a billion dollars for government. But then we can’t all send our mayors to Europe. It is possible for man to life 200 years on a vegetable diet, says a scientist, but gosh! it would seem like a thousand. The doctor who has kept a chicken heart alive for fifteen years may be saving it for some of our brave American jurymen. Al Smith urges local self-government, but it’s what the boys do when they’re away for conventions that worries most of the little women.

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(Abbreviations: A-ace; K—king; O—queen; J—jack; X—any card lower than 10.) 1. Holding spades—A X X XX; diamonds—K QX; hearts—X XX; clubs—X X; what should you bid? (b) Why? 2. Partner not having bid, what do you lead against a no-trump when you hold A Q X X? 3. If holding: spades—K JXX X; diamonds—A KX; hearts—X XX; clubs—X X; what do you bid? The Answers 1. One spade. Contains two quick tricks. 2. Fourth from top. 3. One spade.

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1 The name and address ot the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Let--1 te.o not exceeding 200 words will receive I preference. | To the Editor: The constitution specifically declares that no war can be carried unless the President as commander-in-chief of the army and navy and all war forces has first the consent of Congress, and an open and honest declaration of war. The President, with his secretary of State, has been carrying on a war with the little weak nation of Nicaragua for many months, using both our navy and land forces, inI eluding air forces, to the conquet and subjugation of this Central America republic. Wall St., having about cinched this, may be plotting likewise to stragetically use our war forces to raid and take over Cuba or Mexico next, and quickly, too, before election, if they fear controlling the latter, as they have the last two national elections by their three ring circus plot. When one-half of the cltzens of the U. S. A. have been so disgusted and discouraged as to not vote, and the majority of the half that do vote are controlled by false propaganda engineered by the politicians with a private rake-off on public office for their rewards, what would become of this country if it were not for the few heroic patriots like the Indianapolis “Times.” Suppose a Lincoln should come out of the wilderness arousing all the common people, farmers, laborers, honest business and professional men, getting at least threefourths of the citizens to vote—would he not be elected and intrenched to lift us out of the present panic, polution and perfidy? ALVIN M. THREEWITS, 1 Centerville, Ind. To the Edittor: The two convicts recently electrocuted in New York were guilty of an atrocious murder. Thereupon the State of New York murdered them. If they had been killed to prevent them from murdering their | victim, or to prevent their escape after they had murdered him, it would have been justifiable. But to take them, helpless, from their cells and do away with them in cold blood, after they had suffered a million deaths in anticipation, was to commit a deed just as fiendish as theirs and much more harmful, because of the brutalizing effect it has upon millions of readers. Killing, by the State or by the individual, breeds violence and hate and more killing. The vengeance of society has been wreaked upon these two, but what has been done to the two little daughters and two old mothers of the convicts? There is no redress in law for the mental anguish they have endured and will continue to suffer. If you believe this situation is unworthy of a civilized State, work for the abolition of the death penalty and the substitution cl life imprisonment. Secretary, State League to Abolish Capital Punishment, Versailles, Ind. What is meant by a “career diplomat?” One who enters the diplomatic or consular servide in the lower grades and by ability rises to higher positions through promotion. They are distinguished from those who obtain high positions in the service through political appointment.

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Simple Roman Life Became Complex

A DAY IN ROME r T'HIS is a street in ancient Rome. How bright and warm it is!— Here is a sunny land, where life can be lived in the open air, and a simple toga is dress enough, and the business of an empire can be carried on under the sky. The street is narrow but it is well paved, better far than the streets of London or Paris will be until the nineteenth century. Over the Tiber strong bridges rise, carrying these st:oets by spacious highways down to Sicily, and across the Apennines to Brindisi, and north over the Alps to the Danube and the Seine. This is the center of the world; all roads lead to Rome. Houses stand in close array along the street, but they hardly hold the eye; these people are careless of beauty, and enamored of utility. But let us enter this simple gateway, and see how the Roman lives. Shut in from the madding crowd and the noises of the street is a charming court, partly roofed to ward off the sun, but for the most part open to the sky. In the center is a pool, perhaps large enough for bathing, and swimming, and fed with fresh water from the now highly developed water-system of Rome. Roundabout are marble seats and tables and stately colonnades, flower beds and splashing fountains and statues sparkling in the sun. The rooms of the house face upon this court, and are lighted solely through the doors that open out upon it; there are few windows or none at all; for in this hot climate it is shade that one needs almost as much as light. ' Sometimes an opening is left in

Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette Democratic Once more the trial of Governor Ed Jackson and others, indicted by a Marion County grand jury, is ready to go. Jurisdiction has been accepted in that case by Charles M. McCabe of Crawfordsville, an eminent lawyer and a former president of the Indiana Bar Association. Judge McCabe has expressed desire that the trial begin on Feb. 7, the day originally Axed; and that day, so far as yet appears is satisfactory to counsel for Governor Jackson. Judge McCabe is the fourth jurist to become related to the case of Governor Jackson and the men indicted with him. James A. Collins of the Marion County Criminal Court, received the indictments and then disqualified himself to sit in the case. Judge Oscar H. Montgomery of Seymour was chosen to sit as special judge, but withdrew when counsel for the defense objected to him. Judge Lavidson of Greensburg next chosen to sit declined because he thought his health would not stand the strain. Judge McCabe is the third choice, and that ought to settle the difficulty of finding a capable jurist to whom the defense will not object. It is much to be hoped that the new status of the case will be the opening of the way to a trial. Governor Jackson, George V. Coffin, chairman of the Republican committee in Marion County, and Robert I. Marsh, the governor’s law partner and at one time the legal high jinks of the Ku Klux Klan in this State, are accused of having tried to bribe Governor Warren T. McCray to permit Coffin to name a prosecuting attorney for Marion County. Jackson at that time was secretary of State. Governor McCray was then under indictment in Marlon County upon felonious charges growing out of his conduct in private business affairs. A vacancy in the Marion County prosecutorshiQ. was to be filled by the Governor's appointment and for reasons not obscure, politicians wanted to have a prosecutor complaisant to them. Governor McCray, according to the indictment, was offered $lO 000 and the promise of security against conviction ir* Marion County if he would appoint to the prosecutor's office

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Written for The Times by Will Durant

the ceiling of the room, giving illumination without heat; if it should rain, the water will fall into a pool dug in the center of the floor. When the brief winter comes, hot air will be sent through tile pipes running along the wall. Here and there are lovely tapestries, marvelous mosaics, paintings and statuary, mostly stolen from the Greeks. It is no longer the Rome of the stern, censorious Cato; it is the Rome of the emperors. tt a e Y)UT where are the children? They are playing in the court; or perhaps they have gone for a walk with their teacher, who gives them much of their education as they roam the fields; “educare” meant to lead out for a walk. The mother is within at work; but she is no longer occupied with motherhood and the household chores as in the simpler days; slaves abound to help her, and often she is free to deck herself with jewelry and costly garments, and to ride in her! carriage to some public festival or I private feast. Cato may pass laws against these I luxuries, but laws can not stop luxury when gold flows in from every corner of the world. Delicacies adorn the tables, and men and women. reclining comfortably as they eat. consume as much as they can, and then, if they are graduate epicureans, go out to the vomitorium and free themselves for more. Petronius, professional voluptuary, “arbiter elegantiarum,” formulates the latest fashions in vice, and gives a learned instruction in j recondite sins. The old stoicism of Cornelia, glad to have many sonsj

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the man to be named by Coffin. Governor McCray is said to have spurned the base proposal. The indictments were returned months ago by the Marion County grand jury. The usual technical procedures have been resorted to by Governor Jackson’s counsel. That has spelled delay. Governor Jackson has expressed a desire for early trial that he may be vindicated. He no longer can have an early trial, but he can have a

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You can get au answer to any answerable question of fact or information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby. Question Editor, The Indianapolis Times, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C.. enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All other auestions will receive a personal reply. nsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. You are cordially invited to make use of this free service as often as you please. EDITOR. What is the value of United States ten-cent paper money, issue of 1874, with bust cf Meredith on it? Twelve cents. How much electricity does a 300watt electric indandcscent lamp consume per hour? Three hundred watts. What has become of the race horse, Man O’ War? He wAs retired to stud for breeding purposes, and also on account of the increasingly heavy weight imposts which track handicappers were assigning to him in stake races. What is the major league record for the most cosnccutive games won? The record is held by the New York Giants who won twenty-six consecutive games in 1916. On what finger should an engagement ring be worn? The third finger of the left hand. What is nitroglycerine and how is it made? It is an explosive substance discovered by Sobrero in 1847. Its use as an explosive remained undeveloped until 1863 when Alfred Nobel devised a practical method of making it on a commercial scale. At about the same time Mowbray succeeded in manufacturing nitroglycerine in Massachusetts and trans-

and to toil for them, is gone; abortion is now a developed art, and the repopulation of the empire is left to German immigrants and captive slaves. The men like this, and like it not; they Remind themselves occasionally of*the “patria postestas,” the supreme power, even of life and death, of the Roman father over his wife and children. But as luxury grows, the power of women increases; it they who deck themselves' out with new clothes and brilliant gems, making themselves imperiously beautiful, and' bringing the once wqr-like husbands to their feet. It is. this Augustan age, an age of peace; and in time of peace the man loses his ferocity and woman flourishes. The male takes refuge in the market place, the forum, the law courts and the theater. Perhaps he is a merchant; he goes down to the port and loses himself in, the details of trade. Perhaps he is a tax gatherer, or ‘ publican," to whormShe State has sold for a large sum the right to collect taxes which it has apportioned amongst the people. Perhaps he is one of those thriving bankers whose offices flank the Forum, and who sell shares in joint stock enterprises, lend money at high rates of interest, and organize companies to do contract work for the Government. Or perhaps he has a factory, making manufactured articles with a force of slaves, turning their blood into gold. (To Be Continued) (Copyright. 1928, by Will Durant.)

trial in litlte more than a fortnight. If there be further delay to get this cause before a jury and put the hearing under way. the responsibility will be upon Governor Jackson and his fellows in the indictment. There is but one way for the governor to clear himself and that is by proving in a court of justice that the charges against him are untrue. He will have that opportunity next month.

porting it safely in a frozen state. It is made by running from 210 to 230 pounds of pure glycerine into 1,500 pounds of mixed acids, consisting of three parts by weight of concentrated sulphuric acid and two parts by weight of concentrated nitric acid. Where and by whom was the movie “Chang” filmed and how long did it take to make it? It was filmed in the northern jungles of Siam by two camera men, Ernest B. Schoodsack and Morian Cooper. Both served in the World War; Schoodsack in the signal corps and Cooper in the air service. The picture took twenty-one months to make. What is the largest natural lake in the world? The Caspian Sea. How long does it take the seeds of cacti to germinate? Some species germinate in a week; others in three weeks and some seeds will not come up at all. The cactus plant is of very slow growth. What is the fastest speed ever made by an airplane? Bonnet, a French warrant officer, holds the record at 178.48 miles an hour. What causes the odor from the skunk? It is caused by a fetid secretion discharged by the animal when attacked or irritated. The secretion is contained in two glands near the tail and is ejected with so much force that it is said to carry up to sixteen feet. It is not only highly offensive, but is also very irritating, especially to the eyes.

JAN. 23, 1928

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Os All Human Rights, the Right to Live Obviously Is the Most Important, and of All Human Enemies, That of Preventable Death Is the Worst.”

General Goethals goes to take his place beside Cheops, Ustad Isa and Michael Angelo as one of the greatest builders of all times. He merely dug' a ditch, it is true, but one big enough to make his name immortal. It does not make so much difference what you do so long as you do it better than was ever done before. Fame is primarily a matter of comparison. Men have been digging canals 5,000 years and more, but there is only one Panama Canal. Just as Pericles could have no greater memorial than the Parthenon. or Sir Christopher Wrenn than 1 St. Paul's, George Washington Goethals can have none greater than the mighty waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. tt a a West Point Makes Men The United States made no mistake when it gave General Goethals a free education at West Point. If no other graduate of that institution had contributed a single item of value to this country General Goethals would have more than repaid its cost. But other graduates have contributed. Though trained for war your West Pointer has not failed to make his mark in the pursuits of peace. The school has made men as well as soldiers. Not only that, but the standards and scholarships on which it insists have helpted to elevate our whole educational system. tt tt a Trotsky to Wildnerness Does a clock that ticks in the wilderness make noise, or to put it another way, can there be noise where there is no human ear to hear it? Leon Trotsky and his fellow-exile will have an opportunity to solve this riddle. Up to now, they have had a good audience, even though it was not always a sympathetic oneNow they can issue their diatribes and denunciations to a great void, while Stalin, who talks less, if he does not think more, enjoys the shift of wind. a a tt Footlights and Reds It was twenty-three years ago that Trotsky was exiled by the Czar. I must seem like old times to be going in a similar direction on a similar errand. One wonders if he is able to perceive an analogy between the dictatorship he helped to overthrow and the one he helped to establish. Asa good communist, he should be able to get as much out of life in the wilds of central Asia as in the thronged streets of Moscow, or does cbmmuhism, like other fads, demand it call across the footlights?

Personal Liberty Decline With special reierencc to what has occurred in Italy and Russia, Rabbi H. Harris says that decline of personal liberty is the outstanding event of 1927. Whether this is true, it is not necessary to seek Russia, Italy or even the coal fields of western Pennsylvania to find examples in point. It is not even necessary to recall those nineteen Yale students who were fined a couple ot dollars each for distributing pamphlets in behalf of a strike, much less than 40,000,000 Americans, who, according to Gen. Lincoln C. Andrew's, love the Volstead act less than what it forbids. While South Carolina will permit you to play golf on Sunday, which it would not a year ago, it will not permit you to buy gasoline. In Ocean Grove, N. J., you cannot drive an automobile on Sunday, even for the humane object of breaking a crippled child home from the hospital. nun Man’s Right to Live Os all human rights, the right to live obviously is the most important, and of all human enemies that of preventable death is the worst. Free speech, a free press and freedom of conscience profit little if we cannot have the right to live. What matters it to a child of 5 who dies with the whooping cough whether he was born in a democracy, or a man of 50 who dies of cancer whether he can think what he pleases? a u The Fight on Cancer Two hundred years ago it was smallpox that people feared; 100 years ago it was cholera and yellowjack; fifty years ago it was diphtheria; twenty-five years ago it was tuberculosis and now it is cancer. For what reason no one seems to know, cancer has come to the front as a fatal malady. One person in ten now seems to c’ie before his or her time by cancer. But the challenge it offers has been accepted, and just as such a campaign is being organized against it as was organized against tuberculosis twenty-five years ago. n n u Think to Solve Problem Asa part of this campaign, William Lawrence Sanders has offered a prize of $59,000 for the best suggestion for the prevention or cure of cancer. The competition, which will close Feb. 1, has been open nearly a year, and more than 2,600 letters already have been received. Only twenty-one of these letters were from physicians while some 800 were from obviously illiterate persons. That was to be expected, but it does not alter the stimulating effect of such a contest. The idea of getting the largest passible number of people to think is the soundest idea with which to attack any perplexing problem.