Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1928 — Page 6

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A Grin for Coolidge Even a President has his bright hours and occasional relief from the seriousness of life. Will Rogers dines at the White House and furnishes a smile. And then yesterday the head of the Republican Editorial Association of Indiana was there to invite the President to Indiana in March and should have contributed a grin. Nothing should stand in the way of the presidential acceptance. His visit here would be educational —not only for the editors but for the President. The deep interest of the President in Indiana is shown by the fact that after he had received the invitation, he questioned the editorial ambassador, whose organization took the pledge a few months back against being longer “kept” by the Watson political machine, about the state of the elephant’s health in the Iloosier State. He must have enjoyed the afternoon quite as much as he did the recent visit of the famous humorist. “Nothing wrong. Our officials have fine records. But we are cleaning house and getting an entirely new deal. All our officials are fine. But we are not mentioning them. They have contributed so much that we believe they should be called for no further sacrifices in behalf of the public. They are modest men and therefore we do not talk about them at home. Yes, the criminal trials of a few will be held soon. A biased judge, you know, just could not read the statute of limitations.” That, of course, was not the exact wording of the report to the President, but it is a fair interpretation and digest of what the press wires say the President heard. Now if the President will only come out in March and hear the rest he will need no spring tonic, for a laugh is a sure cure. Some stalwart will undoubtedly tell him the Indiana version of rabbit hash. It is an old story, but always good. The meat inspector, you recall, asked the butcher how he made his rabbit hash. Fifty-fifty, was the mixture. One rabbit and one horse. Mix them up and you have rabbit hash. Indiana has more chickens than rabbits. One shot intentionally or otherwise. A PRiteful farmer who gets a stealthy payment. One horse, sold to a friend at a friendly price. What would Inspector Coolidge call the combination? Os course, the President today may be wondering just why it happens that, if everything is jake, there has been so many conferences, so much talk, so desperate an effort to get new faces and anew front for the old machine. If he comes, perhaps be will find out. Anyway, the State has a right to rejoice. It has contributed an afternoon of sunshine to the dull routine of the chief executive.

The President’s Quandary While President Coolidge has indicated his displeasure at the warning attributed to Rear Admiral Plunkett that war, even with Great Britain, is not far distant, he is reported as not being able to understand why the newspapers or the public take the officer so seriously. And while the President holds that service men should not speak without due regard to the Government's policy, he indicates he has found no way to prevent unwise statements. Were he to attempt to muzzle them, there would be a nation-wide protest against interference with the freedom of speech. Somehow we can not help feeling, in this instance, the problem is not so difficult. To muzzle an officer to keep him from talking about the defects in our national defense is one thing and forbidding him telling the world that war between the United States and Great Britain, or some other clearly indicated nation, is emphatically another. Wars come from a state of mind—public sentiment —more often than from overt acts committed by one nation against another. The World War became inevitable once the people of England and France and the people of Germany apd Austria became convinced it was so. Up to that time statesmen might have prevented it. After that time national passions swept Europe toward 1914 precisely as a chip is swept by the Niagara River toward the falls. That is why Rear Admiral Plunkett’s speech was so serious. Nothing could be further from this newspaper’s desire than to see the officer punished for his words. The harm is done and it can not be undone, more’s the pity, were he cut and quartered, the suspicion aroused by what he said would not be lessened one iota. To the contrary, foreigners would probably say he was being punished for letting the cat out of the bag. Which is one reason why his offense must not be repeated. It is so heart-breakingly futile to try to undo the mischief, once it is done. And so we return to the President’s plaint and confession that he is up against it to find a way to prevent such happenings. We recall the case of Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, assistant chief, of the Army air service, who was demoted and let out of the Army for speaking out of school regarding those in charge of the national defense. Then there was Rear Admiral Magruder, who was yanked out of his job as commandant of the Philadelphia navy yard for a critical piece he wrote about the Navy. And so on. There was considerable public criticism in both instances. It was said Mitchell and Magruder were being muzzled. What then is to be done? If the Government can’t gag its officials—and manifestly it should not even attempt it—what is to prevent them from making breaks like Plunkett’s? There is but one answer, of course: common sense. Tt>p instant uproar, created around the world itself,

shows that Rear Admiral Plunkett’s speech was unwise. There Is a big difference between the MltchellMagruder type of talk, which was critical only of the United States, and the Plunkett type which very definitely involved a great and friendly nation in a moso mischievous and dangerous connection. Even Americans in far-off South Africa have cabled the State Department asking official repudiation of the utterances and deprecating “any senior officer being allowed to make statements of this nature.” High ranking officers are supposed to have at least average judgment and that should be sufficient tc protect them and the country they serve from saying manifestly the wrong thing. If they haven’t, then maybe this world’s activities have a niche into which they would fit, but decidedly it is not in the Army or Navy. What Defense Now? Between now and April 2, attorneys for Harry F. Sinclair and Albert T3. Fall must construct a whole new defense for their clients on the charges of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. Testimony of M. T. Everhart, Fall’s son-in-law, has made this necessary. Facts he revealed to the Senate Public Lands Committee have completely demolished the line of defense indicated at the opening of the first trial last October. At that time, defense counsel said Sinclair had no financial interest in the Continental Trading Company and had received none of its bonds. Even though the Government was able to trace bonds from the Continental Trading Company’s hands into the hands of Albert Fall, there was no evidence, they claimed, to link Harry F. Sinclair with this transaction. Now Everhart has told that the famous bonds were handed to him by Sinclair. It was on April 12, 1922, that the Teapot Dome lease was signed. On April 13 and 17 President Osier of the Continental Trading Company directed a New York bank to purchase $300,000 worth of Liberty bonds. On May 8, Osier received the bonds and signed for them. On May 29, Everhart deposited $230,500 of the same Liberty bonds to the account of Fall and his land and cattle company. Reciting these significant d&tes, the United States! Supreme Court said last October that “the clandes- 1 tine and unexplained acquisition of these bonds byi Fall confirms the belief generated by other circum-; stances of the case, that he was a faithless public | officer.” The Public Lands Committee and Everhart havel now added to this chronology the fact that in that same May, these same bonds were handed to Ever- | hart by Sinclair. Everhart indicated some attempt was made to clothe this transfer of bonds with a semblance of business regularity, as was done in the transfer of money from Edward L. Doheny to Fall. But at the same time lie revealed what a casual and unbusiness like attempt this was. He was told, he said, that Sinclair was giving him the bonds to purchase a third interest in a "club-” to be organized with Fall’s bankrupt ranch properties. But Sinclair never took a stock certificate nor any other proof of an interest in the property. It may be that Sinclair's attorneys will seek to build a defense upon this for the coming retrial, claiming it was a legitimate business transaction. Edward L. Doheny’s lawyer convinced a jury that the long-missing, mutilated note made the little black bag transaction legitimate. But first they had to build a background for Doheny of reckless generosity and long standing friendship with Fall. The Sinclair legal staff will have a more difficult time.

Hoover and Smith—An Important Announcement (From the New York World) At a meeting of the editors of the twenty-six Scripps-Howard newspapers printed in large cities of the United States resolutions of considerable political importance where yesterday adopted. These set forth, first, that “Herbert Hoover is the best qualified active candidate for the presidency put forward in either party, by reason of his character, training, experience and cosmopolitan outlook on national and international problems.” Second, that “Herbert Hoover, among Republicans everywhere, is the preference of the rank and file.” Third—Having regard for the character and attainments of Governor Alfred E. Smith and his record of achievement as it accords with the liberal and constructive editorial policies of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, we consider him a desirable candidate for the Democratic nomination. As between Hoover and Smith, we will support Hoover. As between a Republican like Dawes or Lowden and a Democrat like Smith, we will support the Democrat. The Scripps-Howard newspapers have generally espoused the cause of the progressive wing of the Republican party. They have been edited with ability and sincerity. The reasons they give for preferring Mr. Hoover and Mr. Smith are sound reasons, deserving careful study and analysis. Their announcement in some degree reflects, in some degree must inform and guide, public opinion in important centers of population in the Nation. It is a challenge that will gain the attention c l the voters and that practical politicians can not well ignore. Remember the good old innocent days when you believed that all the sparklers in the vaudeville queen’s stage dress were real diamonds?—Rochester Sentinel. Henry Ford says railroad trains should be lighter. That would give Model A a better break. The eagle is said to fly fastest when going away from its nest. A nice emblem for our money. The two letters that express the most tragedy are ex.—Hartford City News. The best example of a vote of confidence is to eat the hash.—Bloomington Telephone. ' ________ What this country needs is heavy underwear that will not itch.—Warsaw Union. Mdst inventors are harmless if left to their own devices.

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Mr. Fixit Garbage and Ash Collectors Impeded by Muddy Alleys; Four Complaints Referred to City Officials, Who Promise Relief.

Let Mr. Flxlt, The Times’ representative at city hall, present your troubles to city officials. Write Mr. Flxlt at The Times. Names and addresses which must be given will not be published. Complaints of three residents who have not been remembered by the ash collector were investigated today by Mr. Fixit. Dear Mr. Fixit: I live at 838 W. Thirty-First St., and it seems I can’t have my ashes collected like other people. Sometimes it is three weeks before a collection is made and ashes pile up in my Dasement after I have used every basket and tub I have. I am appealing to you for relief, seeing you have helped so many others. C. K. S. Other complaints: Alley between Morris and Jones Sts., the Belt railroad and Harding St., and 1730 Hoyt Ave. Garbage Collection Superintendent Truly Nolen promised to care for the complaints. Nolen declared garbage and ashes should be in metal containers with lids during the winter. Contents freeze making is difficult to empty. Nolen declared collectors have been unable to reach some sections of the city where alleys are impassable. Dear Mr. Fixit: What can be done toward cleaning mud from the sidewalk at Twelfth St. and Pershing Ave.? Every time it rains there is mud four inches deep and the public has to walk in the street. TAXPAYER. Street commissioner's office informed Mr. Fixit the property owner would to remove the dirt. The city has no funds for such work.

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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION A Night at a Roman Theater Written for The Times by Will Durant

SHALL we listen, for a while, to a Roman play? Note how the theater differs from those of the Greeks: there is no more chorus; the “orchestra” where once the chorus danced is filled with seats for the more fortunate spectators; and here a curtain rises and falls upon the play to mark those divisions of act and scene which once were made by the choral song. The chorus has died a natural death by easy stages in the new comedy of Menander and the later Greeks: all that left of it here is the occasional singing of a part by a boy at the side, while the actor makes the gestures in the fashion of “Le Coq d'Or.” It is a simple thing, this Roman drama; it is nearly all ccmedy, for the people deprecate unhappy endings, and are inclined to forbid them, if not by law like the Hindus, by taking the tragedians off the stage and pummeling them into a better humor. The aristocracy of Rome does not care for the stage, and the populace has its way. At first the plays are mere Saturai—medleys of primitive farce: then they are mimes and “fables” in which the conversation is left to be improvised by the player. It is from these old farces that Italian and modem comedy will rise; and from these crude figures the stock characters of comedy will take form: the glutton always edging towards a meal, the obstructive father, who has more wealth than brains, the clever slave (later a servant) who, having more brains than wealth, concocts and untangles the intrigue, the extravagant youth who wishes to marry a chambermaid (always a princess in disguise), and the rollicking clown with the gaily colored patches, long and baggy trousers, doublet of mighty sleeves, and shaven head; the Romans called him Sannio (zany); we call him, in his later avatars, Pulcinello, or Polichinelle. The audience is of a piece with the play, rough and simple and dull; comic lines and situations must be repeated frequently to reach their comprehension. Terence tries to be subtle, and the audience walks out, calling for more violent humor. A rich Roman arranges for them a program of music; they stop the performance and call upon the musicians to lay down their instru-

Anderson Herald (Republican) The willingness of the State Board of Accounts to close its eyes to a transgression of the law in its strict interpretation is satisfying to the people who have the welfare of the Madison County Tuberculosis hospital at heart. With the State board’s consent, Mrs. Ella B. Kehrer will be continued as superintendent of the institution, which stands as a monument to her personal sacrifice for others. It is of second importance that there will be no expenditure of money to pay the salary of a licensed physician as head of the hospital. The law, as it is written, requires a graduate of a medical school for the place, but so long as Madison County is satisfied with the management of its own institutions, and regular reports are made, {here will be no objection by the State Board of Accounts. With no salary to pay, all the money that is raised by taxation will go toward the care g tuberculosis patients. The new board of trustees has been interested above everything else in retaining Mrs. Kehrer. Its members had previously said as much, and had promised that if they were compelled to name a physician superintendent it would be with the understanding that the appointee would act only in a nominal capacity, leaving Mrs. Kehrer to go ahead with her work. Even that is unnecessary, the State board has said. The State Board of Accounts has always taken the fair attitude toward the tuberculosis hospital. Before an act of the 1927 Legis-

ments and gave a boxing match. The prologues reveal the nature of the audience; mothers are requested to leave their babies at home hereafter; wives are asked not to disturb the play with their chatter: children are warned what will happen to them if they make noise, and slaves are reminded not to occupy the seats, since these are only for free men. The actors are called hlstriones, i. e., they are tellers of a story (historia). They are nearly all slaves, and nearly all Greeks; any citizen who acts on the stage loses his civic rights. (Not till the days of Voltaire will this indignity be withdrawn; even the great Moliere will suffer from it.) If the play is unsuccessful, the slave may be soundly beaten; if he does especially well he may win his freedom. Roscius, greatest of Roman actors, began as a slave; Plautus and Terence, greatest of Roman playwrights, rose from slavery. n PLAUTUS was at first a scene shifter, like Will Shakespeare, then a merchant learning the world, then a factory hand; then a dramatist. His style, his plots and his humor reveal his life; he uses the speech of the people, indulges them in that obscenity which is the poor man’s solace against monogamy, makes his wit simple, and wastes no time in polishing his lines; Horace will suggest that he writes in such haste in order to be sooner paid. His scenes, his characters, his stories, are Greek; it is unwise to satirize the Romans. Naevius tried it and w r as jailed. There is the old story of the mistaken identity of twins (the “Menaechmi”), which Plautus steals from Menander and Shakespeare from Plautus; there is the “Aulularia,” or Pot of Gold, which Meliere will appropriate as “The Miser,” transcribing entire scenes without acknowledgement; there is “The Captive,” which tells again the tale of the slave who is really the heir to a great fortune, you know; and there is “The Braggart Captain,” who boasts of his success with ladies in every quarter of the globe. His servant, falling in with his humor, feeds him lies:

What Other Editors Think

lature made it possible for a county to levy a tax for a tuberculosis hospital, the board allowed the county to use money raised under an entirely different statute for the operation of the hospital here. Elkhart Troth (Independent) The announcement of Charles W. Jewett of Indianapolis that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor indicates that he may be the “new deal” candidate whose expected appearance has been talked about so much of late. This announcement, coming on the heels of the withdrawal of M. Burt Thurman of New Albany from the contest for the gubernatorial nomination “for the good of the party,” is interesting. Mr. Thurman, who is Indiana collector of internal revenue, has always been a strong worker for Senator Watson. Mr. Jewett was formerly mayor of Indianapolis. He is a good speaker and campaigner. In past years, he has been classed as a part of the Republican element to which Postmaster General New and Will Hays belong. However, during the last campaign, he assisted in the election of Senator Watson. Mr. Jewett starts out on a good platform in advocating primary law repeal and the clean-up of intolerable political conditions in the State. The State primary campaign is now fully launched with avowed candidates for Governor in both parties. The Democrats have three strong men in their contest, Frank C. Dailey of Indianapolis, George E. Hershman of Crown

“Servant—You see those girls that stopped me yesterday? Captain—What did they say? Servant—Why, when you passet 1 , they asked me—‘What, is the great Achilles here?’ I answered, ‘No, It is his brother.’ Then says t’ other one—‘Troth, he is handsome! What a noble man! What splendid hair!’ Captain—Now did they really say so? Servant—They did indeed, and begged me, both of them, to make you take a walk again today, that they might get a better sight of you. Captain (sighing complacently) —’Tis a great nuisance being so very handsome!” Terence is a little loftier, having been more fortunate in his slavery. Captured at Carthage, he is brought up as a slave teacher in the cultured home of Terentius, whose name he takes, and wins the friendship of the learned Laelius and Scipio. To please them he writes comedies of some refinement and subtlety, venturing such noble lines as, “Homo sum; humani nihili a me alienum puto” (“I am a man; I think that nothing human is alien to me.”) His plays are praised by the aristocracy, but they fail with the masses; and Terence, disgusted, leaves Rome in a huff, and dies in shipwreck while still a youth. Shall we listen to his dramas, “Phormio” and “The Eunuch,” and that one of the monstrous title, “Heautontimoroumenos” (The SelfTormentor) ? No; there is no genius here; we must pass on. The Romans did not deserve to have finer drama than this; their hearts were in the Colosseum rather than in the theater; they wished to see starving lions tear to pieces living and quivering human flesh. They were barbarians; and their masters, in feeding them with the scenes of slaughter which they furnished, proved themselves barbarians, too. unworthy of the empire which Caesar and Augustus had placed in their hands. When the church put a stop to these brutal spectacles and closed the Roman theaters as dens of obscenity, it - was just as well; men must be civilized before they can create comedy. (To Be Continued) (Copyright. 1928. by Will Durant.)

Point, and Samuel B. Wells of Scottsburg. Os course, they also stand for a State wide cleanup. Neweutlo Time* (Democratic) Mrs. Grace Urbahns, Indiana State Treasurer, is opposed to the primary because it gives women very little chance to hold office. She says that in any convention the men may be counted on to give the women representation on the ticket, which is not true in a primary. Mrs. Urbahns is 100 per cent right. The men will be fair with the women as a matter of good politics, if nothing more, when it comes to a convention, but this can not be done with a primary where the women are at great disadvantage. Under the primary system the quality of candidates has been gradually deteriorating, and this will sooner or later force a return to the convention system where some consideration can be given to the candidates who seek office. Moreover, the primary limits the choice of candidates to self-seekers, while a convention can go outside and draft the best men in the party if the other candidates do not measure up. There are lots of good men who will not enter a primary scramble to get an office that means a sacrifice to them. What is the design of the Latvian flag? It is two-thirds as wide as it is long and comprises two red stripes and one white. The red is carmine. The stripes are arranged horizontally—the white one between the two red ones. The white stripe is one-fifth the width of the flag.

JAN. 26, 1928

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Many People Are Unkind Enough to Believe That Sinclair Bought Fall, but If He Did, He Made a Sorry Trade

They are organizing a company in London to search for $60,000,000 worth of gold, silver and jewelry which the jesuits are said to have buried in Boliva prior to their expulsion. The prospectus of this company reads like a page from Robert Louis Stevenson. It tells ore of the weirdest and most fantastic tales imaginable. Just before the Jesuits were driven out of Bolivia, they buried a vast amount of precious metal and gems which they had accummulated by years of mining, but which they were forbidden to ship away. One of the fathers told a brother who was prefect of Callao, Peru, the president told his daughter, who in turn told an Englishman, who undertook to find and dig up the treasure on his own account, who went far enough to discover a silver crucifix and a wooden box containing a warning, and who might have succeeded if the warning when translated had not scared away his native workmen. u x m Fall a Bargain? This tale is almost matched by that which M. T. Everhart told a Senate committee on Tuesday, and which also had to do with a treasure hunt. Everhart’s yam was not of gold and silver which thrifty priests had buried years ago, but of papers and bonds which the just as thrifty apostles of politics and commerce tried to hide in more modem ways. It was a yarn of a sale never completed, of a club never organized, of a loan never recorded. You simply cannot read It, without wondering what Harry F, Sinclair bought, or thought he was buying, when he turned over a total of $269,000 to Albert B. Fall, i A good many people are unkind ■enough to believe that he bought Fall, but if he did, he made a sorry trade. World of Buried Treasure A treasure hunt is symbolical of progress. Some seek treasure where man has never been, while others follow in his footsteps with the hope of finding what he may have left behind. Not the least surprisig part of it is that man should leave so much behind. The world is full of buried treasure, not only In silver and gold, but in experiments and achievements. We are constantly unearthing valuable knowledge with the spade, constantly throwing light on present day problems by peering about the dark chambers where our ancestors once dwelt.

u n Backbone of Romance The urge that drives us into unknown places, whether based on vanity, ambition, greed or curiosity, that produces a dozen failures where it leads to one success, that makes 100 fools where it develops one wise man, is the backbone of romance and achievement. The illusionment that “the grass is greener over the hill;” that it is better to buy 3-cent mining stock in a project 2,000 miles from home than to put money in the village savings bank; that roving is desirable even though “a rolling stone gathers no moss,” and that the man who finds something new deserves to be cheered though it is worthless, has not only inspired the human race to spread over all the world, but to improve its original condition. This is the illusionment that sent Columbus toward the setting sun, while millions shivered with empty fear; that formed those great commercial enterprises and expeditions, without which the new world could never have been settled and developed; that made New York a pirate center 230 years ago. and created the background for clever liars to paint an erroneous picture of Captain Kid; that induced Pizarro to strangle an Inca Prince; that won the illiterate ship carpenter. William Phipps, not only a fortune, but knighthood, and that reveals itself today in a Voliva, as well as a Lindbergh. n u u Sails Over Flat World Wilbur Glenn Voliva, general overseer of Zion City, denies that he is going abroad to prove the earth is flat because, as he says, “I know it is.” What a comfort such assurance in one’s knowledge must be. Voliva will cross the ocean on a ship navigated by men who do not believe the earth is flat, which is very fortunr.te, even though it makes no impression on his sublime faith. He says that what he wants to sea most is the Great Pyramid of Egypt, which is a prophecy in stone not only predicting the beginning and end of the World War, but the end of the world itself. It is not curious that he should i set such store by a momument erected in pagan Egypt, 4,000 years ago, while believing that the world is doomed “through universal sin and church lawlessness as expressed in modernism?” n st u Journey to Venus While Mr. Voliva sets out to cover as much of his “pancake world” as he can before it goes up in a sheet of spontaneous coiftbustion, Robert Condit of Condit, Ohio, plans a journey to Venus, though he has postponed the date of departure to the end of February or the beginning of March, when "meteoric conditions will be more favorable." He says that three men have already made application to accompany him. Mine was not among them.