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The Council and City Hospital Over in the city council chamber sit nine more or less learned gentlemen, in whose hands, to some extent, rests the advancement of Indianapolis. This grave and erudite deliberative body, with one eye cocked toward the political aspects of the master, has decided that there is no rush as to the bond issue for the City Hospital. There is public health, and always has been public health. What of it? Voters have been conveyed to the polls before now in |wheel chairs. Automobiles always are plentiful on election day to transport the lame, the halt, the blind and the goofy to cast their ballots. The vote —that’s the thing. The hospital can ride awhile longer. Meanwhile, at City Hospital, the superintendent, the business manager, the doctors, the internes, the nurses wait in dread, makeshifts serving them from day to day to care for the scores of patients constantly being deposited at their doors. There are no beds in which to place them. But, nevertheless, they must be and are given accommodation and treatment, by employment of ingenuity which only Superintendent W. A. Doeppers and his staff can explain. The city has been notably free from epidemics of a serious nature for many months. This does not mean that it always will be so blessed. A wave of contagious disease, with conditions as they are, might mean, would mean, that scores of lives would be lost, traceable solely to one reason—lack of suitable hospital accommodations to care for contagious

cases. Not a bed is empty today in City Hospital. Wards built to accommodate twenty-four beds have forty-three to forty-five in them, with barely space to pass between. In the sun parlors, intended for convalescent patients, are now row on row of beds, every one occupied. In the basement, in every conceivable place where a bed might be placed, there is a patient. In one room, with a single window, level with -the ground, where rain sweeps in on bad days, are six patients, with ventilation enough for not more than three. In the ward for contagious cases of children are little patients suffering from whooping cough, diphtheria, measles, chicken pox. Are they segregated according to their ailments, safeguarded with every means of protection? They are not. Between each bed is a sheet and nothing else. But then these patients have no votes. Serving the hospital is an ancient power house, strained to the breaking point to supply the needs of the institution. Two second-hand boilers, purchased from a defunct brewery, provide the power. In the worst possible location, the power house belches smoke from its chimneys that penetrates every room in the building and its monotonous thumpthump twenty-four hours a day is torture to the nerves of the stoutest patient. In the old main building, condemned and closed, the nurses eat in three shifts, because there is not room to allow for any other schedule. They lose time from their classes, from their ward duty. Stored in this building are supplies worth thousands of dollars, ever in peril of destruction, because the structure is a fire trap of the most dangerous sort, with wooden staircases, sagging floors and crumbling ceilings. The Indianapolis City Hospital boasts one of the most .modern and complete surgery departments in this part of the country. But of what use is all this expensive equipment when there is no bed available for a surgical patient ? As well bestow a look of dignity and knowledge on a councilman and expect to make anyone believe it his own. The per capita cost at City Hospital last year was $3.22. In all other cities for which statistics are available, the per capita cost was from $3.43 to $7. So can be no complaint that affairs and finances of the institution are not administered ably by the executive staff. The bond issue of $1,700,000 to provide for expansion and improvements at the hospital was passed by council during the Duvall regime. A legal technicality was discovered by a far-seeing councilman. The action was rescinded, announcement being made that an amended ordinance would be put through. But it never has been., The Chamber of Commerce recommended that $2,000,000 be spent. But that recommendation apparently was all that the chamber has contributed to see the matter through. In the meantime, the hospital staff carries on to the best of its ability, faithfully caring for patients who would be turned away from most hospitals, were their conditions similar, and also giving service to thousands of “out patients” every year. And a cheese-paring, fly-specking, thumbtwiddling council sits gravely by, immersed in greater matters. their supporters rear the smoke screen that the bonds could not be sold, in anjs event, be-

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cause of the chaotic conditions at City Hall and the doubt existing in some quarters as to legality of the mayor's acts. But this screen falls, too, when it is taken into consideration that this chaotic condition is due more to actions of the council than to any other factor. Is Prohibition a Joke? How much will it cost to enforce prohibition? Representative La Guardia of New York estimates that at least $150,000,000 i3 required. That seems like a stupendous figure, but many agree with him. The 'Federal prohibition establishment now costs $30,000,000 a year, and this does not include the sums spent by the States and smaller political units or the additional expense Imposed on the judiciary. La Guardia has shown that many parts of the country are absolutely unprotected against dry law violators. With only 2,043 agents, simple arithmetic tells us that an exact distribution of them among the 250 largest cities would provide fewer than ten for each. But New York City has 200 agents, while Philadelphia, Chicago and other large communities have proportional shares. Naturally, such allocation leaves many Important cities entirely uncovered. Asa result, there are many towns and rural sections quite as wet as the metropolitan Sodoms and Gomorrahs so frequently assailed by dry leaders. It is no answer to reply that, except for New York and Maryland, the States are cooperating In enforcement. In numerous instances they are not. It is no answer to say that the Federal Government cannot be expected to police the highways and byways. Conditions being as they are, the Federal Government must enforce the law, no matter how much it costs. It cannot abdicate in favor of communities which already have demonstrated their inability or unwillingness for the task. That is why Senator Borah’s questionnaire of presidential candidates only befuddle the problem. Prospective Presidents should be asked, not whether they believe in the principle of prohibition, but whether they will recommend adequate appropriations for its enforcement. That is why William G. McAdoo's denunciation of New York and Maryland conveys a misleading impression. His statements would lend one to believe that the other forty-six States were shouldering the major burden of enforcement. That, of course, is absurd. An incident which occurred in the house is illuminating. La Guardia’s revelation of large-scale violations of the dry laws was received with laughter and witty comments. It merely evoked humorous sallies and several hours of congressional foolery. With vaudeville managers banning jibes at the dry laws, it seems strange to see the House treating prohibition as a joke. The Right to Revolt The Pan-American Conference acted wisely in refusing to place an absolute ban on all further revolutions in the New World. Under one proposal brought forward, all American nations would have agreed to apply pressure on any faction that revolted in any New World country. This pressure, while purely economic anl moral, probably would have been sufficient to outlaw revolutions entirely. That would have been a dangerous step. Revolutions are bad, in Latin America or anywhere else, but there are times when they are needed. Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that the right to revolt was sacred and should be jealously guarded by any free people, would have been amazed at the anti-revolu-tion proposal. So, it is safe to say, would all of his confreres in the revolution of 1776. \ A witness in the Teapot Dome inquiry couldn’t remember details of a $4,000,000 transaction. These oil men certainly need no lubricant lor their memories.

Racing the Wind

BY BRUCE CATTON If the ghosts of the old time Yankee sea captains still hover around the wharves of our salt water ports, as some maintain, it is to be hoped that they read the daily papers. They would be interested, we believe, in the stories about the new ships which American builders are planning .for the trans-Atlantic trade; interested, even though they might not be willing to admit that these projected ships would have anything at all in common with the graceful, white-winged clippers of the old days. If present plans go through, ten or more huge ships will be built. Each ship will be capable of crossing the Atlantic in four days. Upper decks and superstructures will be copied after those grotesque warships, the Saratoga and Lexington, and each ship will carry its own fleet of’ airplanes. The old timers, we repeat, wouldn’t admit it; but these ships, nevertheless, will be the lineal descendants of the famous clippers of old. Until a century ago, speed was the last quality one looked for in a merchant ship. The picturesque galleons of Spain, with towering hoops and tubshaped underbodies, needed a stiff gale, as Conrad said, to move at all; and though the Dutch and English improved on these models, their ships were still bluff-bowed and wall-sided, built to plod along. Then, about 100 years ago, came a change. Mercantile competition became keener, and the shipper who could get his cargo there first was the shipper who made the money. American and British designers began narrowing the body lines and improving sail areas. Incredibly beautiful and speedy ships resulted; vessels that could maintain a speed of twenty knots an hour if the wind held good. But the wind did not always hold good, and shippers discovered that steamships, less graceful and less speedy, could make better time because of their ndependence of the weather. So the clippers became obsolete. With the passing of the clippers passed the romance of shipping. It is hard to thrill over a rusty iteamer, with her dungareed crew and her trailing cloud of black smoke. Utility conquered romance. i But now it appears that the urge that brought the clippers into existence is operating again. Once more'ships will take wings. The method has changed, but not the spirit. The new liner, speeding over the Atlantic at expresstrain speed, driven to the utmost of its capabilities, hurling airplanes at the distant shore in order to clip a few hours from its schedule—thi? is, truly, the lineal descendant of the famous clipper, that made Yankee speed famous the world over.

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BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright, 1928. by The Ready Reference Publishing Company) BY W. W. WENTWORTH

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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: The only way for a political party successfully to clean house is to do the work itself. The Republican party in Indiana needs a genuine house cleaning. One Governor sent to the Federal penitentiary, a mayor of the capital city prosecuted on fraudulent election charges and forced to resign his office, the two United States Senators elected by the influence of one who resides or is detained for an indefinite period at Michigan City, and the present Governor soon to be prosecuted on a bribery charge. The part I can not understand is why we Republicans (I am one, too, formerly from the Hoosier State), sit by in a state of lethargy and the editor of a Democratic paper had to tell us these startling truths. This editor should have from the rank and file of our party our hearty commendation. We needed some one to wake us up, someone who had horse sense enough to know $2,500 was too much to give for a broken down saddle horse. We needed a Moses to lead us out of the wilderness and set us on the right track. Roosevelt didn’t wait for Democrats to clean house in the Republican party. He started the cleaning himself and he finished it. No Republican could be corrupt and be upheld by the party. Roosevelt was the first to fire on him. Roosevelt would have saved a Democratic editor the time and trouble of unearthing the scandal, bribery and debauchery of the Klan rule in Indiana. “Teddy” would have performed the job himself and been “delighted” to do it. To have good clean government there must be a responsible party to administer it. Its members who officiate in different capacities of the State must be clean men, of unquestioned characters. When men assume control of the State, such as those in Indiana now, it is the duty of Republicans to sound the clarion call for action. And do as. Roosevelt would have us do, clean the house ourselves. GEORGE FAIR, 1440 Franklin St., Denver, Colo.

To the Editor: It is rather interesting to know that the dry convention decided that whisky has no medicinal value. I suppose the convention was composed of preachers, listeners-in and two doctors. They should have taken up the question as to how much morphine, calomel or quinine a doctor should give. They should have discussed the cause of cancer, infantile paralysis and tetanus. Doctors need the advice of the Anti-Saloon League on these questions. At the next meeting of the State Medical Society the doctors will help the preachers by advocting a law to do away with baptism by immersion. There are other ways of baptizing that will do just as well. The law will say that to baptize any one three drops of sterile water should be dropped on the head with a medicine dropper. If the preachers are going to tell the doctors what to prescribe, the doctors ought to tell the preachers how to baptize and preach. J. M. SMITH. Ft. Wayne. When two men marry sisters do they become related to each other by marriage? There is no blood relationship, but by courtesy they are called broth-ers-ln-law.

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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION Nero Burns Christians for Sport Written for The Times by Will Durant

'T'HE people accused Nero of •*- starting the fire to entertain himself. And the story went around that while watching Rome burn he had played on the violin a composition describing the destruction of Troy. He did all he could to mitigate the disaster; he opened his garden to the refugees, and fed them at the expense of the state. But—and here let the greatest of Roman historians , plain, blunt Tacitus, take up the tale: “Neither human effort, nor the generosity of the Emperor, nor the services of expiation, could remove the horrible suspicion that the fire had been ordered by Nero. “Therefore, to get rid of this rumor, the Emperor laid the guilt at the door of the Christians, and inflicted on them the most terrible forms of punishment. “The Christians, as they were popularly called, were hated for their secret abominations, and took their name from one Christ, who was executed in the reign of Tiberius by the provincial governor, Pontius Pilate. “Though it was temporarily checked, this deadly superstition broke out again not only in Judea, where the mischief began, but spread even tg Rome, the very sink of all that is shameful and horrible. “First, all those who confessed that they were Christians were arrested, and on their statements a vast number of others were convicted, not of having caused the fire, but of ‘hatred of mankind.’ “Their death was made a public sport and spectacle; they were wrapped in the skins of wild beasts and torn to pieces by dogs; they were nailed to crosses or burnt to serve as lamps when night had fallen. “Nero had given up his own gardens for this performance;. He entertained the people, too, with

Kokomo Dispatch (Democratic) In Indiana there is talk of running Senator Janies E. Watson as a “favorite son” candidate for the presidency. It is freely admitted that Senator Watson has no real hope of being his party’s nominee. About all that Senator Watson could hope to accomplish, should he allow his name to be entered as a candidate in the presidential preferential primary, would be to control the delegation at the national convention where he might have an important part in the selection of the real nominee and so worm himself into the good graces of the party standard bearer. This is a favorite trick of politicians. For those who are tired of “Senator Jim’s” domination of State affairs there is an easy remedy. All they need to do is to enter the name of Colonel Frank O. Lowden or some other real contender for the Republican presidential nomination, and see if the people of Indiana do not express an emphatic opinion of this particular "favorite son” business. Danville Gazette (Democratic) E. E. Neal of Noblesville, vice president of the Republican Editorial Association, has sent out a pamphlet to newspapers concerning Governor Jackson and the charges which are pending against him. The main theme of the pamphlet is introduced in an indirect way, but its purpose is plain—to influence the people of Indiana (including the twelve who will sit as jurors in the trial) favorably for the Governor. If an indictment by a grand jury was returned in this county and this paper should comment in the same vein as the Noblesville pamphleteer on that action there is but little question but what Judge Dougan would order the editor before him on a contempt of court charge. The Rev. Shumaker has been cited for contempt of court and Editor Dale of

circus shows, mixing in the crowds in the dress of a charioteer, or driving a chariot. “So it happened that though men thought the Christians were criminals who deserved extreme punishment, yet they came to pity them because they were being sacrificed, not for the public good, but simply to gratify the cruelty of one man.” tt tt tt MEANWHILE the provinces were rebelling against the heavy taxation by which Nero maintained his extravagant luxury in Rome; in 68 A. D. they rebelled, and marched upon the capital. Nero tried for a time to hide; but then, determining to die dramatically, he trapped himself, saying, “What an artist dies in me!” And now began three generations of chaos, in which the emperors were chosen by the army or the Praetorian Guard of the palace, and brutality such as had seemed to pass away with Sulla returned to fashion. Vespasian came from a merciless war against the revolting Jews, made himself emperior, and sent his son Titus to capture Jerusalem. The Jews resisted almost to the last man, and Vespasian retaliated by exiling all the survivors from their ancient capital. Titus and his brother Domitian succeeded to Vespasian, and made more wars. In the midst of this violence a great catastrophe added to the disorder: Vesuvius broke into eruption (79 A. D.), and destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, cities whose origin went back to the time of Greek power in Italy, Today the tourist walks impatiently among the sun-baked ruins, and sees that ancient life as if it had been interrupted only a brief while ago. Kitchen utensi' ■vid baking ovens ready for use; It > of bread a little overdone by the lava, splendid mosaics on rich n en’s floors, political appeals and shibboleths on charred walls, crude obscenities

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Muncle was given a penal sentence on the same charge, but neither strayed so far across the line as this man Neal. They criticised actions which had been made. Neal, apparently, is trying to arouse prejudice favorable for a public official who is facing trial on a serious charge, the charges having been made by a grand jury the integrity of Tyhich has not been questioned. “Petty'teolitics” is given by Neal as /the cause for the charges against Governor Jackson, “who is too

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adorning the interior of a brothel, and the petrified body of a man struck down, with ten thousand others, by the burning torrent of ashes and stones. a a tt PEACE and quiet came agiin with Nerva, whom the Senate managed to elect upon Domitian’s death (96 A. D.). Nerva saw the problem: To find some mode of succession that would escape the domination of the state by soldiery; and he saw in the example of Augustus the best solution. He ac opted Trajan for his heir, and trained him in the art of being king. But he died too soon (98 A. D.); and Trajan, suddenly empowered, itched for the glory of war. Seeing the peril to Rome In the barbarians gathered to the north, he forced them back across the Danube, established Dacin as a buffer state, and left there so many Roman soldiers: and colonists that to this day the land is called Rumania, and the people speak a tongue half Latin and half Slav. But then he lost himself in vain dreams of rivaling Alexander, and died in the midst of a campaign in the Orient. He had followed the principle established by Augustus and Nerva, and had selected Hadrian as heir to his power. It was his wisest act; for Hadrian proved to be one of the ablest rulers in history. He refrained from war, and to keep back the barbarians contented himself with building immense walls between the Rhine and the Danube and between Scotland and England; parts of those vast structures still remain. For half a century this expedient sufficed. After a long and beneficent reign (117-138) Hadrian died, leaving his power to Antoninus Pius, a man too kindly and gentle to fit a throne. (Copyright, 1928, by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

much of a Christian to strike back at his enemies.” No doubt every thoughtful person in the State holds the hope that the Governor can pr>ve the charges against him are unfounded, because the State cannot afford the stigma that would result from his conviction, but surely no one will believe that the same sort of acquittal that has resulted in some of the recent murder trials will be a vindication of the Governor. Neal’s appeal is in reality a move for that sort of acquittal.

This particular kind of fowl needs neither education nor experience to team him to fight, and his capacity for giving and taking punishment till dead has passed into a proverb. i How long have popes been prisoners in the Vatican? Since 1871 the popes have remained within the Vatican. At that time the Italian government seized some of the papal domain and as a protest the popes have called themselves of the Vatican.” Do all the States have compulsory education laws? They all have compulsory education laws, and while not identical, lrr general they provide that children between the ages of 7 or 8 to 14 or 18 must attend school for the full term each year or until they have completed at least the elementary grades. In two States the minimum attendance required annually is aa low as eighty school days; in one it is 100 days; in another 120 days, but for the most part attendance during the entire term is required. What is the translation of the Latin inscription on the great seal of the United States Treasury? The inscription is “Thesaur Amer Septent Sigil,” which mean* “The seal of the Treasury of North America.”

-FEB. 7, 1928

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Considering How New the Ideal of Peace Through Systematic Arbitration Is, It Has Made Remarkable Headway ; It Upsets Traditions to Which Men Have Been . Accustomed for 10,000 Years.”

Anew treaty of arbitration goes into effect between France and this . country. It was signed by Assistant Secretary Olds and Ambassador Claudel at Washington, Monday. Monday was the 150th anniversary of the signing of the treaty which Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane and Arthur Lee negotiated with the king of France in 1778. The original of that treaty lay on ' the table at which Ambassador': Claudel and Mr. Olds sat, and they spent some time looking over its ,; yellowed pages, dimmed writings, curious seals and bold signatures. ; tt tt it Proof of Progress The new treaty which France and the United States have entered into represents an even greater proof of progress than the 150 years of peace they have enjoyed. In 1778, no such thing as an arbitration treaty had been thought of, much less adopted. Governments were conceived as institutions for the prosecution of war more than anything else. Peace; was regarded as a state of affairs that could only be maintained by force. The life of nations was meas- : ured by their ability to fight. Treaties either took the form of truces or alliances, and they were valued according to the security they guaranteed from a military standpoint. tt tt tt Working Against War , r The new treaty with France is not all its promoters hoped. It does,, not outlaw war between the two countries, as M. Briand wished, and ; it does not form a basis for outlaw-: ing war with other countries, as Secretary Kellogg wished. At the same time, it embodies a ‘ more comprehensive plan of arbitration than the treaty it replaces, which shows progress in the right;' direction. i While they cannot find a formula; to express the idea in practical* terms, both France and the United States are in a mood to believe that ’ war between them is improbable, if not impossible. That, too, is anew thought for great nations to hold. It certainly was not held by any 150 years ago. ;

tt tt tt New Idea of Peace Considering how new the idea of* peace through systematic abritration is, it has made remarkable headway. It is, perhaps, the biggest idea that men ever entertained. It involves conceptions and concessions that go far beyond anything in their past. It upsets customs and traditions to which they have been accustomed for ten thousand years. It calls for a revision of those ideals which have been woven into the life of every land. * tt tt Work of Generations Such a revolution as this idea implies will require generations to 1 complete. People in all parts of the civilized world hope for peace, but do not know how to secure it. They are plagued by extremists. On the one hand, there are those who believe it is impossible and who cry continually that there is no safeguard but the old one. Oh the other, there are those who cry that it is not only possible but that it could be brought about right now by the simple process of disbanding all armies and scrapping all navies. Sensible men nad women, who realize that this, like every other ideal, can only be accomplished, gradually and with patience, find it hard to steer a practical, constructive course. tt it tt Clash With Ideals What is going on in Congress with regard to the proposed naval pro- • gram furnished a good illustratioi j of the difficulties to be encountered 3| It is just a question of squaring! actualities with ideals, and trying | to make the world we live in and < the world we hope for fit each other. That self-same question has confused every progressive movement. Dreamers point out the way and pessimists point out the difficulty, but sensible people, while getting good advice from both, can follow neither. a it tt U, S, as World Leader Circumstances have placed the United States in a definite position of leadership. Whether willingly or not, the rest of the world looks to Washington for guidance more distinctly than to any other capital. This means responsibility, as well as power. The United States is duty-bound not only to safeguard her own interests, but to give world movements and world Impulses such direction as will make them of de-J pendable value. 1 st tt a I End War by Education 1 Peace through such institutions as* a League of Nations, a world court, 1 limited groups of governments and even arbitration treaties cannot be brought about by paper proclamation. It is obviously a matter of growth. Until It takes root In the hearts and minds of a majority of people, until they believe it represents not only a better, but a safer system than the one under which they now live, it cannot be attained. The task of attaining it belongs to the school teacher quite as much as to the statesman. In the meantime; Government must go on and will go on providiiM for the defense and security m old.