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There Will Be No Feast Boyd Gurley, editor of The Times, crossing the ocean for a vacation after two years of work about as arduous as man could undertake, stopped at the Azores to view scenes where history was made centuries ago, and where, more recently, Ruth Elder laid the base for a fat vaudeville tour by falling out of an airplane. From there he is on his way to Lisbon, then Palermo, to disembark at Naples for rest and recreation, mostly in the Mediterranean region. “About all the thrill we get on this voyage is to watch for the next gull,” is the word he sends back to Indianapolis. And a gray gull, scudding before the wind, undoubtedly is a more pleasing sight, for a change, than Indiana’s political birds of ill omen scudding for the nearest bondsman. This leads up to the baseless rumors, given circulation in a number of Indiana newspapers, headed “Gurley Leaves The Times. Policy of The Times to Be Changed. Soft Pedal on Political Exposes.” The wish undoubtedly is father to the thought—if such rumors may be dignified by being called thoughts—as far as the fleeing forces of super-government in Indiana are concerned. But Boyd Gurley has not been “unloaded” by The Times, as Hoosierdom’s political corruptionists so ardently wish. He is on leave of absence which thousands of his followers, not only in Indiana, but all over the Nation, hope -—and may feel assured —will bring him back home better equipped physically to carry on his work, tke work which already so signally has aided in cleaning up the deplorable governmental conditions in this commonwealth. Furthermore, The Times is not backing down on its policies, or traveling the soft pedal route. The Times will continue to fight for what it considers right and constructive and relentlessly combat that which it considers wrong. The Times has not “pulled its punch” in the past. Neither will this newspaper do so in the future. So the buzzards may go back to their roosts. There will be no feast. A Muddle That Is a Menace Public opinion does not approve of the rule of politicians in any kind of public business. It does fight such a rule openly until abuses become too flagrant. If there is any type of public business which should be kept free of politics It Is the school system and the care of the sick. Sunnyside Tuberculosis Sanatorium faces a crisis. It arose over the shortage of water. For more than a week now a countyowned institution has been forced to operate at less than one-third its capacity. Only ninety patients are at Sunnyside. The capacity Is 300. Dr. Harold S. Hatch, superintendent, hopes that some of the 151 sent to their homes due to the water shortage can return early this week. Workmen are seeking to recondition one of the two wells out of commission. Meanwhile, county officials apparently are making a sincere effort to remedy the present situation and to prevent a recurrence. Certainly their po litical instincts force on them the realization that the public will not permit unnecessary delays In this vital matter. The officials know they cannot play with the lives, or at least the safety and comfort, of the tuberculosis patients. The time has arrived when necessity demands more than the appointment of investigating committees and hearing reports of engineers. In the week the present situation has prevailed, the work of the county has consisted of two meetings with the sanatorium board of managers, the hearing of an engineer’s report, interviews with well company representatives and the whole-hearted agreement that “something must be done." The public demands the situation be corrected, and with least possible delay. A few thousand dollars at the most would put down new and adequate wells. The cost, always important in public business, is of secondary importance this time. The public stands behind the board of managers. These men and women hold their appointments because they have an interest in the work, and they have done great things for Sunnyside. For more than a year they and Dr. Hatch have tried to get the water situation remedied before the arrival of the present crisis. The county council cut out an appropriation to fix it. The board of managers, consisting of Dr. Alfred Henry, Dr. David Ross, Mrs. M. F. Ault and Irving Lemaux, foresaw months ago what has happened. Not only is a county plant valued at thousands of dollars facing almost inevitable ruin in case of fire, but it is being forced to operate far below its capacity at a time when the waiting list for admittance contains scores of names. Should fire break out at Sunnyside, the sanatorium would be at the mercy of the flames. Only a few chemical extinguishers would be available. A 15,000gallon storage tank now in use would be only a momentary help. And the ninety patients there use the supply of water the one well is able to produce. The public will not permit such a condition to prevail for long. They Don’t Get Away With It A reader has sent us a cartoon, clipped from the New Orleans Times-Picayune. It pictures a confessed murderer in court, weeping for the benefit of the judge, while his attorney, likewise weeping, pleads for his life on the ground of Insanity. The attitude of the criminal and the speech of his lawyer are clever burlesques of the sort of thing seen ag£L heard dally In American criminal courts. “Ari They Get Away With It!” Is the title of the cartoon.

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Our reader has scribbled across the face of the picture: “Also, Sinclair, Stewart, Fall, Doheny and the Others.” He asks us to write an editorial on the subject. Obviously it is his view that Sinclair, Fall, et al, are getting away with it and it is easy to understand why he should think so. With all the bribery, corruption and theft thus far exposed, nobody is yet in jail. It does seem discouraging, doesn't it? But, after all, isn't the situation one for optimism? Read that list of names again. Is there a happy man among them? Hardly. Dodging and running, cornered in court and wriggling out, still pursued and their pursuers growing in number, what manner of life is that for so-called successful business men? No, we don’t think they're happy. We think they are beginning to pay and that it will be a long time before they cease to pay, if ever. It isn't in their preliminary suffering, however, that we find our basis for optimism. It is in the state of public affairs as a whole. No longer Is it a situation in which men of wealth can hope to seize public property through corruption and fraud. It may be that part of the present Administration still believes in giving away our national resources—but not in exchange for tainted money. This is a clear gain over the situation of a few years ago. Further evidence of the gain is given by the overwhelming demand for the nomination of a man like Herbert Hoover. The dominant political party is not in a mood to nominate a weakling or a man of dubious record. It is in a mood to nominate a real man. Events that followed the mistake of 1920 are clearly in mind. The mistake will not be made again in 1928, In our opinion. To use the language of the cart -onist, they can’t get away with it. Unfair to Republicans If, as now seems clear, the Republican national committee shared along with Albert B. Fall in the mysterious profits of the Continental Trading Company, there is one thing the national committee could do. It could return the money. It should return the money. This, even though the national committee or Its agents can prove that it was totally unaware that the money in question was tainted. The Republican party is composed of millions of honorable men and women. The national committee is the authorized representative of these men and women. The committee has put the party in a position that is unfair to the rank and file. It is a condition that can be corrected easily enough, if the party managers desire to deal fairly with the men and women they represent. Refinement and Reform On Feb. 17 will be celebrated the birthday of Frances E. Willard, famed temperance worker who, as much as any other person, paved the way for prohibition in this country. It is instructive to read that in the days of her hardest work there was almost no mention of her in the stately "ladles’ magazines” of her day. For she was not considered refined; she did not 6tand upon the niceties of social observance, but plunged into the fight and made her own rules. That is the way it usually is with people who get great things done. They are not considered “refined” at the time; the “better people” rather look down on them. But, later on, monuments are raised to their memory. Stronger Than Death BY BRUCE CATTON Avery old lady died in New York the other day. For forty years she had been a widow, living in solitude in a furnished room and cooking her own meals over a little hot plate on the bureau. • Since she left some $14,000 in the bank, public officials made a search of her effects to see if they could find trace of any heirs. In their search they turned up bundles of all the love letters her husband had written her. They found boxes filled with musty keepsakes—faded gloves, a pressed rose or two, yellowed dance programs and the like. They also drew from her landlady a curious story. “During all the years she lived here she kept pretty much to herself,” said the landlady. “She did tell me once that she cooked her own meals and always set a place at her little table for her dead husband, and looked at his empty chair while she ate.” The old lady had been married just three years when her husband died. Three years of married life —then forty lonely years of memories. What a vigil! But perhaps she was not to be pitied quite so much as we may think. Companionship is a strange thing, hard to analyze. It is more than the daily round of personal contacts; more than the ever mounting sum of understanding words and unselfish actions that go with all happy marriages; more than the endless repetition of little joys and sorrows, mutually shared. Most of all, it is a spiritual thing; a blending of sympathies into a steady comradeship, that does not need words to manifest itself, that sustains and enobles almost without even being recognized. It does not come to all married folk, as our cluttered divorce courts testify; but when it does come it ends all doubts and all fears, and lasts—we may say—forever, so that death itself can not diminish its force. And it must have been a relationship of this kind that grew up between this woman and her husband during the three years they were together. Why, then, should we feel that this woman needed our pity? Why should we feel that her life must have been desperately unhappy? There is a happiness that expresses itself in laughter and song and dancing, and there is a happiness that it too deep, too solemn, too peaceful for such things; a happiness that includes grief and sorrow and loneliness within itself, being so strong that it can transcend them and rise superior to them. And it must have been such a happiness, born of a deep comradeship, that led this woman to share her little table, at every meal, with the vacant chair of her dead husband. Perhaps, if the truth were known, this lonely old woman was more fortunate than most of us. For comradeship does not come to everyone; most of us are lonely, not because we have lost a true comrade, but because we have never really had one. She had had hers; for three years, at least, she had known the peace and joy that are bom of inner kinship and understanding; and they bore her up for forty years. We talk of ghosts. What are they, anyway? Was there a ghost at her little table every day—a friendly phantom bearing a message of hope and cheer? Or did the lonely widow discover that truth which many men, through all the ages, have caught glimmerings of now and then—that we are all wraiths, bearing up little bodies for a time and then quitting them for something new and better, triumphing over sorrow and death by virtue of our indissoluble union with creature of another world?

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(Abbreviations: A—ace: K—kin*;: Q—oueen; J—jack; X—any card lower than 10.) I—ln playing against no-trump, what is the very common error made? 2. Against a no-trump, partner not having bid, what do you lead if you do not hold three honors in sequence? 3. —Against a no-trump, partner not having bid, what do you lead when holding three honors in sequence? THE ANSWERS 1. Switching the open suit. 2. —Fourth from top of the longest suit, 3. —Highest. Times Readers Voice Views The name and address of the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. To the Editor: Our farm tariff being decidedly out of joint, it is in order to challenge J. C. Briley's stray notion on onions. I fear this gas farmer, who in 1917 called me a “mud road statesman” for proposing the Indiana highway commission law, again has failed to taka himself out of the realm of gue.-sed assumption. His knowledge of either the elastic provisions of the farm equality bill, as it could apply to onions or other unnamed dirt commodities, or the pretty onion tariff problem presented American growers, seems most incomplete. The fundamental causes of the onion farmer's grief which Mr. Briley attempts to defend and justify soon must yield to an application of the fundamental principles of equity and justice. The farm bill soon wilLprevail over the gross sum of all onion ignorance and selfishness. It is true that our squat onion farmers occupy the last mudsill niche in the plowman’s hall of gloom. Mr. Briley could cultivate his onion judgment by reading either the Industrial Conference report, the Farm Bill itself, or the Ohio Onion Farmers’ Petition, which a large group of planters addressed to Senator Willis and the Tariff Commission. Any of these documents cover the onion matters Mr. Briley is guessing about. The onion instrument shows our planters to be in almost open competition with Spain and other countries on onion supplies for our American market. The Ohio Bill of Onion Rights floats an indictment against the patronage of lowly Spaniards, who work on great onion plantations, setting onion sets for $3 a month in American money; who live on dirt floors; who dwell in stick and grass hovels by the field-side; and who dress in mid-man style on burlap sacking. Think of these low onion highlands of the universe loping over a small American tariff barrier, supplying the free-trade elements which win our markets and destroy our American onion values; the more serious consequence of which is the destruction of the value of our onion farms. An analysis of our onion situation makes it appear that our national administration doesn’t “know its onions.” Asa result of our Government’s nominal tariff procedure on Incoming onions, we saw the onion producers roadside-price-board last season all through Ohio, Michigan and Indiana quoting onions, high grade domestic grown onions, at 50 and 60 cents a bushel, when even Mr. Briley knows is merely a digging, picking or grading price. Evidently these Hungarian emeralds have been grown free and out of clear loss to all our American onion producers. A legislative enactment, like the McNary-Haugen Bill, Is needed to vest our onion farmers with some effective bargaining power, and rid them of such cheap competition as comes from all spheres of world onion farming. Admonishing Mr. Briley to sin as little as possible against his downtrodden fellow onion farmers, and contending his onion notion to be put a barren onion husk and an empty onion jacket, as he fails to know his onions, I am, Yours for improved onion conditions. LUKE W. DUFFEY.

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An Epidemic of ‘Spots Before the Eyes’

THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION Christians Are Sold Into Slavery Written for The Times by Will Durant

IN the sixth year of the Christian era an insurrection broke out in the northern provinces of Judea, led by Judas the Galilean. Quirinus, the Roman governor, had ordered a census, to ferret out all tax-evaders; and the Jews, ac* customed to a theocracy, and considering all civil power as a usurpation and all taxation as robbery, gathered together their remaining weapons, and fought once more to free themselves from the yoke of Rome. It was not merely the taxation that oppressed the ancient pride of Judea. Everywhere m the land Greek and Roman customs, dress and speech flourished; and pagan idols, athletic games and bacchanalian festivals desecrated temples and streets made sacred in the memory of the Jews by their immemorial struggle for liberty. And in every home was poverty; not the wonted and bearable poverty of the open fields and the friendly stars, when men peacefully followed the flocks, and lived with them their quiet life; but anew and cruel thing, the poverty of the huddled city mob, the dirt and stench of almost homeless crowds, the mean and bitter penury of slaves who could remember their ancient freedom. a a a PERIODICALLY this helpless proletariat of Judea’s cities, bore the terror of Roman armies, and slaveraiding Roman generals. Fifty years before the birth of Christ, 50.000 Jews were sold into slavery; doubtless this was one of the grim stories that he read when he pored over books in his youth. While he lived as a carpenter’s son at Nazareth, an entire town nearby was sacked by the Romans,

(Bluffton Banner) While in Washington Arthur Sapp of Huntington says he has receievd numerous entreaties from Republicans to enter the gubernatorial race, but so far finds he has power enough to resist the advances made. Fine idea to roll under thetongue, but the idea of a Huntington man “resisting” anything in the political line is interesting and amusing. The latest word from Mr. Sapp is that he is still “resisting,” although, in the company of Jim Watson and other leading lights in Washington, he may “break” down any time, and thus allow his name to be cast in the lot. In the meantime let the friends of Mr. Sapp hope he may be strong enough to cast aside the tempter. Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel An up-State weekly rushes to the defense of Dr. Shumaker against Attorney General Gilliom, asserting that Gilliom’s action against the Anti-Saloon League’s high mogul in Indiana is a case of personal persecution instead of prosecution. It cites the fact that, in his reply to Dr. Shumaker’s statement that the contempt proceedings against him were initiated to break down the Indiana Anti-Sa-lcon League, the Attorney General set forth that the suit against Shumaker was brought for a personal violation of the law. Tho up-State weekly adds: “We don’t know much about law, but if we had suffered damage at the hands of some employe while performing his work, as an employe of some corporation ... we would sue the corporation and not the employe, unless we had some grudge against the employe and wanted to get even rather than to get damages.” This journal need not have explained that it doesn’t know much about law. Shumaker it was who committed the contempt. Many supporters of the league did not agree with his course. Many of them did, but they did not commit the overt act. Shumaker did. Hence, he was made defendant and afterward convicted of con-

and every man inhabitant sold to the Simon Legrces of distant Italy. Jerusalem, like Antioch, Athens, Alexandria, Carthage, and Rome itself, was feeling, as only Egypt had felt before, the widened cleavage between poor and rich; and each rebellion against Rome was tinged with a social revolt that aimed at domestic tyrants, too. Every city seethed with sedition. The uprising of Judas the Galilean was put down: but the Jews have never really been conquered and have never really surrendered. The expectation of deliverance grew stronger as persecution increased; it could not be that God would not let a people bear such contumely and suffering; soon he would send them a mighty leader who would overturn and punish their enemies, and bring freedom and justice to Judea. Men read with clinging faith the prophecy of Micah V 2, that out of Bethlehem “shall come forth a governor, who shall be shepherd of my people Israel;” the “Book of Enoch,” written at this time, comforted them with the description of a great Last Judgment, in which the poor would be taken into heaven, and the rich trust down into hell; the “Book of Daniel” filled the suffering heart with a version of “The Son of a Man.” who would lead the Jews Into a “Kingdom of Heaven.” As the Babylonian captivity raised up the Prophets, so the tyranny of Rome and wealth gave birth to Christianity. a a a IT was during these years of turmoil and the apparent victory of paganism over Jewish faith and rites that a strange sect of devotees appeared in Palestine, who called themselves Essenes. They were the Franciscans of Ju-

What Other Editors Think

It is only to the extent that the rest of the Anti-Saloon League follows Shumaker’s example that it will come under the same sentence. The league is not an organization capable of terrifying a brave official in the discharge of his duty to uphold the Constitution

Questions and Answers

You can get an 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 questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All leter3 are confidential. You are cordially invited to make us* of this free service as often as you please. EDITOR. What Is the remainder of the verse that begins, “What is so rare as a day in June?” The verse is from James Russell Lowell’s “Vision of Sir Launfal,” and is as follows: What is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect davs. Then heaven tries earth if it be in tune. And over it softly her warm ear lays. Mow many members of the Marine Corps of the United States during the World War were entitled to the Federal bonus and how many applied for it? The number entitled to adjusted compensation was 78,362 and by Oct. 31, 1926, 59,575 had applied and 59,204 were certified. Who played the part of the mother in the picture called “Over the Hill?” Mary Carr. What Is the meaning of “Honi soit qui maly pense?” Are they Latin words? “Evil to him who evil thinks.” It is French. What is the aurora borealis? It is a display of light in the upper regions of the atmosphere, seen in the direction of the north magnetic pole and sometimes called northern lights. The aurora is usually a broad arch of light with streamers above it reaching toward

dea, protesting against the heartless pleasures of the rich, and adopting a life of puritanic simplicity and almost monastic seclusion. They became a distinctive order, marked off with girdle and white robe. They" condemned city life, trade, slavery, competition, and wealth; they healed the sick with herbs and took no payment; they practiced a community of goods, and ate supper together daily as a religious feast. Their tradition and their spirit passed down into the Carpenter's son. At first it seemed to the Jews that their savior had come in the person of John, whom posterity wquld call the Baptist; his father, Zacharias, welcoming his birth, predicted that he would lead the revolution against Rome. And when John, grown to be 30, came out into the public places and called upon every man to be spiritually reborn through the symbol of immersion many hundreds followed him; surely this strange and holy man was the Messiah, the redeemer who would bring salvation to Israel. “Now,” says Josephus, “when many came in crowds about hjm, for they were greatly moved by hearing his words, Herod, who feared lest the great influence John had over the people might put it into his power and inclination to raise a rebellion (for they seemed ready to do anything he should advise), thought it best, by putting him to death, to prevent any mischief he might cause, and not bring himself into difficulties by sparing a man who might make him repent of it when it should be too late.” (Copyright, 1928, by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

of the United States and the fundamental law of Indiana. Mr. Gilliom is not taking “joblot” action, for he is interested only in bringing the guilty to time. He has made a splendid beginning, and we have confidence that he will continue In the good work which he so fortuitously has initiated.

the zenith and often suggesting tongues of flame. The color may be white throughout or it may be shot with brilliant hues of red, yellow and green. The auroral line of the spectrum is green and is apparently always present in the sky. The rays or beams of light proceeding from the arch are really parallel to the dipping needle; that Is, the follow the lines of magnetic force. What was the official date of the termination of the Civil War? The proclamation by President Andrew Johnson on April 2, 1966, declaring that the war had now terminated was the only formal notice that the war was ended. What is the address of Bruce Barton? 24 E. Tenth St., New York. Is it good form to send announce - ment cards of an engagement? It is not good form to send out announcement cards. The newspapers should be given a notice of the engagement, if desired, and the parents of the girl may give a dinner at which the formal announcement may be made. Did the ancients begin anew year in January? The Aathenians began the year in June; the Macedonians in September; the Romans first in March and afterward in January; the Persians on Aug. 11; the ancient Mexicans on Feb. 23; the Mohammedans in July. The Chinese year, which begins late in January or early in February, is similar to that of the Mohammedans.

FEB. 13, 1928

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Civilized Peoples No Longer Fear Change; the Superstition That Revolutionary Methods Necessarily Are Wrong Entirely Has Disappeared

A week-end of birthdays, with Lincoln’s topping them all. Thomas A. Edison cuts a cake and looks out on the world. So does Admiral Plunkett, but through what different eyes! The admiral uses a sword instead of a knife and his remarks are ! quite in keeping- with the implement. He is for outlawing war if anyone can find a way, but thus far nobody has, and he sees little hope of peace friendship, except through force. Human nature is the stumbling block. Other things may change, but human nature does not, wherefore, the admiral sees no method but the one we inherited from the cavemen. He is for fairness, but those wbc don’t like this country, they can get out. Patriotism and the Government absolutely are synonymous in his opinion, which always has been the cry of despots, though Admiral Plunkett hardly means it that way. a a a Lincoln and Patriotism Lincoln not only grew up with the conviction that this Government was wrong in its tolerance of African slavery, but with the idea that he wanted to help change it. He took a stand which caused him to be execrated by millions, and which had little foundation at the outset except his own conviction 1 that it was right. * The question is, should Lincoln have voiced what he thought was right, or have kept quiet out of loyalty to the Government as it then existed? a a a The Vague Admiral Admiral Plunkett names no names, but leaves the impression that this nation is threatened either by some folks who speak the same language, or by some who speak a different one, which includes everybody. Abraham Lincoln never indulged in such vagueness. He was one of those men whose convictions permit them to speak definitely. He said, “this nation cannot sur- ! vive half slave and half free,” leav- ! ing no doubt as to who or what he had in mind. a a a Era of Edison The age of Lincoln finds its true reflection in the age of Edison. Scientific enmacipation comes as a natural follow-up to political emancipation. This world would not be free for the inventor if it had not first been made free for the citizen. Progress by evolution is the child of democracy. Men refused to believe that their habits and customs could be changed without grave risk until they had been shown that government could be changed. The divine right of kings found its most terrible expression in the divine right of everything to stay put. If Thomas A. Edison had been born in the reign of James I, instead of the administration of James K. Polk, he would have been hung as a wizard. a a a Life Revolutionized Civilization has come to a point where it permits science to revolutionize life without resistence, much less bloodshed. Edison and a few others like him completely have altered domestic and industrial methods during the last century. Many of their inventions and innovations are more marvelous than the miracles of old. The greatest marvel of all is the calmness and quickness with which people have made the necessary changes. a a a Fear of Change Lost Twenty-five years ago, *we still were asserting that men would never fly, but today there are hundreds of thousands doing it, while there is not one sorry, sceptical or angry. The fact that Marconi discovered radio is less important, perhaps, than is the fact that millions of boys can make and operate radio sets. The greatest triumph of Americanism lies in the way it has demonstrated human adaptibility. Civilized peoples no longer fear change. The superstition that revolutionary methods necessarily are wrong entirely has disappeared, with the exception of that new order which Woodrow Wilson visualized. With regard to war and peace, the world still is plagued by too much of the fourteen century attitude. a a a Doubting Too Much Admiral Plunket is about like those farm hands who rioted when the McCormick Reaper first was exhibited. He does not like to think of peace through a League of Nations, a World Court or any other medium, because he cannot see how it is possible. Besides, it interferes with his profession, and that human nature of which he speaks makes each and every one suseptible to such an influence. If science has done so much in the field of heat, light, power, travel and transportation, why should we assume that it cannot do something to promote better understanding among the people? If it has shown us how to illuminate cities without candles, why not admit that it may show us ho* to preserve peace without systematic suspicion and a display of arms? If it has found the means of carrying the voice overseas, *yhy doubt that it may find the means of carrying good will? There is just as much wrorw in doubting too much as there it in hoping too much.