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The Boss Gets Aboard What has occurred in Ohio is a thing that always ! appens in a democracy when—and if—the too frequently voiceless rank and file has a chance to express itself. The bosses “get aboard.’’ Most powerful of all Republican politicians in Ohio is. “Boss” Maurice Ma'schke of Cleveland, the i, ..rty’s national committeeman. Having been for Frank B. Willis, Ohio’s so-called •r.’orite son, Maschke suddenly switches to Hoover •. I'.hin forty-eight hours after Hoover’s formal an- : ovneement of candidacy is proclaimed. Up to Monday last, when Hoover announced, the v hole pre-primary play among Ohio’s professional : Iticians was confined to the contention that Frank H. Willis was, in fact a favorite son. Then came the Hoover announcement, a most un-c’-ccme one to those professionals. But it came nevertheless. And there followed in its wake so great a wave of hr over sentiment from the hitherto mute majority ■ zt the astute Maschke, titular head of the Repub- ’ ■ 'zn party in the Buckeye State, quickly saw the 1 . ht. His action in quitting Willis is being interpreted as i he death blow to a "favorite son” who has strutted his ! rlef hour upon the stage and soon will be seen no . icre. We are prone to attribute too much strength to 'he bosses and to underestimate the real strength of the rank and file. Once aroused and given expression, no force is so powerful in America as the force that comes from . .13 mass. Before it the bosses bow like saplings in a cyclone. Let’s Be Honest Two benefits can result from a Senate investigation of the power interests. The people of every State and every town can be shown how their public utilities operate—how they i.re financed and what it is the public’s money pays ihr. They can be furnished "enlightenment that will enable them to protect their own interests. That would be one benefit. The other would be the enlightenment of Congress on the nation wide ramifications of the power interests, a clear presentation of the whole picture, enabling Congress to legislate in protection of the people as a Nation. The people need this information and Congress needs it. Only through the passage of the Walsh resolution will they get it. The substitute proposal, whereby the Federal Trade Commission would be directed to make the investigation, would serve neither the people nor Congress. The futility of counting on the Federal Trade Commission has been shown so frequently that bringing it forward now as an investigator of the powerful public utilities is nothing less than absurd. y. -it is so absurd that no senator should fool himself. He won’t fool anybody else. Has any senator forgotten the amazing performance of the Federal Trade Commission in the matter of the so-called bread trust? To recall it, the trade commission and the attorney general simultaneously dropped their separate investigations of the big merger of wholesale bakeries; and each gave as'an explanation, the fact that the other was investigating—notwithstanding that each knew the oher was dropping the matter! Has any member of the Senate any reason to doubt where the sympathies of the trade commis_ sion’s chairman, W. E. Humphrey, lie in any question between the public and any special interest? Surely not. Humphrey’s attitude of mind and the history of his activities, in and out of Congress, are not unknown to any member of the Senate. No. The Senate knows Humphrey. It knows the present trade commission. A senator honestly may believe that there should be no inquiry into the business of the public utilities. Believing that, he may vote to prevent the proposed inquiry. But it is hard to see how a vote to refer the matter to the Federal Trade Commission is an honest vote for anything. British Airships and Ours Announcement that regular airship service between the United States and England will begin this spring or summer stirs jaded imaginations like a page from Jules Verne. The ship which will begin this sensational new chapter in aerial history is the R-100, a great British dirigible now nearing completion, under government subsidy, at Howden, Eng. It is to carry 100 passengers and several tons of mail and express. Commander C. D. Burney, British member of Parliament, is in this country to make contracts with the United States Government to carry the mail, arrange for terminal facilities, and interest capital. Every possible facility will, of course, be put at his disposal, for such an enterprise deserves our generous support. But while sincere congratulations and best wishes should go out to Commander Burney for his zeal, we very much hope the Government at Washington will not forget that a similar project has been fighting for life for years right here in our own country. The dirigible seems to offer immense possibilities for quick transportation over water. But it still is in process of development which American airship interests have been struggling to carry on in the face of quite obvious administrative inertia and skepticism. Say what you will, Washington has not done much to encourage it. After the war, Great Britain, to all intents and r’uposes. abandoned airships. The United States never lost faith. We bought the R-38 from Britain. We built the Shenandoah. We acquired the Los Angeles. v Then, just as big financial interests were about to form a corporation to operate airships, came the Shenandoah disaster. And while President Coolidge soon after expressed himself as strongly in favor of replacing the Shenandoah, and though Congress passed a bill authorizing not one, but two, great dirigibles, nothing seems to have been accomplished in the two years since that time. Meanwhile, Great Britain, with rekindled faith and brand new determination, has stolen a march on us. It is a case of the hare and the tortoise all over again. While we have slept Britain has passed us.

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Commander Burney, M.P., is already among us with plans for beginning his trans-Atlantic flights in May or June. And, if the experiment goes as he hopes, five more, and perhaps larger, airships will be put in the same service, built with Anglo-American capital. But of one thing we may be sure. The British admiralty will have the call on these ships in time of war, just as it has on the British merchant marine. nothing but good wshes for Commander Burney and his airships. We hope to welcome the R-100 in this country soon on the first of an unending series of successful voyages. But that does not prevent this newspaper from earnestly voicing the warning that we must not forget our own interests. It we do, we soon shall see Britain doing in the air what she already has done with her merchant marine, namely, carrying the bulk of our business. Commander Burney’s presence in this country, and on such an errand, ought to make us come to our senses. It is high time that something did it. More power to the commander but let us not con, tinue longer to neglect airship development in our own country. We Still Have Railroads Samuel Rea, retired president of the Pennsylvania railroad, does not think the railroads need to fear airplanes, water or motor competition very greatly. In a speech in Philadelphia he predicted that fifty years from now motor busses will have absorbed a larger part of short-haul passenger traffic than they now carry, and that airplanes will be supplying a de luxe fast passenger and express service; but the railroads, he feels confident, will still be doing the bulk of the work on long shipments. “So far as the railroads themselves are concerned, the progress of the next fifty years seems more likely to be a matter of orderly development than of radical change,” he says. This, of course, is the view of a railroad man and you probably could find men in other professions to disagree with him. To a layman, however, it docs appear that he has hit the nail pretty squarely wherj it ought to be hit.

Should Lindy Stop Flying? Secretary of War Davis says he “plans to impress upon Colonel Lindbergh the necessity of eliminating long flights." Maybe the secretary will succeed and maybe he won’t. He’s a pretty independent young fellow, Lindy is, and he seems to be happiest Avhen flying. But the secretary will have the moral support of several million citizens who more or less held their breath during the whole time the young hero was flying over the mountains, jungles and seas of the Caribbean country and whose hearts skipped several beats during the hours of waiting for his safe arrival in St. Louis Monday evening. “I do wish he wouldn't fly any more,” says your wife. You don’t say it, but you probably share her wish. In accordance with our custom of printing annually some little item of legal news, it is hereby formally announed that the defendant in a recent trial for automobile theft in Raleigh, N. C., was named Will Take. We’ve signed a treaty with France. Next thing for some farseeing statesman to work up is a protocol with Switzerland, Lapland, Rumania, Liberia, or some other country that has us worried. Many of the 1,500 sleuths who flunked the civil service exams are still at work, says Commissioner Doran. Well, the dumber they are the better some people are going to like them, anyway. Kansas City has found enough hotel rooms for the G. O. P. delegates and will rent them at a fixed rate. Must be going to raise the price a little on the meals. The boyish figure must go, according to dictates from Paris. What the next figure shall be is not definitely assured, but dad hopes it won’t come any higher.

Our Urge to Create BY BRUCE CATTON

In New York there is a little old lady, 94, spends all her time painting pictures. Thirty-four years ago the last of her children had grown up and gone out into the world. For the rest of her life, this woman’s time was to “be her own,” as we say. Always she had wanted to paint; so she bought an easel, some canvases, brushes and paint and proceeded to gratify her wish. She has been painting pictures ever since. To be sure, the pictures she paints aren’t very good. She never has sold any, and never has tried to. She is painting for her own amusement, and she is having a fine time doing it, too. And we have a feeling that she is a pretty wise old lady. In every one of us there is an impulse to make life beautiful and significant; to create something for the pure joy of creating. Some men are fortunate enough to have jobs that provide an outlet for this impulse. Most of us are not in that class. We can’t, in the hackened phrase, “express ourselves” in our work. We have to seek expression in our spare time. Too often we fail to find it. We get amusement instead; we listen to music that someone else plays, read books and poems that someone else has written, go jto the theater and see plays that someone else conceived. And while these things are valuable, they leave us unsatisfied. There is something in every man that makes him want to do something of that kind himself. All right; why not try it’ Get a box of paints and some brushes and paint some pictures. Hunt up a teacher and learn to play the piano. Or, if your taste runs that way, sit down with a pad of paper and a pencil and write something. Get a set of tools and make old ship models. Get a box of plastic clay and try your hand at sculpture. This isn’t saying that you have undeveloped talent. Probably you haven’t. But that doesn’t matter. In the old days, when life was simpler and there were fewer machines, it was more easy to find selfexpression in one’s daily work. A carriage maker, for instance, could get all the glow of creative work by seeing his product grow under his hands. Now he can’t, for the simple reason that carriages aren’t made that way any more. Craftsmanship is disappearing. But there are possibilities of deep and enduring satisfaction for us. We can all, in our evenings at home, be artists or poets or musicians or craftsmen. Wa 1 can make our lives more significant and more enjoyable.

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The name and address c t the author must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. Editor Times: Being one of the taxpayers of this widely known “No Mean City” who pays taxes on full valuation and, having no “political pull,” gets nothing, I wish to enter protest to the article appearing in Tuesday’s Times on Page 12, under the heading, “Home Cost Is Low,” which said, in part: “Indianapolis home owners get more for their money and have far better living conditions than those of Eastern cities. This was the unanimous opinion of a committee from the Indianapolis Real Estate Board ” Os course, I fully realize this is purely promotion “bunk” of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board to pull the “fish info the frying pan,” and when this is accomplished then the politicians “fry them in taxes until well done.” With all the knowledge that drainage is the salvation of health, yet, within five miles of the Monument in this wonderful, over-rated “town” there is a street (Leland St.), running south from Ellenberger Dr. to the first alley that in rainy weather, and for days after rains, is a regular swamp, water standing a foot deep at times, making it impassable. The board of works has been notified of this, but in this “Town of Many Mayors” the welfare of the community evidently is just a side issue. This street catches the drain from all sides and then eventually the water drains into surrounding basements, causing damp houses (the deadly enemy of health), flooded coal bins and furnaces. Speaking of “far better living conditions,” three weeks ago I set garbage out for collection, and as yet, it has not been collected. In the meantime I have been burning and burying it. So you can see, when the welfare and health of a baby is involved and good money is paid for taxes, and one must live under these conditions, such propaganda as the article mentioned certainly “goes against the grain." EAST SIDER. P. S.—And the promoters tell you to “Boost Indianapolis!” Why, what for? To the Editor: I believe the people are too easily lead in the wrong way nowadays, willing to give big sums for useless things and not willing to relieve the distress of the helpless living, especially the children who are to be the citizens of the future. As the wife of an ex-soldier, I am sure, were it possible that the buddies who sleep in Flanders field would raise their voices and cry out. Never mind the monuments, give it to the children. We are at peace.” Why not raise a monument to Nancy Hanks Lincoln in the form of a college where poor worthy boys may be educated, free of charge, to battle with the world when they grow up.’v. Stephen Girard of Philadelphia left such a college to the State. There poor boys can go and remain until of age and come forth to start clean manhood. Crime usually is the lack of education in the right way. Why does not Indiana do something of this kind? This would be a real monument to mankind. A memorial soon loses its significance and becomes a “show place” for the public . BESSIE CARR, 1132 N. Illinois St. Can the President of the United States vote at the presidential elections? He can and usually does go to his place of legal residence to vote.

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Christ Defends ‘Fallen Women

TT is probable that Christ cured -*• many men and women of certain nervous diseases; his very presence was a tonic; at his optimistic call self-confidence revived; and his gentle touch was like a healing in ointment on wounded flesh and nerves. That suggestion was the medium of most of these cures is indicated by his comparative failure in Nazareth, whose people knew him familiarly, and looked upon him simply as the carpenter's son. (“And he did not many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.”) Perhaps he felt, like Spinoza, that the first teacher of a religion must resort to wonder-working as the only way to make large masses of people attend and understand. To lead multitudes one must adopt—or pretend to adopt—their limitations; one must aim not to convince the reason, but to captivate the imagination. For reason hesitates while imagination leaps. What distinguished him was the perfection of his moral creed, and the nobility of a life that never fell from the level of his teaching. The golden rule had come down from the learned Hillel in rabbinical tradition; Jesus made it his own bj living it down to the final forgiveness that he uttered on the cross. “All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them; for this is the law and the prophets.” Wits have carped at the positivity of the rule, arguing that other's may have different tastes than our own; but there is an inspiration, and a spur to deeds, in this categorical imperative. which does not spring from the cautious negative of Confusius.

Hartford City News In his opposition to the bill before Congress to establish two Federal judicial districts in Indiana, Walter Myers, Democratic candidate for the nomination for United States Senator, well says: “Last week the Senate passed Senator Robinson’s bill providing for two judicial districts in Indiana, with two complete sets of officers. It generally is conceded that two complete sets of officers are not needed. Nevertheless, thousands of dollars are added to the Nation's pay roll, apparently for no other purpose than to make more jobs. “It has been estimated that one of every twelve persons in our country is on the public pay roll of townships, towns, cities, counties, States and the Nation. “All these must be paid by taxes. Taxes are levied against property and business, but they are paid by the last consumer and user as surely as if he paid them directly to the tax collector, because the owner of property and business passes the burden on in rent or the price of what he sells.” Lake County Time* Recent developments of a conservative nature in the Calumet district reveal again that this is the big era of preparation. Cities here are now laying the corner stone of the superstructure that will soon take form. And, fortunately enough, the comer stone is sufficiently strong to support the towering structure that is to rise. The Calumet district needs men of comprehensive vision more new than ever before. Many vitally important problems are rapidly nearing solution. Others promise to crop up before the region is ready to expand to its full scope. This is the big period in the history of the district. And city administrations possess the opportunity now to effect constructive programs of momentous importance to the future of the territory.

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■ Written for The Times by Will Durant

FOR the Christ virtue did not lie in justice only, nor in abstention from evil, as it tended to do in the code of the Puritans; it lay in active kindness and mutual aid—in giving the hungry to eat and the thirsty to drink, in clothing the naked and sheltering the stranger, in visiting the sick and comforting the prisoner. No wonder the common people loved Him; who had so understood their suffering before? No wonder the women fell at His feet in melting devotion: He -was so sympathetic with their burdens, so kind to their children, and so tender to their sins. The story es the woman taken in adultery is of questionable authenticity; tut though John alone reports it, it is too congenial to the nature of the Master to be rejected hastily. Behind every “fallen woman” Jesus saw the man who had lured her; it was in defense of women that He spoke with such immoderate severity of the erotic imagination of the male; and with all His aversion to the physical element in love He could not bring Himself to send Magdalen away. It is this intelligent lenience with women that makes him so fitly the Founder and Ideal of the religion that taught the feminine virtues to mankind. As for Himself he seemed immuned to sex; he avoided marriage and all family ties as hostile, in their confining narrowness, to His task of preaching a limitless love to the world. His mission was all in all to Him. He would brand the cruelty and luxury cf the rich, and redeem the poverty and desolation of the poor. He despised the acquisitive commercialism that had displaced the pastoral life of patriarchal days: He carried on the protest of the prophets against the town.

What Other Editors Think

Ft. Wayne Newa-Sentinel We very greatly regret that any Indiana newspaper should have seen fit to headline Col. Charles Lindbergh as a “grinning Swede.” Colonel Lindbergh is a nativeborn American, a citizen of irreproachable patirotism and one of most prominent figures ever to adorn our history. American through and through, he has served his country importantly as an ambassador of good will and he has most impressively carried the fame of the United

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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„ encasing 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 leters are confidential. You are cordially Invited to make use of this free service as often as you please. EDITOR. Does each country have a particular lucky stone like the birthstone? According to an old tradition a particular talismanic gem is allotted to each country in the world. Thus England has the diamond, France the ruby, Germany the heratie, Ireland, the emerald, Italy the sardonyx, Japan the jade, China the pearl, Spain the turquoise and America the tourmaline. How often are the drawings In Italian lotteries? Usually monthly; but in some cities, weekly. What time of day was the World War armistice signed? At 5 a. m. Paris time, which is midnight Washington time, Nov. 11, 1918. Who wrote “The Border Legion?” Zane Grey. What famishes the motive power of the Mexican jumping bean? The jumping is due to either one of two species of larvae or worms

If He could have His way, all debts would have been forgiven, and profit would have disappeared as a motive in industry and trade. He would have had men return to the fields and the sky, living as trustful parts of a beneficent nature, as careless and free as birds and flowers. tt tt tt THOSE who followed Him as His disciples lived in communistic simplicity. No man might join the little band until he had given all his goods to the poor. The treasury of the group was held in common, but one man was chosen to carry it, and was corrupted by it into treachery. Their meals were eaten in common, as a pleasant act of brotherhood, and a symbol of their spiritual unity. Just as this communism had its background in patriarchal conditior s, when the family was the unit and source of social order and economic life, so the hostility of Jesus to the state grew out of Jewish theocracy, which admitted no other king than God. It is true that Christ counseled obedience to the law; but he held a man's conscience superior to all legislation, and thereby established a principle intolerable to any state. Reform has always faced this discouraging dilemma: that to alter institutions and laws is useless, so long as human character remains unchanged; and that human character can be changed only by transforming the institutions which mold it. Jesues never doubted which horn of the dilemma he would take; all reform, he felt, must come from within; the kinghom of heaven is not a type of government, but a condition of the soul. “The Kingdom of God is within you.” (Copyright. 1928. by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

States throughout a broad area. And yet it remained for an Indiana newspaper to card him as a "grinning Swede.” We are sympathetic with the writer of all headlines. It’s no easy thing to find descriptives that are at once appropriate and of the right length to fit snugly between rigid metal rules “12 la ems” apart. But surely the exigencies of the headline writer’s craft need never impel him to offer Colonel Lindbergh the slur contained in the title “grinning Swede.”

similar to the codling moth, found in apples. The motion is produced by the worm striking its head against the shell of the seed. Why do men tip their hats? The days of chivalry and knighthood have given us a great many forms that modem society treasures. The heavily armed and armored knights raised the visor of his helmet, only when he knew he was among friends. If he took off his helmet it indicated complete trust in the assembly. He felt that he needed no protection. Thus raising the hat as a sign of courtesy is a relic of the days of chivalry. The fact that men raise their hats more frequently to women than to members of their own sex is due to the intensifying of social forms between the sexes. Where may I sell my tinfoil collected from cigaret packages, etc.? You can best dispose of it through some local junk dealer. The prices they offer are not very high. Is there a species of shark called “Man-eaters?” Yes. One member of the Galeidae family is known by that term. Do the cylinders of the Wright whirlwind motor revolve? They are arranged in a circle to facilitate cooling by air, but they do not revolve.

FEB. 15, 1928

M. E. * TRACY SAYS: “Lindbergh’s Life Has Become a Real Force in the Development of Young America; He Should Take Care of It for America’s Sake If Not for His Oivn.”

S. Harrison White, Democratic Congressman from Denver, elected last fall on a modification platform, has prepared a bill to amend the Volstead Act which he will place before Congress. Summarized in every day English, the bill provides: 1. That constitutional prohibition shall apply only to distilled liquors. 2. That the sale of beer and wine shall be legal in such States as authorize it. 3. That the sale of wine and beer shall be under Government license, but not under Government supervision, and not in open saloons. 4. That sales can be made only to those holding permits. 5 That violation of sale and consumption regulations shall be punished by temporary or permanent suspension of permits. tt a tt Modification Issue The merit of this bill consists in the fact that it puts modification of the Volstead act on a vasis where ordinary folks can talk about it intelligently. Up to this time, modification has meant all things to all men. It has made little progress because it was largely a matter of fault-finding. Those advocating it have ignored the necessity of putting forward a concrete program. You cannot interest the American people without a concrete program. Much as they may like to find fault, they will not do anything without some definite object. This is what modification has lacked, and what Congressman White proposes to offer. tt tt tt Germany's Steel Makers According to a United Press dispatch, Germany’s production of iron and steel increased about 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 tons respectively during 1927. This approximates the decrease of American production, and illustrates the kind of competition we face in world markets. Roughly speaking, German iron and steel are produced by labor that receives 17 or 18 cents an hour, while in this country wages run six or seven times as much. tt a a Lockout of 750,000 Labor is not ignorant of its situation. A month ago, some 50,000 workers struck in central Germany for a 20 per cent increase. The entire metal industry is now threatening a lockout of some 750,000 workers in order to beat this strike. Such a lockout would cripple production temporarily, at least, so that the same cheap labor which has enabled Germany to make such inroads on the' American trade may spoil the show.

‘Gold Standard' Saturday night, Sunday, Sunday night and Monday, the Equitable Trust Company of New York moved millions of dollars in cash and securities from its old home at 37 Wall St. to its new home at 11 Broad St. while hundreds of guards and policemen stood near to prevent any mishap. The last time I was in Mexico City I saw three peons walk down a street, each one carrying $5,000 in gold on his shoulder. There was no difficulty in telling the character and amount, because the bags were plainly marked. No “guards or policemen were visible. Sometimes you wonder why we look upon Mexico as uncivilized. a a u Lindy's Safety and Life Secretary of War Davis wants Lindbergh to cease his long and dangerous flights. The game is nofi worth the candle, he thinks, especially sTncl Lindbergh has done about all any man could hope. Millions of people feel the same way. They feel that this remarkable young man has become too fine an influence on the boys of this country to take unnecessary chances. Colonel Lindbergh may not realize it, but he has shouldered a grave responsibility. From Maine to California the boys have accepted him as their ideal. Their ambition Is to be clean, because he has been clean. They do not hope to duplicate his achievements, but they do hope to copy his character. Lindbergh’s life has become a real force in the development of young America. He should take care of it for young America’s sake, if not his own. tt a u Prussianism in Poland Borrowing an idea from pre-war Germany, the war ministry of Poland decrees that no officer of the army shall marry unless he has a salary or possessions which make it possible for him to maintain the "social standard” that goes with his rank. Such a decree bars all officers below the rank of captain, unless they have inherited w ? ealth or can catch an heiress, Thus Prussianism moves across the border, finding favor in one country at least which won its freedom as a part of the big parade to save this world from democracy. a a a Sanctity of Treaties Not only was the war fought to “save the world from democracy,” but to guarantee the sanctity of treaties. ~~ General Swinton. inventor of the tank, however, calmly informs a British audience that when the next struggle comes “belligerent nations will not have any scruples regarding treaties.”