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Ed Jackson Wins a “Victory” Ed Jackson, Governor of Indiana, stands acquitted of the charge of conspiracy to bribe former Governor Warren T. McCray. On court records there is no conviction against him. No legal smirch is on his name. In the eyes of the law he is guiltless. But tiiere is this much moral guilt which a great many Indianans will attach to their Governor. ■> He is guiltless—legally. But never has he publicly and in a court of law sought to prove that the charges against him are false. Where was the mau who publicly avowed that he owed it to himself to cram the charges against him down the throats of those wiio made them ? He was hiding bchiud the law —taking advantage of the statute of limitations. In the minds of even some of his friends, and certainly in the minds of those who believed the charges against him were true, Ed Jackton’s failure to defend himself or to disprove those charges leaves only one inference: That for some reason, he preferred to let lie charges stand unanswered, rather than take the stand in an attempt to disprove them. The law protects him from legal answer to his guilt or innocence. But it can not protect him from the unalterable conviction of public opinion that if innocent, he chose the coward's way out; if guilty, he cowered behind a technicality to escape punishment. Despite the boast of his attorneys that “Ed Jackson will look every man on this jury squarely in the eye and prove that ho did not commit this offense,” Ed Jackson did not even take the stand! So Ed Jackson sits today in the Governor’s chair in the Statehouse, receiving the congratulations of those who can sec victory in his acquittal. lie undoubtedly will continue to sit. there until his term of office is completed, to the humiliation of Indiana. Ed Jackson’s tiial lias served one purpose •—it has hammered home to the voters of Indiana that there must be such a housecleaniag in party politics as this State never before lias seen. There must be no more Ed Jacksons in the chief executive’s seat in the Statehouse. With the voters lies the remedy. In letters as of flame, that all may read, their lesson is written. If they do not act. theirs, and theirs only, is the blame. Then will the name Indiana be a mockery in the mouth of the Nation, and well it may be.

Here’s a Judge! The spectacle of three officials of a railroad being threatened with jail by a federal judge because of their actions in a labor dispute is refreshing. Not that we wish to see the gentlemen locked up. It is simply that the incident is so unusual. Six or seven hundred injunctions were issued last year, regulating the conduct of workers, but, so far as we know, this is the only instance where a court intervened to protect the workers from the actions of their employers. The Southern Pacific lines in Texas, it seems, sought to replace the brotherhoods of the workers with a company union, and rejected the offices of the board of mediation set up by Congress. \ The company was enjoined, and subsequently the workers went before Judge J. C. Hutcheson with the plea that the injunction was being ignored. The judge held that the railroad not only was violating federal law, but also was ignoring the injunction. “While it is hard to believe that a railroad and its officers deliberately would seek to set at naught both the legislative and judicial power of the United States,” he said, “it is more difficult to avoid the conclusion that the violation of the statute and of the injunction was the result of a strong and settled purpose to defy both, and that the spirit of heady violence to obtain its ends, which so often has exhibited itself in these labor disputes in the conduct of employes

(South Bend News-Time*) Indiana, because of its requirements for admission to the bar, has become a fertile field for shyster lawyers. The legal profession, as a whole, realizes this and has made efforts to tighten up the tests for admission so as to insure that applicants shall have at least a satisfactory minimum of legal training. Reputable attorneys do not desire to make the profession of law a closed corporation, but they do believe that present standards are unsatisfactory and tend to bring the entire profession into disrepute. Silas Strawn of Chicago, president of the American Bar Association, hit the nail on the head when he told the Indiana State Bar Association at Indianapolis: “As it is, about all that’s needed in Indiana for admission to the bar is some evidence of good character and to run twice around the courthouse to get the atmosphere.” It may safely be said that some attorneys practicing in South Bend have not even run twice around the courthouse, and South Bend is not different from other Indiana cities in this respect. Mr. Strawn urged Indiana at-

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torneys to continue their efforts to amend the Constitution in this respect. He set up a standard of two years of general college work and...three years of law school, or their equivalents, and surely this is not an excessively high standard for this important profession. Standards should be raised. The next Legislature should raise them. The legal profession, which as a class is highly influential in politics, should see to it that candidates for the Legislature should make their stand clear on this subject. The County Bar Association might well address a questionnaire to candidates on this important question. Hartford City New* The logical man for the Republicans of Indiana to nominate for Governor is Tom Adams, of Vincennes, the man who singlehanded started the war on corruption that honey-combed many departments of the governments of the State and Indianapolis. The Republican politicians, instead of thahking Adams, read him out of the party. If the party was sincere about making a clean-up it now would turn to Adams and the people would then

when the injunction was the other way, is not absent here.” The company, the judge found, was paying men to organize its own union. ‘‘Upon a foundation laid in direct violation of the statute, they have sought to erect a super-structure of exclusive representation. They have gone about to arrange it so that the railroad would be in a position of surely having a vote on both sides of the table its own side and that of its employes.” The judge directed that the brotherhood should be re-established as the representative organization of the men, and that employes who had been discharged because of supporting the brotherhood should be reinstated. He directed that the incidents involved be referred to the “proper officers” of the government, to determine whether proceedings for criminal contempt should be undertaken. And finally this: “It is further ordered and adjudged that -if defendants fail to perform one or more of the acts ordered, they shall be sent to and confined in the Harris County jail until such time as they are ready and willing to perform such acts.” The railroad officers were ten days to decide whether they would obey the court. Our guess is that they will. Meantime wc nominate Judge Hutcheson for the next vacancy on the United States Supreme bench. Roumania Every so often the average newspaper reader lifts his eyes from his paper and wonders audibly why in thunder there is so much stuff printed about Rumania. Probably he concludes that the country must have a good press agent. Rumania before the war was distinctly a minor nation. Since then, however, it has occupied an important position in European affairs. It is more than twice as large and twice as populous as it was before 1914. Its position as one of the middle-sized states of Europe, and its very strategic geography j location, have made it important in European politics. Rumania expanded at the expense of Hungary * and Russia. These countries would like to get their territories back; Rumania, naturally, wants to keep them. The result is a game of alliances and diplomatic schemings. The peace of Europe rests in no small measure on what Fumanie and her enemies do. Hence the nation has an importance far greater j than it had before the war. Which, of course, is why j the details of its internal troubles get front page j space in newspapers.

Not Oratory; Business BY BRUCE CATTON

The traditional statesman, with his frock coat, string tie and silver-tongued oratpry. is extinct; and Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona sees no reason to bewail his passing. “Today’s statesman,” says Senator Ashurst to a mid-west real estate board, “is a business-like gentleman in an ordinary business suit, who either has wide knowledge cf business affairs or is doing hi.-> best to accumulate that necessary knowledge.” For this age, the senator explains, is the age ci science and business. We no longer have red Indians to kill, wild forests to clear, menacing foreign enemies to repel. Our problems call for the business man, the banker, the engineer and the chemist, not the politician. There is nothing really new in this statement. But it needs to be emphasized every so often. We are too apt to try to use nineteenth century standards and instruments in a twentieth century world. It is up to us to realize that the old order has passed, forever, and that the America of today is not the America of Lincoln's day. All change is apt to be a bit frightening. It is easy to mistake growing pains fer the symptoms of mortal illness. Accordingly, it is not surprising that a great many people are worried over America's future. We find “liberals" everywhere lamenting the passing of the old public interest in politics, crying out that we will lose our liberties because we are indifferent to'elections and issues, shuddering at the fact that power is passing to the hands of the industrialist and the banker. We need to forget the romantic past and become realists. Wc have no Webstcrs and Calhouns today; well, what of it? They would be helpless if they were here. Our national destiny is being shaped less and less at Washington, more and more in New York banks, Detroit auto factories, Schenectady laboratories and the mills of Pittsburgh and Birmingham. Maybe this is too bad and maybe it isn’t; at any rate that is the way of it, and the sooner we realize it the better for us. m When America adopted mass production it started out on an entirely new track in civilization. Never before did any nation set out to live by the machine. We have started on a path from which we could not turn back if we would; why not wake up to that fact and stop thinking in terms of 1880? We are at the dawning of anew era. There is no need for lamentation.

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What is the origin of “good-by?” It is a contraction of “God be with you.” It was formerly the custom of monarchs to bless their subjects from their thrones in this manner. Where is the River Shannon? It is the longest river in Ireland, 254 miles long. It passes through Loughs Allen, Boderg, Ree and Derg and below Limerick it widens into an estuary flfty-six miles long and two to ten miles wide. Why did Roman brides have the girdles of their dresses fastened with a Hercules knot? There seems to be a difference of opinion about the significance. Some historians contend that the intent was to signify hope for a fruitful marriage: others take it to be an amulet against the evil eye. It is perhaps .rearer the truth to consider the symbol of a stable marriage and possibly it is the original of the “true lover’s knot.”

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M. E. TRA C Y SAYS: “All of Our Systems of Communication Hark Back to the Spoken Word. Their Object Is to Magnify It, Distribute It, to Enlarge Its Area of Effcctivencss. ,>

Dr, W. D. Coolidge, assistant director of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company has been awarded the Edison Medal for his contributions to incandescent lighting and the X-Ray. Dr. Coolidge, it will be remembered, is the man who startled the world in 1926 with his remarkable demonstration of the cathode rays. On that occasion, he employed a 300.000 volt tube. He has since developed a tube of 900.000 volts. With a 3,000,000 volt tube, which he considers possible, Dr. Coolidge believes that the high speed Beta rays and the penetrating gamma rays of radium can be duplicated. Not the least interesting part of the story, and one which Dr. Coolidge gladly admits, is that he could not have done what he has without the whole-hearted cooperation of his associates or the opportunities which modern life afforded him to keep in close touch with the work of other scientists throughout the world. n n a Intellectual Progress General John J. Carty, who was awarded the John Fritz medal for achievements in telephone engineering. declares that “the intellectual evolution of the individual may have come to an end, but whether this is true or not, it is certain that the intellectual evolution of groups of individuals is only at the beginning." That is not only a big, but encouraging thought. If we have come to a point where the individual can do no more by himself, we have also come to a point where individuals working together can attain undreamed of ends. The strength of the modern world consists in its power to preserve and communicate knowledge. Knowledge has ceased to be some thing that the individual must acquire and keep. The object of education is no longer to pump so much of it into his head, or to create within him the capacity of producing it. Tlic most important purpose education serves now is to teach men how to find and employ the knowledge their fellows and forefathers have discovered and stored away. a a a Power of Spoken Word As General Cartv points out the spoken word distinguishes man from all other animals and explains his ability to acquire, transmit and preserve knowledge. But for the spoken word there would have beqji no printing pres.;, end but for the printing press there would have been no telephone, telegraph or radio. Ali of our systems of communication hark back to the spoken word. Their object is to magnify it, to distribute it. to enlarge its area of effectiveness. The more people a man can talk with and the more people who can hear a man talk, the faster ideas arc exchanged. Knowledge, when you come to sum it all up, is only the result of this exchange, the product that is left after we are through pionccrinar, experimenting and talking about it. tt n tt Growth of Dictionary Nothing illustrates how dependent knowledge is on words or how its growth is reflected in them better than the dictionary. The first English dictionary was published by Samuel Johnson, and consisted of two folio volumes. How pitifully narrow’ this work is when compared to the great Oxford dictionary which has just been completed after seventy years of continuous effort and which fills twelve volumes, ancl which contains more than 400,000 words, 500,000 definitions and nearly 2,000.000 quotations. Arnold Bennet once described this dictionary as “the greatest serial ever written,” which reminds one of Mark Twain's observation that the dictionary would be more interesting to read if it were not so hard to tell what became of the characters.

Coin Words to Need Shakespeare, who sounded the English language to its bottom in his day. only used about 16,000 words. The fact that the language has come to include twenty-five times that number shows how rapidly knowledge has grown during the last three centuries. Save in very rare cases words are not invented, but come into use as the consequence of a definite need. Modern science, more than anything else, explains their multiplication. The automobile, for instance, has about 3,000 separate parts, each and everyone of which must have a name. u tt a Key to Knowledge It is a pet notion, especially on the part of ignorant people, that most anything can be explained in simple language, that two or three thousand Anglo-Saxon words, would, if properly used, answer everybody’s purpose. That is one of the silMest notions that ever plagued the human race. Words are the means by which we convey definite and correct knowledge. ' The whole system of modern life functions on their accurate use. The more you know about them the more closely you are in touch with what is going on and the more you can get out of it. Do not neglect the study of words. The dictionary is the most important book ever written. It is the hey to knowledge. If we were to lose the dictionary we would suffer a real misfortune.

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Christianity Made World Religion

IN all religions the god is betrayed, and in all men; bflt least of all' in Christ. Let us hold against Him. if we will, the errors which He shared with His time, and His impatient denunciation of his enemies: they are as nothing; above them rises the central and sublimest figure ! of history, sounding to every age. j and in every heart that once has; known Him, the call to human: brotherhood. Here and there some have heard the call and understood.—St. Francis, Leonardo, Spinoza. Whitman; but some day there will be more. When all ephemeral theology has been washed away from His memory; when His simple moral philosophy, phrased in a dozen words and sanctified by His life, has come to constitute the only test of those who bear His name; then the world will honor Him as never before; and in every nation His lovers and followers. no longer divided into warring sects by primeval creeds, will labor together to realize His dream. From this height the story falls, and imperfect men take up the thread where it dropped from the Master's hands. Wc have the picture of Peter and James carrying the glad tidings of the Kingdom to the cities of Judea; of John the Apostle preaching a thousand sermons with always the same text—- " Thou, shalt love thy neighbor as thyself’—and then losing himself, on Patmos, in a maze of senile visions; of Paul burning with ambition and energy, heaping his complicated theology upon the helpless Christ, and preaching the resurrected God at Antioch and Ephesus, at Athens and Corinth, and beginning in his old age that brave attack upon the Eternal City which was to result in the conversion of Rome to Christianity, and of Christianity to Rome. Through his influence, circumcision was no longer required of proselytes to the new faith; Christianity ceased to be “a Jewish heresy,” and became a religion for all the world. ana THE poor and down-trodden of the land accepted it gladly, for it brought them the hope of an earthly triumph with the early return of Christ, and of an everlasting triumph in Heaven as a reward for their faith and charity here. The Greeks had held that slaves had no souls, and they had closed the temples to them; but this marvelous religion offered to all men a spiritual—and in near prospect a material—equality, and attributed to the lowliest of the low a soul as precious and immortal as that of the lordliest emperor. Some were converted less by hope than by fear; the stern Christians announced, with the fervor of men who are self-deceived, that those who refused the gospel would burn forever in Hell, and be gnawed by insatiabled worms; to men of a certain wisdom, until the persecutions came, it seemed safer to believe. It was the doctrine of another life, in which the cruel rich would be punished, and the faithful poor would ba rewarded with every happiness, that won an enslaved and weary world to the name of Christ. Rome fell before the successors of the Apostles, because it had never possessed a real religion, a system of cosmic belief sanctioning morals and inspiring hope. Until Caesar came, the people of Rome and Italy had been content with an ineffectual mythology that aped the pantheon of the Greeks, personifying every function and every force, and paralleling the Hellenic deities god for god. Zeus was I-** Jupiter, Hera was Juno. Athene wW Minerva. Hermes was Mercury, Hephaistos was Vulcan, Demeter was Ceres. Aphrodite was Venus, and Ares was Mars. There was no moral aspect or value in this religion except as it shared in the prevailing worship of the ancestral dead. If a man periodically paid the tribute of prayer and ritual to these gods, and to the household genii, who hovered over him in daily guardianship, it was enough. No eternal heaven of bliss w’ould reward him hereafter for injustice here. All men would descend, after

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death, into the bowels of the earth, and live there in darkness indefinitely; but this hades would not be a place of punishment; good and bad alike would find there f heir eternal fate. It was a religion of a thousand gods, and not a single saint. a a a n\ the time of Lucretous this system of myth had lost its hold upon every influential stratum of the Roman people. The cosmopolitan character of the population in the capital made for the growth of sceptimism; for where many different religions exist together, it becomes difficult to believe any one of them completely true and the rest completely false; comparison sets in. and then eclecticism, and then doubt; at last one suspects them all. Cicero and Lucian openly ridiculed the religion af Rome; Juvenal lamented that disbelief in the gods had led to a riot of perjury, frustrating the administration of the Jaw; and Caesar, as he performed the sacred rites, smiled to his friends. For the head of the State was, by his very office, supreme pontiff of the pagan faith; the Roman administrators were too clever to neglect religion as an instrument of rule. “The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered b; the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.” The decay of the old faith left place and hunger for anew one. Religion will live as long as man, for hope springs eternal in the human breast. From the orient, that great reservoir of religion, new creeds poured into Rome, each rivalling the others in consolation to the un-

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fortunate, and promises of everlasting happiness to come. Most of these faiths prepared the way for Christianity by organizing “mysteries,” esoteric ceremonies which represented the death of some hero or god, and his triumphant resurrection. The primitive Christiaans fell heir to Egyptian, Persian, Judaic mythology, ritual and festivals. For the Jewish Sabbath they substituted Sunday in imitation of the worship of the Sun God, Mithra; and from Persia,’ too, they took the feast of Christmas, not because it was literally the anniversary of the birth of Christ, but because the custom had spread, in the Orient and at Rome, of celebrating, in the fourth week of December, the Nativity of the Sun—that winter solstice (or halting of the sun) when the great orb turned north again and redeemed the cold of winter with the lengthening of every day. (Copyright. 1928, by Will Durant) (To Be Continued) How can stains be removed from granite? Make a paste of oxgall, about one ounce, and one gill of a strong solution of caustic soda or concentrated lye, adding a tablespoon of turpentine. Work enough pipe clay (kaolin) into this to make a thick mixture, apply to the stains and scour well with a corase brush, then clean and rinse with fresh water. Another method is to make a strong, hot solution of lye by dissolving three pounds of washing soda in one gallon of water and lay it on to the granite with a fiber paint brush. Scrub the stains and rinse with clear water. What is the value of a Confederate SSOO note with bust of Stonewall Jackson, issue of 1564? 10 cents.

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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: A few days ago under questions and answers in your paper the answer to the question, “What are the expressions used to distinguish between the two horses of a team?" was given by a person who evi dently never had been in the country or around a team, for any ten-year-old farmer boy could have answered better. In my time, with teams, the horse or mule on the left (facing the same direction as the team) was designated the near line or wheel animal and the one on the left the off animal. In plowing or driving with single line, the person holds the line in the left hand, the animal on left carrying the line and the animal on the right being jockeyed off from the left by what we called a jocked stick, the team being guided by a steady pull on the line to turn to the left and by a short light jerk to turn to the right. A good near or line animal was valued highly as it controlled the action of the team and also the straightness or crookedness of your corn rows in the days of single shovel plows and corn drills. GEORGE A. ULLREY, 1201 N. Rural St. To the Editor: ' Your editorial, “A Muddle That Is a Menace,” in Monday’s paper was most timely. How such a condition should be permitted to arise in a colony ot helpless people absolutely depending on future health for their livelihood. and where the greatest care is necessary for the restoration of health, is a mystery. Another lack of proper safety for the patients and their relatives and friends is found in the condition ol the rail and interurban tracks crossing at the south approach to the grounds. Why wait for a serious accident which may be more successful ana certamtly more speedy in eliminating those depending on Marion County's charity. I hope The Times, the only hope for publicity, will keep up the light GEORGE C. HAERLE, 1449 N. Pennsylvania St. Are horses native on the American continent? Fossils of the forerunner ot the horse have been found on the American continent, but it generally supposed that the American horse of today is a descendant of animals brought here by Europeans ancl early settlers. What is the meaning of the name “Athol?” It is Teutonic and means “noble.” What is the cost of a thoroughbred silver fox? Prices range from SBOO to $2,500 per pair. They usually are bought by the pair.

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