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One More Robinson Blunder Indiana appears to have among her liabilities a Republican Senator who is a specialist in the art of insinuation. Monday Senator Arthur R. Robinson insinuated against the reputation of a dead man until leading members of his own party sprang to their feet in rebuke, and to defend Franklin K. Lane, dead Democratic Secretary of the Interior. Then he insinuated against a live man who is able to take care of himself —Governor A1 Smith of New York—saying that the Teapot Dome committee shoidd inquire into his belief that Harry F. Sinclair had been a member of the New York racing commission, by appointment of Governor Smith, after contributing to Smith's campaign fund in 1920. The Senator knows, or should know, that the Teapot Dome Committee has as little to do with this as it has with the spots on the sun. lie knows, or should know, that no honorable man would ask a committee of the Fnited States to step outside the limitations of the resolution under which it may be working to besmirch a reputation. If he does not know, he should know, that he is only sitting in the Senate of the 1 nited States today because Senator Reed of Missouri —who rebuked him for traducing a dead man —is an honorable man, who refused to use a committee of the United States Senate for a purpose outside of its power. When Senator Reed came into Indiana before the 1926 elections to investigate the charge that money and influence were being used improperly in the campaign in which Robinson was running for re-election, much gossip about Robinson was laid before him. It dealt mostly with Robinson’s alleged former connections with the man who once ran the Republican organization of Indiana —David C. Stephenson, now in the Indiana State penitentiary for life. One of the witnesses who would have testified to these things was actually on the stand before Reed, when the latter discovered what lhe testimony was supposed to be. The witness was excused without testifying. Reed held the investigation rigidly within its legal and honorable limitations. Robinson went back to the Senate by a small majority, when, if the charges against him had been broadcast over the State a week before election, he would probably have been snowed under. That is the man who later attacked Reed in the Senate—by insinuation. That is the man whose insinuations Monday Reed himself rebuked sufficiently by a passing reference to Senators who drag extraneous matter out here and impugn the dead whose voiceless lips can not speak in defense of an honorable reputation.”

A Novel in The News Columns While Rumania teeters on the edge of revolution, across the frontier in Paris the exiled Prince Carol impatiently awaits the courier whose arrival will be the signal for his long-postponed dash for a throne. In Bucharest, the Rumanian capital, the situation is tense. Intrigue is in the air. Anything can happen as a mob of 60.000 people swarm the streets demanding that the government resign, while the regency —constituted to rule during the next twelve years until the boy king, Michael, son of the exiled Carol, comes of age—grimly holds out at the palace. What the next chapter will bring forth only the gods can say. For while Rumania fully is living up to best seller fiction, the novel’s installments are numbered w-ith the dates on the calendar and there is no turning ahead to see. The best -we can do is to give a synopsis of the story so far, to help you pick up the tale. There was ihe aged and sickly King Ferdinand and the younger and very beautiful Queen Marie. Then there was the dashing Crown Prince Carol, who never got along with the prime minister, but whose flair for clandestine amours got him into trouble and led to renunciation of his rights to the crown. And there was lon Bratiano, premier-dictator and power behind the throne, who undoubtedly decided that Prince Carol would have to go. And, finally, there was the little boy prince who fell heir to the kingdom when his disgraced papa renounced it. King Ferdinand dies. The boy prince becomes king under a regency until his majority. lon Bratiano, the “man of destiny,” also dies, and Vintilla, his brother, steps into his shoes five minutes after lon passes away. Meantime, as the novels says, beginning anew chapter, the rumble of discontent which long has been heard in the country grows louder. lon, the strong man, haa been able to suppress it fairly well, but the younger and less able Vintilla was to have his troubles. The National-Peasant party demanded an end of the Bratiano dictatorship. Refused an election which they wanted in order to prove, they said, that they were in a majority, and denied the right to meet in Bucharest, they entered the city by a subterfuge and called on the regency to fire Vintilla and name Julio Maniu, their leader, in his place. Again, turned down, they voted to call their members out of the legislature, and so today, according to the dispatches, we find them planning some new coup. Now to return to Carol. In recent months Carol’s hold on his people has been strengthened by events. The arrest of Michael Manoilescu, former cabinet member and Carol’s friend, as he crossed the border into Rumania for the purpose, it was charged, of putting the prince on the throne, somehow turned against his accusers at the trial and he was freed. King Ferdinand was pictured as calling for a last

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embrace of his exiled son as those about his deathbed stonily refused the request, and sentimental touches like this aided Carol’s cause immensely. There is no telling when ,he may try to come back. So the plot thickens, a coup seems just around the corner. Certainly there is much discontent. Sensing the peril, Vintilla Bratiano is quoted in the last messages from Bucharest as saying: “If the opposition fails to keep within the law, we will know how to answer"—a very thinly veiled threat. For the next installment of this Balkan novel, watch the news columns of the papers. Slow to Anger, America Is Aroused Most puzzling of all the outward phases of the oil scandal has oeen the public apathy. For four years now, the revelations have been dribbling forth. But the righteous indignation that might have been expected did not appear. What is the reason? Has America in this age of speed and prosperity lost the conscience that once was so outstanding a national characteristic? Does the increase in luxury and leisure that has accompanied the era of mass production mean moral relaxation? Is history repeating? History that indicates that emphasis on the moral as distinct from the material is an attribute of the pioneer; and that as hardship lessens the moral instinct lets up? Rome is often pointed to in support of that theory. Anyway, will the American public, fully as capable of moral indignation not so many years ago when the ! Ballinger expose, mild in comparison with the Teapot Dome, aroused tne Nation—will this American public j continue apathetic, no matter how much official filth is exposed today? The same American people tlrv: demonstrated itself so completely capable of idealistic fervor during tne world war? Our general answer to all those questions is that the American public has not lost its moral sense, despite all the manifestations cited above. The explanation for the apathy as we see it is the American sense of fair play. Deep in the make-up of America is the belief in that constitutional provision that a man is presumed innocent until proved guilty. Accordingly, so long as a question ot corruption is debatable the public gives the accused the oenefit of the doubt. Good Taste Best Censor You remember that a couple of years ago, or less, there was muen in the papers about the nudity of Mew York's musical revues. We had endless discussion of it, and many clamors for some censorship or supervision that would compel the girls to put on more clothes. No censorship came of it, however, and the producers were allowed to go their own sweet way. And what happened? Just this; the nudity disappeared. Revues today, for the most part, are featured by elaborate costumes. The public simply got tired of nudity. The producers sdiscovered it was no longer a drawing card. So they bought some dresses. Which proves, perhaps, that the American public doesn’t need any one to protect its morals. Its own good taste is its best protector. Saving A couple cf years ago a number of economists were shaking their heads gravely over the growth of installment buying. It was feared that we were learning to live beyond our means, and that the old virtue of thrift was being forgotten. But apparently there wasn't much cause for alarm. Despite a decline in the average earnings of industrial workers last year, the amount of life insurance written in this country was $300,000,000 above the 1920 figure. At the same time, savings deposits increased during the year by $1,368,000,000, while investment securities found more small* buyers than ever before. Thrift is still a national habit. The American has not forgotten how to salt away something for a rainy day.

n=virf Dietz on Science In Revolutionary Days No. 4

MODERN chemistry began with two European scientists who lived during the time of the American Revolution. One was a Frenchman, the other an Englishman who ended his days in this country. The Englishman was Joseph Priestley, born in 1733. He performed his epoch-making experiment in 1774, just two years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Priestley arranged a glass vessel over a variety of substances. He then proceeded to heat these sub-

stances with the aid of a large burning glass. He found that when he heated mercuric oxide in this way—in his day that substance was called "mercurius calcinatus per s e an "air” was driven out of the substance. He found further that when a piece of redhot wood was

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Priestley had succeeded in obtaining the gas, which put into this "air” it immediately burst into flames, we know today as oxygen, by heating mercuric oxide and causing it to decompose. But though Priestley had discovered oxygen, he did not understand the theory of burning. He believed, as did others of his day, that substances contained a mysterious something called “phlogiston” and that when substances burned it was because the “phogiston” was being expelled. The true nature of burning was proved by the Frenchman Lavoisier. Lavoisier was born in 1743. By a series of brilliant experiments, he proved that if you collected the ashes and gases of a burned substance it weighed more after burning than before. He proved that burning was a combination of the burning substance with the “air,” which Priestley discovered, that is, with oxygen. Today we call that process oxidation. Priestley was a Nonconformist in religion. He became unpopular and a mob wrecked his home. He fled to America and settled down in Northumberland, Pa. Lavoisier was an aristocrat and hence he became unpopular during the French Revolution. Asa result, poor Lavoisier lost his head under the guillotine.

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(Abbreviations; A—ace; K—kin*: Q—mieen; J—jack; X—anv card lower than lU.) 1. If not reasonably certain of making your contract, should you play your last trump? 2. How many probable tricks should fourth hand have to make an opening bid? 3. How many probable tricks should third hand have to make an opening bid? The Answers 1. No—establish a suit first. 2. At Rast six. 3. At least five. 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 repiv Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All leters are confidential. You are cordially invited to make use of this tree service as often as vou please. EDITOR. Did Poland fight as an independent government in the World War? At the outset of the World War Poland was divided into three parts, belonging, respectively to Russia, Germany and Austria, and it did not achieve independence until November. 1918. It may be said therefore, that Poland, as an independent country, did not fight in the World War. since it became independent only two days prior to the signing of the armistice. What is meant by a "certified check?” A check Is certified when the word "accepted." "good" or an equivalent is written or stamped on tis face with the signature of the cashier or the paying teller of the bank on which it is drawn. The act is held to certify, that the signature is genuine, that the drawer has sufficient funds on deposit to pay it and binds the bank to honor the check. What were the ten best motion pictures of 1920? The repe " cf the Film Daily's noli of critics on the ten best pictures of 1926 shows "Variety” leading with 169 votes: “Bcn-Hur” next with 114: "The Big Parade" and "The Black Pirate" with 85; “The Volga Boatman" with 94: "What Price Glory" with 66: "The Sea B°ast" with 62 and "La Boheme" with 49.

How did early aviators know whether (heir airplanes were flying horizontally? The Wright brothers were the first to employ a means of telling whether thei* ship was straight. They had a piece of string suitably weighted, about eight inches long, which hong in front of the pilot. By watching the string the pilot could tell whether the ship was :ide slipp.ng or flying horizontally. In what direction with relation to the geographic north pole does the magnetic north nolc lie? The magnetic north pole is located In the neighborhood of 70 degrees north, latitude and 97 degrees west longitude. Since the only direction on the earth's surface at the geographic north pole is south, it can only be ,said that the magnetic north pole lies “south” of the geographic north pole. How arc alligator pears prepared for salad? Cut each pear 'into six pieces, or \ved"re shaned sections, and if these oi-p t<-. 0 lor*-. C t,t each section again ’engthw’se. Pee! and arrange wedges r nears on a bed of lettuce leaves. Either French dressing or mayonnaise mav be served, but as the fruit is rich. French dressing is preferred by many people. What is the verse the last line of which reads, "Buy hyacinths to feed thv soul”? The line Is found in Gulistan •"Garden of Roses) by Mosleh Eddin Saadi, which reads: If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft And from thv slender store two lovers alone to thee are left. Sell one and with the dole F"V hyacinth' to teed t l "* soul. It is a familiar Mohammedan proverb. What ! the nationality of the name “Metis?” It is a Greek name meaning “counsel.” In Greek mythology Metis was a daughter of Oceanus ("the ocean) and the first wife of Zeus, by whom she was devoured, because he feared she would bear a son mightier than himself: whereupon Athens scran,g full-fledged from the head of Zeus. Why are the edges of nickels smooth instead of being milled like quarters and dimes? The edges of 5-cent pieces are not milled because they are not made of precious metal. Coins are milled to *prevent them from becoming worn or fraudently reduced. Hid Jctta Goudal play In “The Volga Boatman”? What were some of her recent nictures? Jetta Gouldal did not play in “The Volga Boatman.” Her recent pictures were “The Road to Yesterday.” “Fighting Love” and “White Gold.” What is the origin of the name “Maraua”? Probably it is a form of the French and Teutonic “Marciuard,” which was an official name originally for the border ward of guard of the border. What relation is the orcscnt King of England to Queen Victoria? George V is the sen of the late Edward VII, who was a son of Queen Victoria. King George is therefore a grandson of Queen Victoria. When was the last evening gun fired at Ft. McHenry, near Baltimore? July 19. 1912, the day before it was abandoned as an Army post. From what book was the photoplay “The Big Parade” taken? It is from an original story written for the screen by Lawrence Stallings.

Hasn’t He Learned His Lesson Yet?

THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION Thomas Is Canonized for Miracle Written for The Times by Will Durant

POLITICALLY, Thomas is a monarchist; the purpose of social organization, he argues, is unity; and unity can be best effected through a king. But the monarch's power is limited by natural law and right: if he violates these, his subjects need not obey. Since the moral realm is higher than the political, the spiritual higher than the corporeal, and the ultimate end of man <the Beatific Vision) more important than any early aim. it follows that the church is superior to the state, and has the right at any time to absolve subjects from their allegiance to emperors and kings. On Thomas' assumptions these were perfectly reasonable conclusions; doubtless a spiritual organization, possessed of eternal truth, and aiming at the moral welfare and everlasting happiness of mankind, was the highest leader that men could have. It seemed all very natural to the Middle Ages, and men marveled at the order and unity and completeness with which Thomas had expounded their faith to him and the heathen world; only knaves and fools could not refuse to accept the doctrines of the church. It is true that some holy men suspected Thomas of heresy, that synods at Paris and Oxford condemned him for various minor deviations from traditional beliefs; but the schools accepted his expositions with open arms and hearts; Pope John XXII canonized him on the ground that his syllogisms were miracles: Leo XIII taught that human wisdom had never before reached, and would probably never reach again, so sublime a height as in Aquinas. To this day his texts are the ultimate authority in every Catholic college and university; and if influence is the criterion of greatness, Thomas, whatever our prejudices may be, deserves to be ranked among the greatest thinkers of mankind. There is always a slight possibility that we are wrong; and the church, which has seen many heretics come and go. and has the quiet wisdom of many centuries in it, may be nearer to right and wrong than we. a b tt Nevertheless let us speak our prejudice candidly, and say that perhaps these great scholastics were not philosophers at all. A philosopher is a man who follows reason, frail as it is, wherever it may lead him; he is engaged in the greatest and most dangerous adventure of all, the attempt to understand the universe through thought and knowledge alone; he must take nothing for granted, not even the power of reason itself; there is nothing which he may refuse to doubt. But with the scholastics philosophy was “ancilla theologiae,” the hand-maid of theology; reason was not to be trusted, for its corruption was part of the Fall of Man and the punishment inflicted upon hundreds of generations because a man and a woman had eaten an apple; the dogmas cf the church, based not on reason but on revelation, were to be acepted as the startingpoint and the neecssary conclusions of thought; no book might be published unless the ecclesiastical "imprimatur” certified to the orthodoxy of the doctrine: and the hangman or the stake stood in the offing as the last certification of the truth. On such a basis deduction was the inevitable method, and a circular futility the inevitable result. For "the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, worketh accord-" ing to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider w'orketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit” (Francis Bacon). tt tt tt WE can bear with scholasticism only through historical perspective. We see it as the training

ot the barbarian intellect in the art of thought; in subtlety of logic medieval philosophy has never been surpassed. Much of the form of our thinking, most ot the terms which science and philosophy still use, go back to these great minds, who in their helpless power remind us of lions pacing their cages restlessly, with eyes forever seeking some escape. And though Albert and Thomas did not escape, their successors did, or showed the way: Duns Scotus weakened the whole structure of scholasticism by admitting the irrationality of dogma, and the subordination of intellect to will; William of Occam went back to nominalism, reduced theism and immortality to beliefs intellectually questionable, but morally desirable, and invented, as first aid for endangered thinkers the clever doctrine of the "two truths” —that a doctrine might be true in theology and wrong in phi-

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Muncie Pres* The Michigan City Penitentiary is virtually filled, the Pentleton Reformatory is trying to accommodate several hundred more prisoners than its supposed capacity. and the Woman’s Prison can not even take in one more prisoner for the time being. If this situation were peculiar to Indiana it might be considered a local condition due to some peculiar circumstance or set of them, but it is general. Crime has increased all out of proportion in recent years, especially among the young. It has shown a tremendous increase in your home town. One would suppose that nere is a problem whose attempted solution would occupy the public mind almost to the exclusion of everything else, but it is not so. Os course there arc hundreds of scattered agencies, and here and there a scientific inquirer, trying to find out what it all means and to get down to the grass roots of it, but there is no coordinated, expert, nation-wide, effort along that line. Nearly every investigator has his pet theory and there is something of truth in almost any one of these, no doubt, but all put together they do not give enough information to warrant putting into effect any given program of eradication. We can't attribute the crime increase to the war, or prohibition, or lax parental control, or to too many laws and just let it go at that. The unanswered question always is, "What are we going to do about it?” Gary Fost-Tribune Will Hays won t be such an apostle of purity from now on. Will got something of a jolt when Forbes told how he sat in on the Harding poker parties—not that poker playing is a crime but that Will always played a different game with the public. And now Will is finding it impossible to explain his peculiar handling of the Sinclair bonds. It is known that some of the bonds he handled were the profits of the secret Canadian company about which Colonel Stewart refused to testify. The bonds represented a large sum and Will did not want it known his party was accepting such a contribution from Sinclair. So Will sent the bonds out to party members asking them to contribute the money as coming from themselves. Such a request should have looked peculiar to anyone. It was not fair and it was not honest. Yet some Republicans fell for it. However, it is to the credit of Secretary Mellon and Chairman Butler that they turned Will down immediately. The bonds were sent

losophy, so that the heart might hold it while the head refused. Aristotle had been a Greek gift, like the wooden horse to Troy; he had brought .the habit of thinking, and had undermined dogma by making men wish to understand it; when dogma begins to reason it is lost. This joy in logic was a sign of the youth of Europe; soon the mind, intoxicated with anew consciousness ofpporer,w r er, would begin to put questions to these doctrines accepted so faithfully and humbly before. Unwillingly and unwittingly, St. Thomas was the prelude to Bruno and Descartes, and even a premonition of Voltaire: these difficulties which he so honestly expressed, and so trustingly answered, would rise again and would not be satisfied so easily. As one stands on the peak Os scholasticism one ses the dawn of the Rennaissance, and. far off, the peaks of the Enlightenment. (Copyright, 1928. by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

back because the two men did not care to take credit for something did not do. Either Mellon or Butler could have gone further. Indeed, in view of their position in the party they probably should have gone further. Wiil did not own the party and they should have protected it from his dishonesty. The party would stand better today had they done so. But Will is about cooked. And it all goes to show what most everyone knows that the slippery customer usually slips. Yet there have been slippery customers and there will be others. We wonder what the movies will do with their uplifter, now that the muck covers him up to his eyebrows?

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.MARCH 22, 1928

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Senator Robinson of Indiana Is About the Last Man to Insinuate That Al Smith's Hobnobbing With Harry F. Sinclair Shoidd Be Taken as a Reflection on J 1 is Character Because ‘Birds of a. Feather’ Flock Together.”

MEMPHIS, March 22.—Watkins Overton, the mayor of this city, is but 34 years of age, while Cliff Davis, the police commissioner, who ranks next to him, is but 30. Young men of good family still consider politics an honorable profession down here. Mayor Overton belongs to a family which has been identified with the growth and development of Tennessee for more than a century. He not only occupies a place once held by his grandfather, but is descended from that canny old Scot, "Hair Trigger” Overton, who probably saved Andrew Jackson’s life by buttoning the latter’s shirt far over on the right side when he "shot it out” with Dickinson. tt tt tt Mud Island's Future Just now Memphis seems to ba more interested in an airport than in any other municipal project, especially in the question of whether Mud Island shall be used for that purpose. Mud Island is where the harbor used to be, and has been regarded as the city's prize misfortune for the last twenty years. It lies along the waterfront some sttndred yards from shore—a vast expanse of bushes subject to overflow, useless and unsightly. But what an airport it would make if raised and protected against erosion. There are cities that would give millions for the advantages it represents. Planes could land on it and be within five minutes of the postoffice and business district. tt tt tt Bigger Airports Needed Mud Island contains some 800 acres, which local authorities fear is too little for a first class airport. They have heard that Cleveland created one. of 1,500 acres only to face the necessity of doubling it after a short experience. One drawback of commercial aviation is the difficulty of finding airports big enough and near enough to satisfy practical needs. In this respect, however the factor of inventiveness should not be disregarded. The chances are that airplanes will not always require half a mile to start and stop in. Chamberlin already has landed and taken off in a space of seventy-five feet, while Tesla claims to have constructed an airplane which can be flown in through a window, provided the window is eight feet square. tt tt tt Al Smith Strong Recalling what Tennessee did to Darwin, I have been on the lookout for anti-Smith sentiment since arriving here, but. thus far the search has proved rather barren. Men with whom I have talked, and that means bankers, as well as politicians, seem to think that the western part of the State, at least, is not at all unfavorable to the New York Governor as Democratic nominee for the presidency. While admitting that Cordell Hull will get the Tennessee delegation, they believe it eventually will swing to Smith. More than that, they believe that Smith will be nominated at Houston and carry the South next November. tt tt tt Robinson’s Outbreak Speaking of Smith, Senator Robinson of Indiana is about the last man to insinuate that his alleged hobnobbing with Harry F. Sinclair should be taken as a reflection on his character because “birds of a feather flock together.” “If birds of a feather flock together,” Senator Robinson has rather more to explain than the Governor of New York. Tagged with such political associates as a Klan boss who is serving a life sentence for murder, a mayor who has been convicted of corrupt practices and a Governor who was sent to prison for using the mails to defraud. Senator Robinson can hardly afford to philosophize too much over what bad company means. tt tt tt Disapproval of Sinclair It is a sad commentary on our conception of good citizenship and public morals that a horse racingcommission should be the first body in the United States to disapprove officially of Harry F. Sinclair. This becomes all the more significant when one recalls that Sinclair has been quite as prominent in racing as in oil, and that barring him from it is not without a cash risk. The Maryland commission certainly is to be congratulated for requesting the four racing associations of that-State to exclude Sinclair entries. It has set an example which clubs, societies, institutes and boards of directors throughout the country could follow' with profit not only to themselves, but to the common good. tt tt tt ■** Standards of Turf The fifth uncovered in connection with Teapot Dome is not more startling than the indifference with which it has been treated, especially by those who are supposed to stand for obedience to law and a moral code which is above that of the back alley. Here 1$ a man who has been charged with fraud by the Supreme Court of the United States, who has been held in contempt of the Senate and who still faces trial on the charge of conspiracy to rob his country. Yet neither the industry he has brought to shame, nor the social organizations he has besmirched have seen fit to express disapproval of his misconduct.