Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1928 — Page 4
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A Costly Object Lesson Seven men, shattered, shocked and bruised, tossed painfully on their beds in city hospital today, victims of carelessness and a neglectful attitude, that is growing more and more, of a peril to life and limb of Indianapolis citizens. This peril is raised by the tendency on the part of hundreds utterly to disregard traffic rales and the rules of ordinary common sense with respect to police cars and ambulances on emergency runs. By the testimony of a score or more of credible witnesses, the police car which crashed on North Illinois St. Monday afternoon was traveling at reasonable speed, between 2b and 35 miles an hour. This testimony is bolstered by the fact that the policemen and newspaper men were not on an emergency run that required speed. Rather, they were cruising north, in an attempt to spot a car containing holdup men, traveling at a speed which would enable them to halt quickly and turn in pursuit of the bandit car if they met it. But no speed seems to be a safe one for emergency cars nowadays. Hundreds of motorists and pedestrians absolutely ignore the warning of the sirens and the red lights. There is one reason for this which should receive attention at once. That is the practice of motorists in placing red lights and sirens on their cars, when not authorized by laws so to do. ' Police and fire department cars, ambulances and the coronev’s car legally may carry sirens and red lights. But the use of them does not stop there in Indianapolis. An ambulance owned by one city undertaker has been observed many times, dashing through downtown streets, with siren screaming—and two employes of that undertaker on the driver’s seat going to lunch. Nothing more important. The car of a city councilman also is equipped with a siren, for what reason only that councilman knows. It would seem, digressing momentarily, that the last thing the mine run of j Indianapolis councilmen would want would be a siren. Several of them more appropriately could come downtown behind a duck blind, carrying Maxim silencers. And there are many other cars in the city which carry sirens, only adding to the confusion and breeding indifference to the warning shriek of ambulances and police cais. All this and the criminal dumbness of hundreds of motor drivers who gamble with t;-.s speed cars as they would gamble with •the locomotive at a railway crossing add to the peril of those who ride on errands of mercy and law enforcement and others who drive safely and sanely. It is time that something be done to jar the motoring public into a realization that its indifference and carelessness are nothing short of criminal.
Protecting the Children The school children of New York will be protected against the revolutionary teachings of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence. Their young minds will not be contaminated by such dangersous doctrines as the right of free speech, or the right of a people to resist tyranny and oppression. No, indeed! They will be taught the “right ideas on religion and patriotism."’ School authorities, tacked by “patriotic” societies, will teach them to revere the existing order. This was assured when a Board of Education committee, with the support of School Superintendent O'Shea, denied the American Civil Liberties Union the privilege of holding a meeting on “old-fashioned free speech,” in a school auditorium. Leaders of this organization said they distinguished between freedom of expression on economic, political and religious questions, and attempts at overt acts or crime. Only the latter should be forbidden, they held. “Any man ought to be ashamed to belong to the Civil Liberties Union,” said Dr. O’Shea. “They try to upset our ideas.” When the subject of Thomas JefTerson’s teachings was brought up, Arthur S. Somers, member of the Board of Education, said that “with all due respect to Jefferson, some of his beliefs recently have been brushed aside by our courts as at least intolerable in this age and generation.” And it is the unfortunate fact that some of our courts have been guilty of doing that very thing. What Causes Accidents? What causes accidents, anyway? The Travelers Insurance Company recently drew ftp ft fable of causes of accidental deaths, based on its own statistics. The results are interesting and informative. According to this tabulation, the automobile is the chief offender, 29 per cent of all fatal accidents being caused by traffic. A close second is the home accident, which accounts for 26 per cent. Sports and recreation are in third place with 20 per cent. Tire remaining causes are split up over a number of causes. A man in a Bowery curio hall will drink a bottle of ink that any customer brings in. Probably an old habitue of the night clubs. Leap Year is pretty well along now, and no lady should be without a bundle-carrier. ■ of Chicago train,”
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Mr. Robinson Heads for the Exit Indiana again is in the glare of the National spotlight. From the shame of Ed Jackson the Nation is turning to the buffoonery of Arthur Robinson, which has been equalled in recent months only by the clownishness of Tom Heflin, that other bedsheet warrior. The Ringling and Barnum and Bailey circus just has imported a sea elephant with spiral whiskers to feature its menagerie. The elephant also bellows. That qualifies him. Try and tie that triad. There is nothing in common law or statute that prevents a man from making a consumate boob of himself, if he so wills and harms no one else. And so the junior senator from Indiana does it. By his senseless attacks on Governor A1 Smith, Senator Walsh and others, Robinson laid himself wide open to broadsides that apparently have jarred him loose from everything but his acoustics. His futile tirades, apropos of nothing, simply have estranged members of his own party in Congress, have provided the Democrats with some very effective ammunition, and have given his deluded supporters in Indiana the collytvobbles and the gum-willies. For the first time in his career—made possible by D. C. Stephenson, Ed Jackson and others of similar standard—Senator Robinson appears in the role of public benefactor. He has eliminated himself as a candidate with any hope for the Senatorial nomination in Indiana at the May S primary, and if he could confer any greater benefaction upon a long-suffering public we confess that we do not know what that boundless boon could be. Sending Money to Sinclair Colonel T. Roosevelt, Jr., charges to the front with a contribution of SIOO to the Borah G. O. P. cleansing fund. That’s the fund'for which Senator Borah is passing the hat, and which, when it amounts to $160,000, will be handed with a kick to Harry Sinclair. When Sinclair receives the money it Is to be assumed that the honest and oily soul of the party organization has been sandpapered, cleansed and purified. Colonel Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when the naval oil reserves were handed over by Secretary Denby to Secretary of the Interior Fall —from whose greasy hands they passed into the possession of Sinclair and Doheny. The part that Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt played in the game was that of a messenger boy. Why not make use of his experience as a messenger boy when Senator Borah is ready to hand back the money to Sinclair? Certainly Borah won't want to touch hands vjith Sinclair and risk catching any of the oily germs, microbes or bacilli. He won’t want to send the money through the mails. So why not send a boy? And an experienced messenger boy? Let Teddy do it. He knows Sinclair—he knew him so well that he got Sinclair to give Brother Archie an oil job. So put the $160,000 clean money in a clean black satchel and send T. R. to Sinclair with it.
-David Dietz on Science - Simplicity Was Sought No. 8
THE establishment of the atomic theory greatly simplified the science of chemistry, but it still left most scientists dissatisfied. It was, indeed, a great step forward to have the knowledge that all the thousands of substances which existed in the universe were compounded out of the atoms of ninetytwo chemical elements. But scientists felt the need of a still greater simplification. The number ninety-two seemed a strange one. Why should there be just ninety-two chemical elements,
that is ninetytwo different kinds of atoms, in existence? The scientists felt that there ought to be some fundamental unity to all matter. But while chemists could take any chemical compound and break it up into the various chemical elements which formed it, they
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were powerless to do anything with the chemical elements themselves. They resisted every effort to brak them up. It really did seem as though their atoms were indivisible. But many scientists expressed the belief that eventually some fundamental constituent would be found common to all atoms. The first step in this direction was taken shortly after 1880 by the great British scientists, Sir William Crookes. Crookes, who had been born in London on June 17, 1832, had by then won himself a reputation as a brilliant chemical investigator. About 1880 he developed what became known as the Crookes’ tube. This was a /glass tube from whiclj most of the air had been extracted so that there remained within the tube only a slight residual of gases, about one twentymillionth of the original air. Two metal plugs or rods were sealed in the ends of the tube. When these were connected to a source of electricity, the rod connected to the negative side of the current gave off rays which caused the molesules of gas remaining in the tube to light up. When these rays struck the glass of the tube, they made in phosphorescent. Scientists were already familiar with matter in the gaseous, liquid and solid state. Crookes made the suggestion that perhaps this was a forth state of matter which might be termed the radiant state of matter. That suggestion was not sustained. But the Crookes’ tube led to the discovery of X-rays, X-rays led to the discovery of radium and that in turn led to the discovery of the electron, the fundamental con-.titue-L o, .toms. JL
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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. Editor Times: 1 think we all have been vastly entertained by Senator Robinson's gifts in reparatee. The question which confronts us, however, is not his ability to hold his own iri the give and take of a party debate on the Senate floor, but rather the importance of the subject under discussion. Some efficiency expert or other has estimated that it costs the people of the_ Unitea States 50 cents a word for every word spoken in Congress. From my count in the story of the debate. Senator Robinson uttered 556 words. Therefore, for the useless discussion Senator Robinson has charged Uncle Sam up with $278. It is my opinion that the entire argument was not quoted. If the words of Senator Pat Harrison etral., uttered in necessary (?) rejoinder were added to the bill which might be charged to our Arthur, a right royal sum might be obtained—at 50 cents a word. I am a Republican, but even so, bad as is the party’s condition, I do not deem its defense so necessary at 50 cents a word, chargeable to the people. If the Senator wishes to wax loquacious, his opinions might be welcomed in a discussion of some important subject. Let him do his talking in the committee rooms, where, I am told, the actual work of Congress is done, even at the cost of losing the opportunity to exercise his justly famous wit. I can buy a whole magazine of humor at 15 cents. That is cheaper than 50 cents a word. / C. R. DALTON. Editor Times: From time to time, with increasing freqency, the statement is made by prominent jurists that the public is to blame for lax administration of justice in the courts. How do they get that way? The public puts on the bench men who come before it at election time claiming to possess all qualifications necessary for a wise and just administration of the law and most fullsome promises to do their duty toward State and society. The public, partly composed of those who believe all they read in the papers, and partly of those who don't believe anything any more, put them ia office, the one class hopeful for the best, the other prepared for the worst. But neither class is able to do anything about it. except to pay the steadily increasing taxes for the legal machinery, the reformatories, the prisons and the several judicial and semi-judicial bodies created to control the “crime wave;” while judges permit the law to be flouted by indeterminate sentences, professional alienists, pettifoggers and crooked lawyers, whose only and open intent is not to administer justice, but to defeat it. To my mind, capable, honest, conscientious judges can do more to control this situation than any other class. And when they begin to “pass the buck” to the poor helpless public, it is evident that it is not justice, but jobs, they are thinking of. AN UNBELIEVER. Editor Times: About every session of Congress a bill or two is put in to increase the pensions of Civil War widows. Most all of them are poor, old women without income besides their S3O a month pension. There has been a bill in the Senate this winter to allow them S4O a month, also one in the House to allow them SSO. but it is doubtful if either ever becomes law. There were bills in Congress last winter to the same effect, but for some reason failed to become law. Opponents of such bills contend it would cost the Government too much. It did not take several sessions of Congress to raise their own salaries $2,500 a year more for each one, or a total of $1,325,000, when each congressman already was getting $7,500 a year. There are 1,500 of these war widows on file before Congress now asking for an increase. I wonder if they ever will get it. What do wc elect men to Congress for, if it is not to do the will of the people? A TIMES READER. Mr. Fixit Obtains Assurance of Repair to Street Car Rail. Let Mr. Fixit, The Times’ representative at city hall, present, your troubles to city ofliclals. Vvrite Mr. Fixit at The Times. Names end addresses which must be given will not be published. Immediate repair of a broken rail on the Riverside line was promised today by Indianapolis Street Railway Company engineers. Dear Mr. Fixit: There is a dangerous rail in (the street car track in front of my home which is becoming quite an annoyance. I have. asked that it be repaired several times, but the company only welded it. My suggestion Is to lay some new track. This track is a disturbance of the peace and is cracking the plastering in my home. Hoping you do your best to have this fixed better than a weld, I am, A TAXPAYER. Engineers of the railway promised to give your complaint attention at once. Dear Mr. Fixit: The street intersection at Pleas-' ant Run Blvd. and Emerson Ave., has never been replaced since the Pleasant Run sewer was put through early last fall. The street is almost impassable for pedestrians and school children in rainy weather. A TAXPAYER. Charles P. Culley, sewer engineer, said the delay was to permit the trench to settle. It has been repaired frequently and not been impassable, he said. Os what nationality was Gus Ruhlin, the boxer? When did he die? He was an American, born in Canton, Ohio, Jan. 8, 1872. He died in 1912. From what was the photoplay, '•The Third Degree,” adapted? From a play with the same title by Charles Klein.
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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION Gothic Cathedrals Rise With Trade Written for The Times by Will Durant
F'OR a long time the emperors and -patriarchs ruled the Bosphorus, sending out missionaries of their art and their religion into the Balkans and Russia s 'dulously replacing error with error. In 677, and for six successive years, the Moslems besieged Constantinople with their characteristic patience and tenacity: but its straits protected the capitol, and “Greek fire,” invented by a Byzantine chemist, played havoc with the Moors. But some 800 years after these warriors had gone, doughtier ones came, more ruthless and barbarous still; the Turks advanced upon the city without fear and without calculation; and because they valued booty more than life, and the Byzantines valued life a little more than booty, the Turks had their way. and made themselves masters of Constantinople. That was in the year 1453, it was, as we shall see. one of the tinning points of European history. nan THE CATHEDRALS , IN the west, during all this time, the one strong government was ! that of the church; therefore medieval art was ecclesiastical, and architure was its natural glory. For in any civilization architure tends to be the first of the arts, and the others rise around it as means of decoration: all the more so in a religious age. whose elemental emotion was the hope of heaven; inevitably. as a Christianity based on immortality replaced a paganism based on civic loyalty and earthly joy, architecture abandoned the fiat entablature and the dome, and lifted ! thousands of steeples to the sky as tentacles of human hop?. The “sentiment of the infinite” (as Renan expressed it), became the dominant mood of medieval life and medieval art. The earliest Catholic churches, however, partook rather of Roman strength than of Christian aspiration; they were built on the style of the great basilicas—or royal houses —of imperial Rome; they made pretense to external beauty, but their colonnaded interiors gave them an air of power and grandeur that accorded better with earthly majesty than celestial hope. Modern Rome is still rich in great basilicas well preserved: San Paolo fuori la Mura (St. Paul’s outside the wail), Santa in Trastevere, and Santa Maria Maggiore; no traveler should miss them, for they are an illuminating link between antiquity and Christianity, between religion and glorified power, and a religion that deified love. A further step in the transition was taken by the invading Germans, who brought first to Italy and then to France. Germany and England, a style of architecture which came to be called Romanesque, to indicate (as in the case of romance languages) it’s mixture of Roman and native elements. The essence of the new style lay in the round arch and the ribbed vault; the timber roof of the basilicas, which had not dared, or could not afford, to crown themselves with stone, was replaced with a superstructure of round arches, made by pouring small stones into a mould of cement, and the barrelvault of the Romans was varied by crossing one with another to make, at the center, a “groined” diagonal arch. , nun ROMANESQUE architecture achieved it’s greatest triumphs in the north. In Italy it produced ithe Cathedral of San Giorgio at Ferrara (a compromise between Roman simplicity and Gothic ornamentation), and the Baptistry and Leaning Tower of Pisa; finer than these were the cloisters of St. Trophime at Arles; but finer-still were the cathedrals at Mainz, Speyer and Worms. Then, as we pass to Normandy and England, we reach the lovliest form of Romanesque, called “Norman” architecture from the reckless warriors, who in the eleventh century established themselves in Scicily, in northern France, and in England. All the educated world loves Henry Adams’ rhapsody on Mont-Saint-Michei In Normandy,
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that powerful “proof of Norman character,” placed high on a rock in the sea, and surpassing even the Atlantic in majesty; but nothing at Saint-Michel is quite so beautiful as the interior of the “Abba.ve aux Dames” (the Women's Church), at Caen. In 1066. as every urchin knows, William of Normandy invaded England. and subjected it to Norman tithes and ways. Something of the glory of his killing can be forgiven when one has seen the perfection of the Norman style in England—in the cathedrals at Norwich, Durham and Canterbury, in the castles at Dover and Leeds. The Tower of London is a famous monument to f4orman architecture; but the memory of it’s horrors inhibits all appreciation of its style. Yet the tower symbolizes well the Norman character in war and art; George Moore properly contrasts the “gravity of Romanesque and the gayety of Gothic. What was it that so altered the mood of Europe that in the twelfth century it began to produce the fairest architecture that tile world has ever known? We must not overplay the notion that the passing of the fearful year 1.000 marked the revival of the European soul, and
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Ft. lVavne Journal-Gazette One of Attorney General Gilliom’s witnesses in his suit to oust the Ku-Klux Klan from Indiana put some accent upon an editorial printed in the precious Milt Elrod’s “Fiery Cross.” four years ago last fall in which the Hoosicr cohorts of the hundred per cent were given an inspired prophecy. That prophecy was “that anew civic Messiah will be born in the manger of the Hoosier ballot box is recognized.” Not every prophet is with honor, even outside his own country, and not all inspired prophecy is verified. But Editor Elrod’s prophecy came true, as everybody in Indiana has learned. There may be some difference of opinion as touching the identity of the “new civic Messiah.” Some will say it was “the Old Man” himself. Others may assert that Fred Schortemeier stands confessed—especially since he is now running for Governor and may be helped by such ascription of Messianic character. Some others may pick upon John Duvall, lately mayor
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the inauguration of an epoch of energy and creation. Doubtless it was a matter of economic accumulation rather than a process of the spirit; the plain fact is that the Gothic cathedrals rose out of the revival of European trade, and rested more on the power of the church. Every one of these cathedrals represented the pride of a town and the prosperity of it’s artisans; it was the rivalry of town with town and of guild with guild that glorified the soil of Europe with the most superb creations in human history. It was a remarkable synthesis (as the Crusades had been) of the secular and religious elements of medieval life; the church provided the end. and the merchants and workers provided the means. The new architecture was the expression of anew sense of power, a buoyant happiness as of completed abolcscence. Never before had art been so thoroughly the voice end labor of a people, and never has it been so again: only medieval art is worthy of Tolstoi’s conception of art as the emotional expression of an entire community. (CopymVit. 1923. bv Will Durant) (To Be Continued)
of Indianapolis, as the embodiment. Many will not be doubtful nor yet tardy to point to United States Senator Arthur R. Robinson as that shining figure, while Congressman Ralph Updke of fragrant repute, will have his advocates and followers. But as for us—and we believe for the majority—we will vote to clothe with the almost holy distinction Ed Jackson, Governor of Indiana and a civic Messiah if there ever was or there was to be one of that sanctity and achievement. You just can’t get away from his excellency in that character. He came as and was one. He still insists upon it. His little homily to the Statehouse office crew, ■when he escaped prison by the statute of limitations and an instructed verdict, disclosed that his excellency is not, even in his own excess of modesty, unconscious of his merits and the virtues of his public career. There can be no doubt about it. Ol' Doc Simmons, the boss wiz of the order, had something to say about the coming of the Perfect One upon the occasion of his visit to the great klonklave in this city in November, 1923. That may have been but repetition of the Elrod prophecy, but it was main good stuff and it was verified. Ed Jackson is the party meant and predicted. Doc said so at that time.
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-MARCH 27. 1928
TRACY SAYS: "The Idea of Outlawing War by a Barrage of Ink, Paper and Fine-Sound-ing Phrases Is Just Another Pipe Dream.”
Two men will be hanged in Colorado this week by an automatic gallows, the one advantage of which '■> that no human hand actually sets the death device in motion. When the victim steps on tin trap he starts the water draining from a lank, and when the tank is drained, it releases a 350 pound weight which jerks him into the air. If he is heavy enough, this jerk breaks his neck, but if he is light, as are the two scheduled for execution, he is more likely to die by strangulation. All this may be a great consolation to those in charge, but it does not make the State, the ( judge or the jury less responsible. nan | Spouting in Congress In a very pertinent article, C. J. Lilley of the Scripps-Howard Washington Bureau points out how politics has gripped Congress to such an extent that some badly needed legislation is likely to get lost in the shuffle. Senators and Representative appear vastly more interested in airing their views on the coming campaign than in doing work they were chosen and are being paid to perj *orm. Farm relief, flood control and ! the power bills may fail, for no bet- ! ter reason that that some of our j lawmakers consume the people’s I time and money spilling their eloquence in slander or eulogy of the 1 various candidates. It may be fun for them, but it is ; tough on taxpayers. Briand’s Fine Scheme Last April, M. Briand, foreign minister of France, suggested a j treaty outlawing war between his country and the United States. Such a suggestion was too distinctly in accord with American | idealism to be disregarded. Besides i that, it offered Secretary Kellogg | a chance to prove the peace-loving qualities of an administration that had turned its back on the League of Nations and the World Court. He not only accepted it but elaborated it. The United States was both interested and enthused, said Secretary Kellogg in so many words, but if war could be outlawed between two governments, why not between six? Why not include Italy, Germany, Japan and England? What M. Briand wanted, as became perfectly clear at the end. was an alliance between tlie United States and France. What Secretary Kellogg had in mind was anew scheme of world peace. The former merely sought to prevent this country from taking sides I against France in any future wars, i tt u a Piercing Screen It was one thing for M. Briand ito play Tor an agreement which . would prevent the United States I from ever fighting France in a Eu- | ropean war, but i was quite anj other for him to be placed in the j position of fathering anew peace movement. He wiggled out of the dilemma | by calling attention to the fact that i France was a member of the League | of Nations and a signatory of the ! Locarno pact, both of which rest j cn the theory not of renunciating war, but of waging it against any nation that breaks faith. He pointed out that if his original proposal were to include other nations it would be necessary to limit the renunciation of war in accordance with this provision. To superficial thinkers such an argument might appear unanswerable. but it was just another sophistry. Secretary Kellogg breaks through the smoke screen with one pointed question. If the proposal to outlaw war contradicts the league covenant and the Locarno pact when adopted by six powers, he asks, why is it less contradictory when adopted by only two? In other words, how can France consistently agree to outlaw war with the United States, or any other nation, if Italy, Germany, Japan and England cannot? tt n Can't Be Done Secretary Kellogg obviously has put M. Briand in a hole. The League of Nations still exists, The Locarno pact is still in force. Both rest on the principle of enforcing peace through the threat of war on any “aggressor nation.” No government that holds membership in the league or that has signed the Locaro pact can agree to outlaw war without violating its obligations. , In pointing out that Italy, Germany, Japan and England can not do it. M. Briand has merely proved that France can not do it. Asa matter of common sense, the idea of outlawing war by a barrage of ink, paper and fine-sounding phrases is just another pipe dream. You can not outlaw anything without law. and you can not have law without something to back it up. The world will never regard war as a crime.
BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright, 1928. by The Ready Reference Publishing Company) BY W. W. WENTWORTH
(Abbreviations: A—ace; K—kin*: Q—ouoon: J—Jack; X—any card lower than 1. Against no-trump, holding A X X with X X X in dummy, at what round should you play the A? 2. If holding only one quick trick of four-card suit, what must you hold in four-card suit'to bit It? 3. If holding only one-half quick trick outside of four-card suit, what must you hold in the four-card suit to bid it? The Answers 1. Asa rule, third round. 2. A Q X X or better. 3. At least A K J X oi sny four