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Senator Robinson’s Purpose 1 ' The purpose back of the attempt of Senator Robinson of Indiana to involve Senator Walsh of Montana and members of the Wilson Administration in the oil scandals is obvious. Robinson! by his speeches in the Senate, hopes to lead voters to believe that the oil investigation is partisan in nature, that it is being used by the Democrats to persecute the Republicans for political reasons. This would help Robinson in his campaign in this State, reeking with political corruption, in which his prospects are blue indeed. It is perhaps what is known as “good politics” for Robinson to do this—if decency is left out of account. It matters not how irresponsible Robinson’s utterances may be, how filled with misstatements are his speeches, or how unjust they are. Suspicion hud wrongly founded beliefs once implanted in the public mind are sometimes difficult to dislodge, as any politician knows, and the oil scandals are a vastly complicated affair. By whatever methods he may use, if Robinson can befuddle the public mind, his purpose will be served. It is doubtful, however, if he can accomplish his purpose. It requires more skill than Robinson possesses to persuade the public that bribery and corruption during the Harding Administration could by any means be blamed on a preceding Democratic Administration. Moreover, the oil investigations have not been partisan in nature. It is true that the principal investigator, Walsh of Montana, is a Democrat. But the investigation has been made at all times by a committee of which a Republican was chairman, and approved by a Senate in which the Republicans had a majority* . . , • .. There would have been no- investigation except for the votes of the Republicans who, with a few notable exceptions, have at alltimes supported the Public Lands Committee. The investigation was initiated by the elder La Follette, a Republican. It has had the continued support of Senator Norris of Nebraska, another Republican, and author of the resolution under which the committee is proceeding. Senators Borah, Capper and numerous others have given the efforts of Walsh unstinted praise. Senator Nye of North Dakota present committee chairman, who has worked effectively, is likewise a Republican. The part played by Wilson, Daniels, Lane and others in reserving naval oil lands was examined by the committee with great care. They were found to have acted in the pu ilic interest. . Daniels’ record is particularly praise,worthy. It is not to be supposed that the Republicans, in all the years of investigation, and during the last national campaign, would have permitted to remain hidden what the Indiana Senator now attempts to parade as damning facts. , We believe the public will not be misled bv Senator Robinson’s palpable political maneuver. A Prize Fighter In this day of ultra-civilized, gentlemanly prize fighters, it is a positive relict to find on. who> acts, when out of the ring, like a rather bewildered sis out of water. John Risko, the heavyweight, who recently punched jack Sharkey out of the famous “elimination tournament,” was billed to address a rather tony club in Cleveland the other day. Blushing, perspiring and goose-pimpled, the big boxer got up, gulped, and said: “! i’ m glad—l’m glad I’m up here with all the gentlemen. I ain’t much on speakin’. But I can rassle anybody in the house—or fight. That was all. He sat down, amid thunderous applause. And, as far gs we’re concerned, his speech was a success. It’s a relief to find a pug who speaks like a pug. Another Pioneer Passes James W. Packard, founder of the motor car company that bears his name, died the other day in the Middle West. His death removes from the scene another of those early leaders who gave the nation a new transportation system and thereby effected a revolution in our national life. There are few of the pioneers left. Elwood Haynes has gone, and the Dodge brothers, and Jonathan D. Maxwell— and now Packard. The story of these men’s lives is, in some ways, the story of America during the last thirty years. Let’s hope some qualified biographers give their early attention to the job. Here is a rich chapter in our history that must be told fully and accurately. Better Bays for Farmers If the farmer can only wait a few years without losing his land to the mortgage holders, he will find better times. This prediction is based on a survey recently made hy Jackson Brothers, Noessel and Company, Chicago business house. Their survey showed that American agriculture in a couple of decades will not be exporting any agricultural products. The home market will be demanding all that can be raised here. That inevitably will mean better prices. The press‘ ent is a period of readjustment for the farmer. If he can hang on, he will come into his own. It isn’t always the best player who'Jias the most lions in the bag. , *.7 7\ ,

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“Doing and Saying What They List” The State seal of North Carolina bears the legend: ”20, May, 1775.” The date commemorates a gathering in Charlotte, after news had been received of the battles of Lexington apd Concord, at which citizens declared their independence of the crown. It was the first declaration of this sort in America. Before that even, the State’s history had been turbulent. There had been rebellions and near rebellions against oppression from England. Half a dozen proprietary governors had been and sent home. The colony was without any government at all fop a period of two years, the farmers tending their crops and “doing and saying what they list.” The colony acted decisively in support of the Revolution. All of which convinces us those early Carolinians believed with all their hearts in political liberty, and did not necessarily regard conformity as a virtue. Students at Wake Forest College, a century-old Baptist institution at Charlotte, formed a society to support the candidacy of A1 Smith the other day. The Ninth Avenue Baptist Church acted promptly. It adopted a resolution pointing out that it always had been a liberal patron of the school, and roundly denouncing the students. “It is evident that if this continues, much of the money pledged will'not be paid and It is evident, too, that nothing short of cat-brained, silly-minded, thoughtless, foolhardy boys would do such a reckless, nonsensical thing,” said the resolution. “On general principles, they ought to be sent home for the lack of sense.” A letter from the Rev. W. L. Griggs to the president of the college makes clear the grounds on which the denunciation is based. “Many of our Wake Forest College alumni feel that our own Wake Forest College should be the last place on earth where a sentiment in favor of a wet even should exist and that we should expect a strong sentiment against Romanism in this country at Wake Forest,” he wrote. So students may not reach the conclusion that A1 Smith’s church would have nothing whatever to do with his administration if he were elected president, as millions already have. They may not believe that Smith’s record and character eminently fit him to be President. They may not believe that if Smith were president he would enforce the prohibition law, or that perhaps there Is some question as to the wisdom of the law itself, and the way it is enforced. They may not be open-minded. They must conform to the views of their elders, or be trundled home and have support withdrawn from their college. We wonder what the attitude of the present-day Baptists of Charlotte would have been toward that meeting of their forebears a century and a half ago. What’s Back of It All? Why do O’Neil and Blackmer remain in France? If they went there in the first place to avoid telling about dividing the spoils of the Continental T-ading Company, they no longer have that excuse. For it is known now what their share of the swag was. And if they continue their exile, it must be that there is something else to be told that they don’t want to tell. That something must be much worse than grabbing off something like SBOO,OOO apiece from that oil deal. What is it? Has the Senate barely scratched the surface of that awful Teapot Dome mess? Is there something infinitely and disgracefully worse than the bribing of Cabinet officers to rob the Government? Probably so. But Congress never should stop digging until the entire rotten mess is turned up to public view.

— David Dietz on Science —______ Perhaps Cupid Smiled No. 11

ROMANCE and adventure make the story of the discovery of radium one of the most fascinating in the annals of science. Love, tragedy, heroism, the ingredients of the most interesting novel, are all woven into the story of this epoch-making advance in the field of science. Madartle Curie was born in Poland in 1867. Her maiden name was Marie Sklodowska. Asa young girl

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a little stove in this attic. In winter the room was bitterly cold. Romance entered in 1894. She met Pierre Curie, a young French college instructor. She described him in her diary as a “tall young man with auburn hair and limpid eyes.” She wrote further, “I noticed the grave and gentle expression of his face, as well as a certain abandon in his attitude, suggesting the dreamer absorbed in his reflections. We began a conversation which soon became friendly. It first concerned certain scientific matters about which I was very glad to ask his opinion. “Then we discussed certain social and humanitarian subjects which interested us both.” But though the • conversation ranged only from science to sociology, that young imn, Dan Cupid, must have smiled, for in all probability it was a case o? love at first sight. They saw each other frequently. It was not long before they were married. , Pierre’s salary at the time was 300 francs a month, about S6O. Their financial situation did not improve for a long time, not even after the two had achieved success by their researches. The money which they received from the Nobel prize went, for the most part, intp the purchase of laboratory equipment and apparatus. Pierre did not receive an appointment to a professorship with its consequent increase in salary until shortly before his death. Madame Curie was forced to divide her time between household duties, care of her childrern&pd the scientific laboratory. Let us next follow the steps which led to the discovery of radium.

FRANK G. MORRISON, Business Manager.

FRIDAY. MARCH 30. 1928.

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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: The Democrats should be proud of the campaign they made m 1921 for Dr. McCullough for Governor; Marion County 1924, McCullough vote, 71,883; 1926, Stump vote, 45,729. The fight should have been continued, but instead they began to get afraid of hurting some Kluxers' feelings and put on the soft pedal. The result has been that they have lost votes in every ward in the cityin each campaign since. There is none who will say that the Klan was not at its peak in 1924 and it has been disintergrating ever since. If the Democrats had made an anti-Klan fight in 1925 and 1926, why would they not have received every vote that had been cast for McCullough and more because Davis was a load for McCullough. McCullough ran 12,582 votes ahead of Davis in Marion County. Albert Stump is making the same kind of a campaign he made in 1926, when he ran 60,000 votes behind the McCullough vote. Why? Walter Myers is conducting such a campaign as was made by McCullough, therefore he shoud be nominated. Give the Democrats 72,000 votes in Marion County and they will win. The Ralston vote in Marion Countyin 1922 was 49,067, so give us Myers to fight Robinson with and we can put all the “birds of a feather” together and beat them. x PRECINCT COMMITTEEMAN.

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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION Windows Cast Shadow of Beauty

AND now let the windows speak to us. for they are the greatest glory of the Chartres Church. Certainly the architects thought so, for they subordinated every consideration to the problem of admitting abundant light, softening it with color, and playing with its shadows like some giant Rembrandt painting with the sun. The northern architect longed for light as the southern planned for shade; even under the gloomy sky of northern France these lordly spaces of stained glass would transform the clouds into sunshine as the light poured through blue and gold and clothed the nave with a jeweled radiance. All the bright tenderness of the Virgin and her Son would flood the church, and yet so softly that even the vivid colors would walk in harmony with the mystic moods of the faith. One worships best when the illumination is subdued: when the sun shines, every soul is pagan. Back of us is one of the famous rose windows of France. Every color is here, broken into a thousand fragments, and yet woven into a music of tone that satisfies sense and mind and heart. You know the care that went to make that window, and you experience the stifled silence that comes when we stand in the presence of genius. Genius and patience are near allied; everywhere the lesson meets us. Nature will be hard put to it to equal this rose.

But the rose is only the beginning; on every side there are windows; the very walls seem to surrender to them, and we wonder how this frame of glass can bear up this colossal roof of stone. Yes, there are flying buttresses; but even so, these walls are too thin and weak; we miss here the solidity and security of the Parthenon; time, unaided with war, would have its way with this beauty sooner than with that strength. Nevertheless, these windows are beautiful. Those at Sainte-Chapelle in Paris take the breath away with their tall and slim delight, their irridiscent gracefulness; but the windows of Chartres Cathedral stand at the top of their lost art; never before had the glassmakers worked so well, and never since. tt tt tt Tr~\o not bother too much about the stories the windows tell; they hardly interest us today; what we need here is delight in color for color’s sake, as Turner delighted in it, or Correggio. Leonardo, if he came here in his wanderings over France, must have loved these windows, and Michelangelo could not; for the gloomy sculptor rated line drawing far above the art of light and shade; and these pictures, as drawings, are ridiculous; it is as if the medieval artists cared nothing for line, and only wished to bathe the soul in varied light, to capture the sense with color and yet-soothe it with shade, to make a chiaroscuro of rainbows for the Virgin’s fairest shrine. And they succeeded; for even we doubting Thomases, standing in that cool loveliness, are overcome with a strange acquiescence m all that surrounds us; it does not seem absurd for that sad-faced woman or that broken old man, to kneel at the altars, light a candle, whisper a prayer, and drop a hardearned coin into the basket that turns up everywhere. Only some cold ihibiting rationality keeps us from falling upon our knees, surrendering to this hope, and murmuring that tender prayer: “Hail Mary, full of grace. . . . blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.” Here Catholicism is not a system' of mythology, it is a miracle of friendliness and beauty. How can one be anything but a Catholic at Chartres? THE GOTHIC AGES TT has been better, perhaps to X spend so much of our time on | one cathedral, and tell something j of its personality and appeal, rather I than list the various mastepieces of j Gothic architecture in England, Flanders, Germany, Italy and Spain. All the world knows of Rheims

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Cathedral; Professor Crum thinks it the finest in Europe, “without a fault”; even the French were inclined to agree with him until the war, when they used it as a gun station, and so invited the destruction of one of its towers, most of its statuary, and all of its priceless glass, by German cannon. Many years ago Heinrich Heine wrote: “Christianity—and this is its highest merit—has in some degree softened, but it could not destroy, the brutal German joy of battle. When once the taming talismen, the Cross, breaks in two, the savagery of the old fighters, the senseless Berserker fury of which the northern poets sing and say so much, will gush up anew. That talisman is decayed, and the day will come when it will piteously collapse. Then the old stone gods will rise from the silent ruins, and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes. Thor, with his giant’s hammer, will at last spring up, and shatter to bits the Gothic cathedrals.” It is a dire.and dour prediction, and we may still hope that time will have better taste than to fulfill it. And then there is Amiens, whose cathedral Viollet-le-Duc calls “the Parthenon of Gothic archi ecture,” with its perfect proportions, its enormous vault poised lightly aloft, “like a sail upheld by a continuous wind from below’* (Hourticc*), and

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Mnncic Press . New Hampshire has pointed the way to other states that have presidential preference primaries by electing a solid, instructed delegation for Secretary Hoover. Mr. Hoover’s candidates for national /delegates went over without exception. , ~ . “The delegates who “chose to run as a Coolidge candidate trailed the field merely because the voters of New Hampshire took Ml Coolidge at his word. Os course, If Mr. Coolidge actually had been a candidate, the result might have been different. Now New Hampshire, like any any other State, could have had a “favorite son,” for among its granite hills dwells that sound, stable Senator George H. Moses, long the idol of his commonwealth. But Senator Moses not only was not a candidate, but advocated the indorsement of Secretary Hoover. As the New York Times succintly puts it; “For Hoover the state primaries are a distinct victory, and for the spread of plain dealing in politics they are useful “Few of those in Ohio and Indiana who are demanding instructions for Senator Willis and Watson respectively, really believe that either has a fighting chance to be nominated. They are playing politics according to the outworn manner, and the New Hampshire’s declination to go along is creditable to its Republican party and to Senator Moses.” From every part of the country come the reports that the people, this year, intend to have something to say as to who their next President shall be. It is going to be a poor year for groups of politicians to get together in back rooms, parcel out the prospective partonage and then decide who is to be President.

It is going to be very “tough” on machine-made politics especially so in Indiana where people appear to have made up their \ minds to demand anew deal all the way around. Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette Doubtless nobody more acutely appreciates the stupidity and costliness of the wanton and baseless attack made in the United States Senate, last week, upon Governor A1 Smith and the late former secretary of interior, Franklin K. Lane, than the man who made the attack. Indiana’s junior Senator, Arthur R. Robinson, was flayed alive, by both Republicans and Democrats, for his vicious slanders. But worse was and still is in reserve for him. He has found no approval in any quarter. He has

the most famous of all Gothic statues, the Beau Christ that adorns .the main portals, and gives us in supreme form that grace and tenderness which distinguish Gothic sculpute, and mark it off from the stern strength or voluptous loveliness of the Greek—and there is the ‘Flamboyant Gothic” of Rouen, where the style loses itself in a wilderness of ornament and prepares for the reaction that will bring the comparative simplicity of architecture sci the renaissance. Better than this is the “Civic Gothic” of many noble public buildings in France; in the Hotel de Ville, or City Hall, of Arras or of Paris, in such great chateaux as Blois and Piferrefonds, and in such homes as that of Jacques Coeur a* Bourges. Picture in these buildings the lavish decoration of the minor arts; the rich tapestries such as that which Mathilde of Bayeux wove to tell the story of William’s conquest of England; the lace and silk sewn with such leisurely care; the woodwork and ivory work; the enamels that made Limoges famous, and the furniture whose masculine strength er feminine beauty shame the crude frailties that litter the modem home. When we think oi belittling the Middle Ages let us first remember to equal its art. (Copyright. 1928. by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

been on all sides condemned and denounced. This reurobation of his conduct Is not confined to the political party pf the opposition. It issues front his own political p ar ty_from his partisan colleagues in the Senate and from his party press everywhere. Not even in his own State does his behavior gain indorsement. When Senator Robinson in his malicious purpose to join Governor Al Smith with Harry F. Sinclair employed the hackneyed old phrase that “birds of a feather flock together,” he was most unfortunate. The Senate wanted at once to know what birds of what feather. Indiana’s sorrowful history during the past four or five years in the Senate knew all about that. They knew all about his own political associations and connections. They knew he had been a boon companion of D. C. Stephenson. . _ . They knew he had been first put in the Senate by Governor Ed Jackson at Stephenson’s dictation. They knew of his Ku-Klux Klan affiliations. They knew how he had been involved in a purpose to influence the decisions of the high courts of Indiana. There was, indeed, little concerning Senator Robinson that the Senate did not know. All this was brought out against Senator Robinson. If “birds of a feather flock together,” he was one of the birds and the feathers were bedraggled, foul and stinking. / Rensselaer Republican. The story is going the rounds in the east that President Coolidge will reconsider his choice not to run again and that he will soon announce as a voluntary candidate. This is said to be the cause of the latest Wall street eruption. It is a remarkable thing that there are many who refuse to take the president’s determination not to run, seriously. Why can’t a president be considered serious as anybody else and stick to his announcement? The east surely does not think that Mr. Coolidge is not a man of his convictions; that he is a vacillating weather-vane; that he blows hot and cold. Here in the west most people take the President at his word. They believe he will stick to his twice uttered statement and they do not think that he will again be a candidate. We believe that Mr. Coolidge has made up his mind and cannot be inflenced to change it. Why pester the President?

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ROANOKE, Va„ March 30.—Having let folks think he was headed for New York, Colored Lindbergh drops down at Lexington, Ky., and then hops for an unknown destination. I The doughty colonel merely Is trying to escape the crowd, to get away from the craned necks, prying eyes and pawing hands, and who can blame him? The brutal curiosity whiqji dogs his tracks must be maddening. Instead of being treated with that decent consideration which a hardworking man deserves. Colonel Lindbergh has become the victim of maudlin hero worship. As though hazards of his career were not enough, the people seem bent on killing him with mistaken kindness. a it tt • Dirigible’s Place in Future' The House of Representatives has passed the largest naval supply bill (Since the Washington conference. Included in that bill Is an appropriation of $8,000,000 for two giant dirigibles. Excitement over airplanes, and more especially the remarkable feats .they have accomplished during the last twelve months, has caused most of us to forget the other branch of aviation. The dirigible, however, has an undoubted place in the picture. While she can never become such a vehicle of individual pleasure, or trade as the airplane, there is a type of service for which she obviously is better adapted. She can remain afloat without the aid of mechanical power, can remain stationary without falling, can carry more passengers and freight and make longer non-stop flights. The cost of construction and operation has retarded development of dirgibles, but marked progress has been made. Captain Eckner says that the time is not far off when dirigibles will be circling the earth in ten days or so. o a a Hard-Working Congress Congress appears to have entirely recovered from the political flareup which to delay, if not prevent the passage of important legislation for several days. The House not only has passed the naval supply bill, but its Committee on Military Affairs has whipped the Muscle Shoals bill into shape for immediate consideration, while the Senate has passed the flood control bill. The way this last named measure went through shows what can bo done when the right spirit prevails. The flood control bill was worked out by the leaders of both parties. There was no log rolling, windjamming, or political by-play. When it came up for final discussion, the talk lasted only ninety minutes and the vote was 69 to 0. a a a Ford’s Views on Coal The Senate coal committee has discovered that Henry Ford is an operator. v More than that it has discovered that he pays a wage of $8 a day in his West Virginia mines, while competing operators pay $6 or $5, or even as low as $3 claiming that is the best they can do. Naturally enough, the Senate committee wants to hear from Mr. Ford. It hopes he can throw some light on the perplexing problem, which he probably can, and is candid enough to admit that it needs light. The chances are that Mr. Ford knows something about coal, especially with regard to production costs, the relation of wages to machinery and how to satisfy labor. It is only fair to recall, however, that lie buys his own coal and that he might feel the need of a different policy if he had to sell it in the open market and depend on the profit he could make for a living. tt tt n Supply and Demand The coal situation involves at least one basic principle and that is the impossibility of repealing the law of supply and demand. The country is equipped to produce more coal than It is willing to consume. There is not a market for much more than one-half what the money, mines and men of the coal industry are able to supply. It generally is agreed that curtailed production offers the one hope of relief, but that means fewer •men on the pay roll, as well as fewer mines In operation, and fewer men on the pay roll, even though they do draw better pay, is the one possibility everybody is trying to sidestep. a a tt New Industries and Old Oil is doing to coal what it did to the whale trade seventy-five years ago. The plight of miners and operators is but the most recent illustration of how the age of inventiveness creates anew industry by crippling an old one. Horse breeders and traders learned how bitter the medicine is a generation back. Some of them read the signs ri ght and took it without a whimper. Some whined and went broke. Those whp were born to twentieth century progress must keep step with it or get run over. This is an era of change and innovation. Unadaptable folks can not make much out of it. We have learned to make artificial ice only to find electric refrigeration spoiling the market. Coal is going the way of all flesh; not that there won’t continue to be a call for millions of tons of it, but that it will never play the part it once did.