Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1928 — Page 4

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The People Want Hoover Where the matter of choice is left to the rank and file Republicans, it looks as if Hoover is overwhelmingly their choice for the presidential nomination; and where the politicians follow the people or lead them where they ivant to go, the opposition doesn't amount to anything. The Vote in Michigan is an illustration. There the sentiment for Hoover Avas so strong that the favorite son group couldn't drum up a respectable opposition. Such opposition as there was had to express itself by voters writing on the ballot the names of their candidates. AnyhoAV, Hoover led Lowden by about 100 to 1, and Dawes by 50 to 1. Plain as Hoover’s popularity with the rank and file appears to be, that doesn’t mean (hat he won't have a fight on his hands at Kansas City. The professionals who Avant a different, kind of candidate for President are skilled in all the tricks of politics, including the manipulation of delegates and deadlocks. So those who believe that Hoover is the best candidate available should not be lulled into a false sense of security, but should keep on fighting for a faithful representation of their Avill at the national convention. While Democrats in Michigan are not so numerous as Republicans, the vote for Smith indicates that he is about as popular with Democrats as Hoover is with Republicans, and confirms his position as the leading Democratic candidate. Cables May Block Tokio Arms Parley The naval arms conference of 1931, the United Press informs us, likely will be held at Tokio. This is an excellent idea and one Avhich ScrippsHoward newspapers took the lead in urging several years ago. The time is fixed by the first arms confernce treaty es Washington, but the place is largely for the United States to decide. Thus as the first parley was held at Washington and the second at Geneva, it would be a graceful compliment to Japan if the third were held there, a compliment she has coming to her. She has yet to play host to an international gathering of this kind. But there is a more practical reason still for choosing Tokio. While Japanese statemen are familiar Avith Europe and America, not many Americans or Europeans know Japan. This would afford them an excellent opportunity to remedy a glaring fault in their education. And a serious fault it is, too, for the center of the world's activities rapidly is shifting in the direction of the Far East. In fact, there is but one flaw in Tokio's case, but unhappily that is a rather bad one. Tokio's cable facilities are not of the best. Rates are exorbitant, mitigating against the world being given that full and complete report of the conference which the world desires and should have in the affairs of this kind. It long has been a matter of some wonder that Japan, in sheer justice to herself, has not seen fit to remedy this situation. We recall the story of 3n American woman whose husband had been ordered to Tokio: “Isn't it great!’’ exclaimed the delighted man. “Let’s go!” Tire Avifc burst into tears. “What on earth’s the matter?” asked the astonished husband. “I thought you’d be crazy about it.” “I am!” wailed the wife. “Only I'm afraid. It seems to me nearly every time I see anything in the papers from Japan it's about an earthquake, a flood, a Are, an assassination, or something.” And so it must seem to many Americans and Europeans. Os course Japan is delightful. The people are charming. Serious earthquakes are few and so are fires, floods and things of that sort. And there Is less crime there than we have right here in the United States. But correspondents have to pay 20 cents a word for their cables, S2OO a column and they can cable only the “big news.” Much that they would like to send, details that would help the world to a better understandnig of Japan and the Japanese, must be left out. Even our richest newspapers can’t afford many columns at that rate. The reverse of the picture, of course, is just as true, the Japanese get an equally distorted view of American and European life and for the same reason. Between London and New York press rates are as low as 5 cents a Avord. Between Tokio and San Francisco 10 cents a word would be ample, with corresponding rates between Tokio and other points. Japan would be the big winner, but the whole world would profit, for cheaper and better communication facilities make for world understanding. Lack of such means long has been a barrier between the East and the West, The arms conference is three years off. Between now and 1931 Tokio will have time to study the whole thing out and do something about it. And every true friend of Japan hopes she will. Crime in Chicago Delending Chicago as a law-abiding community, State's Attorney Crowe makes the proud boast that of every hundred criminal cases tried in Cook County there is an average of sixty-five convictions. The figures look fair enough, if you don't put on your specs and look a bit further. An old recipe for cooking a rabbit said, “First catch your rabbit.” And before you can try a criminal in Cook County or anywhere else, you have to catch him. So the number of criminals caught and tried doesn't give the real picture of crime and punishment in Chicago. One trouble there is that so few criminals are indicted, caught and tried. State's Attorney Crowe hasn't even caught the murderer of his assistant, Mcowiggen, who was machine-gunned into the hereafter by one set of gunmen Avhile riding with another. ' Nor has the paralyzea hand of the law reached out and aiuk

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bombings during the reign of the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson gang. The connection between politics and crime is so close in Chicago that hundreds of clergymen and thousands of laymen lost faith in an earthly cure for crime in that city and prayed fervently to the Almighty for superhuman relief. During the early stages of the war between rival gunmen and gangsters competing for the beer and booze business, a common comment of the citizenry was that there was no reason to worry, so long as the criminals killed one another and rid Chicago of their presence. It may be that Chicago won t get all “het up” with indignation so long as the bombs are hurled at nobody but politicians; but the time may come when Innocent bystanders will become the victims and then something may be done about it. In the meantime, however, the country will not take much stock in the boasts of Crowe and Thompson about the supremacy of law and order in Chicago, Avhere the gangsters say it with machine guns and pineapple bombs. Citizenship Classes The Constitution Education Association is doing a good work by fostering citizenship classes throughout the country. The aims of the move, as set forth in an association bulletin, are; “To develop a more enlightened public opinion; carry education beyond the school house door; diffuse education; perpetuate our institutions; preserve the Constitution and keep the ideas of the founders dominant.” Those are worthy aims. James Russell Lowell, the poet, once remarked that the American republic would endure "so long as the ideas of the founders continue to be dominant.” The association's campaign should help to preserve them. “A Radiant Nordic Amazon” And now we begin to understand why it is that a poet or a musician can run rings about any other young man in the business of courtship. Percy Grainger, well-known American pianist, is engaged to a Swedish girl, Miss Ella Pola Strom. Asked to describe her, he declared she is “a radiant Nordic Amazon, as beautiful as the morning.'’ So there. When a man can use phrases like that to describe his beloved, what chance has the ordinary man got? Many a girl would rather have a man who could talk that way than a less articulate fellow' who had a six-figure bank account. Big Bill Mourns William Hale Thompson of Chicago, is grieved because the rest of the country thinks Chicago is a w ide open town. He plans to hold a series of parades to prove that Chicago, after all, is really peaceable, law abiding and tame. , It is an excellent idea, wotthy of the brain of a true statesman. We suggest, for a leading float, a tableau showing a group of thugs bombing the home of a politician who opposes the city administration, vith a figure of a mayor, at one side, resolutely looking the other way and tilting vigorously with iht ghost of his Britannic majesty, King George the* Third. British women members of the House of Commons demand they be accorded the same privileges as the men members. Can t they find any place to loaf? Scientists have weighed the earth and found it weighed six scxtillion tons. We have a sneaking hunch that the iceman could do better than that. This is the time of year when the salesman who told you your 1927 model was a ten-year car comes around to get you to trade it in on anew one. Ringing speeches don’t always ring the bell.

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npHE existence of the negative electron was estab1. lislied chiefly by the w’ork of Sir P. J. Thomson in England and Prof. R. A. Millikan in America. But scientists were still faced with many mysteries. An atom of matter is a balanced unit. Therefore, it could not be composed entirely of negative electrons. It must also contain positive electricity. But experiments only revealed negative electrons. It was assumed, therefore, that the atom consisted of

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Rutherford suggested that every atom consisted of a miniature solar system and that the positive electricity was concentrated in a nucleus which took the place of the sun in this miniature solar system. The negative electrons then could be compared to the earth and other planets which revolve around the sun. For this reason, these negative electrons were frequently called planetary electrons. There was some doubt, however, as to the exact arrangement and behavior of these planetary electrons. One theory to account for their arrangement was suggested, by tw’o American scientists, Dr. Irving Langmuir and Dr. G. N. Lcw’is. This theory became known as the Langmuir-Lewis theory. According to this theory, the electrons were arranged around the nucleus in concentric shells. Each electron was situated in a definite place in its shell. The electrons were supposed to be in vibration but w’ere not supposed to move sufficiently to destroy the general configuration of the atom. This theory worked very nicely as a means of explaining the reactions which go on in chemistry. For that reason, the Langmuir-Lewis theory of the atom came to be known as the “chemist’s atom.” But physicists found it deficient. It did not explain satisfactorily the emission of light from heated bodies, the origin of X-rays and many other phenomena with which the physicist must deal. A theory which physicists found more satisfactory was worked out by Dr. Neils Bohr of Copenhagen. In this theory, as we shall see, the electrons are believed Jo be revolving in orbits around the central nucleus of

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(Abbreviations: A—ace: K—king; Q—nueen; J—jack; X—any card lower than 10.) 1. With twenty-four points on the score, should you bid a strong minor in preference to a weak no-trump? 2. Partner not having bid, what would do you lead against a suit bid when you hold A Q J? 3. What is the quick trick value of Q J X X X? The Answers 1. Bid minor. 2. A. if yon have no better suit to lead. 3. None.

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a group of negative electrons which were scattered about in a field of positive electricity, somewh a t like a group of goldfish swimming about in a bowl of water. We are indebted to Sir Ernest Rutherford, the great Rritish scientist, lor a better view of the matter.

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BOCCACCIO was Petrarchs junior by seven years, and outlived him by one. He too was destined for the law; but vanity proved stronger than gold, and lured him into literature. Like Petrarch he thought to find immortaliy in resurrecting ancient works and days; he spent years in compiling a * Genealogy of Pagan Gods." and tried to rival Plutarch in writing the lives of illustrious Romans and Greeks. Not till lie was forty did he write the “Decameron,” or “Ten Days' Tales.” A great plague had stricken Florence in 1348, and had criven from the city all who could afford to leave it. Boccaccio represents a group of aristocratic men and women trying to while away their exile from home by telling stories, very much as Chaucer s pilgrims would mitigate the weariness of travel with their merry tales. Boccaccio seldom invented the stories lie wrote down; some of them were as old as Florence, many of them were current among the polite society of iiis time; the reader may imagine what stories, then, were current in impolite society. The jolly raconteur took them a he found them, gave :hem literary torm, and—quite without knowing it—founded the modern novel. He wrote Human Comedy, as Dante had written the Divine. <1) We picture him as ar. Italian Balzac. fat and jovial, loving his jest, and careless of propriety. It was an age of liberated instinct, and Boccaccio rioted in the new frecdon: he loved to hear of people who had lived full lives, and had given way to impulse recklessly. He w'as not conscious of immorality: he thought he was honestly picturing the truth. The men ana women of his day were as he painted them; even now, among simple and natural tribes like the Frencli-Ca-nadians. strong stories make the welkin ring when good folk get together; and this “indecency” is far healthier for body and soul than Puritan pretense. O It It THERE is not a single lascivious image or immoral description in the whole "Decameron,” says Owen, (2) “that might not be paralleled in the lives and writings of the clergy of the time.” Indeed, it is describing and assailing the sins of the clergy that Boccaccio pens his most shocking pages. He is never tired of pointing to the rampant corruption and simony of the priesthood, the worship of images, the abuses of the confessional, the sale of relics and pardons, the superstitions, charms, and bogus miracles, the materialistic conception of heaven, purgatory and hell, that characterized—not so mucli the doctrine and hierarchy of the church itself, but the lower ranks of the clergy and the people. Even while writing his greatest talcs Boccaccio thought of himself as a reformer of immorality and bigotry. All his life iong he fought ecclesiastical evils; and then, like most sensual and sensible prisons, he relapsed in his old age into the simplest faith, and became a religious devotee as shortly as possible before his death. His English analogue, of course, is Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400), who came a quarter century after him, and chose from the French word for shoemaker, and was probably pronounced sho-sayr,; so posterity plays tricks with our very names, and remakes us to its whim before consenting to hold us in its memory. When he grew’ up, educated society in England spoke both the Anglo-Saxcn, and the French which the Normans had brought; the tw'o not merged yet into the most complex and flexible of modern languages; in Chaucer they arc partly juxtoposed, and partly merged; lie did his part to fuse them, and so became one of the founders oi our English speech. a it tt HE WAS a man of the world, near at least to high station, but sufficiently touched with suffering to deepen him into poetry. We hear of him first as a serving-lad in an aristocratic home; then, at nineteen, he is off to war in France, and picks up there some of his very Gallic English. To make a great writer of (Dim the French take him prisoner; jKdto lilt him up toglory the very

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Chaucer Is Buried in Westminster

THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION

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king of England contributes handsomely to pay for his ransom. We hear little more of him until he is thirty, when we find him abroad on the King's service, for reasons unknown; we conclude that he has risen from foot-boy to royal commissioner. His repeated trips to Europe in the service of the king bring him as far as Italy, where he meets the crowned king of Italian verse, Petrarch. Home again, he appears in the chronicle of the time as holding now one governmental bureaucratic post, now another, with a hundred variations of financial attitude; at one time he receives S3OO a jear—that is, in present value, five thousand; then we find nim writing a “Compleynt to His Purs,” describing his poverty; at last tie nas to engage protection against his creditors. His nation honored him, and provided stately lodging for him—when he was dead; lie was buried in Westminister Abbey and his tomb oecame the nucleus of that poet’s corner which lends a sombre glory to a famous church, and makes it verily a liou.se of God. Time has preserved much more of him than the "Canterbury Tales,” but the world is content with that; it does not care to learn that ‘ Troilus and Crescyede” is a tale cjdmirably and voluptuously told; ard prefers “The Princess” to the "Legends of Good Women.” The tales are one of the mile-

South Rend Tribune The large audience of citizens that greeted Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom when he appeared in South Bend to deliver his first speech in the campaign for Republican nomination for United States Senator was amply rewarded for braving decidedly inclement weather. Mr. Gilliom's first formal campaign speech w'as most satsfactory in every respect. It w'as a clear-cut exposition of principles which have personal appeal for -

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stones of English literature, and one of the greatest portrait galleries oi this literature; here snail you meet the Knight and his Yeoman and Squire, the Princess and the Friar, the Monk and the Parson, the Summoner and the Pardoner, the Scr-geant-at-Law and the Dostor of Physic, the Merchant and the Shipman. the Miller and the Cook, the Manciple and the Reeve, the Pioughman and. (heard) above all, the Wife of Bath. No one can tell from the nature of their novelettes that they are pious pilgrims, bound for Canterbury's shrine to be cleansed of their sins; they love a lusty story, and bear witli equanimity the unredeemed vulgarity cf the Miller's story. Wc do not mind that much; only the ancient English makes us stumble, and disturbs the smooth river of the verse. Yet even across these alienating centuries we get something of the gentle beauty of his style, and ieel a premonition of John Keats himself in that placid opening: Whanne (hat. April with his shouressote The droughts of March hath pcrced to the rote . . . Than longen tolk to go on pilgrimages. And palmrrcs for to shaken strange strondes And specially, from every shire etide Os Engleende, lo Canterbury they wende The holy, blissful martyr for to seke. That, him hath holpen whan that they were seke (It Do Sanctis. (2i Owen. 'Sceptlco of the Italian Renaissance'' p 14. (Copyright, 1928. by Will Durant) .... (To Be Continued)

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every citizen of Indiana whose fundamental faith in the Republican party remains unshaken in the face of flagrant abuses of pow’er by some of those in whom the rank and file of Republicans placed trust, Mr. Gilliom made it entirely clear that it is the duty of every Indiana Republican to grasp the opportunity to rid the State party organization of the taint that has settled on it in recent years. The attorney general left no doubt in the minds of the thinking people in the audience that he is not attempting to serve personal interests. He entered the campaign for the nomination only when it became evident others were not ready or willing to undertake the task of opposing the men who would undermine popular government in this State. He put proper emphasis-on the fact that personalities must be subordinated in the pre-primary flight. It was an even-tempered, statesmanlike address, entirely free of evasions and exaggerations. Mr. Gilliom has made an impressive beginning. Mother of Fifteen Dies /!// Timex Special LEBANON, Ind, April 4.—Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Vinetta Sutphin, 81, mother of fifteen children and u resident of Boone County fifty-seven years, who died Sunday. Nine of the children are living, as is the husband and father, Asa Sutphin. The couple would have celebrated their sixtyfifth wedding anniversary, May 25.

By United Press NEW YORK. April 4 Trader Horn has gone home and now comes Jacob Axelrod to take his place as a spinner of yarns. Axelrod, who lives in the Bronx, has been “dead” for eight months. His motor boat caught fire in the Hudson River in August and he leaped overboard. A squall washed him up on the New Jersey shore, where his head struck a boulder. The next thing he knew he was in Hammond, La., without enough money to get home. He vaguely remembers working on a farm and in a store, the owner of which took him to a physician. Axelrod will write the story of his life—so,ooo words of it.

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TRAC Y SAYS: “Democrats Do Not. Have lo Depend on the Oil and Slush Fund Scandals for an Argument; They Can Find Rottenness About Anywhere They Look."

Chalk up another victory for jazz, since that is wdial the conviction oP Commander Daniel by a British naval court martial really means. He w’as charged with “Insubordination,” because he filed complaints against Rear Admiral Col laid. He filed those complaints, because, the Rear Admiral not only found fault with the slow and stately music, furnished by the ship's band at a, reception, but called the bandmaster uncomplimentary names. tt it tt Blames G. 0, P. for Ruin L. S. Peterson, who had been postmaster at Douglas, Ga., for more than a dozen years, and who committed suicide after killing his assistant last Sunday, leaves a note to the effect that donations exacted from him by the Republican party caused his ruin. “The Republican party has pulled me for over $2,000 in the last five, years.” he w’rote, “and they are still claiming more now.” While the statement of a man in his frame of mind cannot be accepted as genuine on its face, too many charges of a similar character have been made for it to be disregarded as fictitious. tt tt H Petty Graft in South No one familiar with political 1 conditions in the south doubt that a I !ot of petty graft, is tolerated, if not | connived at, by Republican leaders. Federal patronage in that section of the country has become a veritable trough, to which others beside? those actually holding office look for their provender. There is more than one Republican politician in the South who could not put his feet under the table three times a day, much less drive around m a high-powered car, without some invisible means of support. Delivery of so many delegates to the right candidate at the right time J explains why Northern Republican ! leaders hesitate to interfere with j the game. tt tt Party Dirt in Chicago Quarreling as Lo which gang should break the law in Chicago gives place to quarreling as to which faction should enforce it. With the city’s police out hunting Federal dry agents and with Federal' dry agents out hunting the city .administration's net gang leadersxit looks as though constituted author- | ity had about come to an end. / Like the petty graft which surrounds Federal patronage in the Soutli this is another case in which the Republican party hesitates t.o clear up its own dirt. Mayor William Hale Thompson and the machine he represents are abhorrent to every decent Republican leader from President Coolidge down, but the mayor and his crowd carry around just so many votes in their vest pockets which is a factor not to be lightly disregarded. tt tt tt Political Rottenness The Democrats do not have to depend on the oil and slusli fund scandals for an argument. They can find rottenness about anywhere they look. The oil scandal persists, however, even if the fire which Senator Reed kindled under Vare and Frank L. Smith docs seem to be dying down. Two more great names were brought into it. by former Secretary Fall when lie said he wrote that false letter stating he had received SIOO,OOO from Edward B. McLean because Senator Smoot of Utah, and Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, advised him to do so. Both Smoot and Lenroot deny ! this. They declare that they ad- | vised Fall to tell the truth about 1 where he got the money, and sun. posed lie was telling the truth when he said he got it. from McLean. All things considered, their word should be taken in preference to i his. n n n j| Crime and Youth 1 On Monday, three youths were sentenced to death at Brooklyn, \ while a fourth was given from ten to twenty years in Sing Sing'. They were members of w’hat New York calls the “pants gang,” and were convicted of killing a policeman. The oldest was only 23, while the* youngest was 17. On Sunday a girl and three youths were arraigned at Mineola. L. 1., as the bandits who locked four employes in the ice-box of a store at Lynnbrook two weeks ago and stole $l3O. The girl and one of the boys arc only 18. W’hile the other two are 16 and 19, respectively. Last Saturday night the “petting party” bandit was shot to death by a San Francisco policeman. He turned out to be a boy of 13. His mother says she docs not blame the policeman, but the latter says over and over again, “I would not have shot to kill if 1 had known he w’as a boy.” it n h What’s the Remedy? The commonness of such cases suggests that we not only have a crime wave, but that flaming youth plays a leading part in it. Some fall back on the comfortable conclusion that this isiso be. cause flaming youth has cfme to play a leading part in everw phase of life, but that is an explalation, rather than a remedy, and a wmedy is w’hat we need. 1 i The number of boys and gTs w J are sending to prison, or. instances, to the electric chai\ haps is the saddest sQectaJgU America today.