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Reclaiming Indianapolis Tlie city today lias two new councilmen. They are citizens of high standing and integrity. They have the esteem and confidence of all honest thinking men and women. That is a great step toward the reclaiming of Indianapolis from the band of brigands who captured and ruled it, the best step since L. Ert Slack became mayor. The contrast between these two new councilmen and the men who resigned is as great as between the green balminess of spring with its hopefulness and the sleets and snows of winter. It has taken many months to accomplish this result, months in which it was necessary to hunt the rats that had gnawed at the protective dikes of law and to drive them to a corner. These were the months of humiliation. They were also months of absolute peril to the welfare of this city because it was impossible for the city to conduct its business and obtain necessary improvements without paying private tribute. The welfare of the city waited upon tlie will of men who are now not only known but proved to have been unfaithful and perhaps worse. These councilmen who rode into office on a wave of hate and intrigue and secret deals were the masters of Indianapolis. It took months of protest and very unpleasant woijf to loosen their grip upon the city. That they have concluded to relinquish their illegitimate claims to office and select as successors those who are suggested by organizations of unselfish men and women is a happy outcome. The city will, after these others under indictment have effaced themselves, have a council which represents Indianapolis. What happens to these councilmen under indictment after they quit office does not matter much. Jails have never been a cure for public evils. Prison cells have never brought 4 good government. They have never deterred others who have opportunity to graft and are grafters at heart. To be driven from office with the continual contempt of their .fellow citizens is. after all, the greatest punishment. What is important is that there be a city council that will work with Mayor Slack for the welfare of this city, a city council that does not take its orders from Boss Coffin, still the boss; a city council that stands for honesty and not privilege. The start has been made. When five new faces appear in the council rooms, Indianapolis will be, really free. Boy Scouts Show Their Work Thirty phases of Boy Scout activities will be on display in an elaborate exposition prepared by the flower of Indianapolis youth at Tomlinson Hall today and Saturday. Thirty phases are shown of a work which, without much advertising as such, probably is doing more toward leading American boys into the paths of good citizenship and upright manhood than any othey force, perhaps more in a direct way than even the church. „ The youngsters have worked for weeks on the displays. They will be disappointed if thousands of persons, other than just their relatives, do not come to their show—the crowning feature of Boy Scout week. We all know in a vague way that the Scout movement is a good thing—whether we have children or not. A visit to the show will give us more exact knowledge of the useful things our youngsters can do with that dangei'ous spare time. Married Women Working ■You still hear, now and then, repetitions of the arguments that raged so furiously a few years ago— Aether married women should work outside the home. Now Miss Mary Anderson, head of the Women's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, announces that there are 2.000,000 married women gainfully employed in the United States. Furthermore, she asserts that all but a very few of them are working because they have to and not because they want to. “Very few women choose to carry two jobs for the pleasure of doing it,” says Miss Anderson. “Only about two per cent of tire employed married women work for luxuries or a career.” One concludes that the issue isn’t a very live one, after all. Most women, when they get married, prefer to stay at home, unless financial conditions compel them to go to work. That, at least, is what one infers from Miss Anderson's statement. The Cost of Selling What are the factors involved in a rise or fall in the prices of the things you buy? There are a good many, some of them rather involved. The Department of Commerce believes that the act of selling is in itself too costly. It has just made a survey of a large retail establishment in which it found that only forty-two per cent of each salesperson's time was taken up in the actual selling of goods. “The selling problem must be approached from a scientific angle, with an accurate knowledge of allr thft facts involved,” says a department report. “Any substantial advance in retail selling efficiency . . . will prove of advantage not only to the merchant, but, In the long run, to his employes and customers as well.”

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One Man’s Life It is given to few men to lead lives as complete and apparently as happy as was that of Chauncey M. Depew. He remained active until a few days before pneumonia claimed him as lie approached his 94th birthday, and retained keen interest in his work and in affairs in general. Depew was noted for his almost legendary optimism. It was a good world, he thought, and he wanted to remain in it as long as he could, and enjoy it to the fullest. He was a philosopher who followed his own philosophy. “The blues are hereditary in my family,” he said. “My father and my grandfather died of them. I could have done the same thing, but I decided to take a different view of things.” Depew was a successful lawyer and railroad executive, and acquired more of worldly possessions than most. He was active in politics almost from his boyhood, and served two terms in the United States Senate. He had innumerable social contacts and associations. His friends were legion and his enemies were few. He worked hard, and liked it. He believed in doing as he pleased—in moderation—and in letting others follow their own inclinations. His interest and participation in what was going on around him never flagged. It is a vastly different world today than the one in which Depew was born, but he accepted changes and remained mentally alert and spiritually content. Not a great man, but truly an interesting one, who led a useful life. The 100 Per Cent Republican By a process of questionnaire and elimination, Senator Borah gradually is trimming down the field of pure candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in search of one who is 100 per cent pure. For a long time we have been familiar with the 100 per cent American, and it may relieve the monotony to have on the center of the stage, for a change, the 100 per cent Republican. What the people of this country have wanted for many years is an exact definition of a Republican and a Democrat. Nobody appeared to know just what one or the other really is; and so far scientists have not tackled the problem. In the meantime, curiosity has been unsatisfied. Quite naturally. Senator Borah tackles the problem from where he sits—that is, from the Borah viewpoint. Which is all right. That's the way each of us sizes up this, that, and the Other. But there is one difficulty about that way of judging the universe and its component parts, including man. In judging human values, Borah has as a measuring stick only himself as standing for Republican perfection; and as he counts off the human imperfections in others, everybody else gradually will fade out of the picture and leave the able Senator from Idaho standing all by himself as the only 100 per cent Republican. If the others would accept the Borah standard, all would be well, but each of the others feels the same way that Borah does in selecting the yardstick. Each of them thinks lie is IT, darn him, and the result is as many yardsticks as there are candidates flying their own kites and trying to attract the presidential lightning. Anyhow, we are faced by another vexatious problem—what is a or an 100 per cent Republican? The town of Aiken, S. C., has an ax club, and the ether day prizes were offered for grandmothers who were most proficient with the tool. It’s never too late to rid yourself of a husband. The Kansas City mother who actually flogged her daughter and the daughter have been offered a vaudeville contract at SI,OOO a week. Maybe this would help revive an ancient art. It's not hard to understand how some flappers can make their faces ugly; the mystery is how they can stand before a mirror and do it.

•David Dietz on Science

The Rainbow Riddle

No. 17

F-pHE Bohr theory of the atom is a splendid atI tempt to explain the relation between matter and energy. It has been particularly useful in interpreting the riddle of the spectrum. Spectrum is the scietific name for the little band of colors or rainbow which it formed when sunlight is passed through a glass prism. If various chemical elements are placed in a gas flame and the light then passed through a prism, a

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This means, therefore, that just as a broadcasting station sends out its radio program on a certain wavelength, so each chemical element has a series of wavelengths upefi which it broadcasts light. Dr. Neils Bohr, the originator of the Bohr theory, and other scientists, for example Sir Ernest Rutherford. in whose laboratory Bohr did much of his work, furnished an explanation of this phenomenon. According to the Bohr theory, the electrons in an atom are revolving in orbits. When the atom is given energy, as for example when a substance is heated, the electrons in the atom absorb the energy and, in consequence, leap out into bigger orbits. But almost immediately the electrons begin to fall back to their old orbits. When they do this, they release the energy which comes forth as light. This energy then comes forth as light. It is released, however, in little driblets or bullets of light called quanta. The reason a steady light is emitted is because any substance consists of billions of electrons and, therefore, billions of quanta are continuously released. The wavelength of the light is determined by the vibration frequency of the quanta. This, in turn, is controlled by the distance the electron falls in dropping from the enlarged orbit to the original orbit. Each chemical element has its own characteristic spectrum lines because in each substance the orbits of the electrons composing its atoms are slightly different.

BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright, 1928, by The Ready Reference Publishing Company) BY W. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A—ace: K—kine: Q—aueen: J—jack; X—any card lower than 10.) 1. When should two of a major suit be bid initially? 2. What is the quick trick value of A Q X X? 3 How many quick tricks are indicated by a defensive bid? The Answers 1. When holding A K Q X X X. 2. One and one-quarter quick tricks. 3. At least one an done-half.

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complete rainbow is not formed. Instead, a series of isolated bright lines is obtained. Every chemical element behaves in this way, giving always the same c h a r a cteristic collection of spectrum lines. Each spectrum line is the result of light of a certain wavelength.

The Rules 1. The idea of letter golf is to change one word to another and do it in par, or a given number of strokes. Thus, to change COW to HEN in three strokes, COW, HOW, HEW, HEN. 2. You can change only one letter at a time. 3. You must have a complete word of common usage for each jump. Slang words and abbreviations don’t count. 4. The order of letters can not be changed.

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SO Dante resolved to write: he would tell, in terrible allegory, how he had gone through hell, how he had bePn cleansed through the purgatory of suffering and how he sought heaven under the guidance of wisdom and Beatrice. But in what language? Latin was unknown to the peqnle, known only to the clergy whonv he hated and despised: it was an artificial medium now, and distasteful to a nature passionately direct and sir cere. Yet how would the learned greet a work in the new r language of the people?—would they even tiiink of looking upon it as literature? Well, he had taken other risks, and fought other battles, he would take the risk, and fight this battle j to create a language. And so | aged forty-five, old enough to be matured with trial and suffering, young enough yet to feel the passion that makes poetry, he set his hand to the composition of "The Divine Comedy,” the greatest poem of modern times. It was hard labor, for almost every sentence of it is sculptured into beauty, and to make a good sentence is as laborious as chiseling stone. And because it is less physical, it is less healthy; "my book,” says Dante, "has made me lean for many years.” No wonder; for not only was every sentence carved with care love, but the conception was as complete and orderly and profound as in some masterpiece of philosophy; and the detail was wrought as delicately as in a cathedral that has felt the devotion of a thousand hands. Let us study it. a a a “THE DIVINE COMEDY" AS we open the book we notice that it is dominated by the number three: three parts or cantichc—“lnferno” with thirty-four cantos, "Purgatorio” with thirtythree, "Paradiso” with thirty-three; and the whole century of cantos woven together with that insuating terza rima (every ryhme used thrice) which to an Italian must form an irresistible stream of sonorous verse. The very first verse plunges into the heart of things. "Nel mezzo del caamiu di nostra vita Mi ritrovai nel una selva oscura. . . ." Or must me have it in lame translation. where Cary, Longfellow, Norton, all have failed? In the midwav ol this our mortal life I found me in a gloomy wood astray. Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell: It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth. Which to remember onlv, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. iCARY.i He is lost when Virgil comes and offers to guide him; Dante accepts with poetic justice, since he is taking his plan for a descensus in avernum from the sixth book of the “Aeneid.” And Virgil meant for him the Roman empire, which he admired to idolatry, and which he had been in word and deed; he did not separate the Roman and Italian peoples as we do; he had no suspicion, probably, of the German blood that flowed in his veins from the migrations that had put an end to the Latin race. Virgil repays his trust very dubiously. taking him into a dark pit over whose entrance are these discouraging words: Per me si va nella citta dolente. . . . Lasciate ognl speranza voi oil! entrate! Or again to walk feebly with Cary: •'Through me you pass into the city of woe: Throueh me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for All hope abandon, ye who enter here!" It is impossible to translate the mournfulness and horror of the original; “Lasciate” (las-ce-ali-tay) and the whole line that follows it sounds like the racking of iimbs. a tearing of flesh, the gnashing of teeth of the damned; but nothing of this is carried into the English. “Nothing harmonized by a musical bund,” says Dante, “can be transmuted from its own speech without losing its sweetness and harmony.” Surely before saying this he must have read the English renderings of the “Divine Comedy.’ Virgil leads him first into Limbo, the place of the unbaptized; here are the pagans who lived noble lives; their only suffering is their eternal and hopeless desire to see the face of God. Horace, Ovid, Lucan and Homer welcomed Dante,

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Dante Writes the ‘Divine Comedy ’

The Annual Face-Lift

THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION

Written for The Times by Will Durant

and seat him among themselves as an equal; this immodesty was modest compared with the modern judgment of Dante's olace. The first level of hell is full of goodly company. Thales, Anaxagoras, Zeno, Empedocles, Heraclitus, Diogenes, Democritus, Socrates, Plate and "Ille Philosophus,” Aristotle : Vidi ll Maestro di color che sanno Seder tra filosoflea. "I saw the mister of ail those who know Among the philosophic family." a a a THE first whom he meets in the realms of punishment are those who are unchaste; a strain of gentleness in Dante's stern temper awards far less punishment to the ‘•immoral” than to the unjust. Very little of the infernal atmosphere clings to the tale of Francesca da Rimini; Francesca, daughter of the Lord of Ravenna, married by her father, against her will, to a deformed husband; consoling herself with Paolo’s love, and caught in adultery by the husband, who kills them both; and Paolo, here moving through hell with her arm in arm, lightly and rapidly, as if borne on the wind by love, when asked by Dante to tell her story, she answers with famous words and a famous picture which >in the original) is one of the high points of the world's poetry: Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsl del tempo felice Nella miseria. ■ No greater grief than to remember da vs Os iov when misery is at hand. That kens Thv learne dinstructor. Yet so eagerly If thous are bent to know the primal roots. From whence our love got being, I will do As one who weeps and tells his tale— One day. For our delight, we read of Lancelot, How him love thrall’d. Alone we were, and no Suspicion near us. Oft-times by that reading Our eyes were drawn together and the hue Fled from our alter'd cheek. But at one noint A lon* w e fell. When of that smile we read. The wished smtle so rapturouslv kiss'd Bv one so deep in love, then he, who ne'er From me shall separate, at once mv lips All trembling kiss'd. The book and writer both Were love's purveyors. In its leaves that dav We read no more.’ While thus one spirit spake.

Rluffton Banner Tom Adams is doing some grand crusading against the graft in the Republican edministration but so far is only able to stir the animals up. Tom tells a world of truth,

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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: Joseph A. Wicker, local candidate for the Democratic nomination for State Representative, informs Dr. Shumaker and the Anti-Saloon League that he does not feel bound to answer their questions in regard to his attitude toward prohibition and the Wright bone-dry law —a rather risky and more or less unprecedented procedure for a political candidate in Indiana. Wicker, who I have been informed is a 24-year old lawyer and making his debut in politics, undoubtedly has a great deal to learn about the game, but that he has made a good start is apparent to the writer. Up to the present writing, he is the only candidate in Marion County who openly lias defied the Anti-Saloon League—that highly organized political organization. By so doing he will lose some votes, but it is my belief that he will gain a great many more. Politics, like business and everything else, moves in cycles, and although a prophet is without honor in his own country, the writer is predicting that the cycle of bigitory, deception ! and corruption as practived by the Ku Klux Klan-Anti Saloon League political machine has about run its course and that in the future, more liberal minded and more honest officials will be elected to State and countty offices. Very truly yours, 1 CONNOR J. O’ROURKE.

The other wail'd so sorely that, heartI. through compassion faintln, seem'd not far from death, and like a corpse fell to the ground." Dante passes on to the other realms of hell. Never forgetting that he is a Ghibelline, proud defender of imperial rights against the popes, he tells how the Ghibelline leader, Farinate degli Überti, stood erect despite his pain, “as if he held in high scorn even hell itself;” how another’Ghibelline chief averred that “if my people fled from thy people” (the Florentines), “that more torments me than this flame;” and how the fires of everlasting punishment curl up around the body of Boniface VIII, to whose enterprise Dante owed his exile. “A poem in whiefi popes are put into hell,” says Voltaire, “arouses considerable interest; and commentators have exhausted their sagacity in determining just which poses it is whom Dante has damned, and in avoiding error in so momentous a matter.” We need not describe the various torments and mounting horrors which further adorn the tale, from Medusa who has snakes instead of hair, to that awful climax in the lowes, pit of hell, where Brutus, Cassius and Judas are crunched in the blood-dripping mouth of Lucifer. The brutality of these endless and devilishly devised torments reflects the cruelty of a still barbarian Europe that had created God in its own image. The feudal system had helped men to think of the other world as irrevocably divided into a heavenly aristocracy, a rising and perhaps-to-be-saved bourgeoisie, and a hopelessly lost peasantry bound to suffer forever. Dante's God believed in irrevocable caste: “Before Beatrice was born we had been ordained to her for her handmaids." And this “old. grim beard of a God” would have no nonesense about ultimately saving the souls in hell: “I am made by God.” says the gentle Beatrice to the damned, “such that your misery touches me not.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright. 1928. bv Will Durant)

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but the members of his own party seem to look upon him as a “disturber.” They have gone along in such fine fashion for so long they do not want to be disturbed. Mr. Adams claims much credit for many things and is entitled to much of it. However, he never gets to the point where he gives the Democrats credit for blocking the road ripper bill in the 1925 session, although he must know the facts. The eighteen Democrats, more than a two-third majority, caucused and decided to vote solidly against allowing a suspension of the rules to pass the bill. The bill came over from the House so late that it was necessary to suspend the rule to get it through. The Democrats had the ower to stop that proceedure, and Lieutenant Governor Van Orman knowing the plans of the Democrats, never sent the bill to a vote. Afterward Van claimed the honor of “killing” the bill. Tom Adams was very much worked up over the road ripper bill, and at times, gives the intimation that he “killed” it. When was the famous “Dark Day?” It occurred May 19, 1780, when a remarkable and unexplained darkness extended over all New England. very possibly due to forest fires. How can the rancid taste be removed from a pipe? Soak it in warm vinegar and salt solution. Are Leopold and Loeb still in prison? Y r es. How long does it take the light cf the sun to reach the earth? A little more than eight minutes. Are the French a Latin race? Yes.

APRIL G, 1928

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Chauncey M. Depew Bequeaths a Good Example, Rather Than a Good Name, and the Example Has to Do With Life, Rather Than a Career.”

Chauncey M. Depew was one of those rare men who raise personality above position. People never thought of him as chairman of the board of directors of the New York Central, as an exSenator of the United States, or as a millionaire. His genial, kindly disposition effaced all else. For a decade, his birthday has been looked forward to as a regular spring tonic. tt a tt Funny, but Not Vulgar Mr. Depew will be remembered as one of the greatest wits of his time. That is because his wit went deeper than mere humor. He possessed the happy faculty of being funny, without being vulgar, and of making people laugh without bitterness. His real greatness, however, lies in the fact that he practiced what he preached. His optimism was not a mere matter of lip music. He not only believed in progress, but tried to keep step with it until the very last. tt tt tt Keeping Up the Pace ’ Great age is too frequently accepted as a license to be cynical, superior or sulky. In one out of ten cases people above 80 either have spent their time weeping over “the days that are no more,” boring people with superfluous advice, or snoring in the corner. That particularly is true of this era which is the first in human history to surround old age with customs, conveniences and institutions unknown to its childhood. The last three generations have seen science virtually rebuild the structure of civilization. People have found it very difficult, if not impossible, to keep their heads in the face of such a revolutionary change. Some have lost their religion, some their self-control and some their minds. Chauncey M. Depew was one of the few who could keep step with the ever exhilarating pace and still retain his taste for old-fashioned cooking, his belief in God and his faith in everlasting youth. a u n Through Era of Marvels Born the year matches came into use, and while Andrew Jackson was President of the United States, Mr. Depew was privileged to talk with men and women who actually saw the United States come into being. He was a lad of 14 when John Quincy Adams died and John Quincy Adams was a lad of 9 when the Declaration of Independence was adopted. He graduated from Yale the same spring that the first Republican convention was held, was admitted to the bar two years later and became a railroad attorney when most people thought the canal, the whale trade or steamboating on the Mississippi offered the better opportunities for young men. He was 25 when the first oil well was brought in. 42, when the telephone was invented and nearly 50 when electric lights came into use. During his boyhood people crossed the ocean in sailing ships, but he lived to see Lindbergh do it in an airplane. He was in the prime of life when artificial ice made its appearance, and had passed 60 before he saw an automobile. Bobbed hair, jazz and the Charleston found him in his 80s. Big Heart and Big Mind It takes a big heart, as well as a big mind to pass through such whirlwind of changes and innovations without succumbing to excitement or depression. Mr. Depew not only lost his playmates through death, but through their inability- to stand the gruelling speed of the times. If he saw many go to their graves, he saw some fall a prey to temptation, some chase rainbows into a swamp and some take refuge in sullen retirement. He lived to be a lonely man as far as his own generation was concerned, but he would not allow even that to dampen his good spirits. a a tt Bequeaths Good Example Chauncey M. Depew bequeaths a good example, rather than a great name, and the example has to do with life, rather than a career. It does not matter so much whether a man is a good doctor, a skillful plumber or a leading politician, if he lives a well-rounded life. A well-rounded life is not determined by what we arc at 30, 40 or even 60, or how we get there, but by where we land at the end. Chauncey M. Depew landed right. His character is worth studying for that reason. tt tt tt Forgetting the Curtain All of us think too much about the intervening mile-posts, and not enough about the last one. The obsession right now is to start in such a way that we can be earning so much money within a year or two. The idea cf looking through to the end has been last in the shuffle. Very few young people are planning their careers with a view to the final scene, and still are planning their lives that way. Whether it is a job, marriage, the building of a home, or establishing a circle of friends, the average young man or young woman does not think far ahead. The short road that offers immediate pay. looks better than the long one that offers big. opportunities; the association that represents a good time is more acceptable than the one that promises lasting friendship, and the philosophy that exhilarates for the moment is more popular than the one which sees it through.