Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1928 — Page 6
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Those Conferences Senator Robinson is home for a day or so, but is making no public addresses, according to his press agents. He is in Indiana for “conferences.” It would be illuminating to know exactly with whom the junior Senator confers on his present visit. The people really should know and then they would have a much better basis of judgment than they will receive from the platitudes which he will exude a little later when he delivers a few “dry” speeches to satisfy the followers of Dr. Shumaker that he is the one and only hope of prohibition. Will the Senator confer with Boss Coffin ? If he does, what is the likely topic of conversation? Has he come back to see whether Coffin has frightened Senator Watson with a threat to bolt unless Watson delivers his organization in the State to Robinson ? Will he ask Coffin to put the pressure on the Watson machine and see that it holds fast in those centers where Robinson must have discovered that he is rather weak? That he will confer with Dr. Shumaker, head of the Anti-Saloon League is certain. Will there again be a discussion as to what means can be used to put political pressure on the Supreme Court in the pending case of added contempt? It will be remembered that it was to Robinson that Shumaker, according to his own testimony, journeyed two years ago and from his house talked to Watson on long-distance telephone in an effort to force action from the court before an election. Now a primary, more important in many ways than the election, is approaching. The court still has the matter of added punishment under consideration. Will the two who conferred two years ago again consider the political possibilities of approaching the high court through a back door? It will be remem'bered that Senator Watson, in his letter to the dry leader, declared that Robinson went to his office in Washington and asked him to “work in his own way” to keep Shumaker out of jail, although every legal and proper argument had been made before the court and there remained only a decision to be rendered. Os course there are others with whom Robinson may confer. He may have time to spend at his office with some of the numerous bootleg clients which his firm defends in the Supreme Court. And certainly he will not be so ungrateful as to fail to call at the office of Governor Ed Jackson and congratulate him on his liberty and the great battle which the Governor made to firmly plant the statute of limitations in the bill of rights. After these conferences, perhaps the Senator will be able to vigorously demand a “house cleaning” in Indiana. Full Discussion Needed Resolutions aimed at the circulation of blacklists by the D. A. R. have been placed before the Continental Congress of that society, now meeting In Washington. Mrs. Helen Tufts Bailie and the group which objects to the blacklists and the stand of the organization on national defense emphatically Insist that they are in favor of adequate armaments. They object to the support given Secretary Wilbur’s $750,000,000 naval program by D. A. R. spokesmen because Wilbur’s proposals were formulated since the last D. A. R. meeting, and the society had not considered them. They assert that the D. A. R. has been misled by professional patrioteers and red-baiters, and as a result has listed prominent men of liberal tendencies as undesirable for speakers. This is claimed to be a suppression of free speech. The position of Mrs. Bailie and her friends seems fair and well taken. An effort to get consideration of the resolutions on the floor was ruled out of order, and they were sent to the resolutions committee. This committee presumably can stifle them and end all further discussion if it chooses. Which means that a little group within the D. A. R. is capable of preventing consideration by a society of 165,000 members of the important issues that have been raised. If the D. A. R. wants to clear itself of the charge of being militaristic, tory and reactionary, and of suppressing free speech, its rulers will let the questions come on the floor, there to be thoroughly thrashed out. If Mrs. Bailie is denied an opportunity to present her case, it will be proof of the charges. The Student Support A young man who wants to go to college is fortunate, of course, if his father has money enough to pay all of his expenses, so that he can devote all of his time to getting an education. But it happens that the men who learn the most at college are apt to be young men who are working their way through. Dean Scott H. Goodnight of the University of Wisconsin, points out that fully half of Wisconsin’s honor freshmen are supporting themselves. On the other hand, he says, many youths whose fathers givethem ample allowances keep so busy having a good time that they acquire very little learning. “In general,” says Dean Goodnight, “I am inclined to believe that the average college boy is better off if h® has to earn a part of his expenses.”
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The Story Should Be Told Senator Norris of Nebraska has introduced a resolution extending the Senate oil investigation to the leasing of the public oil lands in the Salt Creek (Wyo.) field. It ought to and probably will be passed promptly by the Senate. The Salt Creek field adjoins the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve, and is infinitely more valuable. It is composed entirely of public lands operated through leases made by the Federal Government. In 1908 President Taft withdrew the Salt Creek oil lands from entry as part of the general program of conserving the public treasure in oil. When he did this there was only one well in Salt Creek, owned by a foreign company barred by law from obtaining title to the land on which it was located. The public interest in Salt Creek looked safe. Immediately, however, oil pirates who had learned of the tremendous stores of oil in Salt Creek started to swarm the field. They flouted the President’s withdrawal order. They said he had no right to prohibit private interests from exploiting the public lands of Salt Creek, and went right ahead drilling wells and removing precious contents. In 1915 the United States Supreme Court ruled that Taft’s order was valid. The trespassers on the public oil reserve in Salt Creek should have been kicked off bag and baggage. What happened? They went to Congress with the plea that having gone to much trouble in exploiting the Salt Creek field, they should be given special concessions to drain it of the oil they had not already removed. It was a brazen contention, but after a struggle of six years in Congress, it prevailed. The late Senator La Follette, a zealous guardian of the public interest in that fight, gradually was worn down by the oil lobby, and the Federal leasing act of 1920 was passed, providing "relief” for those who had defied President Taft’s order and trespassed on the public lands of Salt Creek. They were given special preference in securing leases, and anew crop of oil millionaires was created. The long and complicated story of how that happened—a vital link in the chronicle of the passing of the public treasure in oil—should be told. Economic Freedom “If the people are to remain politically free, they must be economically free,” said President Coolidge in his address to the D. A. R.’s. Which is the gospel, according to Carl Marx. But Thomas Jefferson said it before Marx did, and Rousseau said it before Jefferson. It is a pregnant statement. For how many people are economically free? Beginning with the low grades, the striking miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia hardly can be said to be free. They are not even free to hold meetings, and discuss their troubles. A lot of them are in jail for trying to exercise that item of liberty. Most people are not free to quit work. There is a sort of duress in the regularly recurring rent and grocer bill. Theoretically, one may quit; but practically one must find another job at once if he does. In our economic world there is a price of liberty. So many thousand dollars invested and producing an income which will support the individual in the manner to which he or she is accustomed is the price of freedom —economic freedom. Professor King’s statistics on inheritance show that about fifteen people in a 100 have the price. When one can work or quite, go or stay, be lazy or be industrious, he is economically free. When he can speak his opinions and be immune from false arrests and can do what he likes short of trespass on his neighbor, he is politically free. We wonder if President Coolidge meant all that?
-David Dietz on Science
Rocket Might Burn Up
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NO one seriously thinks it possible to shoot a rocket to the moon by firing it out of a huge cannon in the way that a projectile is shot out of a big gun. Because of the strength of the earth’s gravitational field, a rocket launched in that way would have to start with such a high initial velocity that friction against the atmosphere would cause it to melt. So-called “shooting stars” are known technically to the astronomer as meteors. They are not stars at all
Occasionally a very large meteor enters the earth’s atmosphere. When that happens, the entire object is not melted. The piece which falls to earth is known as a meteorite. A rocket shot with high velocity would suffer the same fate as the meteorite. A suggestion has been made, however, by Prof. Robert H. Goddard of the Department of Physics of Clark University. He suggests a rocket which would contain gases under high pressure. These gases would be released through an opening at the bottom of the rocket. He believes that the recoil of the rocket which would result from the escape of the gas would propel it through space. Some objection has been made that this recoil would not exist in the vacuum of outer space. To prove his point, Prof. Goddard mounted a revolver in a vacuum chamber. The revolver recoiled when it was discharged. He also tried experiments with a small rocket in a large pipe from which the air had been extracted. The recoil of the escaping gas drove the rocket forward. There is a question in the minds of many observers whether a rocket propelled in this way could make the journey to the moon. Prof. Goddard, of course, has not suggested that any one attempt to travel in the rocket. There have been some people, however, who have expresssed desires to make such a journey. Let us see next what they would find if they actually were able to journey to the moon or any of the planets.
FRANK G. MORRISON, Business Manager.
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but large pieces of rock which have entered the earth’s atmosphere from j outer regions. Friction against the earth’s atmos- j phere h e a t s j them white hot | and causes them | to melt and J burn up. The ; trail of the “shooting star” is the trail of the meteor as it disappears in smoke.
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BY LUDWELL DENNY IF Smith gets the Democratic nomination 1 t will be over the body of Jim Reed. That may not stop th New Yorker, but there is going to be a bitter fight at the Houston convention. Those who talk of nominating Smith on tne second ballot are far from the facts. These and similar sentiments come sparking from Reed’s campaign managers, on the return to Washington of the fiery Missouri Senator, fresh from his western campaign tour. The political wise men are not taking much stock in the claims that Reed will win. They are inclined to attribute much of the new excitement in the Reed camp to the big gains of Smith in the last fortnight, especially in Oklahoma and lowa. But they are impressed with the Missourian’s determination to challenge the leader till the last convention roll call. Reed has many enemies. But none call him a quitter, and none doubts he can fight. He is almost an army in himself, and never was he more determined to fight than now. Reed is tremendously sincere about this thing. He believes the big national issue is what he calls Republican “corruption.” He believes his record in the Pennsylvania and Illinois slush fund investigations makes him a logical candidate on such a platform. He points to the Mayor Thompson defeat in the Ulinois-Chicago primary the other day, as evidence that the country wants “to clean up politics.” a o Though a wet. he does not want a wet plank in the platform. After his contact with the West on his stumping trip, he is more certain than ever that the successful candidate must be “agricultural minded.” must be for farm relief. Asa Westerner himself, he resents and denies the popular Democratic slogan that the party must pick a New Yorker to win. But Jim Reed is throwing no mud at Smith, because of religion or anything else. He will fight clean, because that is his style and because he believes he is the better candidate. Here is his argument: “The Democrats can carry every State west of the Mississippi, depending on the candidate nominated and the platform adopted by the party, or we can lose all but three of those States, depending on our platform and candidate.” a tt tt Senator Heflin, dry Alabama Democrat and arch-opponent of Catholic candidates, tells the Senate he wants an investigation of how much money is being spent to get the nomination for Smith. a a a “'T'HE common people are getting A sick and tired of being hamstrung and hog tied,” in the opinion of the gentleman from South Carolina, Mr. Blease. “Don’t fool yourself,” he warned the Senate. “Keep it up and just as sure as God sits on his throne, all respect for law is gone. Juries won’t convict guilty men today because they know the prosecutor and judge are guilty of the same crime for which the criminal is being tried.” Because there are so many laws telling people what to do, they are losing interest for the Government, from the President on down, he said. a it a ANOTHER Senate oil investigation is proposed by Senator Norris (Rep.) Nebraska, author of the resolution under which the Teapot Dome Committee is functioning. In anew resolution, he asks that the same committee probe charges of irregularities in connection witli leasing of Government lands in the Salt Creek field during the Wilson administration. Well-knowm companies are said to have obtained their lands illegally The field, which adjoins Teapot Dome in Wyoming, is one of the richest in the country. Similar charges of corruption w'ere made by Government investigators at the time of the leases, but the Interior Department found them to be without foundation, according to the companies involved.
Mr. Fixit Citizen Promised Aid in in Cleaning Up of Dump.
n£ ct Ir - Fixit, Th e Times’ representa™,y, hall, present your troubles to city officials Write Mr. Fixit at The Times. Names and addresses which be given will not be nubltshed The city board of health today promised to aid a correspondent of Mr. Fixit in cleaning up a dump in rear of 441 Highland Ave. Dear Mr. Fixit: Last year you had the board of health put up a “no dumping” sign in back of 441 Highland Ave. For a while they observed it but now it is completely ignored. There are quite a few business places in the neighborhood which are annoyed by the nuisance. The place not only looks bad but is unhealthy for residents of the vicinity. I surely will thank you for help in this matter. L. E. M. AND OTHER RESIDENTS The health board inspector J. R. T. ordered the property owner to clean the property and maintain the place in good condition. A. B. Dear Mr. Fixit: I want to thank you for getting the light at the intersection of Adams and TwentyFirst Sts. It appeared as if by magic and the corner now is light as day. \y E. Who was Benjamin Banneker? A noted Negro astronomer, born free, Nov. 9, 1731, in Baltimore County, Maryland. He received some education in a pay school, and early showed an inclination for mechanics. About 1754, with imperfect tools, he constructed a clock which told time and struck the hour. This was the first clock constructed in America.
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Angelo Completes ‘Last Judgment’
TN 1534 still another pope, Paul A in, called Michelangelo to Rome and asked him to complete his work in the Sistine Chapel by painting over the altar a pictur e of the “Last Judgment.” Once more Michelangelo protested that he was not a painter. But the pope knew that no man living could do better, or as well; and so, after twenty-two years of intermission, Angelo ascended the scaffold again, in the spirit of a criminal condemned. He was 59 now', and w’anted only to be left to die in peace; he could not know' that his bent and tortured body had still thirty years to live, and that he must not only paint the Sistine chapel but build St. Peter's dome. So he worked on and on, for eight hard years. Once he fell from the scaffolding, and was so badly hurt that the pope feared he would die; he lay alone at home in his bed, refusing to be treated by a physician; but the best doctor in Rome secretly found entrance to him, and refused to leave the house till Angelo w r as well. He went back to his task, and in 1542 the “Last Judgment” was complete. It is the largest and most famous painting in the w'orld, though its immensity has unfairly won from the epic on the ceiling the credit for being the master’s masterpiece. The conception of such a wholesale damnation of men and women to everlasting torment indicates how far Michelangelo w r as from sharing the humanitarian skepticisms of Leonardo; apparently the artist here takes the barbaric notion of an everlasting hell with literal faith; as with Savonarola and Luther, the prophetic rigor in his character inclined him to severe theology. a a a TO our contemporary prejudice the picture is unpleasant; we can no longer imagine a deity who would be severer with human frail- - ties than the hardest earthly judge. We try to put this prejudice aside, and tell ourselves that this is art and not theology; but the prejudice lurks even in our esthetic judgment, and we find faults that might not be there if w'e were of a medieval mind. The figure of Christ seems absurdly athletic; this is not the gentle sage who forgave the woman taken in adultery.' But in truth, Angelo was not interested in this aspect of the matter; what stirred him here was the opportunity to study the human body in a hundred poses and forms, each distinctive and unique. All the figures are made except that of the Virgin, and a few to whose bodies some flying garment partly clings; it is a tropical conception of Heaven. Cardinal Bialgo, as the work proceded, protested to the Pope against this riot of anatomy as background for the altar of God’s vicar; hearing which, Michelangelo painted the Cardinal’s face unmistakably among the damned. Biagio raged, and begged the Pope to compel the artist to take him out of the pic-
ture; but the Pope genially reminded him that by the unanimous agreement of the theologians not even a Pope could take a soul out of hell. All the world came to see this immense fresco; and all Italian art was colored by it into the baroque—the bizarre, the exaggerated, and the forced. Romanticism in Italian art begins here; the allgeheipheit or universality, of the Greeks, is gone, and individual emotion and character appear in dramatic and violent expression. We come away as if from Dante’s Inferno; we feel that any man who could have painted such a picture must himself have been through a hell of torment in his life. This is not a picture, it is a sermon, a terrible prophecy of the end of the Renaissance in the destruction of Italy too softened with treasures to fight for its liberty; this is Savonarola come back from the grave; it is the dawn of the counter-reformation. tt tt tt ONE final task remained; and in a field so different that one I wonders at the artist’s triumph in I it. The revival of ancient letters had
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
Written for The Times by Will Durant
brought with it not only a restoration of Greek and Roman ideas of sculpture, but a rebirth of classic styles in building. Gothic had never conquered Italy, and had never been at home there; the Latin tradition of order, symmetry, and unity was hostile to the Gothic romanticism of ornament and detail. The only completely Gothic churches in Italy—the cathedral at Milan and the convent at Assisi—had been built by foreign architects. Byzantine—ultimately, Asiatic—influences had won in the north; but in Italy it was the spirit of Greece and Rome that spoke again in the architecture of the Renaissance. The new spirit appeared distinctly in the Palazzo Vecchio, or Old Palace, which Arnolfo designed for the Signory of Florence at the beginning of the fourteenth century in a lesser degree it dom-
.■Marion Chronicle In less than three weeks Indiana will go to the polls to close one of the most intensive primary election campaigns the State has known in recent years. It is expected that perhaps the heaviest vote in any primary election in the State will be cast. Evidence that the vote will be 1 eavy is seen in the various movements that are now under way by the non-political organizations to get out the vote. This is a healthy sign. If the people do not do their duty as citizens and exercise their right of franchise, they cannot expect to get all they demand after public officers have been placed in power. In the list of candidates seeking nomination there are men worthy of the positions they ask the people to give them. It is up to the people to make the right choice. The situation in Indiana has been beclouded with many side issues and much more than the usual amount of political acrimony and bunk has been apparent, but that is all the more reason why the voter himself should analyze the situation and equip himself to decide intelligently and his State and his nation when the final count is made. There Is a possibility that the
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inated the great Duomo or cathedral there, which Arnolfo began and Brunelleschi finished. In 1417 the Signory convoked the architects and engineers of the city to plan the most difficult and dangerous part of the cathedral—the dome. Again, as in the case of the Baptistery doors, the judges were unable to decide which artist should be entrusted with the work; at last, in desperation, they accepted Brunelleschi’s humorous suggestion that the award should go to the artist who could make an egg stand on end. All tried and failed except Brunelleschi himself, who put the egg down just hard enough to crush the shell slightly, giving it a basis on which to stand. In the end Brunelleschi and Ghiberti were made equal masters of the t3iSk (Copyright, 1928, by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)
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State contests may be earned to the State convention. In anticipation of such a possibility the voters should give their attention to the personnel and character of their delegates upon whom the responsib.lity of choosing a ticket may rest. With the primary contest decided the campaign will settle dow’n to the closely drawn issues of a presidential campaign year and these issues must be met with an open mind. We are sure that when it comes to the test the voters of Indiana and the Republican party of Indiana will do the right thing.
BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright. 1928, by The Ready Reference Publishing Company) BY W. W. WENTWORTH
(Abbreviations: A—ace; K—king! Q—queen; J—jack; X—any card lower than 10.) 1. First hand bids no-trump. Second hand double. Third hand passes. ..Fourth hand holds: spades —X XX; hearts—X X X; diamonds—X XX; clubs—X XXX. What should fourth hand bid 2. Declarer holds K Q X of a suit in his hand and XXX in dummy. What should declarer lead if compelled to lead that suit from hand 3. Declarer holds K Q X. Dummy holds XXX. Opponent leads through declarer. What should declarer play? The Answers 1. Two clubs. 2. Q.
This Date in U. S. History
April 20 1662—New charted granted Connecticut. 1861—Confederates seized Norfolk Navy Yard, Va. 1898—Joint congressional resolution recignized the independent of Cuba; demanded that Spain relinquish its government there and withdraw its land and naval forces; directed President McKinley to use our land and naval forces to put the resolution into effect. 1903—Andrew Carnegie, gave sl,500,000 to erect a Temple of Peace for The Hague Court of Arbitration. 1917 —Turkey severed relations with the United States.
Daily Thought
Every man’s work shall be made manifest.—l Cor. 3:13. a a a t tNLESS a man works he cannot iJ find out what he is able to do. —Hamerton.
.’APRIL 20,1928
M. E. TRACY SAYS: '‘What Men Have Learned From Dogs Is Better in Many Respects Than What Dogs Have Learned From Men.”
ON April 9, the commander of Ft. Logan, Colo., decreed the execution of all stray dogs, but spared old “Bum” because the latter once saved a little girl from drowning. On Feb. 22, a Boston terrier saved his master from their burning home at Stamford, Conn., but lost his own life trying to find other members of the family. Ten days before, a German police dog saved his master from a similar fate in New York. On Jan. 31, C. C. Clark, an lowa farmer suffered a heart attack while crossing a railroad and sank down between the rails. He had two dogs with him—Treve. a white collie, and Freckles, a coach dog. While Treva staved by his master. Freckles ran barking up the track. The fireman of a passenger train saw him, sensed that something was wrong and warned the engineer. The brakes were clamped on and the train was brought to a stop only a few feet from Clark. On Jan. 18, a collie saved a family of six from death by fire at St. Louis. a tt Kiss Dogs at Death' Whatever else may be said of him, the dog outshines the rest of the animal world as a symbol of constancy and trust. Because Sirius announced the annual inundation of the Nile tha Egyptians came to regard It as a faithful watchman and named it tha "dog star.” The Ethiopians had such veneration for dogs that it was their custom to elect one as king, surrounding him with luxuries and retainers and seeking his advice on all matters of importance. If he fawned they took it as a sign of approval, but if he growled they changed their plans. Pythagoras, the celebrated Greek philosopher who believed that tha soul entered some animal after death, was accustomed to hold tha nose of a dog close to the lips of a dying disciple because, as he said, no other animal was so fit to receive the soul. tt tt tt Devotion to Man Even in these days of vacuum cleaners, burglar alarms and apartments where no childlren are wanted, the dog retains his hold on human affection and rightly so. Scarcely a day passes without offering some tangible proof of his devotion to man of of man’s concern over his treatment. Whether dogs should be robbed of their bark by a surgical operation, whether they should have their tails and ears clipped, whether they should be muzzled to prevent hydrophobia, whether they should be shot or chloroformed when their disposal becomes necessa:Y, and other similar questions are constantly arising. a a tt Fail to Pay Way Dogs contribute very little of economic value. Measured by dollars and cents, very few of them ever pay their way. The cow gives milk, the horse plows and the fox supplies valuable fur, but none of them appeals to the human race like the dog. Love of dogs rests on something better than material gain. tt a it Man’s Truest Friend Unprofitable as the dog may be from a purely commercial standpoint, he is regarded by many people as one of man’s priceless possessions. In bringing a suit against an auto owner who had run over and killed his pet Boston bull for the preposterous sum of $1,000,000, Earl T. Witbur of New Bedford, Mass., said: “I took into consideration that a man’s dog stands by him in prosperity and poverity, in health and in sickness. “He will sleep on cold ground when the wintry blasts blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master’s side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer. “He will lick the wound that comes in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he prince.” X tt tt True Until Death If this statement had been made for any other purpose than to fix the money value of a dog, one could accept it as none too fine a tribute. The point is that those qualities which we admire in a dog are beyond measure by dollars and cents. We like the dog simply and solely because he gives something that cannot be bought. It tickles our vanity to realize that, no matter how we abuse or neglect him, he will remain loyal, that he is incapable of turning against those whom he has learned to love, that he will stay by a sinking ship, go through fire or starve to death at a man’s side for no other reason than to prove his devotion. a a tt Learn From Dogs The love of humans for dogs frequently takes a silly or cruel form, but the love of dogs tor humans remains the pure thing it always has been. Pet poodles blanketed in silk and taken to ride by liveried servants, or bulls, with their ears and tails cropped so they can fight better, only reveal the mawkinshness of our own nature. What men have learned from dpgs is better in many respects than vliat dogs have learned from men.