Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 312, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1928 — Page 4

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In His Own Right Senator Watson finds it necessary once more to assure tlie workers in his organization that he is a candidate for the presidency “in Iris own right.” If the voters of tlie Republican party in this State really believed this statement, and thought that there was any danger of Watson securing the nomination at Kansas City, his vote Avould be strictly limited to his group of appointees and such, elements of society as expect favors and privileges. It is because Watson is believed to have already promised the delegates from Indiana to other candidates at the “proper time,” that be has any support whatever. It is too low au estimate of public conscience to suggest that any citizen would desire to reduce the presidency to the standards of Watson. The chief clement of support in this State for Watson at the present time is the Indianapolis News. Not even Senator Watson believes that the News would give him support if it did not believe that he would turn his delegates over to Dawes. It is significant that the News, boldly proclaiming the popularity of Watson in Indiana, lias sent its most valued writer to all the other States of the West to prove that Dawes is the man who will be nominated at Kansas City. The largest group of voters claimed fo* Watson is the membership of the farm bureau. The leader of that organization sought support for Watson with the public statement that a vote for Watson was really a vote for Lowden, favored by many farmers. The Watson candidacy, reduced to plain terms, is a fraud upon the Republican voters of this State, because it is not a sincere candidacy. There would be something courageous in his candidacy if he had the nerve to tell the people that he became a candidate because he represents a group which desires very much to prevent the nomination of Herbert Hoover. These other candidates understand that not only in Indiana but in every other State if they came into open contest with Hoover there would be no question of the result. What Watson really asks is permission to trade the delegates from Indiana as he wishes, to deliver or double cross, to bargain and deal, to serve the sinister banking group which has determined that Hobver shall not be the Republican nominee. The assertion of Watson that he bases his, candidacy on thirty years of service to his party is its own warning. IE he really should, by some strange and disastrous turn of fortune, become president of these Lnited States, would lie lead, as he has led in Indiana, to those evils which are synonymous with Coffinism, Jacksonism, Stephensonism ? This Nation has withstood many shocks. But is has not yet reached the low moral plane where it could consider with complacency the election of a. Watson to the presidency. “In my own right,” says Watson. That should be a warning, even if the people do not believe him; those who support him the most vociferously, least of all. Birds of a Feather Open support of Senator Arthur Robinson by the Ku Klux Klan should be a warning to those Republicans who desire to wrest control of their party from the forces which disgraced the State during the past four years. The State has been blanketed with the offieial organ of the Klan, printed in Washington and labeled “a special edition for Indiana,” devoted to the support of Robinson and the defamation of Arthur Gilliom and Solon Carter. It is important because it sets forth a claim of co-operation in its effort with the AntiSaloon League. It is infamous in its tissue of misrepresentation and plain lies. As an indication of tlie effort to stir religious .hatred in the State and direct it against Gilliom is the statement that Gilliom has two daughters attending Notre Dame, a Catholic university for hoys. That is an appeal to the religious hate which was used so successfully for Jackon and Robinson and Coffin in the past. Mr. Gilliom has no daughters, llis four hoys are in the public schools of this city. The attack ou Carter is that he at some time or some place criticised the workings of the prohibition enforcement, a very open and plain co-operation with the Anti-Saloon League. Those who had hoped that Indiaua would get rid or it nightmares and its goblins, its hates and its prejudices, its grafters and it leeches; that it would pass out of the era of indictments and confessions and the statute of limitations into one of building and construction and orderly government, will look upon this gesture from the Wizard as a warning. Senator Robinson, in his one contribution to

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public affairs said truly that birds of a feather llock together. Can there be any hope for a restoration of Indiana to the hands of the people if there should be nominated this former pal of Stephenson, this present protege of lliratu Evans? The Republican voters should take warning. Exit—The Ohio Gang Out of a bedroom nomination grew the Ohio gang. Daugherty, Jess Smith, the little green house of K St.; Harry Sinclair —au orgy of corruption and scandal. The Ohio gang typified chicanery, crookedness, fast stuff—by clever ones who play politics for what there is in it. The Ohio gang, however, did not typify the rank and tile of Republicans in that State. For the great mass of Republicans in Ohio are like the mass of Republicans in any other State—decent, desiring good government, ablioring the prostitution of government. For the time being, the Ohio gang got control of the party, and proceeded to betray the trust. On Tuesday the rank and tile of Ohio Republicans had a chance to express themselves. They were faced with a problem of selection as between the old and the new; as between gang leadership, and the leadership of a man who symbolizes a clean sweep and a square deal. And the rank and file spoke, in no low or uncertain tones. The voters of the Buckeye State —a State of farms and factories, a cross section State of agriculture and industry—registered their sentiments toward bedroom nominations, Daugherty ism, Sinclair ism, corrupt ionism. The Hoover victory tolled the knell of party day of the Ohio gang. Helping Our Fisher-Folk More than 100 fishing vessels operating from New England ports have agreed with the Fishing Masters Producers Association of Gloucester, Mass., to subscribe a standing fund for the purpose of caring lor dependents of lost crews and subscribing vessels, and to care for sick fishermen on such vessels. These fishermen arc doing a wise and worthy thing. The‘men who man the schooners in the northeast Atlantic do not lead an easy life; every year the sea takes its toll of them, and the seaport towns have many tales of destitute families to tell. This fund is a long step in the right direction. The lot of the deep-sea fisherman needs to be lightened all it can. Helping to Choose Careers It is natural for parents to try to help their sons and daughters pick out careers. But parents should be careful; it is easy to be too insistent, and put the young man or woman in a groove he or she doesn't like. A writer In the April issue of Good Housekeeping magazine stresses this point. “I have known sons’ lives nearly or quite ruined by a father’s insistence that they should or should not go into the family business,” she writes. “I have seen many a girl's life made miserable by a mother who insisted her daughter should do something that the mother had always wanted to do. She thought her ambition for the girl represented love. It was really self-love.”

David Dietz on ScienceClouds Hide Venus No. 34

VENUS is the planet which resembles the earth more than any of the sun’s family of planets. The planet is only slightly smaller than the earth, the diameter of the planet being approximately 7,700 miles. Venus is approximately 67,000,000 miles from the sun. Our own earth, it will be remembered, has a di-

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The Yerkes Telescope

The view which the telescope gives us of Venus is both encouraging and discouraging. It is chiefly mystifying. For the telescope never shows us the surface of the planet. All we can see in the telescope is a smooth, bright, white shining surface. What we see in the telescope is the outer side of a thick blanket of clouds which surrounds the planet. Occasionally a dark spot will appear on this blanket of clouds. But it quickly disappears. Astronomers think that this phenomenon is due to the fact that occasionally the clouds hang lower than usual and a mountain peak is seen poking through the clouds. It will be seen, therefore, that the telescope tells us nothing about the planet Venus’ except that it is surrounded by an atmosphere, for the presence of clouds necessarily means an atmosphere. The spectroscope tells us something more about this atmosphere. It tells us that the atmosphere contains both oxygen and water vapor. The .existence of clouds would not necessarily mean water vapor. They might, for example, be dust clouds. It will be seen, therefore, that conditions for life on Venus look rather good. But there is one more factor which must be studied. That is the factor of temperature. The thermocouple, a delicate electrical thermometer, has been used to study the temperature of the planet Venus. Let us see next what the thermocouple has to tell us.

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY IT'FFORTS of Lowden-Dawes •*-' forces to offset the presidential primary gains of Herbert Hoover were centered in Congiess today. The House began debate on the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, which is expected to pass with help of the anti-Hoover alliance and despite threat of a Coolidge veto. Vice President Dawes, largely responsible for passage of a similar bill vetoed last year, recently pushed this measure through the Senate with an almost two-thirds majority. Following election of a majority of Hoover delegates in the Ohio primary, and his overwhelming popular preference votes in both Ohio and Massachusetts, Hoover yesterday picked up other delegates. The Michigan Republican convention instructed its seven dele-gates-at-large for him, in addition to the twenty-six delegates already cither instructed or recommended for Hcover. More than a majority of the nine uninstructed Nevada delegates are Hoover men. an tt These primary results have driven Lowden-Dawes managers to rely even more than formerly, on the Midwest grain States to stop Hoover at the Kansas City convention. Hence the political significance of the McNary-Haugen debate. With Watson of Indiana, and Curtis of Kansas, ‘‘favorite son” candidates in the anti-Hoover alliance with Lowden and Dawes, also running as "the farmer’s frieud," the present effort of this group in Congress is to isolate Hoover as an enemy of farm relief. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and various farm organization leaders have been recruited by Hoover managers to prove by public statements that their candidate is friendly to the farmers' aspirations, despite his reported opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill in its present form. In vetoing the bill last year, the President listed ten objections. It is now claimed that the revised bill meets all these objections, except the major one against the so-called equalization fee to facilitate marketing of surplus crops. Hoover sympathizers charge that the bill is being passed for campaign purposes by the votes of many Senators and Representatives who depend upon a Coolidge veto to prevent it from becoming law. a tt a WITH many senators deploring American marine occupation Nicaragua and the administration's pledge to guarantee native elections, the Senate voted 52 to 22 against the Norris amendment to the naval appropriations bill, committing the President to withdrawal of the marines after Feb. 1, 1919, unless American interests are in immediate danger. The majority group argued that the administration’s pledge had been given and should not be restricted by Congress in any way. Chairman Borah of the foreign relations committee, and the ranking Democratic committee member, Swanson, first favored such a measure as merely confirming the President’s right to determine the need of such occupation; but both changed to an opposition position at the last minute. n a tt The SenaPe Nicaraguan vote may have been influenced somewhat by reports of a press agency that Sandino rebel forces killed George B. Marshall of New York, assistant manager of the La Luz mine. This report was not confirmed by official dispatches, and was denied by United Press Interviews with refugees from the mine district who said Marshall was a prisoner.

This Date in U. S. History

April 26 1919 —First Odd Fellow lodge in the United States instituted. 1846—Congress declared war on Mexico. 1866—Confederate Army under General Johnston followed Lee in surrender. 1865—Lincoln’s assassins, Booth and Harold, fouVid at Bowling Green, Va.; Harold surrendered; Booth was killed.

scope and the thermocouple, ameter of about 8,000 miles and is 93,000,000 miles from the sun. Now let us ask what a visitor to the planet Venus might expect to find. For an answer, let us go to the modern astronomer with his big telescopes and auxiliary apparatus such as the spectro-

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the story of CIVILIZATION Flesh ami Murder Sway Country Written for The Times by Will Durant

UNDER Leo X (1513-21), so . of Lorenzo de‘ Medici, the Renaissance migrated from Florence to Rome, taking gold and glory with it; Leo cares less for piety than for art; and while mismanaging papal finances masterfully, he spreads Peter's pence among the writers and artists of his time, and wins the devotion of painters, poets and humanists. Hadrian Vi, Leo's successor, being less lavish, becomes the favorite enemy of the intelligensia; when he does the house of his physician is hung with garlands by midnight revelers, and marked with the grateful inscription “Libeiatori Patriae S. P. Q. R.”—"From the Senate and the Roman People to the Liberator of His Country.” The humanists heretofore, though by their very name they announce their abandonment of heaven for the earth, take care not to attack the church; they do not for a moment desire its fall. Indeed, for the humanists, the church is not a system of beliefs, but a nurse and patron of the arts. Hundreds of scholars are being supported by bishops and cardinals, and the popes are building the Vatican library for the use of them all. Catholicism has ceased to be n crely a religion, it has become itself an art; the old ascetic mood has been replaced with a sensuous ceremonialism of incense, stained glass, music, architecture, sculpture, painting, and drama. The humanists do not understand the Teuton hunger for truth; why should they be converted from Catholicism, when they have converted Catholicism to themselves? Their art began as an instrument of the church; they are willing that the church should continue as an instrument of their art. The church is the glory—and the treasury—of all Italy: no sensible Italian, the humanists feel, can abandon it. a a a Nevertheless, in every inward sense, they have abandoned it. They no longer care for divinity, they are absorbed in the "humanities;” the sense of worship passes, and a proud spirit of control begins. These men love Greece more than Judea, Virgil more than Peter, Plato more than Christ. Instead of the Gospels and the lives of the saints, they read Plutarch and Livy and Cicero; instead of reverencing the martyrs of the faith, they worship at tne shrines of Harmodius and Aristogiton, Socrates and Seneca, Cat and Brutus; fifteen centuries after his great betise, a monument of Brutus is set up in a public square of Florence. One of the Medici, after murdering his cousin defends himself (with apparent success), by arguments from pagan ethics; Petrarch, arguing for immortality, quotes Plato and Cicero, but never mentions the Bible. Scholars begin to say that the ancient poets and philosophers were inspired too, as well as the Bible; soon they will believe that neither was inspired at all. Naturally, the theological basis having crumbled, the old moral code collapses; and all Italy frolics in the rediscovery of the flesh. The influx of luxuries adds to the difficulties of restraint; and the increase of wealth multiplies the number of people who can afford to be immoral. Adultery flourishes, for girls are secluded before marriage and mated by their parents to men much older than themselves; romance can come only after marriage; hence Italian and French fiction begins with matrimony, as respectable fiction ends with it. This does not destroy the family as one might think; the Italians, as Burckhardt says, wish to live as they please, but by no means to renounce the family, even when they are not sure that it is all their own. It is true that husbands regularly kill wives and paramours whom they detect; but this does not reduce the number of adventures, it merely adds romance to brutality and dishonor.

Samson Topples the Pillars

TI-IE Italians have always been freer with desire than the shivering peoples of the north: men like Luther and Roger Ascham are shocked <not beyond words) by what they see in Florence and Rome. "I saw in one city in nine days,” says the schoolmaster, "more liberty to sin than ever I heard tell of in our noble city of London in nine years;” London is not yet wealtJiy enough to be very immoral; “the depravity of less cultivated races remains unnoticed because no one takes the trouble to describe modern barbarism.” In a measure this new freedom is bound up with that liberation of sense and feeling which is indispensable to art; in the strength of their passions these men love and desire beauty and pleasure boundlessly, and morality is a bound. Very often they overstep even the most reasonable bounds: Pulci

South Bend Tribune Henry Ford has made his first public speech and indicated that he will not be displeased if it is permitted to be his last. At a dinner in London. England, he heard himself eulogized by

Times Readers Voice Views

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: Is it not time for Republicans to wonder when Democrats on every hand become interested in seeing a certain man elected Republican county chairman? Such is the attitude of county Democrats today, because they know that a Republican ticket campaigning under the leadership of George V. Coffin as chairman (now under indictment) will not command the respect nor receive the support of the people, as a whole. And they are correct. The foxy Coffin recently made a statement that he would not accept the county chairmanship again, but this statement has fooled nobody. He is placing his power in a “Wooden Horse of Troy,” to be released unexpectedly in the county convention. Such trickery must be defeated by people who are tired of being deceived by a political “boss” who works only for personal gain. When a man would sacrifice the whole ticket that he might enrich himself. it is high time for all good Republicans to banish him from power. This can and will be accomplished if all good Republicans vote for precinct committeemen who they know to be opposed to the re-elec-tion of “Marion County’s political czar,” George V. Coffin. Signed. A REPUBLICAN.

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

(Abbreviations: A—ace; K—kins: Q Queen. J—jack; X—any card lower than 10.* 1. The game being played at spades, how many tricks may you expect to make with this defending hand: spades—none; diamonds— A K Q J 10 9; hearts—X; clubs— K Q J 10 9 8? 2. What is the value of K X X is the declarer can play through your hand? 3. What is the value of A Q if the declarer can play through your hand? The Answers 1. One in two. 2. Nothing. 3. One trick.

speaks of a lecher as—“ The master of those who know”—as Aristotle of the flesh: homosexualism steps out of Plato into Renaissance life and poetry; and the "French disease” runs red through Italy. It is hard to say which is more popular in these Renaissance days and night—adultery or murder. Assassination becomes part of the recognized technique of political philosophy; Machivelli will explain how reasonable it is, as chemists will show, in the twentieth century, the reasonableness of poison gas. When a fisherman is asked why he failed to report that he had seen a body thrown into the river, he answers, with a shrug of the shoulders, that in his lifetime he has seen a hundred bodies thrown into the river at the same place, and no one has ever troubled himself about it. (Copyright, 1928. by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

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distinguished Britons and Americans and was put in a tight place when he was called on to reply. “I just want to say,” he declared, “that Mrs. Ford and myself are highly honored to be present tonight to meet so many distinguished representatives oi two great nations. I thank you. ’ That was all; just thirty words. His hosts would have preferred to listening to more Ford pronouncements, but the manufacturer felt that he had said all that needed saying. That feeling will be shared by those who believe realism should extend to speeches. Mr. Ford is not averse to talking at the right time. The newspapers publish Ford statements quite frequently and those statements are made noteworthy by the absence of empty platitudes. His opinions are usually worth while and the public enjoys them. It would be too bad if at this late day he began talking just to hear himself talk. His London speech shows that he still retains his balance. Anderson Herald A law enacted by the State legislature shielding the motorist from arrest by ununifomed officers for speeding and araffic violations has accomplished the purpose for which it was intended. That is, the motorist is protected against speed traps and other things which formerly annoyed the State road traveler and pleasure seeker. In the cities the law has not worked so well. There is no desire on the part of the city police to lay in hiding, ready to pounce upon the unsuspecting motorist for speeding and violating traffic regulations. Yet there have been numerous times when bold offenders have escaped arrest and punishment in court because the officer who happened to witness the offense was not wearing a uniform. Several days ago Elmer R. Nighbert, chief of police, stood on the sidewalk near by and watched a young motorist deliberately back into an automobile in the rear of him with such force that the front wheels of the parked car were lifted off the pavement with each impact. The guilty automobile driver was subjected to a severe ieprimanding. Beyond that the police chief could not go on his own initiative, because he was not in uniform. In instances similai to this one there should be some means to deal with the transgressor. How did the navel orange originate? So far as any human agency was concerned, the navel orange merely happened. That is to say, the varieties of orange having the characteristic in question are the produce of nature, without interference or without the aid of man.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: ‘Herbert Hoover Is Not Only Respected Because of What He Has Done, but Because of the Kind and Character of the Leaders Who Oppose Him.”

HAVE the slate-makers heard from Ohio, or if they have, will they be guided by the obvious warning? Except in the Middle West, where Frank O. Lowden is very popular and where President Coolidgc’s obstinate policy with regard to farm relief has created considerable dissatisfaction, the rank and file of the Republican party want Herbert Hoover. He is not only respected because of what he has done, but because of the kind and character of the leaders who oppose him. As former Governor Allen of Kansas aptly remarks, Mr. Hoover owes much to his enemies. The very attacks to which he has been subjected have served to elevate him in public opinion. tt tt St Watson Sick of Job With more water rushing toward the mill, there is little use wasting time on that already gone by. Ohio having said her say, it is Indiana's turn to claim the spotlight, with Senator Jim Watson playing the part of one more stalking horse with which the slatemakers hope to beat Hoover. Senator Watson appears to bo rather sick of the role cut out fqr him, as is shown by his efforts to have the President call off Ogden L. Mills, who is scheduled to tell his constituents why they should support Hoover. tt tt tt Three Fighters Dead Among the 70,000 or 80,000 human beings who died Wednesday, providing Wednesday was an average day, were Frank Lockhart, the racer: Floyd Bennett, the aviator, and General Peter Wrangel, the warrior—a trio of fighting blood, proving that the spirit of humanity still burns with grit, ambition and a love for adventure. That is the spirit which counts. Men are flying to all corners of the globe, making speed records and creating new political ideals not only because of the modern equipment they possess, but because they have the right kind of courage and imagination. tt tt tt Test Scholar's Brains After weighing, measuring and studying the brains of three great scholars, science concludes that something which could not be determined after death was responsible for their greatness. The brains examined were those of G. Stanley Hall, educator, who died at 79; Sir William Osier, phy - sician, who died at 70, and Edward S. Moorse, Zoologist, who died at 87. It was hoped that something of a material character would be found to account for the difference between men of such distinguished attainments and those who fail to make the mark. tt tt it Only Difference in Weight To this end, their brains were spanned, lengthwise, crosswise and vertically; the lobes and furroughs counted; the proportionate amount of grey matter determined; the mass weighed as a whole, and due allowance made for ravages of age. The result was.negative. While the brains were found to weigh something like one-twelfth more than the average, that was not considered of any great significance. a tt Starting Equipment Counts Does it necessarily follow that an uneducated man uses his brain less than a trained student? Has it ever been proved that the brains of today are better than those of 2,000 years ago? Has it ever been proved that an illiterate woodsman, who becomes a skillful guide or hunter, thinks less than a renowned scholar, who is surrounded W’ilh textbooks and scientific instruments? The equipment with w'hich we start determines in large measure not only how fast we go, but where we get. That is true of the mental, as well as the physical world. tt tt tt Tunney Fights, Lectures It has always been taken for granted that a pugilist could not think except in terms of fisticuffs, but here is Gene Tunney lecturing on Shakespeare. Poe argued that there was no reason why a man should not be a great poet and a first-class mathematician at the same time. The idea was looked upon as novel in his day, but it had been proved by Omar Khyam nearly a thousand years before. tt tt .i Gauge Brains by Use The place to begin in studying brain power is at the line which divides acquired knowledge from conscious thinking. There is a tremendous difference between what a man knows and what he does with it. The man who makes good use of a little knowledge lias to think just as hard as the man who makes equally good use of more. There is little reason to douot that the uneducated craftsman who gels ahead in his trade may develop as big a brain as the carefully trained scholar who gains fame in his profession. If. a foreign-born child of a naturalized American citizen is unmarried and is under 18 years of age and is living in Europe, will he be admitted to the United States outside of the quota? The father may file with the commissioner general of immigration, United States Department of Labor, a petition for a non-quota visa for the child.