Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 315, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1928 — Page 4
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If Not Tom Adams, Who? When The Times had, through its exposures, forced prosecutions of high officials and leaders of the machine which has controlled the Republican party in the recent past, there was a very general demand for a “clean-up” in Indiana. The other Indianapolis newspapers made very vociferous demands that this be done. One called upon the great James Eli Watson to perform the Augean task. Now there is a campaign in progress and there is less being said about the necessity for anew regime, and apparently no one is thinking about it—except the plain people of In-t cliana, who know that they have been misled, betrayed, deceived and humiliated. The one candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor who has not ceased to make the demand is Tom Adams, the Vincennes editor who issued the first challenge to the machine. There is every evidence that the people are listening to Adams this year and that the candidates who are depending on secret deals, on organized political groups, on hates and enmities and greeds, will receive a rather severe shock when the votes are counted —if they are counted. The people should be warned by the calm acceptance on the part of very many politicians that there will be a crooked count of votes in this county and that it is necessary to placate and deal with the forces and influences which have in the past depended on crooked elections and fraudulent primaries for their power. There is ample evidence thatthe people outside the capital city are enraged and determined and that they are not fooled by the sinister whispers of the machine that a vote for Adams is a vote lost. There is every indication of a vast army of men and women who would rather vote right even if they lose than to be terrified or betrayed into voting for some undercover candidate of the same old machine or one of its more open champions, such as the present Secretary of State, who apparently has a working arrangement with Watson and Robinson and Coffin and Shumaker and the wizard. There are very many Republican candidates for office in the ninety-one counties outside this city who are realizing that their own chances for election will depend somewhat on the sincerity demonstrated by their party in making its nominations this year. They are beginning to understand that the machine is quite willing to wreck their political fortunes if it is necessary to defeat the crusading editor from Vincennes. What would be the effect, at home and elsewhere, if the word should go out next week that Indiana Republicans had named Tom Adams as their candidate for Governor? What would be the effect if word goes out that he has been defeated*? In the name of the “clean-up,” if not Tom Adams, who? Back-Seat Drivers Back-seat driving, an lowa judge has ruled, is not sufficient grounds for a divorce. A woman who appeared before him seeking a decree because her husband continually found fault with her driving was sent away without it. The subject of back-seat driving has not yet been treated thoroughly enough in our literature. It is a great evil, to be sure; yet there is much to be said for the one who practices it. Some drivers breed back-seat driving inevitably. They steer their cars about in heavy traffic as if they were free from the ordinary limitations of time and space, and the hapless person in the rear seat can only grind his—or her—teeth and bear it. When the day dawns on which all back-seat drivers are led out to be shot, grave injustice will be worked' if a good percentage of front-seat drivers is not led out with them. The Franks Fund Tire late Jacob Franks of Chicago has left a fund of SIOO,OOO to give “pleasure, help and encouragement to boys,” as a memorial to his dead son, Bobby, who was murdered by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. In the universal horror and indignation that swept tire country at the time of that crime, Mr. Franks himself was somewhat overlooked. We failed to sympathize with him as deeply as we should have. Os all the figures in the case, he was the most tragic. He died, it was said, of a broken heart; and who can wonder at it? His establishment of this memorial fund was a kindly, knightly act. He had lost his own boy; so he hoped to ease the lot of other little boys, giving them some of the happiness of which his own*son was cheated. The Cost of Broken Homes Nearly one in every three cases of juvenile delinquency involves children from a broken home, according to figures compiled by Esther Sternlieb of the University of Wisconsin as the result of a five-year study. There’s a factor to include when you try to figure out the exact significance of the "divorce evil.” In Our discussions of divorce we too often assume that it’s a question only involving two people, the husband and-the wife.* Miss Sternlieb’s tabulation rewinds us that this isn’t the case. The plaintiff and the defendant are by no means the only interested parties in a divorce suit.
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Its Own Defeat That those who are really in favor of prohibition and enforcement of the dry laws will be -further deluded by the slate of Rev. E. S. Shumaker seems inconceivable in view of the very manifest inaccuracies and misstatements of his appeal to the public. The recommendations bear every evidence of a desire to overthrow orderly government and impose a dictatorship. His warning against a wet Supreme Court should cause at least all attorneys to pause. Unless the Supreme Court is above suspicion of being swayed in its decisions by any personal prejudices, all law disappears. What the people want is not a dry court or a wet court, hut a court that decides cases according to the law and the Constitution, that will be beyond the reach of whispering Senators and beyond the fears of the Klan and the dry dictators, with judges who do not frankly confess that to participate in decisions is embarrassing because of their political and fraternal affiliations. llis recommendations, this year have, of course, for their chief object the election Arthur Robinson, his telephone boy, when he tried to get Watson to intercede in the Supreme Court after five of the most prominent lawyers of the State had declared that his report of two years ago was a plain lie concerning the decisions of the Supreme Court and calculated t to destroy the influence of that court. It is significant that his indorsement of Joe Rand Beckett, able citizen and most worthy of support, was listed because of his work as “deputy prosecutor under William 11. Rcmy,” Under the authority of Mr. Remy it may be stated that this is a clear and open misstatement. Beckett was named as a deputy by Attorney General Gilliom and assigned to work in Marion County to enforce the law because of lack of local funds to prosecute cases. It is significant that Shumaker, under his present affiliations with Robinson, Coffin and others, indorses Ralph Updike for Congress, despite the fact that the Stephenson black boxes contained a written contract made by Updike with Stephenson to deliver all the patronage, including the postmastership of Indianapolis, to Stephenson. Surely the sincere men and women of this State who really want prohibition, who are disgusted with the reign of the bootlegger, will not be fooled longer. The doctor has overreached Irmself in his present report. It is too palpably a political document inspired by venom and lacking in sincerity. - The sidewalks of Newr York are kind of exclusive these days. A seat on the New York Curb the other day sold for $85,000. Here are suggestions for the spring poet; Spring, ring, love, dove, tweet, sweet, hush, mush, grass, brass, fair, pair, pretty, ditty. Then read it and duck. A1 Smith says he sees no difference between the people of North Carolina and the people of New York City. He’d better take his next vacation in some other State than North Carolina.
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No Sunlight, No Life
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T s the planet Venus inhabited? Let us try to balJL ance the ledger and see what conclusion can be reached. On one side, favoring an affirmative answer, we have the following facts; The planet is about the same size as our earth. It seems to have a temperature favorable to life. It has an atmosphere which, in all probability, contains both water vapor and oxygen. Now let us see what we have on the other side of the ledger: First of all, we do not know the time in which the planet rotates upon its axis. This is in important sac-
tor. If, like Mercury, it always keeps the same face toward the sun it would mean that half the planet would be in p's* - petual darkness. The inequality o f temperature between the two halves would probably result in gigantic cyclones blowing continuously across the en-
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tire planet. Secondly, we do not know if sunlight can penetrate the heavy dense clouds which surround the planet. These clouds are so heavy and dense that astronomers never see the surface of the planet but only the outer side of this blanket of coiuds. It has been suggested that if the planet were inhabited, on such occasions as the sunlight benetrated the clouds the inhabitants would regard the event as some sort of miracle or visitation from the. gods. That is a very poetic view of the situation. But a much more scientific view is that if sunlight does not penetrate the clouds there can be no life on the planet. Life, as we know it, is not possible without sunlight. Not only is sunlight needed, but the ultra-violet radiation of the sun is also required. Ultra-violet can not penetrate a foggy atmosphere. Therefore, the mere trickling of some light through a foggy atmosphere would not be enough to permit life on the planet. It is only fair to state that the majority of astronomers do not believe that the planet Venus is inhabited. This may be discouraging news to optimistic gentlemen who would like to make inter-planetary journeys by rockets. But it is a fact, nevertheless.
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BRIDGE ME ■ ANOTHER (Copyright, 1928. by The Ready Reference Publishing Company) BY W. W. WENTWORTH
(Abbreviations: A—ace: K—kine; Q—oueen; J —jack: X—any card lower than 10..> 1. Partner bids one heart. Second hand bids two diamonds. What should third hand bid if holding: Spades—A Q X; hearts —X X X; diamonds —Q X X; clubs—A K Q J? 2. Partner bids one heart. Second passes. What should third hand bid if holding: Spades—Q J X X X; hearts—X X; diamonds—A XXX; clubs—X X? 3. What should you bid initially when holding: Spades—A QX; hearts—K J 10; clubs—A K J X X X; diamonds—X? The Answers 1. Two hearts. 2. One spade. 3. One club.
Mr. Fixit Relief to Neighbo hood From Barking Dog
Let Mr. Fixit. The Times’ representative at city hall, present your troubles to city officials. Write Mr. Fixit at The Times. Names and addresses which must be given will not be published. Residents who are annoyed by a dog on Castle Ave. in University Heights were promised relief today through efforts of Mr. Fixit. Dear Mr. Fixit: I am making an appeal to you to see what you can do about a dog on Castle Ave. in University Heights. The dog is kept shutup in a dark bam all the time and how’ls and barks until the people around can not get any rest. Please investigate this for our benefit. C. C. Humane Society Sergt. Thomas Bledsoe promised Mr. Fixit he would investigate. Dear Mr. Fixit: In an alley between East St. and Massachusetts Ave. there is a lawn swing. The alley is used almost as much as a public street and the swing is in the way. Will you see-what can be done? READER. Police Chief Claude M. Worley will order the district man to investigate. Paving of Wilkins St. along Rhodius Park was asked today in a letter to Mr. Fixit. Dear Mr. Fixit: I would like for you to see what you can do to have Wilkins St. paved along Rhodius Park. Indianapolis has a beautiful west side park but Belmont Ave. and Wilkins St., are full of chuck holes. Lee, McLain and Kappes, the other approaching streets, have noc seen a scraper or load of gravel for months. Any small town would consider it a disgrace to have its streets in such condition. L. w. Street Commissioner Charles A. Grossart promised Mr. Fixit to scrape the streets surrounding the park and fill in holes at the earliest convenience. Mr. Fixit can do nothing about paving Wilkins St. until after you have filed a petition with the board of public works asking a permanent improvement. Secure a blank and obtain the signatures of majority of resident property owners who desire the improvement. Dear Mr. Fixit: On Bird Ave. Just south of Oliver Ave., somebody has dumped ashes and trash all over the back yard, which faces the street, and now are piling some on the lawn between the sidewalk and the pavad street. Can something be done with these people or the property owner? Thank you. A PROPERTY OWNER. The board of health sent an inspector to investigate your complaint and reported the complaint could not be verified. Dear Mr. Fixit: I want to call your attention to the terrible hole in front of my garage, 248 N. Capitol Ave. Every machine that comes along has to dodge It. J. G K. Street Repair Superintendent Edward Rochat reports the repair has been made.
This Date in U. S. History
April 30 1680 —Governor Carteret of New Jersey arrested for interfering with Governor Andrus of New York. 1789 —George Washington inaugurated as first President of the United States. 1798 —United States Navy Depart- ' ment created. 1803 —Louisiana purchase made. 1812—Louisiana admitted to the Union.
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Discovery of Soul Leads to Art
WE have said that Italy is energy; but also, Italy is color; from Comos blue waters, purple hills, and russet skies to Taormina's lavender mountains rising from a golden sea. and Stromboli’s black mouth spilling liquid in the night—here the rainbow of natures palette tints every scene, and catches the eye with endless combinations; how could these men refrain from paint-_ ing, how could they help make Italy" the picture gallery of the world, richer in beauty than the north in wealth? Painting is the distinctive art of modern times, or was till photography stole its livelihood from it, and music made itself mistress of the arts in the nineteenth century. The Greeks had painted, but their j work had long since been destroyed; this is the tragedy of color, that it [ fades, while the arts of line can j shape themselves in stone and chal- j lenge time; no wonder Leonardo j spent many hours in seeking colors j that would not die. And so Italy had to begin again: j Greek teachers of the art came to 1 Florence from Constantinople in ! the days of Dante’s youth, and transmitted what remained of ancient and Bysantine skill; but for j the most part it was experiment j that found the way. At first the Italian painters used ■ the ancient temper-colors mixed with water, wax or gum—or they j made frescoes; that is they lead their colors roughly upon the fresh (It. fresco) wet plaster of church or monastery walls. Andrea del Castagna discovered better methods of mixing colors with oil; and the characteristic medium of Renaissance art was ready for the master’s hands. Why painting should so dominate the period, as sculpture had dominated Greece, and architecture medieval Europe, it is not easy to say. Symonds thinks it was due to the discovery of the soul, to the introspection that had come with Christianity, and that shame of the body which theology had instilled; “the emotions written on the face became of more importance than the modeling of the limbs.” u tt BUT Gothis sculpture had carved emotions on the face, and Renaissance painting would soon rejoice is showing the modeling of the limbs; it is only of the northern painting that we may speak of prudery limiting the artist to the head; and even there, not till Rubens was dead! We cannot say; we only know that color was on the hills and in the sky, that color rioted in garments and decorations as wealth brought the Orient to the west; the church was now rich enough to indulge itself in the fleeting glow of pictures, and merchants now rich enogh to pay for portraits that might give them second life. The conditions were ready and painting came. At first, of course, it was religious painting. To see its beginning we must go to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and stand patiently before the “St. Cecilia” of Giovanni Cenni, called Cimabue. It is much obscured by time, which has no great use for man; it is now almost seven hundred years since Cimabue, playing truant from school, watched the Greek maestri who taught painting at Florence in the Via de Fittcri, or the Painter’s Way; and in this fresco something of the Byzantine stiffness and lifelessness remains. But cross over, on the safe wings of imagination, to the National Gallery at London, and study the head of the child in Cimabue’s “Madonna and Child”; we have stepped from the middle ages to the Renaissance; here is anew delicacy of execution, anew individuality of portraiture, anew vivacity of style. The world has forgotten Cimabue mostly; but when he finished his now almost indistinguishable masterpiece, the “Rucellai Madonna.” the people of ; Florence looked upon it is an event in their history, quite as significant as the last murder, or the last election.
Still worse forgotten is poor Duccio, whom Reinach calls “the first Italian painter of genius; for two years he painted for the Commune of Siena, receiving sixteen cents a day for his entire time; when he died (in 1319) he left behnd him a “crucifixion” and an altar-piece cf twenty-eight panels, in which the
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
Written for The Times by Will Durant
transition goes on apace from the impersonal anonymity of the figure in medieval art to that vitality and individuality which are the glory of Renaissance painting and at once the grandeur and the curse of Renaissance character and life. So Duccio passed by and we stand before Giooto di Bondone, contemporary, friend and portrayer of Dante, and almost as great in art as Alighieri was in poetry. a it a VASARI tells the story how the shepherd lad, induced by nature herself to the arts of design, was perpetually drawing on the stones, the earth, or the sand, some natural object that came before him, or some fantasy that presented itself to his thoughts; and how Cimabue discovered him there in the fields (it is a fable, says Reinach, but Leonardo tells it tooL took him to his bottega (studio) in Florence, and taught him ail he knew. Giotto soon mastered that, and another tale recounts how he painted a fly on the i.ose of a figure the master had painted, so realistically that the old teacher tried to flick it off. You may still see nis masterpiece in the upper church of St. Fiancis at Assisi, where Giotto has told in a long series of frescos the life of the gentle saint. Go then to Padua, and you will marvel at the painters fertility; here are thirty-eight frescos telling the life of Christ in powerful simple pictures; Giotto begins to humanize theology. The greatest of the series Is “The Kiss of Judas”, perhaps there never was a Judas; but if there was, he looked like this. And in the “Pieta” Giotto catches the tragedy of woman; to bear, to rear, and surrender the new life to death; the dead Christ lies in his mother's arms, a gaunt figure of skin and bones in the lap of a woman' broken beyond further feeling; it is one of the great motifs of medieval feeling, and one of the noblest poems in history. So Giotto went on, producing quietly, w'ith a fine healthy fertility; a man not neurotic and soured like Michelangelo, nor desultory and fragmentary like Leonardo; Faure, as enthusiastic as a Frenchman, calls him the greatest painter of them all. Even in architecture he was unique; the Campanile he built
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near Santa Maria’s is still one of the glories of Florence, one of the sights of the world. * At last we find him in Rome; Pope Boniface VIII, marveling at a circle Giotto had sent him, summoned him to adorn with frescos the old church of St. Peter, and rewarded him so well that Giotto became a rich man, returned like Shakespeare to his native place (just outside of Florence), bought large properties there, and died in prosperity and comfort scandalous for an artist. He is in Italian painting what Aeschylus was in Attic drama, the crude but sublime initiator of a great tradition that passed on through Orcagna to culminate on the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel. Beside him Raphael and Leonardo have the smooth perfection of Sophocles but the strength of Giotto is not in them. After all, it counts for something to \>e first: you carve your own way to your own goal; and all who come thereafter bear the burden of precedents, and slip into the snares of imitation. (Copyricht. 1928. by Will Burant) (To Be Continued)
Times Readers Voice Views
The name nnd 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: If the time has come to elect officers for the new City Manager League, Inc., I nominate D. C. Stephenson for its president. From all appearances, this new company has for its purpose the deception of the people and Steve therefore is the logical man to head the new venture. I notice that one of the incorporators was until lately a resident of Michigan City. No doubt he will second the nomination. All in favor say “Aye.” Nearly every organization nowadays, especially the secret ones, has some sort'of insignia and nothing would be more appropriate than a black box as the insignia of. the new order. And for a slogan, I can think of nothing better than “We fooled ’em two years ago, let’s fool ’em again.” All good citizens rejoice in the way the newspapers have hung a red lantern on this new scheme to swindle # the people. The people have in "the Indianapolis City Manager League an organization which honestly is endeavoring to give leadership which can be trusted and followed. “Imitation is the most sincere flattery” and because the original City Manager League has the confidence of the people its enemies have brought out a counterfeit league with a similar name. W. B. ALBURTIS, 518 N. Alabama St. Editor Times: I am one of many, no doubt, desirous of knowing whether it is not entirely within the province of a father to refuse, if he deems it fitting and proper, his son the use of the family automobile to go to school in, for, according to a judge in one of our courts, it is not. If I am not of the wrong opinion I can see no impropriety in this, and, for one, in this case I certainly would not pay the son’s fine to teach him a lesson for stealing another’s property, in this case, an automobile of another person. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that in paying this fine it constituted nothing more than the encouragement of misbehavior and lawlessness, certainly top much prevalent at the present time, on the part of the younger generation. I am anxious to know’, after reading this case, whether a parent has any jurisdiction whatever over minors, especially, children, and, if so, whether this case comes within this jurisdiction. I am open to proper, legitimate and constructive information. AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
APRIL 30, 1928
M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Rayon Is the Latest, and the Least Vivid, Proof That the United States Is Still Regarded as a Land of Opportunity for Foreign Capital.”
GIVEN forty acres and a mule 1 the individual can produce cotton; given a good piece of grazing land and three of four hundred sheep, he can produce wool; given a small grove of mulberry trees and some worms to start with, he can produce silk, and given a ten-acre field he can produce flax. When it comes to rayon, however, the individual passes out of the picture. -The production of rayon calls not only for huge mills, with an endless amount of machinery, but for an army of workers. Experts have figured out that the most efficient operating unit needs 1,000 workers, and that four units are required to form the Ideal plant. a a it Improving on Nature Human ingenuity may be able to improve on nature, but not without an oppressive degree of organization. They will tell you that rayon is a vegetable product while silk is an animal product. Technically that is true, but the little silk worm makes thread from the leaves it has eaten just like the huge rayon mill. The difference is that nature can create a manufacturing establishment as big as the end of your finger, while man needs a gigantic mechanism, a multitude of trained workers and a transportation system that enables him to draw raw materials from many places. tt tt a Rayon Creates Changes The textile industry depends on five fibers—cotton, wool, linen, silk and rayon. The first four are natural; the last is artificial. It is only artificial, however, in the matter of improvement, since rayon goes back to wood or cotton fibre. Even so, rayon has created a virtual revolution in the textile industry which is rather more significant because of what it promises than what it has already accomplished. Within the space of twenty-five years, this new thread has usurped many fields where cotton, silk or wool, cr some combination of them reigned supreme. tt tt a Foreign Monopoly The initial process of producing rayon was discovered by two French chemists forty-four years ago, but has been greatly altered and improved, especially by Englishmen. The size of the plant required for its manufacture and the large amount of capital involved not only retarded progress, but led to the development of an effective monopoly. From 80 to 85 per cent of the world’s production is said to be controlled by English. German and French concerns operating under an agreement which practically unites them. tt tt tt Given Aid Abroad Most people have a fair idea of how American capital is helping to develop the resources and industries of other countries, but very few realize what an important part foreign capital has played, and still is playing in the development of those in this country. The opinion prevails that because we have billions of dollars to spare for outside investment, there is no room for foreign money, and that the flow of cash is a one-way current. Asa matter of record, many English, German and French fortunes have been made among us, and that, too, by people who never came to this country except on short business trips. Many an American railroad got its start through the sale of stock or bonds abroad, as well as many a mining and ranching project. tt a tt Foreigners Lead in U. S, Rayon is the latest, and not the least, vivid proof that the United States is still regarded as a land of opportunity for foreign capital. Though the United States leads all other countries in the production of rayon by a. wide margin, she does so through establishments that are largely owned by outsiders. This is one important industry in which America did not take the initiative and are not leading the way, though the available supply of raw materials, climatic conditions and the market favor this country. tt tt tt Use Wool Fiber When rayon first came into existence, people thought it would interfere with the cotton trade be-s cause wood fibre was generally used, but now the industry is consuming a great deal of cotton, especially linters, and instead of being regarded as competitive, is looked upon as an aid. The process of manufacture have been so improved and elaborated that it is now possible to make rayon from wood fiber, from cotton or from the two in combination, while the market has been enlarged until it is easier to enumerate the fabrics for which rayon is not available than those for which it is. a tt it Equable Climate Needed The manufacture of rayon not only requires complicated machinery, expert labor and a vast amount of capital, but the most equable climatic conditions. When European capitalists decided to establish mills in this country, they made a very thorough survey of possible locations. They found that belt running through Pennsylvania and Wes,. Virginia offered the most satisfactory results and experience has proved that the city of Roanoke was best of all. That is why Roanoke is now the seat of the largest rayon plant in the world.