Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1928 — Page 4

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A State Platform Quite as interesting as the nominee for Governor and other offices on the Republican ticket will be the platform drafted by the State convention. The elevation of George V. Coffin to a position on the State committee, by methods and practices which Thomas 11. Adams ■ n 'hesied with the same accuracy with which lie prophesied exposure of political corruption, ought to make it possible to secure an indorsement of the statute of limitations. Revival of the Stephenson forces under the leadership of Senator Arthur Robinson and Coffin should suggest that the convention, in all candor, demand the release of the life-termer who gave the present leadership its political importance. Why not make it simple and direct? Why not be frank with those who gave them power. Why not merely say: “We congratulate the Hon. Ed Jackson on his escape from the penitentiary, through an appeal to the statute of limitations. “We point with pride to the fact. that. George V. Coffin, whose indictment on a charge of conspiring to bribe a Governor, was dismissed on the same ground, now is a master mind in our State organization. ‘‘Yve extend our thanks to the combination of bootleggers and the Rev. E. S. Shumaker for their efforts in our behalf and'pledge to both our continued support. “We congratulate our,candidate for Governor on his pledge to give to this organization all patronage with the exception of his private secretary and private stenographer and dedicate ourselves anew to the practices of pillage, the hymn of hate, and the rule of stub pencil.” That at least would be frank and honest.

Python’s Eggs A generation or so ago, a very popular preacher gave a very popular lecture which he called “Python’s Eggs.” It was a wonderful lecture, very convincing. It began with a realistic description of a man in a desert, corning upon some very attractive eggs, which he carried to his home. They looked pretty. In time the hot sun hatched them into little fuzzy creatures, even more attractive, soft to the touch, appealing in their seeming loyalty, playful in his Lours of leisure, pets and companions. And then the fuzzy things grew and grew as they were fed and fondled, until they became full sized, and the man was proud of his python pets. Os course, the pythons did not change their nature. They are venomous and vengeful. One day they struck and the man who had found the eggs was killed and his children destroyed. Senator James Eli Watson and his political children ought to get a copy of that lecture and read it today. They well might turn back to the day when out in the desert of hate they took a Stephenson into the family circle; such a playful boy, with such strength. They well remember the day he met with Watson in the secret room in the South Bend hotel to discuss many things and one in particular. They should remember the time when they saw only a profitable friendship with the hooded forces and welcomed Coffin and Jackson and Robinson and Updike and Rowbottom into the inner circle of the home of Lincoln in Indiana. They might turn to the files of Stephenson and find there the letters of Poland and the replies of Stephenson. They might turn to the letters which Steve sent to the Senator congratulating him on his steadfast loyalty when he “went through hell for our mutual friend” and identify that friend and his high and permanent office. That is the trouble with python’s eggs and hateful forces. They always hatch. They never change. They always bite the hand that feeds them. llow tasteless must be that slim victory of a presidential delegation in the mouth of Watson today, as he sees his children fighting with the hatch which he brought into the house when he accepted the voice of the wizard and the dragon and let it drown the conscience and principles of. Abraham Lincoln. Lucky Jim? Perhaps. And then again even he may have his regrets. Students of the English class at Yale, asked to autograph a set of Shakespeare to be given to Gene Tunney, signed such names as Johnny Applesauce, Jack Dempsey, the Duke of Muldoon. The younger generation simply hasn’t any reverence any more—even for a prize fighter. A meteorolgist the other day expressed the theory that radio waves may be causing some of the bad weather. Maybe the radio sopranos are taking the wrong kind of ether. American engineers are studying a $500,000,000 Argentina-Chile canal project. Just as if the marines weren't busy enough now.

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Hit-and-Kun Diplomacy Senator Blaine of Wisconsin, wants to get the marines out of Nicaragua by Christmas, but, commendable as this desire is, more likely it will be several Christmases before the last of them are gone. Misguided diplomacy got us into the mess, but, now that we are in it, we must face the music. We can’t cripple * lot of folks, then run away and leave them. The world would have a very proper contempt for such hit-and-run diplomacy. Moreover, getting out before the we've blundered into is finished would do both the Nicaraguans and ourselves more harm than good. First, we stand pledged to do what we can to help the people hold an honest presidential election next October, but morally our obligation extends beyond that. If the elections are fair, the Liberal candidate, General Moncada, will win for the simple reason that the Liberals are admittedly in a majority. Whereupon, were we to withdraw from the scene, the powerful Conservative coup-maker, General Chamorro, or some other minority leader, would almost certainly start a revolution before our transports were hull-down over the horizon, .and the people would find themselves facing a future more chaotic and bloody than ever. Stupid, n odoubt, we were, but we went into Nicaragua of our own free will. We've no right, therefore, even if we would, to leave the people worse off than we found them, and if we are not to do that very thing, then here are at least five things to attend to before we go: First, we must make good our promise of fair elections. Second, we must help organize a non-partisan national guard, which can protect duly elected governments from revolutionary coupsters. Third, help create reasonably honest legislative and judicial systems, public schools, and public health services. Fourth, rescue the country from unscrupulous money-lenders and concession hunters, seeing to it ■ that much-needed loans are had at reasonable rates of interest. Fifth, help the republic build a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific and dirt roads into the now almost inaccessible regions where revolutions start and outlawry thrives because there is no way to get 1 at them. Such should be our program. No act of ours in j recent years has lowered our prestige so much abroad, j particularly in Latin-America, as our adventure in 1 Nicaragua. To a certain extent, we can retrieve the less bycarrying out such a program in a genuinely human- 1 itarian, scrupulously honest way, then leaving the people to govern themselves. But, if we have no intention of unselfishly performing our full duty in the premises, we should not wait until Christmas, nor October either. The quicker we pull out, the better.

Speedy Justice—for Whom? A New York negro the other day broke into an apartment and killed a woman. He was captured, rushed to trial, and now, twenty-three days after committing the murder, stands sentenced to the electric chair. That was speedy justice, and the officers involved are to be commended. But it would be so much easier to get enthusiastic about it if it could happen, now and then, to a defendant who had money and social position. It’s easy to speed up the trial of a penniless, friendless negro; but it’s quite another thing to make speed when the accused is, say, a multi-millionaire oil rrfan who is charged with bribing a cabinet officers. We have not yet reached the point where the poor man gets the same consideration in court that the rich man gets. We still have two kinds of justice.

David Dietz on Science World’s Strangest Ship No. 51

THE Carnegie, non-magnetic ship of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, which left May 1 for a study of magnetic conditions in the five oceans of the world, is one of the most unusual ships in existence. It was built in 1909 from plans worked out by Dr. Louis A. Bauer, director of the department of terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie Institution. As the vessel is designed for making magnetic surverys of the oceans, she is constructed almost entirely

to make a tour of inspection of the Carnegie with Capt. J. P. Ault, who will have command of the present cruise. Captain Ault pointed on tthat locust tree nails, copper and bronze bolts and composition spikes took the place of iron fastenings on the boat. The metal deck fittings and the metal work on the spars and rigging are of bronze, copper and gun metal. The keel and hull of the vessel are sheathed in copper. Except for piston rings, valves and other small parts, the ship’s engine is constructed of bronze. A special cook stove of bronze was constructed for the ship’s galley. No iron utensils or iron objects of any sort are used on the ship. Even the buttons on the uniforms of the crew are of bone and brass. Capt. Ault pointed out that this care was absolutely necessary because the instruments used aboard the ship were so delicate that the presence of any iron near them would cause them to make faulty readings of the earth’s magnetic field. • It is important to get readings as exact as possible. These readings are of immense value to navigators who need accurate charts of the variation of the compass needle. They are also extremely valuable to scientists who seek to discover the cause of the earth’s magnetism.

KEEPING UP With THE NEWS

BY LUDWELL DENNY TO recognize or not to recognize the Chinese Nationalist Government? This is the big international question in Washington and other world capitals today. On the answer depends extraterritorial rights of foreigners, and how long the United States and other powers can maintain their own courts and armies in China and control that country’s fiscal and tariff policies. The question is acute, because military reports predict the fall of Pekin to the victorious Nationalist (southern) armies. The Nationalists already have nominal control of all China south of the wall, except the small Pekin-Tientsin area and parts of Shantung province held by the Japanese. Chang Tso-Lin, northern war i lord and ex-ally of Japan, is reported ready to retreat from Pekin to his Manchurian stronghold, north of the wall. Today the Nationalist chiefs are meeting in their Nanking capital Ito consider “important internal | diplomatic questions expected to ' arise following the anticipated imminent fall of Pekin." The Nationalists, after long waiting, insist upon de jure recognition by the United States and other powers. Usually this would be | automatic, but some powers are ; hesitant, because such recognition | involves facing the long-postponed i extra-territorial issues, i Japan and Turkey, in similar circumstances, simply threw out the | special rights of foreigners. Must j Nationalist China be driven to this ' extremity, or can a middle road be agreed upon by diplomatic nego- > tiations? tt a a THE Washington government, foreseeing recent Nationalist i military successes and spread of Naj tionalist feeling in the formerly conservative northern provinces, evolved a careful diplomatic program to meet the present emergency. That program is based upon, but in some ways goes beyond, the Washington treaties. It follows: 1. Resognition of the Nationalist government whenever it controls China south of the wall, provided assurances are given that it will act as representative of the people and will respect foreign treaties until those treaties are charged by orderly processes. 2. Gradual rather than immediate cancellation of the so-called unequal treaties giving special rights to foreigners. In the case of courts, American legal jurisdiction to be withdrawn progressively as fast ifs China codifies its laws, establishes a responsible judiciary and just law enforcement machinery. 3. American troops and gunboats in the interior of China to be with- i drawn when a stable central native j government demonstrates its ability j to protect legitimate property interestr. and lives of American citizens. 4. Willingness to negotiate. Immediately following recognition, new treaties providing for orderly modification and eventual revocation of j ail special rights and privileges held \ by Americans. 5. Active American support for the Nationalists' determination to prevent division of their country into foreign spheres of influence, or acquisition of Chinese territory by foreign powers. tt tt THIS American policy in some respects is more “liberal” than that of Great Britain and Japan. It has been matured by Secretary Kellogg and ths President and in general is believed to be supported by the Senate and House Foreign Relations Committee, the missionary boards, American corporations, and most of the press. Reports from China indicate Americans in some cases are lumped with other aliens in the native antiforeign movement. Use of American gunboats in bombing Nanking last year made Americans unpopular. But unwillingness of Washington to join with other powers in the suggested punitive ultimatum over the Nanking affair tended to make the United States somewhat less hated and distrusted. The fact that Great Britain has more special concessions than the United States and that Japan has won increased hatred by her present Shantung “invasion,” leaves the United States in a favored position with the Nationalists, according to Chinese reports.

BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright. IP2B. by Tho Ready Reterence Publishing Company) BY W. W. WENTWORTH

of non-magnetic materials. The rigging is of hemp instead of steel wire. The anchors, instead of being the usual sort of iron, are of bronze and the ordinary iron anchor chains are replaced by special 11-inch Manila anchor cables. It was my good fortune some time ago

(Abbreviations: A—ace; K—king: Q—otieen: .I—jack; X—any card lower than 10.) 1. At no-trump play, when you hold A K X X X X of suit in dummy with no other re-entry card and X X of suit in your hand, what is the safest way of playing to make five tricks? 2. At no-tramp play, you hold A X X X X in dummy with no re-en-tries and X X X in declarer’s hand. What is the safest way of playing to make at least three tricks? 3. What is the quick trick value of Q X X? THE ANSWERS 1. Lead from hand and do not cover with A or K on first round. 2. Lead from hand twice and do not cover with A until third round. 3. One-quarter.

This Date in U. S. History

May 16 1801—William H. Seward, Secretary of State in Lincoln’s cabinet, born. 1813—Steam ferries first ran between New York and Brooklyn. 1861—Virginians notified to vote for secession or leave the State. 1866—President Johnson vetoed bill to admit Colorado. 1911—U. S. treasury invited bids for $50,000,000 Panama Canal bonds.

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THE ideal government, then, is that of the dictator, for his rise shows his ability, and it is well that all the nafion should follow such a man. “The wise founder of a commonwealth who aims not at personal power but at the general good. . , . ought to use every effort to obtain exclusive authority; and no wise intellect will ever find fault with any extraordinary action employed by him. . . . For though the act accuses him, the result excuses him.” Therefore the conduct of Caesar Borgia, so bitterly denounced in Florence, is perfectly just from the exalted point of view of state necessity; it would be well for the rulers of Florence to follow his example, and forge by their strength and will the unity of Italy. "I should not well know what better rules I might give to anew prince than the pattern of Ceasar Borgia’s actions.” Only through such a man will Italy be lifted up to its place among the nations. a a a DID Italy listen? Lorenzo acacknowledeed the dedication, sent the author two flasks of wine, and forgot him and his book. In 1527, when Machiavelli was an old man of 58 years, his name was proposed again as secretary of the Florentine Republic: twelve votes were cast for him, 548 against. Within a few months of that parting blow he died, envying peasants who cannot think His morals, which shock us, did not shock his time; they express his tiro a. No one was disturbed by them; Pope Clement VII patronized the publication of Machiavelli’s works. Some ruling families complained that he had divulged the secrets of government; but as there was little fear of his book falling into the hands of the proletariat, or piercing their comprehension, no one took the matter very seriously.

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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION Devil Breaks Young, Bruno’s Faith Written for The Times by Will Durant

The Italians have a good nose for hypocrisy, and by contrast they liked the brave candour of this imaginary despot. Napoleon carried “The Prince” to Egypt with him. and his profusely annotated copy was found in his carriage at Waterloo. And at this moment it is the spirit of Machiavelli that rules and \ unites Italy. As for us, Machiavelli can have no horrors; we have studied a little history, and have looked occasionally behind the show-windows of democracy. Very probably he was wrong, and ends that require brutal means are not worth the blood they spill; but “virtuous indignation at his expense.” as old Burckhardt said, “is thrown away on us, who have seen, in what sense po•litical morality is understood by the statesmen of our own century.” We thank IVlachiavelli, as Bacon did, for describing how men behave, rather than how they should behave; a little realism is a tonic for our Ideals. We shall know the despot for what he is the next time he falis to ou* lot, and though we shall in all likelihood be unable to depose him, we shall destroy him with our smiles at the top of his game. u n a BRUNO PASS now from northern to southern Italy, and look at the little town of Nola, near Naples and Vesuvius; here, in 1548, the most passion-, ate of philosophers was born, with half the fire of volcano in his blood. To his family name Bruno he added the name Giordano when, at 16, he plunged into a dominican monastery. It was a pivotal mistake, on

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Daily Thought

Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. —Prov. 3:17. Si St tt PEACE, above all things, is to be desired, but blood sometimes must be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.—Andrew Jackson.

which great tragedy was to hang; he was to remark sadly that if the first button of one’s coat is buttoned wrongly, all the rest will be awry. Picture him in his monastery cell, the veritable prototype of Fra Giovanni in Anatole France’s “Human Tragedy,” happy in meditation and prayer, knowing the comradeship of angels and the brotherly nearness of God himself. Then the devil came to him, disguised as a philosopher, came to raise questions about Giordano’s faith, to show contradictions and incompatibilities and improbabilities, to make argument about it and about. Suddenly what had seemed so natural and beautiful became uncertain, difficult, incredible; for a while, incredible, but believed; then the whole edifice cracked, crumbling, falling to ruins in a frightened soul. For thirteen years to be the battleground of reason and belief—what a struggle!—and how could a man ever be sane or happy again after that? It was Coperbicus who had broken the great structure of faith and hope. The news that the pious astronomer had brought down from into Italy; and every soul that understood was disturbed. This earth, that had been God’s footstool, that had been the home of his chosen people and the scene of his own crucifixion, this earth, the sins of whose people he had suffered and died,—this was but a drop of mud hurtling about space, in an infinite sea of worlds and worlds? (Copyright, 1928, by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

He played next with the Forepaugh Stock Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, and later toured in road shows. He directed Hope Hampton in “The Bait’’ and “Love’s Penalty.” He has been married and divorced twice. His first wife was Olivia Burrell, from whom he was divorced in 1918. In 1921 he married Leatrice Joy. Three years later she divorced him. They had a daughter, born in Sept. 1924, just prior to the separation. He is 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighs 145 pounds and has dark brown eyes and hair. %^TBEES THE ROBUST SYCAMORE Sycamore grows to a larger diameter than any other American hardwood and trees measuring ten feet through have been recorded. The tree is easily recognized by the crazy patchwork appearance of its trunk and branches, caused by the flaking off of the old bark which leaves exposed the smooth whitish or pale green patches of new bark. This moulting is a continuous performance during the sycamore’s growing season and even in winter flakes of bark may be picked up on the snow. Preferring borders of streams and wet bottom lands the sycamore, or buttonwood, as it is sometimes called, grows vigorously and luxuriantly. Sycamore lumber is sometimes used for interior finish of houses, but because the wood does not impart taste and odor and possesses the necessary strength and hardness, it is of particular value for containers such as flour and sugar barrels and tobacco boxes. It is also used for planing mill products, porch and kitchen furniture, butchers’ blocks, berry boxes and handles. The sycamore withstands the hard conditions of city life and is extensively planted as a shade tree. In old age the tree is picturesque rather than beautiful. The stiff branches strike out from the huge trunk irregularly and wander away without law or order. The Sycamore was held in veneration by the Egyptians and worshiped with fruit offerings and jars of water of which travelers might partake.

MAY 16, 1928

M. E. TRACY SAYS: “Nothing Has Contributed More to Human Proyress Than Increased Ability to Get About, to Overcome Time, as Well as Distance.”

L. SMITH, president of the Y 4 American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, has been convicted of annoying Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, by sending the latter irreligious literature after he had been requested to stop, and faces a fine not to exceed SSOO or imprisonment of not more than three years. On the very same day, the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals reversed the conviction of Roger Baldwin, who was sentenced to six months in jail for participating in an unlawful assemblage because lie mounted the city hall steps at Patterson and read portions of the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing free speech to a crowd of strikers and strike sympathizers that had previously been prevented from holding a meeting. Also, on the very same day, Stephen J. Keiper, a former New York policeman, was permitted to plead guilty of petty larceny, though he had confessed to some forty cases of burglary and grand larceny. it a a Robbers’ Piivileges In Keiper’s case the district attorney explained that grand larceny could not be proved because the loot in no particular instance amounted to more than SSO, thau burglary could not be proved because in no particular instance wero witnesses prepared to say they had seen Keiper entering or leaving a house, and that though Keiper had confessed, he might repudiate his confession and thus leave the jury free to believe the story it preferred. a a Plague of Perjury The attitude of courts toward repudiated confessions is curious. It is generally agreed that perjury has become the plague of our judicial system. How can a confession be made and repudiated, provided there is no coercion or undue influence, without involving perjury, and yet whoever heard of a defendant being punished for it? A repudiated confession represents the most obvious kind of lying, the most blatent type of falsehood, but it seems to stir no deeper emotion on the part of our judicial system than to let the jury decide which story is a lie. tt w tt tt Public Is Victim If it is unlawful for an atheist to send a minister of the gospel irreligious literature after he has been requested to stop, what about a minister who sends religious literature to an atheist or anyone else under similar circumstances? To consider a more common-place pest, what about those who are bombarded with direct-by-mail adverting and have they, too, a remedy under the law?

What Is Propaganda? In pronouncing judgment in the Smith-Straton case. Justice Healy remarked that the court was not passing on the merits of the religious controversy, but only on the legal points as they affected the mailing of literature. It is generally understood that advertising does not fall under the head of literature in this sense, but where does advertising end and propaganda begin? Good as the decision in Baldwin's case may be, it is weakened by the fact that it took more than three years to arrive. Admitting that the law has functioned justly, why should it be so slow? 000 Primitive Legal Mill There are circumstances in which men can afford to be slow for the sake of wisdom, but as a general proposition speed is the basis of civilization. Nothing has contributed more to human progress than increased ability to get about, to overcome time, as well as distance. The legal mill is the one institution which grinds in the same old primitive way, and that, more than anything else, is what ails it. If a housewife calls up the neighboring grocery store by telephone and fails to get five pounds of sugar right on the dot, that grocery store loses her trade, but if a citizen, like Roger Baldwin, is arrested and it takes three years to find out that he had been mistreated by an arrogant chief of police, who worries? 000 Age of Going Faster While our courts fiddle and fuddle the same way they did 300 years ago, industry, commerce, education, and even the church, take advantage of up-to-date methods, doing what they can to make it possible for people to cover more ground in a given length of time. The idea of going faster and still faster, is not just another craze; the quicker men can get from place to place, the more they can see, know and accomplish; the swifter one particular piece of business can be dispatched, the sooner another can be taken up. 000 Alibi for Laziness When you get down to brass tacks, efficiency is a mere matter of doing things with Increased rapidity. This idea that slowness leads to straighter thinking is little but an alibi for lazy minds. The automobiles of this country have run down and killed more than 75,000 people, while the New Jersey courts discovered that it was no crime to read the Constitution of the United States on the steps of a city hall. That is one reason why the law cannot catch up with crime.