The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-02

A Courageous Gesture
FIorida's Curse
: Political Possibilities
Freedom of the Camera
BY MI. e. Tracy

Pilsudsh refused 10 be president
of Poland himself. but insisted on
| naming the president
Cycnics say 1t was a grand ges-
ture to the people. and perhaps 1t
was. but who wouldn't make such
a gesture II he had the courage?
Who wouldn't rather be the power
| behind the throne than sit on It.
Assuming that Pilsudski is a pa
triot, he can do his country more
good by keeping out of the spot
light.
Many a great man has lost such
an opportunity by permitting him.
self to be bound and gagged with
the articif1al trappings of office.
The greatness of Pilsudski remains
to be proven. of course, and espe-
cially in the fields Of statecraft. but
he Is certainly starting out like a
man who understands Poland and
its problems.
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Two very estimable and wealthy
women started out to create a social
sanctum sanctorum in Florida 1t
was their dream to gather nabobs
from all the world-British mobiles,
American miIlionaires and ex-kings
and there develop such an atmos-
phere of exclusiveness, as would
eclipse the courts OF old.
They entered the scheme Of real
estate developing in Florida. how
ever, a year or so too late and all
the beautiful advertising has
shriveled to the 'technicality of a
petition In bankruptcy.
These women only represent In an
exaggerated form what has been In
1icted on Florida by thousands OF
others-an appeal to snobbery OF the
cheapest sort and a neglect Of the
great advantages which Florida
really possesses.
No State, or community was ever
made strong and healthy by mere
pleasure seekers.
| Florida has wonderful soil and a
wonderful climate. What she needs
and what she has not been getting
in nine-tenths OF the cases is people
to make the most OF them
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What Senator Borah told the
Presbyteriaps at Baltimore last Sun
day night has a significance quite
outside It's bearing on the liquor
question. Whether consciously or
not, the man has made himself po-
litical leader of the dry forces with
In the Republican party.
This may mean that he is a posi-
BILE presidential nominee for 1928,
especially IL Coolidge fails to run.
Should the Republicans nominate
him and should the Democrats nomi-
nate Governor Smith Of New York.
what would the dry Democratic
South DO? Also what would the wet
Republican East do?
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After four months Of careful
preparation, the Navy Department
thinks 1t is ready to lift the S-55
from the bottom of Long Island
Sound, where she has lain since the
18th Of last September. a tomb Of
twenty-four brave lads.
You remember how the whole ma
ton waited for day after day while
the Navy Department and private
concerns tried desperately to grapple
the submarine. how everybody
hoped, even when 1t had become fool
ish to hope. that by some hook or
crook the men might be found alive.
You remember how they finally
entered the hull and took nine bodies
out, which ended all the suspense.
Or, do you remember, since there
has been SO much to read and think
about in the meantime?
The Government remembered any.
way and it Is there once more with
its divers. derricks and pontoons.
The last of this week, or the first
Of next, should see the final test and
show whether this scientific age is
able to raise submarines as well as
It can sink them
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A Baltimore Judge has Just sen
fenced three editors to jail for con-
tempt Of court.
They published photographs In
connection with the Richard Reese
| Whittemore trial, after he had
warned them not to.
I have no comment to make on
this particular case, but why the
anti-photograpll complex that seems
to affHct all our courts?
Why aren't pictures as good a
part of the records as words?
We use pictures in connection with
most everything else. spend lots OF
time to get them and would feel
lost without them.
Pictures tell a. lot that is well
nigh impossible to put in print,
A history or a travelogue with.
out pictures is bound to be duller
and harder to understand than one
with them.
Leaving newspapers out of It, !
would suppose that the courts them
selves would want pictures as part
of the record in important cases.
Certainly they could do nothing that
would leave posterity a clearer idea
of just how we worked in this day
and generation.