The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-03

Kingdom Of Sports
Money to Spare?
Black Shirts
Bombs and BombaS.
BY Nj. T., Tracy.

should have been happy world dur
ing the last twenty-four hours.
Not that items of interest were en-
tirely lacking, but the absence of
crime, accident and political situa-
ton We're such as to actually force
sport to take more than it's usual
share of the first page, with the
English derby overshadowing ali
else.
Five hundred thousand turned out
to see it, they say. while $4,000, 900
changed hands when one lords horse
beat another lords horse.
Gambling, winked at, condoned
and participated in by the best soci-
ETY.? No doubt, no DOUBT. But. such
an outpouring of cash and excite
ment may help England forget the
recent strike, or, barring that, help
the government enact its proposed
reacting tax bill.
j. + +
Passing to different, if not more
worthwhile events, who ever heard
of a White House spokesman that
didn't want to admit there was cash
in the treasury. or If he had to, who
didn't want to admit that it was a
good thing.
That was the startling phenome-
non this Administration presents.
Somebody said with loud and eX-
ultant voice. as one might expect,
but quietly and unobstrusively. that
| if figures didn't lie there would be
$3.50, 1000 900 to the credit Of the
| United States when all accounts had
been squared on the 30th Of this
month.
No sooner did the White House
spokesman hear of this than he went
into blue funk.
In the first place he iutimated-
intimated. you understand-that it
couldn't be true.
In the second place. he intimatcd
that if it were true-well--
The White House spokesman is
obviously of d timid turn of mind.
He just can't bear to think of $780,
| 900, 900 lying around as a tempta-
ton to Congress.
No one knows what Congress
might do.
1t might decide to keep Muscle
Shoals. go TO the farmers aid, build
postofices all over the map. or, what
is far worse, move for another tax
cut.
And to think. Secretary Mellon,
the best Secretary of the Treasury
since Alexander Hamilton, the White
House spokesman said, should do
| such a thing, especially after he had
promised a deficit.
+ T. J.
But, cheer up, Edsel Ford has
come back from Europe declaring
F'ascism and Mussolini are all right.
Trains run on schedule, he said,
while the market for low priced cars
looks good.
AS though to put New York in a
good form to receive this favorable
impression. 200 black shirts made
their appearance in the Memorial
day parade. Some Italians booed
them The argument over who in
vited them to take part in the pa
rade. or whether they should have
been invited, seems good for three
weeks run.
+ 1. +
All of this brings to mind the
bombing of that house in Massa-
chusetts the other day which every
body is blaming on radical sympa-
thizers with Sacco and Nansetti.
How many riots ard outrages those
two unfortunatcS have really caused,
it is impossible to say, but public
opinion passes up nothing that can
be connected with their case, no
matter where it occurs or how much
Imagination is required.
Even if the half is true, they have
inspired more trouble than any two
men and they are not so much to
blame for it as the commonwealth
of Massachusetts.
The commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts convicted them of murder
and sentenced them to death nearly
five years ago, since which time she
has dallied with them like cat
Win DllCSs dppcl emily ~
make up her mind whether they
should be electrocuted, sent to pris-
on, put in the mad house or set free.
This hesitancy on the part of a
sovereign State has done more to
lend color to the idea that they were
unjustly treated than anything else.
The house bombed belonged to the
brother-in-law of one of the princj-
pal witnesses against them and it
is taken for granted that their sym
pathizers did the bombing, just as it
is taken for granted that their
sympathizers bombed our embassy in
Buenos Aires a few days ago.
In this situation it is worth while
to remember that we have come to
a point where trities may come to
a bomb.
Asa K. Bartlett of Michigan, who
has just received a life imprison-
ment sentence, murdered three peo-
pie with bomb.
lie was moved to the deed with
no greater urge than that he could
not stand to see a man running
things who had beaten him to d
small town job.