The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-18
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Machines Perform
New Censorship
Justice or Paynnent2
Rate StabiIizer
BY NJ. E. Tracy

BY NJ. E. Tracy
After such a visitation of CAB,
button holing and direct by mail
politics, as was never exceeded in
their machine ridden state, Penn
sylvania Republicans are voting to-
day.
Though nominees for State and
minor positions are to be selected, in
terest in the senatorial race has
come to overshadow everything else.
There are three candidates-Con-
gressman William S. Ware, Governor
Clifford Pinchot and George WRarton
Pepper, the present incumbent.
Ware says he is wet, but his
obvious aim is to demonstrate the
power Of the machine by virtue Of
which he made himself the boss Of
Philadelphia.
Pepper. though touted as a main
prop of the Coolidge Administration
is just as obviously out to per-
form a similar service for the
Mellon-Davis machine in western
Pennsylvania.
If it were not for Pinchot's pink
lemonade complex, he'd win in a
walk, because he is the only one of
them not tangled up with machine
politics.
T. T. y.
Arthur Garfield Hays and James
Weldon Johnson can't speak in
high school auditorium, Norman
Thomas can't talk over the radio
and the Rev. S. Parks Cadman can't
deliver the commencement address
at n military academy.
The educational assemblies don't
look with favor on Hays and john
son because of their connection with
the American Civil Liberties Union,
not to mention the fact that the
former acted as one Of the counsel
for Scopes in Tennessee.
The big radio stations are afraid
of Thomas because he is a Socialist,
though what he wants to discuss
most is freedom of the air.
The Reverend Cadman's views are
too pacific to suit those running a
military school.
So these men, Notwithstanding
their recognized ability, prominent
positions and conformity to the laUG
are barred from the legitimate chan
nels OF expression by a new kind Of
censorship.
All of which, mind you, takes
place not in the provincial West, or
down in the backward South, where
the unenlightened hordes are sup
posed to know no better, but right
in the stamping ground Of Henry
, Mencken and Flo Zeigfeld, less than
forty-fve minutes from Broc 7way,
and where free thought is presumed
to have reached the climax Of per-
lection.
Look to your laurels, Tennessee,
lest the cliff dwellers Of Manhattan
rob you Of your primacy in narrow
ness.
J. T. l.
The accomplice who squealed on
Gerald Chapman and without whose
testimony Chapman could hardly
have been convicted and hanged,
gets three years. Is this justice. or
payment for services rendered.
1t is necessary, Of course, for the
law to deal with stool pigeons and
welchers on occasions, but nothing
does more to make people wonder
and doubt.
Such practices run counter to the
ideals of fair play. They make the
law seem inefficient. You can't
reconcile them with the principles
Of common honesty.
In private affairs, most men
would rather take chances with a
crook who sticks by his pals than
with one who goes back on them,
yet the law appears to hold an
opposite view.
T. ! : T.
This Government is in no position
to protest the deportation of it's cit
liens by any other government. 1t
can't so to court with clean hands.
1t has not only deported the citi-
zens of other governments on the
fimsiest of charges but some times,
as in the case of the Countess Kar-
alyi without even deigning to name
thel charge.
Suppose Archbishop Carauana
was deported from Mexico unjustly,
suppose the charge against him is
false and suppose he has been de-
prived of his rights contrary to in.
ternational law, what can this Gov
ernment do. except swallow it's own
medicine, or, more accurately, make
the Archbishop do so.
Chickens have a way Of coming
home to roost, and our State depart
ment has Matched a lot Of mean
ones.
T. Il +
Now they tell us that Congress
won't get around to voting on
Muscle Shoals this session.
A good ideal The question in
volved is too big to be settled out
Of hand.
Let's see il there isn't a bigger
see how this great power hookup
that all the electrical magnates are
talking about will look before Civ
ing them Muscle Shoals.
Lat's see if there isn't a bigger
purpose for Muscle Shoals to serve
than the production of just so much
electricity and nitrate.
Who knows but that it could be
made to do more good as a factor
Of competition, a stabilizer Of rates,
than in any other way?
Who knows but. that it is just
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