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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-27

their zone of operations. Dr. Sacaza was recently
recognized by Mexico as the Liberal constitutional
president of Nicaragua just after Adolfo Diaz had
been recognized by the United States the Con-
sentative president of the country
Were Mexico powerful enough the next step
woNd be for her to land Mexican marines at Ma
nagua, the Diaz capital and order him and his
hackers to clear out precisely the United States
has done at Puerto Cabezas, the Sacaza capital
which would mean war.
What actually would happen is now problem
Mexico of course, is just as completely within her
rights sovereign power to regard Sacaza as the
righfu ruler of Nicaragua as the United States is
to look upon Diaz president. Hence it is ques-
ton of might not of right.
Our Latin-American diplomacy has hardly ever
been on too high plane, but of late it has been
despicable. First the State Department gives out
cock and bull story of Northumberland bolshevism
menacng Nicaragua-that was to pave the way for
Intervention; then Secretary of State kellogg cam.
oufages himself Santa Claus and waits until
Christmas Eve. to slip unnotced down Nicaragua
chimney to shove gun in her face
Let no one say, therefore, that our diplomacy is
without nesse. OF late it has exhibited all the SUBJ
tie nuances displayed by large bear making for a
goober in cage. 1t has dropped all pretense of
bygone days and made it apparent that it intends to
run things from Texas to the Colombian Panamanian
border, if no farther.
AS the new year approaches the situation is
far from reassuring. Some very powerful forces in
this country busy seeking American Intervention
in Mexico and any trivial incident" in Nicaragua
might be twisted into the very excuse they are look
ing for
AT all events things are approaching a crisis;
that much is certain There must be a showdown
soon
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HIS HOME CITY

Tie Mellett verdict means something more than
t. G mere conviction of man, and there is some
tAng else to than trace down those others
9e the underworld who connived and plotted and
Tanned his murder
This city, his home the place where he gained
lhat ideal Of public service which brought him to
MS tragic end has something to do as has every
-ther city which is cursed with rule by bosssm.
For bossism always depends upon traffic with
crime and the underworld for its power.
1t could not exist it not for the fact that /
gives privileges and mmunities to the breakers o.
Jaws.
In Canton, the underworld grew bold and open.
It was sure of itself because it knew that 1t could
escape the law and it's vengeance. 1t was the gov
ornment and resented the interference of the Meetts
with it's power and it's profits.
4 Founded in lawlessness and defiance of law, it
rs small wonder that it executed the man who
nd challenged it's rule and its supremacy.
r But back of all that lawless defiance of decency.
b.hind the murder of the courageous editor is the
act that crime and machine politics always part
lers ana wherever boss rules with undsputed
sway there promises of protection and real
lection given to vioators Of laws.
without those protected law breakers on cleo
ion and primary days, the boss would be done, for
there are always good people than bad ones in
my city
In some cities, the power of the underworld is
aown in police departments which so servile
- tne voice Of the master that honest prosecutors
nd it difficult to find one man to serve warrants in
9hom trust can be placed.
In some cities, this sinister power takes the
'orm of grand jury suppression of indictments
against the guilty.
In some cities it takes the color Of protection
or high officials who traffic with the peoples mil
ions and jugge privileges for corporations.
And in some cities the real underworld which
snarls and bites and throttles and kills those who
oppose finds lucrative ways of supporting itself
than by merely selling bootleg whisky or running
petty dens of vice. The real underworld in these
more sophisticated centers trades in contracts and in
exploitation of funds
The real duty of the home city Of the MUIR
dered Meett martyr editor to the of govern,
ment, is deep search Of conditions in his home city
and relentless warfare against any traces of the
system of protected crime and protected pillege
which brought his end
For when the jury at Canton convicted hired
killer of his death, it convicted also that system of
boss rule of cities everywhere.
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WIVES SHOULD BE
Careful THESE DAYS

In London 1t seems that some
clever people make their living by
posing as somebody and then black
mailing their friends.
Such people are found in Butter
flies in the Rain" which has the
services of Laura La Plante as the
wife who certainly does get wet"
in her experiences with the black
mailerE.
Laura is cast as the daughter of
a wild English family whose pocket
book isn't so strong. but the fam
lily feels that good money mar
riage would help matters along.
So the rich and naughty daughter
starts her conquest. but she is hon
est with a good man, played by
James Kirkwood. Jimmy is really
quite too good this time because he
doesn't do certain things just be-
cause he promised his mother that
he wouldn't. He shouldn't 60 them
because they are not right. That
is sufficient reason.
But our good hero falls in love
with the rich girl and he is rich
enough to give her all the luxury
that she wants. She warns him
that he must be broad minded, but
he didn't know how broad. Shortly
after the honeymoon she decided to
go on a trip without her husband to
Spain with some alleged friends.
She goes and then discovers that
she is the victim of a frame-up, a
mean and dirty deal.
She rushes back to husband, but
the stock market has about ruined
him and the blackmailers finish him.
He sacrifices everything to keep his
wife out of a scandal.
He then starts to come to America
without his wife, but Santa Claus
or somebody brings the blackmailers
to time and our hero is again all set
happy and pretty with his wife.
This rather conventional story,
weak in spots, is well acted both by
Kirkwood and Miss La Plante. The
photography is excellent.
Bill includes a Charles Puffy
comedy, a news reel and music by
Floyd Thompson's orchestra.
At the Colonial all week.
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last September, | visited the Para
mount studio where the opening
carnival scenes were being made.
Hundreds OF extra people were used
I'm these brief scenes of merriment.
The story itself is OF such strength
that it will hold your interest and
l think it will invite lot of thought
and some discussion.
You will be interested in the work
OF three people as follows:
Lois Moran as the good girl who
suddenly falls In love with a sailor
She casts out enough of the bad out
of this man TO make him her hus-
band. Then the fight for ownership
of the man starts between the good
woman and the bad one. In some
of the dramatic and sentimental
scenes, Miss Moran reminds one OF
Lillian Gish when Miss Gish is I'M
der dramatic and sentimental con-
troll. A fine characterization. II is
the good woman who wants twenty
cents. She wants it so she may buy
a rose for sentimental purposes so
she may throw herself into the
ocean. She desires to do this so
she may become the spirit of a bird
in order to follow the trail of the
ship OF her runaway husband. Who
ever gave her the twenty cents left
some odd coin because 1t brought her
great happiness following great
trouble.
Lya De Putt as the fire eating
and passionate bad woman who
loves her man and who vows no
other woman will get him. OF course
she loses. Good but cruel work.
Jack Mulhall as the sailor who
tasted both good and bad love. A
fine piece of natural acting. An
honest Characterization. Mighty fine,
true and honest.
William Collier. Jr., is in the cast.
Although he hasn't much to do he
has that quality which makes him
noticed.
God Gave Me Twenty Cents" is
n picture OF much dramatic beauty.
am for this one because the di-
rector has been brave enough to be
honest with the theory of the story.
Charlie Davis and his gang this
week are presenting School Days.
Bill includes a Mack Sennett comedy
and Bob Gordon, singing organist.
At the Ohio all week.
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Defends American Girl

Everybody has done the American
girl an injustice, according to Rich
ard Curle. who is literary executor
of Joseph Conrad and has just com
pleted a lecture tour OF the United
States.
He does not believe that she goes
in for a flapper career IL pretty and
only remains serious minded II
plain.
American women love going to
lectures" he says. THE protest
and best dressed young women Often
bring notebooks. and after lectures
you are frequently buttonholed by
girls who want you TO elucidate GER
tain points. The idea that they come
out of idle curiosity seems to be
false"
AS a matter OF fact, Curle Is right.
We have talked altogether too loose
ly about our girls, have allowed our
selves to form mistaken opinions be-
cause OF a small and noisy minority.
You could hunt the world over and
go through all the pages of history
without finding an aggregation to
compare with those that are grow
ing up in America today.
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Scorning the elevator boys, she trips
gaIly up and down the stairs when
she goes to work in the morning,
at lunch and in the evening.
my name?" she answered credul.
ously. mot on your ife.i I'd be
kidded to DEATH"
She Gives Advice
Her advice she gladly gives. how
ever.
I've tried everything" she said.
mo pie, no cake, no milk, no cot
fee-but plenty of oranges and
fruits. No late suppers, and lots
Of exercise will turn the trick.
IF you are pressed for time and
can't walk to and from work, climb
the stairs"
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CUTTING LIGHT RATES

The gentleman from Chicago who did not get
quite the speed he desired in his efforts to load up
merger of the two electric plants with fty-nve mil
lion dollars in securities says that the consumers
will now get no reduction in rates
1t was precisely because the people believed that
his proposal to put a valuation of many millions
above the real investment or real value in propery
shut out any such hope that the people made good
their protest in this instance and the public service
commission gave a short respite from that load
There should be a merger of these two plants
and properties, especially since they now seem TO
be under the same ownership
But the people should not be expected to nav
interest and dividends ten or fifteen millions of
dollars as the price of such combination
reasonable valuation, which means some
where the cost price of the two commands
should be placed upon the combination and IL this
is done, the people would probably prefer Harley
Clarke to some other utility operators, especially
those who have unquestioned records as corruption
lists in politics.
But there is way. that 80 per cent of the
people of this city get reductions of electric
rates II the public service commission believes its
legal adviser
Attorney General Gilliom is authority for the
charge that the companies are now giving rebates
% the extent of 100000 a year to favored COM
@nles and consumers and that the householder
ays this much more than he should.
Here is reduction of rates far bevond that
which Clarke promised for all that he could see
at the END OF a few years was a saving of 100000
Before the public service commission invest
gates any other petition it should proceed into this
charge made by the Attorney General
There is place rates can be cut for those who
need lower rates.
IL should investigate his charge that the Indian
apohs News received rebate from the company
1t should ask him for his evidence against all others
The law makes giving of rebates a crime pun.
lshaoie by prison sentences. 1t makes the taking
OF rebate a crime punishable by fine.
The people should write to Mr. Gilliom and the
pubic service commission and demand action tbis
week, not next
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THE McDERMOTT VERDICT

Jury in Canton, Ohio, has found a little man
named Patrick McDermott guilty of murder in con-
nection with the death of Don R. Meett, news
paper publisher.
That is a beginning.
McDermott couldn't have been guilty alone, for
this was not one-man murder 1t was not even
gang murder in the ordinary sense of that term
It was society murder. Society as organized in
Canton-not greatly different from the manner IN
which it is organized in many other American COM
munities-was to blame for the crime OF July IT,
And until the complete workings of this organ
zation are exposed and made understandable to the
people of the country real lesson will have been
learned from the midnight killing in Canton.
When the whole story is told it will reveal bust
ness and professional men-particularly lawyers
tainted with some degree of guilt. Business men
and lawyers whose incomes depend in part on the
traffic that goes in the underworld must be made
to see wherein they incur responsibility for crime
Too many business are too prone to justify
anything that carries profit; lawyers to justify any
thing that carries fee Ethics Of the bar permit an
attorney take any that offers itself In prac-
tice this means any case that offers fee And out
of this grows condition in which we find lawyers
not merely defending criminals against whom
charges have been laid but constructively working
with criminals to make crime pay. Lawyers adj
vising corporations how to evade the law; lawyers
doing the same for rum runners and drug distribu-
tors. For what else is the lawyer doing when he
puts all his wit and experience into the task Of en-
ablng the criminal to escape justice?
There is much yet to be done in Canton. Evil
dence brought out in McDermotts trial proved many
Of the charges made by Mellett in his newspaper.
There was substantiation of his assertion that the
police played part in the towns crime. The bottom
must be reached in the investigation of this phase of
The
But most importantly the price Mellett paid is
20 lie in the least justifed-wi be complete reve-
ation of the business and professional communitys
responsibility for situation that made this murder
aimost inevitable If such revelation results, then
not only Canton but every city in the country will
receive some benefit.
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INTERVENTION IN NICARAGUA

Armed intervention in Central America is now
accomplished fact.
On Christmas Eve, while public attention the
world over was focused on the arrival of jolly old
Kris Kringle Secretary of State Kellogg gave the
signal to Rear Admiral Latimer and landing party
of American marines took charge Of the situation
in Nicaragua.
The first effect of the announcement was con-
siderably deadened, no doubt by the universal
chorus of Merry Chrstmas!" But the end is not yet
and complications to be feared
The first act of the American bluejackets was to
disarm the Liberal forces of DR.. Juan Bautista
Sacaza a9d order the revolutionaries' to eSacuate
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Prosperous or Not2

The farmers plight stands out in
strange contrast to all the stock div
idends and bonuses.
He has lost over $1,000. 100000 this
year; his capital has shrunk by. one
third during the last six years, and
even so he makes less than per
cent on 1t.
Are we in the midst of an era of
prosperity, or just fooling ourselves:
1t is a comforting notion that we
shall continue to grow rich as long
as skyscrapers continue to grow
taller and rents increase.
Worship of the city and activities
of the city have become a virtual
obsession with the American people.
AS a general proposition we look
no farther for prosperity than the
street car runs.
The idea of what really makes the
wheels go round has become lost in
tumble of artificial appointments.
Sam Houston once said that civil
cation began with the pillow and that
it would end with theSplow. If this
Is so, we need to be doing something
to stabilize agricultural values and
earnings.
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The new method. It's here!
You girls who fain would have
that slim boyish figure. that lure Of
the sylvan nymph, that fairly-like
waistline. Miss Black shows you
in the above picture just how she
Is reducing.
Upstairs, downstairs, all about
the town. This reticent little miss
who strives to reduce her 1874
pounds TO 90 Tor something like
that. has adopted this motto.
Climbs Six Flights
She works as a clerk in an insur-
ance office on the sixth floor of a
downtown office building and four
times daily walks the six flights of
stairs as a matter OF exercise.
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Better Than Force

In spite Of all the trouble and con
fusion, there are many indications
that the world is looking for bet
ter methods than those Of force TO
adjust international affairs.
NJ. BRAND says in his Christmas
message that 1927 will see a new
spirit and a new conception OF inter
national affairs.
The people of the world have be-
gun to realize" he says. that 1t is
necessary to give themselves whole
heartedly to peace and to setting up
technical means needed to do away
with the old automatic risks OF war. q"
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that she is tIlS
most consistent of
the funny women
on the screen to-
day because she
knows her stage
tricks and above
all she generally
has n true to the
form Bebe Daniels
story. or course
nearly all of her
films are mostly
Bebe but she has
stories which gives
her a chance to
develop the fun
business. In NAM
ipp her az tho
leading S c r e Q n
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Watch the Corners in
Bidding After Partner
Passes,
he pointer for today is:

The pointer for today is;
A bid which would be correct after
an adverse pass might be incorrect
after an adverse bid.
The following hand supposed to
be held by North, was given on Sat
urday last to be considered today
under four different bidding condi-
tons:
Sp.: jacks. Ht 4-3-2. Di.: Ace
King-Jack-S-5. Cl.: King-10-7.
Case No. /: South one Spade, West
pass. North should bid one No
Trump Lack Of normal support in
the Spade suit makes denial impor-
tant; and, as the hand has strength
in two suits and three cards in the
remaining suit, No Trump denial
is better than a Diamond denial, al
though there is no stopper in the
three-c card Heart suit. The Diamond
denial would show Diamonds only;
the No Trump denial shows high
cards in at least two suits. If
North's hand had been held by South
and had contained the Ace and King
instead Of the Jack and Nine of
Spades, it would have been an obvi-
GUS No Trump. After South has bid
one Spade. the combined hands have
at least that strength, and the 80
fore North should bid No Trump. -
Case No. 2: South one Spade, West
two Hearts. The adverse Hearts not
being stopped, the possibility of a
No Trump bid is eliminated and the
choice obviously must be a pass, two
Spades or three Diamonds. The
hand clearly is too strong to pass;
sitting opposite a partner strong
enough to bid originally, 1t presents
too good a chance for game for any
such puerile declaration. Lack OF
normal support should preclude ali
thought of raising the partners
Spades, and therefore three Dia-
monds is the correct bid.
Case No. 8: South one Heart.
West pass. North has normal sup
port for South's Hearts and therefore
he should pass. To bid No Trump
would deny the holding of three
Hearts.
Case No. A. South one Heart. West
one Spade. North should bid twa
Hearts; the hand has, in addition to
normal support for the partners
Major, more than sufficient raisers
in the Minors.
tomorrow, the difference in the
handling Of partners Majors and
Minors.
Copyright John F. Ollie Coz ~
Work. the international authority
on Auction Bridge, will answer cues.
tons ON the game for Times readers
who write to him through The
Times, inclosing a self-addressed
stamped envelope.
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Change in Attitude
Toward China PreSageS
Better Era,
By NJ. f. Tracy

England has come out for the in
tegrity of China. for recognition of
the new nationalist spirit" and for
less foreign interference.
This is welcome news; it relieves
the Chinese problem of it's most
alarming aspect.
China's demoralized state has been
chiefly dangerous because of the
temptation it offered.
1t is doubtful if mid-Victorian
craftsmanship could have resisted
such a ten ptation, and for several
months the world has wondered
whether the present day statesman.
ship could.
The situation has been made more
irritating, if not more tempting by
Red intrigue.
Old school diplomats could discover
a dozen reasons why western ma
tons should intervene and establish
strong control over Chinese affairs.
1t is a mark of real progress that
this idea finds little favor with
European governments, but especial
ly with that of England
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Jury MajoritieS

Some time ago Judge Black Of the
Supreme Court OF New York sug-
gested that verdicts by a two-thlrds
vote of jury be accepted in Grim
inal cases.
Clarence Darrow criticised the sug-
gestion as "hysterical."
While two-thirds may be rather
low. l think that verdicts by pre-
ponderant rather than unanimous
opinion should be allowed, except,
perhaps, in cases where life is at
stake.
1t is practically impossible to
gather up twelve men without in
Guiding an ignoramus or a crook,
and such individuals should not be
given the power to hang juvies.
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she was not satisfied with herself
And that is the secret of the success
OF this woman-she satisfies herself
and in doing that she has an op-
portunity to satisfy her public. And
at that Bebe Daniels is about the
most consistent box Office draw in
the movie theater today.
Stranded in Paris" It at times
farce in nature and then it becomes
straight comedy. She has more
chance to be cute in this movie than
she has been lately. with the excep-
ton of THE Palm Beach Girl
Stranded" has a much better story
than many Of her stories.
IT tells the story of q department
store clerk in New York who
thinks" herself into success after
she buys one of those get-everything-
you-want-books. And she wins a
winning ticket to Paris, but when
she gets there Bebe is the victim
VI AObDNASt Altl JUN 10 6Oil6 dS Mcll
as her pocketbook.
She finally gets job and then
circumstances makes her a lady OF
royalty for n few hours. And you
know that Bebe can act both royalty
and deliciously -ughty.
Miss Daniels has the support of
James Hall, Ford Sterling and Iris
Stuart.
STRANDED in Paris" is prize win
ming movie entertainment because it
has the services Of Bebe Daniels at
her best.
Bill includes Emil Seidel and his
orchestra; Bud Mcintyre, a singer,
and some screen novelties.
At the Apollo all week.
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Movie Verdict

APOLOGY her recent
comedy work, especially in
Stranded in Paris" Bebe
Daniels has the right to be
considered the best COM
medienne in the business to-
day.
CIRCLE,-Colleen Moore is
handicapped by a weak and
over melodramatic story in
"Twipkletoes." She is guilty
Of overacting much of the
time.
COLONIAL-Good photog-
raphy and excellent acting on
the part of James Kirkwood
and Laura La Plante are the
best features of Butterflies in
the Rain" The story is so so.
OHIO = God Gave Me
Twenty Cents" is a winner.
See it.
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MELODRAMA AND THEN
SOME is "TWINKLETOES"

Rather guess that the days Of the
dirty villain and the sweet, limo
cent little heroine who is forced to
drink intoxicating wine have come
back to the world.
Rather thought this form of over
done melodrama was a thing of the