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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
- THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION ----
Art of Painting Came Late to Greece
Written for The Times by VIII Durqnt

tanned at the public expense wher-
ever he should go.
Slowly the new art improved.
The chemical experiments required
to produce the masterpieces of
Greek pottery developed better
methods of mixture. Oil colors
we're unknown; melted wax was
used as a base, and the artist paint
ed on wooden tablets while the wax
was still fluid, leaving it to harden
as it cooled.
Towards 400 B. G. Apollodorus
revolutionized the art by introduce
ing shadow and perspective. Paint
ing in bright colors the lighted side
of every object, and in dark colors
the unlighted side, he gave solidity
to form and brought his figures out
from that fiat surface on which
Polygnotus had been content to
leave them.
And by varying the size of objects
to indicate their distance, Apollo
dorus achieved such novel wonders
in perspective that his contempor-
aries called him the shadow
painter" and Plato denounced him
as guilty of an outrageous decep-
ton.
With Zeuxis (420-39O B. G. the
art scored such triumphs as to make
his name the center of many pleas
ant tales. His forte was realism;
story had it that he painted grapes
so much like life that birds came
and pecked at them.
His rival Parrhasius was not to be
outdone he painted a scene partly
covered with a curtain. and invited
ZeuxiS to come and see the picture.
Zeuxis came, and trying to draw
aside the curtain, found it a painted
curtain, as unreal as his grapes.
Copy ut. a27 bv VIII Durant
TO Be Continued
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BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright. 1927. by The Ready Ref.
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: H--ace: king: o.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower than
1. Sitting at the right Of an initial
no-trump bidder, should you bid a
minor suit?
@ Against spade bid opponent
leads 10 of diamonds. Dummy holds
diamonds A @ j x x x. (a)
Should declarer flneSSe holding K,
K x diamonds. (b) Why?
3. Declarer bids no trump. All
pass. Dummy holds J x X. De-
clarer holds A K K. What should
declarer play, if opponent leads
small card through dummy
The Answers
I. AS a general rule, no.
2. Ca) No. (b) Second opponent
may have King and will return part
ner's probable singleton.
3. j.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
Mexican Oil

President Gales has removed the chief obstacle
to accord between his country and the United States
bv asking the Mexican congress to amend the oil
laws in conformity with recent court decision.
II is expected the congress will readily grant his
request.
This country has commended since 1917 that
NSexico.s new oil and land laws confscatory
and retroactive 1t was charged that the laws would
nerate to deprive American oil and land concession
aries Of their property which had been legally &C
CURED There was voluminous interchange OF notes.
which terminated year ago with what amounted 10
a warning from Washington that Mexico would en-
force the laws at her peril
Mexico has all along contended that there was no
intention to deprive Americans of their rights sug-
costing that until there had been actual conhscaton,
there could be for complaint Mexican
courts it was argued offered ample protection.
The first decision, in what regarded as
,est case was made some six weeks ago in the suit
of the Mexican Petroleum Company. The court held'
nv a nine to-two vote, that no provisions of the
constitution could be used to deprive this concern
of rights acquired prior to 1917.
Ordinarily in Mexican Jurisprudence five deci-
ATOMS of the supreme court required to establish
a precedent President Gales however, did not wait
Congress having only few days more to meet.
He sought to end the controversy rather than to
have it drag through until September His swift
action will not fail to impress Americans.
It can not be doubted that the Mexican people
are genuinely anxious to maintain amicable rela-
tions with this country Their desire is matched
bv that of the American people, and now, happily,
there are no major issues to prevent the realization
of this wish.
Mexico needs American capital, and American skill
and initiative to develop her resources America
needs Mexicos materials All things indicate that
we are at the beginning of a new era in WHICH
the two peoples will dwell friendly neighbars to
the advantage of both.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
Ezra Meekeris Views

Ezra Meeker who went across the
country on foot before most of us
were born, and since who has
crossed it in every kind of modern
conveyance, looks at the-world in his
ninety-seventh birthday and finds it
all right, with the possible exception
that the present generation rides too
much and walks too little.
1t was nine years before Abra-
ham Lincoln became president of
the United States that Meeker
gathered up his wife, child, a team,
crossed the Missouri at Omaha and
set out for the six months journey
to Portland, Ore.
Seventy-two years later, he re-
traced the route in an army air.
plane in thirteen and one-half
hours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
Dissenter to Code

Then came this chap Lindbergh.
a non-conformist, a dissenter to the
newer code, flying forth alone in
the night to challenge worldwide
admiration and prove that th0re
was still merit in the world. -
1t is not only Lindbergh's achiels-
ment that makes him the man Of
the hour but his character.
Ten million boys and girls have q
new and better conception Of life
because of what he did.
All they needed was a chance to
accept some right minded man as
their model, and he gave it to them.
He showed them how to play
real game without falling for the
cheap stuff, without posing for the
crowd or trying to cash in on the
first wave of popularity.
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Wide Awake World

Like most Of its predecessors, 1927
offers many things for which to be
remembered.
This has come to be a wide-awake.
active world.
No year can go by under existing
conditions without some OF the
l,700,000,OO0 now living in the world
contributing something worth while.
We are dealing not only with
mass production in materials, but in
ideas.
Modern means of communication
has converted human ingenuity into
a great workshop. 1t no longer is
an individual affair.
The explorer, student and pioneer
no longer are compelled to travel
alone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31

Newmarket sooner than was expect
ed, thereby saving their lives. Mon
mouth escaped to the continent but
Lord William Russell and Algernon
Sidney were executed for alleged
completely in the affair.
What is "Salic Law?"
Generally the law by which fe-
males and those who trace their
descent from the royal house
through females are, in some coun-
tries, debarred from succeeding to
the throne. In reality the Salian
or Salic law is a barbarian Teutonic
code of law of uncertain date, per-
hapS about A. D. 400, upon a doubt
full passage of which the so-called
Salic law is founded. It was the
operation of Salic law that prevent
ed Queen Victoria from proceeding
to the throne of Hanover on the
death of William ".
Who pitched the only no-hit game
In the American League in 1924?
Walter Johnson of the Washing
ton American League Club, in 6
game Of seven innings against ST
Louis on Aug. %.
How can sheIlac be removed from
Iinoleum?
Wash and scrub it with ptlre OF
denatured or wood alcohol.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31

To the Editor:
May I speak my piece" in regard
to your editorial Uncle Sam Pays?
First want to commend the ad-
mirable character of your policies
and editorials. In the main your
paper is not swayed by politics nor
mere expediency, but conforms
strictly to sound logic, reason and
plain justice, regardless of who or
what interests your reason and con-
yictions may be in conflict with.
know of no other paper in Indian
apolts that can say as much.
However, do you not step out of
bounds of honest judgment and
justice on questions of reparations
and war debts generally? National
ism is well and good, but not to the
extent Of denying the rights OF other
nations.
Now, in. this editorial you do not
say in so many words, but your edi-
torial would indicate that you doubt
the priority of reparationS In the
consideration of German obligations.
I can not see any question at all.
So long as finance has been a
well ordered institution, prior loans
and obligations have been accepted
as preferred claims If nations and
individual corporations have made
advances since the Versailles treaty,
that is their business and strictly so
and should in no way be considered
as a prior claim. Except, perhaps,
such definite sums as were actually
outlined in the Dawes project itself
and accepted by the allied ations.
AS to the question of debt can
collation.. 1t seems to me to be
Sounder doctrine than not, both
from the standpoint of justice as
well as hard business sense.
This talk of the American tax
payer paying in the event of can
collation. is rather puerile. We
have the money, and-honestly now,
how did we get it?
Long before these debts were con-
tracted the allied governments had
literally spent their entire cash sur
pluses, national as we'll as that of
their people and also the proceeds
from the sale of their foreign Secur-
tiles and property, in THIS COUN-
TRY, buying the necessities of war
and of life and at eXtortionate prices.
The debts themselves were spent in
the same manner and at progress
sively higher prices. Our enormous
wealth in this country now is direct
" the result of outrageous profits
for such material. Our own govern
ment, through the collection of
heavy surtaxes off of these pyra-
mided profits, shared in the profits
of the game.
1t was certainly a merry little
game and I can never be reconciled
to the position of our country on
this question.
In fact, I doubt if any one seri-
ously doubted, in Congress and out,
but that these loans were merely
meant in the way of contributions
toward the conduct of the war.
I was not here, but from what
people tell me it was rather COM
mon talk that we would furnish
supplies while the allies fought.
1 again want to congratulate you
up on the usual high plane of your
policies and convictions.
WELL-WISHER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31

Menander it passed from the
philosophical burlesque of Aristo-
phaneS to more polite and super
fetal satire of complex and subtle
life in the dying city. But the days
of the giants were gone.
The arts did not die, but they
changed their home, passing more
from Athens to the Greek cities
and colonies that dotted the
Mediterranean's shores. In Athens
the new art of painting, which had
begun under Pericles, came to its
maturity under ZeuXis.
The Greeks liked painting nloder-
ately, loving color less than line,
and suspecting the quick mortality
of paint under the enmity of time.
They had seen the figures on the
Parthenon painted, and probably
before they died they had seen
those brilliant colorS fade or drop
away.
For many years it was only in
this subservience to sculpture. pot
terry and architecture that painting
found place.
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THEN Polynotus pleased Athe-
L MAN fancy by painting on the
wall of a colonnaded porch Called
thereafter the Ston Poikile or
painted porch a vast panorama
Of the battle at Marathon, alive with
the figures of Themistocles, Milti-
AIDES and Aeschylus.
Polygnotus refused payment for
this work, and for his similar adorn-
ment Of buildings at Delphi; perhaps
he enjoyed the novelty, as Tom
Sawyer's friends we're Seduced into
enjoying it.
In a rare moment of gratitude the
council of the Greeks decreed that
the modest painter should be enter
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
He Women, She Men

The young people Of this country
needed a Lindbergh, need some one
to remind them that life held OPP
portunities for adventure and tri-
umph without hip-pocket flask or
a petting party.
Social ideas had slumped to a
shoddy level Lipstick, the Charles
town and joy-riding had taken tta
spotlight.
The Horatio Alger philosophy had
give nplace to a tawdry collection
of smart alec stunts.
Too many boys and girls had
come to believe that youth must be
a little off color to get anywhere.
The notion that steadiness counted
for much, that honesty was an assab
and virtue charm, lost popularity!
Flapperism made way for the
iellybean. The he-woman would
have left lost and the natural law
defied if sherman had not ap-
Feared to balance things.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
Advancing Civilization

Uncle Ezra as his friends and ac-0
quaintances call him, sees civiliza-
ton going steadily forward in spite
of weak spots.
1T is slow process" he says,
"and it takes some time, but things
are better even today. Intellectu-
al and artistic opportunities are, of
course. much more plentiful. Health
work has made life longer. Prohi-
bition has made us happier and
more prosperous. AS for crime.
perhaps we heard more about it to-
day because there are more news
papers and ways Of broadcasting
reports"
So speaks man who has lived
and labored with four generations,
who has travelled a hard road and
been mellowed by it, who has seen
wave upon wave of folly followed
by reaction upon reaction Of COM
mon sense and who realizes thai no
matter how many jellybeans civ
ilization produces, 1t never will
lack for a Lindbergh to right the
situation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31

The year 1927 comes to a close in
the calm Of holiday relaxation.
A hectic shopping season, with
Christmas as its climax, leaves the
country in mood to take things
quietly
In politics and in social life, as
well as business, the interim general
ly is looked upon as time to take
account of stock. to review what has
occurred, balance the ledger and get
set for another twelve months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
Lindy-1927'S Hero

Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has
done more than any human being to
make the year 1927 worth remem-
bering.
He has not only revealed the pos
sibilities of aviation in a new aid
startling light, but has reawakened
faith in those old-fashioned he
man virtues that jazzy jellybeans
had well-nigh put out of business.
1t is peculiarly fitting that the
close of the year should find him
carrying on. carrying the gospel & b
clean, straight-thinking American
ism to our Latin neighbors hr
His present Journey promises CAR
bigger results than his immo t.df
fight across the Atlantic. em
1t not only represents a pionesIr
ing feat of no little consequen f4
but mission that already lsG
improved international relations1oe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
The Rules

/. The idea Of letter golf is to
change one word to another and
do it III par, a given number Of
strokes. Thus, to change COW to
HEN, in three strokes, COW, HOW,
HEW, HEN.
2. You can change only one let
ter at time.
3. You must have a complete
word, of common usage, for each
jump. Slang words and abbrevia-
tons don't count.
4. The order Of letters cannot be
changed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31

What kind of gun is a "falcon?"
A small medieval gun generally
20 to 80 calibres and light. While
some are said to have been Of suff1-
Gent size to throw shot of six
pounds weight, the majority were
much smaller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31

Here Is another entrant for the Dumbbeil Cham
ponship He thinks the Boxers rebellion was prize
fighters strike.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31

What kind of an instrument is a
ain guage?
It consists essentially Of a rylin-
lrical, vertical, metal vessel, whose
harp edged top Of known diameter
s connected with a funnel that con-
ducts the rain into an inner Mas
uring vessel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
Times Readers
Voice Viez0S

The name and address Of the author
must accompany every contribution. but
on request will not be published. Let
preference.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31

The woman who wants to put chair of love" in
southern university probably doesn't know they
have park benches in that town
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31

Speaking of navies and stock markets parity
covereth multitude of sins
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
(Muncie Press)
(Renuhucanl

Nearly everybody here knows
that Bob" Graves, the Negro
who was shot to death Sunday
night, following an argument
over a game of dice, was gam
bier; that he had been involved in
liquor law violations; that he once
was accused of killing another in
a dance hall, and that he had
served time in State prison be-
cause of a frightful automobile
accident caused by his drunken
ness; also, it was known that he
often was a power in local Repub-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
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Rensselaer, Republican
(ReoubIicanl

80 81. 80 IN ssEss q
Rensselaer, Republican
(Republican)
Industry is to draft a platform
to be submitted to the Republican
and Democratic National conven-
tons Of the coming year.
So will innumerable other
groups and organizations, hence
there is nothing startling or
original in the idea. Industry is
merely indicating that it yields
nothing to certain other organiza-
tons in the matter of yearning to
press our plastic civilization into
moral and idealistic molds of its
own peculiar fashioning. 1t has
caught the great American idea
that moral or ethical code meet
ing the tenetS of group within
the whole must necessarily be i'm
posed upon the rest of mankind
as the hope of salvation.
There is some mention Of hon
esty and morality in the purposes
of the committee named to draft
the platform. In other words in
dustry seeks to make a political
issue of business ehtics. That is
entirely inconsistent with the
modern practice of making per-
sonal habits political issues, but
in the light of experienve with
such think it raises dark forebod-
ings. 1t is the public to infer that
the industrialists believe them
selves so utterly lacking in bust
ness ethics as to justify Congress
in amending the constitution max
ing such ethics compulsory on
pain of fine or Imprisonment, or
both?
The most painful significance
attaches to the world platform"
itself. The word has come to
epitomize detectives and goals as
yet unrealized. 1t is the substance
of things hoped for and the EVIL
dence of things not seen. And
public honesty and morality are
to be listed therein! "Insinuat-
ing and insulting" if the public
were to be asked.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-31
Who was Proteus?

Who was Proteus?
In ancient Greek mythology "the
old man Of the sea-" He is described
by Homer as dwelling in the isle
of Pharos. He tended the focks-
the seals-of Poseidon and had
prophetic powers; but any man who
desired his advice must seize him
and hold him while he changed into
one shape after another; if he was
kept a prisoner at least he returned
to his true form and declared the
future. Later stories make him a
king Of Egypt.
What was the Rye House Plot?
A real or pretended conspiracy in
1888 to assassinate Charles II and his
brother, the Duke of York, and place
the Protestant Duke Of Monmouth
on the throne. 1t took its name
from the meeting place of the con-
spirators, the Rye House on the
River Lea near Hoddesdon. The
king and his brother we're to be
murdered on their way from New
market to London. But they left
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
RESTORE ATTIC
MIRRORS TOUSE

An increasingly large number of
women of the. city have utilized the
services of the Indianapolis Glass
Company, 1910 Kentucky Ave. TO
provide for their home new mirrors
made out OF old ones, according to
Parker II. James, manager of the
company.
From the recesses of old garrets or
spare rooms" were old-time, gilt
framed looking glasses" have been
stored for years, women are discover
ing possibilities in recruiting these
old family relics, making out Of
them modern Venetian mirrors.
Many calls have been received
recently by the company from wo-
men who have been delighted at the
opportunities of refurnishing a hall.
way, bathroom or a beddoom with
an artistic mirror at low cost. The
company has special machinery for
cutting and regrinding edges for
Venetian mirrors.
eve have been able to turn out
very attractive, new mirrors from
old antiques, and the demand for
such services has increased consider
ably since the prospects of house
cleaning has been brought to the
attention of housewives" James said.
The company also makes a special
ty of replacing automobile wind
shield glass and other automobile
glass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22
MODERN HOSPITAL
FOR SICK PENS

Indianapolis has the largest in
dividual pen shop in the United
States, not owned or operated by pen
manufacturers in the Pen Shop, Al
w. Ohio ST., of which John L. Keller
is proprietor.
The Pen Shop is artistic and at
tractive. The storeroom has been
remodeled and redecorated. The
large display windows admits plenty
of daylight into the shop and also
lures the attention Of countless thou
sands of persons.
Artistic drapes are hung in the
windows. A small black rubber mat
bearing the firms name in white
rubber adds note of distinction to
the entrance. The sidewalks of the
interior are painted soft bluff tone.
The richness of the walnut finished
show cases of the shop harmonizes
well with the other fixtures of the
place.
Within the store an elaborate dis
play of hundreds of kinds of pens
is strikingly arranged. Glistening
show cases contain various hued
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-22

Corinne Howe of 1905 N. Oxford
st. is the author lof today's win
ming pearl story. For her efforts
as a writer she will receive one of
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AIDA Pearl necklaces.
This prize in itself is prize well
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Store, and E. Washington ST., is
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The best pearl story of the day
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the person who has not written his
or her story to do it at once and
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Having your story published is no
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