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Evening star., 1927-04-18
Italian Envoy Visits Mellon.

The Italian Ambassador Mobile
Giacomo de Martino called today at
the Treasury Department to pay his
respects to Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon, who has just returned from a
trip to Europe, where he visited his
daughter, Mrs. David K. Este Bruce.
Following the call the Ambassador
said he took up no official business.
but the call was merely personal.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
BAKER LEAVES CAPITAL
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A special meeting of Red Cross
officials was called at national head
quarters here last night to prepare
for any emergency which may arise
out of increasingly alarming reports
from flood areas in the Southern Mis-
sissippi River Valley.
The meeting was called after the
organization had received reports of
additional levees breaking In the Ar
kansas River and of especially dis
tressing conditions in and around
Marionne County. Arkansas.
The Red Cross said more than 24,-
900 persons had been reported to it
as in need of assistance, William M.
Baxter. organization official at St.
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Evening star., 1927-04-18
2O,ODOFLEE HOMES
IN ARKANSAS FLOOD
Levees of Mississippi Are
Strengthened-Red Cross
Officials Consider Relief.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. April 1S.--Levees
of the Mississippi today We're being in
creased in height along the lower basin
as a record tide of waters moving
southwark pressed with immeasurable
weight against the earthen walls.
Refugees numbering perhaps 10000
persons, driven from their homes by
backwaters or overflow from many
tributaries of the great stream were
under the care Of national, State and
community agencies of relief. Other
thousands were moving their proper
ties from valley lands, where the floods
might break through at any hour.
Hope was renewed today for relief
from the destructive waters in the
upper reaches OF the Arkansas and
White Rivers, tributaries OF the Mis-
sissippi and in the mother stream it.
self around Cairo Ills, and Hickman,
Ky, where the height of the current
has menaced hte dykes for weeks.
Slight declines in the stages were re-
ported from these upstream points.
Staggering Figures Involved.
From Hickman southwark, Govern.
ment engineers were working every
available laborer in their drive TO
bring the huge embankments to a
stronger state of defense.
Meanwhile. Eastern Arkasas lay un-
der the swirling overflow waters of the
Arkansas, the White, tho Little Red,
the st. Francis and of smaller streams,
which have climbed over natural
banks or burst man-made restraints to
cover an immeaSurable area. High
4
and train service was spasmodic and
uncertain or entirely paralyzed be-
cause of washouts and inundation of
tracks.
An unofficial estimate for Arkansas
alone placed the number of persons
driven from homes by the hostile
waters at exceeding 10000 and acres
overflowed at more than 100000.
Property losses have reached a stag
gering figure which no one now dares
calculate.
Relief Work Organized.
Refugee and relief camps at Hick-
man, KY, under direction of Red
Cross officials and State authorities,
are sheltering 1000 homeless in
churches, barns, railroad cars and
tents. Public kitchens are serving
women are sewing and collecting and
distributing clothing TO relieve the
unfortunate.
Relieved by the break in the
Missippi levee at Dorena, Mo,
the Hickman area showed q slight
decline in the flood stage and OBJ
servers were confident that the Reel
foot levee would hold unless unfore-
seen misfortune developed.
Memphis is to have n stage of 46
feet by Saturday. according to the
local weather official. The highest
on record heretofore was 46.6 in
1913, when disaster followed the
southwark movement of the giant
river.
Troopers Guard Dykes.
State troops today We're guarding
the tops of the big dykes in Bolivar
and Washington Counties, Missis
sippi.
A grave situation obtains in the
lower YaZoo Mississippi delta in the
opinion of Dennis Murphfree, Missis
sippis governor who has just made
q tour of the section. Many persons
are destitute, both of food and of
resources, the governor reported. and
a considerable percentage of these
fiat lands are under overflow water.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
President General Urges
Readiness for Defense
Without MilitariSm.
MRS. COOK SCORES REDS
AND PACIFISM PREACHERS
4,C00 Delegates in Auditorium as
Society's 36th Congress
Gets Under Way.

Amid a scene seldom equaled in The
annals of patriotic gatherings in the
Nations Capital, Mrs Alfred J. Bros.
seau, president general of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, and
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, honorary
president general, today sounded
call to American womanhood to stand
for adequate preparedness" at the
opening session of the Thirty-siXth
Continental Congress.
Splendid in it's background of Amer
lean flags and decorations of State
d. A. r. banners, the large hall OF
the Auditorium, packed with thou
sands of delegates and friends, rever-
berated to the storm of applause
which met this summons from their
leaders TO perform a solemn national
duty
Mrs. Brosseau coupled her plea for
preparedness of 'the kind that de-
fends only and does not propose war
with an appeal to women TO take re-
newed interest in social and political
problems, declaring that a carefully
considered and intellisently marked
ballot was more effective in the long
run than writing letters to Congress
men.
Referring TO the "siren calls Of dis
tress," Mrs. Brosseau declared the
position of the United States cannot
he maintained Gin the big parade Of
life unless it is prepared as well as
any other nation TO defend itself. The
ID. A. r. stands for defense of 'the
land of their BIRTH" and she added:
THAT may be militarisnl, but my per-
sonal definition of such an attitude is
good American common sense and
fnresi cht .
Evening star., 1927-04-18
''FrOn, Press to Home
Within the Hour"

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
Grand Jury Dismissal Refused.

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Continued on Page 8, Column IT,
Evening star., 1927-04-18

Saturdays Circulation, 1920
Sundays Circulation, 11l,SS3
Evening star., 1927-04-18

u. S. Weather Bureau Foreeast)
Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow In
creasing cloudiness; rising tempera.
ture.
Observation-Disclosures, 76, at pm.
yesterday; lowest, al, at am. today.
Full report on page 9.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-02
Mistake in Policy

Dean Inge seems to imagine that
the next century will not only find
two great centers of power in this
hemisphere, but will find them an
tagonistic to Europe.
If we continue such policy as
we are now pursuing toward Mexico,
Haiti. Nicaragua and some other
countries. Latin America is almost
sure to become pro- European.
Whether such situation would
threaten war, it would certainly af-
feet markets and industry.
That such a situation is in the
making, any one with, the intelli-
gence of a 10-year-old ichild should
be able to understand, and that we
ought to take it into account more
than we do should be equally ap-
parent.
The great weakness of our for
eign policy toward Latin-America
consists in the fact that it ignores
everything more than a week off. 1t
nresumes that conditions will re-
main as they are indefinitely. that
the United States will continue rich
and populous. while republics to the
south continue poor and sparsely
settled, which is a conception that
our own history should blast as
utterly absurd.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-02
The Lawyers Union
By N. ID. Cochran

The lawyers have the only trade or profession that
practically all the tools for government They
dominate all National and State legislative bodies and
generally occupy the big jobs in the executive branch
Of government. So they are responsible for most
if not all the laws which regulate daily life,
Besides. there is in every State, and probably in
every county seat bar association In all essentials
it is labor union, the principal difference between
it and the bricklayers union, for example, is that
lawyers don't do much work with their hands and are
not classified as laborers
All judges, being lawyers are members of the
union. They and the other members of the union
have power to regulate admission to the practice of
law and to bring about such changes in Judicial pros
cedure they may deem desirable
Through the power of courts to disbar members OF
the bar-or union-and thus prevent them from prac-
ticng law, the members Of the union protect the
public from crooked lawyers. They have power to
punish the army of crooked lawyers who are in league
with professional criminals and in effect participants
in and benehciaries of crime.
One noted member of the lawyers union, Clar-
ence Darrow once made speech to the prisoners in
the Illinois penitentiary at Joliet; and he told them
that the real reason most of them were there was
that they didn't have smart lawyer.
That may be slightly exaggerated, cut there is much
truth in the statement. All of us know enough to
believe that criminals could not escape punishment
easily If it not for the cunning Of tricky lawyers
finding loopholes in laws enacted to protect prop
srty and life.
And We ought to know that the lawyers them
selves through the great power of their sef-govern
ing union can do more than all the rest of us COM
oined to promote justice and make law effective.
Unfortunately, however. the honest lawyers, who
we believe. in the majority do not make the best
use of the power of their union. oh yes crooked
lawyer is disbarred now and then Sometimes lawyer
may go to prison. But there entirely too raany
lawyers living off of crime and criminals too many
lawyers Using their knowledge and cunning to find
holes in the meshes of the law through which their
criminal clients may escape.
Having all the power they need to make then. pro-
fession governing body and to bring law and
justice enough together to be speaking terms,
why don't they do it?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-02
NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
As America Gro1Os, Europe
Is Bound to Fade By
Comparison, or Putting
1t the Other Way, as
Europe Fades America
Is Bound to, Gro1O.

A United States with 25O,000,00o
people and a League of Latin
American nations are what Dean
Inge of England, visualizes as the
dominant sources of world power at
the end Of the twentieth century.
The Dean began, like prophets of
old, foretelling the decadence of his
own people, and forced himself to
picture the rise of others as a
natural correllary.
But what is there so novel or
startling in the thought?
AS America grows, Europe is bound
to fade by comparison, or putting
it the other way, as Europe fades.
America is bound to grow.
The dean is merely arguing what
the near future will be because of
what the near past has been.
One hundred years ago. England,
France, Germany and Spain were
each much larger than the United
States. Today none of them is.
What more natural than to suppose
the drift will continue for another
hundred?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-02
A Change On the Border

For more than century Americans and Canadians
have lived side by side without fort or soldier or
ship guarding the border This happy state has often
been instanced example of international concord
which other countries might copy.
But those days are to be no more.
We are to Increase our prohibition patrol along a
small stretch Of border from 200 to 400 men, bringing
the total force of the dry army the line to more
than Co., 1t may also be necessary to dot the Great
Lakes with destroyers assigned the coast guards
prohibition squadron. The international bridge re-
Gently dedicated with ELUSIVE references to the mil
iennium will have heavy guards posted at each end
Strangely enough, it is the Canadian government
which has requested these warike measures They
have not been resorted to as means of keeping out
Canadian liquor SO much to prevent American
liquor from flowing into Canada Since prohibition
our bootleggng gentry have exported alcohol to Can
ada, evaded payment of the tax and undersold the
nome market. Some of the poisonous stuff has sick
ened and killed Canadian subjects.
We submit that all this is a curious commentary
On prohibition enforcement and the evils which the
years and the expenditure of more than 5000 900
we find that evasion and violation of the law have
assumed such widespread character that it places
strain on the good nature of our neighbors
Isn't it time for the sensible element of our law
making body to undertake revision of the dry act so
as to make it enforcible and commonsense propo-
sition # that is possible?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-02
The Eagle and the Ostrich

The village librarian honeward bound with
a book under her arm.
"Whatcha got there, Miss Mildred?" the town
character asked she passed by IFS that learnin
book you takin home or jest readn' bookP"
Which is not SO foolish it sounds Books gen.
orally may be classified under the category or the
other Most books are read either for what we can
learn from their pages. else just for the fun Of It,
How Europe Made Peace without America" by
Frank H. Simonds, expert foreign affairs is both
kinds of book at one and the same time Every
thinking American should read It, They will learn
lot and find real enjoyment while doing So
The book Is not one to be synopsized. 1t needs to
read First Simonds gives you the European back
ground against which the events following the World
War must be viewed to be understood then he pictures
The events themselves The making of the Treaty of
Versailles with personal side-lights on its makers
Americas part in the treaty and why the treaty failed
the various positions of France Italy, Britain Ger
many and the rest; and the meaning of the Ruhr,
the Dawes Plan; Locarno and so on down to the
present day--it is all there.
The final chapter-"America and Europe"-alone
would make the book worth while, recapitulatng in
vivid fashion the world situation to show why America
nas lost her popularity abroad We can not follow
policy of letthe-rest- the in
Juice and expect foreigners to love U.s. Instead of con-
structive leadership from statesmen in these mat
ters. Simonds makes clear, politicians merely fol-
low what they believe to be the popular trend Instead
of leading the parade to higher moral ground they
Hmidly follow the band-wagon of public sentiment
wherever it may wander.
american foreign policy" the writer says, sis
oased upon popular estimates of European conditions
rather than upon any actual appraisal Of existing con-
dtcns. All proposals abroad addressed to our
setorate at home Notes sent to foreign governments
are invariably directed at the domestic voter Secre
taries Of State occupied mainly with the thought
Of the repercussion in the United States what the
responses evoked in Europe may be are unimportant
by comparison.
'Thus." Simondis concludes Gin recent years. it
has never been quite possible to escape the dsq1erg
suspicion that while the American Government con-
tinues to cherish the eagle as domestic symbol it
Is to the ostrich that it turns nstnctively for an
example in all questions of foreign policy"
No criticism justified While it is
painfully apparent that America is becoming
ingy unpopular the world over instead of trying to
una out why this is So and check it if we can, we
deliberately bury heads in the sand and refuse to
see the gathering storm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-02
TTH III. BY Charles
wv NV LHK Fitzhugh n
Talman
Weather.? A HsEssssiss q
A RASH PROPHECY

One of the worst prophecies ever
made by a man of science was ut-
tered by Arago, director Of the OBJ
servatory of Paris, in 1845 Like
many other eminent astronomers
before and since, this authority was
much confounded in the public
mind with astrologers, among whose
foolish occupations from time inn
memorial had been the prediction
of weather. Inscriptions publish
ers had not hesitated to attach his
name to representations for which
he was in no way responsible.
Irritated at being thus misrepre-
sented, Arago published in the "An-
nuaire," of the Bureau Of Longi-
tudes, memoir in which, to judge
from the title, he intended merely
to prove that the science of meteor
ology, as then constituted, was un-
equal to the task of making sue
cessful weather predictions. APP
parently his feelings ran away with
him and in the course of the MEM
DIR, he made the following dog
matte statement:
NEVER, no matter what may be
the progress of science, will honest
scientific men who have regard
for their regulations venture to pre-
dict the weather"
The word never" (janais) was
printed in capital letters just
ten years after Arago uttered his
never" his successor in the direc-
torship of the Paris observatory.
Leverrier, founded the European
system of Geographic weather re-
ports that made scientific weatl
forecasting possible, and within the
next few decades nearly all civilized
countries in the temperate zones es<
tablished official services for pre-
dieting the weather every day.
(Ail right reserved by Science Services
Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-02
Other Powers Traced

Populations do not increase regu-
larly and uninterruptedly, neither
DO nations rise.
Three thousand years ago Egypt
had as great population as it has
today, if not greater, while Babylon
flourished where there is a desert
now.
Rome was much larger city un-
der Augustus than it is, or is likely
to be, under Mussolini.
-Four hundred years ago the Pope
divided the western world between
Spain and Portugal, as though that
settled the matter.
Two hundred years ago France
controlled the bulk of North Amer
lea.
Undiscovered laws of nature gov
ern the birth rate and the destiny
of empires.
The United States may have a
population of 25O0O0,00a at the end
of this century, as Dean Inge pre-
diets, and then again it may not.
Certain scientists have declared it
would never go much beyond 200,-
100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-02

BY a miracle of the builders art,
SPANS most enchanting charms
have been brought to Indianapolis,
and are to be found in the new In
diana ballroom, which opens to-
night.
Dance in this ballroom whose
walls are, by magic Spanish palaces,
whose balconies re draped with
Spanish shawls, al d whose windows
are hung with brilliant awnings.
Dance with salt sea breezes adding
a tang and zest to the air we
breathe. Dance to your hearts con-
tent to the music Of Jack Pitzer and
Marion Mckay and their ''Kings of
Tempo"
The new Indiana ballroom is spa
cious enough for 5000 people to
dance with ease and for 1000 per-
sons to check their coats and hats
without crowding or waiting, and no
tipping.
The inside story of a ballroom
is seldom told. Ticket sellers and
an orchestra form the general opin-
ion of ballroom management, but
few people realize the tremendous
task of the organization of single
ballroom party.
AS matter Of fact, there is prob
ably no business that requires more
progress or efficiency than modern
ballroom.
At the Indiana ballroom, which
is one of the five largest bathrooms
in the United States, staff Of
more than sixteen employees will be
regularly employed, in addition to
the $50 dance instructors and mu-
sicians.
Heading this organization is j.
Perlberg, who has directed the &C
tivittes of the country's largest ball
rooms for the past fifteen years.
He will actively manage the bust
ness of the ballroom, planning and
executing the details that are SO
necessary to the work, efficiency that
determine the success, the failure of
a dancing party.
But, this is hardly a beginning.
The beautiful lighting effects for
which the new Indiana ballroom is
noted are produced by the pain
stalking efforts of master electricians
who must operate complicated
switchboard throughout the evening.
In this new ballroom the force
includes, besides manager, assistant
manager, social director, elevator
man, starters, hostess, telephone OPP
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-02
[ atin-America League

AS to the rise Of Latin-America
and the possibility of its republics
forming league, that is a most
interesting subject to speculate on,
and one which should concern us
quite as much as Europe.
League, or no league, Latin Amer
lea is bound to come to the front
very rapidly from now on, net only
because of its large productive areas
that are open to development. but
because the ro-tritcions we have
placed on immigration are certain
to turn Europe's overflow in that
direction.
If North America could increase
from 100000 to 100,o00,000 during
the last century, it is not unreason-
able to suppose that South America
may increase from 100000 to 2O0,-
100000 during the next.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-02
'Neighbors Grow Up

At present we are dealing with a
score of comparatively weak neigh
bors in this hemisphere, and are
shaping policy toward them which
is rooted in that thought.
The Monroe Doctrine was based
on the conception that they were
utterly incapable of taking care OF
themselves, and out of that doctrine
has developed patronizing attitude
on our part which they must find
humiliating.
1t is all right to play the big
brother toward little brothers, so
long as they remain little, but when
they grow up, it is likely to have
it's drawbacks.
American nations are not
only growing up, but they are being
drawn together by common fear
of the United States. just as they
were once drawn together by COM
mon fear Of Europe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-02
Brain T,easers

How well do you remember your
Caesars and Athenians. These
questions should prove it. The ans
swers will b efound on page 10:
/. What Ia centaur?
2, Who were the Huguenots?
3. Who wrote Lord Jim?
4. Who said: what this country
needs most is a good flve-cent
cigar?"
5. Who was Scion?
8. What is Bunsen burner?"
z. What are the drops called
which oculists use to enlarge the
eye pupilsp
8. For whom was the month Of
August named?
8. What is meant by "the old lady
of Threadneedle Street?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-02
Why There's No Profit

The Government spent about $350OOSo00O for a
merchant fleet during the war.
Therefore President Coolidge, as reported from
Rapid City, concludes that a Government merchant
marine is complete failure and should be dscon-
tnued
Is the Presidents conclusion fair one?
Most of those ships were thrown together heller
sketer as part of the Nations effort to win the war
They were in about the class as artillery Shells
bought at any price, and wooden cantonments built
hastily and at great cost because the need was urgent
Would anybody argue that we shouldn't n1anufac-
ture any more shells because those used during the
war of no value?
Tten too, there is the fixed shipping board policy
of transferring ships to private owners as soon as they
start to show profit In this manner the Govern
ment has deliberately prevented itself from making a
profit from its merchant marine.
Perhaps private interests are prepared to build I'D
merchant marine adequate to the needs of the Ma
ton. Indications thus far are that this is not the
case. The Senate Commerce Committee which began
its exhaustive inquiry into the subject convinced that
the Government should get out of the shipping bust
ness, now believes the contrary 1t believes the Gov
eminent should face the fact that real American
merchant marine can only be provided by the Govern
ment and that the Government should set about pro-
viding 1t.