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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
In Court or In Jail?

The American petroleum institute, Ike the United
States Congress- is the final judge Of its member
ship 1t has reelected Edward L. Doheny and Harry
F. Sinclair as directors.
Which it had perfect right to do But it should
not give the reason that it does for its action The
reason given is that the should not be condemned
until they have had their day in court
Of Doheny, the United States Supreme Court has
said: :. 1.-THE contamination Of the transaction
was brought about by of collision and corrupt
conspiracy between Fall and Doheny.",
Of Sinclair, the United States Supreme Court has
said: 1.-THE lease and agreement (Teapot Dome)
were made fraudulently by means Of collision and
conspiracy"
What the institute means perhaps, is that Doheny
and Sinclair should not be condemned until they have
had their day in Jail. Or even then2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
Midwest on Top

Meanwhile, the struggle will be
settled on June IL, or soon after
ward, at Kansas City, the Nation
al Republican committee having
decided that the delegates must
not be distracted by what trickles
in through the Golden Gate, or
what lies just ACROSS the bridge at
Detroit.
1t is a clean-cut victory for the
Midwest, a majority of the COM
mittee evidently preferring to get
closer to Farmer John" than
anyone else.
The majority is probably right
at that, for the Republican party
has no weaker spot than the corn
belt.
Unless all signs fail, "the man
with the hoe" is going to cut more
of a figure in next years CAM
paign that either the Anti-Saloon
League or the Association Against
the Eighteenth Amendment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08

is the News of the World, issued in
London, England, three times a
weekwFriday Saturday and Sunday
with net sales exceeding three
million copies per issue.
Why do pipes burst when water
freezes in them?
Water expands when it freezes,
and the lateral pressure causes the
pipes to burst.
What is the enrolment Of the
largest public high school in the
United States?
The De Witt Clinton High School
of New York City, with an enroll
tnent in 1925-26 of S,611 pupils, is
said to be the largest in the United
States.
On what days Of the week did
Der. 10, 1907; Sept. 8, 1908, and May
~, 1911 fall?
The first two dates fell on
Thursday and the last one on Mon
day.
What is the address. of Lloyd
George?
Eighteen Abingdon ST., s. w. /,
London, England.
What is mate?
The Hex Mate tree is species OF
holly indigenous in South America
It is found wild on the river banks
Of Paraguay and in neighboring
mountain districts of Brazil, and
is cultivated in plantations. The
leaves are prepared by roasting and
pulverising and the infusion made
with boiling water is called mate.
1t is an aromatic beverage whose
general effect is the same as tea
or coffee. Drinking the beverage
soon becomes a habit difficult to
abandon. 1t is known also as Brazil
or Paraguay tea, Jesuits tea and
yerba.
Are sea offers extinct?
They are now confined to the
coasts of the North Pacific and are
very rare but not extinct.
Who is the youngest male movie
star under contract?
Little Sonny McKeen, known as
"5nookums." He was born Sept. /,
1924.
Who is the poet laureate Of Eng
land?
Robert Bridges
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
What Other Editors Think
(EIkhart TRUTH
(Republican)

Some patriotic Americans re-
sent the announcement of Anita
LooS and her husband, John En-
erson, that they don't want to
work any more and will desert the
United States for permanent resi-
dence in Vienna. Anita, it will be
recalled, is the author of Gentle
men Prefer Blondes" and that is
why it is not necessary for her to
work. Why worry about her feel
ing that Vienna must be her home
because lit is the only civilized
city in the world that is not full
of noise and dirt?" Although her
story about what gentlemen prefer
is. clever one, our literature can
do without any more like it.
II might be a good idea for more
OF our authors to decide to live
elsewhere. What if H. L. Mencken
should go to Turkey to live? There
he wouldn't have any middle
westerners, Rotary Clubs, Y. M.
c.. AS and Methodists to bother
him, but he might find a few
morons even over there. Just for
the sake of good cheer, we could
spare Sinclair Lewis for an in
definite sojourn abroad. Sherwood
Anderson has bought a couple of
country newspapers. They will
occupy his time, so 1t will not be
necessary for him to leave our
shores.
Thank goodness! We can't spare
any of our Indiana authors. We
want them to stay right here.
Booth Harrington, one of our au-
thors who refuses to become sex
crazy, spends a part Of the year
in Maine, but honors us with his
presence during the winter. Mere
dith Nicholson rarely leaves his
workshop in an Indianapolis office
building. All our Indiana authors
are highly respectable and we
don't want them to stray. 1t is
true that Theodore Dresser was
born in Terre Hautee, but he lives
in New York and hardly ever gets
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
The Hounds Tooth

OF course, it is better to have the air finally
cleared of assertions that Coolidge harbors sneak
ing purpose to seize the Republican nomination next
June. 1t should not have been necessary for the
President to take the step he took recently had not
politicians within his party made it SO. They
were politicians of two kinds: Those who would
tMalIy prefer candidate whose words would be
meaningless and those who wished to use the Presi-
dents name to hold State delegations together for
trading purposes at the national convention.
Coolidge has finally put quietus their talk, let
us hope
And that is good-but not all good. For it has
led to one new announcement that might better have
not been made. Senator Willis of Ohio proposes
himself for the presidency. joke, you say; but you
said the same thing when Senator Harding was pro-
posed for the presidency-and the joke turned on
you a pitifu, tragic joke.
OF that kind of joking let us have no more at least
Tor another generation or two The wreckage left
behind by the Harding joke is not all cleared up yet
The courts still are struggling with the mess be-
nueathed by the amable unfortunate chosen by the
Republican party in 1920 Not nearly all Of the looters
are yet in jail.
But Willis is not OF that kind, you say. Look, you
say, there's the white phalanx of the Anti-Saloon
Saloon League asks only one thing Of It's candidates
It asks only that they speak and vote in favor Of
prohibition 1t inquiries not into such things per-
sonal integrity concern for human liberties, under
standing Of political economy. If a man be dry the
other virtues are assumed-or the lack of them dis
regarded. SM
Willis, elected, might not bring Daugherty, a
Fall DENLY, Forbes, Jess Smith OF any other
Of that goddess crew into his official family, He
might not include Harry F. Sinclair in White House
poker parties. Probably he wouldn't; he has worn
the pale halo Of the Anti-Saloon League too long
perhaps, to change his manner Of living.
But let's not forget that the loudly pure Willis
chief defender Of Daugherty when the sickened
United States Senate undertook the difficult task OF
Kidding the national Government Of his influence.
Gas clean as hounds toothl" shouted Senator
Willis on the floor Of the Senate He was describing
Daugherty. then almost buried under the evil
dences Of political filth he had brought into
tional lfe Willis scarcely would lead the Senate in
an intelligence test but that assertion not wholly
due to dumbness. He knew Daugherty; he knew him
better than most. He had been associated with him
in politics for many, many years back in the home
State.
AS clean as hounds tooth? Well let's have some-
hing little cleaner in our presidential candidates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
Wrong, but LegaI2

Wrong, but legal, says Harry F.
Sinclair'S lawyer with reference to
jury tampering. That is a glaring
fault in our system of justice.
Too many things are wrong, but
legal, while too many more are
right, but illegal.
A real difference has arisen be-
tween what we ought to do as a
matter of conscience and what we
can do as a matter of law.
Young people grow cynical when
they learn that the morality alb
sorbed at mothers knee can be
thrown away for more mechan-
ical code.
They leave home, school and col
lege only to find that what one
can get away with is of rather
more consequence than the right
or wrong of it. Spacious pleading
based on prudish statutes 60 far
toward explaining how the con-
science of the country has become
so jazzed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
Hoover Needs Machine

The way has been cleared for
Herbert Hoover, but hardly more.
His obvious popularity still waits
on leadership and articulate ex-
preston.
The rank and file of the Repub-
lican party are for him, but they
lack organization.
Political booms, like other
movements which affect the
masses, make little Roadway un-
less they become coherent, and
they seldom become coherent
without systematic work.
A thousand active politicians
under the guidance of ten or a
dozen trained leaders can out
maneuver unorganized millions.
What the Hoover boom needs
is a little practical politics to off,
set the cabal forming against his
candidacy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
back, so we don't have to claim
(Muncie Press)
(Republcan)


Governor Jackson, quite as
much as anybody else, charged
with crime, is entitled to take adj
vantage of the statute Of liInita-
tons if he cares to use it, and if
it apply to his case. But seeking
to employ that law in order to es-
cape trial is not calculated to in
spire confidence in him among the
people of Indiana.
AS it stands today, Hoosiers are
by no means convinced that the
charge Of attempted bribery for
which Governor Jackson was in
dicted, is true. and they are just
as anxious to see him acquitted of
it if he is innocent-more anxious,
in fact-as they are to have him
convicted if he is guilty. Indeed,
because of the humiliation this
charge against the States highest
officer has placed upon the COM
monwealth, and because Of the es-
TEEN in which the citizens of any
State like to hold their Governor,
nothing would please them better
than to have it shown that the
charge is utterly false.
But If the statute of limitations
should apply and thee Governor
should refuse to waive its provi-
sionS and continue in office, his
name always would be under sus-
picion, perhaps unjustly.
The Governor, if innocent, is
taking an unwise course by seek
ing to evade trial. If not guilty
ne should, rather, welcome this
opportunity for vindication,' and
we can have no doubt the peoples
sense of fairness would see to it
that he was treated justly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
Politics or Education?

b It would be unfortunate if any Indiana sup
porter of the Anti-Saloon League should charge
that Rev. Ernest Clearinghouse "wet."
That has been the answer in the past when
any one suggested that the best way to really
4 get prohibition is to arouse real sentiment
for it and back up the law with an enlightened
citizenship.
Now that suggestion comes from Cheering
ton, who is one of the highest paid officials OF
the league, has devoted his life to its service
anw now branches out to the somewhat larger
task of running the World League Against
Alcoholism.
His policy differs from that Of the present
head of the league who wants to put on polit-
ical pressure even more strongly and drastical-
" than it has been done before.
The Cherington proposal for more educa-
ton and larger sentiment is directly in line
with editorial suggestions Of this newspaper.
1t is becoming increasingly apparent that
the present prohibition laws, especially where
they have gone beyond the Volstead act as they
have in Indiana, cannot be enforced until there
is a sentiment for enforcement.
Prohibition exists today only in localities
which demand it and which will furnish juries
to convict xiolators of the laws.
In cities and States where there is no senti.
ment for the law, it is practically dead letter.
1t is unfortunate, too, that in many States
and many cities where dry sentiment existed
before national prohibition, it is no longer pos
sible to enforce laws.
The policy in Indiana has been based on
the idea that an organized minority may con-
troll Legislatures and courts and through them
enforce law which is obnoxious to the ma
jority.
It depends on force to destroy appetite and
furnish moral control for the individual.
1t relies upon terrified legislators and timid
judges to carry out it's edicts.
It depends, first of all, upon the basic idea
that no other law and no other part of the
Constitution should be permitted to stand in
the way Of this one crusade.
There is better way 1t is the Cherington
way of educating youth to the dangers of al
cohol instead of enticing them by the illicit
hip flask 1t is the method of creating so strong
sentiment for the la that it operates without
bringing into disrespect all law and all law
enforcement.
A morality that depends upon political or
ganization and upon political pressure is
mighty unstable, to say the least.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08

Our leaders are not all triflers.
President Coolidge not only meant
what he said, but so did Mr..
Hughes. Those politicians who
have been manufacturing booms
on the theory that neither of
these men knew his mind will
please go to the foot of the (/rss.
Senator Willis of Ohio, takes
advantage of the temporary shock
to send up a trial balloon. Like a
million or so more aspiring
citizens, he, too, will run if called.
ECHO answers with oppressive
silence. Senator Willis will not be
called.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08

Let Mr.. Fixit. The Times Representa-
to CIV officials. Write Mr.. Fixit az The
Times. Names and addresses which
. Street Commissioner George
Woodward today promised Mr.. Fixit
to provide relief for residents de-
string cinders or gravel on improved
streets, as far as funds permit.
Fourteen letters to Mr.. Fixit&rCm
residents all over the city pictured
bad conditions on several uniIa-
proved streets.
These complaints will be cared for
If possible: Mud hole, 251 S. Ar
senal Ave; 2917 w. Ida ST.; several
large holes on Burton Ave. and
Roache St.; 5000 block w. Pratt St..
between Goodlet Ave. and Centen-
NAL St.; Hoyt and Denny Sts., and
Leland and Ellenberger SITS.
Complaints already on file:
Alley between 300 block E. New
York and E. Market Sts.; Twentieth
st. between College and Broadway:
State, south Of Raymond and allev
west Of State; Ohio from Elder IL
Traub Ave. and 1886 Crescent sc.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
Questions and AnSz0grS

ton Of Or Iptor Ssa any wfa ssifSs
Bureau 1922 New York m Ave "S Wasbsna1
Tor reply Msdcal. legal Ti' and q m SsSTSii
research be undertaken. All other uues-
lions will receive personal reply. I'm
signed requests cannot be answered All
letters are conndential.-Editor.
OF what are deer's antIers COM
posed?
They are outgrowths Of bone, COW
cred with a thin, highly vascular
hairy skin, but as they mature the
blood supply is cut off and the skin
or velvet" dries up, peels off, leav-
Ing the bare bone. Antlers are re-
newed annually, the fully formed
pair becoming detached from the
pedicels on which they were devel-
oped, and a new pair arising at the
same place. Antlers are usually
shed soon after the close Of the
brooding season.
s Is Raymond Griffith, the motto.
picture actor. deaf and dumb?
No. Due to strain, however, he
cannot speak above a whisper.
Is it proper to take asparagus in
the fingers when eating it?
1t may be done, but it is less
messy when eaten with a fork.
What is the proper method of en-
craving cards for a widow, Mrs,
william JONES'" or "Mary Ann
JONES'" ore Mrs. Mary Ann Jones?"
Mrs. Mary Ann Jones is correct.
Is there verse in the Bible be-
ginning, "a highway shall be there
and a way?" Where is it found?
Isaiah, 1878 reads: "And a. high
way shall be there and a way; and
it shall be called The Way of Holt
ness; the unclean shall not pass
over it; but it shall be for those; the
wayfaring men, though fools, shall
not err therein"
WHdC Is CAHCu OcI III SonAo
Of poker?
1t is a bet made by a player who
holds a hand which he knows can
not be beaten.
What daily newspaper has the
largest circulation in the world?
According to the Editor and
Publisher Year Book for 1927 the
London England Daily Mail has
e circulation Of 1.734,35O which is
the largest. Probably the largest
newspaper in the world, not a daily
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
Slave Ships Dark Deed

In the middle of the eighteenth
century, the captain of slave
ship, found himself in the Carib.
bean Sea without sufficient water
for the 400 blacks in his hold.
In order to save the remainder.
he shackled 100 or SO to the
chain-cable six feet apart and
ran it overheard.
On reaching port, he claimed
that the underwriters should bear
this loss because English law held
insurance companies liable where
part of cargo had to be jetti-
soned to save the rest.
An English court decided that
though the law might be on the
captains side, his act was too IN
human to be countenanced.
The court might have said.
wrong, but legal" Instead of
that, however, it said, wrong,
though legal" which will strike
average people as much wiser.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08

To the Editor:
In my opinion neither Governor
jackson, Mr.. Gilliom nor anyone
else has legal right to violate the
Wright bone-dry law. "A law is a
law, and no one has the right to
violate it.
If a man breaks the law, he should
suffer the consequences.
am not for a "one-man" law. 1t
seems that when a rich man or a
leader violates the law nothing ex-
treme is done about it, but if a poor
man commits a crime, he has to
stand theft full extent offs the law,
even though his sister were in a
dying condition. Even that is not
an excuse to violate the law.
Suppose my sister lay dying and
went to Muncie to obtain some
whisky to assist her recovery and it
was discovered? What would be-
come of meP Charges Of possessing
and transporting liquor would be
placed against me.
If there is a law that provides for
whisky for medicinal use, I am for
Mr.. Gilliom, and if not, say en-
force the law.
There are hundreds Of men serv-
ing time today for no greater crime
than what Gilliom did
B. H. LANDON,
2704 Park Ave.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
Capone'S Swan Song

According to "Scarface" Capone,
Chicago has been suffering from
other kinds of propaganda than
that favoring England.
In a "Swan Song" which he
delivered just before leaving for
st. Petersburg, Fla, where he is
said to "hold the bag in land
deal, Mr.. 'Capone bewails the fact
that he haS>been held up as a
sort Of millionaire gorilla"
though nothing could be farther
from the truth.
IT never had anything to do
with a vice resort" he said. ct
have never been convicted of a
crime. nor have I ever directed
any one else to commit a crime.
don't pose as a plaster saint,
but I never killed any one"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
The Rules

l.. The idea of letter golf is to
change one word to another and
do it in 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.
8. You must have a complete
word CT 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, 1927-12-08
(BluftOn Banner)
(Democrat)

The Indianapolis Star is still
pursuing Senator Watson in it's
demand that he come out here to
Indiana and clean up the Repub-
lican party. The Star is to be
commended in it's efforts. of
course, fruitless as they will be,
and then, there is the added thing
to be thankful for-the CONVEX
sion of the aforesaid Star. Just
three years ago the Star was the
chief offender in blackjacking the
State Highway Commission and
kept it up and kept it up, when it
must have known, or could easily
have known. the charges were a
frame-up by some Republican
politicians who hoped to throw
the department into politics for
their own profit. The charges have
been dropped, with no show of
ever placing any guilt on the
members Of the commission. Yer
lily, the revival is on, and sinners
are coming clean. Even then some
of them will have to be watched.
So easy to backslide.
There is an insistent demand
that Prosecutor Remy OF Marion
County make known the contents
of the Stephenson black boxes.
While there is no hope of prose-
cutting anybody, by reason of the
time limit having expired, the,
public wants to know the whole
story. Putting Senator Robinson
in bad because the misses accepted
a necklace Of nominal value"
from Stephie and a few more of
the little secrets that have leaked
out, is ample reason that all be
exposed. Why pick out Robinson
and, let the others get byI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
Young America Flies

New classes will erlthe pri-
mary flying schools at San An
tonic, Texas, and Riverside, CAL,
in March. There are accommo-
dations for 100 at each school, or
200 in all.
Entrance examinations will be
held Dec. Is. One thousand sixty
seven have already been granted
the privilege Of taking them, and
it is expected the number win
reach 1900.
This is good evidence that
young America wants to fly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-08
A Wrongsd Citizen

E. L. Doheny has been victimized, it seems, and
Congress is going to be asked to do something about
it, The Congress Of this great country shouldn't let
one CT its patriotic citizens take loss where it
was his obvious aim to help the Government make
a little money as Mr.. Doheny's lawyer tells us. So
Congress is to be requested to pay for those tanks
Mr. DohenR built. at the Pearl Harbor naval oil base
in Hawaii u
The Government has cancelled the lease Mr. Do
heny held Pearl Harbor the courts having granted
Judgment against Doheny for oil taken from the
serve in the amount of $13,OOO,0OO. Mr.. Doheny's
attorney thinks that little too much to pay for
trying to help Uncle Sam make little piece of
change, he has doubt that Congress will reim-
burse Mr.. Doheny handsomely.
Congress, Of course, should give that $13,000,00O
back. The citizenry should be encouraged in its eff
forts to help Andy Mellon balance that budget of his
pops up.
But somehow, we have feeling that Congress is
going to let slip this opportunity to bestow justice
where justice is due The courts had something TO
say about Mr.. Doheny's lease on the property from
Secretary Fall as brought about by Of collu-
sion and corrupt conspiracy"
Conspiracy and collision in different parts of
the book than patriotism. Even though certain peo-
pie have been quite busy Of late trying to make the
three more friendly
Here's good chance for Congress to divorce the
three words We hope Congress does the right thing