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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
In the Meantime

Two weeks or more, say attorneys VIII De IT,
ouired TO discover whether one James Arnii'0s0 d"
in contempt of the Criminal Court
Tho contempt with which he is charged IN an
sf1davt by the prosecutor is the alleged ohei "
member Of the grand jury of sum OF money anu
q city lob if he would refuse to vote tor
no matter what evidence was presenteu' t.,
The indictments referred to were cohneO'eU
with tho noIitical probe which the last grand jury
said had produced evidence winch S"ouiO ~ 80, "a
ibvasfipated and which three of the four lesdl au-
visors of that jury SAID shoulu nave
dictments last December.
rvo ,voels mass quickly. SO do two years.
sometimes. And after two years politlcal crimes
.ra forgiven under that humane provision OIL Id"
called the statute of limitations
While those two weeks or more are beng taken
nm with the contempt trial of Armitage the sranu
inrv which is charged by its predecessor anu 'ne
court with the duty of investigating these pohtica'
charges remains idle.
THAT might mean nothing unless it be remem-
bored that the law provides that while the srdnu July
is in session no charges may be filed direct by the
prosecuting attorney,
II must also be remembered that the pohtlcal
activities which we're under Investigation must nave
occurred not later than May, 1926 for the inquiry
started before there was any political activity IN
the November 1926, election
What the public might think If it should develop
that the statute of limitations had become operative
while grand jury is held in waiting Tor the out
come of this contempt trial can only be conJectureu
Such situation might demand later explana-
lions, if the public should be satisfied with eXplana-
tons
The outstanding fact in the public mlnd Is thaC
Prosecuting Attorney Will Remy, Ralph Kane ana
former Supreme Court Judge Fred c. Cause are on
record in public interviews asserting that the former
Grand Jury had evidence which should have resulted
in indictments and that Prosecutor Kenny can nol'
nor can these other attorneys who we're paid fees
From, the Governors fund, file charges while the
present grand jury is held intact
There may be reasons why the simple solution
Of Diminishing the grand jury and permitting these
lawyers to act if they desire to act should not De
followed
II they fail to act under such conditions, the
public will have difficulty in locating response
bility.
II they are not free to act there may be at least
doubt in the public mind
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
Let Them All Qualify

Secretary Mellon has shown a way for the Cool
idge Administration to force the prohibition CON-
missioner to demonstrate his fitness before being
appointed permanently to the Office.
1t all about with the appointment of l2oy
Haynes as acting prohibition commissioner
The law provides that all employees OF the pro-
hbition bureau must take a civil service examina-
ton, except the prohibition commissioner
Right now there isn't any prohibition commits
sioner because Haynes was appointed assistant COM
missioner and elevated in only an acting capacity to
the higher office.
1t Haynes continues acting commissioner un
til the examinations are held some two months
hence, he will be forced to qualify along With all the
other prohibition employees
If he is appointed permanent prohibition com.
missioner before that time he will escape.
In order to force all candidates for the com
missonership to qualify, Mellon need only to keep
the Office on temporary, acting basis, until exam
nations for assistant commissioner are held.
This will make Haynes pass test along with
the rest, but this ought not to bother him. consid
ering his many years of experience in the prohibit
tion bureau.
Nor ought it to alarm Wayne B. Wheeler and the
Anti-Saoon League. Surely they can not object to
by passing a civil service examination
The more think about the idea the better
we like it and commend it to Secretary Mellon
for his consideration
Let's make all the candidates qualify and pre-
vent any talk of politics after the appointment is
made
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
Speaking of Questions and Answers
Why is a Nation?

Why is q Nation!
Why do people group themselves into what are
sometimes called governments instead of going it
alone every one for himself?
This may sound foolish in this day and age
but is it? After thousands of years of governments
humanity is still pretty much divided on the ques-
ton of what government is for.
Dictator Bento Mussoni, for instance, has one
theory the Russians another and Americans another
And on.
The Mussolini theory-and for that matter-the
Russian, is that the individual citizen is nothing
but governments and state everything.
The American theory is that the individual cti
is everything and the Government its servant.
Mussolini visions a state a beautiful swiftly
moving galley, efficient to line and colorful as
to sail, every in unison. That the people within
the ship are slaves in chains shackled to their
benches and without individual liberties, to him
seems incidental and Of no great importance The
ship a wholes the thing.
The American idea of state--at least it should
be--is a great ship, beautiful and efficient as we
can make it, but manned by free men whose indi-
vidual happiness is never to be interfered with so
long the web being of his fellows the security
of the ship itself is not jeopardized.
Mussolini's latest edct his new charter of
" labor" illustrates his views of government. The
right to strike, to bargain collectively to boycott TO
institute lockout-in short, all freedom of agree
ment is taken from capital labor and professional
workers that henceforth they may be controlled
by the state.
There is to be a government federation for each
of these great divisions of citizens and the is
be the sole arbiter in all disputes among them
selves and between each other
Arbitration is compulsory and failure to toe the
mark drawn by the state becomes crime punish
able by fine and Imprisonment.
Mussolinis theory may be lovely enough. Theo.
retically, lack of friction among the crew should
make the ship of state pillow through the waters faster
and more steadily. But a slave crew is ever sui
len and it's efficiency is reduced because it is
unhappy and always on the lookout for a chance to
break away.
Sooner or later there always comes mutny
when not only is all speed lost but the ship itself
with all on board, is imperiled.
That's something for Skipper Mussolini for the
great Italy galley, to ponder before he puts on much
more sail or ventures into far or stormy seas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
A Sure Cure for Bolshevism

TT G. Wells eminent Brtisher, cries down
Dictator" Mussoini on the ground that Mussolini
did not create fascism but on the other hand, fas-
cism created him. The spirit of fascism. he says,
"was fully vocal in Italy before the war
Which is a surprisingly bromide remark for
journalist author and historian Of Wells ntell1-
gence to make.
OF course the spirit of fascsm was in Italy
before Mussolin appeared the scene! History
offers no single example of an unknown or obscure
person suddenly emerging from nowhere to become
in a twinkng the undspued leader of millions OF
people unless those people, consciously or uncon-
sciously were ready and waiting for leader
There is no such thing as one-man revolution.
A man may have the eoquence of men and OF
angels and still get anywhere if his hearers are
not in the mood to accept his preachings.
The spirit of revolt must be in the individual
souls Of the population and for cause before the
wouldbe revolution maker has ghost of a chance
The sisners of our Declaration Of independence
did not make our revolution. They merely voiced
what already was in every American heart. Pat
rick Henrys Give me liberty or give me death
would have been laughed at but for the fact that he
was expressing what his compatrots all felt but
lacked Henry's gift Of expression.
Reams of paper and barrels of ink are being
expended in our country today urging upon the
red" peril A lot of good people seem frightfuly
worried lest communism Bolshevsm overthrow
our republic Still others apparently afraid of fas
cism and the possible appearance Of an American
Mussoni. Somehow we fail utterly to thrill to any
such menace.
The situation makes the Undoubtedly we
have Lenin or Mussolini in midst today, but
neither will get anywhere so long the way is not
paved for him. If liberty is taken from us;
if we become oppressed; il our Government forgets
it is Of by and for the people and becomes, instead
a Government of, by and for the few, then and not
until then, will we have need to fear a Lenin or
Mussoini
Paderewski, genius though he is, can not make
bass drum sound like piano, nor piano like
bass drum. He not get out of his piano even
one note that was not built into it; single chord
that is waiting there to be brought out by tai
ented hand
People like that, They react precisely
cording to the way they feel inside, not according
to the way outsider tells them they ought
to feel
If nation is happy, if it is busy, if it is even
half way we'll governed, the best that woud-be in
citers to revolt get is to be called nuts and cranks
with an occasional shower of over-rpe hen fruit
Contentment is Nations best antdote against
extremists of any and all kinds 1t would be more
to the point, therefore, to spend less time
in trying to round up and hang our Bolshevists il
any, and more time keeping our country the land
of liberty and justice it started out to be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
The Lesson of Jimmy Thomas

F9rty-three years ago a little Welsh boy of
nine started to work in the railway shops of a big
British railway company. And the other day the
wedding of the daughter of that Welshman was at
tended by the prime minister, former prime min.
lister and a score of great statesmen peers and
peeresses.
Inlngs move slowly in old Britain but thew do
move career that would have been incredible
forty years ago is fact today. The romance of
Jimmy Thomas proves it,
The little Welsh boy advanced in railroading
until ne became one of the crack engineers in charge
Oh one OF the best trains on his line Then he be-
came a Dig man in his union and later went to
Parllament, where he soon displayed his talents
as debaer He did big work for his country during
the war.
when the Labor party ran the government q
couple OF years ago, Thomas was made a member
OF the cabinet with the portfolio of minister for the
colonies And he was good one He was made a
privy councillor. And again he made good So IT'S
no wonder all sorts of important people focked to
his daughters marriage
The lesson is plain Sterling worth finds its way
to the top even in castebound country like ENGLAND
You can't keep good man down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
Trees and Floods

Whatever else may be said OF it,
the Mississippi has certainly drama
tized forestry week.
There is a definite connection be-
tween its sudden rise and the disap-
pearance of trees from thousands of
square miles of territory along its
banks and tributaries.
Where the watersheds are COW
cred with forests. rivers rise slow
ly because it takes the rain a long
time to seep through the moss and
leaf mold. Where watersheds are
barren of forests the rain runs down
over them as it does over a roof.
Forests not only prevent floods,
but they hold rain water in storage
for dry seasons.
There is more benefit in the pres
ervation of forests than arises from
the supply Of timber and pulpwood
it insures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28

Music week in Indianapolis will
he ushered in Sunday afternoon at
the Murat by Tito Schipa, noted
lyric tenor. at a concert under the
direction of Ona b. Talbot.
Schipa began his early stage train
ing at the age of :.
This is the interesting story he
tells of his first experience in opera.
where he was destined to become
so famous. AT the age of : / liter
ally tumblcd into what was 10 be
my life calling. At Lecce, Italy,
where I was born, a boys chorus
was needed TO sing at the little the
alter there in Carmen DO you
know other boys who can sing:
the young conductor asked me, after
he had heard my voice. OF course
l did. Any boy who follows sports
as ardently as 1 did was pretty sure
of comrades.
"On the night of our first appear
ance it became like the song, Hail,
Hail, the Gangs All Here l was
little, the trousers they gave me
were so long and the shoes so big
that / literally tumbled downstairs
onto the stage.
eve boys sang together that sea
son every night when Carmen was
the opera. Our nightly pay was
90 centesimi, the equivalent OF 4
cents. Sometimes the impresarto
paid US. Sometimes he did not. Per-
haps he forgot it. Well, the next
season he engaged us all again. But
on the opening night, just before
we went out on the stage, I called
a meeting which all the boys at
tended. Let's refuse to sing un-
less the manager promises TO pay
us after every performance, I pro-
posed. BY unanimous vote the mo-
ton was carried.
After the manager had heard the
news We got our 4 cents nightly.
To us it meant a victory, for in
Italy 4 cents failed TO grow on
bushes low enough for little boys
TO pick them. However. the follow
ing season the manager staged a
comeback. He engaged all the boys
but me; I don't want that strike
leader vas his ultimatum.
'If 4 cents a night had meant an
income to me. the JOY of singing was
bigger still. In tears I went to the
young conductor. had gotten all
the boys together for him when he
asked me. He had not forgotten il,
and he was the influence who got
me reinstated. The funny part of
it is that today, as Maestro Polacco,
he is the conductor of the Chicago
Civic Opera, where 1 sing every sea-
son."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
Minority Protest

1t is right TO save New Orleans
even if the flooding of dozen
parishes like that of st. Bernard S
is involved.
Still it is easy to get the view
point of the farmers and trappers,
whose homes are to be wiped out
and who are demanding cash in ad-
vance.
There never was a minority yet
but what resented the idea of being
sacrificed to help the majority.
The fact that these farmers and
trappers are willing to take cash,
even though they may want a
generous amount, represents some
progress.
Time was when they would have
stood on their rights, cash or no
cash.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
BeIated Confessions

Many a murderer has gone to the
chair or the gallows protesting in
nocence, although his guilt was
proved beyond the shadow of a
doubt. Some of them have held out
until the last moment only to break
down and undeceive their misguided
friends.
One OF the most startling and I'M
expected confessions ever recorded
in this country was that of John W.
Webster, a Harvard professor, who
was convicted of killing DR.. Park
man on circumstantial evidence.
The evidence was so circumstantial,
indeed, that many people not only
doubted Webster's guilt, but whether
Dr. Parkman had actually been
killed.
The case created furore at the
time. thousands signed petitions for
iexecutive clemency, affidavits were
presented TO the effect that DIR.
Parkman had been seen alive after
the murder and the impression pre-
vailed that even though guilty,
Professor Webster should not be
hanged on the evidence against
him.
Three days before the execution,
he confessed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
Nerve

Not only have both defendants in
the Gray-Snyder trial confessed, but
their confessions agree in all essen
tial points. For once, the public
does not have to guess the details
Of a brutal murder, or wonder
whether the prosecution has rea-
soned them out correctly.
Men and women who have the
hardihood to plan the death of a
fellow being and prepare alibis for
themselves m advance usually have
the hardihood to remain silent if not
to persist in the denial of their
guilt.
- AS much nerve as it takes to kill
sleeping man in the dark, it prob
ably takes more to stand up in the
open and confess it especially after
the murderer has lied.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
Tito Schipa, Noted Tenor, Will Open
Music Week at Murat Theater Sunday

Theater bill, opening today. for the
last Of the week. Mr.. Allard is said
TO be capable of humorous grimaces
and expressions. and is claimed to
have a sense of the ridiculous that
makes his act one long laugh. Three
young women and a juvenile assist
in the miniature musical comedy.
"A Model and Artists" are re-
vealed in an artists studio, which
Ladena Edgecomb and her four boys
are Offering as the co-headliner. Miss
Edgecomb is a dancer and singer
who forms the enter of attraction
in the many dances.
From station WFAA Jack Davis
and Jack Bell. pianist and singer,
come to the vaudeville stage. In
person they give the songs that won
for them so many listeners. This
Pair Of Jacks" is noted for it's
grooming melodies and snappy music.
Fisher and Gilmore are funsters
with a new version of Romeo and
Juliet. This time the man is the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
New Mexican Policy

The Coolidge Administration has
clearly changed its attitude toward
Mexico.
1t is now willing to take the Next
can ambassador word that there
will be no confiscation of American
property, except by due process Of
law. where it was formerly unwill-
ing to take a constitutional provision,
a conference report, or even Presi-
dent Gales word.
AS the New York World suggests,
the Coolidge Administration may
have been impressed with Gales
good faith because OF the gentle
manly way he handled the stolen
diplomatic notes and papers which
fell into his hands.
Had he been the anti.American
bolshevist he had been painted he
would have published those notes
and papers instead of returning them
to the American government, as he
did, and no one can guess the trou-
BILE that might have resulted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
Times Readers
Voice Vices
To the Editor.

To the Editor:
Our attorney general stated. in a
speech before the annual institute
Of the Marion County w. c. 4. u.
that prohibition had not been entire.
ly successful because there has been
too much dropping of the oars after
passage of the Eighteenth Amend.
ment by those who participated most
actively in adding it to the Consti.
tuition. He urged his hearers to con.
tinue educational efforts to make
liquor traffic offensive to public
morals rather than to the law, and
then further stated that vast mum
bers of our citizens, many of whom
pride themselves as belonging to the
best, are failing 10 support this law
by voluntary observance. 1t is also
disquieting TO know that many be
longing to the growing generatiM
/ are party to these violations. MOI
will, in the end, depend on voluntary
Observance than on their enforce.
ment, declared the attorney general.
Prohibition is the most stupendous
Government undertaking ever en-.
tered into. Honest enforcement and
honest voluntary observance will Ill
timately make it successful Public
officials in Indiana may always be
generally relied on to give just as
much enforcement as the preponder.
ant sentiment of community
makes possible. The development
and maintenance of a proper senti.
ment of the people IS the surest key
to the success of prohibition.
We, the people of Indiana must
agree that he is quite right, for a
public official that will openly com
bat vice and crime cannot hope to
have the support of the element OF
its people, and. as has been noticed
in the past few years, this particu
lar element of people has played q
great part in State politics.
1t is not a question of educating
the people to the idea of the moral
wrong in drinking liquor, but rather
a question of getting all the people
off Indiana to declare themselves at
the election polls and taking the
power of law enforcement out of the
hands Of greedy politicians.
CHARLES r. SWAIN.
519 y. Denny st.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
Nobody Cares

Rejection of George Bernard
Shaw's portrait by the British Royal
Academy is less significant, perhaps,
than is the fact that nobody cares.
Caesar arrived at a point where he
didn't need the crown to prove he
was the foremost man in Rome. and
Shaw has arrived at point where
he doesn't need to be trade-marked
by any learned society to prove he
is the foremost playwright in Eng
land
What is more pathetic, the Brit
ish Royal Academy has arrived at
a point where few people take it
seriously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28
~
TRACY
v Says:
BeUerdge Finally VIII Be
Remembered as
Author.
BY NJ. 4. Tracy

Albert j. Beveridge was a good
politician and an able Senator, but
he finally will be remembered. be-
cause he wrote The Life of John
Marshall"
John Marshall was one of the few
men who really shaped the course
Of the republic. 1t was our mis-
fortune rather than his, that no one
had properly interpreted his place
in American history until Beverage
came along.
II it were Beveridge's ambition to
add something of constructive value
to American politics he certainly did
so when he produced this remarkable
biography.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28

countlifed lover and Miss Gilmore
is the sophisticated young woman.
Miss Elsie Cell is a French
comedienne, who is supported in the
Hodge Podge of Absurdity" by =.
Wiser and George Suzanne. Song.
dances, comedy and gymnasts are
in the act.
Wandering Girls" is the film,
with Dorothy Reyier. Robert
Agnew and Mildred Harris in the
main roles. Pathe News. a comedy.
and topics of the day are the short
reels.
Indianapolis theaters today offer:
THE Little Spithre" at English $;
new show at the Palace; Roy Cum
mings and Dave Apollon at Keith
Dance Moods" at the Lyric; THE
Better ole" at the Circle; Beau
Geste" at the Colonial; new show at
the Uptown; Johnny Get Your Hair
Cut" at the Apollo; Mr.. W. at the
Ohio; new show at the Isis and
burlesque at the Mutual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28

his picturesque deeds Annually, for some time, the
experts have been predicting his early retirement
But
Still he keeps on. Only the other day he pulled
typical Cobb stunt by stealing home while the
pitcher held the ball.
He must be a fixture We believe that our
children will still be watching Ty Cobb play ball.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-28

Are American passports issued to
persons who have taken first citi-
zenShip papers?
They are issued only to citizens of
the United States. and persons hold
ing first papers which are merely a
declaration of intention to become
citizens can not obtain passports,
because they are not yet American
citizens. They can still obtain pass
ports from the countries Of their ori-
gin through the nearest consul.
What is the best way TO care for
ferns and ported house plants in
winter?
The answer requires considerable
detail. Our Washington bureau has
a bulletin on Fall Gardening and
House Plants" which gives our sug-
gestions for their care. It can be
cents in stamps or coin.
What is the value of a five.hun-
dred.dollar bill of the Confederate
States bearing a bust of StOnewalI
jackson, and issued in 1854?
SO per 100 notes.
When and why was the capital of
the COnfederacy moved to Rich.
mOnd?
1t was moved July 20, 1851. and
the reason was given by Jefferson
Davis in his address to the first
Confederate Congress: THAT the
aggressive movements of the enemy
required prompt, energetic action;
that the accumulation of his force on
the Potomac sufficiently demon.
strated that his first efforts were to
be directed against Virginia, and
from no point could necessary meas
ures for her defense and protection