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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-27
MRS. HARc0URT GIVEN
TAX REFUND OF SSH
Payment Made in Accordance With
SuDreme Court Ruling.

Refund of $571 "a for taxes illegal
ly collected in 1919. 1920 and 1921
was allowed Tuesday to Mrs. Mary
E. Harcourt, Administrative of John
r. Harcourt's estate, by Harry Dunn.
county auditor The refund included
interest.
This amount must be deducted,
Dunn said, from the money Wash
ington township receives from the
county for school operation, road
building and other township activ-
tiles.
No further claims will be allowed
until provision is made for funds.
Dunn said.
The Harcourt claim was first filed
in Marion County Circuit Court
where Judge Harry o. Chamberlain
approved it. The Indiana Supreme
Court upheld the claim In March.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-27
B0RER PERIL is GAINING

Seven more townships are re-
ported infested with corn-borer by
State Entonologist Frank Wallace.
The pest still is confined to six
northeastern counties.
New townships are Jefferson, Al
len, York in Noble County, Wayne,
Adams,l Jefferson in Allen, and
Smith in Whitley.
Other counties in the quarantine
area are La Grange, Steuben and
De Kalb.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-27
Four Women Held

BIZ Times Special
NEW ALBANY, Ind, July a.
Four women were among the eight
persons arrested in liquor raids in
the city and county by Federal
agents assisted by local police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-27
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JULY q. 1927 J

safety board and heads of depart
ments operating under 1t will meet
Friday night to consider revision.
The board of works considered its.
slaShes this afternoon.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
and the North and the West have

and the North and the West have
been largely Republican.
The suggestion that the vets might
put a party of their own in the field
in 1928 comes from two New York
sources, from William b. Wait. chair
man of the New York State refer
endum committee. an offshoot of the
Association Opposed to the Prohi-
bition Amendment, and from AS
semblyman Louis A. Cuvillier. author
of the law repeating the State en-
forcement act and a founder of the
National Constitutional Liberty
League of America.
Mr.. Cuvillier believes that Repub-
lican liberals" the term now ap-
piled to the vets, would overlook
Gov. Al Smiths democracy and
membership in the Catholic Church
and support him, if the Republican
party stands nationally for prohibi-
ton in it's 1928 platform and Gov.
Smith is the nominee of the Demo-
cratic party. Probably Mr.. Cuvillfer
and his associates overestimate the
strength of the anti-prohibition sem
timent, just as some of the drys
overestimate the dry strength in the
South when they predict that South
ern States would desert the Demo-
cratic party If AL Smith were nomi-
mated for President. Mr. Cuvillier
however, in 1926 saw more than
100000 Republicans in New York
State desert former Senator James
w. Wadsworth, jr., because he pro-
claimed his opposition to the eight
eenth amendment.
AS a threat, third party with a
wet label may be somewhat effective
But a wet party. with whisky as its
complete platform, can get nowhere
in this country. If Gov. Smith were
nominated by the Democrats, a third
party of this character might indorse
the Democratic candidate, might even
in some Republican States be used
as a political adjunct of the Demo-
Gratis. But it is difficult to under
stand how a liberal Republican could
or would vote for a third party wet
when he could or would not vote
for AL Smith.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
The Wet Threat.

Threat of third party under the
wet banner comes from New York,
provided both the Republicans and the
Democrats nominate drys for Presi-
dent next year and adopt dry planks
in their party platforms. A third
party is frequently upsetting to the
politicians. 1t is difficult to predict
with accuracy just whose OK will be
gored by the interjection of a new
party. The vets realize this. They
feel that the threat they now put for
ward may make the old parties more
cautious in tying up closely with the
dry forces and the Anti-Saloon
League.
A third party, Haunting the BAN
ner of booze, would get nowhere in
this country. That flag would be
like a red rag to millions of voters.
But such a third party, organized
efficiently and financed on a large
scale, might make a serious difference
in the result of the next election in
a number of big States, among them
New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania,
not to mention Massachusetts, Con-
necticut and Missouri.
While for many years the National
Prohibition party existed in this
country, nominating candidates for
the Presidency, the dry forces won
their big victories by working with
in the two old political parties, the
Republican and the Democratic.
Strongly organized. the drys held the
balance of power in many congress
sional elections. They succeeded in
| imposing their will frequently on
| the political leaders and on candi-
dates themselves. If the vets are to
succeed in their efforts to do away
with national prohibition--and the hope
| Of such success is little more than
dream at present-they must adopt
similar tactics. Indeed, in many con-
gressional districts they have already
organized on these lines. The prohi-
bitionists have been bipartisan to
| the extent that they have supported
Democrats in some districts and Re-
publicans in others. Generally speak
ing, the Anti Saloon League has
supported Democrats in the South
and Republicans in the North and
West. This was the part of wisdom
Only a Democrat, under existing
conditions can win In the South
Evening star., 1927-05-18
A Fresh Disaster.

It seems almost incredible that after
weeks of inundation in other regions
and with increasing danger warnings
in the northwest section of Louisiana
a ievee break should take a large area
unawares. Yet that has happened.
A crevasse $500 feet wide was sud
denly made in the bank Of the Atcha-
falaya River and a torrent fully
twenty feet in depth and making
thirty miles an hour poured through
upon the town Of Melville, whose
! 900 inhabitants had to fee for their
lives with no preparation. They had
been trusting confidently to the
strength Of the levee--a trust that
proved fallacious. Evidently they had
made no preparations for their flight.
Suddenly the levee guards ran through
the town crying ''Crevasse! Crevasse"'
At this dread word the people fed.
There were some losses of life. Just
how many will perhaps not be known
for weeks. Ten men were seen to be
swept away as they waded breast
high along an embankment, seeking
higher land. Others were carried off
as buildings upon which they had
climbed collapsed with the flood. In
the agricultural lands beyond the
town heavy losses Of stock We're suf.
fered.
Thus the lower tributaries of the
Mississippi continue their devasta-
tions. They are spreading out into
an immense lake west of the nAin
ystream and while these fresh leTee
Evening star., 1927-05-18
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

through the language of Shakespeare
and Milton, and British scholar an
swering that description has just
sprung a brand-new pronunciation
upon Washington. He is DIR. William
Searle Holdsworth, fellow of All
Souls College, who, addressing the
American Law Institute, spoke the
word academic" several times as
academic" DIR. Holdsworth occu-
pies one Of Oxford's most distin-
guished chairs-that created for Sir
William Blackstone. dean of all law
professors, more than $50 years ago
His American brother barristers
found DIR. Holdsworth the most de-
lightful of colleagues, despite the fact
that, without makeup, he could play
the Earl of Pawtucket, as Lawrence
D'Orsay immortalized that famous
stage Englishman--heavy, curled
mustache, eyeglasses anchored to wide
ribbon, and all.
X X X
The very latest thing under the po-
litical sun is a "Lowden and Wads-
worth" Republican ticket for 1928
The suggestion to make the former
senior Senator from New York the
Illinois farm politicians running-mate
originates at the Eastern headquarters
of Lowden in New York City. 1t ap-
pears that the Westerner's boosters
on Manhattan Island have been look
ing for some time for an available
vice presidential candidate from the
Atlantic seaboard, and Wadsworth is
the one they have picked on. At one
time young Teddy" Roosevelt was
mentioned in that connection. The
"LoWdenfor-Pres Association of
New York." it is disclosed, has been
used as a model in other States. 1t is
now reported that similar associations
have been organized in Nebraska, In
diana, Arizona, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Wisconsin, Kansas, Illinois,
Iowa and Minnesota. New York Low
denites, obviously an optimistic crew,
are tabulating 1888 votes on the first
ballot, distributed among IL States.
X y X X
Senator George Higgins Moses, Re-
publican. of New Hampshire, is in the
midst of his first tour of exploration
of the Panama Canal and the Ha-
waiian Islands. One of Moses closest
friends is a acknowledgement T.
Baker of Nevada, late unsuccessful
aspirant for seat in the United
States Senate. AS soon as Baker heard
IAloL lHS tO-COilSDlEdLOE Ol SoSudtOk
Dave" Reed of Pennsylvania, in the
late Senate filibuster, was headed for
the coast, the Nevadan arranged that
the full freedom of San Francisco and
all other Pacific ports should be ex-
tended the New Hampshire statesman.
When Senator Moses strikes Homo
lulu, welcome from a fellow Yankee
Wallace r. harrington. Governor of
the Territory of HaWaii-WiH await
him. Harrington is native of Maine.
Like Moses, too, he is a newspaper
man by profession.
1907
Evening star., 1927-05-18

breaks are relieving the pressure upon
New Orleans, and thereby probably
averting a disaster there, they are
causing enormous losses in the north
west lowlands of the State. The great
flood is not flattening out in terms of
destruction, but is taking a heavier
toll in it's final stages. 1t will be sew.
eral weeks before the country is
drained and the people can return to
their devastated homes as those in
the upper reaches of the swollen rivers
are now returning.
The grand total of destruction
mounts high. Contributions to the
relief fund are still needed. A further
call may have to be made. But the
public needs no additional admonition
of the necessity and, recognizing no
quotas" pour their donations into
numberless tributaries that flow into
the main stream of national bounty.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
No Parking the Alternative.

With the number Of protests stead
ilv mounting against the destroying
of any more of Washington's beauti-
full trees for the widening of streets,
and the suspension Of operations by
the Commissioners 1t is obvious that
The solution Of the problem lies in the
barring of downtown parking. Wash
ingtonians own more than one
hundred thousand automobiles. If
any large portion of this total are
broueht to the downtown district,
there is rot enough street space to
accommodate them. 1t follows, there
fore. that inasmuch as street widen
ing operations are destroying trees,
which in themselves make Washing
ton one of the most beautiful of
cities. and freedom of traffic move
mept can be obtained by elimination
OF parking, the remedy lies in sweep
ing the streets clean of standing cars.
1t is either one thing or the other.
With parked cars and narrow streets
CdnUOl IIIONS 4iGClys w ACAA
parked cars and wide streets the sit
uation is relieved. Those interested
in the beauty of Washington, how
ever. have in no uncertain language
expressed themselves on the widening
of streets to accommodate both parked
cars and moving traffic, and with this
widespread view in mind it would
seem that the Commissioners should
study seriously the benefits to be OBJ
tanned from the alternate plan.
Washington is one Of the few
cities in which downtown parking is
allowed. Motorists here have been
exceedingly fortunate in the fact that
while other communities have been
forced to eliminate parking, every ef-
fort has been made to retain 1t. Those
who have been following the traffic
destinies of the National Capital have
realized for a long time that sooner
or later downtown parking must be
prohibited. And with the present agi-
tation on the question of widening
streets at the sacrifice of trees, there
appears to be no better time to take
up the question for serious considera-
tion.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
Bandstand Barbarians.

The local band concert season is on,
Last night some half hundred or
more skilled and willing musicians,
under the able leadership of Lieut..
Charles S. Benter. went out to Chevy
Chase Circle. focus of a very con-
siderable part of the Capitals sub
urban population, and gave a really
beautiful concert.
The program, while by no means
strictly classical, was of high order
ioyed by Beethoven, by Bach or
Mozart, or Verdi or Bizet or Brahms,
had any of those worthless been in the
crowd Perhaps they might have
chosen a different program, but they
would have been interested III the
wonderful wind and wood-wind in
struments, and in the smoothness of
performance and the great number
Of artists calculated to delight their
souls al conductors and composers.
Did the throng listen, quietly and
did not Completely aside from the
largely necessary honking of motor
horns and the grinding of street car
wheels. those who tried to hear the
music had some of the following ad-
versities with which to contend:
Small boys yelling "Yoo, hoo, Skin
nay," or similar childish ululations;
small boys engaging in the healthful
but malapropos piling-up pastime
known to local youth as More Beef;
flappers hailing friends in accents
that would cut through a dozen from
bones, but which lacked distinctness,
due to n plethora of fragrant chew
ing gum; adult males arguing loudly
as to whether it was five straight or
six straight that the Washington
base ball team had lately lost: friend
" shouts of all sorts, dog fights, fam
lily gossip-in fact group demeanor
suited more to a carnival or a mid
way plaisance than to a concert.
Even here in Washington, where good
bands are heard frequently, the pre-
ferred procedure is to crowd close to
the ropes as If the artists were
bearded ladies or dog faced boys.
with consequent loss to the ear of
much of the music.
Some foreign peoples have certain
national characteristics Of which we
do not approve. But their band
stand manners are, compared with
ours, singularly distinguished and
meticulous. If they are music lovers,
as most of them are, they stand or
sit quietly, not too close, and drink
it in. If not, they refrain from an
noying those who are, and tactfully
stay elsewhere. The National Cap
ital is singuiarly fortunate in out
standing musical organizations. The
Navy Band, the Marine Band. the
Army Band, the Soldiers Home Band
and other units of a high degree of
excellence, all combine to give worthy
concerts in the Spring and Summer
at strategic points.
The American public, and particu-
larly American parents. can offset to
some extent the debts owing us by
foreign peoples by taking leaf from
their book of manners; by conducting
themselves at these lovely outdoor
concerts just as If they and all the
others had paid good money for
tickets.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
Pulitzer Newspaper Awards
Win COmmendatiOn of Press

work came a civic reformation which
clearly places the Canton Daily News
| in a high position among Americas
| daily newspapers"
Reviewing all three awards, the Des
| Moines TribuneCapital states: "These
are all examples of virile journalism.
The prizes encourage this, and as long
as they hold up before the public and
the profession such examples it will
not be lost
The Hartford Times expresses the
conviction that "all of these were
sound journalistic jobs of the sort
which Mr.. Pulitzer himself would have
wished to encourage" The Mime
apolis Tribune feels that the Canton
award was inevitable" while the
Pittsburgh Sun, Watertown Daily
Times and Winston-Salem Sentinel in
dorse the general public approval of
which they find evidence.
I'm mingled feelings of humility
and pride, the Canton Daily News ac-
cepts gratefully the award of the
Pulitzer gold medal" says that paper
There is humility because only in
humility can there be real service
such as that for which the life of Don
Mellett was sacrificed there is pride
because a civic fight has been won
against great odds, successful only be.
cause of awakening of q public con-
SciousneSS, without which society can
not last; and there is gratitude because
of the recognition that the work for
Canton is work for the best tradi-
tionS OF Journalism, which include,
above all else, honesty, independence.
fearlessness and persistency, unseIf-
ishly or at personal loss. to render
public service. Canton now
fo de-
city which will not tolerate the evils
which are eating at the heart of popu-
lar government everywhere"
n X u X
"The supreme sacrifice to public
duty" Is the estimate OF Don Mellett's
service by the st. Louis Post. Dispatch.
and the Sarasota Daily Times states
that 'he realized that he owed a GER
tain duty to the law-abiding element
of his city, and he even sacrificed his
life in order that the law might tri-
umph over lawlessness."
The New York World says: "The
profession of journalism has reason TO
feel deep satisfaction with the award
or the Pulitzer prizes in that field.
The prize for public service fifty falls
to the Daily News of Canton, Ohio,
whose editor was murdered in his fight
against the criminal element of the
town. Nor will any one question the
claim upon the reporters prize of
John I. Rogers of the st. Louis Post
Dispatch"
Had the medal for public service
not gone to the Canton News for it's
fight against local corruption, it might
well have gone to the st. Louis Post
Dispatch for it's services in bringing
about TIE Impeachment and final resig-
nation of Judge English" according TO
the Dayton News, which adds it's COM
ment upon the work of John II.
Rogers, the reporter: ''It is for his
great work in reporting this case and
In detecting and reporting the facts
leading up to it that Mr.. Rogers is
singled out by the Pulitzer jury. AS
Rogers describes his job, I do every
thing from chasing pictures to cover
ing gang wars In the faithful per-
formance of this routine he has come
into honor"
Evening star., 1927-05-18

in a type of drawings which may be
found in Punch Reginald Birch, the
draughtsman, was and still Is English
in fact and every essence; so were his
drawings. If you did not know this
fact, your comment on the character
of those illustrations is uncommonly
discerning.
Very truly yours,
JOHN BENNETT.
THANK you very much: good luck
to your
Master Skylark" was published
about 1897; we read 1t in a bound vol
later.
A year or so ago a new edition of
this childhood classic appeared. We
proposed to get it, at the time, but let
it slip by. Was it illustrated with
Birch's drawings, of inimitable deli
cacy of line and fancy?
Probably not. Publishers Of old
books nowadays desire to strike the
"jazz'' note; they want to pep up
their issues.
Usually they succeed in spelling the
book for the old-timers.
Take "Alice in Wonderland" Sir
John Tenneil illustrated the old stand
ard edition, and once a child gets those
pictures in his mind, never will he be
satisfied with any other.
"Alice in Wonderland" by the way,
is running a. race with Benjamin
Franklin's autobiography" for the
book to be included in the most stand
ard libraries"
In a recent investigation Of various
hTr ryaTbI ici1 tV1Cy
houses, we discovered that these two
books are neck-and-neck. each appear
ing in 10 or more of the newest iii
braries."
Some years ago we purchased sew
erel editions of Alice" both illustrat-
ed by newcomers. They were fine
drawings, to be sure, but to our mind
they did not ring true.
Somehow or other the latter illus
trations do not catch the spirit of
Alice and her most whimsical adven-
lures.
Even the motion picture edition, "
in which the players evidently had at
| tempted to copy after Tenneil, failed
to register with us.
No doubt we are old-fashioned.
Does it not spell "old-fashioned" to
confess that no illustrations of Dick
ems novels except those by Cruik.
shank and others of that day strike
| one as correct?
| Or does it simply mean that the
original illustrations. in the average
case, are the best simply because the
| first illustrator has partaken in some
measure. Of the authors inspiration?
| Novels are products of their day
and generation. Just as no later
writer could manage Dickens plots as
he handled them, so it is safe to say
that no modern illustrator can catch
| their best spirit.
Insensibly, later illustrators will not
be able to enter so deeply into the
story as the big man of the hour, the
draughtsman who read it while still
| hot, and tried his best to draw up to
what the writer had written.
! This is the secret of the best illus
trations; this is why photographs can
never take the place of drawings. in
| illustrating works of fiction.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
War Memorial Dollar Day.

An opportunity is afforded today
for every Washingtonian who has
not heretofore contributed to the fund
to erect a memorial to the District
men and women who died in the
World War, to do their bit toward
making this expression of acknowledg
ment a certainty, This is Dollar
day." when all those who have not
heretofore given may enroll them
selves as members of the contributing
organization by sending dollar apiece.
There are many more than 10000
Washingtonians who have not yet
given, but If that number will today
send a dollar each the fund will be
completed. The present amount that
remains to be subscribed is about
$4,000. A remarkable success has
been scored in this call for funds for
this patriotic purpose. The circum-
stances have not been favorable.
There have been other calls for money,
notably the Red Cross appeal for the
flood sufferers, and it is gratifying
that so generous a response has been
made to the summons to give to the
memorial fund. Only a narrow gap
remains TO be closed. A general
response to the call for dollars on this
day will complete the process. A cou-
pom is printed today for the conven-
ience of those disposed to give.
Within few hours this account can
be closed and the work Of erecting
the memorial definitely assured.
Evening star., 1927-05-18
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

MAY rs, 1917.
President Wilson calls the Nation
to arms with signing of draft bill.
- Registration of all men be-
tween ages Of II and 80 to take place
on June 5. First draft of
100000 men to be divided into Is divi-
sions. National Guard also
ordered to mobilize to full strength,
beginning July IS. President
announces he will not avail himself
of authority conferred by Congress to
organize volunteer divisions. Pays
high tribute to Col. Roosevelt's public
service, but says he does not regard
him as a military expert.
Secretary Baker announces that an
expeditionary force of approximately
one division of Regular troops under
Maj. Gen. Pershing has been ordered
to proceed to France as soon as prac-
tlcable. London sees striking
coincidence between arrival of United
States destroyers and lower U-boat
toll. House committee re-
jects Secretary McAdoo's plan to add
S445,000, 900 to proposed war taxation
bill. American air squadron
reported going to France shortly; ex-
pected to be flying on French front
within a few weeks. ,a-.