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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-14
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Dean Paul v. McNutt of the law
school of Indiana University, in
his recent address to Ft. Wayne
Daughters of the American Rev.
olution, performed an important
service in showing that back of
most pacifist agitation stand the
paid propagandists who make a
living by "furthering will o. the
wispS and vague ideas" Those who
preach against preparedness are
in grave error, since, as Dean
AfcNuCt reminds us, "one-half of
ttrz CASUALTIES in wars have been
due to failure to train men during
times of peace" AS against the
claim of the pacifiSts that it is
criminal to prepare for war, the
head of the State university'S
school of law set forth that "the
real national crime of the United
States has been in sending men
Into war unframed"
Being o normal, intelligent
citizen, Dean McNutt, who has
himself experienced the horrors of
war, does not want a repetition of
that horror. I'VE all want peace"
he declares, "but we must build
upon known facts and experiences,
rather than upon theories" Who
are those who agitate the cause of
extreme paciflsm? Many Of them
are well-meaning citizens who
have no time for communist phil
osophy as such. But while not
every one who belongs to a peace
society is a communist, most of
these organizations are, even if
unwittingly, supporting the COM
raunist purpose. For every COM
lnunist is q pacifst, SO far as the
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Questions and
AnSzOeYS

You can get an answer to any ques-
ton of fact or information by writing
to The Indianapolis Times Washington
Bureau. 1922 New York Ave. Washing
ton. D. c.. inclosing cents in stamps
for reply. Medical. legal and marital
advice cannot be given nor can extended
research be undertaken. All other ques-
lions will receive a personal reply. Un-
signed requests cannot be answered. All
letters are Observation-Disclosures.
Has any one climbed to the top
Of Mt. Everest?
No.
How many miles Of track has the
Canadian Pacific Railroad?
14,409 miles.
Where in the Bible is bread called
'the staff of life?
Ezekiel 4:14; SIG and 1913.
When does the next presidential
election occur?
Nov. 6, 1928.
What is the nationality and mean-
ing Of the name Tyler?
It is of English origin and means
"tilemaker."
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the judges not only acquitted him
but escorted him home.
Born many. years before Euripides,
he outlived him by several months
and put on mourning for him; then,
in the same year, 406 B. c., he, too,
died.
It was his good fortune to pass
from the scene before the defeat of
Athens in the Pelponnesian war and
at the end of the heroic age.
Pericles was dead, HerodotuS and
Aeschytus; now SophocleS and EClri-
pideS, and in few years, Socrates.
Legend tells how DionysiuS ap-
peared to Lysander as the Spartans
besieged Athens and demanded a
safe-conduct for the poets friends,
who wished to bury him in the
Sepulchre of his fathers at DeceIa.
The Greeks rendered him divine
honorS; for in their noble concep-
ton, all great men were gods. The
poet, SimmiaS, wrote his epitaph:-
Creep gently ivy, ever gently creep,
Where Sophocles sleeps on in calm
repoSe;
Thy pale green treSses DER the
marble sweep,
While all around shall bloom the
purple rose.
There let the vine with rich, full
clusters hang,
Its fair young tendrils flung
around the stone;
Due need for that sweet wisdom
which he sang
BY MUSES. and by Graces called
their own"
Copyright. 1927. by DR.. WIN Derant.)
ITO Be Continued
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What Next in OkIahoma2

A StatehouSe surrounded by
National Guardsmen, with no one
allowed to enter except by their
permission; a rump session of the
Legislature called at o'clock in
the morning, meeting in room
on the eighth floor of downtown
hotel and impeaching not only
the Governor but the chief JUS
tice and the president of the State
board of agriculture; a Supreme
Court opinion that the Legisla-
ture has no right to meet in spe-
cial session unless called by the
Governor and a district court in
junction forbidding it to consider
charges of impeachment-where
do we go from here?
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Old Masters

Angels from the realms Of glory.
Wing your fight DER all the earth;
Ye who sang creations story
Now proclaim Messiah's birth;
Come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn King.
Sinners, wrung With true repent
ance,
Doomed, for guilt, to endless pains,
Justice now revokes the sentence,
Mercy calls you-break your chains;
Come and worship;
Worship Christ, the newborn King.
James Montgomery: From 'Good
Tidings Of Great Joy to All People"
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United States is concerned, and
a militarist so far as Soviet
Russian is concerned.
Dean McNutt, aware that it is
among the first duties of patriotic
citizens to defend their country,
has taken strong issue with those
who oppose the r. o. T. G. For
tunately, these ultra pacifists are
in a minority, but by subtle, insid-
iouS methods, they are expanding
their influence; and so Dean Nc.
Mutt has sounded a timely warm
ing.
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Up to Citizenship

You need something beyond
sheer legality in a government by,
for and of the people.
For one thing, you need honest,
conscientious interest in public
affairs, For another, you need
citizenship that visualizes govern
ment as something besides place
where henchmen and healers can
connect with the public pay roll.
For still another, you need a civic
consciousness that ranks higher
than ward politics.
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Several years ago William Allen
White did his State lot of good
by writing that famous editorial,
Whats the Matter With Kan
sas?"
The time seems right for some
editor to perform similar serv-
ice for Oklahoma.
What has happened to cause
all this uproar in the sooner
State?
More important than that, what
Is going to happen?
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/. 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.
3. You must have a complete
word, of common usage, for each
jump. Slang words and abbrevia-
tons don't count.
4. The order Of letters cannot be
changed.
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To the Editor:

To the Editor:
Notwithstanding the fact that the
writer is fully aware that "a fool
convinced against his will is of the
same opinion STILL" and that the
only thing to be gained In a dis
cuSsion OF religious matters or prin-
cipleS is that each thinks the other
is a bigger fool than he thought
before, we venture the following
reply to a "A Reader" under date
of Dec. l, 1927:
We agree in one thing. I, too, do
not believe in capital punishment
for various reasons. Still do not
class the executioner as a murderer.
He is not taking a human life be-
cause Of hate or revenge. "Woa to
him who sheds innocent blood"
How about him who sheds sinful
blood not for revenge but because
and happier.
HE that hateth his brother is
a murderer and no murderer hath
eternal life" There will be many
surprise verdict of Guilty Of
murder" in the final day for those
who never even killed a fly, yet
secretly hated a fellow being. The
purpose back of an act counts, not
what you do nor the results.
Moses slew the Egyptian not for
personal gain, but for the people of
his nation and it was accounted to
him as Righteousness not murder.
ANOTHER READER.
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To the Editor:

Those who quote the Bible on the
Snyder case, notice, quote from
the old testament. Why not adj
vance a step farther and quote from
ChriSt'S sermon on the mount,
found in st. Matthew's, chapters
five, six and seven?
See what He says in the fifth
chapter of st. Matthew, beginning
with the twenty-first verse and con-
Guiding the chapter about killing,
calling your brother a fool, commit
ting adultery found in the twenty
seventh and twenty-eight verse;,
and last but not least read what He
says about divorce, found in the
thirty-firs and thirty-second verses.
Notice also what He says of
divorce in the tenth chapter, st.
Mark, second to thirteenth verses.
The Bible tells us IF we break
one of the commandments, we are
guilty of ALL"
How many of us never broke any
commandment? None are per-
feet, no not one" says the Bible.
I do not believe however that
murderers should go free, but I do
not believe in killing them, for
Vengeance is mine, and I will re-
pay, sayeth the Lord"
I do not believe two wrongs make
right, and think an executioner
is a murderer and a cold-blooded
one. I indorse life sentences, but
never death penalties.
Christ said, LET him that is with
out sin cast the first stone"
A TIMES READER,
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NJ. E.
TRACY
SAYS:

"The basic presumption of
Our Form of Goverm-
ment Is That Plain Peo-
pie KmoaO Enough to
Pick Reasonably Good
Governors, Lawmakers
and Judges and That
These VIII Perform
Their Duties Reasonably
Well"
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Times Readers
Voice Vie1CS

The name and address Of the author
must accompany every contribution, but
on request will not be published. Let
preference.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-11-08
THOUSANDS BENEFIT
 FROM WORK OF TIE
 AMERICAN RED CROSS
DRIVE WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY; PUBLIC'S SUPPORT
 IS SOLICITED

To give a brief account of the i'm mense size of the American Red Cross, and the work it is performing, T. R. McEwen, chairman of the local Chapter, states: Tn close co-opera- ton with governmental activities it is rendering advice and aid to more than 73,OO0 disabled ex7serYice men and their families each month. It serves along a hundred lines the quarter of a million soldiers, sailors and marines now in active service.
 "It maintains an enrolled reserve of 44,0O0 Red Gross nurses ready for in stant duty in time of emergency. It employs S06 Public Health nurses to safeguard community health. Dur ing the past year it has given instruc- tion in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick to 67O00 women and girls. Tn its steady war to reduce unnecessary deaths from drowning and accident, the Red Cross has trained 31,000 per- sons in water safety and life saving and issued First Aid certificates to 19, ,000 who have completed the stan- dard course.
 More than 5,OO0,0oO children enroll ed in the Junior Red Cross are being taught the value of unselfish service. Thousands of loyal volunteers are pro ducing surgical dressing and garments and transcribing hundreds of pages of Braille, SO that the blind may read with their fingers. ~
 "All this goes on steadily. There is no furor over it. It is just the days work. sr r-
 Tt would be well to recall few Of Ithesa facts when on Thursday Volun- teer workers call on you.", MT. Mo Ewen said in conclusion.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-11-08
JUDGE CLEcC MADE DECISION WHICH WAS
 RECENTLY REVERSED

The Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco handed down a decision some days. ago reversing the judge ment of Judge Cecil H, Clegg at Fair banks, rendered in favor of. the de- fendant last winter in case brought by the Territory against the First Nat ionaL Bank of Fairbanks.
 Additional details connected with the case and published in the Empire are to the effect statutes enacted by the legislature provided that the yarl- ous banks in the Territory should dis close "dead accounts" to the Attorney General to enable the latter to instl- ute escheat proceedings.
 Judge Clegg, without filing an
 oninion in effect, held that the Terri
 tory had no jurisdiction over escheat-
 ed estates in the first place, and in the
 second place that it had no 5urisd1c-
 tion over National Banks.
 It is evident that the Court of Ap peals, in reversing Judge Clegg' sus. tained the validity of the Territorla1, ! statues, restores the writ demandint that accounts be disclosed and clears } the way for completion of the litiga tion. za-1,f- N.
 5 Attorney General Rustgard appeared for the Territory, and John A. Clarl } of Fairbanks, and Lyons & sorton 2 ! Seattle, appeared for the bank, Tn case was submitted by both sides ol briefs. sf.5'a- @ ....rt
Seward daily gateway., 1927-11-08
. |--1- ' 7-@ N
 GIVE US BASKETBALL NOW

There seems to be dssenon among local basketball play Aers and fans. -@&. #4# t<# E. ea|
 Apparently everything hinges onto the Fairbanks games. @o"
 group of local figure the team to represent Seward in the proposed games with the College in Fair banks has already been selected and not favortes will be played -s'"
 This is not so!
 But on the other hand it decided at the last S. A. C. meeting that in order to have harmony better dlsband the Seward threecorner league until after the College games @$ a## This was done!
 Fine, for the six men who go to Fairbanks.
 But not so fine for the members of the S. A C., the local fans and other members of the league all of whom support the s. A. c. morally and financially.
 If the college games going to spoil local games we say cut out the college series. -
 Inter-city games are great. We have always given them our support but the Old Home Town comes first always -
 Four hundred dollars is lot of money to pay visit ing team Seward is still small town. That same $4OO would help lot in furtherng local sport and entertain ment for the s. A. c.
 Everybodys fun is being stopped under the present arrangement
 Seward fans want to see the Army, City and H1gn school boys play basketball And all the members or these teams want to play now, not after New Year
 Give us a game week!
Seward daily gateway., 1927-11-08
CAN HE DO IT?

Associated Press dispatches today from Seattle report Noel Smith, manager of the railroad proposes to use his influence in having the Bureau of Education head quarters moved from Seattle to Anchorage
 Getting down to brass tacks one has to admire the "Go-get-em-spirit' of Anchorage They are out TOT overvfhng Whether or not Smith showing favoritism we do not know at times we have had our suspicious Tn the meantime he has the benefit of the doubt Falrd ed folk will admit he has a tough b==s=z=-' 3a- e All Seward wants is square deal nothing more
Seward daily gateway., 1927-11-08

word of the sad plight of the natives with suggestions for their relief He writes Our small force of brethren are unable to cope with the distress which prevails III ts benighted land of cannibas Many natives are sarVg' Please send few more missionaries" Ea5.ea
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-13
BULWARK AGAINST BOLSHEVISM

William Green, head of the American Federation of
Labor addressing the labor convention at Los Angeles
made this notable declaration:
MY friends, the American Federation of Labor will
accept no dictation from Moscow we will not COM
promise with Communism or Communistc philoso-
ply.
I'VE will not listen to the call of any siren; we will
not experiment with the lives of working men and
women in something which found birth in class hatred
in a country ruled by dicators for centuries"
en- by American organized labor during the war; and
has been held consistently since. The reeration,
however, serves timely reminder to conserva-
tive capitalists that American labor itself is
tive.
1t might be added that the biggest buwark against
foreign radicaism in this country has been organized
labor rather than organized capital 1t is the soldiers
of industry, than the dollars of industry, that
have prevented the invasion of America by Boshevsm.
This is fact to be remembered and appraised at
its true value whenever radical labor speaker
announces John P. Frey, secretary of the metal
trades department, did at the Los Angeles conven-
ton: WORKERS wages must keep pace with their in
creasing powers of production
A good many, too, coming to that, dspite diff
ferences of viewpoint and understanding and serious
clashes occasionally, American capital and American
labor stand Fundamentally together, against whatever
red menace there may be Matching elsewhere in the
world upholdng the good old American principle of
individuasm and freedom Of opportunity. To the
typical employee to the typical employer, the in
dlvdua does not exist for the state-the state exists
for the individual
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-13

Don't boast just because you're
a globe -trOtter. Consider the gold
fish.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-13
Thursday, October -, 1927:

league. .s;
IN 1898, johnson and other offl-
cials of the league decided to ex'
nand and changed the name to AM
erican league. Two years later
fight was started with the National
League to establish right to major
league classification.
The American League CLUBS
bought players from the other league
and in a short time truce was ar
ranged which resulted in the Amer
lean League being placed on an
equal basis with the National.
In recent years Johnson has been
engaged in repeated heated disputes
with other baseball executives and
his resignation was virtually forced
at a meeting of league club owners
last spring.
Johnson denounced Commission.
~ X. NJ. Lands, ear OF baseball,
after the Speaker-Cob scandal, last
winter, and a week ago issued a
statement assailing the policies cf
Lands and others.
johnson said he had no plans
for the future, other than a visit
Ito Honolulu.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-13
TEN YEARS AGO


Today's roll of honor for gifts of
jam and preserves for the Boys of
Battery h contains the names OF a
number of contributors. Gifts, at the
suggestion OF 1.-The Jam Lady are
beng left at the Press office. Two
barrels full have already been con-
tiibuted and enough for a third will
be on hand soon. Let S fill the boys
up before they go to France. Among
tac latest contributors are: Mrs.
George ". Anderson, jar of chill. Jar
of orange marmalade; Mrs. c. j..
Childers, two jars of orange marmai
ade; Mrs. Ray Edgar, five jars of
black berry Jam; MIS-. K. y. Linz.
kin, jar satsumas, bottle tomatoe
ketchup; Mrs. C, N. Cooper, jar april
cot jam, jar tomatoe relish; Miss
Sammons, Jars Of peaches, logan.
berries, candied figs, eurrant Jelly,
blackberry Jelly; Mrs. +. B. Fuller,
large jar apricot butter.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-13
THE HISTORICAL PIE PLATE

Occasionally reads of mature people paying
for apples or watermeons stolen in a boyhood prank
or citizens with slow-noving conscences paying for
goods long since smuggled past customs officials.
restitution of a slightly different nature has been
made to Harvard College.
Back in l84l freshman stole pie from the college
dining hall. He ate the pie and kept the plate
which it had rested That plate has remained in his
family since It had very nearly become heir
loom.
Then the latest inheritors of the plate heard Of
President Lowes Joy over the discovery by excavat-
ors of several old Harvard dinner plates, They real
lied the historical value Of their pie plate and that it
would be of more Harvard than TO them. SO
they returned it, 1t is decorated with picture of
dormitory Of that period and has given rise to the
manufacture of sets Of dinner plates with different
Harvard scene each.
1t is a most suggestive story. If all the dishes and
silverware appropriated through the years by col
ege students should suddenly be started back toward
the dear old schools, there would be tremendous
transportation congestion. But there is likelihood
OF such a development. Most of such stuff is soon
lost by the petty thieves and little of it has as much
. value Interest as the Harvard pie plate.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-13

them long to bite through the side
of the tender, green leaves, until
thew had made quite a hole. In this
hollow. Bully curled himself up, and
when his brother had stuffed big
leaf from another lettuce into the
hole YOU would never have known a
frog was inside, especially as Bully
was green just like the lettuce.
Now you go call Uncle Wiggily
to his garden,' said Bully from in
side the lettuce to Bawly, who was
outside. "And "a soon az ne gets
here l II begin to jump around aud
when he sees the leaping lettuce -
Oh, what fun it will be! y
'"Fine fun!" eroaked Bawly.
Away he hoped to get Uncle Wig
giiy. But it was some little time
before he could find the rabbit gen
tleman for Uncle Wiggily had gone
to look for adventures. Finding
none, however, Mr.. Longears hoped
back to his bungalow, and there
Bawly met him and croaked:
"Oh, Uncle Wiggily, come and
see what's in your garden!'
"What it is---a worm chucklcd
the rabbit.
"Oh, sumpfin different from a
worm!" eroakrd Bawly. "1t's Il
lcaping lettuee!'
81 certainly must see that,' 50
he hoped with Bawly to the gar,
den. There was the big, round head
of lettuce with Bully inside, but the
frog boy had fallen asleep while
waiting for his brother to bring
back Uncle Wiggily. And of course,
being asleep inside the lettuce, Bully
didn't know he was expected 20
rake the lettuce leap so he just kept
on sleeping.
Where's the leaping lettuce,
Bawly?" asked Mr.. Longears.
Bawly didn't know what to do
lie pointed to the lettuce that did
rot leap and he suffered and STAN
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-13
LIQUOR EXPENDITURES

Senator Edge of New Jersey, frank wet"
springs something new in the way of wet ammunition.
He suggests that enough money be raised for real
enforcement of the Vostead Act He thinks it would
require billion dollars to give the law a real test.
And here's where his little joker comes in:
He suggests that the income be raised by popular
tax, entirely apart from the ordinary taxes for gov
ernmental expenses imposed necessaries of life
that every citizens would have to contribute and
would know what he was paying for.
IF the public paid high, and paid knowingly, for
dry enforcement, he argues "the country would then
show real interest in the matter He thinks it
would make the country sick of prohibition.
Perhaps the senator numorousiy point for
his side But suppose somebody from the other side
comes back at him with proposal in the vein,
about like this:
Let abolish the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth
merely providing that tax be imposed on liquor
manufacturers dealers and purchasers, sufficient to
support all the families impoverished by liquor, and
to pay all the public expenses in the way of jais hos
pitals almshouses and insane asylums incurred
through the liquor traffic"
Imperial Valley press., 1927-10-13
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD E. GARIS
Copyright, 1927, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE wIGGILY'S LEAPING
LETTUCE

"Ker ump wung gootie! croak
q Bulk No Tail, the frog boy, t.
his brother Bawly one oay as they
floated around in the pond on Ill,
leaf rafts- "Jerung gung! Cnei,
Wiggily!'
..zung oot! Pung bing. Ker inc
ker ung!' answered Bawly.
That was the way the frog boys
talked, but as it may be a bit hard
fer you to understand them ! viii
put it into English for YOU, What
Bullv said was:
II know how we can play good
ike. A fine trick. On Uncle Wig
gily.'
And Bawly answered;
"Let's do it! The sooner the
Letter. What is it''
And from here on | will put into
English all that the frog boys
Croaked to each other.
"Oh, it trick that will make
everybody Taught said Bully.
"Will it make Uncle Wiggily
laugh'' Bawly wanted to know.
~ think so, F." answered Bully.
"Whcn he sees the leaping lettuce
| don't believe he can help laugh
ing
.Where will be sec the leaping
lcttuce,' Bawlv wanted to know
and his brother answered:
''Tn his garden.
"What will make the lettuce
lcap?" was Bawiy 5 next question,
and Bully answered that by saying