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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
FOUR PERSONS MISSING
No Reasons Given by Kin for Their
Disappearance.

Police sought four who disap-
peared Tuesday. Virgil Chew, Is.
3425 N. Capitol Ave, who, when last
seen, was wearing a blue cap, coat
and light trousers.
Florence Johnson, 20, Of $40 E.
Norris ST., was wearing a blue coat
With fur collar, and dark hat, ac-
cording to her father.
Harry U. Davis, "a, Is missing
from his home, 1916 Roosevelt Ave-.
according to his mother, Mrs. Rachel
Davis, who said he has wife and
baby.
Aca Beck, 16, Of So E. Wilkins
ST., left home at 6 a. m. Tuesday
to go to work and has not been seen
since.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
FLORIDA, TAKE NOTICE
They Also Grow Lemons In Blue
Grass State.
BH United Press

BU Untted Press
SEBREE, Ky, Jan. 12.-They may
raise more lemons in Florida, but
they don't raise 'em any bigger than
they do in Sebree, claims Mrs. A. b.
Sellers.
From a lemon tree in Mrs, Sellers
basement, have just been taken six
lemons, the biggest of which, accord
ing to Mrs. Sellers. weighs just a
pound and half.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
CAL CONFER
Indiana G. o. p. Leader Denies
Talk Is Significant.

BIZ Times SpecfdI
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.--Joseph
B. Healing, Republican national com.
mitteeman from Indiana, spent some
time with President Coolidge at the
White House this morning. Political
matters were understood to have
been discussed, including preliminar-
les of the 1928 national campaign, but
Healing told newspaper men after
wards the talk was not significant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
TRIAL FOR KING Be
Cult Leader Held for Circuit Co
on Girls Charges.

Bu United PTess
BENTON HARBOR, Mich, Js
liking" Benjamin Purnell, les
er Of the House Of David, was tod
bound over to Circuit Court for tr
on criminal charges perferred agar
him by Gladys Bamfod Rubel a
Ruth Bamford Reed. following
two hours hearing before JUST
Elizabeth Forhan.
The justice dismissed the plea
Attorney w. J. Barnard for the Ct
leader that the hearing in st. Jose
was illegal, but did reduce Purnel
bond on the two charges from $50,(
to $4,000.
King" Ben was brought into I
court on a stretcher, attended
Queen" Mary and many followe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
QUAKE SHAKES MANILA

MANILA, Jan. IA sharp earth
quake. lasting twelve seconds, shook
Manila and the northern Philippines
at a. m. today. The shock was
described by seismologists as being
of third intensity and not sufficiently
strong to cause serious damage,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
Dogs Poisoned by
Moon Mash
BR Times Special

BV Times Special
ENGLISH. Ind. Jan. H.
White mule mash is blamed
here for an epidemic of dog
poisoning and rabies.
Owners believe the dogs eat
the mash and are either slow.
ly poisoned or that the poison
develops rabies.
1t was first thought that a
dog poisoner was at work here.
That theory has been aban-
doned now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
FILM BAN CONSIDERED
Des MOines Women's Club May
Take Action.

BU United Press
DES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. 12.-
Proposal to bar Charlie Chaplin films
from Des Moines theaters because
of the comedians marital difficulties
is being considered by the censorship
committee of the Des Moines
Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs
George Tones, chairman, said today.
The committee plans a meeting
soon to take action, Mrs. Tones said.
Police officials here said they were
powerless to act if they wished to,
and picture house managers could
see no reason for barring the films.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
SLAYER OF 9 TO HANG
Jury Fixes Penalty Of Murderer of
Wife and Eight Children.
By United Press

BU United PrcSS
CLOVIS, N. NJ, Jan. 12.-George
J. Hassell, murderer OF his wife and
eight children, must die by hanging.
A jury, after two and half hours
deliberation, found him guilty and
set the penalty last midnight -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
FARM RELIEF ASKED

Senate Recommends That Congress
Offer Agriculture Aid.
Without naming any particular
method the Indiana Senate today
passed a resolution asking Congress
to pass farm relief legislation at this
session.
The resolution wa sintroduced by
Senator Alonzo Lindley Rep.), Foun.
tain and Warren Counties. 1t was
adopted without a dissenting vote.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
PREDICTS RUBBER SHIF
Firestone Believes Plantations "
End Foreign Auto Tire Grip.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-Harvey
Firestone, Jr., vice president of
Firestone Plantations Company.
turned from Liberia today with
promise that development of the CO
rany's 0,0OO-acre rubber-growi
concession in Africa eventually wol
free American motorists from pi
ing tribute to foreign rubber m,
opolies."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
Forecast

Mostly cloudy tonight, be-
coming unsettled Thursday;
warmer tonight with lowest
temperature about 30; colder
Thursday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-12
Home Edition

The Times and other Scripps-
Howard Newspapers operate
one of the largest press bureaus
in Washington, D. G.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28
AS Miss West Sees It

Miss Bina M. West member of the Republican
national committee for Michigan, puts common
Interpretation on President Coolidge'S recent
declaration that he would not accept another term
in letter she sends to fellow Republicans. Says
Miss West:
'Mr. Coolidge in his recent address to men,
bers Of the national committee at the White
House Dec. 6, gave clear expression of his views
on two important matters. He reiterated and
emphasized his decisions to eliminate himself
as a candidate for President in the next cam
paign . There should no longer be any
doubt about the position of the President and his
determination not to permit his to be used
as candidate for President in the next campaign
1t is therefore evident that Michigan Republicans
must turn their minds to the selection of another
choice who will best reflect the sentiments Of
the State"
It is too bad that Miss West cannot persuade
Charles D. Hilles national committeeman from New
York; William M. Butler, chairman of the national
committee, and other Coolidge richards who are
muddying political waters, to the same view. The
party needs leaders who will devote themselves to
obtaining the best possible candidate instead of play
ing politics with their own futures in mind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28
Mrs. GraYson's Venture

Mrs. Frances Grayson and her three companions
have vanished with the amphibian plane, the Dawn,
in which they we're undertaking fight across the
ocean. Their names doubtless will be added to the
long list of those who already have persisted in similar
undertakings.
The country is saddened by this misfortune, and
extends full sympathy to families of the victims.
Sympathy, however, should not obscure the fact
that the fight Ill advised and even If successful
would have contributed nothing to science or to the
development Of aviation A flight winter seas
said by experienced persons to be practically i'm
possible and added to that was the known fact that
weather conditions were unfavorabe.
The tragedy will be of value if it puts end to
similar attempts which serve useful purpose but
to advertise the persons undertaking them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28
Pre-. Digested Literature

Truly a busy people When the end comes
Of us can't quite see what we have done with
our time, but at any rate we pursue the phantom
of industry assiduously that we must have every
thing cut down to fit our schedule.
The latest device to save time and at the same
time gain wisdom is a magazine called 1.-THE
Readers Digest" 1t condenses all the best feature
articles of the leading magazines of the month and
sends them out to the tired business man and
wearied society dame they keep up with things
without the effort of making their own selections
The pamphlet sent out to advertise this enterprise
is filed with laudatory comments by outstanding
persons as Archie Roosevelt r. Louise Fitch president
of the American Association of University Women
G. D. Barr vice president of the American Cast Iron
Pipe Company, ct cetera.
The publication will no doubt answer a purpose.
1t may be boon in many household. But what
real good will any of get from pre-digested liter
allure? I'd rather buy good magazine read it
leisurey and read it ALL than to get smattering of
thirtyone articles of which somebody else had Sc
lected the pithy parts for me.
The people who too busy to read won't get
much out of that sort of thing anyway It's been
my observation that the folks who constantly explain
how they have time to spend with a book don't
really want to read 1t is merely good excuse. And
those who like to read WILL regardless of how busy
they are.
With such floods of published matter coming out
each week, it Is out Of the question for any one
person to read everything Even the critics who
their living thus can't do that For most of us, it
is merely question of selection but why not your
own selecting, at any rate?
This step, however, is in line with general
policy Of having somebody else make up our minds.
nation comprised of over hundred million souls
that is too spneless to make its own individual moral
decisions will probably enjoy having somebody do
its reading for it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28
An ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of Service


He was on liaison duty with battalion of the
306th Infantry, which was surrounded by the
enemy north OF the Forest de la Buinonne of the
Argonne Forest. After patrols and runners had
been repeatedly shot down while attempting to
carry back word of the battalions position and
condition., he volunteered for the mission and
successfully accomplished it.
The citation does not express the hell that was
the Forest de la Buinonne in those awful days. No
citation expresses fully the great deed of the man
it is meant to praise.
How he ran, how he lodged how he fattened
out and crawed inch after precious inch through
what seemed hours, and through what seemed end
less miles of mud how he fell into shell hole just
as hot hail Of machine gun bullets swept the field
he felt. in that last dash the sudden shoot
ing pain that told him he had been hit-all this the
acftation leaves out
But that is what the man did, and he saved "the
lost battalion" His name-probably it will not live
as long as Nathan zIales or Paul Revere'siS Abra-
oarn Hrotoshinsky, and his home New York
The other day President Coolidge by executive
order made Abraham Krotoshinsky eligible for app
pointnent in the general executive service of the
Government. That means he be appointed any
where in the United States to Government job.
And for this crippled veteran, out of work, but
Too proud to ask for charity it little enough after
hi these years. 1t represents the barest acknowl-
senent Of service Abraham Krotoshisky could
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
Greek Satire Found Many Ta7getS
Written for The Times by VIII DurGnt

ARISTOPHANES AND EURIPIDES
DUT there was another target at
ID which Aritophones aimed his
satire: and in this case with intent
to kill. For Ar.Stophanes, unlike
EuripideS, the great martyr of
philosophy, was a conservative aris-
tocrat. not an aristocratic radical;
his ideal was the old fashioned
Athenian who had fought at Mara
thon, and had loved his cities and
his gods without asking questions.
He despised the new-fangled scep-
ticism of the Sophists, the social
ism that was beginning to appear
among the slaves, and the individ-
ualism that was wrecking Athens
under the leadership and example
of Alcibiades; above all he scorned
the alternate misogyny and femin-
ism, the sentimentality and rhetoric
Of EuripideS. This man he set out
to destroy.
He began with play called THE
Thesmorphoriazusae" (411 B. c.,
from the women who annually as
sembled at Athens to celebrate the
Thesmophoria-a feast of Ceres and
Droserpine.
They discussed the latest diatribe
OF Euripides against their sex, and
planned revenge.
Euripides gets wind of the pro-
ceedingS. and persuades his uncle,
MnesilochuS, to dress as a woman
and enter the meeting to defend
him.
A woman complains that Euripides
has deprived her of a living; she
had made wreaths for the temples,
but since Euripides had shown that
there were no gods, the temple bust
ness had gone to pieces.
Mnesilochus, rising to the defense,
pursues an unexpected line of argu-
ment: Euripides should be let off
because. first, his worst sayings
about women are palpably, visibly,
and audibly true, and because, again,
the charges are mild compared to
what women themselves know to be
the truth.
The ladies suspect Though here
Aristophanes shows an imperfect
knowledge of the SEX, that this
traducer of womanhood cannot be
woman; they tear his disguise
from the face of Mnesilochus, and
he saves himself from being
scratched to death only by snatch
ing babe from a woman's arms
and threatening to cut its throat
if they touch him.
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AS the women nevertheless attack
him. he unclothes the child, and
finds that it is wine-skin disguised
as an infant to escape the revenue
officer.
He proposes TO cut its throat just
the same, much to the distress of
the wine-skin's mother. Spare my
darling" she cries. Bring a bowl
If it must die, let us catch its blood"
Mnesilochus solves the problem by
serving at the bowl, While the
women conclude the play with a
unanimous vote of condemnation
against Euripides.
n
ARISTOPHANES AND UTOPIA
TTAVING attacked Euripides for
4 Il dislike of the expensive sex,
Aristophanes turns about, with
comic privilege, and attacks him
for favoring the emancipation Of
women, for joining Plato and Peri
Giles in their efforts to remove the
disabilities that limited all honor
esO4C WO4AlCAA III d14C4CA4O 0AECCCS anu
for playing so persistently with
those Communist utopias that were
so prevalent in the last year of the
war, as they were in our own mag
nificent holocaust.
In a middling play called 1.-THE
Ecclesiazusae" 1898 B. G., i. e., "Tne
Alderwomen,D aclever suffragette,
Praxagora, berates her female
friends as fools for letting them
selves be ruled by such dolts as
men. She practices a fiery speech,
arranges a meeting, and proposes
laws Matchmaking everything but
toll.
But she concludes with a careful
exception: "All labor and toll to
your slaves you will leave"
In the famous comedy of 1.-THE
Birds" (414 B. c. the attack on
Utopia continues.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28
Uncle Sam Paws

Preparations discussions in Europe reveal an in
teresting connection-at least in the minds of Euro
peanS-between the German payments, allied war
debts to the United States and private loans by
United States bankers to various governments. And
usual, Uncle Sam is between the milstones.
S. Parker Gilbert, agent general of reparations,
proposes that payments by Germany be fixed. Sec
Rotary Mellon supports him. The French at once OBJ
ject; they will agree to nothing they say might
reduce the amount of indemnity they can recover
from their erstwhile enemy, and they fear this is
what Gilbert's proposal means
French spokesman further announce they are
unanimously opposed to any modification of the
Dawes plan that does not carry with it revision of
allied debts. The capacity of the allies to pay
America depends on payments to them by Germany,
they say. In other words any reduction in the pay
ments by Germany to them must be followed by
reduction in their payments to u.s.
A French financial authority says Dawes plan pay
ments should have priority external debts which
Germany has contracted since the Dawes plan be-
effective. America oblgingy evolved the Dawes
plan at the invitation of the affected powers Amer
lean bankers loaned Germany money with which to
stabilize her currency and with which the Dawes plan
payments have been made. Having done this, we are
told that the debts of Germany for reparations pay
n1ents are of secondary Importance!
Private debts figure still further Germany can
be expected to advance the plea that because of heavy
reparations payments she is unable to pay the loans
advanced by American bankers. The allied countries
doubtless will argue-and certainly will argue if
PREPARATIONS reduced-that they cannot pay huge
sums to America over period of sixty-two years. and
at the same time pay interest on private loans by
American bankers, Of which there are billions
1t is all very difficult for the mind IMMERSED in the
ways OF international finance. One version is that
the whole muddle is but continuation Of the pres
sure for the cancellation of debts which in reality
has never ceased. This view supposes that adjust
mentS already made primarily for the purpose
Of gaining access to the American money mar
ket which, having been accomplished is now used
an additional weapon against u.s.
The one certain conclusion seems to be that your
Uncle Sam will pay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28
Murder for Money

Five thousand dollars is a lot OF
money to bangle before the eyes
of poorly paid deputy sheriffs,
especially when offered for any
poor devil who may be shot, down
on no better ground than the
mere suspicion that he was, is or
might be a bank robber.
Such q sum Of money promised
under such circumstances consti-
tutes little les sthan an open invi-
tatio nto murder.
If a boy can shoot his grand
mother for SIPS, as happened in
Maine, and if another boy can
kidnap, kill and cut up an inno-
cent 12-year-old girl for $500, as
happened in young FIickman's
case, why is it not reasonable to
suppose that $4,000 cash in hand
might inspire some deputy sheriff
or some constable to frame" and
murder an innocent man in
Texas?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28
Woodrow Wilson

Seventy-one years ago Wednesday there was born
in the little town of Staunton, Va man whose lie
today fills pages in the encyclopedias than that
of julius Caesar and almast as many as those of
Napoleon and George Washington. From the ooscur-
ity of rural minister's son he rose to position
where he swayed tina whole world
That man was Woodrow 5silson.
No monuments of stone and granite are reared in
Wilson's memory in Washington today or mark the
simple slab where he is buried, but there are other
monuments greater than these which cast his
lengthening shadow over the deeds of men today.
Foremost of these perhaps is the machinery he
set up for the guaranty of peace among men-so lar
as such can be guaranteed-which he called the
League of Nations. Though this nation is not men,
Der, the league is functioning along the lines that
Wilson laid down.
Successfully he piloted this nation-and in large
measure all the allieso victory in the greatest war
of all time Then expanding still further, he laid
down enduring principles for the freedom of men
everywhere and guarantees for the se-determinaton
of all peoples.
To quote the words of British statesman at the
time "It was like the voice of God talking
heads TO all the nations in the world" These were
uttered the occasion of one of his visits to war
torn Europe, by whom he was welcomed as some sort
OF q heaven-sent Messiah angel in human guise.
But Wilson was neither of these, despite the ira
dition that has been thrown around his memory by
those who would canonize him. Being human, he had
faults. At times he intoerant and at times
autocratic as is apt to be the way of those who
achieve the power that was his for time.
Three years after his death and ten years after
his prime, perspective is too short now for
appraisal of Wilson that might not be couded by the
recollection of enmity one hand semi-idolatry
the other. That is for history to say after time
has ripened and the clouds of partsanship have
passed away.
But history will treat him fairly Regardless Of
whatever human faults and weaknesses Woodrow Will
son had, it must admit that he performed service
for humanity comparable to that of few men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28

Two citizens who despair of Ath-
ems climb their way to the abode
of the birds, hoping there to dis
cover the finest way of life. With
the help of the birds they build a
Utopian city, Nephelococcygia-
Cloud uckoo-T own-the great bird
city.
All sorts of unbidden guests try to
get in, poets, priests, Soothsayers,
geometricians, lawyers and syco-
plants; but they are driven out.
New goods are invented in the
image Of the birds, and those made
in the image of man are deposed.
mo poet, not even Shelley" says
Symonds, has exceeded the cho-
ruseS of the Birds and the Clouds
in swiftness, radiance and con-
densed imagination. Shakespeare
alone in his Midsummer Nights
Dream" and 1.-THE Tempest" or
Calderon in some of his categorical
dramas, carries us away into some
enchanted land, where the air is
purer and the skies are larger than
in our world, wheer the stars are
close above our heads and daz-
cling firefies are tangled in the
meadow-gras beneath our feet"
But in the end Aristophanes
dreams of a Utopia himself. There
was one thing that he hated far
more than Socrates and Euripides;
it was those middle classes which
had undone the old aristocratic rule
Of Scion and Pericles; it was their
money-grabbing that disguised him
beyond bearing and made him Ia
ment that under such leadership
Athens would never again produce
an AeSchylus or build a Parthenon.
Utopia would be where they should
be put in place.
Copyright 1927. by Will DuranO
(TO Be Continued)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28
(Muncie Press)
IN

(Republican)
Women are discovering that 1t
takes a peculiar type of their sex
to be deeply interested in politics.
The thing is too new in their lives
to have aroused as yet the intense
feeling that exists among men
partiSans, and the ordinary in
terests of women have been so far
removed from the contests and
publicity which attend political
happenings that as yet they have
not become accustomed to these
things, and as class perhaps
never will be nor especially wish
to be.
Yet whether they wish to be
conspicuous in political affairs, or
even whether they ever desired to
have the ballot, the women Of the
United States, now that they have
full citizenship, owe it to them
selves, their families and the
State to inform themselves fully
upon public questions in order
that they may exercise in
telligently the right of franchise.
The wrong kinds of women and
the wrong kinds of men always
will be found at the polls on cleo
ton day. AS matter of self
protection, the right kinds of
women and of men should con-
slider it their duty also to vote
and to do so intelligently-and
intelligent voting can only be
done after adequate information
upon public affairs has been
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-28
BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright, 1927. by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company)
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace; K-king; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower than
10.)
/. When you hold Spades A @
10 x x; hearts, K x x; diamonds,
x x x; clubs, x x, what should
you bid?
Q. When you hold. HeartS,A ] 10
x x; clubs, K x x; diamonds, x
X x; spades, x x; what should you
bid?
3. When you hold spades K @
x x; hearts, @ j x; diamonds, x
x x; clubs, x x; what should you
bid?
The Answers
1. One spade.
2. One heart.
3. One spade.