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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
Hit and Run Diplomacy

Senator Blaine of Wisconsin, wants to get the
marines out of Nicaragua by Christmas, but, COM
mendable as this desire is more likely it will be
several Chrstases before the last of them are gone
Misguided diplomacy got us into the mess, but, now
that we are in it. we must face the music. We can't
cripple lot of folks, then away and leave them
The world would have very proper contempt for
such hit-and-run diplomacy.
Moreover, getting out before the we've blum
dered into finished would do both the Nicaraguans
and ourselves more harm than good. First, we stand
pledged to do what we can to help the people hold
an honest presidential election next october, but
morally our obligation extends beyond that.
If the elections fair, the Liberal candidate
General Moncada will win for the simple reason
that the Liberals are admittedly in a majority
Whereupon, to withdraw from the scene
the powerful Conservative coup-maker General
Chamorro, or some other minority leader would al
most certainly start a revolution before trans
ports were hul-down over the horizon, and the
people would find themselves facing a future more
chaotic and bloody than ever
Stupid, odoubt, we were but we went into
Nicaragua of our own free will. We've right,
therefore, even if would to leave the people worse
off than we found them, and if we are not to do
that very thing, then here are at least i've things
to attend to before go:
First, we must make good our promise of fair
elections.
Second, we must help organize a non-partisan
national guard, which protect duly elected gov
ernments from revolutionary coupsters.
Third, help create reasonably honest legislative
and judicial systems public schools and public
health services.
Fourth, rescue the country from INSCRIPTIONS
money-enders and concession hunters seeing to it
that much needed loans are had at reasonable rates
of interest.
Fifth, help the republic build railroad from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and dirt roads into the now
almost inaccessible regions where revolutions start
and outlawry thrives because there way to get
at them.
Such should be our program. No act of ours in
recent years has lowered our prestige so much abroad
particularly in Latin-America, as our adventure in
Nicaragua.
To a certain extent retrieve the loss by
carrying out such program in a genuinely human
itarian, scrupuoUsly honest way, then leaving the
people to govern themselves
But, if have no intention of unselfishly per-
forming full duty in the premises we should not
wait until Christmas nor October either The quick
er we pull out, the better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
SAYS:

~. l.. SMITH, president of the
~ American Association for the
Advancement Of Atheism, has been
convicted of annoying DR.. John
Roach Straton, pastor of the Cal
vary Baptist Church, by sending the
latter irreligious literature after he
had been requested to stop, and
faces a fine not to exceed $500 or
imprisonment of not more than
three years.
On the very same day, the New
Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals
reversed the conviction of Roger
Baldwin, who was sentenced to six
months in Jail for participating in
an unlawful aSsemblage because he
mounted the city hall steps at Pat
terson and read portions of the Con-
stitution of the United States
guaranteeing free speech to a crowd
OF strikers and strike sympathizers
that had previously been prevented
from holding meeting.
Also, on the very same day,
Stephen j. KEEPER, a former New
York policeman, was permitted to
plead guilty Of petty larceny, though
he had confessed to some forty cases
OF burglary and grand larceny.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
DeUiZ Breaks Young Br1tnOS Faith
Written for The Times bu Win Durqnt

THE ideal government, then, is
Il that of the dictator, for his
rise shows his ability, and it is well
that all the nation should follow
such a man.
The wise founder of a common
wealth who aims not at personal
power but at the general good. .
ought to use every effort to obtain
exclusive authority; and no wise
intellect will ever find fault with
any extraordinary action employed
by him. For though the act
accuses him, the result excuses
him"
Therefore the conduct of Caesar
Borgia, so bitterly denounced in
Florence, is perfectly just from the
exalted point of view of state
necessity; it would be well for the
rulers of Florence to follow his eX-
ample, and forge by their strength
and will the unity of Italy.
II should not well know what
better rules I might give to a new
prince than the pattern Of Caesar
6OIBId dCVlOIlS. OIlly through
such a man will italy be lifted up
to its place among the nations.
n
IND Italy listen? Lorenzo &C
- acknowledged the dedication,
sent the author two TASKS of wine,
and forgot him and his hook. IN
1927, when Machiaveli was an old
man of So years, his name was pro-
posed again as secretary of the Flo
rentine Republic; twelve votes were
cast for him, 548 against Within
a few months of that parting blow
he died, envying peasants who can
not think
His morals, which shock us, did
not shock his time; they express
his time. No one was disturbed by
them; Pope Clement VII patronized
the publication of Machiavellis
works. Some ruling families COM
planned that he had divulged the
secrets of government; but as there
was little fear of his book falling
into the hands of the proletariat,
or piercing their comprehension, no
one took the matter very seriously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
A State Platform

Quite as interesting as the nominee for Gov
ernor and other offices on the Republican
ticket will be the platform drafted by the
State convention.
The elevation Of George v Coffin to a
position on the State committee, by methods
and practices which Thomas H. Adams
pro ohesied with the same accuracy with which
he prophesied exposure of political corruption,
ought to make it possible to secure an in
dorsement of the statute Of limitations.
Revival Of the Stephenson forces under the
leadership Of Senator Arthur Robinson and
Coffin should suggest that the convention, in all
candor, demand the release of the lifetermer
who gave the present leadership its political
Importance.
Why not make it simple and direct? Why
not be frank with those who gave them power.
Why not merely say:
We congratulate the Hon. Ed Jackson on
his escape from the penitentiary, through an
appeal to the statute of limitations
We point with pride to the fact that.
George V. Coffin, whose Indictment on
charge of conspiring to bride Governor was
dismissed on the same ground, now is master
mind in our State organization.
We extend our thanks to the combination
of bootleggers and the Rev E. S. Shumaker for
their efforts in our behalf and pledge to both
our continued support.
We congratulate our candidate for Gov
ernor on his pledge to give to this organization
all patronage with the exception of his private
secretary and private stenographer and dedi-
cate ourselves anew to the practices of pillage,
the hymn of hate, and the rule of stub pencil"
That at least would be frank and honest.
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to make tour of inspection of the Carnegie with
Capt. j. P. Ault, who will have command of the pres
ent cruise.
Captain Ault pointed THAT locust tree nails
copper and bronze bolts and composition spikes took
the place of iron fastenings on the boat
The metal deck fittings and the metal work on the
spars and rigging of bronze copper and gun metal
The keel and hull of the vessel are sheathed in cop
per.
Except for piston rings, valves and other small
parts, the ships engine is constructed of bronze.
special cook stove of bronze constructed for the
ships galley
No iron utensils or iron objects of any sort used
on the ship Even the buttons the uniforms of the
crew are of bone and brass.
Capt. Ault pointed out that this care was abso-
utey necessary because the instruments used aboard
the ship were delicate that the presence of any iron
near them would cause them to make faulty readings
of the earth's magnetic field.
1t is important to get readings as exact as possible
These readings are of immense value to navigators
who need accurate charts of the variation of the COM
pass needle They are also extremely valuable to sci
ensts who seek to discover the cause of the earth
magnetism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
Speedy Justice-for Whom?

apartment and killed a woman. He was captured
rushed to trial. and now twenty three days after COM
hitting the murder stands sentenced to the electric
chair.
That was speedy justice and the officers involved
are to be commended.
But it would be so much easier to get enthusiastic
about it if it could happen, and then. to de-
PENDANT who had money and social position. It's easy
to speed up the trial Of penniless frendess negro;
but it's quite another thing to make speed when the
accused is say, multi-millionaire oil man who is
charged with bribing cabinet officers.
We have not yet reached the point where the
poor man gets the same consideration in court that
the rich gets We still have two kinds of justice
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
Python's Eggs

generation or so ago, very popular
preacher gave very popular lecture which he
called python s Eggs"
1t was a wonderful lecture, very con-
vincing. 1t began with a realistic description
of man in a desert coming upon some very
attractive eggs, which he carried to his home.
They looked pretty. In time the hot sun
Matched them into little fuzzy creatures, even
more attractive, soft to the touch, appealing
in their seeming loyalty, playful in his hours Of
leisure, pets and companions
And then the fuzzy things grew and grew
as they were fed and fondled, until they be-
came full sized, and the man was proud of his
python pets.
Of course, the pythons did not change their
nature. They are venomous and vengeful One
day they struck and the man who had found
the eggs was killed and his children destroyed
Senator James Eli Watson and his political
children ought to get copy Of that lecture
and read it today.
They we'll might turn back to the day when
out in the desert Of hate they took Stephenson
into the family circle; such playful boy, with
such strength.
They well remember the day he met with
Watson in the secret room in the South Bend
hotel to discuss many things and one in par
ticular.
They should remember the time when they
saw only a profitable friendship with the
hooded forces and welcomed Coffin and Jack
son and Robinson and Updike and Rowbottom
into the inner circle of the home of Lincoln in
Indiana.
They might turn to the files of Stephenson
and find there the letters of Poland and the
replies of Stephenson.
They might turn to the letters which Steve
sent to the Senator congratulating him on his
steadfast loyalty when he event through hell
for our mutual friend" and identify that
friend and his high and permanent office.
That is the trouble with python's eggs and
hateful forces. They always hatch. They
never change. They always bite the hand that
feeds them.
How tasteless must be that slim victory Of
a presidential delegation in the mouth of Wat
son today, as he sees his children fighting with
the hatch which he brought into the house
when he accepted the voice Of the wizard and
the dragon and let it drown the conscience and
principles of Abraham Lincoln.
Lucky Jim?
Perhaps. And then again even he may have
his regrets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
Primitive Legal Mill

There are circumstances in which
men can afford to be slow for the
sake of wisdom, but as a general
proposition speed is the basis of
civilization.
Nothing has contributed more to
human progress than increased abil-
ity to get about, to overcome time,
as well as distance.
The legal mill is the one institu-
ton which grinds in the same old
primitive way, and that, more than
anything else, is what ails it.
If housewife calls up the
neighboring grocery store by tele-
phone and fails to get five pounds
of sugar right on the dot, that
grocery store loses her trade, but
if a citizen, like Roger Baldwin, is
arrested and it takes three years to
find out that he had been mis-
treated by an arrogant chief of po-
lice, who worries?
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The Italians have a good nose for
hypocrisy, and by contrast they
liked the brave candour of this i'm
aginary despot. Napoleon carried
The Prince" to Egypt with him,
and his profusely annotated copy
was found in his carriage at Water
loo. And at this moment it is the
spirit Of Machiavelli that rules and
unites Italy.
AS for us, Machiavelli can have
no horrors; we have studied little
history, and have looked OCCASION
ally behind the show windows of
democracy. Very probably he was
wrong. and ends that require bru-
tai means are not worth the blood
they spill: but "virtuous indigna-
ton at his expense" as old Burck-
hardt said, "is thrown away on us,
who have seen in what sense po-
.litical morality is understood by
the statesmen of our own century"
We thank Machiaveli, as Bacon
did, for describing how men behave,
rather than how they should be-
have; little realism is a tonic for
our ideals. We shall know the deS-
pot for what he is the next time
he falls to our lot, and though we
shall in all likelihood be unable to
depose him, We shall destroy him
with our smiles at the top of his
game.
n n
BRUNO
DASS now from northern to south
Il ern Italy, and look at the little
town of Nola, near Naples and Vesu-
vius; here, in 1913, the most passion
ate of philosophers was born, with
half the fire of volcano in his blood
To his family name Bruno he added
the name Giordano when, at 16, he
plunged into a dominican monas-
terry. 1t was a pivotal mistake, on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16

which great tragedy was to hang;
he was to remark sadly that if the
first button of ones coat is but
toned wrongly, all the rest will be
aWry.
Picture him in his monastery cell
the veritable prototype of Fra Giov-
ami in Anatole Frances Human
Tragedy" happy in meditation and
prayer, knowing the comradeship of
angels and the brotherly nearness
of God himself.
Then the devil came to him, dis
guised as a philosopher, came to
raise questions about Giordano'S
faith, to show contradictions and
incompatibilities and improbable
tiles, to make argument about it
and about. Suddenly what had
seemed so natural and beautiful be-
came uncertain, difficult, incredible;
for a while, incredible. but believed ;
then the whole edifice cracked,
crumbling, falling to ruins in a
frightened soul. For thirteen years
to be the battle-ground of reason
and belief-What a struggle land
how could a man ever be sane or
happy again after that?
1t was Coperbicus who had broken
the great structure of faith and
hope. The news that the pious as
tronomer had brought down from
into Italy; and every soul that I'M
derstood was disturbed. This earth,
that had been Gods footstool, that
had been the home of his chosen
people and the scene of his own
crucifiXion, this earth, the sins of
whose people he had suffered and
died,-this was but a drop of mud
hurtling about space, in an infinite
sea of worlds and worlds?
Copyright. 1928, by Will Durant)
Ito Be Continued
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright, 1928, by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY W. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace; K-king; O.
than 10(
1. At no-trump play, when you
hold A K x x x x of suit in dummy
with no other re-entry card and
x x of suit in your hand, what is
the safest way of playing to make
five tricks?
2. At no-trump play, you hold A
x x x x in dummy with no re-en-
tries and x x x in declarer's hand.
What is the safest way of playing to
make at least three tricks?
3. What is the quick trick value
of @ x x?
THE ANSWERS
l. Lead from hand and do not
cover with A or K on first round.
2. Lead from hand twice and do
not cover with A until third round.
8. One-quarter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
What Is Propaganda7

In pronouncing Judgment in the
Srnith-Straton case, Justice Healy
remarked that the court was not
passing on the merits of the re-
ligious controversy, but only on the
legal points as they affected the
mailing of literature.
1t is generally understood that
advertising does not fall under the
head of literature in this sense, but
where does advertising end and
propaganda begin?
Good as the decision in Baldwin's
case may be, it is weakened by the
fact that it took more than three
years to arrive.
Admitting that the law has func-
toned justly, why should it be so
slow?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
Robbers Privileges

In Helpers case the district at
torney explained that grand lar
ceny could not be proved because
the loot in no particular instance
amounted to more than $50, that
burglary could not be proved be-
cause in no particular instance were
witnesses prepared to say they had
seen KEEPER entering or leaving q
house, and that though KEEPER had
confessed. he might repudiate his
confession and thus leave the jury
free to believe the. story it preferred,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
Plague Of Perjury

The attitude of courts toward
repudiated confessions is curious.
1t is generally agreed that perjury
has become the plague of our
judicial system.
How can a confession be made
and repudiated, provided there is no
coercion or undue influence, with
out involving perjury, and yet who
ever heard of a defendant being
punished for it?
A repudiated confession rep
resents the most obvious kind of
lying, the most blatent type of false
hood, but it seems to stir no deeper
emotion on the part of our judicial
system than to let the jury decide
which story is a lie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
Questions and AnSzUe1cS

He played next with the Forepaugh
Stock Company, Cincinnati, Ohio,
and later toured in road shows. He
directed Hope Hampton in THE
Bait" and Loves Penalty" He has
been married and divorced twice.
His first wife was Olivia Burrell,
from whom he was divorced in 1918.
In 1921 he married Leatrice Joy.
Three years later she divorced him.
They had daughter, born in Sept.
1924, just prior to the separation.
He is feet II inches tall, weighs
las pounds and has dark brown
eyes and hair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16

l. The idea of letter golf is to
change one word to another and
do it in par, or 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 a time.
8. You must have compete word
of common usage for each jump.
Slang words and authorizations don't
count.
4. The order Of letters can not
be changed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
AIibi for LaZineSS

When you get down to brass
tacks, efficiency is a mere matter
of doing things with increased
rapidity.
This idea that slowness leads to
straighter thinking is little but an
alibi for lazy minds.
The automobiles of this country
have run down and killed more
than $4,000 people, while the New
Jersey courts discovered that il was
no crime to read the Constitution
of the United States on the steps
Of city hall. That is one reason
why the law cannot catch up with
crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
b OUQ,

THE ROBUST SYCAMORE

AAAA @NOA~00- - OAAA'A
Sycamore grows to larger dia-
meter than any other American
hardwood and trees measuring ten
feet through have been recorded.
The tree is easily recognized by
the crazy patchwork appearance Of
its trunk and branches, caused by
the taking off of the old bark which
leaves exposed the smooth whitish
or pale green patches of new bark.
This moulting is continuous per-
Torrance during the sycamore's
growing season and even in winter
flakes of bark may be picked up on
the snow.
Preferring borders of streams and
wet bottom lands the sycamore, or
buttonwood, as it is sometimes
called, grows vigorously and lux
uriantly.
Sycamore lumber is sometimes
used for interior finish of houses,
but because the wood does not i'm
part taste and odor and possesses
the necessary strength and hard
ness, it is of particular value for
containers such as flour and sugar
barrels and tobacco boxes.
1t is also used for planning mill
products. porch and kitchen furni-
ture, butchers blocks, berry boxes
and handles.
The sycamore withstands the hard
conditions of city life and is extern
sively planted as a shade tree.
In old age the tree is picturesque
rather than beautiful. The stiff
branches strike out from the huge
trunk irregularly and wander away
without law or order.
The Sycamore was held in venera-
ton by the Egyptians and worshiped
with fruit offerings and jars Of
water of which travellers might par
take.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
Public Is Victim

If it is unlawful for an atheist
to send minister of the gospel
irreligious literature after he has
been requested to stop, what about
a minister who sends religious
literature to an atheist or anyone
else under similar circumstances?
To consider a more common place
pest. what about those who are
bombarded with direct-by-mail adj
ver0sing and have they, too, a
remedy under the law?
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u 41OIl-1IldSIlSClC
materials.
The rigging is
Of hemp instead
of S t Ell wire.
The anchors, in
stead of being
the usual sort of
/ r o n, are of
bronze and the
ordinary iro n
anchor chains
are replaced by
special 1-inch
Manila anchor
cables.
1t w a S nv
good fortune
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
Ace Of Golng Easter

While our courts fiddle and fuddle
the same way they did 300 years
ago. industry, commerce, education,
and even the church, take advantage
of up-to-date methods, doing what
they can to make it possible for
people to cover more ground in a
given length of time.
The idea of going faster and still
faster, is not just another craze;
the quicker men can get from place
to place, the more they can see,
know and accomplish the swifter
one particular piece of business can
be dispatched, the sooner another
can be taken up.
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no. 81

TIME Carnegie, non-nagnetic ship of the Carne-
4 gle Institution Of Washington which left Nav
for study of magnetic conditions in the five
oceans of the world is of the most unusual ships
in existence.
1t was built in 1909 from plans worked out by Dr.
Louis a. Bauer director Of the department of terres-
trial magnetism of the Carnegie Institution.
AS the vessel is designed for making magnetic sur
verys of the oceans she is constructed almost entirely
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-16
Daily Thought

Her ways are ways of pleasant
ness and all her paths are peace.
Prov. 3:17.
e 4
DEACE, above all things, is to be
Il desired, but blood sometimes
must be spilled to obtain it on
equable and lasting termS-Andrew
jackson,