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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
DeIphi Citizen

Delphi Citizen
1t is hoped that Democrats,
while taking a commendable in
terest in candidates that will
impel large attendance at the
primary, will not overlook the
much more important duty Of
sending sound Democrats as dele
delegates to the State convention.
1t is quite probable that the
issues will be personified in at
least one or more of the can
didates, and if so it is of the ut
most Importance that such can
didates shall not be euchered out
of nomination in the event no
choice is made by the voters at
the primary.
1t is well enough to speak
frankly; the men most active at
parties rarely, unless the rank and
file of the party have seen to it
a thing still more rarely accom-
pliShed are in favor of progressive
reforms.
Delegates who can not be
cajoled or coerced into nomina-
ton of candidates or the framing
of platforms to the satisfaction of
party bosses should be chosen.
This fact is more clearly shown
by the declaration of the last
Democratic platform in favor of
the repeal of the primary--a thing
even the last Legislature refused
to do. The further fact that this
declaration is now the principal
issue of Republican candidates for
Governor is significant.
1t scarcely needs any comment
to show the existence of a bipar-
tisan machine which Democrats
can not afford to have in control
Of their State conventions.
Unless majority of the dele
gates to the next Democratic con-
vention is made up Of men who
know their rights, and knowing
dare maintain them" it is useless
to expect anything in the way of
candidates or issues or Of conven-
ton atmosphere that will appeal
to the Democrats of Indiana, and
the growing number of Independ-
ent voters which is of equal i'm
portance, for success at the polls.
An ideal way to put this propo-
sition into practice would be a
county mass convention after the
primary at which, wherever posi-
BILE, delegates might be instruct
ed on the basis Of the vote cast.
No man unwilling to abide by
such instructions should go to the
State convention; he should be
willing to be so governed, or he
should be a good enough Demo-
crat to resign in case they do not
conform to his own personal
viewA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
Perjury Acquitted

1t is customary to blame the failure of our courts
to punish criminals efficiently legal red tape and
INSCRIPTIONS lawyers But once in while it appears
that public indifference is at least partly responsible
The other day a middle westerner was indicted
for perjury He had lied witness for the plaintiff
in personal injury suit The authorities determined
to root out perjury, prosecuted him with fervor He
admitted he had lied, and offered only the extremely
lame excuse that he didn't know it was against
the law"
Yet the jury acquitted him!
Perjury is an evil that strikes at the very founda-
tons of justice 1t deserves swift punishment
Yet here was jury that seemed to feel that it need
not be punished; that it too unimportant to re-
quire Jail term for the offender.
The members of that jury can, if they wish take
credit for helping to undermine the integrity OF the
courts of their city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
What Other Editors Think

general fund; that State taxes
have been reduced: that 5000
less in State taxes will be COL
lected from the people; that all
farm lands have been reassessed
in order that no partiality or
discrimination prevail, and that
over $13,OOOOOO is now in the
State treasury with which to
carry on without the State being
compelled to borrow money until
the spring installment of taxes
come in.
These are conditions that the
managers of the Democratic party
never mention.
Their whole thought is Stephen
son! Stephenson! and then more
Stephenson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION -
Philosopher accused of He79Sy

individual men; truth was more
than collection of all truths; and
the church was certainly more than
its members. ut is this realism"
which appears even today in the
notion that a group mind" exists
in addition to the minds and
thoughts of the individuals COM
posing a society; there is no error
so old but that some contemporaries
cherish it,
Abelard overthrow all this with
a laugh Humanity" make Peter,
James and John? This Peter would
not believe It, Humanity is not
merely a word, as Roscellin thought,
it was a conception which our minds
formed by observing those elements
which Peter, James and John had
in common, or by perceiving that
they lived together.
These common elements were
real; therefore the universal or
class name was not an empty
breath (Flatus vocis, Roscellin had
said, and nominalism, though on
the right track, was unnecessarily
extreme.
But these elements were in the
individuals, not outside of thenlS
society has reality only through
the social behavior and feelings of
men; it is not something added to
these mel. Therefore, realism was
wrong; and the best solution Of the
debate was conceptionalism.
every WELL" countered william"
On this basis the whole has no real
ity aside from the parts, the
church has no reality aside from
its members chow can it be the
bride of Christ?), and God has no
reality apart from the constituents
of the universe. This was hereSy
punishable with death"
Copyright 1928. by Will Durant)
To Be Continued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
Robinson Must Go

duty cameo-like in clarity faces Indiana
Republicans at the May primary. They must
vote to retire Senator Arthur Robinson from
the ranks Of public officials,
If they do not, they are putting the stamp
Of approval on Stephensonism, Jacksonism and
all that has contributed to trailing Indiana's
name in the miro.
Arthur Robinson appontee of Ed Jackson,
rose to his present Office because of all these
things. In him the men who have betrayed the
Republican party in this State saw d tool
shaped to fit their hands No one can say he
has disappointed them.
The time has come for campaign managers
for both James L. Watson and Herbert Hoov-
err to take definite stand in the matter of Rob
insonS candidacy for reelection to the United
States Senate
They must declare against him or accept as
parts Of their platforms the continuance of con-
ditions Of miSgovernment which have been
blot on the State reputation for more than
four years.
1t is certain that the Hoover forces will turn
thumbs down on Robinson. There can be no link
between man Of Hoover's caliber and a man
of Robinson stripe.
There is no bIemsh to be found on Hoovers
record. But blind man. tinkling his pennies
in his cup could sense the faint on Robinsons
record-sense it easily and smell it much more
easily.
He is smeared with Khan tar, stepped in
Ant-Saloon bigotry and intolerance. State
which has sent such men as Beveridge and Mar
shall and Ralston to Washington cannot afford
to fall so far in the scale as to return Arthur
Robinson there He must be defeated or all the
shouting from the housetops of new deal
in the Republican party is only the emptiest
of balyhoo.
That is what the Hoover forces must con-
slider
And now what of Jim Watson? Has Wat
son drawn his support from such far different
sources No. He is the beneficiary of the same
systematic system of D. G. Stephenson, the
Khan, and the Anti-Saloon League-the arch
politician whose machine has ruled the State
for years.
This, then, places not SINGLE but double,
duty on Indiana Republicans at the May s pri-
mary. Not only the ''isms" of Stephenson,
Jackson and Robinson must CO. but Wisconsin
with them.
Hoosier voters have their chance They can
swing to man who has been tested in every
branch Of governmental endeavor and who has
rung true in every teSt-Herbert Hoover. Or
they can stay with man who forever rings
false, with the brazen clang Of polluted politics
james E. Watson.
And they can throw out Arthur Robinson,
a stuffed-shirt legislator, wrapped in the man
ting sheet Of the Ku-Klux Khan, wearing the
badge Of intolerance which is the emblem of the
Anti-Saloon League ~~..:
The voters can do these two things, or they
can hide their heads in shame and forever hold
their peace when the subject of "new deal"
comes up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
Little Choice in Parties

AS between the two parties, there
is little choice.
If the Republican party has be-
come sodden with conspiracy,
fraud and corruption, the Demo-
cratic party has sunk to the level
of mere opposition.
Neither is likely to take a posi-
ton on any important issue that
the other could not take with equal
propriety, and both are more likely
to side step the most important
issues thar. to bind themselves by
definite commitments.
Circumstances being as they
are, what is there left for honest.
conscientious citizens to do, but
shut both eyes to partisanship and
vote for those candidates who
promise to make the best officials?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
Editor Times:

EdlCOr llmeS.
You recall that among the Twelve
Labors Of Heracles was that of
cleaning the Augean stables. AugeaS,
king of Ellis, had a hc-d CT 5000
oxen, whose stalls had not been
cleansed for thirty years. Heracles
brought the Rivers Alpheus and
Peneus through them and cleansed
them thoroughly in one day. Have
you thought of the parallel this old
story bears to the present situation
in the Republican party?
That the c. o. P. in Indiana is
in serious need of a housekeeping
no halfway informed citizen will
doubt 1t is to be seen whether
the state organization is a self
cleaner or will make it necessary
for the rank and file Of the party to
do it thoroughly, all in one day."
The rank and file is the Her
acles.' To kid" themselves that
he isindiferent-uninterested-and
won't act, is nothing less than the
biggest piece Of presumption. The
G.. o. P. car write it down as a
foregone conclusion that the gov
eminent Of the people, by the people
and for the people, must be a decent
government. The people can be
fooled for a while but only for a
while, a short while.
Look at it! Begin with the mu-
nicipal government of Indianapolis
One mayor out Of Jail on an ap-
peal, two others fighting for the
job, several councilmen indicted,
etc. One Governor out on parole.
another keeping out of the peni-
tertiary on a legal technicality; a
former State chairman indicted in
the Federal Court; an attorney
general who had lapse of men,
DRY and could not tell to whom he
had shown Shumakers letter, this
judge or that GLADDEN. is a target,
both of our United States Senators
called before an investigating COM
mlttee; and who can recall the rest!
Well, how long will the good peo-
pie stomach it? Will it happen
unto them. according to the true
proverb, THE dog has turned to
his vomit again; and the SOW that
was washed to her wallowing in the
mire?" There is no lack of fit men
in the Republican party for every
position of responsibility. Every
good citizen should make himself
felt in the next primary.
CAL GRIM,
Danville, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
Independent NEWSPAPERS

The Scripps-Howard newspapers
do not acknowledge allegiance to
any party. While admitting that
party organizations are necessary in
a Government like ours, they believe
that every opportunity should be
afforded for independent expression,
and that this is the greatest service
newspapers can render.
They have no quarrel with Sen
ator Willis, or thousands of others
like him who regard a scratched
ticket as one of the cardinal sins.
II he prefers party success to de-
cent government, that is his priv
lege.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
Shelhrrille Rennhlican

oheIbYVIIIe henubIIcau
D. G. Stephenson is the Demo-
cratic platform in Indiana this
year. With Stephenson elm
mated. that party would have no
issue to present to the people.
The slightest investigation into
the present State administration
reveals the fact that the business
of the State was never better ia
ken care of; that not one dollar is
missing; that every department of
the State was conducted within
the appropriation made by the
budget committee, a nonpartisan
board, and that thousands of
dollars have been returned to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright, 1928. by Tn. Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace; liking; O.
100
l. When you hold A 10 x x x,
how many outside quick tricks are
necessary to bid it initially?
2. When you hold A j x X K
how many outside quick tricks are
necessary to bid it initially?
3. When you hold a x x x in
hand and 10 x in dummy, how do
you finesSe?
The Answers
l. One
2. One.
3. Lead low from hand and finesse
IN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
Above Partisan Politics

The Scripps-Howard newspapers
are not trying to dictate anything
or any one in this campaign.
They merely have let it be known
that of all the presidential POSSIBLE
tiles they prefer to see Herbert
Hoover nominated, and that if he is
not, they will support Governor
Smith, or Democrat of the Smith
type.
1t should be obvious to any IN
telligent citizen that such an atti-
tude has little in common with
partisan politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
LargeneSS of Vision

Herbert Hoover is not a party
man in the orthodox sense of the
word. His outlook on the country
is much more like that of Woodrow
Wilson than Of President Coolidge
or the late President Harding. He
has that largeness of vision which
it is necessary to have to see and to
solve the problems facing this
country.
He would not regard it az the
height of craftsmanship to shut
his eyes to scandal and say there
was no scandal because he failed
to see it. He would not forgive
treason to the Government for
the sake of party solidarity. or
kick his conscience under the table
to save votes.
That, and that alone is whv the
Scripps- Howard newspapers ADJ
vocate his nomination. 80
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13

Cleanup Of ashes and garbage in
the neighborhood of a public school
on Kenwood Ave. between Twenty
First st. and Mclean Pl, was
ordered today on request of Mr..
Fixit.
Dear Mr.. Fixit: There are five
or six cart loads of ashes and gar
bage in Kenwood Ave. between
Twenty-First st. and Mclean II.
Now this public nuisance is not only
offensive to families in the neigh
borhood, but the rubbish is against
a public school fence and is men
acing the health of the children.
Thanks in advance.
HEALTH ENTHUSIAST.
Truly Nolan, garbage and ash
collection superintendent, ordered
the rubbish removed at once.
Dear Fixit: I, as taxpayer, must
pay poll tax at the age of SO. I
thought men do not have to pay
poll tax after so. What do you
think Of such law.
TAXPAYER.
County Auditor Harry Dunn in
formed Mr.. Fixit that you are
correct in the assumption that
poll tax need not be paid after
so years of age. Protest to the
county treasurer.
Who rrrn,fn fI,n ,r,n,.d. .oe AZ. .o....
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13

The Rules
. l. The idea of letter golf is to
change one word to another and
do it in par, or 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.
8. Youmust have a complete word
of common usage for each jump.
Slang words and authorizations don't
count.
4. The order Of letters can not
be changed.
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Times Readers
Voice VieUS

The name and address OF the author
must accompany every contribution. but
on request will not be published. Let
preference
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13

The original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland
is to be auctioned off, Who'll buy it we can't guess,
but suggest it as good reading to- the who told
the Senate committee he saw nothing the matter with
soliciting gifts from Harry Sinclair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13

Jim Patten of Chicago testified he dummy
contributor to the G. o. p campaign fund buying
$4,000 worth of SncIars bonds. Lots of others were
dumb the same way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13

Former Mayor Hylan of New York. coined the
word "graftocrat" in recent testimony during a
transit investigation Just to give everybody an even
break, he should have made it "repugraftocrat"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
Mr.. Fixit
Promises Ashes, Garbage
Will Be RemOUed

Let Mr.. Fixit, The Times representa-
tive at city hall, present your troubles
Times. Names and addresses which
must be given will not be published.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13

Chemists shops in London are offering sunshine
wrapped up in pills" But wait until they can buy
moonshine that wayj
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13

Who wrote the words Of the song
whispering Hope?
Alice Hawthorne.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
Editor Time

L
Didn't the G. o. p. editors in Ses-
sion few days since kid themselves
most numerically when they de-
clared that James E. Watson was
Indiana'S Favorite Son? The read
ers of the papers published by these
same editors are wise to the fact
that Watson is not very 'favorite"
1t will be recalled that he won
two years ago by 1000 and that
plurality was cast in Lake County.
where voters are herded to the polls
very much as they drive sheep to
pasture.
The Self-respecting Republicans
are fortunate in having Hoover as
means of registering their disap-
prevail of a man we regard as more
or less a soiled Knight because of
dalliance with the Khan. A most
impressive approval indeed it would
have been with no opposition. Just
as a mot guilty" verdict on account
of the statute of limitations.
Has anyone heard the name of
James E. Watson mentioned in club
rooms, on the street, in the count
ing house or poolroom, except in
connection with depreciations and
imprecationS?
I have not. No prophetic vision
is necessary to discern that the
voters of Indiana are ripe for a
clean Democratic sweep from Gov
ernor down to constable. James
E. Watson is going to need some
foot soldiers, generals, colonies, cap
tains, and sergeants and they can't
put him over all by themselves.
1t is regrettable that such a large
number filed for the Democratic
nomination for Governor. This will
throw the choice into the State con-
yention, where the Democrats may
be will show themselves as unable
to rise to the occasion and probably
put poor stick" up for office.
E. P. M'CASLIN,
5901 Dewey Ave.
Editor Times:
Would you please inform the gen.
tleman from the South Bend Times
that Mr.. Winkler is not on the In
dianapolis police force at the pres
ent time. If you will look back,
you will find that he was dismissed
from the police force some time ago.
AN ADMIRER AND SUB
SCRIBER OF THE TIMES.
Who owns Yellowstone National
Park?
The United States Government.
Do dwarfs produce only male Off
spring?
No.
What liquid is absolutely nom
freezing?
There are liquids that are nom
freezing within reasonable limits
but none are absolutely so. Among
those having a very low freezing
point and for which data on ther-
NAL expansion are available, ethyl
ether changes in volume with
changes in temperature, in other
words, it has the highest coeflcient
Of cubical expansion. Ethyl ether
freezes at minus 1862 degrees CEN
| tigrade or lit degrees below zero
Ealareahaik -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13
Editor Times:

Who owns Yellowstone National
Park?
The United States Government.
Do dwarfs produce only male off,
spring?
No.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-13

last syllogism might conclude with
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-01
Editorial Comment
Unmarried College Women
lNeW York Timesl

NANcW 1OTk llmeS)
| Bits of Katharine Bement Davis's discussion
of why college women who remain single do
not marry have been printed and commented on
in various papers and periodicals. A reading
| OF her complete article in the March Harper's
gives clearer impression of the investigation
conducted under the auspices of New York's
Bureau of Social Hygiene. Yet it also leaves
the reader still somewhat befogged, for the ex-
lcerpts have been chosen with an eve to the
more concise and startling statements while
Dr. Davis has been at some pains to explain
that the answers to missionaries are far from
conclusive.
Twelve hundred women, college graduates,
unmarried. from the ages Of % to 60, spoke for
themselves. Anonymously and apparently
with conscientious regard for candor, they gave
reasons why they had not married. They told
whether they regretted their choice, whether
they had ever been engaged and if they now
contemplated marriage. Despite the plainly
visible attempt to be full and clear in their
answers, they left the problem still unsolved.
Others commenting on DR.. Davis's tabuations
and percentages have drawn the conclusion that
it is greatly clarified, if not entirely settled Dr.
Davis tries, though in vain, as she admits. to
get behind the face value of the returns"
When some of these women say they were
too particular, critical or cautious to marry, she
would like to know why. Did college training
cause their attitude, or is it the result of earlier
Impressions? Nineteen said they had never
been asked, and never wanted to be asked. That
is no answer. Why didn't they want to be
asked? The layman's opinion has been that the
desire for career, developed in college or
causing the girl to go to college, is the right
answer. She is supposed to be more en-
thusastic about her work than about home,
husband and children. This theory is surpris-
ingly refuted Only twenty-five women gave
the desire for a career as the reason for not
marrying. The rest appear to agree that mar
riage is the normal life of women.
There is strong feeling that college women
Ought to marry. Though they may not trans
nit better health and intelligence to their chill
dren than the less highly educated. they are
surely able to give them BETTE environment.
1t would be good thing for the race and for
the women themselves if they married and had
children. Such is the popular feeling. The
usual explanations of their failure to do so fall
down before the reasons given by the large
group in the survey. But their own explana-
lions are not much more lucid or conclusive. DR..
Davis will have to conduct another nvestiga-
ton among 1900 men married to women not
college graduates She hints that she would
like to know why they sighted the alumnae.
The suggestion is worth pursuing seriously.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-01

mass production methods, economy
OF distribution, unlimited capital
and many other obvious factors.
Most of its profits are thrown into
new stores. The Woodwork chain,
for instance, established 1O1 new
stores last year and still made a net
profit of 13 cents per dollar Of BUSH
ness. George Soule, who has gath
cred some of these figures, also
points out that the four leading
chains listed on the New York Stock
Exchange increased net profits
practically 20 per cent in 1927 while
their sales increased only 10 per
cent.
Associations of the weak indie.
pendents, of course, want the gov
eminent to step in and protect
them. But there is much doubt
whether they will be saved. Soule
predicts they will be swept aside,
eliminated and absorbed. He thinks
the community will benefit finan-
cially, but points out that another
great class Of independent persons
will become dependent employees and
that the consumer may eventually
need protection from the chain
store trusts.