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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
The Passing of the Horse

"I.ets get rid of the horse" writes John T. Flynn
in an article repete with common sense Mr.. Flynn
points out that our modern streets no place for
a slow equine and reminds us that sooner or later
we shall be obliged to forbid horse-drawn vehicles
in cities.
Those of us whose memory can run back to the
infancy of the automobile hold in affection some
family steed that went jogging through the streets
carrying youngsters to school, the workman to his
labors, the doctor upon his rounds or the minister
to his pulpit To us the passing of the horse which
we realize is an economic necessity, must be filled
with sadness. For Dobbin has staunch friends.
Hitching racks may still be found in sleepy villages.
Second only to the dog do we love him.
Thus. however, does civilization hasten onward.
One by one the Injuries of bygone days become
the relics of tomorrow The horse, mans most faith
full friend is about to go. Let us, at least, consider
what we owe to this noble animal.
without his aid America could hardly have been
developed He it was that drew the prairie schooner
over her endless plains. He pulled the pillow through
the first burrows in the Vests virgin soil. He speeded
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
A Real Service

This city and the people Of the whole State
owe debt of gratitude to the six citizens who
formed the grand jury which has just closed
its work
These men have done much more than clean
up political corruption
They have set high standard for public
service and when, in their final report, they
urged that no citizen refuse to serve as Juror
or in other public capacity, they voiced real
need.
They have demonstrated what can be done
when men with conscience refuse to be either
terrified or Aattercd in the performance Of a
public service
When they were called to serve as a grand
jury, they faced a situation that demanded a
real answer and they found it.
For nearly year there had been strange
happenings in that grand jury. One body had
reported that unusual conditions had exist
ed Another had been dissolved under cond-
tons which made the ordinary citizen suspect
that there were forces in this State more power
full than law and more potent than courts
There had been charges of political cor
ruption, but the people had not believed that it
would be possible to overthrow the entrenched
power of the forces which had sprung from
corruption.
The guilty had either Knocked at their
accuserS or remained silent and unconcerned.
This grand jury happened to be OF a diff
ferent mold IT'S membership stood for leader
ship in the ciys business and civic life. If these
outstanding men had faltered, confidence in
our courts would have disappeared.
These men might easily have been swayed
by the pressure of influence which had been so
powerful in other directions.
But they had a regard for their oats The
work of months has required unusual sacrifice.
They are men whose time is worth money.
They gave that time freely to the pepole.
They have returned indictments. Some OF
those who were indicted have been convicted
or have pleaded guilty Others are still to be
tried.
Where there was a general and almost uni
versal distrust of courts when this jury met,
there is now confidence.
Where the name of Indiana was met with
sheer, it is now revered as the one State with
courage to meet the challenge of political cor
ruption, the one State with conscience enough
to protect itself.
The names of these jurors should be writ
ten indelbly upon the scroll of honor. Their
work and their sacrifice should be a call to
duty to every other good citizen. Their ex-
ample of sacrifice and of willingness to serve
should be followed and must be followed If the
good results are to be preserved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
NJ. E. ~
TRACY
SAYS:
"The Reason That q Yed
Seems SO Big to Us
orr OlOlo SmdILBeSS."

This is 1928. according to
Christian calendar, 7436 acco
to the Byzantine calendar, 568SN
cording to the Jewish calendar, % !
according to the Japanese calendar,
or 1896 according to the Mohat M
medan calendar, as you prefer.
There we're years before any of
these calendars were established,
millions and billions of them, but
men are SO constituted that they
have to begin somewhere. 1t is an
illusion, of course, which warps and
shrivels the whole picture, but we
progress largely by means of
illusions.
The endless flow of time is be-
yond our conception. The Only way
we can conceive it is through
markers and milestones.
Even the years we have counted,
recorded and tabulated are almost
too much for human comprehension
We are compelled to forget the
greater part of them in order to
keep our little feet squarely on the
ground and our thoughts straight,
have to ignore thousands in order
to make practical use of those at
hand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
(Bluffton Bannerl
(DemOcraticl

Luther Symons and Thomas D.
Barr, connected with the State
banking department, have been
indicted by a Howard County
grand jury at Kokomo for failing
to close a bank when it was known
to be insolvent. The bank was
the American Trust Company and
the claim made by the grand jury
is that bank examiner reported
last March that the bank was in
solvent, but that his chiefs did
nothing toward closing the insti-
tuition nor in apprising the direc-
tors of the bank. The outcome of
this matter will be of interest in
Wells County and a number of
other places where banks have
failed. Surely, there is something
wrong with the system of regulat-
ing banks. The Indiana commits
sion has come in for much crit
icism of late months and many
wonder just what protection comes
from this commission. They make
a lot of noise after the bank is
closed, but seldom have they been
instrumental in the closing. When
a bank runs completely out of
funds, as a matter CT course the
doors are closed. That seems to
be the rule in Indiana.
Former State Treasurer Ora j.
Davies has been sued by the re-
ceiverS of the American Trust
Company at Kokomo for illegal
fees collected. just another case
Of the McCray administration
using a bank to keep the good
Governor going. Davies was &C
cused of irregularities with the
city funds of Kokolao and had to
make restitution before he was
elected State treasurer, but the
people seemed not to care. He was
elected anyway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02

( His knowledge of anatomy was
poor, for Greek religion forbade
dissection; but his understanding of
therapeutics was almost modern.
Diet and regimen were better than
drugs, he thought; Nature was the
best doctor, and the skillful physi-
clan would seek only to aid her
against her enemies.
In his "Prognosticon" the grea
Father of Medicin founded dag
nosticS, and in his volume "On Airs,
Water and Places" he sketched ne
new science OF. public health. Laen-
nee. the modren founder Of auscul-
tation (the determination of inter
nal conditions by percussion or the
stethoscope), modestly attributed to
HippocrateS the credit for his dis
covery.
TINE teachers and contemporary
n of Hippocrates, Democritus of
Abdera (460-36O B. c., developed the
doctrines of his master Leucippus
into one of the most famous theories
in the history of science and
philosophy.
All the world-the world of
thought as we'll as the world of
things-was composed, Democritus
believed, of minute particles whose
differing combinations made the
varied objects of the universe.
Out of this atomic theory, delight
fully simplifying an incalculable
world, Democritus drew a material
istic system which has fascinated
three score and ten generations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
Science Cro7gdS Art Off Greek Stage
Written for The Times BIZ WIZ DMrant

1t was in the same age that Plato
gave his literary genius to the first
classic expression Of an idealistic
philosophy.
To Plato the world was not a me-
chanical and meaningless dance of
molecules; it was the scene of a
myriad incohate purposes struggling
to come to maturity and fulflment;
in all things some possibility Of per-
lection lay, and nothing could rest
SO long as it ideal exemplar was still
unrealiZed.
And Ito resume so briefly a story
often told Plato's astounding pupil,
Aristotle, facing every problem, fur
thering every science, and gather
ing together all the threads of phi
losophy with unparalleled range of
interest and mind, concluded that
matter and atoms were but the
husk of reality, hiding some per-
sistent entelechy. some inward ur-
gency to expansion and growth,
which came far closer to the soul
and secret of things than any mole
cular machine.
So the long battle began between
matter and mind, between mechan-
ism and vitalism, for the guidance
and domination of philosophy.
While Athens died men sought with
desperate passion some unreason-
able view Of life that would give
to human existence a permanent
value in the scheme Of things, and
enable them to look without terror
even upon triumphant death.
Copyright. 1927. by VIII Durant)
(TO Be COntinued)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
PROGRESS Is Fast

Fifty years ago people wondered
whether the newly invented tele-
phone ever would amount to much,
while a congress at Berlin dismem-
bered Turkey and Edison revolu-
tionized illumination by inventipg
the incandescent lamp.
One hundred years ago John
Quincy Adams was President Of the
United States, while Andrew Jack.
son doomed large on the political
horizon, a demigod to some and q
demagogue to others. A steamship
had sailed across the Atlantic Ocean,
but the railroad had yet to make its
appearance, while no fire had ever
been lit with a match and the cook
stove had barely begun to super
sede the brick oven and fireplace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
Vincennes Commercial
(Republican)

Political rumorS of the cheap
and tawdry kind scattered about
all kinds and manners of men
are mentioned.
The big issue before the people
is not mentioned at all by the IN
dianapolis press.
The capital correspondents led
along by gossip and rumor, inti-
mate something about Senator
WatSons ambitions, ETC., but
that's all.
The question is what is Indi-
ana to do to clean up her govern
ment and her dirty politics?
The political machines will not
clean it for they are the dirt of it.
Then what is there to do?
Does Indiana intend to try to
clean up?
Is the ambition of any man
half as important as the great
principle for clean government
the probe Investigators labored
for?
No man dare be a candidate of
his party unless he is untainted
and not involved by this thing.
The crooks are bold and brazen.
They say the State is not in
fected.
But it is. It's doom is apparent
unless the people act and act
now.
The Governor is indicted and
must stand trial.
The chief governing forces of
Senator Watson's Republican
committee are badly involved.
Chairman Walb is under serious
fire for the La Grange bank fall
ure.
Boss Coffin, the ruler of Indian
apolis, is indicted. Ex-State
Treasurer Ora Davies, another big
boss, is indicted. A score of po-
litical parasites have been pun
ished.
The internal revenue collector,
Bert Thurman, and Secretary of
State Schortemeier are under fire
and close inspection by the grand
jury.
The Republican State commit
tee owe a duty to the people
that is, the unsmirched members
do-te meet and elect a new
chairman and then resign!
There are plenty of big Repub-
licans III Indiana who should act
at once to help save the party
from further disgrace and ignom-
my.
Must the brobe go further than
to warn the, political bushwhack-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02

the hunter upon his way. He raced that the white
settler might escape the Indian warrior He has toied
to make bread. He has died upon our battleields
this tanned beast with strange wild instincts who left
forever his freedom and his windy plains to become
the mans burden bearer. He has helped to make
the history OF every great nation We have captured
and tanned and used him, and now we cast him aside
The horse is doomed Dear beautiful, kind and
faithful friend who has us so long we bid you
eternal farewell The juggernaut of efficiency rides
you down. The machine age needs you no more.
Your service to humanity has been rendered But as
you fade into your last corral you take our affection
with you into oblivion. We acknowledge with graft
tude love and dub you friend you the best serv-
ant has ever had
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
What Other Editors Think

ers to get out of sight and out of
the way?
Bear in mind, Republicans, the
probe investigators have won
their fight an all these sordid,
horrid exposures. They are hurt
full. So is any crime hurtful.
Now we, as Indiana citizens,
must take on a new program and
a new reckoning.
The present political machine
of our party is rotten to the core.
If Republicans do not clean it
up the opposition will.
The probe investigators all are
anxious for clean, thorough and
complete change all through for
the benefit of Indiana, for the
benefit of the Republican party
and for the benefit of all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
Metropolis to Dust

Twenty-Five hundred years ago,
Babylon stood forth as the metropo-
lis of civilization, city that could
measure it's past not in centuries,
but in millenniums. and that pos
sessed a weather bureau which had
been in operation for 1900 years.
Where the palaces and temples of
this teeming center OF trade once
reared their lofty heads, and where
its noble gardens once stretched
toward the horizon for miles on
every hand, there is now nothing
but wind~swept desert with a few
mounds and ridges to mark the spot,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02

Zeuxis (42o-38O B. c. had no til
nudity before traditions. Believing
that the artist was worthy of his
hire, and would not necessarily be
spoiled by remuneration, he ex-
hibited to the public his famous
portrait of Helen, and stood at the
door to collect an admission fee.
The public growled, being accus-
toned to receiving much for moth
ing, and spoke of the Helen, as
The Courteous" who revealed her
beauty only for pay. Nevertheless,
the great teacher of painting, Pam
philus, dared to charge high prices
for his instruction, and refused to
take any pupil for less than ten
years.
The public at last accepted the
artists valuation of their work and
paid great sums for paintings-of
course to dealers, not to the paint
ers themselves.
Already in the last century before
( Christ some ancient masterpieces
brought American prices. Caesar
paid 100000 for two pictures by
TimomarchuS. and Attacus gave
100000 for a tablet painted by the
artist Aristides.
Meanwhile science and philoso-
ply, still vigorous with the stimu-
lus Of the Periclean age, produced
galaxy of great names.
Hippccrates (460-360 B. c. eman-
cipated medicine from priestcraft
and superstition, and under the in
huence of Georgias and Democritus
established it on a basis of induction
and carefully recorded experience.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
Are We InteIIigent7

If We had that intelligence Of
which we observation-disclosures that
warrants us in debating whether
there is God and how the uni
verse began-we would not need
calendars to keep track of the days
of the week, much less a watch to
get up and go to bed by, and we
would not need to use symbols in
calculating the distance between
this earth and the nearest planet.
If New Years emphasizes one
thought more than another, it is the
infinitesimal part we play in the
scheme of things, the infinitesimal
amount of knowledge we really pos
sess, and the infinitesimal things
we are able to do.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
AS Seen in ENGLAND

"a system of unmitigated industrial feudalisn the
characteristics of which afford fascinating if hor-
rble subject of study" is how the coal mining indus
try of the United States is described in the current
number Of that conservative London weekly The
English Nation
The coal strike is regarded worth a page and
half Of serious discussion for the British reader
though the writer remarks that in the American
it is almost wholly ignored and that in the Presi-
dents message it was worth only six words to wit:
that some parts of industry have Jagged"
In passing the article notes that "a certain Judge
Schoonmaker, whose court has Jurisdiction over a
large part of the western Pennsylvania coal field has
produced comprehensive scheme of injunctions
which will certainly make his name notorious in
American law books
This remarkable judge" says The Nation would
appear to have thought, in framing his Injunction
Of everything that miners on strike or miners being
evctCd from their homes or their advisers and SYM
pathizers might be driven to do"
But The Nation does not credit Judge Schoon-
maker with great imagination. 1.-THE explanation "
1t continues, sis found in that invisible ruler of the
United States, the invisible corporation lawyer Judge
Schoonmaker had only to fall back upon draft
injunction provided by the plaintiff companys
counsel"
And again ut would seem that the anti-labor
mind OF America is capable of refinement of logic
going far beyond the dreams of those who in Eng
land devised the Osborne and Taft Vale judgments
AND finally; 1T is an extraordinary an indescrib-
able situation. We who have own distressing coal
problem to grapple with may note that the United
States while free from the anxiety of shrinking world
markets, has far more harassing and dangerous
situation to face in the racial compexity of her
mining population, the common practice of violence
and the exceeding fury of the coal companies against
Young Hickman model Sunday school boy
according to dispatches. Which probably will bring
renaissance of the overwhelming logic that all model
Sunday schools boys are bad at heart.
woman told us the other day she would get
divorce only she hasn't much use for dogs cats
dolls
There isn't any use trying to make both ends meet
They wouldn't recognize each other any more il
they did.
Where one sheep goes they all follow, especially
if it is black sheep.
We are no authority on statistics but the average
run of motorists is about sixty miles an hour
Distance doesn't always lend enchantment. All
people of opportunity is the tail light.
Add SMILES: AS busy as suffering golfer in
sand pit
Don't feel too sure. A house of cards is shaky
if it is full house.
trusty who escaped from Sing Sing prison was
caught in taxicab
woman mistock robbers for real estate men.
Some people mistake real estate men for robbers too
John D. Rockefeller lost nickel in golf game.
Mr.. Rockefeller finally has taken up gambling!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
1900 Years Ago

Two thousand years ago, the
Roman republic stood for the
greatest advance men had everV
made. 1t not only enforced ldW, end
order throughout the bulk of buth-
ern Europe, but it made life ina rest-
ing through the opportunities it
afforded men of skill and efficiency.
1t contained great cities, connected.
by splendid highways. 1t not konly
represented political and Acial
ideals far ahead of those dom nat
ing more ancient civilizations but
had translated many of themVinto
practical form. Roman life, Roman
society, Roman politics and Roman
culture were pitched on plane y
B. G. which stin challenges our adj
miration.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright. 1927. by The Ready Ref.
erence Publishing Company
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
Being interested in humanitarian
work, especially so. in those who
cannot speak for themselves, / ask
the indulgence of your publication
TO make known to your many read
ers the truth about the late Ham
ilton Fisk Bigger, M. D., A. M, LII.
D., honorary president of the Amer
lean Institute of Homeopathy, hon
orable vice president of the Interna-
tional Homeopathic Congress, hon
orary vice president of the Interna-
tional Conference of Societies for
the Investigation of Vivisection and
family physician to John d. Rookie
Teller. He said, in speaking of vivi-
section:
1T is not necessary to relate the
crueltieS inflicted. They are in evil
dence and known to all. There are
evidences where cruelties of the
most atrocious kind have been in
flicted. Too many virtually degen-
crate vivisectors and charlatans of
the most pronounced type, who,
screened behind professional posi-
lions in reputable medical COL
leges, use this means. when posing
as scientific researchers for the al
deviation Of human suffering"
DR.. Bigger LETT a fund of 100000
to further the cause of Hahnemann
homeopathy. where vivisection is not
practiced. DR.. Bigger brought John
D. Rockefeller back to health
through homeopathy, and he often
told the facts in the homeopathic
medical journals.
Yours for the greater education,
GUSTAV STRYKER.
Road to Rome" Company, Eng
liSh Theater
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
Elkhart Truth
independently

The inclusion of the State bank
commissioner and his deputy
among eleven persons indicted
by the Howard County grand jury
in connection with the failure of
the American Trust Company in
Kokomo makes the affair of more
than local interest, The State
officials are charged with official
negligence in failing to take
prompt action on receiving re-
ports indicating the bank was in
solvent. The fact that they were
indicted, of course, does not es-
tablish their guilt, but the charges
are serious enough to call for a
thorough inquiry relative to all
the circumstances.
Among those indicted in the
same case was Ora Davies, for
mer Indiana State treasurer, who
was charged with receiving / per
cent on State funds deposited
with the bank both during and
after the time he was State treas
urer. After leaving the State
treasurer's Office, Mr.. Davies was
employed as secretary of the IN
diana Manufacturers Association.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
Our Own Sn1aIIness

Thus the silent, stately years
march by, ticking off the destiny
of empires and races, and even of
the world itself, like a gigantic
kitchen clock.
Without hope of surviving much
more than hundred Of them, and
generally expecting to see not more
than seventy or eighty, we take the
years seriously, but what about the
day OF light which, though travel
ing at the rate of $4,000 miles a
second, requires a million of them
to leap from star to star? The rea-
son that a year seems so big to lis
is our own smallness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-02
Poor Princess of 1927

Five hundred years ago the last.
flicker of Roman civilization was
dying out at Constantinople, people
still believed the earth was fiat and
even the most highly educated never
dreamed that two great continents
lay beyond the setting sun.
One thousand years ago Europe
presented a strange admixture Of
chivlary, religion, black bread and
impossible roads, with lords and
princes unable to surround them
selves with what the average Amer-
lean family regards as the barest
Of comforts and conveniences.