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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
Outlawing War

To practca-mnded person, it must seem Of
little Importance whether this country gains its point
or not in the Kellogg BRAND scheme to outlaw war;
as means to world peace it would be about as
effective as trying to open safe with chocolate
eclair.
War is hard-boiled proposition like burglary or
hi acking. You can't abolish it merely by outlawng
it. Such being the case, for two nations to agree
as France SuggeSts-or for several nations agree
as the United States suggest-to outlaw war; the act
becomes merely pretty gesture if the agreement is
to stop there.
Suppose the leading citizens of crime ridden
Chicago to get together and resolve to have a
nice quiet, law-abding town.
That's f1ne!" some citizen rises and says enthusi-
astically What do you suggest that do the next
time gunner start lttering up our streets with
their dead?"
"Oh," answers the chairman in a shocked tone,
I'VE can do nothing at all about that You see if
attempt to curb wrong-doers we would run the
risk of being shot at ourselves. And that never
would do"
Don't let us fool ourselves. The community Of
nations is not very different from Chicago. Some of
the nations sincerely want peace but always
ready to fight at the drop of the hat.
Thus what the world needs is not just an agree
ment among the more peaceably inclined powers not
to go to among themselves, but broader plan
to discourage all and to locaze and extinguish
war if and when it comes-as sooner later, it
ly will.
There six fundamentals necessary to
fair assurance of world peace:
l. The codiication of international law the
framing Of the simple rules of fair play under which
the civilized powers agree to live.
2 The outawry of war.
g. Compulsory Cancellation, in some form, on the
Hughes-Havana THESIS that there be mo inter
national dispute, no matter how serious which
not be settled peaceaby if the parties really desire
pacific solution"
A. Making that nation outlaw nation which
refuses to abide by the simple rules agreed upon and
declares in violation thereof.
s. All nations to pledge themselves not to have
any dealings, commercial or otherwise, with out
law nation, in other words to boycott it.
g. Limitation of armament.
Into this scheme Of things the World Court, the
Hague Arbitration Tribunal, and arbitration and
Citation pacts, would fit admirably.
But peace gestures will remain gestures until
the world, including the United States, makes up
its mind to do with courage what has to be done
1t never can be done by pussyfooting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
Enough of Humphrey

Readers of this newspaper heard much about
William E. Humphrey, member of the Federal Trade
Commission in connection with dismissal of threat
ened legal actions against the Aluminium Company
and the so-called bread trust.
They heard again OF this gentleman when the
Senate was debating the Walsh resolution for in
vestigation of the power industry, and heard the
charge openly made the floor of the Senate that
referring the investigation to the Trade Commission
was tantamount to destroying it.
Now Mr.. Humphrey again has stepped into the
limelight He has just written letter to Clifford
Pinchot former governor of Pennsylvania and had
it mmeographed and distributed among newspaper
men at Government expense. The letter reads:
My Dear Clifford:
Your letter of regurgitated filth received.
For your own famished sake. and for the in
finite relief of the country have your keeper lead
you to thistle patch.
Sympatheticaly yours
W. E. HUMPHREY.
Humphrey explains that Pinchot had referred in
a public letter to him as "a bitter enemy of the
Roosevelt conservation policy, an opponent of Fed
eral action, and a lobbyist for lumbermen." 1t is
not necessary to argue the proprety of Pinchot'S
accusation their correctness.
Rather, the interchange is important because of
the kind of a reply Humphrey made.
There has been widespread belief that Humphrey
is wholly unfit for the public office he holds. His
letter clnches the belief. He should be removed at
once from the Federal Trade Commission by the
President. He shames the Government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
SAYS:

While we throw away thousands
of automobile tires other people cut
them up for sandals. If you doubt
it get the consular reports from
Saloniki and Mexico City.
The picture of avoidable waste IS
no less pathetic than that of un-
avoidable thrift.
The rag bags and garbage cans
of the United States would not
only feed and clothe whole nations,
but supply them with luxuries.
We have our spots of poverty and
unemployment to be sure, but they
are nothing to what is common in
some lands.
1t is good thing to pause now
and then and recall how the other
half lives; not the other half Of
your own town, but the other half
Of the world; the half were coolies
work for a dime a clay and live ON
rice; where farmers carry their
produce to market by mule over
mountain trails; where children are
fortunate if they have more than
one garment and die if the mothers
milk fails.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
Wage Disputes

Such conditions as prevail in
western Pennsylvania and in other
places where thousands of coal
miners find themselves out Of work
are disgraceful.
Industrial and political leaders
only kick the ground from under
their feet when they ignore these
conditions and pass by on the other
side.
The fact that they may be able
to alibi themselves as not directly
responsible is less important than
what they could do if they had the
will
Tinkering with the capital.labor
issue involved is but a gesture.
A great business is being stran-
gled by competition. Coal is Civ
ing place to oil. Every wage dis
pute can be wiped out and still
leave no market for half the mines,
or no work for half the miners.
The problem calls for hard think
ing.
It's solution depends not on work.
erS who have been virtually crushed
to death, but on those who occupy
a position Of leadership, and who
have it within their power to do
something.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
When "Lizzie Men" Fight Our Wars

There's lot of talk nowaday at home and abroad,
about the mechanical "men" who going to fight
our wars for u.s. Wars it is said, soon may become
pretty nice affairs, both pleasant and safe.
Generals will sit in swivel chairs back in their gay
capitals press buttons and send machines crashing
across No-Mans Land, through the skies or under
the seas, to win the battle for them
Even military are beginning to talk that way.
In England they perfecting tanks fortresses on
wheels, several times larger than those which Sir
Julian Byng employed at Cambria, during the World
War, and far more effective. The British have vast
numbers of these steel war-wagers and we hear the
prophecy that fleets of them will take the place OF
armies of men in conflicts to come.
Submarines and airships can be Unanswered by
wireless and leading scientific predict a time
when neither sea nor air craft will need human
crews but only somebody to direct them from the
ground
And so it goes. The day is almost at hand we
are told when we can turn out these "lzzie men"
on quantity basis, like Henry Ford makes flivvers,
to fight and "die for us.
Nothing ever was more absurd. And nothing
was more misleading Mechanical contrivances how
ever perfect never can take the place of manpower
In the final analysis, ultimate victory always will
be at the price of human gore.
If, and when two mechanical armies are hurled
at each other and is victorious will any one think
that the defeated nation, with its man-power abso
lutely intact would stand idly by and watch the in
vaders march in? Hardly.
War would then begin according to tine-honored
custom, the defenders attempting to stop the in
vaders by blowing them to kingdom come as expedi-
tiousy possible. No spirited nation would trucke
to another until it had first been bled white.
There is of course, alternative to the above
type Of strife Science may perfect it's war-rnakng
machinery to the point where, by pressing buttons,
vast of territory and entire populations hun
dreds, or thousands Of miles away could be
wiped on the earth
After which, it goes without saying compare
lively small expeditionary force could complete the
lob. But here again human life is the deciding
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
Anderson Herald

Louis Ludlow, who was in An
derSon a few weeks ago, as a
speaker before the Rotary Club,
has announced his candidacy for
the nomination on the Democratic
ticket for Congress from the In
dianapolis district.
He will make an effort to jump
from the press gallery to the floor
of Congress. Senator Arthur Cap
per of Kansas, and the late Sena-
tor Medill Mccormick, of Illinois,
served for brief periods as Wash
ington correspondents, but neither
went directly from the gallery to
the legislative body.
NewSpapermen will watch with
interest the political adventures of
their Indiana colleague, who has
been one of the most active of
their number, and who was presi-
dent of the National Press Club
for the term ended Jan. 81, last.
He began his newspaper career
as a reporter on the indianapolis
Sun in 1892. He has always
claimed Indianapolis as his home
and has always retained his voting
place there. He has found time in
an exceeding busy newspaper
career to write three books, From
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
HAYS Oil Evidence

Will H. Hays says there was no
connection between Harry F..
Sinclair's contribution to the re-
publican campaign fund of 1920 and
the Teapot Dome lease, and so far
as he knows there probably was
not.
At the same time, it is only
human to suppose that such con-
tribution resulted in a certain
amount of gratitude and that it
helped Sinclair to get p sympathetic
hearing when he approached the
subject of leasing Teapot Dome.
1t is difficult to imagine that his
liberality was either unknown or
unappreciated in Washington.
While Sinclair might not have
expected anything in particular
when he turned over more than
quarter of million dollars to the
Republican committee and while
the committee may have felt under
no obligations to reward him. it is
hardly reasonable to suppose that
the episode was without effect when
that oil deal came up FOX discussion
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02

Comparisons of present-day youth with the youth
of an earlier generation do not There still
plenty of people who believe that young people to-
day cut sorry figure when contrasted with their
fathers and mothers at the same age.
But listen now to President James Rowland Ans
CELL of Yale, who has been studying young for
good many years. Comparing present-day students
with those of preceding years. President Angel SAID
this to the alumni
II have yet to hear any competent observer whose
experience goes back to appreciaby earlier day,
fail to agree that, with due allowance for obvious
exceptions, the students of our time seem, on the
average, distinctly superior to those of his own in
breadth of outlook sincerity range and vivdness of
intellectual interest and essential stability of char
acter."
That is rather broad statement. Yet it seems
fair to assume that President Angel knows what he
is talking about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
- The SIOKY OF CIVILIZATION --
End of World Cry Brings Terror

II NIGHTHOOD and chivalry were
h the flowers that grew in this
dark soil, watered with the blood
and tears of fifty million slaves.
Since the poetry of feudal life CEN
tered around the exploits of war and
love, the feudal baron prided himself
on the power of his lance and the
beauty of his lady.
He practised the art Of killing in
tournament and jouStS; and since
armour made medieval battle safer
than modern sport, he saw to 1t that
peace should never long prevail;
periodically he found reasons for
leading his vaSsalS (minor lords who
managed land held in f1ef for HIM
against some neighboring baron
whose adjoining territory invited
chivalric robbery.
A blow on the cheek made him a
knight, a horse and a mistress made
him a chevalier. He kept his word
with his friends, though he sometimes
broke it with his enemies, especially
if they we're "heathen;" with infidels,
he felt there need be no fidelity.
He praised woman as a deity in
his verse, but in the prose of every
day he looked upon her as neces-
sary evil, or as occasionally the
pleasant instrument of the devil;
when he left her for distant journeys
he put her charms under strict sur
veillance, and saw to it that the
double standard should be honor
ably maintained.
Feudalism was at its height when
the world almost came to an end in
the year 1000. Throughout Europe
the end of the tenth century had
been awaited with terror as the mil
lenium that would bring the last
judgment and the destruction of the
world; and even those who hoped
for heaven, unaccountably feared
the premature arrival of their fe-
licity.
Perhaps this dark expectation had
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
Too Many Bread Lines

How the other half lives does not
excuse this country for neglecting
its poor, for failing to relieve people
in distress and for ignoring situa-
tions that could be remeded.
No matter how much distress and
discomfort exists in other lands we
face the constant duty Of seeing
that minimum exists here.
There will be enough suffering
and hardship left when everything
possible has been done, enough pow
erty, enough sickness, enough dis
enlargement.
The fact that we are we'll off by
comparison with some other peoples
only increases our responsibility.
Bread lines, unemployment and
dispossessed families are more in
eXcusable in the United States than
in any other nation on earth, be-
cause there is less necessity for
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02

discouraged in some measure the
earthly energy and ambition of men;
certainly, when the momentous year
had passed away, and people con-
tinued to live, suffer. beget and die
as before, a sense Of a new life
passed through the population of
Christian Europe; and with this
renovation Of spirit the Dark Ages
came to an end.
Europe began to grow outside of
and over the church; the natural
vigor Of the Teutons lifted up civ
ilizatlon at last to another effort in
creation.
THE first sign of the new life was
Il the temperance of trade. The
manor had made nearly everything
that it consumed, and had consumed
nearly everything that it made; this
lack of surplus had combined with
the decay of roads and the lack of
currency to discourage commerce.
But in the thirteenth century
money began again to be coined, and
replaced the awkward barter of
travelling traders and annual fairs;
while the Jews created a credit Sys-
tenn for modern finance. The Popes
had discouraged banking by brand
ing interest as sinful; but when the
Christians saw what profits the Jews
were making by lending money, they
devised the expedient of lending
without interest. merely charging
damages" according to the number
of days between the loan and its re-
turn; with this artistry of phrase
everybody was satisfied and every
Shylock soon had his Antonio.
The Christian bankers first flour
ished among the Lombards of north
ern Italy; and to this day the center
of London finance is called Lombard
Street.
In the earlier period of its resur-
rection trade followed land routes,
through Frankfort, Augsburg, Nu-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02

remberg. Lyons and Geneva over the
Alps to Italy, giving wealth to Venice
as the port of Germany, and to
Genoa as the port of France.
AS early as 1000 Venice was mis-
tress of the Adriatic; for four hun
dred years she ruled the Mediterran-
can with a war fleet of forty-five
galleys, while as an aristocratic re-
public she governed herself through
the famous Council Of Ten" under
a dominating duke or doge, and built
architecture worthy of the beauty
Of her liquid streets.
n n
DUT as the Arabs brought the
ID compass from China into Eu-
ropean use, mariners dared to sail
around the Atlantic coast; trade
from Russia and Germany flowed
into the Baltic, developing great
cities like Mini Novgorod, Dantzig,
Lubbock, Brennan, Hamburg, Cologne,
and Antwerp.
These and other cities formed the
Hanseatic League, the most power
full and peryasive trade organization
that the world has ever seen, with
its bold motto-'Navigare NeceSse
est, vivere non necesse." For time
the league was so powerful that it
not only cleared the sea of pirates,
but waged a successful war against
Denmark and England.
All over Europe the cities began to
free themselves from feudal control,
and to establish themselves as indi-
pendent city-StateS: it was in such
free communities that the great ca
thedralS rose, and the art of the
Renaissance. Even in the village
itself, there was a vigorous element
of democracy.
The folkmote or mir, composed of
the village under the limiting suzer-
ainty of the lord; it was out of the
self-rule of these village communi-
ties that English and American de-
mocracy Sprang.
Copyright, 1927. by VIII Durant)
(TO Be Continued
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
Political Platforms

Says Mrs. Emily Newell Blair,
vice chairman for women of the
Democratic National Committee:
IF were writing the Democratic
platform for 1928" she declares,
their wouldn't be any"
II would issue short statement,
brief and to the point, that plat
forms are out of style; either they
mean something and are a target or
they mean nothing and are a cam
outage; in the once case dangerous
and in the other case dishonest.
Besides, they're boresome; they take
up time in campaign speeches that
ough to be given to electing the
nominees"
There is disagreeable amount OF
truth i'll what Mrs. Blair says. such
a disagreeable amount. indeed. that
it will not get anywhere.
No matter how useless platforms
are, how little they mean, how
greatly they bore the public, or how
definitely they destroy confidence in
party declarations, we shall con-
tinue to write them. glorify or de-
nounce them. wave them from the
stump and throw them in the waste
basket after it's all over.
What would Kansas City be if it
did not point with pride" and what
would Houston be IF it did not view
with alarm"
You just cannot think of a con-
vention without a platform, candi-
date without his hands being tied,
or campaign without appropriate
phrases being put in the mouths Of
the speakers. 1t would not be
America, it would not be Democracy,
it would not be in. accord with
those good old days"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
Ed Jackson and Consistency

Wonderful indeed is the mellowing lnhu
ence of time. With the passing of the years
comes broader, more tolerant outlook upon
life in general, tendency charitably to gloss
over the mistakes of mankind. There seems to
be so much more of the doughnut and so
much less of the hole as season after season
and year after year wheel by.
BY no one is this more strikingly exemph-
fed than by Ed jackson, our Governor by
grace of technicality. He sits in the execu-
tive s chair in the State House, serene figure,
virtuous. indicated figure deaf to the clamor
of the State that he resign. The people, as al
ways, are in error when they can imagine
that they are shamed by his continuance In
office. Tolerance, benignity, broadmindedness
that is Ed jackson
But turn back three years and there we see
another Ed Jackson, the grim avenger, the
knight in shining armor, entering the lists for
the honor of the State, which must be pro-
tected at all cost.
Earl Crawford, State highway commits
sioner, has been indicted, charged with irregu-
larities in disposal of surplus war supplies.
SNNS
picion on one of the official family, weighs
heavily upon Ed jackson. The good name of
Indiana will be smeared and smirched, covered
with shame unless Crawford resigns
So says Ed Jackson, bubbling over with
righteousness Crawford has not been con-
victed He never is convicted a nolle prosequi
being entered, because Of lack of evidence
II. e. &c ioio hos haon Mt
at him, so jackson asks him to resign, accord
ing to Crawford s statement at conference in
the Governors chamber. Crawford refuses.
Jackson writes him letter demanding he
step down. Crawford again refuses. And
jackson goes sorrowfully about his duties, bent
beneath the burden Of shame because this man
Crawford can not see the light, and insists on
remaining in office after being. indicted.
That was nearly three years ago. Time has
fed past and Ed jackson constantly has grown
more tolerant Of mans frailties He in turn
is indicted. He goes farther. He faces trial, IS
engulfed in a wave of damning evidence that
SAYS he was party to the conspiracy to bride
Warren It. McCray, then squirms out, advanc-
inc only the statute Of limitations as defense.
NOW, Oh course, remembering CHo AlSHV0OuN
Ed jackson Of three years ago, in the Craw-
ford case, he will resign. Suspicion has been
cast on him. There is stain on the States
good name if he remains in office. One clearly
sees Ed Jackson on his way to remuneration
Abraham offers up Isaac.
But does Ed jackson resign7 You guess.
He does not. The passing Of the years has
broadened our Governor. He views the world
through different colored glasses. He now is
superbly tolerant, splendidly forgiving. And,
to prove it, he not only will retain his office,
but he will allow the people to elect him to
higher office.
Consistency, thou art jewel. But then,
nowadays, even Woolworth sells jewels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02

Cornf1eld to Press Gallery"
book of personal recollections; "In
the Heart of Hoosierland." a story
intended to commemorate the
achievements of the Indiana pio-
neers; and Senator Solomon
Spiffledink," a political satire de-
signed to expose the hokum and
bunkum in the public service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
Richmond Palladium

We have fooled ourselves with
the primary. Candidates come to
us and their manner is ingratiat-
ing and apparently straightfor-
ward and above board. Or their
paid agents approach us and tell
us what fine, honest men the can
didates are for whom they are
working.
We really know nothing about
these candidates. We vote for
them on their face value. And
then they do things after they are
elected to office that brings shame
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02

Authorizations: A-ace; liking; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower than
1O.)
l. How do you apply the Rule
of Eleven?"
2. When the dummy holds A x x
with Q x x in declarer's hand, how
should he f1nesse?
3. When should you not hesitate
to put your partner in the position
of being over-trumped by declarer?
4 THE ANSWERS A
1. Deduct the number of the card
led from eleven. The answer is the
number of cards higher than the
one led which are not in the leaders
hand.
2. BY leading a small card from
dummy and fineSSing @.
3. When you can force opponent
high card from dummy, thus pre-
venting a losing discard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-02
The Rules

1. 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 a time.
3. You must 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