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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25
To the Editor :


There is considerable agitation al
present for the adjustment of cap
ital punishment. I take it that
most of these advocates are suffering
themselves to be swayed by sickly
sentimentality, or are very poor
ly versed in the science of criminol-
ogy. They say capital punish
ment does not deter. How do they
know, when capital punishment has
worked out only in a half-hearted
way in this country? Nine out of
ten murderers in the United States
get by without paying the extreme
penalty and every would-be MUIR
derer figures he will be one of the
nine who escape with lighter sem
tence.
England has 100000 inhabi-
tantS, every fifth one being a resi-
dent of London; yet all England has
fewer murders in twelve months
than the city of Chicago, with less
than 100000 inhabitants, has in
one week. When a man commits
murder in England, he is usually
caught next day. and tried and con-
victed the day following, and within
four days more, is strung up till
good and dead. Few offer them
selves as candidates for initiation.
Capital punishment certainly is a
deterrent if administered whole
heartedly, and should be the law
in every State Six of our States
now bar it; Michigan is one Of them.
F. P. M'CASLIN.
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and Pollux; they date from 484 B.
c.; they will be destroyed, but they
will be restored; and the twentieth
century travellers will find them the
loveliest thing in Rome.
The wealth of the empire increases
and new buildings are added yearly
to the old; the Forum of Caesar,
the Forum Of Augustus, VeSpasian's
Forum of Peace, and the largest and
finest of them all, the Forum of
Trajan, adorned with that lofty
column Of Trajan on which Roman
sculptors have carved in skillful re-
lief, as if it were a rolled papyruS,
The tale of his wanderings and VIC
| tories.
And here is the great Pantheon
C"home of all the gods'), begun by
Augustus general Agrippa and COM
pleted by Hadrian; its roof dares to
innovate upon the fiat or triangular
plan of the Greeks; it rests upon an
immense vault, and stretches 140
feet across in one of the greatest
domes in the world; that dome is of
| O11C PACOCg 44lCSOC VI NO4ANAOOO RO0A ON1
into a vast wooden mould; when the
frame is removed the concrete dome
will stand without crack or flaw,
apparently forever.
q
no farther still: here Is the
NJ Arch of Titus 1udaciously COM
bining Ionic and Corinthian capitols;
and here is the towering Arch of
Constantine.
Of in the distance are the great
Baths of Caracalla and Diocletian,
among the largest structures ever
reared, and significant for their use
of the barrel Cor tunnel vault.
Down in the plain is Vespasinn's
Colosseum, the largest amphitheatre
on earth, seating $4,000 people,
rising in circular symmetry tier on
tier towards the sky, and destined
in the days of its ruins to provide
stones for a thousand dwellings in
Rome.
There by the Tiber is Hadrian'S
immense Tomb, which will later be
known as the CASTILLO SAINT Angelo,
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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION -
The Romans Built Beauty of Stone
Written for The Times by Will DurGmt

n EFT us take a walk in the Forum
i 4 This is Rome at her best; hard
ly Athens herself could boast sc
many masterpieces Of architecture In
so small a space.
Here at the entrance is a NINA
ture Temple of Vesta, charming in
it's circular colonnade. Farther on
to the right is an absurd Temple
of the Deified Julius Caesar; here
men come to offer sacrifices to the
shade of the mighty conqueror, who
smiled in skeptic scorn as he played
Pontitfex Maximus to the gods.
To the left is a triumphal arch
erected for Augustus; one of the
most characteristic of Roman struc-
lures, herald of long line OF imita-
tons on many continents.
Still farther on, two great "basi-
licas," or royal halls, built by Caesar
and Augustus for the transaction OF
the multiplying business of the
State; note in each of them row
of windows just below the roof "a
"clerestory'O, letting in light with
out heat into the great spaces with
in.
Between these two buildings and
the Senate house is the old Forum,
with its splendid rostrum, or speak
ers' platform, at its head; on these
f1agstones there has been much
history.
Back of the platform rises the
arch of Septimius Severus, destined
to survive despite its crudity for two
thousand years. And then at our
left a handsome Temple of Saturn,
on our right the Temple of Concord
and on the peak of the Capitoline
Hill the majestic Temple of Jove.
Much of this is imitation, as most
art in its beginnings must be. The
colorado and architrave have been
taken, of course, from Greece. But
the imitation is not slavish; here,
for example, is the first European
use of the arch and the vault; from
these stern simplicities will grow the
glory of the Gothic cathedrals.
And see those slender Corinthian
columns on the Temple of Castor
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Muncie Press
(Repubucan)

Not many things could be sad
der from any point Of view, than
that basketball. the fine, clean
sport of high schools and colleges,
should become tainted and open
to suspicion. At the present time
it is on a high level and nobody
ever is heard even to whisper that
a game might be thrown"
through the use Of money. 1t Is
for that reason that now is the
time for all the thousands OF bas-
ketball fans to rise UP and do
their best to eliminate "big" gam
bling on the games.
The story is told land 1t may be
true or it may not) that certain
persons in Muncie have been bet
ting heavily on local high school
games and that wagers sometimes
involving several hundred dollars
are made. 1t only takes a minute
of thinking on the part Of any
basketball lover to see the great
danger to the sport in this prac-
tice.
Until a few years ago nobody
believed it would be possible to
bribe enough members Of a major
league baseball team to induce
that team to throw" a game, but
it is a matter of history that such
a thing actually did happen when
professional gamblers figured out
a way to make big money out OF
it by dividing the swag with the
players.
NOW this stage has not been
reached in basketball, and it may
be assumed that it would be much
harder to influence high school
and college boys by mere money.
These players have a greater 10y
atty to their schools than a pro-
fessional ball player has for his
organization, and the one who
had the temerity to offer a bride
to the average husky high school
boy to induce him to make his
team lose probably would receive
a we'll nerited sock" in the nose,
but it is not right to expose these
boys even to the possibility of such
a temptation.
It is related that in Muncie
some professional gamblers now,
and in recent years, have been
making big bets on the high
school games. There is not the
slightest proof, so far as known,
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will become the prison of Benvenutc
Cellini and lesser men, and will
stand, shorn of it's ancient marble
covering, for many centuries.
Far away in the provinceS-ir
Asia, Greece and Africa, in Spain
and France and Britain other
masterpieces of Roman architecture
will rise, the Temple of Jupiter
Olympus rebuilt at Athens by Had
rian, the Temple of the Sun at Pal
nlyra, the unSpeakably beautiful
pillars at Baalbek in Syria, as fair
as any in the world; the theaters
at Orange and Aries, the theater
and Maison Caree and bridge over
the Gard at happy Mines. Let us
be as hostile to them as we will, we
shall have to confess that the Ro-
mans were the greatest builders OF
all our race.
Within these vast structures OF
ancient Rome, and about them,
statues stand. Some of them are
clever copies, perhaps made by
Greek slaves from Hellenistic mas
terpleceS; most or them are por-
traits of public men; some of them
are adaptations of Greek figures to
Roman subjects, as when Apollo be-
comes Antinous-beloved Of Had
rian.
Very few of them are Of full
length; already the Greek love of
the body is gone, and the head
receives an exclusive interest. And
what heads they are!-rugged,
knobby, almost square; here is not
so much the developed intellect as
the relentless will; not mind but
character.
Nearly every one of these buSts-
Caesar, Pompey, Cicero, Brutus, Au-
gustus, Caracalla, Trajan, Marcus
Aurelius-frowns; these people can
not relax into the amenities Of life;
in their hearts they are still bar
barians, happy only in action, great
only in architecture, government,
and war.
TO Be Continued
Copyright. 1925. by VIII Durant)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25
A Filler From Spokane

orogino is small town in Idaho, with 1000 peo-
ple The other day fioodwaters cut of the town
from the rest of the world. There was no way for
was without bread.
But sufficient for the day are the inventions there
of, and it no time at all until plane reared
out of the west with enough yeast to keep Orogino
baking for week. 1t was carefully dropped from
low altitude, the people got it and ate their bread
again, usual. The emergency had been met
But who brought the yeast to Orogino Brief
dispatches from the west named the aviator only
"a Spokane fier" It was brave deed, an act OF
mercy, and the who flew to Orogino with that
yeast made life just little better for 1000 people
confronted by serious emergency
Most of will know his name We only
will know that Orogino needed yeast and that "a
er from Spokane" made the trip. And so to most of
us, this is enough.
1t Is no great story any more when there is man
to meet the emergency. We have become so accus-
toned to seeing dangerous, discomforting situations
met by brave cooperation that the name of the hero
has become secondary with us to the work he has
done We know there is in Spokane who car
ried the yeast to Orogino. The people of Orogino
got their yeast the excitement ended as soon as
they got it.
We are becoming matter of fact about brave
deeds in the air. too and the with which we
beheld aviators few years ago is gradually blend
ing to the respect have for the family doc
tor, the telephone lineman, the man who fixes a
leaky pipe, repairs broken street trolley sue
cors a stalled automobile, puts out fire.
BALTIC and the other dogs who took the serum to
Nome couple of years ago were made into heroes in
the public mind for another reason-perhaps mans
sentimental love for dogs perhaps the color of that
long, bloody pull frozen wastes.
But the fler from Spokane has become today
just "the who fixes" crossed telephone wires
or heals broken pipe line. The hero of the air
has joined the great unnamed army of trouble shoot
ers," who go quietly about their heroic work day in
and day out as part of their job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25
A Synthetic World

Illustrating how firmly inventive
ness has gripped human affairs,
German economist says that the
next generation may see synthetic
gold.
Synthetic rubber. synthetic gaso-
line, synthetic grape juice-who
knows but what inventiveness may
yet prove the alchemists were no
fools?
Because of the part gold plays in
this world, most people look upon
it as of changeless character.
BY the same token, most people
looked upon the fairness of the
earth as ordained of heaven only
five centuries ago, and men said
that it was defying God to attempt
to fly as late as the middle of the
last century.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25
Cue From Business

Why does not the Government
take its cue from business?
There is not an automobile manu-
facturer in this country who would
dare bet on any present day model
for the next twenty years.
There is not one but who would
leave the way open for any kind of
change which inventiveness might
suggest.
There is not one, but who would
surround himself with the best ex-
perts he could find, not only to
build, but to improve his output.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25
Age of Invention

Beyond the question of what is
right, there turks the question of
what is practical.
So far as ships, guns, ammunition
and men are concerned it looks as
though we could easily even things
up by ordering so much construction
and spending so much money, but
this is an age Of inventiveness.
Is it good common sense to tie this
country up with $8OO,O0O,O00 worth
of ships that may become obsolete
before they are launched?
War dances to the tune of hui
man ingenuity, like every other hui
man activity, and war on the sea is
no exception.
Is it the biggest or best, navy that
we want?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25

Use of Pleasant Run Blvd. be-
tween Keystone and Churchman
AYES. by trucks was protested today
in a letter to Mr.. Fixit.
Dear Mr.. Fixit: Will you kindly
see if you can do anything to stop
the use of the Pleasant Run Blvo.
for trucking. There are almost as
many commercial trucks using the
boulevard in the neighborhood OF
Keystone and Churchman AYES. as
there are pleasure cars.
These trucks range from one-hall
to five tons and are used for all
kinds of hauling. &c.
Due to the limited appropriation
this year the park department has
cut down the number of policemen
patroling boulevards. A man was
stationed on the boulevard for that
purpose, but he was dropped.
Clarence Myers, park board Sec
rotary, said the complaint would be
investigated and an officer stationed
there temporarily. Signs warn
against heavy hauling.
These complaints are being looked
into by Truly Nolen. garbage COL
lection superintendent:
c. A. 1926 Pruitt st. and alley
north of Seventeenth st. between
Pennsylvania and Meridian SITS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25
Build a Big NaVY2

Having acquired financial and
commercial dominance, what are
we going to do with it?
Build big Navy, says Secretary
Wilbur, while his staff of admirals
and rear admirals shout applause,
telling us that we are as near war
as we ever were, if not a little
nearer.
President Coolidge rises to suggest
that he is not unduly alarmed, but
that he wants the program to go
through just the same.
Senator Borah calls it a piece Of
madness, and a cry goes up from
the House of Representatives that
"a big Navy means war"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25
Virtue in Moderation

I have always leaned to modera-
ton as the most practical virtue.
There may be emergencies in which
an extreme attitude is necessary,
but as a general rule moderation will
keep governments, as we'll as indi-
viduals, out of trouble, while leav-
ing them a reasonable show to give
a good account of themselves if they
are forced into it.
Between the idea that prepared
ness spells salvation and that dis
armament insures peace, there would
seem to be something like happy
medium.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25
New Voice BIZ Old Tune

For gentleman who has no knowledge Of
tricks of the trade, the new chairman of the
State Republican committee seems to be learn
ing very quickly.
As the successor to one Clyde Walb, whose
time and attention is diverted from politics, he
brings to the first meeting of his committee
something that sounds suspiciously like the
Walb appeals Of old, and not only the appeals
Of Walb but the siren song of every machine
politician in the nation, without regard to
party.
The voice is new but the song he sings is the
same old tune.
He gives the same old recipe of urging good
candidates, but if the bad boys win, to stand
by them and elect them.
To give the doctrine Of the receiver of the
Republican moral bankruptcy in his own
words:
Make an honest effort to see that your prefer
, ence candidate is nominated, but whether or not
your choice is the nominee, make just as honest an
effort to the election of the party candidate
Your chairman whoever he or she may be, Is no
wizard and can only be successful In so far as you
the voters, who after all have the real and only
power, furnish good material, namely: Good
candidates and then line up solidly behind them
If you will do this the result this fall will be so
satisfactory there will be cause for criticism
and the great State Of Indiana will take her
proper place under the banner of our grand old
party.
1t is precisely because that appeal has won
in the past that Indiana has suffered.
Respectable men and good intentioned
women have been told that the highest duty is
to stand by their party no matter how bad the
candidates may be.
Just at present there is very determined
effort to induce citizens to believe that the Re-
publican party had nothing to do with the
shame of the State and that the whole trouble
is in the fact that its principles were stolen and
it's party label put on counterfeits.
There is very determined effort to dis
claim any responsibility for the men who came
into office through the efforts of one D. c.
Stephenson and to declare that the party was
stolen by Southern adventurer, who now
has a. permanent residence in the northern part
of the State.
Had the party leadership been courageous
enough when it's party was stolen, to tell the
people that the ticket was not Republican
ticket but for the most part the hand-plcked
servants of a venal group, it would not need
new party head to bring about the famous
"New Deal"
More confidence would he had in the pro-
tests that there is really to be change OF heart
and attitude and not merely bargain between
the ancient fractional foes, if the new chairman
had declared that his party must name men
above reprocah and if the real Republicans IN
the party again lost control, to urge the decent
elements to defeat their candidates rather than
stand for further rape.
That sort of a message might have en-
couraged decent candidates to enter the hsts
and not stand back to ask whether Senator
Watson and James P. Goodrich and Harry New
would agree in their favor.
The new chairman should get new record
for the old machine. The old tune is as bOreSome
as Valencia
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25

The Rules
1. The idea of letter golf is to
change one word to another and do
it in par, a given number of strokes.
Thus to change COW to HEN, in
three strokes, COW, HOW, HEW,
HEN.
2. You can change only one letter
at time.
3. You must have 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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BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright, 1928, by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace; liking; O.
queen; Jack; X-any card lower
than 100
1. When holding A K x K x in a
suit how many outside quick tricks
are necessary to bid it initially?
2. How can the value of each suit
be remembered most easily?
3. When holding A K j and 9TH
ers with @ missing, when should you
finesSe?
The Answers
=. None.
2. Club 6, Diamond 7, Heart 3,
Spade g; they increase in alpha
betical progression, c, D, H, S.
3. When holding or less.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25
CapitaIizing Ingenuity

Commerce is not overlooking this
aspect Of the situation. There is
hardly a great concern in this coun-
try but is spending vast sums Of
money for scientific research.
Look at General Electric, Bell
Telephone and the oil companies.
Each and every one of them not
only recognizes the element of hui
man ingenuity. but is doing every
thing possible to capitalize it.
We have just seen Henry Ford
shut up shop, stay out of business
several months and spend 100000
900 for no other purpose than to
beat his competitors by improving
his product.
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that these men have done any
thing to influence any player, but
that is beside the point which is
that some of them, at least, would
not be above making such an at
tempt if they thought they could
get by" with it.
No account need be taken of the
little bets that are made among
friends, like a dollar, or a dinner,
on the outcome of q contest,
which are not put up with any
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25
What Other Editors Think

thought of profit, but purely for
sport, but those who have the in
terest of basketball deeply at
heart wuold do we'll to keep their
eyes on the big betters, especially
the professional gamblers.
Nothing, of course, will stop it
entirely, but if the easy money"
boys won't heed a warning, an ap-
plication of the State laws against
gambling might be tried.
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Human, Not Political

The issue thus joined is human
rather than political, and you, dear
reader, are in just as good a posi-
ton to answer it as any one else.
Do you believe your boy will fight
less if you teach him to fight, or
that he will get mauled and mis-
treated if you do not?
Answer that and you have solved
the problem.
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ProgreSS-Improvement

Money without gold is we'll nigh
unthinkable to us, but so was money
without wampum to the Indians.
What we are used to plays a large
part in what we consider necessary.
That is one reason why cur 1eac-
ers want cruisers, though the next
war may be fought with airplanes
and poison gas.
The hardest idea for men to con-
ceive is that their greatest achieve
ments are temporary and that prog
resS consists of improvement.
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What does an aIbatross eat?

These birds gather their food from
the surface of the sea. They eat
fish, pelagic mullusks, and other
floating animal matter, including the
offal from vessels. Sometimes they
are caught with hook and line baited
with salt pork.
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Times Readers
Voice VezOS

The name and address OF the author
must accompany every contribution. but
on request will not be published. Let
preference
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We see no mystery in the bulletin from a uni
versity announcing the finding that fat students study
most while the lean are more popular socially
If you think it's puzzlng &c out and learn one Of
the new dances and then weigh yourself
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25

What is the meaning of the name
Wanda?
Shepherdess
Is Constance Bennett still play
ing in the movies?
She married Philip Plant of New
York in November, 1925, and retired
from the screen.
What is meant by British Their
NAL unit" and thermal capacity?"
A British thermal unit is the
heat required to raise the tempera-
ture of one pound of water at mexi-
mum density through degree Fab
renheit; equivalent to 0.252 calorieS
or 780 foot-pounds. Thermal ca
pacity is the quantity Of heat meas
ured in calories, the number OF
British thermal units or joules that
is required to raise the temperature
of unit mass of substance one de-
gree.
What is the maximum and mini
mum distance between the earth
and Mars? When did Mars make
its nearest approach to the earth?
The maximum distance is 249,-
100000 and the minimum is $4,000
600 miles. Mars made its closest
recent approach to the earth on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25

An eccentric family moved into our neighborhood
recently. The husband and wife go out walking on
Sunday afternoons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-25

Seven Long Island City girls, asked by pastor to
give the specifications of an ideal husband, were
agreed that the main quality the ability to sup
port wife properly. Proving that the women haven't
entirely lost their sense of poetry.