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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-30
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
Discovery of Soul Leads to Art
Written for The Times by VIII Durant

near Santa Maria's is still one of
the glorieS Of Florence, one OF the
sights of the world.
At last we find him in Rome;
Pope Boniface VIII, marvellng at a
circle Giotto had sent him, sum-
moned him to adorn with frescos
the old church of st. Peter, and re-
warded him so we'll that Giotto be-
came a rich man, returned like
Shakespeare to his native place
Gust outside of Florence), bought
large properties there, and died in
prosperity and comfort scandalous
for an artist.
He is in Italian painting what
Aeschylus was in Attic drama, the
crude but sublime initiator of a
great tradition that passed on
through Orcagna to eliminate on
the ceiling and walls of the SiStine
Chapel. Beside him Raphael and
Leonardo have the smooth porfec-
ton of SophocleS but the strength
of Giotto is not in them. After all,
it counts for something to be first:
you carve your own way to your
own goal; and all who come there
after bear the burden of precedents,
and slip into the snareS of imita-
ton.
Copyright. 1928. by viii Durant)
TO Be COntinued)
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transition goes on apace from the
impersonal anonymity of the figure
in medieval art to that vitality and
individuality which are the glory OF
Renaissance painting and at once
the grandeur and the curse Of
Renaissance character and life.
So Duccio passed by and We stand
before Giooto di Bondone, contem-
porary, friend and portrayer of
Dante, and almost as great in art as
Alighieri was in poetry.
II
XTASARI tells the story how the
Y shepherd lad, induced by ma
ture herself to the arts of design,
was perpetually drawing on the
stones, the earth, or the sand, some
natural object that came before
him, or some fantasy that presented
itself to his thoughts; and how
Cimabue discovered him there in
the fields cit is a fable, says Rein
ach, but Leonardo tells it too). took
him to his bOttega (studio) in
Florence, and taught him all he
knew.
Giotto soon mastered that, and
another tale recounts how he
painted a fly on the rose of a fig
ure the master had painted, so re-
alistically that the old teacher tried
to flick it off.
You may still see mis- masterpiece
in the upper church of st. Francis
at Assist, where Giotto has told in a
long series Of freScoS the life CT the
gentle saint. Go then to Padua, and
you Will marvel at the painters fer
tility; here are thirty-eight frescoS
telling the life of Christ in powerful
simple pictures; Giotto begins to
humanize theology.
The greatest of the series is 1.-THE
Kiss of Judas, perhaps there never
was a Judas; but if there was, he
looked like this. And in the "Pieta"
Giotto catches the tragedy of wom-
an: to bear, to rear, and surrender
the new life to death; the dead
Christ lies in his mothers arms, a
gaUnt figure of skin and bones in
the lap of a woman broken beyond
further feeling; it is one Of the great
motifs of medieval feeling, and one
of the noblest poems in history.
So Giotto went on, producing
quietly, with a fine healthy fertility;
a man not neurotic and soured like
MichelangelO, nor desultory and
fragmentary like leonardo; Faure,
as enthusiastic as a Frencnman,
calls him the greatest painter of
them all. Even in architecture he
was unique; the Campanile he built
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Rack-Seat Drivers

Back-seat driving, an Iowa judge has ruled, is
not sufficient grounds for divorce. woman who
appeared before him seeking decree because her nus
band continually found fault with her driving was
sent away without it,
The subject of back-seat driving has not yet been
treated thoroughly enough in our literature. 1t is
great evil to be sure; yet there is much to be said
for the one who practices it.
Some drivers breed back-seat driving inevitably.
They steer their about in heavy traffic as if
they were free from the ordinary limitations of time
and space, and the hapless person in the rear seat
can only grind his-or her-teeth and bear it, When
the day dawns on which all back-seat drivers are
led out to be shot, grave injustice will be worked
if a good percentage of front-seat drivers is not led
out with them.
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Given Aid Abroad

Most people have a fair idea of
how American capital is helping to
develop the resources and industries
of other countries, but very few
realize what an important part for
eign capital has played, and still is
playing in the development Of those
in this country.
The opinion prevails that because
we have billions of dollars to spare
for outside investment, there is no
room for foreign money, and that
the flow of cash is a one-way cur
rent.
AS matter of record, many Eng
fish, German and French fortunes
have been made among us, and that,
too, by people who never came to
this country except on short business
trips.
Many an American railroad got
its start through the sale of stock
or bonds abroad, as we'll as many
mining and ranching project.
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The Franks Fund

The late Jacob Franks of Chicago has left fund
Of 100000 to give pleasure help and encouragement
to boys" as a memorial to his dead son. Bobby, who
was murdered by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb
In the universal horror and indignation that swept
the country at the time of that crime, Mr.. Franks
himself was somewhat overlooked. We failed to
sympathize with him deeply we should have
OF all the figures in the case he the most tragic
He died, it was said, of broken heart; and who
can wonder at it?
His establishment of this memorial fund a
kindly knighty act. He had lost his own boy; so
he hoped to the lot of other little boys, giving
them some of the happiness of which his own sson
was cheated
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BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright, 1928, by The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace; K-king; O.
than lO.l
l. Partner bids one heart. Sec
ond hand bids two diamonds. What
should third hand bid if holding:
Spades-A @ x; hearts-X x x;
diamonds-Q x x; clubs-A K
@ j?
2. Partner bids one heart. Sec
ond passes. What should third hand
bid if holding: Spades-Q ] x x x;
hearts-X x; diamonds-A x x x;
cIubs-X x?
3. What should you bid initially
when holding: Spades-A @ x;
hearts-K j 10; clubs-A K j x
x x; diamonds-X?
The Answers
1. Two hearts.
2. One spade.
3. One club.
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Secondly we do not know if sunlight can penetrate
the heavy dense clouds which surround the planet
These clouds heavy and dense that astronomers
never see the surface of the planet but only the outer
side of this blanket of coluds
1t has been suggested that if the planet were in
habited such occasions the sunlight bene
trated the clouds the inhabitants would regard the
event as some sort of miracle visitation from the
GODS
That is very poetic view of the situation. But a
much scientific view is that if sunlight does not
penetrate the clouds there can be no life the
planet.
Life, know it, is not possible without sunlight
Not only is sunlight needed but the ultraviolet rada
ton of the sun is also required.
Ultraviolet can not penetrate foggy atrnos-
phere. Therefore, the trickling of some light
through foggy atmosphere would not be enough to
permit life the planet
1t is only fair to state that the majority of astron-
do not believe that the planet Venus is inhab-
tied.
This may be dscQuraging news to optimistic
gentlemen who would ike to make inter-planetary
journeys by rockets. But it is fact, nevertheless
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The Cost of Broken Homes

Nearly in every three cases of juvenile de-
nnquency involves children from a broken home, &C
cordng to figures compiled by Esther Sternleb of the
University of Wisconsin the result of f1ve-year
study.
There's factor to include when you try to figure
out the exact significance of the divorce evil In
our discussions of divorce we too often assume that
it's question only involving two people, the hus-
band and the wfe.p Miss sternliebs tabulation re-
minds us that this isn't the case.
The plaintiff and the defendant are by no means
the only interested parties in divorce suit.
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Questions and
ANS7OeTS

You can get an answer to any answer
able. question Of fact or information by
writing to Frederick M: Kerby, question
ngton Bureau, 1929 New York Ave,
Washington. D. c., enclosing two cents
in stamps for reply. Medical and le-
tended research be made. All other
Unsigned requests cannot be answered.
cordially invited to make use Of this
free service as often as you please.
Who were the three aviatOrs who
were killed before the start of the
Dole race?
Capt. Arthur v. Rogers, Lieut.
George w. D. Cowell and Lieut.. R.
S. Waggener.
How many railroads enter Chi
cagO?
Thirty three.
What do the names "SaIIy,'
Sadie" and Shirley mean?
Sadie and Sally are nicknames
for Sarah, a Hebrew name meaning
princess" Shirley is an English
family name from "Shear-lea," g
meadow where sheep are sheared.
Where does eX-Empress Zita OF
Austria live?
She lives at lie Quieto, small
seaport in Spain, on the Bay Of
Biscay. She does not receive a pen
sion from the Austrian government
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-30

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 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.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-30
Improving on Nature

Human ingenuity may be able to
improve on nature, but not without
an oppressive degree Of organiza-
ton.
They will tell you that rayon is
a vegetable product while silk is an
animal product. Technically that is
true, but the little silk worm makes
thread from the leaves it has eaten
just like the huge rayon mill.
The difference is that nature can
create manufacturing establish
ment as big as the end of your
finger, while man needs a gigantic
mechanism, a multitude of trained
workers and a transportation
system that enables him to draw
raw materials from many places.
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GIVEN forty acres and mule
VI the individual can produce
cotton; given a good piece of graz
ing land and three of four hundred
sheep he can produce wool; given a
small grove of mulberry trees and
some worms to start with, he can
produce silk, and given ten-acre
field he can produce flax.
When it comes to rayon, however,
the individual passes out Of the
picture. The production of rayon
calls not only for huge mills, with
an endless amount of machinery,
but for an army of workers.
Experts have figured out that the
most efficient operating unit needs
1000 workers, and that four units
are required to form the ideaI
plant.
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If Not Tom Adams. Who?

When The Times had, through It's expos
ures forced prosecutions Of high officials and
leaders of the machine which has controlled the
Republican party in the recent past there was
a very general demand for "clean-up' in
Indiana.
The other indianapolis newspapers made
very vociferous demands that this be done
One called upon the great James Eli Watson
to perform the Augean task.
Now there is a campaign in progress and
there is less being said about the necessity for
new regime and apparently no one is think
ing about it-except the plain people of In
diana, who know that they have been misled,
betrayed deceived and Inundated.
The one candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for Governor who has not ceased to
make the demand is Tom Adams the Vincennes
editor who issued the first challenge to the
machine
There is every evidence that the people are
listening to Adams this year and that the can
didates who are depending on secret deals, on
organized political groups, on hates and enmi-
ties and greeds, will receive a rather severe
shock when the votes are counted-if they are
counted.
The people should be warned by the calm
acceptance on the part of very many politi-
clans that there will be a crooked count Of
votes in this county and that it is necessary to
placate and deal with the forces and influences
which have in the past depended on crooked
elections and fraudulent primaries for their
power.
There is ample evidence thatthe people out
side the capital city are enraged and deter
mined and that they are not fooled by the
sinister whispers Of the machine that vote for
Adams is vote lost.
There is every indication of a vast army Of
men and women who would rather vote right
even if they lose than to be terrified or betrayed
into voting for some undercover candidate of
the same old machine or one of its more open
champions, such as the present Secretary OF
State who apparently has a working arrange
ment with Watson and Robinson and Coffin
and Shumaker and the wizard.
There are very many Republican candidates
for office in the ninety-one counties outside this
city who are realizing that their own chances
for election will depend somewhat on the SIM
certify demonstrated by their party in making
its nominations this year. They are beginning
to understand that the machine is quite willing
to wreck their political fortunes if it is neceS-
sary to defeat the crusading editor from Vim
cennes.
What would be the effect, at home and else
where, if the word should go out next week
that Indiana Republicans had named Tom
Adams as their candidate for Governor?
What would be the effect if word goes out
that he has been defeated?
In the name of the cleanup if not Tom
Adams who?
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David Dietz on ScieI
--0ayid Dietz on science---
No Sunlight, No Life
No. 81

rs the planet Venus inhabited? Let try to bal
/ ance the ledger and see what conclusion can be
reached. On side, favoring affirmative an
sWer, we have the following facts:
The planet is about the same size as our earth.
1t seems to have a temperature favorable to life.
1t has atmosphere which, in all probability, con-
tains both water vapor and oxygen
Now let us what we have on the other side Of
the ledger:
First of all, we do not know the time in which the
planet rotates upon its axis This is an important fac
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Foreign Monopoly

The initial process of producing
rayon was discovered by two French
chemists forty-four years ago, but
has been greatly altered and i'm
proved, especially by Englishmen.
The size of the plant required for
its manufacture and the large
amount of capital involved not only
retarded progress, but led to the
development of an effective
monopoly.
From 80 to IS per cent of the
worlds production is said to be con-
trolled by English, German and
French concerns operating under
an agreement which practically
uniteS them.
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Use Wool Fiber

When rayon first came into
existence, people thought it would
interfere with the cotton trade be-
cause wood fibre was generally
used, but now the industry is con-
Stunning a great deal of cotton,
especially linters, and instead of
being regarded as competitive, is
looked upon as an aid.
The process of manufacture have
been so improved and elaborated
that it is now possible to make
rayon from wood fiber, from cotton
or from the two in combination,
while the market has been enlarged
until it is easier to enumerate the
fabrics for which rayon is not avail
able than those for which it is.
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Foreigners Lead in j, S,

Rayon is the latest, and not the
least, vivid proof that the United
States is still regarded as a land
of opportunity for foreign capital.
Though the United States leads
all other countries in the produce
ton of rayon by a, wide margin, she
does so through establishments that
are largely owned by outsiders.
This is one important industry in
which America did not take the
initiative and are not leading the
way, though the available supply Of
raw materials, climatic conditions
and the market favor this country.
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RaYon Creates Chances

The textile industry depends ON
five fibers-cotton, wool, linen, silk
and rayon. The first four are
natural; the last is artificial. 1t
is only artificial, however, in the
matter Of improvement, since rayon
goes back to wood or cotton fibre.
Even so, rayon has created viz
tual revolution in the textile in
dustry which is rather more sig
nificant because Of what it PROM
ises than what it has already &C
complished.
Within the space of twenty-five
years, this new thread has usurped
many fields where cotton, silk or
wool, or some combination of them
reigned supreme.
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SOA 49,
Mercury, it al
ways keeps the
same face to-
ward the sun it
would mean that
half the planet
would be in pN-
petual darkness.
The inequality
of temperature
between the two
halves = would
probably result
in gigantic cy-
clones blowing
C o n t in uously
across the en-
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This Date i'm
u. s. History

April so
80-Governor Carteret of New
Jersey arrested for interior
ing with Governor AndruS of
New York.
789-George Washington inaugu-
rated as first President of the
United States.
1798-United States Navy Depart
ment created.
19O3-Louisiana purchase made.
l812-Louisiana admitted to the
Union.
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It's Own Defeat

That those who are really IN favor OF pro-
hibition and enforcement of the dry laws will
be further deluded by the slate of Rev. E. S.
Shumaker seems inconceivable in view of the
very manifest inaccuracies and misstatements
of his appeal to the public.
The recommendations bear every evidence
Of desire to overthrow orderly government
and impose a dictatorship.
His warning against wet Supreme
Court should cause at least all attorneys to
pause. Unless the Supreme Court is above sus-
picion of being swayed in its decisions by any
personal prejudices, all law disappears
What the people want is not dry court or
wet court, but court that decides cases &C
cording to the law and the Constitution, that
will be beyond the reach Of whispering Sena-
tors and beyond the fears Of the Khan and the
dry dictators, with judges who do not frankly
confess that to participate in decisions is
barrassing because Of their political and fra
ternal affiliations.
His recommendations. this year have, of
course, for their chief object the election 81
Arthur Robinson, his telephone boy, when he
tried to get Watson to ntercede in the Supreme
Court after five of the most prominent lawyers
Of the State had declared that his report of
two years ago was a plain lie concerning the
decisions of the Supreme Court and calculated
to destroy the influence Of that court
1t is significant that his Endorsement of
Joe Rand Beckett, able citizen and most worthy
Of support, was listed because of his work as
"deputy prosecutor under William H. Remy. "
Under the authority of Mr.. Remy it may be
stated that this is a clear and open misstate-
ment.
Beckett was named as a deputy by Attorney
General Gilliom and assigned to work in
Marion County to enforce the law because
of lack of local funds to prosecute cases
1t is significant that Shumaker, under his
present affiliations with Robinson, Coffin and
others, indorses Ralph Updike for Congress, de-
spite the fact that the Stephenson black boxes
contained written contract made by Updike
with Stephenson to deliver all the patronage,
including the postmastership of Indianapolis,
to Stephenson.
Surely the sincere men and women of this
State who really want prohibition, who are
disguised with the reign of the bootlegger, will
not be fooled longer.
The doctor has overreached himself in his
present report. It is too palpably a political
document inspired by venom and lacking in
sincerity.
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EquabIe Climate Needed

The manufacture of rayon not
only requires complicated ma
chinery, expert labor and a vast
amount of capital, but the most
equable climatic conditions.
When European capitalists de-
cided to establish mills in this
country, they made a very thorough
survey of possible locations.
They found that belt running
through Pennsylvania and Wes>
Virginia offered the most satisfac-
tory results and experience has
proved that the city of Roanoke
was best of all. That is why
Roanoke is now the seat of the
largest rayon plant in the world,
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bASASAN4No'
Editor Times:
If the time has come to elect
officers for the new City Manager
League, Inc, I nominate D. c..
Stephenson for its president, From
all appearances, this new company
has for its purpose the deception
of the people and Steve therefore
is the logical man to head the new
venture.
I notice that one of the in
corporators was until lately g resi-
dent of Michigan City. No doubt
he will second the nomination. All
in favor say "Aye."
Nearly every organization nova
days, especially the secret ones, has
some sort of insignia and nothing
would be more appropriate than a
black box as the insignia Of. the
new order. And for a slogan, I
can think of nothing better than
I'VE fooled 'em two years ago, let's
fool 'em again"
All good citizens rejoice in the
way the newspapers have hung a
red lantern on this new scheme to
swindle the people. The people
have in the Indianapolis City Man
ager League an organization which
honestly is endeavoring to give
leadership which can be trusted and
followed.
limitation is the most sincere
flattery" and because the original
City Manager League has the con-
fdence of the people its enemies
have brought out a counterfeit
league with a similar name.
w. B. ALBURTIS,
518 N. Alabama st.
Editor Times:
I am one Of many, no doubt, de-
sirous of knowing whether it is not
entirely within the province of a
father to refuse, if he deems it
fitting and proper, his son the use
of the family automobile to go to
school in, for, according to judge
in one of our courts, it is not.
If am not of the wrong opinion
can see no improperly in this,
and, for one, in this case certain
ly would not pay the sons fine to
teach him lesson for stealing an
others property, in this case, an
automobile of another person.
I may be wrong, but it seems to
me that in paying this fine it con-
stituted nothing more than the en-
couragement of misbehavior and
lawlessness, certainly too much pre-
valent at the present time, on the
part of the younger generation.
am anxious to know, after read
ing this case, whether parent has
any jurisdiction whatever over
minors, especially, children, and, if
so, whether this case comes within
this jurisdiction. I am open to
proper, legitimate and constructive
information.
AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
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Al Smith says he sees no difference between the
people of North Carolina and the people of New York
City. He'd better take his next vacation in some
other State than North Carolina.
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Here are suggestions for the spring poet: Spring,
ring, love- dove, tweet, sweet, hush, mush, grass,
brass fair pair pretty dtty Then read it and duck.
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