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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-22
OKLAHOMA JUDGES
NOW FACING TRIAL
80 Impeachment Charges to
Go Before House Against
3 of Bench.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY. March 22.-The
House of Representatives general in
vestigating committee today planned
to present to the lower branch OF the
Oklahoma Legislature for consideration
80 impeachment charges against three
members of the State Supreme Court.
The charges, adopted by the COM
mittee in executive session, were direct
ed aginst Chief Justice Charles w.
Watson. who presided at the trial of
Henry S. Johnston, ousted governor,
and Justices Fletcher Riley and j. w.
Clark
Homer Paul. member of the sub
committee that has been investigating
the judiciary branch Of the State Gov
eminent for two months, made IL
known that II charges were against
each of two Justices and 10 against
the third Allegations on which the
charges are based were kept secret,
but vary as to the individual, Paul
said.
Would Repeat Procedure.
# adopted by the house, the charges
will be transmitted to a Senate court
of impeachment and procedure similar
to that in the Johnston case will pre-
vail.
Chief Justice Mason and Justices Ri
lev and Clark were members of the
court which late in 1927 held that
members of the 18th Legislature had no
authority to convene in special session
to investigate Johnston, then governor,
and State departments. It was in &C
cordance with the courts opinion that
Johnston called out the National Guard
to prevent legislators from using CAPT.
tai chambers for a session.
o. o. Owens, Tulsa legislator who was
the dominant factor in the investigation
of the judiciary, long has been pollti-
cal foe of the State Supreme Court.
Two Years Battles.
This enmity. growing cut Of a mass of
litigation involving one of Owens oil in
terests, covers two years of hectic legal
battles and judicial tangles which Fed
eral courts still are seeking to unravel.
Owens, early in 1927. was cited for
contempt by the State Supreme Court.
but claimed immunity because he was a
member of the State Legislature. When
the court refused to recognize this
claim, Owens requested the disqualified
ton of eight justices. filed demurrers
and challenged the jurisdiction Of the
court.
Overruled on these points, Owens re-
fused to offer testimony in his defense.
He was adiudged in contempt and SEN
fenced to IL months in the Oklahoma
County jail and fined $4,000.
Owens appealed TO the State Grim
inal Court of Appeals. the highest court
for criminal cases in the State, but the
Supreme Court contended it had juris-
diction over Owens. One OF the most
puzzling legal tangles in the history OF
the State developed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-22

OF wolfe or pretty
prints. S o m E h ave
panties. In many pref.
ty styles and shades.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-22
HENRY McCORKLE DIES.
New York Bank Employe Sue
cumbs to Cardiac Trouble.

NEW YORK, March % CP.-Henry
McCorkle, SIS, employe of the Manufac-
turers' Trust Co., died suddenly here
ing of heart disease.
He was born in Lexington, Va, and
was a graduate of Washington and Lee
University and the Columbia University
Law School The body will be sent to
Lexington for burial.
He is survived by his widow, two
brothers, Rev. Emmett w. McCorckle of
waynesboro. Va, and Walter L. Nc
Corkle of New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
StingY Diplomacy
z TERRICK'S death and Hol

UERRICK'S death and Hough-
Il a. tons resignation leave two i'm
portant diplomatic posts vacant. If
our ambassador to Argentina is
transferred, as seems probable, there
will be three.
1t is a great thing to represent
the United States at London. Paris
or Buenos Aires. but only a few
can afford to apply.
We pay our ambassadors $17,50O
year, which sounds fine until one
learns what it costs them to live,
and what other countries pay.
The British ambassador at Wash
ington receives about $150,O00 in
one way or another, as we'll as a
house, while his attache receives
S25 900.
Our penurious policy with regard
to pay makes us dependent on mil
lionaires when it comes to filling
important diplomatic posts.
Whatever else may be said of it,
this limits the supply.
If diplomacy means all we have
been taught to believe, it requires
training, rather than wealth. and
in order to get the best men avail
able the government should pro-
vide such compensation as would
eliminate none.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
IT SEEMS TO ME By H RTo4%

THE excess of enforcement have
Il been in the news quite fire.
quently of late. Indeed, we have
become by now a little callous to
even the most violent manifestations
Of Volsteadism.
For instance, as yet I have seen
no comment whatsoever on the fact
that in GreenviIle, S. c., a 12-year-
old girl has been sentenced to thirty
days in the stockade for carrying a
bottle Of whisky across the street.
She said that an older woman had
asked her to carry the bottle to a
man who had bought it.
The news report adds, "She told
straightforward story which Re-
corder Aiken said impressed him, but
he was powerlesS to do other than
to sentence her"
Under the theory that every ordi-
nance is literally ~ocred as long as
it remains upon the books, Recorder
Aiken did have to make the child
the companion and playmate of
criminals for a month.
Many have urged that no consid-
erations of humanity or enlightened
mercy should ever be allowed to
stand in the way of the eighteenth
amendment. Our present laws, like
Red Riding Hoods wolf, have teeth
in them. The better to bite you
with, my dear.
These laws snap blindly and must
not be cheated of their prey. Fee fl
TO fun, blood is an oil to make the
wheels of justice grind more say
agely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03

care about the nations songs as
we'll as its laws. The Imagination
staggers before some of the further
lyrical improvements which we are
likely to hear.
When Pirates pass this way again,
if ever, I fully expect to hear the
hardy fellows shouting 70! Ho!
Ho! and bottle of celery tonic. -
Eat to me only with thine eyes, .
we shall soon hear, and that rous-
ing ditty about Brown October
near beer of less than one-half of
l per cent alcoholic content"
But Danny Deever may profit by
the transformation. 1t will be diff
fcult to hang him in the morning
now, or even at high noon, since it
may never be mentioned that, hes
drinking bitter beer alone"
Danny's soul in passing can never
hope to get beyond the twelve mile
limit. Heaven and hell must both
be dry. Or, at any rate, if Heaven
isn't dry already it soon will be,
since so many Methodists are aimed
in that direction.
They may be counted upon to see
that a law is passed providing for
search and seizure in all the many
mansions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
The Senate Procressives.

For some months there has been an epidemic OF
Journalistic r.dcue of the senate progrcssVe5 Finally
the American Mercury has zuccum3ed with par
ticularly vicious attack.
Most Of these critical articles make an exception
Of Senator Norris, ivne HIM clean bill OF health
That is not supring Norris is Bigger than the
other progressyes: ndeeI times ne seems to over
shadow the whole ,elate
In intellect. in parliamentary skill, in courage, in
sheer character he is great statesman HIS princl-
pa lack is political ambition and the will to leadership
As for the others much Is made OF the point that
shipstead is dentist, Nye is a country editor La
Toilette is the son OF his father, Blaine is a poor
speaker Broozhart is slow MOVING. Howell is school
teacher Frazier is nick. Wheeler is small town
prosecutor, and so on.
All Of which makes Il EN- easy victims OF a certain
type OF w.secracker OF but which has precisely
rothing whatever TO do with their ability as public
servants,
JUDGED by standards OF perfection. they are not
a completely effective lot. But compared with the
standpat senat, majority they look pretty good In
most cases they had to have more courage and more
intelligence to break INTO the senate because they
were prescribed and fought by their local political
organizations
Once IN the senate they have for the most part
voted Tglt voted lOl LiG ptOpC 4ILOCLt0' 4i1' 'o'
special interests
They are chiefly responsible for uncoyering the OIL
scandals for the public utility Investigations, for sal
vaeing some constitutional civil liberties for opposing
imperialism in Nicaragua Mexico and elsewhere for
saving Muscle Shoals for restraining excessive mill
tarv and naval appropriations, for reforming tax
rates and forcing publicity large tax refunds tor
challenging bad presidential appointments Tor cham
pioning the issues OF good government and clean gov
eminent in practically every senate fight.
These men do have their weaknesses. Some taA
for the society racket some talk too much and study
to6uttIe Some weaken under the loneliness and dis
couragement OF being so often on the losing SIDE AND
their faults OF course are magnided, just because
every one. even their enemies somehow expect more
from them than from the standpatters
But when one considers what these ridiculed pro-
pressive senators are up aganst-the wealth. the po-
1t,caI rings the government bureaucras the archaic
ru,es and traditions OF the senate, the oyerpoWerng
size ot the conservative majority, and the all too ire
ouent indifference Of the pubic-one maryels that
the nropressives have accomplished much and re-
manned so faithful to their unpopular ideals
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
When to Use Brakes

An overspeculated stock market often has been
compared to 4 soap bubble, sometimes to toy bal
loon It might be compared also to 4 toboggan, or
even powered auto going at tremendous speed
Considered as bubble OF balloon, the way 10
avoid burst is TO stop pumping air into The time
to stop is before the bubble gets too big Considered
as toboggan, the ene at which it can't be con-
troed is just at the bottom OF the hill where il
acquired its maximum speed Considered as an au-
tomobile the time to apply the brakes is not At the
moment the railroad cr1 Ssiug is reached
The stock market spree na> been on tol two years
or more The marset has peer "eX0andeo Tor eight
cen months What II the federal reserve board had
taken notice OF it sooner? What II it mad acted
slowly deliberately aui drmiy2 What il II hao called
attention to expanded brokers' loans and had an
nounceo that, at the end Of thirty days ii the ex-
ps4,sion were not therwse remedied there woulo be
an advance OF the redlscount rate? What ii it had
repeated this process every hry days until the swell
ing was reduced?
Isn't there safe and easy way to stop an auto. OF
save a balloon?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
A Senator Is Amounted

The ATTEMPT of Governor Clyde Reed Of Kansas to
involve President Hoover in the selection OF senator
from that state was an ill-advsed political maneuVer
The President under any circumstances is the last
person who should be asked to dictate the appointment
of senator senator represents the state and not
the President of the party of which the President
leader His selection should be purely state function
and interference by the President properly would be
resented by the people of state
Henry j. Allen, the new senator named by Reed
after he had called on Hoover long has been political
enemy of Vice-Presdent Curtis whom he succeeds.
Reeds purpose apparently was to give the impress
sion that Hoover had approved or advocated Aliens
selection which would have been important to Reed in
the states inter-party political warfare.
There is nothing to indicate that Reed succeeded
Hoover apparently made no suggestions of any kind.
He could not criticize Allen who was his supporter
from the beginning and his publicity manager during
the campaign even had he wished. Nor could he urge
Aliens appointment without being involved with Cur
tbs and the old guard organization Of Kansas
And by the same token Hoover was not in posi-
ton to reprimand the Governor or others for their
effort to use him.
Allen in the senate probably will be able properly
to represent the people of his state but there is moth
ing in his past career to indicate unusual ability. He
was Bull Moose leader when Roosevelt ran against
TAFT and Wilson but like many others abandoned that
cause when It appeared to he hopeless.
As governor for four years Immediately after the
war his most notable achievement was creation Of
state labor court for compulsory arbitration of labor
disputes which widely was hailed by reactonares who
we're attempting to wres from the workers some of the
gains made during the war The court was a complete
failure
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03

ried up into the atmosphere by these ascending air
currents in the equatorial region.
But as the air ascends it also expands. Expansion
causes the all to become cooler.
Now when the air cOOls it is not able to hold as
much water vapor it held previously Consequently
he water vapor is precipitated in the form OF rain
This is the explanation Of the tOrrential rains OF
the tropics
At a high atitude-about six miles-the rising air
current splits and moves toward the north and the
south
But it must be remembered that the earth is rotat-
ing from west to Due to the fact that the earth
sphere the velocity decreases as one moves north
south from the equator. eve are Of course, speak
ng OF the linear not the angular velOcty(
Since the currents 0t air moving With the i'm
ar velocity OF the equatorial region they tend to run
lhead OF the attitudes over which they pass.
Consequently, in the northern hemisphere, the air
urrent to be coming from the southwest while
N the southern hemisphere it seems to be coming
from the northwest.
AS the air north and south, it is further
cooled by passing into regions OF lower temperature
II grows heavier and begins to descend at ATTITUDES 30
degrees both north and south of the equator.
AS result two belts of high pressure surrounds the
earth at these Attitudes
These belts we shall see next are of the utmost
Importance because they play fundamental role in
the weather changes which take place in all parts OF
the goha
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
No Future bliss

A S for hell, the Anti-Saloon
L n Leaguers could hardly look for
ward to future bliss if they we're
obliged to gaze across the great gulf
and watch sinners sitting on the
Goals. imbibing old-fashioned whis-
ky cocktails.
From this time forth Omar must
be content with "thous" and the
loaf The jug would never get by
a line Of hip-pstting agents.
Shakespeare mentioned wine, and
50 did Milton. Virgil, Ovid Homar
Horace and all the classic poets
wrote lines fit only for the ears OF
scofflaWs. There is also the Bible
Clarence True Wilson may very
logically feel it necessary to with
draw it from circulation until he
can fix up a new version of the
miracle at the marriage feast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
A Surplus Appears

There is cause for qualification in news from the
treasury that surplus Of $l00O0OOO0 is in prospect
for the current fiscal year Previously a deficit had
been feared. and there might have been one except
for profits from the increase in value OF stocks.
a surplus does not mean, however that tax re-
auctions are in prospect Nor does it warrant any
relaxation in economy in appropriations by congress-
The surplus is the smallest in recent years 1t was
unforeseen, and was due to what many believe was
abnormal and unnatural condition.
Federal expenditures are mounting and will con-
tinue to mount. A surplus OF Only $6000O000 is in
prospect for the fiscal year which begins July l.
Increasing prosperity may swell this amount but it
would not require extensive depression to wipe it out
The government IS committed to large expenditures
IN naval building, flood control, farm relief public
building and good roads, anc extensive waterways de-
veloplments are being advocated
The situation is such that present revenues well
can be given up, any unwise and unnecessary eX-
penditures maze.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03

XNTASHINGTON, April 3,-Presi-
W dent Hoover is in no frame
Of mind to make oil conservation an
excuse for the federal government
to further encroach on state rights.
He said as much to the regular
press conference Wednesday.
Not only as chief executive, but
as a former member of the conser-
walton board which was created dur
ing the Coolidge administration he
feels that too much drilling is the
chief difficulty to overcome and
that drilling is purely intra-state
affair, which the federal government
has no power to regulate.
No one familiar with the situa-
ton will dispute this. Punching
holes, especially in privately owned
land, mas led to most Of the waste.
Too many of them in a given field
is undesirable for several reasons.
l. They drain it of oil so fast that
storage, or efficient distribution be-
comes impossible.
2. They squander an incalculable
amount of gas.
3. They reduce the underground
gas pressure which forces the oil
upward and into pools.
Drilling for oil, except on the
public domain, is obviously a matter
for the states to regulate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
S7dooI A|9F' / III 1e:I
| ANNIVERSARY
tttzzz2t45J
April 3

CIXTY-FOUR years ago today
, Richmond, Va, the seat of the
Confederate government surren-
dered to the Federals. The pre-
ceding day, General Lee had de-
cided to evacuate the city and take
his army of 10000 men to a nat
urally fortified spot, where he
might have some chance Of re-
pulsing the northern hosts until
he could strike an effective blow.
The march Of the Confederates
was started at midnight and the
following morning, April 3, 1865.
the mayor Of Richmond sUrren-
dered to General Weitzel
The northern troops marched in
to a city that was being swept by
a disastrous fire It had spread
from small fres set to public prop
erty, and before it was extin-
guished laid practically one-third
Of Richmond in ashes.
While Federal troops were
fighting flames. Lees retreating
army was meeting series Of
h art br eaking disappointments.
With Grants army of 10000 men
pursuing, the Confederates, through
mistake, missed connections with
train bringing much-needed food
and missed another all-impertant
train connection several days later.
On April the Army of North
ern Virginia surrendered to Grant
at AppomattoX Court House.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
Loose Booze? Loose TaIk2

a FIER quizzing seven customs
L n men, United States Attorney
futile of New York announces that
no liquor was found, handled Or
seen in the baggage of Congress-
man Morgan.
If that is SO, somebody lied, and
the fact that somebody lied war
rants continuance of the investiga-
ton.
II it is crime to smuggIe LIQUOR
into the United States, it is also a
crime to charge a person with doing
so when he did not.
Two customs men are said to have
reported that they found four bot
ties of liquor in the baggage of
Congressman Morgan when he land
ed from Panama, and that the
liquor was given back to him when
he claimed freedom of the port"
as an official of the government.
If this report was untrue, what
do they deserve?
If some one said they made such
report, and they did not, what
does that some one deserve?
Loose talk is bad, as well as loose
booze.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
Uncle SANS DiuNv
XXTHAT Wall Street did for

XXTHAT Wall Street did for
w some people last year-a good
many people, indeed-vividly is re-
flected by the income tax returns.
Instead of coming out with a
lean purse next June, as Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon thought it
would, the federal government will
probably have a surplus of $780,
100000 or more.
The income tax brought in far
more than was expected, and most
of the increase was due to rises in
the stock market.
You can't make money these days
without telling Uncle Sam all about
it and then paying for the privilege
What you make largely may be
on paper. or it may fade away the
Gay after you have filed in the re-
turn, but that does not interest your
good OLD uncle in the least.
If you have enjoyed it even to the
extent of anticipation, and without
even so much as putting your hands
on real cash, he expects his divvy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
Ab0IiShing Stein
Times Readers Voice VI Igs

unsophisticated girl, that is allotted
to criminal Of large proportions.
/ am further in sympathy with
other editorials in which you attack
the liquor enforcement practices
and other inconsistent legal and
social practices.
want to say that I think you are
doing a great work for the future OF
our country, and I hope you again
will receive the meritorious medal
for real craftsmanship editorials.
o. P. FOREMAN.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
1I-
Knots in String Poor Wart Remedy

ever, going away as mysteriously as
they have come.
The exact cause of warts is not
definitely known. Some people be-
lieve that they have their origin in
a nerve stimulus to the skin, others
that they are associated with the &C
ton Of some special germ.
All cures of warts that involve
burying something at a distance or
the reciting of charms of one sort
or another are relics of the days
when people believed in magic.
Among English country people
warts are cured by touching them
with stones, peas, rags and SO on,
and then throwing the substance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03
Triumph of Prohibition

a WRITER in the Washington
L z Star chortIes over the fact that
$50 of the capitals elite attended a
bone-dry Easter breakfast, telling
how it caused high society to buzz
with discussion and describing it as
an experimenting victory for pro-
hibition."
To us who have been taught that
the exceptional is news, all this
sounds very strange.
If prohibition really has tri-
umphed, why should a hoochless
party make the front page?
1t was the first Of it's kind, as the
writer admits, though prohibition
has been in effect nine years, and
though President Hoover's attitude
is credited as responsible for it, his
two immediate predecessors were
quite as dry as he is by profession
at least.
Ordinary folks will be pardoned
for suspecting that prohibition
hardly can be hailed as victorious
until more than one dry social func-
ton has graced the nations capital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03

Who won the recent typewriter
speed contest? How is it conducted?
George Hossf1eld won the contest
at Carnegie hall, New York, using an
Underwood machine. 1t lasted for
one hour. The rule of the contest
is that the number of words writ
ten. less than ten words for each
error. is divided by the number CT
min to give the average speed
per minute. HoSsfield mace twenty
nine errors thereby losing 800 words.
Would a professional strong man
make good prize fighter?
Few strong men" ever become
good prize fighters. This is due to
the fact that their muscular devel-
opment is so great that it is more ct
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-03

away or burying it at a crossroad
where the chance of some one else
picking up the disease is good.
In Cheshire, warts are rubbed
with piece of bacon and the bacon
is then put under the bark Of an
ash tree. The villagers believe that
the warts will appear as knobs on
the tree.
Modern scientific medicine gets
rid of warts either by destroying the
blood supply through the use of the
electric needle, after which the wart
will fall Off; by treating the wart
with the X~ray, or by application
of strong acids, which burn away
the extra tissue.