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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-14
REASONS
FREDERICK
Lands

IT Is good idea to install that cooling device in
President Hoover's Office, for Washington summers
are hot the pigeons leave tracks in the asphalt
streets, to say nothing of disappointed candidates for
office who march with leaden feet.
The White House, and all Of Washington, for that
matter. should have been built on Capitol Hill, in
stead OF down the lowlandS
But what is needed most in Washington is venti-
lating system for the house of representatives its
Supplying atmosphere being fried on both sides.
Members arrive at noon feeling fit after a stroll
up Pennsylvania avenue but little by little they wilt
under the foul intake those who stay until evening
rising with heads full of cobwebs.
At times the air is SO bad it curs the bangs of
Washington and Lafayette in their oil portraits while
to those who sit in the galleries the aroma is like an
immigrant car, when newly arrived guests from over
the Atlantic their footwear as the shades of
evening fall.
EVIDENTLY this factional fight between Ruth
~ Hanna Mccormick and Senator Deneen for the
Republican senatorial nomination over in Illinois
cane otherwise that finished political weather prophet,
James Hamilton Lewis, would not have entered the
field as candidate for the Democratic nomination.
Senator Brookheart and Representative La Guardia
staged wet and dry debate in Cleveland and all
able to hear
They ragged on the platform, then arose grandly
above contention and met on common ground in the
box Office.
The prince of Wales has taken bath tub with
him in his motor on this trip into the interior
of Africa and when he is not hunting lions he will
be hunting the soap
THEODORE ROOSEVELT seems to be going big
Il with the natives, Governor Of Porto Rico,
speaking to them in their language, but he will
into snag if he seeks to introduce them to soap
or induce them to discard the umbrellas which they
carry on clear nights to escape lunacy from the
rays of the moon
Captains of industry have sought to dissipate dis
trust by painting glowing landscapes of $780, but the
most optimistic note yet sounded for Americans in
general is this statement by the vice-president of
the National Association of Merchant Taiors that a
be well dressed with only twelve suits of
clothes and that the same, with accessories, be
had for mere $4,000 year.
1t seems too good to be true
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Another Anti-Red Orgy?

Dsa,,, ciyilized Americans have liked TO believe
that the criminal svndicalsm laws but passing
episode in a wave Of wartime hyseria and OF post
war nightmare.
But in Ohio several men are rotting in the state
penitentiary under recently imposed sentences LOT
criminal syndicalism. Prison terms Just nave Oeen
impoged on youthful Communist enthusiasts under
similar law in California.
Now Michigan with her criminal syndicaliSm law
swoops down upon "Comrade" Beals of Gastonia fame
Teals and sixteen others were arrested because OF
addresses to workers in Michigan towns. Ihere Is DO
effort to deny that they arrested because OF their
opinions and not account Of their deeos beaIS Is
held in $4,000 bail and his associates IN lesser
amounts in one case $500.
The Michigan law was enacted in 1919, but this Is
the first time it has been invoked by state authorities
In 1922 it was utilized by federal authorles leo
bv Daugherty. against the Communist party conVen-
ton in the sand Dunes Thrty-tWo men were aIeS'eo
on the charge Of criminal syndicalism.
Frank P Walsh acted as the chief defense counsel
in these cases W g. Foster got off because OF
fIrv disagreement Ruthenberg died while his case
vas being appealed None of the other cases has
been called by the government About $4,000 Is tleo
IN on the bail bonds Of the other defendants. The
government neither will try dismiss the cases nor
release the bail money.
Friends of liberty and justice in the United states
and in Michigan will be most unwise II they IAN 10
protest vigorously against this method OF SuppreSSng
dissident opinion and economic radcalsn. If 1t Is
allowed to succeed this time, it will be the easier 70
invoke a similar inquisition later.
We hold no brief for Comrade Beals economic
philosophy But if Michigan desires to combat thiS
economic heresy, she will get further by persuasion
and education than by the application OF blind 1orce'
which seems only to confirm the Communist charges
against capitalistic society.
A greater danger than an immediate attack on
Communism is involved Having struck out against
Communism with this instrument authorities next
may use it against all forms of vigorous labor unrest
and criticism.
We have adequate laws to restrain criminal acts
We should repeal the syndicalism laws which restrain
free thought and speech.
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ANNIVERSARY
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ARIZONA's STATEHOOD

rep. IL
ON Feb. Il, 1912, President Taft
" signed the proclamation for
mally admitting Arizona to the
Union.
Although the people Of that state
adopted a Constitution as early as
1891, in anticipation of admission
to the Union as state, congress
refused to grant the application.
Bills finally we're passed by con-
gress, however, in 1904-05, and again
in 1905-O6, providing for admission
of Arizona and New Mexico. The
voters of Arizona rejected this plan.
At a constitutional convention in
1910, Arizona prepared Constitu-
ton which was regarded as prob
ably the most radical instrument
ever formulated for the administra-
ton of state. One provision sane
toned the recall of judges.
Congress then passed a joint reso-
luton which provided for the adj
mission of Arizona, but President
Taft vetoed it on account of the
clause dealing with the recall Of
judges.
Congress thereupon passed a Sec
ond resolution providing for the adj
mission on condition the objection
able clause were removed. This was
done, and the President signed the
proclamation.
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TT SEEMS TO ME By H HRoTS

guess that "Dishonored Lady" can
hardly have been the pick of the
puppies.
Possibly Miss Cornell is a shrewd
enough judge of theatrical fare to
know a sure-f1re hit when she sees
one. "Dishonored Lady seems to
be established as a smash Of con-
siderable proportions. The public
likes it. Maybe Miss Cornell does.
l hope not.
What are the ethical considera-
tons involved in the decision Of an
actress in regard to a potentially
successful play which is utterly
worthless or Whereabouts?
We are all ready to censure the
frst-rate novelist who does a pot
boiler, or the artist of consequence
who turns out picture postcard for
the hope Of gain. To be sure, the
analogy is not complete. The &C
tress can say, But it isn't my play.
I didn't write it. I'm merely acting
in it."
I don't think that's quite good
enough. A high talent can take a
piece away from the author. A star
OF magnitude is certainly in very
real sense a collaboration in the en-
tertainment.
Ladies must live, I know, but the
same holds true of novelists. I think
somebody ought to speak sharply to
good, young actresses who appear in
bad, old plays.
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Thomas Jefferson as a Dry

"rhomas Jefferson was the first President to hang
up the sign that no booze-fghter need apply! said
recent edition Of the Atlantic Constitution
The implication of course. is that the sage OF
Monticello was the spiritual father of Senator Shep-
pard and other southern Democratic drys. Unfor-
tunately for this thesis, the weknown facts about
Jefersons opinions and tastes relative to alcoholic
beverages show him to have been one of the most
intelligent and engaging supporters of civilized drink
ing.
While President Of the United States his wine
bill averaged 357 yearly and in two different years
it ran more than $500.
During the holiday period of 1902. he pre-
sented with 2CO bottles of champagne. but the fact
that no duty had been paid on it troubled his
science Therefore he wrote the following letter to
the collector OF the port at Philadelphia
"Mons. dYrujo, the Spanish minister here, has
been so kind as to spare me 200 bottles of champagne,
part of large parcel imported for his own use and
consequently privileged from duty; but it would be
improper for me to take the benefit of that. there
fore must ask the favor of you to take the proper
measures for paying the duty, for which purpose
inclose bank check for $3.50, the amount of it."
Even more Illuminating is the following passage
from a letter recommending cheaper wines;
"I rejoice as moralist at the prospect of a reduc
ton of the duties on wine by our national legislature
1t is an error to view tax that liquor merely
tax the rich 1t is prohibition OF its use among
the middle classes of citizens, and condemna-
4on OF them to the poison of whisky. which is desola
ing their homes.
mo nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and
none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes
ardent whisky or spirits the common beverage. 1t
is in truth the only antidoe to the bane Of whisky
Jefferson may indeed be regarded as the apostle of
movement to regain light wines and beer but
scarcely as a worShipper at the shrine of the camel
No doubt he did not want any government
poyes Keeling about at their work. In other words
he was person of sanity and gentility. There is
little reason to suppose that like Wadsworth and
Wagner favor drunkenness and least of all in working
hours.
Nicholas Murray Butler expects his professors to
show up for their lectures reasonably sober. These
men, like Jefferson simply have enough faith in their
felow-men to believe that in any reasonable system
Of liquor control they might be taught to drink like
sensible gentlemen.
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TTAS a good actor the right to ap-
l. l. pear consistently in bad plays?
I don't mean should there be a law
against 1t. but I am wondering
whether player can preserve his
artistic integrity in giving his serV-
ices to flapdoodle.
The problem is fairly complicated
and tradition is on the side of the
artist who does not look too closely
into the mouth of an engagement.
Many of our most honored stars,
both past and present, have been
frequently associated with trash
Indeed, some have made their repu-
tations in it.
There is even a school OF thought
which holds that the best acting is
to be found in periods when play
writing Is at low ebb. Shakespeare
can get in the way of an actor in
manner which Samuel Shipman
never could do.
Jefferson is remembered largely
for his Rip Van Wrinkle, the piece to
which he devoted a large proper
ton of his career. 1t would be over
stringent to call that comedy sheer
trash, but 1t was plainly no great
shucks as a play.
Otis Skinner has toured the coun-
try in vehicles that creaked under
his worth and artistic weight, and
Mrs. Fiske has done many roles
which may have caused Ibsen to
turn uneasily beneath the sod at
the antics of one of his most sue
cessful interpreters.
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A Glass House

NF course, I'm not the one to do
" the speaking. No newspaper
hack Of twenty years standing, with
hundreds of poor and careless COL
unns on his conscience, has any,
right to be overcaptious about any,
body's artistic integrity. The rebuk-
ing should be left to somebody else.
I'm not even a dramatic critic, and
so it was possible for me to go out
into the night after the second act
of ''Dishonored Lady" I went with
out sense Of guilt, since I had no
assignment to remain. And I may
add that went out in driving
rainstorm.
1t was an episode of the second
act which drove me forth. You have
probably heard that "Dishonored
Lady" is a murder melodrama. Mad
eleine Smith, the heroine, goes to
the apartment Of a former lover to
poison him, so that he shall not get
in the way of an excellent marriage
which ishe is about to make
But before she succeeds in adding
Strychnine to his coffee the young
man persuades her to resume a
carnal past. That seems to her
even after she has killed him, the
greatest sin of all.
What's this?" I said to myself.
This is pretty howdy-do Surely
the playwright has succeeded in
making violent distortion of the
moral values!"
lcopyTight. 1880. By The Times)
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Miss Cornell

MOT all of this is drawn out of d
l. Y clear sky. I am thinking spe-
officially Of Miss Katharine Cornell.
Everybody agrees that Miss Cornell
is one of our best young actresses,
and it has been all of four or five
years since she has come to New
York in anything of moment.
Actors are supposed to be poor
judges Of plays, even worse than
critics. Under certain circumstances
1t can be said that the quality of
the piece is no concern of the play
er. He may not even know much
about the entertainment in which
he has enlisted.
I once met friend of mine who
had a small role In a drawing room
comedy. We ran into each other
back of the last row, where he was
standing, watching the third act
with fascinated interest. The play
was in its twenty-seventh week.
IT should think you'd be terribly
bored with this" I remarked, and
he answered, "Sflsh! I want 20
see how it turns out"
It developed that he never had
seen the play in its entirety. His
function was to bring on tea tray
early in the first act and announce
that Lady Crawford had come to
call.
After that, he had nothing to do
until tomorrow. His Interpretation
of the role did not depend on the
knowledge Of whether Lady Craw-
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shooting strikers to death as at the Marion IN O.
mill They will find that it was not necessary in
New York TO organize terrorist mobs, such the
one which murdered Ella May Virgins in Gastonia.
They will find that at the end of a week, most
Of the employers settled with the union and that
$4,000 workers are going back on the job satisfied
They will find that these intelligent New York
business going to profit, through industrial
stability and more contented workers, just much
from the forty-hour week, abolition of sweat
shops and creation Of impartial machinery for settle
ment Of future disputes.
They will find that the majority of employers who
have signed the strike settlement, actually have
joined the unions effort to force better conditions
in non-union shops
If the anti-labor employers of the country as
hard-headed as they claim to be, this example will
send them to their own books and bank accounts to
figure on cold profit and loss basis the cost Of their
medieval labor policy.
They will find on cost basis that the old labor
be-damned policy ceased to pay about the time the
public damned policy became expensive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-14
M. F.. Tracy
SAYS. -
There Is O. Great Hue and Cry
About Freedom Until Some
One Mentions Hooch, and
That's Different.
SAYS:
A GREAT show of hands in favor

A GREAT show of hands in favor
"a of liberalism by the senate.
Will it go far enough to do any
thing about prohibition, and if not,
why not?
Seven bills before congress to
correct the situation.
Where will those who have talked
so loudly about human rights stand
when these bills come to a vote?
Even Richmond Pearson Hobson
has quit the dry ship, looking for
temperance through education
rather than law.
Still, our national legislature,
particularly the liberal elements in
it, remain loyal to volsteadiSm.
-Four to one, they say, though a man
like Hughes should be ditched be-
cause he is too unsympathetic with
human rights.
Not only that, but they say that
if buyers Of hooch can not be con-
victed under existing laws, one will
be passed under which they can.
Human rights, to be sure, but not
to the extent Of a cocktail.
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Assault on Human Rights

NALL 1t progressive, liberal, ideal
~ istic, or what you will, it does
not smell either sweet or genuine
as long as it Endorses the petty
tyranny, unavoidable corruption,
and increasing diSreSpect for law
which go with prohibition.
Prohibition, as written into the
Constitution Of the United States,
as interpreted by The Volstead act,
and as enforced by a bureau at
Washington, represents the most
violent assault on human rights
and personal liberty ever made in
these United States.
No movement can be classified
as honestly progressive which begs
that issue.
They can characterize Hughes as
reactionary because he took cases
for big corporations, they can ar
que that men of different attitude,
training and experience should be
appointed to the supreme court,
they can claim that the supreme
court has become a political insti-
5ution because of it's power to
determine public policy, they can
demand that judges should be
chosen with that idea in view, and
they can justify it all as a move
ment to safeguard human rights,
but they can't prove it as long as
they support Volsteadism.
They can style themselves as
liberals because they want to re-
strict big business and help the
farmer, but they can not make
ordinary folks believe it, while they
continue to indorse this dry rot
which, as j. S. Cullinan once said,
is making liars and hypocriteS OF
us all.
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-RY DAVID DIETZ
BY DAVID DIETZ -
Nert World Farley May Deal
With ZeppelinS as Instru-
ment of War.

THE naval conference now III Ses-
L sion in London is concerned
chiefly with battleships Aircraft is
not on the agenda. Another dec
ade. however, may see an aircraft
parley. with Zeppelins playing the
stellar role now held by the battle
ships.
The Zeppelin race at the pres
ent moment is a three -cornered one
with the leadership in the hands Of
Great Britain.
The United States has one Yep
pelin, the Los Angeles. Germany
! has one big ship in the giant class,
the famous Graf Zeppelin, which
recently completed its trip around
the world
Great Britain has five giant air
ships. Three of them are larger
than our Los Angeles and two of
them are larger than Germany's
Graf Zeppelin
The score based on capacity in
cubic feet is as follows:
United States: The Los Angeles.
capacity 100000 cubic feet.
Germany: The Graf Zeppelin, ca
pacity 3,708,000 cubic feet.
Great Britain: R-33 and R-34
each 100000 cubic feet; the R-3s,
2,724,O00. cubic feet. and the RICO
and R-1O1. each 100000 cubic feet
These figures, however, may not
mean much in the future. It is the
general feeling among airShip eX-
perts that. on the basis of what is
now known about aircraft design.
all of these ships may be considered
obsolete.
Even though the Graf Zeppelin
circled the globe, experts feel that
it would not be suited to regular
transatlantic traffic and that it
could not be depended upon in the
hazards of war.
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Questions and
AnSzOerS

Describe the seal Of the island of
Madeira?
1t consists Of two shields sur
rounded by a wreath of leaves. The
left shield is on a wheel, the border
containing five stars, and the cen
ter of the shield containing five
small shields. The right shield con-
tains five plain cones. The legend
underneath reads "Sunchal."
How does a bank discount the
note of a customer?
When a bank discounts the note
Of a customer his account L credit
ed with the amount of the note less
the discount, that is the interest or
charge for the use of the banks
credit; the amount Of note pur-
chased from an outsider, on the
other hand, is paid for by check or
draft, and at maturity the sum paid
vii. include the face Of the note and
interest.
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ford remained with her husband or
went to Mesopotamia with the lover,
He didn't know. He didn't care.
OF course, he might have cleaned
some knowledge of the plot from
the newspaper accounts after the
first night, but he informed me
proudly that he never read the no
tees.
In fact, he was somewhat shame
faced about being caught out front
in the theater where he worked.
lone of the boys is sick" he ex-
planned. ct broke up the bridge
game,''
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DUT star must have some con-
D ception, even though it be a
wrong-headed one, of the play as a
whole. Miss Cornell hardly can be
under any illusions as to the pre-
tensions of "Dishonored Lady" the
piece in which size is now appear
ing.
I venture the guess that she
knows it for a cheap and shabby
thing.
1t hardly can be that this was
her one chance of a Broadway en-
gagement this season. And even
though I am not acquainted with
whatever scripts may have been
submitted to her, will venture the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-14

ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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Daily Thought

For he shall not much remem-
Der the days of his life; because
God answereth him In the joy of
his Observation-Disclosures $50.
n
There IS a sweet joy that comes
to us through sorrow.-Spurgeon.
What is the highest navigabIe
fresh water lake in the world?
Lake Titicaca, which forms part
of the boundary between Peru and
Bolivia, in South America and Is
I2,500 feet above sea level.
Do fish live in the great Salt Lake
In Utah?
No.
What is the highest waterfall in
the world?
Sutherland Falls In New Zealand.
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Sandwich bread now in pink, green, orchid
and yellow. One Of the next innovations that may
be made is the insertion of piece of meat in the
restaurant variety.
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War Use

I'm world tired Of war and trying
L ing by such means as the Kellogg
peace pact and the present naval
conference to minimize the posi-
bility of war, it is to be hoped that
it will not be necessary to consider
the Zeppelin as an engine of war in
the future.
At the present, however. 1t must
be considered as such. The fact that
the zeppelins here, for example, are
being built for the navy, emphasize
this fact.
During the early part Of the
World war, the German Zeppelius
did considerable damage over Eng
land. Once the British, however,
had perfected defense measures, the
Zeps proved of little use.
How effective the new Zeppelins
would be in war, carrying new
types of gas shells, is another ques-
ton. Many authorities think that
the chief value of a Zeppelin in
war time will be as an air base for
a4rpIaneS.
1t is thought that a Yep might
sail within hundred mile5 or 80
of a war zone, carrying six or eight
airplanes. These planes then could
be launched. They would return to
the airship for new supplies Of
bombs.
Many airship experts believe that
the day is coming when zeppelins
will be used regularly for trans
Atlantic and trans-Pacifc CONNER
cial traffic.
They also believe that short routes
from inland American and Cana
dian cities to the northern capitals
Of Europe will be developed, the
ships going over the north polar
area.
They believe that airplaue lines
will serve as feeders for these long
Zeppelin lines.