CORRUPTION: Again, Indianapolis

Civic corruption, like bodily disease, is frequently attended by idiocy.

Indianapolis may not be an exceptionally corrupt U. S. city, yet last week it found itself in a situation even more idiotic than a game of button-button-who's-got-the-button into which a rowdy player has inserted a second button. Last week, Indianapolis had four "mayors."

It all began some years ago when Indianapolis welcomed the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan brought gutter politics. Last month Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis was found guilty of corrupt office-getting in his 1925...

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