Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1924 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times EARLE. E. MARTIN, Editor-in-CMef ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Acting Editor WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Seripps Howard Newspaper Alliance * * * Client of the United Press, the NEA Service and the Scripps-Pgine Service. * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis-—Ten Cents a AA'eek. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. *■ • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

HARSH WORDS “[*■' l DON’T see how some of you fellows have nerve enough | 1 I to draw your salaries. It wouldn’t surprise me to pick up ? newspaper and read that an Indianapolis policeman had his pockets picked or was kidnaped. Something is radically wrong and it has to stop.” These words Avere used by Chief of Police Herman F. Rikhoff in addressing members of the police department. We agree Avith him that something is radically wrong. May Ave beg to suggest that something may be radically wrong at the top as Avell as at the bottom of the police force? Is there not something radically wrong Avith police department in which the mayor’s personal representative, who is not a policeman, is green the rank and salary of a police captain ? Isn’t there something radically Avrong Avith a police department that puts politics first and efficiency afterward? Chief Rikhoff recently admitted that this situation existedbut explained he had inherited the system. Why place all the blame on the men on the beats, chief? THE JULIETTA REPORT SHE State board of accounts is to be complimented for its rapid and thorough investigation of the faulty construction of the tAvo neAV Avings of the county hospital for insane at Julietta. The report reveals eA-en Avorse conditions than had been generally known. It places the blame on the contractor, Avho it says did not folloAv specifications. This is the first time during the controversy that an official attempt has been made to fix the blame for this situation. If the contractor was responsible, as the board of accounts says he Avas, he should be required to make good every deficiency in structures even if this should necessitate rebuilding them entirely. The board of accounts, the attorney general and the county commissioners should see that this is done. The accounts board now proposes to investigate the construction of the neAv building at the county infirmary. This building is in a deplorable condition. Whoever is to blame in that case should be forced to remedy the situation immediately.

G 1\ T E OUR TARS A CHANCE! \Y/1 HAT’S the matter Avith our Navy? We ask the question in YV all since . We believe that by and large our naval officers and men are just about as fine a bunch as ever Avent doAvn to the sea in ships. But that something is Avrong, somewhere, seems obvious. Less than a year ago a fleet of seven destroyers, one after another piled up on Point Honda, total wrecks and killing 22 men. Before that the naval tug Conestoga vanished in mid-Pa-cific with 43 men aboard. And before that Avas the destroyer Woolsey collision off Panama, which cost 15 lives. The climax to the lengthy series of naval accidents came last week at San Pedro, Cal.- Avhen explosions aboard the Mississippi resulted in forty-eight lit'es being lost, and only luck prevented the catastrophe from being one which might have cost dozens of civilian lives. What is the cause? We have heard reports of cliques inside the Navy, a sort of naA'al hierarchy which discourages initiative and acts as a damper Avhere everybody should be up on their toes and at ’em every minute of the time. Is that what’s the matter? Or is it a combination of some or all of these? We confess we do not knoAv. We believe. hoAvever, that Tor the good of the service there should be a sAveeping investigation of conditions in our Xavy. It Avould be good for all concerned for the officers, for the men and for the country at large. We are now asking for millions of dollars to bring our Navy up to the 5-5-3 standard alloAved us under the "\V ashington agreement. Our Secretary of the Navy and the admirals under him are far behind. And perhaps faulty equipment is not without bearing on the present situation. This paper stands four square for making our Navy the equal of any on earth. It considers e\*ery dollar so spent is a dollar Avell spent. And it has said so, o\*er and OA r er again. But our Navy must haA*e men as Avell as machinery. These men, officers and gobs, are our sons and AA-e are not going to Avant to give them if Ave feel everything is not as it should be in the serA’ice. M e can not afford to let our NaA-y fall into disrepute. To preA-ent this, in point of peace-time safety and all-the-time discipline and morale, it must be maintained at the super pitch Avhich our American manhood is perfectly capable of keeping it. As long as it isn’t there, then something’s the matter. Let’s find out what it is. HOWEVER, the real purpose of a third party is so be first. A GLANCE at the various candidates fails to reveal Avhich is wearing the mantle of Avhom. A RUBBER shortage is reported just Avhen the poor pedestrian is needing morg for his neck than ever before. THEI TALK of Brand W hitlock as a Democratic presidential possibility and it may be truthfully said of him that he is an attractive if not neAv Brand.

A Square Peg in a Round Hole

Merely means a misfit. Boys and girls and young men and women should begin to think of what sort of career they had best adopt while tjiey still hat-e .opportunity for choice. But, if you are trying to fit into a round hole when you really belong in a square one— no matter how old you may be —it is a good idea to explore the field of other possible opportunities in some other

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LEADER OF WOMEN HFPS JAZZ MUSIC "C It Is Ruining Modern Youth, Head of Committee Thinks, By JACK JUNGMEYER SEA Service Writer 4' the Avild cacophony of the i___ jazz orchestra a Avar whoop inciting modern young city savages to antisocial and criminal \ r entures? Mrs. Anne Faulkner Oberndorfer, national music chairman of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, brands it just that in an effort to marshal American women against further spread of the world’s most virulent tonal epidemic. “Boys and girls are going wrong in alarming numbers,” sdys Mrs. Oberndorfer, “because they get drunk on jazz—quite as powerful an intoxicant as alcohol. “Some declare this provocative rhythm a mere symptdm of our speedy, reckless age, but I believe it is also a decided cause, leading to much delinquency. “It’s Savage” “We have long glibly quoted the mild phrase, 'music hath power to soothe the savage beast,’ but we don’t seem to ha\ - e omprehended the powerful physical effect of musical A’ibration; its power to excite as 'Avell

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is to allay tile savage breast which throbs under the thin skin of civilization. “A vibratory force than can rock bridges, break window glass, set Inertia in motion, may play havoc with the sensitive human structure. Its effect depends upon the rhythm, upon stimulus of vague and varying race merhories. “When the American Indian wanted to awaken his bestiality to fever pitch, he first subjected himself fti the monotonous tom-tom of primitive music. The same with the jungle black. They knew its savagepotency. "In some sections of our south ern States* women for years locked their doors and windows when the negroes of the swamps began chanting their 'blues.' Youth Can’t Kt-sist “Jazz is the modern echo of ominous incantation —the pound, pound, pound that fires inhibitions slowly built up for social deportment from time immemorial. “It is disorder, anarchy, the churning of primitive impulse, bound to stir the jungle beast, more or less, whether its devotees recog nize it or not. The more thoroughly disciplined, the adult, may he able to ward off its promptings; but the immature, the adolescent, cannot withstand its call. “Shaken off their balance by long and reiterated sessions of tom-tom-ery, often night after night in thousands of dance palaces and as many thousand homes, youngsters are insidiously impelled toward criminal recklessness. “Publishers of popular songs not alone stress the jungle rhythm but also permit the use of the most suggestive and perversive words and ideas. “Unless we expect our young folk to revert to a sort of sophisticated Voodooism, we must encourage the return of law and order, form and -balance in music. “We must make good music popular and popular music good.” A Thought The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down.—lsa. 2:11. * * * In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.—Ruskin. Billy’s Composition “Billy, compose a sentence using the word diadem.” “Men who drink moonshine die-a-dem sight sooner than those who don’t.”—O. A. C, Orange Owl. 4

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In New York By STEVE HANNAGAN NEW YORK, June 17.—New Yorkers are constant readers. Ahvays in their travels about town they carry newspapers, magazines and books, occupying every available moment. The first thing in the morning, as one rides doAA'ntown on the subway, you see nearly every one with a newspaper. In the evening on the return trip home, it is the same. Those who have no paper read over the shoulders of those who hav'e. During the hours of the day Avhen traffic is light, women and girls going on shopping tours read books as they ride. Commuters, Avho often span from two to four hours each day on trains, trac-eling to and from their homes and offices, use the trains as a library. * * * .Authors are peculiar persons. Those-- used to the ways of New York go to the country to do their b'est Avork. Writers from “out there” come to New York to write. Peter B. Kyne works most anyplace, he tells me. I know that IJe did a very famous short story in less than a day in a mid-town apartment. But when he writes his longer stories he usually seeks the solace of the country. A budding from Southern Jndiana, used to the peaceful churning of the Ohio River in his native heath, comes to New Yuri: to A\-rite. He does all of his work in a room in a hotel on one cf the noisiest corners in town. The rumble that soothes his nerves aaouM sound like an earthquake in his home city.

Tom Sims Says Coolidge has signed a bill to protect Alaska salmon so boarders will have something to eat for years and years. * Germany i3 still promising to pay. Ts promises were money Germany would have some change coming. Many blushing June brides are back from their honeymoon already and blushing over a hot stove. More trouble in the Jap cabinet. We are not worrying about the yellow peril as much as they are about the white peril. Mexico will have an election soon if she doesn’t run out of ammunition. Isn’t it funny who will put on a bathing suit? Wouldn’t it be great if every suit lasted as long as the vest? A ' Every now and then this weather, a man gets so rest,less he sets in and does a little honest work. New Y'ork chorus girl says she has tried suicide only tAvice. But she should be careful. It is a very dangerous habit. Canada has signed anew rum pact, perhaps to keep the United States from shipping booze into Canada. Y'ou need money to burn to have a hot time. • A— Tongue Tips Rev. Simon Peter Long, Chicago: “The so-called great institutions of learning, develop the intellect at, the expense of the ( soul.” Senator Reed, Missouri: “The proposed child labor amendment to the Constitution is a step toward anarchy.” Dr. Henry Van Dyke: “In a world like this we are all liable at some time to face the dilemma of a choice between salv-ation and security'.” \ Hillaire Bellock. English writer: “The American people are the happiest \yhite people in the modern world.” General Fries, chief chemical warfare service: “In the investigations AVhich Av r e make to determine whether a gas or other material is of military value, there are often developed by-products of a commercial or humanitarian Avhich are made over to the people.”

FAST WORK COMPLETED BY FRANCE Presidents Changed While Americans Merely Nominate. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS -TyTl HILE the G. O. P. was merely (XU nominating a candidate for I I the presidency,- 1 France not only lost her president but named another to take his place. France’s old guard, however, unlike the old guard of the G. O. P., neither died nor surrendered. It named its man, Gaston Doumergue, President of the French Republic. Doumergue is fid years old, a radical Socialist, m “regular” of the old school and, at*the time of his election by the National Assembly—-the chamber of Deputies and Senate sitting together—at Versailles, was presiding officer of the Senate. He was once premier and several times a cabinet officer. Supported by Bourbons Paul Painlec-e, member of the victorious left bloc of Edouard Herriot, which had ousted Premier Poincare and President Millerand from office, was the left bloc’s candidate. But - the bourbons of all parties, sa\'e the extreme left, stbod by the more conservative Doumergue and put him over. At that, the Herriot coalition has no real kick coming. The presidential crisis arose because President Millerand would not stay put. For that he was ditched. M. Doumergue will hardly cause similar trouble. Believing in 'regularity, he will live gracefully at the Elysee Palace and do the proper thing at all times. He will hardly clash with Parliament. He will let that body and his responsible ministers fight it out between them. AVhich. according to French Hoyle, is precisely what he should do. Represents People Cabinets come and cabinets go but the President, dispassionate symbol of the republic’s continuity, and nonpartisan representative of all the people, stays on forever—or, to be literal, he ta supposed to stick for seven years though in practice he generally stays'much less. Unlike America, France does not have to wait several years before altering her course if so be it she finds she has embarked upon the wrong one. Without changing presidents she can -change premiers and it’s done. Another good point is that Congress in FYance can call on a cabinet officer at any time to explain his acts. And a cabinet -fficer, in turn, has the right to de'end his policies on the floor of Cong-ess whenever he deems it necessary. , We might adapt some of these features to our own use and to advantage. Ask The Times You can *et an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Indianapolis Times’ Washingiuu Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. AA’ashington, D C., inclosing 2 cents in starajm ‘or reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How does one find the circumference of a circle? Multiply the diameter by 3,1416. What is the best way to clean black silk’ Brush and w ipe it. thoroughly, lay on the table with the side intended to show up: sponge with hot coffee strained through muslin; when partly dry iron. /

What is the June bug? This is a name applied to the preen and brown Cetonian beetle (Allorhipa nitlda), also known as fig eater. The term is also applied •xicasionally to the scaraboid beetles f the genus Lachnosterna, AAjiich, however, are more properly' called May beetles. The June beetle is a native of the United States. YVhn a young man calls is it correct to ask him to call again? It is entirely correct for the young lady' to express her pleasure at seeing him and ask him to come again. i What are the six largest lakes in the United States? Lake Superior, area 21,000 square miles; Lake Michigan, 22.500 square miles: Lake Huron. 22,320 square miles; Ontario. 7,240 square miles: Great Salt Lake, about 2,025 square miles. Does an American woman married to an alien forfeit her citizenship? Not unless she married previous to the passage of anew Sept. 22. 1022. If she married prior to that date, she did forfeit her citizenship. w/ts Charles (Ruck) Jones born? How old is he? r Is he married? YA r hat are his measurements? YflEhat color are his eyes? He was born in Y'incennes, Ind.; is 34 years old: is married: height. 5 feet 11% inches; weight 173 pounds; eyes, light gray. Is Mexico divided into States and counties like the United States? If so, what are they called? Mexico is di\'ided into twenty-eight States, one Federal district and two. territories. The States are In turn divided into what correspond to our counties. The Mexican term for these districts is “pondados.” How many horses are there in the United States? The latest statistics available are for 1923 and showed 18,853,000. How can one keep ants and caterpillars from climbing shade trees? Place a wide band of cotton batting around the tree at some convenient height and fasten it to the tree with wire. The edges of the batting, protruding from underneath the wire, when fluffed, present an impassablo barrier to any type of crawling insect or small animal, the cotton not affording a foothold.

ARE COUPLE SISTER AND BROTHER? This Question Baffles Authorities Who Lock Lip Newlyweds. By HAROLD MATSON. A F .l St rrin Writer - . I AMI'TO.V. Mass.. Jun 17 r“4 When Louis Rollins of Ames _L_I bury was a little hoy his foa ter-father. Charles Langsley, told him about a little girl whom he would meet some day—" So Louis wrote letters to the little girl. Elizabeth Dart of Newton, and Elizabeth answered. On Christnms and birthdays the children exchanged gifts. When Louis got to be a man. 21 years old, he met Elizabeth. She was as pretty as he had imagined her: and Elizabeth thought Louis as handsome and strong as she had imagined him. Last April the two were marrk i. P-ts news of their marriage caused a sensation in Newton' .

- - LOUIS ROLLINS AND HIS BRIDE. WHO MAY BE HIS SISTER

Louis and Elizabeth were put in jail. Today the couple are chained with violating the marriage laws—and the woman W'ho claims to be their mother is the chief Avitness against them. Drama, mystery, love —a made-to-order moA’ie plot, if the ending can be a happy one. But the State says there cannot be a happy ending, and is going ahead with plans to try the couple in August. However, on the ehanee that an orphan asylum attendant twenty years ago carelessly substituted one baby for another, the couple hope to prove that they are not brother and sister. Their story, as unfolded in the preliminary hearing in their case, starts when Mrs. Miranda Hascom Rollins, said to be their aiocher, placed her tA\ r o babies in the orphan asylum at Franklin. It was not long before a baby girl was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dart of Newton. Soon after that Charles Langley of Canada adopted a baby boy. State says the two babies were the Rollins children. The asylum records confirm that. But Louis and Elizabeth promise that they can prove the,re was a mistake made, that the little Rollins girl and Althea Hazel Frawley, another orphan waif (> were mixed up in their cribs.

Now for the Next Big Act

Like Father By HAL COCHRAN HE trials of poor mother run rampant all day and the kidlets, it seems, are to blame. | V ith mud-covered sandals they'll ! come in from play and the answer is I always the same. Some imprints from shoes tra\-el | all through the place from the kitchen way up to the front. It’s alI ways the youngsters whom mother lean trace as the ones ■who are pulling this stunt. They’ll scuff through the parlor and mess up the floor and they'll scrape off their feet on a chair. Mom cleans up the house; then she cleans it some more, but the footprints will always be there. At the end of the day, with the i kids still at play, they are called !to the suppertime meal. They con’ 1 with a romp, leaving mud as th. stomp, and you knoAv how their ! mother must feel. Then Daddy comes home and his wife makes it clear that her rule I o'er the kidlets is waning. He | listens quite patiently; lends her an i car, but he can’t see just why she’s I complaining. "Why. listen here, Mother.” Dad finally will say. "I remember when . [ was a kid. And it seems that the j stunts of the youngsters today are I the very same thing that I did.” (Copyright. 1024, NEA Ser\ice, Inc.)

Family Fun Real Problem A passing motorist picked up a farmer who had never before seen an automobile. The farmer \v;as duly delighted. To impress him still more, the motorist put his foot on the accelerator and for six or seven miles they tore along like the Avind. Then something went wrong Avith the steering gear and they ran into a tree. The farmer and motorist alighted unhurt on a bank of moss. The car wfis not damaged. “That was fine,” said the farmer, as he got up. “We sartinly went the pace. Tell me this, though—hotv do you stop her Avhen there ain’t no trees?" —The Baptist. Father’s Absent-Minded “No use talking, Henry, you've got to take a cure for absent-mindedness. Dining out with you has become a horror.” “Huh? What have I done this time, Martha?” “Oh, nothing. Only you took your spinach for a necktie and tried to hook it on to your collar button.” Scripps-Paine Service. One by the Stenog He threw doAvn his business card and inquired: “YY’ho’s the main squeeze around here?” “YVell,” replied the good-looking stenog, “they’d all take me for it if I'd let ’em."—Am. Legion YVeekly.

TUESDAY', JUNE 17, 1524

PROBLEM OF FARMER IS TAKEN UP ■ Book Discusses Difficulties of Agriculture and Points Solution, By HERBERT QUICK HERE one person has read Elwood Mead's book, “Helpl__J ing Men Own Farms” (Mac- > miilan) it should be read by a hun- ! dred. In the first place, it is writ- ■ ten by one of the best experts on rural problems and institutions in the world. Dr. Mead was an engiI neer. Then he de\ r eloped into a con- : structive statesman in the whole subject of making people prosperous Irn irrigated lands, and then to agriculture generally. When this Administration put him i in charge of the Reclamation Serv-1 j ice, it did the very best thing possij ble. Points Way Out | The book is great in its illumina- | tion of the dark problem of agricuij ture in the United States and it I points a way out, through practical j governmental methods. It proxies that closer settlements of farmers on farms graded in size according to the fertility of the soil and the aA'ailable markets under go\ T ernmental guidance and control as to titles, organization, credit and methods, giving a rich community life, offer the only promising avenue of soh'ing the farming problem. Dr. Mead was an adviser of the Australian governments in their pvork. He put in effect the experience thus gained in the similar farm colonies at Durham, Cal- He knows whs.t will work and what will not. He believes that such colonies under wise governmental guidance will work in the eastern and southern States quite as Avell as in California. The book awakens in the mind of the writer both hopes and fears. Hopes and Fears Hopes that perhaps the people, even after they have been weared, from the soil as ours are being weaned may possibly be brought back to it when we begin to use the State like statesmen. Fears that we have gone so far 4 toward the ruin of our by the fostering of industries at the expense of agriculture that even this will fail. This is certain: The expense ol starting men on the land has become so great that we shall ne\-et work out this plan or anything like it until we make land cheaper thiough the destruction of speculation in it. For as things now are, as such.schemes as Dr. Mead's begin to crowd upon land-monopoly, land values will bulge and form a barrier o\’er Avhich the reform can not pass. But once'we concentrate our minds upon it, the solution of this landA’alue puzzle ought to become less difficult. Science The problem of the airplane pr®* peller seems to have been solvedfc The propeller is one of the most important and Expensive features of the airplane and also one of the most unreliable. Propellers ha\-e been made of a variety of woods. Frequently the tips have been covered AA-ith metal. But the propeller has remained one of the greatest flying hazards because of its frailness. Wooden propellers are affected by climatic conditions, rain, snow, and hail and in landing under certain conditions. On the sea, spray may. injure the propellers. Sometimes® the tips have flown off due to great centrifugal force. The metal propeller has been the dream of aA'iators. This has srrWed in the one piece Duralumin propeller. It has no joints and does not check or crack when flying from one group of atmospheric conditions to another. A speed of 226 miles an hour has been made by a Curtiss plane equipped with this propeller. It may prove to be the most important advance in airplane safety in recent years.