Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 185, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1924 — Page 4

The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN. Bus. Mgr. Member of the Serlpps-Hownrd Newspaper Alliance * * * Client of th I'nited Press, th NEA Service and the Scripps-Paiua Service. • * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dsllv except Sunday by Indlamipolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W Maryland St.. Indianapolis • * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis —Ten Cents n Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Meek. • • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING “THS TIIE NEW YEAR is ushered in over the rolling plains ■A. of this, our beloved State of Indiana, anew State Legislature will don its togas and gird itself for the task of providing Laws whereby the people of the Hoosier State shall live, earn their daily bread and die. Already the bill season is on. Not the season of full grown, mature bills, bearing the indorsements of many worthy organizations—but the season of “baby” bills, peeking out from the overcoat pockets of their noble creators. * Already, although the season is yet young, rumors come from this and that section of the State—a movie bill, a Bible bill, a primary bill, ad infinitum. Legislators in all sections of the State are writhing in the labor of conception that more bills may bless the people of Indiana. But now a shadow looms. From one high in the counsels of the Republican party comes the suggestion that a time-hon-ored custom should be changed, that the legislator should go at his business with speed, finish it. and adjourn at the end of fortyfive days—fifteen days sooner than has been the custom for 10, these many years. At the last session of the Indiana State Legislature 506 bills were introduced into the House of Representatives, 422 into the Senate, a grand total of 928. If the same number of bills is introduced into this Legislature and the session was to be eut forty-five days the Senate and House would be required to deliberate on. debate, and pass or reject approximately an average of twenty bills a day. And already there are thousands Os laws, which were once mere bills, on the Hoosier statute books. Unquestionably it would not be proper that the legislator should act with unseemly haste on any matter brought to its attention in form of a bill. Such a procedure would violate all rules of fact and fiction. Therefore, the answer is obvious. If the Indiana legislator. Led by the Republicans who eontrol both Houses, would save the people's money and adjourn within forty-five days there must be less bills. The legislator from Siwash. or perhaps even Indianapolis, must forego the pleasure of being a proud daddy of a large family of bills. Old Father Time, who watches years, bills and legislators come and go, will reveal the answer.

RUMORS It BO RUMORS, absolutely unfounded on fact, oricrijlij nate ’ This has been one of the unsolved problems of the world from the time Eve listened to the rumor that eating the apple would do no harm, until the. present day. Many a reputation has been lost and many a life wrecked by rumor. But some rumors are merely amusing. In this class are the ones concernintr the present whereabouts of Morton S. Hawkins, former president of the Hawkins Mortgage Company and now a fugitive from justice. The latest, and perhaps the best one, is that Hawkins, disguised—kind of disguise not specified—is working as a mail clerk in the Indianapolis postodice. Another is that he is in Spain spending £2,000,000 he saved fr<m the wreckage >f Lis Business. A third has him working on a farm near S'oitlip'rt. These are just some of many. Where does this sort of thing start? LAND VALUATION EHE LEGISLATURE should heed the request of Indiana eotuUy assessors that the law 1-e nmer d‘d to provide for revaluation of real estate in 1925. in.-tead of 1926, as now provided. Real estate values, just as those of any other type of property, fluctuate from year to year Since the last real estate appraisement in 1922 there has been considerable' readjustment of values, particularly as to farm land. During the last two years the price of farm land has gone down considerably. But toe taxation valuation remains the same. The result is that in many cases farm land is valued for ;onsiderab!y more than it would bring on the market. The result is that in many cases the farmer is bearing more than hit just proportion of the tax burden. FOR THE GOOD OF ALL T“7|OST OF US believe in the greatest good fur the greatest IVI number. That is, we do as long as it will do us no harm. If it doe-—that is a different matter. Growing Indianapolis is finding its clothing fitting tightly. It finds that in the natural expansion present limitations and practices must be abolished. They must be removed, or progress is restricted. Now comes another forward step in which the city plan commission asks that Capitol Ave. be opened up to commercial vehicle traffic between Sixteenth St. and Twenty-First St., and between Thirty-Fourth St. and Maple Rd. Citizens on the street art- protesting bitterly against this point of the city thoroughfare plan. Os course, shrieking horns and lumbering trucks do not appeal to any peaceful resident. But trucks have proved to be economical and convenient transportation. To prohibit them from easy access to the city is a barrier to industry. Indianapolis must grow. Capitol Ave. was once a boulevard below Sixteenth St. Industry forced it to become an open thoroughfare. Now the city takes another forward step and Capitol Ave. residents must accept the undesirable results. Next time it will he some other section of the city, but it usually is for the greatest good of the greatest number. IT LOOKS as though the balloon pants style is blowing up. FOUR BANK ROBBERS and murderers have just been hung in Canada because they neglected to come to the United States. A SWISS COMPOSER has written a symphony that was inspired by an American locomotive in action. The flivver may get into grand opera yet.

GROWING OF EVERGREENS IS INDUSTRY Christmas Trees Now Being Raised for the Market, Times Washington flureau. ISS2 Xew York Ao. f~-“3 ASHING TON, Dec. 12.—Abolj VY/ Ish ,the Christmas tree? i * y Never, say the American ! tree Association, the United States Forest Service and Ralph S. Hosraor, professor of forestry at Cornell University, in chorus. At the recent forest utilization conference, someone proposed a Federal bill to prevent sale of Christmas trees, but his idea met with a cold reception. You may bu)* your tree, set it up at home, and enjoy it to the full without a qualm of conscience, says the tree association, for you are not encouraging wanton waste. Instead you aro supporting a now and legitimate industry. Going Into Business For people are going into the business of raising Christmas trees. Large areas of waste land not capable of utilization for agriculture are being planted to evergreens. The trees are planted two or three feet apart and grow about a foot each year. Trees that me cut each year an* immediately replaced, and Ist a short time the tree grower has a satisfactory business. As this plan Is more and more generally adopted it will n-sult in an Industry entirely I apart from the lumber and paper i pulp forests. ! But even at the present time few ; of the Christinas trees cut c..n be regarded as wasted. Most < f those i supplying eastern cities come from I land that has reverted to forests or from balsam thickets or from cuttings designed to keep agricultural land open for grazing, and these would nctu illy he wasted If It were not for the ’hristmas tree market. Here and in oriier parts of the country where a number of young trees are cut vis 'v each year, this results in actual benefit to the trees that are left. 5.000.n0<) Trees Annually I The Unite! Suites Forest Service ' says that our forests are being cut I at the rate of U> ooK.OOO acres a year. I Five million ''hristmas trees are holing used annually, but these grow I ing as they do in a forest, would • enter only 10,00" acres, if all put to gether in a single square, in other words, the tres cut for Christmas are onlv one-tenth of one per cent of al! th< trees cut annually "The custom is so old, so well grounded, ands venerate 1 that ■ ■-. ■ n ts It were ccot mica U\ lnde fensitde these v- 1! an-; should continue to outweigh economic considerations,” says the Forest I Service. And Prof. Ralph Tlosmer asks- " Could these five million trees s- rve . any wiser or better purpose if they we.**• allowed to grow a few years | longer? “The Christmas tree adds much to | :l" i ipplru rm of the glad 1 uletide season Th“ only nroh’.em • onI nfcte.i with Chris:maa trees that is | worth t~' q’din a: >ut ihw to T- < !r | and f- r t • ,' • n I e lr n.■) lan ito :..iv U-. at:

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The picture ah- as students who r-'lit the Wednesday edition <-f ;iiu Hlmrtridge Daily Et ho. They are: Marvel Kiekotts, 12 X. Bcvllle Ave.. editor; Dorothy Bqulres ".06 h. Bonato Avfi.; Emily I’oiul, 3715 1 ‘ ntnl Avo.; Mice Ha lor, 417 17. Thirty Heven! h at. Ui-r----tha Corya, 6006 Cuivorsity Av* ; Helen McCoy, 801 X Denny Kl.; Nellie Munson, 210 X' ii’chmond •St.; .Susan <.l ra Shedd, 38.10 N. Delaware St.; Dorothy Loin hart. Nature United States has twelve species of heron and all belong In the warm States. However, families of three or four of these some times wander northward. One colony of 1,000 pairs regularly breed and spend the summer on a swampy farm in Michigan, where the owner protects them from hunters for the milliners. Black-crowned right herons, the blue crane, green heron and the bittern are the species most seen up north. If your pond or the river is infested with water snakes, get a pair of blue herons, wings clipped, and they’ll clean ’em up. A. E. Austin, Suffleld, Mass., saw one of his herons drive its bill clear through a mink’s stomach with one poke. Johnny's Economy “Johnny, have you no manners?” “Well, if I waste them now I won’t have any when company comes.”— Boston Transcript.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

Assessment YY7 A. HOUGH, member of the State board of tax comrnis- ----- sioners, addressed the county assessors in conference Wednesday. "Assessing property at true cash value is the only way to arrive at equitable assessment,” he said.

Which is sage counsel. But offhand the State tax commission seems to ignore its own preaching. For recently it reduced a Sullivan County appraisal—a home costing tfiO.OOO fro m $30,000 to $15,000. Which is scarcely within telegraphic distance of cash value. But it declares its act only equal-

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i !zed a tax burden, for all Sullivan 'County assessments aro ridiculously ! low. Which is possible. For by underi valuation a county’s share of the j State levy is reduced. On the other hand, high valuations make low local tux rates. S ~ assessments are kicked about by local influences, and politicians who point with pride and view with alarm tax rates. But It Isn't his tax rate* that breaks the plain citizen. Ir'.s the amount he pays. And h>- wants that amount equitable. Whether all property is appraised at cash value •r not. Instead, with fluctuating lo- ! cal assessing ratios, the burden is frequently Inequitable and galling. Mortgages f 7-UJ I tART.KS KI TIT! .UR' iROUG li. I I director of the State legisk I latlve reference bureau, recently delved Into the subject of ! Hoosier real estate mortgages. And dug up some nuggets. According to his compilation Indiana farm and city real estate wan mortgige-i for inae than 00".000 in 102.1, An Increase of Jsu,000,001) over the prt-vions year. But over half the farms In the State are urn*! cumbered. And tictotal farm indebtedness la oi.’v lo p.-r cent of the uos.ssed valuation of fn rm proper* y. There is pathos In li -t. n, dra; a and political oratory aismt the* I reptilian mortgage. Wh-is-* pevhsome colls squash the poor husbandman into raw omelet That's ; m >•'“ pathos than fact. Nevertheless many people of the , "Fast Lynne” school Ndieve every mortgage v. ars a wax* 1 mustache and is s'-s-pe.t In villainy A n’.' ri tage is not ail - iur v'i--1 iiln. It is a hard-working member ** t society. for Its helping k i Ini raises many * ~rm and.-!• v renters to owne rs I* far* tshes the s)n -ws for land • wrbit* if the >rrow,-r will r jppi V tie’ .<! bit" ,1 It is I w’e 'i ■ '.O'-' | ~r and show its teeth.*

2*2? > X • Jersey St.: William Otto, 6415 Coll :•> Ave.. e litm-. Tltdm.i I’or.c.-, Mi.) N. Überty St.; Katie V'umullion. 1029 Y\ . ThirtySoventh Ht.: Tevlo Jacobs, 4059 Central Ave.; Anne Withers, 1113 Central A v\, and George Claytot', is:::: 1 irookside Ave This Is one see. ion of the unique organization which edits the tlrst. and. until recently, the only high school daily newspaper In the world. Tom Sims Says Christmas is a heap of trouble. Everything in this world that’s worth a darn Is a heap of trouble. One great flaw in polite society is you must use the word “daj-n.” Antiques are nice Christmas gifts. Give your girl a petticoat. Narcissus bulbs make a swell gift, and may turn out to bo something besides onions. How about pottery? A shapely terracotta vase is always handy for throwing at book agents. A home is as comfortable as its furniture. Give your wife an easy chair for you to sit in. How about a bed for Christmas? Get a small one so only one or two burglars can hide under it. Hand-made lace is nice for Christmas. Except for the flaws you can’t tell it from real machine-made lace, (ibopyrigh/, 1924, NEA Bervlce, Inc.)

Jog HE city plan commission has adopted a proposal for the v,. elimination of the jog in Illinois St. at Sixteenth St. Which improvement is badly needed to facilitate north and south movement. For the kink has prevented Illinois from being an artery through which traffic could circulate swiftly. Instead it is a varicose vein for traffic. When people sauntered afoot it was lnrnaterial whether streets followed geometrical lines or grapevine patterns. So streets would wander aimlessly until they lost all sense of direction —then doubling back would curl up on themselves and expire. A city that possessed a thorough- . fare little less torutous than a labyrinth boasted about It. Like the “Street called Straight" which the Damascus Chamber of Commerce advertised. But the automobile and speedy traffic makes necessary straight streets. For an automobile doesn’t amble. Crooked roads or'short turns annoy it. Unless It slows down it may miss i, kink and I" ;st right in on a strange family for supper. Crooked streets are picturesque. But there’s nothing picturesque about an accident caused by an unnecessary Jog. Pets JOHN. a pci morkev -that lived near Thirty-Seventh St. -x and Emerson Ave —is dead. And there is grief :n ttie neighborhood. Today the deceased pet—tn a sp*dal casket—is buried with (lowers and fitting ceremonies. Such obsequies for an extinct monkey perhaps sc* rn al surd. The I remain* ,"*uld 1— dropp-d in a gari !>;igo can. Hut the funeral isn’t surd Til-- creature was ap- t whose :po ■‘King caused r> i! sorrow. No stronger bonds • xlst than those between people and animal pet*. A fish often Is loved with surprisin * devotion It isn’t t For turn is friendly and affectlonat* hnV" somothing aiive to love. t’t tidren freely h.w**r >n on all living creatures from. ■>' tnals itn ice men. When they get oi.l- r--ind i*c*l in <v*nventl#r ; unriirul affect! nate in.j ;>-*• are ■h* in and publicly. But even then there must 1— an outlet for theb fi mill ness— me riling to pet It m:,y !■< a house. *k"!l S| *■■ • ci" •* *i, It sn’r nil* *"V TANARUS: . * l-.ivi: gis ~* ■■ tied s . ■ . A Thought •n • ' of .Jesus <*):••: I In Son ...

Fiv editions are printed each week. Each edition tins a censoi , who I*. ;• mend .*r of the faculty, and editor and reporters who are !>'i 1 '**i from the Htudent bod)' Wib .mi >7. Df.to, herd of the Rug li.sii iepartM' iii, is tho censor-in chief aiei liii.'i! autliorlty. Tiio Dally Echo cnopiuati s with the depaitnwrit of journalism, under Miss Gertiudi' Sliii ids, to priKluc * future nc'. • ipci- men ;ui<l women

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Changing Times, Changing Minds

RICH MEN’S DOLLARS AND WHAT THEY DO

By N. D. COCHRAN SHU real thrill a successful money-maker gets in pdiirg up doll rs is not In the luxuries money will buy. but in winning it the game. The greater his sueI i-vs. .the greater h.s responsibility: i '■•!• a ::<■!; n. in can’t get. away from j: ;s money. He can’t even get away ! from it by giving it away. if lie founds u hospital, for Ulus- \ ration, he wants that hospital to j he successful!*/ managed, an l must ! communicate to others some of his . iministrative ability in order ui.ike his l enef-n rion a success. In i c her words, lie must, to some ex ’ e: 11 , boss *he job. I Met) hive found that piling up ••at w-aHh lid" ‘t of-.-u make ! I'.ome life h.-tjqo. and many men j who hav* rn exti-ao! din.uriiy suei ci -;f!rl i- he . is of business instu *cti-e. •• : been rank fall tire* us |!"a *s ..f f ■ s. That’s t! ■ ■ • i- I. f- t!ia* old s ring t!:at ‘' -u -■ of** f . -aeration* from shirt. \i s to shii'i sleeve Many Bass on Money Instances are so . • ,* j n : w., re ! great -m* of the father has I,! n , g . .riq ■* ■. |c ■ v * .. *s • ■ their viea'h :u:iottni to a ' ■ ■: ~ai .r y .f -r tlu-lr Gar.cci .e id i onoo that ti) die rich was to and o d.-, , ie> iiogan i!i:st ribuMng ids pic* b-t’oro ■ iio <!!• ! B-. .be.lily he got quid* as !, >11! kick Hl* (" -• -t lit. -id of his • or \- a he i in makir: r li. The cider Rockefeller St lit- and years Ago to make Ids !!!••!• V useful to • ... icy. • " ) e a-t* and i.adding !:,i the' <’hll ■. 11 > Univ-r w.th vast and ina* uis >k"ri was si .(nothing of a Bapti t tii go to it ' grew mart Idicrnl .-us 1.0 grew < '■!• r nn l wiser, and tint nf* rsity catgr-w its sectarian swaddling clothe-i and gained , freedom. Eat r came tho Rot-kefclier Fotmdatlon and its us* ful c>t\trlbut ,ons to ientltlc research and training. I Cash for Kdiirafion N* w como Fastmdn. the kodak 'multimillionaire, anl Duke, tho tohiicco magnate, with trust funds running into ninny millions for the advancement of education in one form or another Eastman is nearing 70 and. in divesting himself of most of ttiis remaining interest In j hi-, groat institution • ays that he welcomes this disposition of Ids , to k because it o-p,nates ’aim from y making for ldmself and will !”e him the benefit of a somewhat mori* detached position in respect to mm n affairs lb* raids. "Under the best i-ovdirions it takes ' • n.Uio’ üble time. years, j : o levclop Iho wise expenditure -f ' ;i,,>ni• y in any line, no matter how , .■,. 11 prepared one may me. T am ; m -,v upward of 70 years old and | foe| tiiat 1 would like to see results | from this money within tho natural I term of my remaining years.” Duke g!v*s millions to hospitals, j ! churches and colleges, but the pot j project Is the founding of a college

in North Carolina bearing his name, i Man longs for Immortality. The first opportunity for an immortality jbe can s--• Is In extending his life 'hrough his children and their children. Another way is to perpetuate his name by tacking it onto an ns irution, which is growing more popular than having it carved ,on i in imposing burial vault or tombi stone. Poppin f Corn By HAL COCHRAN When it's chilly outdoors and i you’re stayin’ Inside and the ever ing is growin’ f *ricrn, I wonder !'."W often you el oily have tried to ' pep tip by poppin’ some corn. The popper comes out and the: ! *’orn is poured in. Then a grate 1 n the -rove’s set afire. And Then, .v**u si ke, will the poppin' begin ■us the heat sort of seeps through pile wire. ! The poppety pop draws the f tm’lv : around un.i (■ r shares !u the earn t'o 'em: they nil know riu. sou ul wb *.. it's popp.n' r: ;lii i.qr j. ;i; ■ ’ Ur* long you aie mniring of bat '"C i*j!ori, and with suit o'er the ' " n you ar ! . And then hi . r* body sits down on the floor and eats till th< *. re mighty near bustin'.* Science A government commission has been appointed in ti.e I’h:lippines to study e- gir.eerlug precautions to , prev.-nt a disaster to Muni! by j • .u titquake Tin* Manila ob- u v.nor inis long] keen famous for its work in connec-' '.ion witii earthquakes, typhoons and! vol' anoes. Ti e work doin there is : now of (-.-I'l cial interest Iyca'ise of 'lie f ict that tin* growing congestion p. 'tie streets of Ann u . n eitjes will make the loss of life and proper' j tnuph greater In future disasters | than in the past. There have been eleven such dis \ asters In tho last twenty-one years. Six of them were in American lands, hr**** were in Japanese arul wo were . Italian Much progress has been p :nle in the study of earthquakes. . ml. while it cannot ’yet be said that reioiii'e can predict them with un\ : degree of ttcctff.icy, it Is probable : liat this will l>c done some day. I MoumvhJl". certain cities have j .- .lopp-d strict earthquake building nodes. Others are trying engineer ing experiments and others doubling I tc lr water supply, for it is fire that * auses tho most damage. Dad (’.in Wait "I think I'm going to have appendicitis." "Oh, you do? Well, T think I’m going to have anew hat, and your appendicitis can wait.” —Judge.

&Co* “She” Will Appreciate a Gift Diamond Especially If She Knows shat It Represents Mullally Quality Mullally’s assortment of diamonds and fine gold jewelry is a veritable treasure horde of delightful gift things. Dear ones will appreciate gifts selected from it—both now and through the years. Diamond Rings From S2O to $2,000 —Ayres—Mullally Diamonds, street floor. “A Gift From Ayres ’ Means More”

FRIDAY, DEC. 12,1924

Ask The Times You can gret an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave,. Waaningrton, D. C . Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, iesral and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Ail other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Arc the Appalachian Mountains older than the Rockies? If so, why are the Rock Mountains i higher? Yes, the upheaval that caused the j upthrust of tills chain occurred at jan earlier period in geological his- ( Tory. The Rockies are higher, for •he very reason that they are younger than the Appalachian Mountains. The older a mountain chain, i the more erosion twe-aring down) by frost, snow and water, has occurred. The oldest mountain ranges are •hose which have been subjected to these influences for the longest time, and their height lias consequently been lessened. What is chalk and for what is It used? It is a soft, earthy, finely granular variety of limestone, white, grayish white, or yellowish in color, v he! . is formed chiefly by sea-bot-tom accumulations of the shells of s mall f•> iminlfem. combined with numerous minute organisms known •is silk *ous spicules of sponges, and sli* 1!- of radh iarla. The uses of i b ■!!. re many When mixed with a binding substance i! finds wide . applt. ;•••!• is a writing material. W! ,t are some of the words that have’come into common usage in Eng sh during this century? Camouflage, Hun, dud, cootie, fi np. r. Ri’isheviki, buddy, caboodle, cafeteria, radio, hangar, aerial, an ten? a. wireless, fuselage, volplane. FI -tcherize. methylene, dirigible, blimp. What !-• t lie li eight of the Mat terii. , M i intaiii In Switzerland? 14,782 feet. Is th *re a species of skylark native to tlie United States? Yea. there Is one native skylark known as tho Missouri skylark, which is found on the prairies. On what should captive squirrels be fed? On iettuce, green vegetables, corn, and plenty of nuts. How old was General Pershing when lie retired from the Army? He retired on his 64th birthday, Sept. 13. 1924. How many positions are there on a basketball team and what nr" they? Right forward, left forward, center, right guard, left guard Where do our fresh-water eels come from? American fresh-water eels are h itched in the North Atlantic Ocean, near the Island of Bermuda. Who was the famous author who took a leading part In affairs, at Flume” • • Gabriele D’Annunzio.