Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper AUTahee * * • Client of the United Press and the NEA 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 Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week. * * * PHONE—MA in 3500.

WbsM The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.—Job. 3:19. # # • That whieh is so universal as death must be a benefit.— Schiller. CHILD LABOR DEFEAT T |HE Indiana Legislature has refused so ratify the proposed child labor amendment to the Federal Constitution. This was not unexpected. Influential public sentiment has been against it from the start in this State. Whether this sentiment is based on selfish motives or on misunderstanding is hard to say. Probably both are true. But the child labor fight will go on. Friends of the amendment are determined on that point. Their principal problem 'is to overcome the almost inexplicable idea that it is a “no work” amendment —that it would prevent persons under the age of 18 from working. Os course, nothing could be farther from the truth. THE PLANE VS. NAVY ROW i N OFFICER may be ever so able but if he stirs up strife ■**■l and creates friction within the armed forces of his country, it is an ill-service he performs, whatever his motives. General Mitchell, second-in-command of the Army Air Service, has caused a tempest, in Washington by “sinking” the United States Navy. “No ship,” he is quoted as saying, “that ever will be built can stand up under a real air attack. Any ship can be sunk from the air in a few minutes. ” The Navy, of course, bitterly resents such talk. Already far behind England in sea power and having a hard enough time to get enough money to keep the fleet afloat, such statements as General Mitchell's tend to make their work do ibly difficult. ‘ ~ Besides, naval officers say, the general has no way of knowing what he says is even true. Airplanes have sunk certain obsolete, undefended or partially completed warships. Which proves nothing. An airplane might be tied to a captured balloon and sent high in the air, where it could be blown to bits in a jiffy by anti-aircraft batteries on the> ground. But that would not prove the airplane, as a weapoil of war, is no good. No modern battleship, with deck protection against aerial bombs, going full steam ahead and fighting back against the attacking planes, has ever been destroyed from the air, while known facts lead to the belief that such a feat would be extremely difficult. Suppose the Philippines should be seized by a hostile power: Could they be retaken by airplanes alone? The answer is, No; not even with a hundred times the planes we* have. Nor a thousand* cannot carry the necessary persormeV arms and munit'iofiS that far, even if they could make the. flight, which is extremely, doubtful. • No plane has ever made such a flight. The round-the-world flyers made no such jump. Rather they made short hops from island to island, along the Aleutians to Kamchatka, tended day and night by naval vessels carrying new motors, new wings, spare parts, oil, fuel and expert mechanics to keep the planes in. trim. ‘-..M?;To make the round-the-world flight possible, the Navy spent some $400,000 for fuel alone to accompany the flyers with the necessary ships. Britain is to spend $50,000,000 on Singapore as a naval base and is still building naval vessels to make herself supreme on the sea. Why, if such ships are useless? + France and Japan are carrying out similarly ambitious naval programs. They would never do so if they agreed with General Mitchell. * . K " - The truth is the airplane is an absolutely indispensable adjunct to both Army and Navy, and holds infinite possibilities lor the future, but tests thus far made do not bear out the General's conclusion that the Navy is obsolete any more than that infantry is obsolete. . • Besides it is a bad thing for the national defense when a small group of officers, either in the Army or Navy, insists on pressing its opinions in such a way as to create dissension. General Mitchell is no doubt sincere in what he says, but, after all, it is a matter of opinion. He should not be permitted to urge his opinions in such a way as to divide our nation’s defenders into factions. They should work with one another, not against one another. We hope President Coolidge or Secretary of War Weeks w ill see fit to end the present row. It is bad for the Army, bad for the Navy, and bed for the country.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for 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. Name some of the great orators at different periods of American history. Among the great orators might be mentioned Patrick Henry, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglass, Robert G. Ingersoll, John C. Calhouh, Senator Hayne of South Carolina, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ward Beecher and William Jennings Bryan. . ;* Can you suggest any gifts that would be appropriate for a second wedding anniversary? This is the paper wedding and such gifts as calling cards, stationery. pictures, subscriptions to magazines, picnic sets of table cloths, napkins, plates, cups . and spoons, and books would be appropriate. In the payment .of the bonus to dependents of men who have died or were killed in the World War would a stepmother be eligible? In the la/ the terms ‘'fathers' and include stepmothers,

who have for not less than one year stood in the relation of father or mother to the veteran at any time before he entered the Army or Navy during the World War. How often should a pet dog be fed? Feed *a pup frequently; feed' an old dog twice a day, giving him his heaviest meal at night. Feed from a pan; never from the floor. Are there any radio broadcasting stations in< Ireland? The Radio Division of the Department of Commerce says they have no stations in that country listed. From what is the quotation. “How- art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer ,son of the morning?” FYorh the Bible, Isaiah 14:12. ' 1' ' Is “I scarcely ever remember” a correct form of expression? No. Adverbs and adjectives must be placed close to the words they modify. The correct form would be, for instance, “I remember scarcely ever to have seen him.” ; Do sugars and starches have the same effect on the body so far as weight reduction is concerned? Yes; they are interchangeable, T>oth beiftg carbohydrates. *' In fact, all starches ace transformed into a

ANTI-PROHIBITION FORCES ARE ORGANIZING FOR DRIVE

Committee Being Formed to ‘Bring About Real , Temperance,’ Times Washington Bureau, 13'iZ New York Avenue. ffWr] ASHINGTON, Feb. 6. —“A grave menace confronts L_J America today. The name of this menace is prohibition.” With this as its battle cry, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment has set out to remove the menace by “organizing a committee of leading scientists and economists which, after an exhaustive study and observation of the alcoholic beverage situation, both in this country and abroad, will draft and submit to Congress and to our people constructive plans for workable liquor control systems, with the object in view of finding a method to bring about the greatest possible degree of real temperance in the United States.” Though now in the fourth year of its existence, the anti-prohibition association has so far found the AntiSaloon League more than its match. Ever hopeful, however, leaders of the association, and particularly its president, Capt. William H. Stayton, Baltimore ship-owner, feel that 1925 will mark the turning point. By the time the 69th Congress assembles late this year, legislative plans will have been brought to a point where Congress will not be able longer to refrain from repealing or completely revising the Volstead act, association officers assert. Seek New Members Under the auspices of a committee of fifty, an intensive drive is now being launched for increased membership and the attendant increased financial support. Prominent among the members of this committee are Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, novelist: Augustus Thomas, playwright: Hudson Maxim, inventor. and a number of members of Congress, including Senators Bayard, Delaware; Bruce, Maryland; Wadsworth, New York; Edge, New Jersey, and Representatives Britten, Illinois; Brumm, Pennsylvania; Celler, O’Connor, Mead, La Guardia, Griffin and Perlmann of New York; Egan and Minahan of New Jersey: Sherwood, Ohio; Hill, Maryland, and O’Sullivan of Connecticut. The specific object which the as? soclation has set out to accomplish is the authorization of the manufacture and sale of beer and light wines. There have been introduced in Congress a large number of bills which would bring about this fundamental change in the prohibition situation. were held before House Judiciary Committee last spring, hpt had not been completed when Congress adjourned in June. Session Too Brief The “wets,” under the leadership of Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland, regarded the present short session of Congress as too brief to warrant reopening the question. That event has now been set aside until the next Congress is un. der. way. In the meantime, more ammunition Is beiqg gathered with wfiich the strongholds of the . <Sryy, as exemplified by the Ant}-Saloon League, will be attacked. The prohibitionists, say the wets, promised “empty jails, increasing prosperity and a safeguarded younger generation.” Upon examination, the wets have found instead that “nflne 6f these benefits has materialized, and the illicit liquor business is more firmly entrenched and better organized than ever.’.’

Tom Sims Says Probably the most enthusiastic antique hunters are the booze buyers. Be careful about what you start while trying to stop something. If our farmers keep on getting educated won’t anybody know when it is going to rain. Some people seem to think all people are ~a great menace to civilization and should be destroyed. Put a. mirror in your shop window and people will pause to reflect. No enemy is as bad as you hope. The reason there is no fool like an old fool is bemuse the young ones haven’t had as much experience. A woman in hand is worth two in tears. Indications are the political pie handed some of the hunters was a lemon. Liberty to do as you wish carries the restraint of wishing to do as vou should. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

sugar known as dextrose in the process of digestion. They are identical in their composition but different in chemical form. Is It easier to teach male parrots to talk than female? i This is usually true. By whom should the second wedding invitations of a widow be issued and what name does she use on the invitation? They should be Issued in the name of her parents pr nearest living relative. She uses her own first name with, the surname of her deceased husband. i Can you suggest something for sharp discolored elbpws? For sharp elbows massage with mutton tallow. To bleach, tie a slice of lemon on each elbow at night. Is it, true that the crack in the Liberty Bell in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., was not made when rung on the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776? It is true. The crack came when it was tolled for the death of Mr. Justice John Marshall, who died on July 6,' 1835. Where Is the grave of Daniel Boone?' Frankfort, Ky.

THE FNDIAISTAPOLIS TIMES

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

Budget ‘.HE 1925 State budget bill was (delivered to the Governor l ' Wednesday. It appropriates approximately $46;000,00<‘ for the next two years—including all State funds not nailed down constitutionally. Os the total appropriations over $18,000,000 must be raised annually by direct taxation. The budget presents a sturdy figure. Probably it is less than governmental costs in other States of North Central cates. Hoosier fimrM ations to the a p p ro x i mately NELSON. $15,000,000 from the requests of departments and institutions. The fat was |aken off ornate building programs until only skeletons remain. Notwithstanding this manifest effort to economize the sum to be raised by direct taxation will be greater than the past two years. Instead of the desired cut in the State tax rate It will probably be higher. The cost of State government inexorably creeps upward, despite all efforts to keep it down. It will inevitably continue to do so as long Telling It to Congress Congress and Cabinet The framers of the Constitution actually had' In mind that executive officers created by Congress—and members of the Cabinet are created by Congress—are agents of Congress and can be made to appear here and ought to be given the opportunity to appear whenever they so choose. — Rep. Jacobstein (D.), New York. • • * The Minority's Job This country of ours is run on the party system. That system has its virtues and It has its vices, and one of the conspicuous merits of that system is that the minority or opposition party is always on the alert to show the mistakes and weaknesses of the opposing party.— Sen., .Walsh (D.), Montana. - In New York BY JAMES W. DEAN , NEW YORK, Feb. 6. —Babies may be bought, leased or rented in New York. The usual use for rented babies is begging. They are halfstarved for the purpose, the youpg ones In arms attracting attention by their howls. The older ones, led by the hand, attract sympathy because of their emaciated condition. And female Vagins use children for decoys. They train them carefully and then take them to department stores. Quite by “accident” the woman drops something on the 'floor. The child picks it up. If apprehended the innocent child wards off suspicion of intent to steal. Babies are also rented for blackmail purposes. They are left on doorsteps and pointed out to the intended ictim. Babes in swaddling clothes also make excellent decoys for women bootleggers. These women * stroll m the parks, pushing the baby buggy. The buggy also contains bottles of liquor. When the customer approaches the woman lifts the baby cut, blanket and /all. The blanket hides the transfer of the bottle of bootleg to the customer. Also, babes are bought by mentally unbalanced scientists for experimental purposes. One such person practiced vivisection on a babjk Gypsies buy blond-headed babies for luck, for a “white baby” is considered a talisman of great luck to the tribe. The prices of babies range from $5 to SSO, seldom more. Outside one great maternity hospital where patients are discharged at duck there is an established baby market where those who want babies stand and wait for mothers to come out with their human wares. The statements given above are not based on personal observation of the writer. They are furnished by Dr. Mary Hamilton, head of the Woman’s Bureau of the New ork Police Department. She says that she herself bought a baby at the Baby Market for $25.

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as the State keeps taking on new functions and activities. No government can be expected to do everything —except bear the babies . —without increasing taxation. Drama HE Evansville Drama League —preparing to produce the i___J play, “The Devil’s Disciple,” by George Bernard Shaw—is finding the path of art in that city very rocky. Recently the ministers of the community objected vociferously to the play’s production, They declared it would shatter the fragile ethical standards of the Vanderburg County capital. Yesterday the school board decreed that the play can’t be staged In a high school auditorium—as planned —and forbade high school studehts to appear in the cast. What a tempest in a teapot! Perhaps the drama league was indiscreet. The play selected for presentation Is not a dramatic version of the Rollo books. Nevertheless,’ it is by one of the world’s living playwrights, and has been presented elsewhere without besmirching public morals. Its performance by amateur Thespians before an ordinary drama league audience couldn’t damage a school building or pollute the moral atmosphere of a city of 100,000 people. The effect on Evansville would be exactly zero whether these amateur actors presented “The Devil’s Disciple,” “Uncle Tom’s Cabin" or “Ten Nights in a Barroom.” The aggressive guardians of public morals would accomplish more if they didn’t shudder so easily. There are enough solid evils in any community for local crusaders to combat without tilting at windmills. Pensions ['T'l LIMITED old-age pension A| system in Indiana is recomU.JJJ mended in the report just submitted to the Governor by the commission appointed in 1923 to investigate the subject. A maximum pension of $25 a month —with a total annual appropriation of $250,000 —is proposed. Society has long'recognized its obligation to those oppressed by age, infirmities, and poverty. How Best to pay that obligation has always beep a difficult problem, complicated by the. confiic.t between hot humahLtarianism arid cold calculation of expense. • . .The dreadful, almshouses of a previous generation did not solve the problem. The county poorhouse of this more enlightened age are not much better. The old-age pension commission investigated fifty-eight county inftrmarieas .to the; Statue. According to its report many of these “are a disgrace to- the State.” In the Marion County institution, it declares, conditions are revolting. Advocates of old-age pensions believe that system is the most humane, sensible, and efficient way for society to care for those unforunates, The system has . been adopted in several States where it is said to be operating successfully. Perhaps it, is the, logical method. But, after all, it is the money spent in actual relief, not the system, that determines society’s success or failure in caring for the indigent. Coliseum Mr-— -t AYOR SHANK declared yesterday he will advocate erection of a municipal coliseum this year. He proposes one seating twenty thousand, to cost about $2,000,000 and located in the mile square. - That’S &~ 'fiObte prtrpoßal with an irrefutable argument in its favor. Indianapolis still lacks about $5,000,000 of being bonded to the limit. It seems a shame to have that perfectly good margin going to waste. That’s contrary to municipal ethics. A municipal coliseum, auditorium, or hall, of large seating capacity and easily accessible, has been a recurrent civic dream —but nothing has materialized. At present the only facilities of the sort the city boasts are Cadle Tabernacle and Tomlinson Bjall. Boasting about them sprains the imagination. Tomlinson Hu’l might make a suitable municipal pigeon roost —if the Audubon Soc’ety didn’t object—but that is all. |f:| If Not even high school basketball games of consequence can be staged here. Yet other Indiana towns have modern structures with seating capacities exceeding their populations. Still —much as a coliseum is desirable —$2,000,000 isn’t stage money. A bond issue of that size would eat up $250 dally In interest charges. Something more than a margin in permissible Indebtedness should dictate the erection of such a structure as proposed.

The Path of Progress

Reader Asks Question on 'Blue Sunday’

To the Editor of The Timet |_-,|HK “blue Sunday” law which i I the puritanical portion of the L±J Legislature is trying to wish upon us would add to the gaiety of the world at large, even we would be required to spend our days as did the forefathers in the witchburning days. Indiana would become the joke of the liberal-minded people of the country. Perhaps the full meaning of the bill has escaped many who have heard about It. Here are some of the questions which would have to be settled:

Our Neighbors, The Canadians

BY HERBERT QUICK UR immigration laws allow native-born Canadians to enter the United States freely. The recommendation oi Secretary of Labor James J. Davis that a quota system be established to regulate their admission must be shocking to every liberal thinking mind. Native-born Canadians are exactly like native-born citizens of the United States. In every larg sense of the word they are one hundred per cent Americans. They need no process of assimilation to become desirable citizens. A Canadian moving over into New. York or Michigan is at once as completely a part of the community as a New Yorker going into Pennsylvania, or an Ohioan into Indiana. The proposal to treat native-born Canadians as we treat alien Europeans is an enormity. It is not So much that there is no sense in it. We expect much that is senseless from our governments. But this is inordinately wicked. Hero for generations we have been living alongside Canada with relations so harmonious ■ that they have always given to good people on both sides of

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1. Would running the street -cars be works of necessity? Would one be allowed to ride to church but not on a visit to a friend? Or would the visit to the friend be permitted if he were sick? Would licenses be given to distinguish between such errands? 2. If the thermometer were 90 degrees would it be necessary or unnecessary to escape the heat of the city? Would one have an opportunity to ride on an interurban or bus for such an occasion? 3. If one were so fortunate as to

the line a thrill of pride. It has been a sort of golden age of international relationship. And now we have from a member of the Cabinet a proposal to slap Canada in the face! If the proposal grows out of the surreptitious entrance of aliens from Canada, the quota system is not the remedy. In fact, the quota system Hoes not seem to be the remedy for anything as between the two peoples. The remedy for the “bootlegging” of aliens is an arrangement between the two countries under which it may be stopped or at least diminished. If this measure is put in effect, our ideal relations with Canada will be at an end forever, and not even the anti-American feeling in Japan, not even the avowed enmity of any other people in the world, can be as disastrous to us as that. The Canadians are good people. They are our sort of people. To bar them out under any quota system would be as bad as to establish frontier lines against immigration between the States of this Union. Nothing can justify such a thing. It should be buried in the contemptuous condemnation of every true American.

FRIDAY, FEB. 6, 1925

have servants would they all be “off” for the entire day? 4. If it were unlawful to labor on Sunday, unless such work were necessary, who would decide as to what one might cook? Potatoes, meat, beans, necessary? Oh yes, but how about desert? 5. Could a girl, who worked in a shop or office all w r eek, wash out a blouse or a pair of hose on Sunday? 6. Would “working on the. Ford” be necessary or otherwise? 7. Suppose a Seveth-Day Adventist were the owner of a movie show Could he open on Sunday if he closed on Saturday? 8. Are Sunday newspapers necessary? 9. Would all train service cease? Os would we get passports to go on a necessary journey? 10. Would a Gentile working for a Jew who closed his store on fsiturdav be barred fom mowing his lawn on that day because of the dictum of “a complete day of rest?” What does “paternalism” mean? I have often heard of it in antisocialistic discussions. CURIOUS. Protection By HAL COCHRAN What’s in the offing, and what of your lot, in the years that are still on the way? What do you do' with the chance that you’ve got? Do you use it all up for today? God gave you life and you live it yourself. Your future is just your own making. Whether there’s something tucked ’way on the shelf depends on the course you are taking. The world doesn’t owe you a living, old top: you’ve got your own roadway to pave. You’ll travel in safety with nary a stop if you’re one of the wise folks who save. Steer your own course in your youth; then in age, you’ll never be beggin’ a lift. Now.:ir the-time to turn over a page and practice the habit of thrift'