Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 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 Seripps-Hovrard Newspaper Alliance • • * Client of the United Press and the NBA Service * * • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indltnapolis * * * Subscription Rates; Indianapolis—Ten dents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week. • * * PHONE—MA in 3500.

NOW WE MUST KEEP ON WORRYING mm!ELL, the world didn’t end last night. Once again destruc- ” tion has been postponed. So we must go on living and working and worrying and achieving and failing, just as human beings have done for thousands of years. Just think what the end of the world —if it had arrived on schedule —would have saved usl The Legislature would have been automatically adjourned without even considering the $46,000,000 appropriation bill. It would not have made any difference who finally wins out as chairman of the Republican city committee. Nor whether we have anew form of city government or keep the old one. Nor whether the price of bread, keeps pace with the price of wheat. Nor whether the present coal pile would hold out. Nor whether the odor of whisky on the breath is a criminal offense. Nor a hundred and one other things. Really, the end at this particular time would have held some compensations, even for others than the 144,000 who were scheduled to leave the earth on a cloud. CITY ZONING I HERE are two sides to this question of revising the city zoning regulations. First, business should be given ample room for expansion, while residence property should be protected. On the other hand, the city should decide as soon as possible on a more or less permanent arrangement so that property owners will know what to expect. City planning is fundamentally right,and should be ensouraged. But too many changes are dangerous. There is a possibility that a residence district may suddenly find itself designated as a business district with the resulting depreciation in residence property values. At the same time there are some districts in Indianapolis iesignated as residence districts that already have so much business property in them that it is hard to dispose of real estate for residence purposes. Mistakes should be corrected. Then the plan should “stay put”—at least until expansion of the city makes changes imperative , i

WE COULD TEACH HTM > i * ERE is just another example of how far American methods H are ahead of European methods. It concerns the subject of swindling with which Indiana has just had several sad experiences. Wolf Sussman, Indianapolis jeweler, has just received from Spain a letter setting oiit the familiar Spanish swindle appeal. It reads: “Dear Sir —Being imprisoned here by bankruptcy, I beseech you to help me to obtain a sum of $360,000 I have in America, being necessary to come here to raise the seizure of my baggage, paying to the register of the court the expenses of my trial and recover my portmanteau, containing a secret pocket where I have hidden two checks payable to the bearer for the sum. As reward I will give to yon the third part, viz., $120,000. “I can not receive your answer in the prison, but you can forward a cablegram to a person of my confidence who will deliver it to me addressed as below. “ Awaitingjpour answer to instruct you all my secret, I only sign nowv C.” Crude, isn’t it? “C” should come to Indiana and take a few lessons from the “blue sky” salesmen with whom the State has been infested. • -

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EXTRA SESSION OF U. S. CONGRESS BY FALL IS PROBABLE

Agricultural Relief Among Big Problems Still . Pending. By CHARLES P. STEWART ASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Con\U gress is entering on the ___ closing days of the present session piled up with much more business than any of the lawmakers believe* can be disposed of before noon on March 4. It is then that all current terms In the lower house and those of one-third of the Senators expire by Constitutional limitation. Appropriation bills are the -most argent of pending legislation, for the government must have money to run on. These bills already have been whipped Into pretty good shape and can be passed without much difficulty unless a. deliberate attempt is made to delay some of them, which is not expected. Agricultural relieSt Is a different matter. Hardly a start has been made on this subject. It is very complicated and there are many and wide differences of opinion concerning it. It seems hardly possible that It can be handled completely in the short time which still remains at the national legislature’s disposal. The Muscle Shoals question is in conference. The postal employes' pay and postal rate problems are as far from solution as ever. The civil service pension puzzle also remains unanswered.

Several Treaties Pending Good highways, railroad and mercantile marine hills await action. The Senate has not yet dealt with several treaties which it must approve before they can become effective. These include the Isle of Pines treaty, the Lausanne treaty with Turkey and the proposed commercial treaty with Germany. And what shall the United States do In the World Court matter? The Senate must decide. Such leaders as Senator Borah are urging It to do so promptly, bu£ there will hardly be time before March 4 for it to do SO. Several presidential appointments likewise require senatorial confirmation, including such important ones as Attorney General Harlan F. Stone’s to the Federal supreme bench and Charles Beecher Warren's to succeed Stone In the justice department. , Cabinet Selections Up Other cabinet selections may come up between now and March 4 or they may not be made until after President Coolidge starts on his second term. In the past it has been the custom for the new Senate to meet directly after the old one’s adjournment, March 4, to confirm the Incoming cabinet. In the present instance the cabinet will not" be entirely new and the holdover members simply will continue in office. Further, It is possible 'that the present Senate will act on the names of such members as Frank B. Kellogg in the State Department, Warren in the Justice Department and R. D. Carey, probably, In the Department of Agriculture. Unless Congress accomplishes a great deal more between now and March 4 than seems likely, a special session of both houses is generally regarded as a strong probability by early fall, at the latest. Postal Pay No piece of legislation, not even excepting tax reduction qr soldlier bonus or immigration, was sc overwhelmingly and almost unanimously approved by the American people as this legislation for increase in postal pay.—Representative Jacobstein (Democrat), New York.

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RIGHT HERE IM INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

Aid ENATOR LINDLEY, of Kingman, yesterday denounced Federal aid for State roads as unfair, needless and a cause for Increasing taxes. He will introduce a resolution in the Indiana Senate protesting against the syaWith three walNELSON nut shells and a dried pea they dazzled rustic eyes and tore the husks from bucolic bankrolls. Federal aid, likewise, simply dazzles the eyes with a few lightning passes. It doesn’t give anything away. Whatever largess It distributes to the various States it must collect from the people in tages. Consequently, theoretically, the States don’t benefit any more with Federal aid than without it. But the lure It dangles of giving something for nothing has spurred highway programs all over the country—which benefits everybody. It has incited some States to unwrap their bankrolls and construct roads that otherwise would not have been built. So It Isn’t altogether bad. As long as the plan is in effect the State that refuses its share Isn’t performing a noble gesture— lt’s simply making faces at Itself. Opinions | ‘ I EPRENSENTATTVE CARIfv I LJSL,K of South Bend Intro--1 -.... 1 duced a bill Thursday prohibiting the Attorney General from giving opinions on laws to persons other than the Governor or State officials.

The'avowed purpose of the measure is to rescue the Attorney General’s office from its plight eiS a free, publlo legal bureau. Multitudinous requests from citizens all over the State are constantly received there. These consume much time and energy of the department. Occasionally free opinions thus unofficially furnished appear in court proceedings to the embarrassment of the State’s legal adviser. Doubtless obliging every Toni, Dick and Harry is irksome to the Attorney General. The practice is a nuisance; an imposition, and interferes with transaction of public business. However, anew act isn’t needed to protect the Attorney General from intrusion. He can protect himself — if he desires. The present law doesn’t require him to give opinions to other than the Governor or State officers. „ Any other opinions he furnishes are of his own free will and accord. Os course, though, If, will be less distressing to base refusal of requests on a law. Otherwise refusal might alienate votes —which would be harrowing to an elected official. Sunday Au"”— "BLUE Sunday’’ bill has been advanced to second reading In the House. Another meEisure regulating Sunday ob-

servance Is pending In the Senate. Apparently some legislators are determined to make Indiana good, but unhappy. From the pilgrims’ day to the present there have been innumerable attempts to enforce by statute pious observance of Sunday. Such laws have only made themselves ridiculous. Perhaps too many so-called seJu--Itr activities flourish unabashed on Sunday. Some are essential and others are not. Probably it would be very pleasing to many righteous folks If all except those absolutely necessary could be suppressed. But there’s the rub. What are necessary Sunday activities? Each individual has his own ideas. It may be sport, work, recreation, theatergoing or church-going, and bo on ad Infinitum. The proper observance of the day is In a person’s mind, not In a State statute book. One can violate the sanctity of the day as much while sitting in a church pew with his thoughts elsewhere as he can at a Sunday ball game or automobiling. If people fall to keep the Sabbath day properly their punishment may be safely left to a greater power than the General Assembly. Divine law won’t need Hoosler constables or sheriffs for enforcement.

Nuisance S'— —pNATOR LAMBERT—According to a bill just Introduced , . .1 by him—would classify filling stations In business or thickly populated residential districts as public nuisances. He would prohibit their erection In such localities without permission of city councils. The bill exempts cities—such as Indianapolis—operating under the zoning plan. Os course filling stations are nuisances. Nobody loves them except their proprietors and the bandits—which may or may not be synonymous—but everybody patronizes them. So they must be located somewhere. If in neither business nor residential districts, where? It is distressing, and annoying, for a peaceful, drowsy residential section to awake some morning and find a garish, florid filling station right under Its nose. Rough, rowdy gasoline is a good servant, but not a desirable neighbor. It emits something besides an air of culture and refinement. Quite naturally, therefore, there Is much opposition to their Invasion of every nook and cranny of a community. Restrictions regarding their location In residential neighborhoods are quite proper. However, society can’t hug to its bosom the automobile without adopting the latter’s stepchild the filling station. How best to adopt that unruly offspring can be decided by each Individual community without additional legislation. Tom Sims Says The reason dances break up when they do is beca use by that time the men all i .eed e shave again. The most fun in the world is to throw a biscuit across the table at some formal dinner. Things change. And deciding what is right or wrong is like writing the time of day on a piece of paper so you will always have it. The end frequently justifies the means, but with bootleg booze the means may justify the end. (Copyright. 1925, NEA Service. Inc.)

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State Hygienics Laws Increasing

Tinea Waahinaton Bureau, 1382 New York Avenue. 7373 ASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—OneW fourth of the States in the -- ■ J Union now have laws on their books demanding that freedom from disease shall be a pre-requisite for marriage. Louisiana has just joined the ranks oft these States by enacting a bill which provides that any male applying for a marriage license shall present a certificate from a licensed physician showing that he is free from venereal or other constitutional diseases. The United States Public Health Service traces back to the war the rapidly growing sentiment in favor of providing this safeguard for wives and unborn children. It had been known that infant blindness was due to gonorrhea and that constitutional syphilis could be inherited, but until the war days, the United States had not realized what a widespread menace these diseases had become. Since then the division of venereal diseases has been created in the Public Health Service, data on treatment and prevention has been collected and disseminated, States have been encouraged to maintain clinics and to otherwise combat these diseases, and an attempt has been made to prevent the spread of disease in interstate traffic. State and Federal governments spent something under a million dollars last year in this work. During the year 363,063 new cases of venereal disease were reported to State boards of health, most of these from clinics, as physicians in very

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few States are repulred to report private cases. But disease prevention is the most Important phase of the work, and to accomplish this the health service emphasizes the value of State laws requiring health certificates before marriage. North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon, Alabdma, Utah and Louisiana are the leaders in the movement for healthful marriages. AH these States require the physical examination of Fickle By HAL COCHRAN There’s one little lady whom all menfolks know. She’s fickle as fickle can be. She’ll halt for a moment and then’s on the go. She’s captured, then suddenly free. She must get a kick out of playing her game. It’s certain that she understands how men let their love quickly burst into flame, and then let her slip through their hands. We work hard t get her. I’ll say that we do! But maybe she’s worth It, at that. One day she is mine, then she switeches to you and never an eye will she bat Don’t say you don’t know her. "Twould be out of place, and prove you’re a very poor scholar. Just stop now and think when I say that her face Is printed on each silver dollar. You see, you’re acquainted—she’s often been yours, but then is the same story told. The fact that she comes and then leaves us assures that she’s only to have —not to hold. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

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the male and presentation of a health certificate before a license to marry is issued. Several other States require that a certificate of health is necessary only when the applicant for a marriage license has been previously infected, or that a man seeking to marry must swear to his freedom from disease. In Wisconsin the Legislature is considering a demand made by a woman legislator that women as well as men shall certify to their freedom from disease before they may marry. Ask The Times You can pet 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. Could the President of the United States find out ahead of time what the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States would be in the matter of the interpretation of a law pending before that court? No. He must await the decision of the court, the same as any private citizen. If the President wishes an opinion of law in any particular case, the Constitution of the United States provides that he may require an opinion In writing from any member of his Cabinet, and on legal matters, he secures such opinions in advance from the Attorney General of the United States. What awards were made by the Roosevelt Memorial Association In 1924? Gold medals were given to Ellhu Root for distinguished service In the administration of public office; Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, for his service in the development of public law, , and to Charles W. Eliot for service in the leadership of youth and development of American character. What Is the size and weight of the Statue of Liberty In New You: harbor? It weighs 450,000 pounds (225 tons); the bronze alone weighs 200,000 pounds and is three-sixteenths of an inch thick; forty persons can stand in the head and twelve In the torch. It is 161 feet one inch from base to torch. From the foundation of the pedestal to the torch it Is W§ feet six Inches. What is the motto of the President’s State? The motto of Vermont Is "Freedom and Unity.” It was adopted in September, 1866. Has the White House recently been overhauled and repaired and redecorated? The last thorough overhauling and restoration was made under the direction of New York architects, McKlm, Mead & White, during the Incumbency of President Roosevelt, June 20-Sept. 29, 1902. Congress appropriated in all $475,445, and the architects returned an unexpended balance of $7,906.10. Is there a universal language called “Ro," and by whom was it invented? Yes. It Is the Invention of Rev. Edward P. Foster of Marietta, Ohio. ( The first publication, an eight-page ' outline, w js Issued lit 1906. Is there a society or organization of the descendants of the signers of the Declaration of Ini dependence? Yea It was founded in 1907 at Philadelphia Pa. It has 400 members. The president is Carl Magee Kneass, Widener Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa What are the latest * statistics as to the number of churches, ministers and members of all the denominatians in the United States The report for 1923 gives 237,945 churches. 219,876 mlnlat*. and 43.-