Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1925 — Page 4

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God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.—Rev. 21:4. * Death is not an end. it is anew impulse.—Henry Ward Beecher. WANTED—TWO-THIRDS OF A DIME [T-TIOR those for whom the war is not over, the American li* 1 Legion has started a movement to write the last chapter. The Legion proposes to establish a $5,000,000 Endowment Fund, the income from which will be used to perpetuate and enlarge a program of relief for the disabled soldiers and care for dependent children. The purpose is worthy. There should be no doubt of its success. Indiana’s part is $200,000, not a large sum when the large work it is expected to accomplish is considered. With 11,000 posts and some 6,000 corresponding units of the American Legion Aux’H&ry, the Legion believes it has the structure to bring justice and adequate treatment to those who most surely deserve everything that can be done for them. While the Legion believes this is a task peculiarly its own, it is not alone the Legion’s. Tim measure of devotion for former comrades and those children who scarificed their fathers should not exceed that held by all for whom such sacrifices were made. Next week is “Legion. Endowment Fund Week.” A week has been set aside, but a day should be sufficient. Less than 7 cents for every man, woman and child constitutes the quota—approximately two-thirds of a dime. The money could not be better spent. LOOK AHEAD—NOT BACK! 44f==lHE influence of aviation on naval warfare undoubtedly j 1 1 will increase in the future,” says the special naval board called into being by President Coolidge to settle the dispute of aircraft versus Navy. “But,”-it adds, “the prediction that it will assume paramount importance in sea warfare will not be realized.’' That is saying a great deal. Twenty-five years ago people called a man a fool, or worse, if he let it get out that he believed we would some day fly. Radio is the utterly impossible come true in the last few years. Who can tell what new miracles may be in store for us tomorrow ? The British admiral, Earl Beatty, says: “In the distant past the capital ship was the trireme (a galley propelled by three tiers of oarsmen); today it is the battleship; tomorrow it may be something different, something that can fly, dive or perform other evolutions which today seem impossible.” That’s the stuff! We highly recommend that spirit to "''me of our older officers, both in the Army and Navy. We holu no brief for General Mitchell, Who, report says, is soon to get his walking papers as assistant chief of the Army air service. lie seemed looking for trouble and got it. His gratuitous charge that his superiors were not competent to run their departments created an impossible situation, from a disciplinary point of view. And his extravagant claims, against all recorded facts, that the airplane has already scrapped our Navy was premature, to say the least. But while we are condemning him let tis at the same time not overlook the fact that ibere are some highly conservative, not to say reactionary, officer? in the armed service of our country; that there are those who hate to admit, even to themselves, that this old world has turned over quite a few times since the days of Custer and the Indians and the Monitor and the Merrimac. Set opinions, preconceived ideas that become adamant, living in the past, are out of place nowadays, particularly among those charged with our National defense. Tempus fugits and what was impossible yesterday is selling at the 10-cent store today, ' j . Cock-robin discipline-wreckers are bad for the Army and Navy. But old fogyism is just as bad, or worse.

In New York BY JAMES W. DEAN NEW YORK, Feb. JJv—lSee-saw-ing up and down Broadway I saw Walter Huston, long a vaudeville favorite and now acclaimed by the legitimate stage as one of Its shining stars. Off stage Huston has the bearing and clothes of a country boy unspoiled by the clamor of the great city Saw Mademoiselle Herval, recently of the Follies Berger# and 00, la la! what a doll she bf.w S. Hurok, lmpressarlo of grand opera, eethetlo dancers and concert singers and a dazzling figure be Is in his fancy stripes and gorge- . us walstooat Saw George Arihs who always reminds me of jme character in Dickens, but what <ne I cannot say Saw Hollywood McCosker, the radio man. He’s me of the best soft-shoe dancers I wer saw, although he has never been on the stage Saw Gilbert Emery, the playwright and actor, gnd a long drink of water he is Seeing the fanciest shoes for milady I ever did see. Spring styles have marble designs and alligator patches and variegated heels. All of which means a busy summer for opticians Saw George Hackathome, tho movie character actor. In a large cr< iwd he seems 111 at e* se, especially when people point at him. And who wouldn’t??? Seeing more chorus girls "at leisure” than is usual at this time of year, the reason being the closing of several musical shows and the suspension of A1 Jolson’s show due to hls Illness. His illness made at least 120 others id1e...... Saw Flo Zlegfield, looking not so happy what with the closing of B.Uie Burke’s show and the demise of nother before It hit Broadway.,... tew Walter Hampton who Is apiearing In "Othello” for the fourth week Which Is the longest run that hls poor bit of Shakespeare has had

Telling It to Congress

Big Business I do not think that because business Is big business it is necessarily dishonest. A great many of the biggest institutions of the country show due consideration for the public, from whom they obtain their earnings and their dividends. —Senator Trammell (D.), Florida. * • • We Need It Our foreign trade is one of the most important matters that we, as legislators, are concerned about. The United States cannot go ahead unless new avenues are opened up for Its surplus products.—Representative Dyer (R.), Missouri. Paving By HAL COCHRAN. Say, I’d like to catch the fellow who invented paving streets. Perhaps you know just how I feel about it. The trouble that it bring*: you, any other trouble beats, anu if you have some youngsters, you won’t doubt, it. From morning until evening they are digging up the clay, or sending dust a flying thiough tke air. Just like a bunch of youngsters who will wallow in their play, are men who ply this trade, that seems unfair. They pile their bricks in wallwaya that will tempt a tiny tot, for youngsters, as you know, are wont to climb. “We’ll build a house,” says T?mmy. Then they do it, like as not, and they’re busy from the morn to supper time. When homeward come the youngsters who have helped to pave the street, poor mother knows, right quickly, where they’ve been. There’s mud upon their clothing and there’s mud upon their feet and of course they drag the bloomin’ stuT right in. Yep, the paving gag is ‘roublesome and yet it’s got to be. The drawback is that mother is enslaved. It means a lot of muddiness while going on, but gee, we’re glad to use the highway when It’s paved.

ADMIRALS SAY PLANE CAN NEVER OUST SHIPS FROM SEA

Report Points Out Necessity for Keeping Floating Forts, Editor’s Note: Should the United States Navy be scrapped 1 Haa the airplane sealed Its doom? Brig. 6et'. M’lchell, assistant chief of the Ariry Air Service, said yes. The Navy said no. President Coolidge wanting the truth, ordered an investigation. A special board composed of seven admirals, one ma. or general and one naval commander, examined seventy-six witnesses—including <4eu eral Mitchell, most of the aviation ex perts in the country and many naval officers —then made a report. Here it is, boiled down. S'"” 1 ! EA power is vital to the life of the nation. The three most. Important elements of sea power are: first, a powerful and efficient Navy. Second, properly equipped and defended bases for the use of the fleet In areas where hostilities may occur. .Third, a merchant marine. The mission of our Navy is to support the national policies and guard American interests and possessions in all parts of the world. Our Navy should be second to none. We are a peace-loving nation. None of our foreign policies is of an aggressive nature. Still, several of them are sued as to require a strong Navy fer tber support. The Monroe Doctrine U a notable example. The policy of the "open door” Is another. If we are to continue the policy of avoiding entangling alliances, we must be prepared to stand alone against possible comblna.ions. Fleet Ultimate Force The fleet, which includes all types of combatant and necessary auxiliary units, is the ultimate force employed In the exercise of sea power. A properly constituted fleet consists of battleships, battle cruisers, c misers, aircraft carriers, aircraft, destroyers, submarines, minelayers and auxiliaries. v The battleship Is the element of ultimate force in the fleet and ai 1 other elements are contributory io the fulfillment of its function as the final arbiter in sea warfare. From time to time sops .ent threats to the supremacy of tho battleship have appeared. Each has resulted In some modification of Its design and In the methods of Its employment In war. But Its supremacy remains. Aviation has Introduced anew and highly Important factor in warfare both on the land and on the sea. Its influence on naval warfare undoubtedly will increase In the future. But the prediction that it will assume paramount importance in sea warfare will not be realised. Airplanes Limited Airplane performance is inherently limited by physical laws. The airship also has valuable chartacterlstics, but its great vulnerability makes it of doubtful value in war. Aircraft cannot ope.ate from territory that is not controlled by the military or naval forces of their own country. They cannot occupy territory nor control the sea. Airplanes cannot reach distant overseas! areas under their own power with any effective military load. Therefore they cannot operate effectively, unless supplied with ammunition and fuel. Within, 250 miles of their bases, airplanes may constitute a serious threat to surface ships, land forces] cities and Industrial centers. Beyond that they cannot transport bonbs heavy enough to do much damage. To answer that/ threat an anti-aircraft defense must be provided. Hostile aircraft carriers should not be allowed to approach within that distance of our coast. Can Protect Ships The battleship of the future can be so designed as not to be subject to fatal damage from the air. It can not be said, therefore, that air attack has rendered the battleship obsolete. But airplanes are of great value to the fleet In scouting, observation, bombing and spotting for long-Lls-t&nce gunfire. Aviation has taken its place as an element of the fleet and can not be separated from It. Commercial aviation should be encouraged, as should the further development of military aviation, In order that this very important element in the national defense may be brought to the high point of efficiency necessary to insure the natural safety. v A Losing Game We seem to have reached the point In our economic development when agriculture has ceased to be a paying proposition, as is evidenced by tho abandoned farms throughout the country, by the exodus of farm labor from the country to the towns nad cities, and by the vast number of farm foreclosur*-’ In every State In the Union.— Repiv Rankin (D.), Mississippi.

Pleads Cause Rajah Mahendre Pratop, exiled by the British for attempting to ferine it a revolt in India during thj war, will tour America preaching Ue “word of life,” which he figure In time will free India from British iula

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

Indictments HE Federal grand jury—after j I; an eight-day session in IndiL±J anapolis—yesterday returned indictments against 184 persons. Os this number 142 Were,charged with liquor law violations. Apparently the docket, of the Federal Court in Indiana suffers from acute alcoholism. However, the State Isn’t as moist as the grand jury report indicates. Two-thirds of those indicted for dry Blaw violations were .from four cities, where it is claimed (local authorities have been lax because of strong local sentiment against prohibition. A few days ago the Legislature passed a bone-dry bill. By Its terms a drop of alcohol In a hollow tooth or a trace of hair tonic dampening the uppor lip puts a person's life In Jeopardy. This rigorous measure, its friends believe, will produce Statewide aridity. Perhaps so—but no law enforces Itself. It’s public sentiment that, enforces laws or makes them dead letters. To lay without assistance of a bone-dry act with deadly fangs prohibition Is as well observed as other laws in many setions of the State. Where enforcement is lax It’s because of local public sentiment. The bone-dry act won’t convert that public sentiment. Actual dryness throughout Indiana depends not on a rigorous State law but on a dry state of mind. Exemptions fr-rsl HE amendment to the real j I estate revaluation -.bill, /ex- •— J emptlng orchards and other growing plants from assessment In the appraisal of farm land was approved by the Senate Thursday. It had previously passed the House. It Is estimated this exemption will take over $1,000,000 from the tax duplcate. That’s not much, but some. , Perhaps the farmer deserves this relief. He can’t afford to pay taxes on an orchard—which Is a benevolent institution—for the benefit of pilfering boys of the neighborhood and light-fingered passing motorists. Also the exemption may so encourage fruit raising that Indiana will become a rival to California and Florida. Bit the privilege 1 of tax exemption undoubtedly properly extended to religious, educational and benevolent institutions, is easily (.bused. Every session of the Legislature oth, r cV.spes seek to break Into the exempt list. Wnere is the line to be drawn? The bars once taken down are hard Ito replace. If farmers’ orchards are e.-vmpted, why not sunken gardens of city millionaires? And so on until all real estate crawls off the tax duplicate. Taxation is unplMmat, but necessary. Wh&t ore class escapes, other property must pay. The more uniformly the burden Is spread the more equitable for aIL

SELF CONTROL

By M. E. TRACY | iOME men can quit a poker I O I galne when the play gets too Uni. • fart; some can disagree without losing their temper; some can take a drink without becoming intoxicated; some can Joy ride without stepping on the gas; some can be content with a reasonable amount of money, and some can have an Idea without trying to make everybody else swallow it. Others cannot. The more people there are who can and will control themselves the less need there is for outside control. The demand for outside control, for city, State and Government regulation, comes mainly from those who will not be decent on their own account. They not only create the necessity for regulation, but they are usually the first and the loudest to call for It. We are wallowing in a jungle of ordinance and statute, mainly because of unrestrained selfishness, because so many of us won’t do what we might to make things easy. We have fallen for a philosophy that each of us can do as he darn pleases, and that no matter how far we go, or how reckless we become, the city, or the State, or the Federal Government, will step in and save us from our folly. We know that the regulations we demand are not necessary for all

THE BIBLE The most read book in the world Is the Bible. Its language la wovan into the warp and woof of the literature, poetry, and muslo of most of che nations of the world. What do you know of the Bible; Its origin, its history, its translation into many languages; the curlons and Interesting facts about both the Old and New Testaments? Our Washington Bureau has compiled a five thousand word bulletin crammed with Interesting facts about the book. It is not a religious treatise; it does not deal with nor attempt to settle any matter of religious or doctrinal controversy; it tells instead the interesting things about the Bible that everyone ought to know, no matter what hls religious connection or lack of it may be. If you want this bulletin, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed: Bible Editor, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New Tork Ave., Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin, the Bible, and enclose herewith five cents In loose postage stamps for same: Name - St*t and Number, or R. R............ • f ■ State I Jim a re Mer ot Ti. Indianaix>U. T!m. \

Span M r “I EDICAL science can add ter years to the average life if people will obey Its simple rules. So stated prominent physicians' at the meeting of the Indiana and Ohio section of the American College of Surgeons held in the city yesterday. ,All doctors ask Is that people take as good care of their bodies as they do of their automobiles. It sounds easy. But, though man Is anxious to prolong his life, he hopes to do It by finding the fountain of youth, not by observing Irksome rules. He dislikes to forego accustomed pleasures or alter habits. Despite this lack of cooperation on the part of the Individual, much has been dene by preventive medicine and sanitation to lengthen the average life span of the race. In the sixteenth century the average length of a human life was only twenty years. Today it Is fifty-eight years. Optimistic scientists believe the latter figure may be doubled eventually. , Turtles and crocldiles live to be 600 years old. Why can’t man, they ask. A Chicago doctor recently admitted discovery of a serum he believes will turn the trick. But turtles and crocodiles—though they live 600 years—don’t accomplish muefi. Mere longevity Is of no particular advantage to humanity. In estimating the value of human life, the factor that counts Is not length, but breadth. Career A* -- "—"j YOUNG man seeking a city l Job approached the mayor >— . the other day. He didn’t get a place, but he got an ear full. “There is nothing In politics for any one,” declared his honor. “I know hundreds of poor devils who are working In politics and making precarious livings.” Undoubtedly the mayor knows whereof he speaks—he has rather assiduously cultivated politics himself. Probably his advice will be unheeded. There Is a fascination about the public pay roll that many can’t resist. "What has politics to offer as a life career;? Congress is full of men making politics their business, but few hold their positions for twenty years. Senator Lodge, who died recently, had a most successful career. For thirty years he was in the Senate. About vhe time he first entered that body Henry Ford was beginning to tinker with a horseless carriage. At the end of thirty years Lodge was still a Senator—who might lose his Job at the next election. While the man who made the horseless carriage his life work had reached a place from which only & world cataclysm could oust him. Politics is an exciting game, an Interesting hobby, a profitable sideline, but It rests on an unstable foundation of sand. Asa business, clerking In a grocery store offers a young man more opportunities for advancement and independence. Never Settled No question which Involves the rights of children Is ever settled until It Is settled right.—Representative Foster (R.), Ohio.

people all of the time, and because of this, we expect them to be disobeyed. We make speed limits that we do i not Intend Jo observe, but for the purpose of catching each other. If we were honest in the idea of holding automobiles down to thirtyfive miles an hour we would put governors on the engines so that they could not go any faster. We lack self control, and that sense of value which goes with it. In legislation quite as distinctly as In anything else. We are not satisfied to pass reasonable measures In reasonable number, but want them as sweeping as Imagination can devise, and turned out as fast as the machinery will stand. W© have revolted against the discipline, the orderliness, the self denial, cf the old-fashioned home and school, and we are paying quite a price for it. U. S. Hotels The Government hotels continue to fill a long-felt wont in the lives of many of the female employes of the Government In the city of Washlngtov. At the end of June, 1924, they were still furnishing wholesome and healthful living accommodations at moderate rates to more than 1,200 women.—Report of the Secretary of Labor.

His Eye Isn’t on the Ball at All

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MANAGER PLAN SHELVES CLEVELAND POLITICIANS

Municipal Extravagance Abolished Under New System—Business Expedited.

This is the first of a series ot articles on the operation of the citj manager plan of government in Cleveland, written by a newspaper man who has been close to its operation from the start. BY LOUIS B. SELZER (Os The Cleveland Press) I p I YES of the nation were IC. I turned upon Cleveland, L— Just one year ago, It put Into effect the city manager system of municipal government. It was the largest city ever to apply that method 6t administration to its public affairs. Smaller cities had tried It with success. There was frank skepticism, however, in many quarters. “It will never work in a city as big as this,” said Its opponents. Most of its bitterest opponents then are among its warmest supporters today. Politicians Ousted It has transformed the City Hall in Cleveland from a rendezvous for ward politicians to a hive of efficient business management in public matters. Adoption of the city manager plan in Cleveland was a direct and positive protest against the spoils system of parceling out Jobs and contracts to favorites. There had been gross extravagance In handling public funds. Double the number of city employes actually needed were on the public pay roll. Lowest and best bidders were not getting public work. Public decisions were based upon political expediency. Public parks were going to ruin. Politics dominated ths police department. Machines Pick Majors Back of it all were the master mechanics of the two political organizations in Cleveland. They picked out the mayors. They controlled city council. They ran the city. City hall was piling up millions in "deficiency bonds’’ to make good huge deficits in current expenses. Then came the public revolt against these conditions. And In one year— Extravagance in municipal funds has been abolished. The public pay roll has been weeded of useless employes. Lowest and best bidders get pubwork. Public decisions are made no longer for political expediency. Publio parks have been restored to reasonable condition. Politics has been eliminated from the police department. Bosses Are Shrived And, more important than these, the political bosses were put up on the shelf. Cleveland today In operated on a corporation basis. The people—or stockholders—elect twenty-five councllmen—or directors—who, in turn, pick a general manager. There is your centralized responsibility—ln your manager. If he falls to make good, council may fire him, and if council is derelict in its duty, there is a municipal election every two years and the recall Is In the charter. The Job The activities of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, In addition to Its routine duties, have been directed mainly toward the discovery and correction of faults, losses and extravagances In the day-to-day work of the vessels of the fleet with a view to the reduction of operating costs to the minimum consistent with, efficiency.—Report of the States Shipping Board.

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Tom Sims Says Had an explosion In a Chicago newspaper office. Six injured. Maybe it was trying to say nice things about Congress. > Are aircraft better than battleships? That's the argument. Which will do more damage to our treasury? Taxi driver shot a* man ir New York, perhaps because he was asked to drive carefully. Scientists excavating ancient tombs claim newspaper comic strips are only 100,000 years old. If conversation were money, these European debt talkers would have some change coming. At last, it stems, the fanner is learning to raise hls voice. Somebody is looking at gasoline prices with a lighted match. The tobacco grower is claiming hls profits are only pipe dreams. An anti-gossip law failed to pase in Nebraska, perhaps because It was fought by tea dealers. Prize fighters always shake hands first. Anew picture shows Dempsey with hls arm around hls bride. The radical cry now seems to be, ”La Folletfe, where art we?" Finding out whfit is in a fancy salad Is about as difficult as unscrambling an egg. Soon be time fsr the women to take off their beaky oomplexlonr. (Copyright, 1926, Service, Ino.)

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Ask The Times Tou can ret an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 2322 Sew York Are.. Washington. p. 0„ 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. Is there ,any kind of paint that will withstand constant contact with gasoline. No, but the paints most resistant to gasoline are pigments ground In a vehicle of pure shellao in alcohol. Who was the James W. Gerard who wrote “Face to Face With Kaiserlam?” American ambassador to Germany, who was recalled upon the breaking off of dlplomatlo relations with that country because of the World War. Hls other work on that subject is "My Four Years in Germany." How old Is Betty Bronson, and who Introduced her In moving pictures? She is 17 years of age. Sir James M. Barrie selected her to play the role of Peter Pan in an adaptation of his fairy etory by that name. What does the term "bread and butter letter” mean? It is an expression used for a letter to a hostess after a visit In which one has been entertained at a meal. Are there any Chinese or Japanese who are citizens of the United States? Yes, thousands of them. They are natural-born American citizens—that Is, they were born in the United States and are therefore citizens by right of birth. Is there a whale that fees It throat sufficiently large to a good-sized man. The throat of the sperm kftato Is said to be sufficiently targe. Should oaks be eaten VttM M spoon or a fork? \ It depends upon hoar the oaks te served. When It is served with chocolate sanoe or loe cream over It, it is eaten with a spoon, hut ordinarily it Is eaten with a fork. How is the age of O deer determined? By counting the number of spikes or branches of the horns. ' Where can I obtain a complete list of all the postofflees in the United States? Also the laws governing the use of the malls? The United States Official Postal Guide, which can be purchased from the superintendent of documents, Government printing office, Washington, D. C., for sl, contains this Information. When does the Day of Atonement of the Jewish year fall? On the tenth day of the seventh month of the Jewish calendar, which is the month of Tishri. Who suggested the pledge to the American flag that Is used in most of our schools? This Is attributed to James P. Upham, a Boston publisher, who, in 1888, suggested its use in the schools. The Idea was adopted by the National Education Association, which persuaded Congress to urge It to the attention of President Harrtson, who, by proclamation of July 21, 1891', naming Oct. 12 as a holiday in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the landing of Columbus In the new world, suggested the pledge be recited by the pupils and the flag raised over every schoolhouse. Who wrote the lines, "Who gives himself, with hls alms feeds three; himself, hls hungry neighbor and me?” James Russell Lowell. Would It be all right to clip the hair of'an Angora car in cold weather? Is It true that the eat will sicken and die if its fur is cut? It is better to wait until warmer weather, aa the cat is in danger of catching cold. It Is not true that the cat will sicken and die if the fur is cut.