Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 250, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1925 — Page 4
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Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.—Rom. 3:13,14. How much an ill word may empoison liking!—Shakespeare. STOP THE KILLER! [rjfjHE automobile code bill containing a section strengthening 1 1 1 the law against the motorist who fails to stop after an accident now is in the hands of the State Senate. This is one of the few measures that deserve to be passed on the closing days o i the session. The kill and run motorist is a menace. The mn,n who through cowardice fails to stop after an accident is despicable. He is at best>a potential murderer. At worst he is little better than the murderer who kills and runs away. The bill that would help put an end to this all too frequent practice is House Bill 103. It deserves the support of every member of the Senate. SAVE THE PIECES! G 1 ""—] ASOLINE, one dollar a gallon! And obliged to beg the favor of being allowed to buy it even at the price! Such is the picture painted for us by Rear Admiral F. W. Phelps, member of the general navy board, in Washington. “The bulk of the world’s oil supply,” he says, “is in English control and within another generation, when our own pools are drained, as they are being drained not only by us but by England and Japan to conserve their own oil reserves, your Navy and merchant marine will be at England’s mercy for vheir fuel. “You will be glad to buy your gasoline at one dollar a gallon.” Not a very cheerful picture, but not a whit overdrawn. If ever we fintj ourselves at war, fighting for our lives, we would indeed be in a ticklish situation if we had to depend upon foreign countries for the gas and oil, without which n<k an airplane could fly, not an turn a wheel, not a battleship leave port and not a transport or merchant vessel carry a man or a tin of bully beef. Unless such countries were friendly to us, our goose would be cooked. If they were disposed to favor the other side, our enemy, the vital stuff would not be forthcoming. If they were friendly, if they continued to supply us with our needs, they could charge us anything they pleased and we'd have to pay it, no matter how high the price. Britain, for example, owes us in round numbers some $5,000,000,000. She might cancel that debt very easily by profits on oil and gas sold to us in such a pinch. * Nor is there anything reprehensible in such procedure. It’s merely longheadedness on Britain’s part and shortheadedness on ours. The British are staking out oil fields, then corking up the oil for future use. Meantime they are buying oil from us, dirt cheap. And we are draining our reserves to provide it. It’s a perfectly legitimate business for them but a mighty poor business for us. What can we do? Conserve what’s left. Make it less easy for Britain, Japan and the rest to drain our fields while reserv ing theirs. • The smallest town in the country exercises the right of eminent domain when it wants to put a street through somebody s back yard. The rights of the many are superior to the rights of the individual. Surely the United States can exercise the same right when she very life of the Nation is at stake. Teapot Dome naval oil reserves could have been saved to our country in this way. The drainage of Teapot Dome oil rough wells sunk in private lands adjoining could have been stopped. No individual or corporation, just to make profits, just to declare 100, 200 and 300 per cent dividends to stockolders, has the right to endanger the lives or the liberty of the other 110,000,K, Of™, „r Jeopardize the national Jourity d0,,.;..?)!" 1 1 PS Cry ° f <Jarm C ° mCS * Httle ■, bt—has iin it. r l T° Uld SUre ' y be ™sed-Washington still P° wer least, to save the pieces from the wreck.
CITY MANAGER
In commenting on adoption of the v irilanager form of government, by Kansas City, the Star of that city says: “It was a splendid victory for progressive citizenship. The tremendous majority of almost 4% to 1 for the new charter expresses the determination of the people of Kansas City for a forward movement in munclpal affairs. "But such a movement will con-
Telling It to Congress
Good Scoots The Boy Scout movement, the Girl Scout movement, the annual campaigns of scholars and teachers, the return to the ““big outdoors” for health and vigor, Is stimulating the imagination and means a stronger, a better, healthier America, both physically and morally.—Representative Hawes (D) Missouri. • Thr-t Postal Raise Many postal employes are not getting an honest living wage at the t present time. It is conceded, too, that the bill for the increase of postal salaries' is fair and just. If there was reason for the bill seven months ago, there Is more reason for It now. —Senator Heflin (D) Alabama. A Chance for Everybody It ha# been the glory of America that men by the thousands have risen from poverty, and Illiteracy, and humblest of homes to stations of great power, and Influence, and honor in all the professions, and In all lines of business, and In every department of governmental ac-
tinue to need the same alert Interest behind It that was shown In yesterday’s selection. . “Good government Is never automatic. It does not come simply by the adoption of anew machinery. People cannot merely make & magic and get efficient management for their affairs. “Success in government is like success in every other Important enterprise. It doe not come from indifference. from neglect, from some lucky accident. It .comes from Inteliige.nt, diligent, earnest endeavor. “Very much will depend on the way the new government starts out; on the sort of tradition It begins to establish.' A competent council and manager at the outset will go far toward assuring lasting success. A poor council and an incompetent city manager would bring certain failure. “Every effort must be made to get men of high standing on the new board of directors for the corporation of Kansas city. They muet know they will have hearty support In obtaining the best manager that can be found. “The adoption of the new charter opens the possibility for anew era for Kansas City. But It makes it more essential than ever that for the next year, while the new government is getting under way, Kansas City must be on the Job. Indifference at this time would be fatal! — What* A. P. O. For? The postofflce was never intended to be a money-making Institution. The postoffloe is k function of government, instituted and organized for the purpose of serving a great public policy. Senator Simmons
SAYS RADIO INSPECTION WOULD COST BILLION DOLLARS
Fans Object to Congress Refusing to Pass Appropriation, Times WasMnot&n Bureau . lilt Sew York Avenue. Feb. 28.-*The \U economy program permeating TT Congress lias struck one chord which is bringing In vigorous protest. It Is coming from radio fans, anq from all parts of the country. The howl Is over the House Appropriations Committee’s flat turndown of a request made by Radio Supervisor William D. Terrell of the Department of Commerce for $125,000 to provide addiUonal radio Inspectors. Terrell and Arthur J. Tyrer, deputy commissioner of the bureau of navigation, told the committee that the money Is urgently needed for adding four Inspectors and seventeen assistant inspectors to the present staff of thirty-four men who are assigned to investigate interference complaints. < 5,000,000 Sets , Tyrer said that conservative, estl mates place the number of radio receiving sets at 5,000,000 and tbat one Cincinnati Arm alone was turning out new sets at the rate of 5,t00 a day. “If the number* has grown to 5,000,000 and the Government should undertake to lnvestlfate every complaint, there will be 10,000,000 next year perhaps, and you can see what the Government would be getting Itself into,’’ stated Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois, chairman of the House Ccinmimtte. The appropriation would soon run up to a billion dollar*, said he. No Money Allowed “It would cost more money to Investigate these complaints than it would to run the rest of the Government,” he declared. So not a cent additional was allowed. In the regular apppropriation bill for the Department of Commerce a total of $220,525 is provided for the enforcement of wireless communication laws. Tyrer explaled that In the administration of the laws It was the duty of,the department to prevent Interference with enjoyablb use of the radio as well as the practical commercial use. Department officials are hopeful of having their request for funds agreed to later on by Senate amendment.
Join In By HAL COCHRAN Travel along on the lilt of a song and you’ll find you let cheerfulness In. Constantly singing Is constantly bringing the spirit that’s achin’ to win. Life, when you cheer It with slng-songy spirit, has solemness beat by a mile. Strumming and humming Just mean that you’re coming to know the full value of smile. I’ve got a notion that melody motion of lips puts a stop to the smirk. Whistle a tune and you’ll find, very soon, that It helps you to plug through your work. Music Is magic, like grumbling Is tragic, and music was meant for us all. Life bids you treat her to harmony sweeter. Bay, why don’t you answer the call? What does it matter which tune or which patter you choose, if you’ll just harmonize? Sing forth, doggone it. Come on now, step on It. Twill send spirit up to the skies.
WOULD PROTECT FOXES
To the Editor of The Timet SALK about the heathens In foreign countries! We don’t have to go far to And plenty of them In the United States of America. Just imagine from two to three thousand heathens at one time inflicting cruelty on the helpless wild creatures In the recent fox drive. IT these people could get a little of their, own medicine. I wonder If they would consider it such sport? A church congregation which makes money out of such cruel practices, cannot have a real belief in a benevolent God. While the pious members are sitting In a comfortable pew, listening to the gospel message, does the thought enter their mlnde. that the expense of their religious edification was piet by money derived from torturing God's helpless creatures? The woman who wore the badge of the Humane Society and yet did not interfere, ought to wear a badge indorsing experiments on animals. If more love for helpless creatures were taught by parents, schools and churches the prisons would not be so fill. This statement can be sub st&ntlated by figures. I certainly would not be 4 mem ber of a church which raises its money by such cruel practices. Let the older people set a better example to the younger generation. READER OF DAILY TIMES. Dog Pound To the Editor of The Timet mUST a word for the city dog 'pound and its keeper. Dr. Elisabeth Conger. After having seen many different- dog pounds at many different places, I know that considering all the problems involved, none is conducted better than the one at Indianapolis. The humane people of Indianapolis have something of which they can Justly be proud. Dr. Conger has spent much money out of her own pocket for food and medical treatment for these poor stray creatures. I venture that this record cannot be duplicated in the United States. If we are going to be hdmane, let us be so from the heart {and not Join the Indianapolis Society, which is only a cloak to hide toe cruel work, as some of our prominent chemists are reported to have done. Let the humane citizens of our city Join hands and support lir. Conger, who will never consent to giving animals over for enperf-.! mental purposes.
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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA
Site rrr-)ENATOR QUILLIN plans to I C introduce a bill In the Sen--1 ate to move the State Blind School to the present site of the Woman’s Prison —relocating the latter somewhere .outside the city. That would be ■■ppiHM nice for the Blind I tutiou lias walked a the atree's for two ■ y earH> with l,at in 1181 wEHBeMH hand, humbly Uv wV seeching pass-wsby for a home. Its S|MpyyprJ quest has been fruitless. ’Br Marion County ■jL jfISH ait<-s rnn-ddrn i by J ■II rn:i. :-.-'.o: v■ ' 'UH too costly or otherwise objectionable— NELSON and the problem is back, curled up in the lap of the Legislature. To date that body has been no more successful in relocating the school. A proposal to it on the deaf'school tract was defeated in the House last week. An offer of a free site In Mars Hill is now under consideration by the land owners. Perhaps that will result in something tangible—if not, no harm is done. The tribulations of the Blind School reveal the difficulties encountered In relocating State institution*. They can’t put on their hats and casually go forth. . Ousting the Woman's Prison for the Blind School might be a frying-pan-to-flre act. Securing anew location for the prUon might be perplexing. Just swapping sites when there's one more Institution than sites isn't a permanent solution. Forestry SHE Lafuse bill—providing a levy of one-half mill to carry on reforestation in southern counties—passed the House Thursday. The levy will raise about $26,000 for the work. * That sum spent at a lumber yard wouldn't buy very many trees —perhaps enough for a few garages—nor will it materialize more than a frail ghost -of the forest primeval on denuded Hoosier hillsides. Nevertheless, it’s a start. Reforestation is Important in Indiana. Once a timber-producing State, It now Imports practically all of the lumber used. Forests, sawmills and timber barons have gone, leaving much waste land—valueless for agriculture—to erode and wash Into the Gulf of Mexico. Yet that waste land, under she benign influence of a reforestation policy, would again grow trees. We can construct houses of stone or cement, furniture of steel, pipes of corncobs, but we can't get along without wood.. It’s an essential Ingredient of civilization—with myriad uses. . The plea “woodman spare that tree” appeals to sentiment. But he can’t spare ’em all—economic demand stifles sentiment. Consequently the Nation uses four times as much timber as it grows. A woodless future Is in sight unless States take steps to restore their forests. Therefore Indiana’s reforestation program should proceed apace.
Humane Society To the Editor of The Timet The Indianapolis Hujnane Society wishes to correct in the people's minds some editorials that have been appearing in the papers relative to Torn Sims Says Have you heard about the man so bowlegged he tried putting on snubbers to keep from bouncing when he walked? , fOnce there was a cross eyed man. You had to look at his feet to see [ Don't know much about the treaty against gun elevation. But we do need one against nose man who has to work so hard to SIMS hard to earn his money he has no time to work to get it. What good is a national if the thing can be budged? The allies are taking their own sweet time in leaving Cologne. Last man of the A. E. F. is back. Really the last one. Maybe he was waiting for those Christmas packages. New machines makes hay without the sunshine. Nothing can take the moon's place In making love. Chemist has made artificial sugar. Which is nothing. We know on artificial sugar, a stenographer. Men are about the only people on earth who think they have more sense than women have. They ray men will wear lavender this spring. Picture the booze hound with his old nose and lavender. Straw hat time socn. Quit drinking now. " You can't smooth out a straw hat that has been sat upon. What is so June as a day that's rare? Our Government costs us more than our sports and isn’t aa much fun. (Copyright. 1825. NEA Sarvlcs, loJ
By GAYLORD NELSON
SHE Thirteenth Ward Civic League seeks eradication of jnsightly and fetid rubbish dumps between S. Meridian St. and White River. Members will confer with the board of health about the nuisance. Residents In the vicinity declare they must keep window hermetically sealed to prevent the aroma of dej caying refuse from stealing in and ; strangling them in their sleep. Even with that precaution enough seepa in to feed a stable of nightmares. Who can blame them for wanting to get rid of \he undesirable neighbor? A city dump has nothing to recommend it. It is an aesthetic. Intellectual, artistic and economic failure—yet It manages to survive and grow strung and runcld in every community because of civic carelessness. Wherever people live rubbish accumulates. Disposal is a problem. The careless American way has been to dump the trash on any convenient piece of vacant ground near the edge of town. Asa result the outskirts of most American cities are an untidy mess of tin cans and wornout automobile tires. They form the civic monuments that first catch the eyes of the Incoming visitors. Perhaps such monuments are quaint and fascinating to the tourist, but they are unhealthy and unnecessary nuisances. There is no reason why they should be permitted In residential sections of Indianapolis. Parks EAWRENCE V. SHERIDAN. In a report to the park board, recommends creation of a county park commission and adoption of &>mprehenslve plans for parks in Marion County. Perhaps such proposal seems an idle fancy. At present with Marlon County outside of Indianapolis mostly farm land the immediate need for a county park commission Is not acute. It might seem as superfluous as a county navy department. But it isn’t as foolish as it sounds. It is looking forward fifty years. If the city continues to grow as It has in the past, the county will have a population of 1,000,000 in fifty years. Its whole area will become a metropolitan district. That period seems very remote — hardly worth bothering about. Lack of vision, however, in planning public Improvements, streets, boulevards and park system has been costly to Indianapolis. Tracts for park sites that could have been acquired cheaply years ago were bought later at high prices. In 1895 the land west of Riley Hospital—for which the city eventually paid $373,000 —could have been secured for $35,000. It Is probably better to plan fbr a county park system now while fox ‘hunters and farm mortgages cavort In the open spaces than to wait until a teeming population sprouts all ovei Marlon County.
the Indianapolis Humane Society and the .city dog pound. As president of the Indianapolis Humane Society. I invite the public to call at the humane office, third floor, police headquarters, and examine the records of the humane work done by the society. The records will show that the society does not do anything but humane work. We also look after the welfare of children, old people, which includes the neglect of the children by parent, and old people who are neglected by their adult children. I wish to ,advise the public that the city dog pound and the Indianapolis Humane Society are entirely two -separate organizations. The law provides that the Indianapolis Humane Society has no right to gather up stray dogs from the streets of Indianapolis. Therefore, as president of the Indianapolis Humane Society, I guarantee the public that there has not been or will not be any dogs appropriated to any medical colleges or any other Institutions for the purpose of vivlsetion or experimental purposes. FRANK SYMMES. President. And So Do We! Someone has stated that the difficulty of Americanization is due to a lack of lodel. After whom should the alien pattern himself? Shall he fashion his life after members of the House, the Senate, or the Immigration Committee —I wonder?—Representative Cellar (D). New York.
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tourists as the ink spot that resulted from the throwing of an ink well by Martin Luther when he was visited by an imaginary devil. Who made the basic discovery that resulted in the invention of the electric light? Sir Humphrey Davy, who In 1810 observed the electric arc and produced the incandescence of a fine platinum wire in connection with his famous experiments with a 2,000-cell battery. What are the three most widely read books of Alexandre Dumas? Probably “The Three Muskateers,” “Twenty Years After” and “The Mscomte De Bragelonne.” These three comprise what is known as the D’Artagpan cycle. Do animals dream? No one knows definitely whether animals dream or not, but from the appearance, at any rate, of dogs and cats when they sleep, and especially
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of the expression on their faces, many naturalists believe that they do aream. Is it true that both the present Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Labor under Woodrow Wilson were born outside of the United States, Yes; William B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor under Wilson, was bom in Scotland and James J. Davis, the present secretary, in Wales. Os what nationality is Ricardo Cortez? He was bom in Alsace-Lorraine, France. What is the Arabic word for “father?” Abu. Are watermelons and canteloupes vegetables or fruits? They are classed by the United States Department of Agriculture as vegetables.