Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 277, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1925 — Page 4

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Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Mian a stalled ox and hatred therewith. — If you wish to be loved, love.— s eneca. To Laugh or to Cry? S*" "10METIMES we wonder whether we ought to laugh or cry. In the grist of one day’s news we read of a public speaker or a minister pleading for “respect for the law,” all of which is highly commendable and doubtless the outcroppings of a sincere desire to make this old world a better place in which to live, and then in the next day’s news we read this: “If your wife’s hatpin is too long, she is subject to punishment, in Massachusetts. “Ohio’s Legislature is considering the propriety of driving a donkey past a grave yard faster than six miles an hour.” “The same Ohio Legislature has passed a law prohibiting Sunday dances at which more than five couples are in attendance.” And so on, and on—as the story gives a list of other “blue laws,” equally ridiculous, that are now being enacted throughout the nation in our new wave of legislative fanaticism. * # # “gIROBABLY the greatest weakness of the law is the law itself. The statute books are so cluttered with nonsensical foolishness of this kind that respect for all law is weakened and society suffers in consequence. These freak statutes sound funny. But after thinking it over calmly, we wonder if they aren’t really more deserving of our tears than of our laughter. • • • S'-””- UMPTUARY laws are a confession of failure on the part of their advocates — nothing else. Having failed to convince by logic and entreaty, they fall back upon compulsion. Force replaces reason as the instrument, of effecting their misguided dreams. /There is nothing new in this principle of trying to force one’s views on another; only the method is new. Centuries ago Bruno was burned at the stake because his views did not conform with those who held the power. The Christian martyrs were put to death because of their connicting beliefs. The terrible deeds of the Spanish Inquisition were lighted up by the funeral pyres of their helpless victims. Then, too, there were the witch burners, who—in their fanatical zeal—put helpless and harmless fQld women to the stake. v But those convinced by force are not convinced at ail. Wo are reminded of Galileo, who, at the tottering age of 69, was dragged before an assembly of cardinals, august enough to awe the world itself, and compelled to recant his theory that the earth moves around the sun. Galileo recanted but, so the story goes, as the old Italian rose from his knees he mumbled to himself: “It does move, nevertheless.” • # • mHITS does slumberingi atavism again assert itself in the “blue laws” of today as these moderns turn to the legislatures instead of to the stake as their method of forcing their views—no matter how narrow they may be—on the public at large. Thus, by sowing the seeds of ridicule, do the “blue law” advocates mock real law. Thus, by embracing their views, does the law crucify itself. • • • EAUGH, if you must, over the laws on hatpins and donkeys and the like. But remember that tragedy lies buried between their lines. Cheap Flying I "almost over night, flying threatens to l** I become as cheap and almost as common M motoring. .Army experts figure the cost of operating their present planes at from S4OO to $3,000 a year, according to type. This is scarcely more than the present automobile range. And great factories are almost at the point of quantity production, which

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Tou can ret an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Waahinton. D. C., lnclostnr 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legral 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 aro confidential.—Editor. H"s there ever been a time when Niagara Falls was dry? Three times great lee jams have occurred at Niagara Falls which |have stopped the flow of the water r>n the American side of the falls. fThe Ice from Lake Erie blocked the [Niagara River and cause the falls |o be dry for one day, on March 29, IMB. This occurred again on Feb£4. 15, 16. 1909 and again on April K, 1912. Ills there any national and State ■ |nsorhlp of motion piotures? ■ States In w.'ch censorship Is en--81-ed are Ohio, Pennsylvania. Mary--11, Kansas, New York, Virginia Florida. There la no one bo*rd

will reduce the purchase price, as it did with automobiles. From the tool of armies and of mail services, the airplane is on the point of becoming the convenience of everybody. What will be the social consequences of the flying age? Nobody knows; but the experiences of the electric car and then of the auto-, mobile give some hints. The. electric car began the suburbanization of American cities. It relieved or abolished slums, increased land values and rents at the business center and in the outskirts, and decreased them in the intermediate “walking distance’’ zone. Then came the automobile, widened the slack-water zone, moved the suburbs still farther out, made park boulevards of country roads, universalized the vacation habit, deruralized the villages, and extinguished the “hick” as a human species. It built skyscrapers and further raised values in the business district, but now, by traffic congestion, threatens to scatter them over many centers. And now comes anew vehicle, which abolishes distance entirely. A hundred miles, on its wings, are as a few blocks on foot. So far, we have merely been making airplanes better. Now we are about to make them common. If that does not work an even greater revolution in the structure of cities and in the conditions of life than its two predecessors did, then the lessons of the past have no meaning. Teapot Press Agent A*— ] BEAUTIFUL example of how press i ___ agent machinery is operating in connection with the Teapot Dome case appears in a “ready print” being received by editors throughout the country. A picture—with matrix—for publication purposes—showing the Federal building at Cheyenne, Sinclair counsel, and Judge T Blake Kennedy, accompanies the article. Bearing all the typographical appearance of a regular newspaper article, tliis piece of writing, sent unsolicited, paints Harry Sinclair in glowing colors, the action of A. B. Fall as entirely justified, says the prosecution has been unconvincing, and “that the Government, lias made qiit an extremely weak case.’’ Over all is the heading, “Sinclair Victory Predicted in Trial of Teapot Dome Oil Case.” Say other lines in the article: “Predictions are that Judge T. Blake Kennedy’s decision will sustain the validity d£ the Sinclair contract. “Uncolored by the hysteria of rumors and suspicions incident to the investigation of the Teapot Dome aft’air before the senatorial committee last year, the issue has simmered down to the question whether President Harding had the right under a law admitted ambiguous to transfer the leasing of the Teapot Dome field from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior. As President Harding acted in good faitlj. and under the authority of law as construed by his legal advisers, his executive order unquestionably warranted Secretary of the Interior A. B. Fall in leasing th‘e oil field to Sinclair. The court evidence proved conclusively that Fall did not make the lease secretly, but after thrashing out the contract with Secretary of the Navy Denby and officials and lawyers of both Navy and Interior Departments. “Sinclair is a business man. It seems fatuous to suppose that he would have invested millions in a fraudulent contract, the validity of which might ho questioned and which might bo canceled at any time. That would not have been good business nor the logical course of a good business man.” This sort of handout is nothing new to American newspaper editors. They are used to having somebody try to get something by the news desk, and into the paper. “Propaganda” has become a profession in these latter days, arid the hired press agent waxes fat. There is a difference, however, between receiving and printing. And rare indeed is the editor who is fooled by the handout.

of censorship for the whole United States, but there is a national board of review, which is a non-profes-sional, disinterested group of people who are anxious to promote the cause of the motion picture and to encourage worthy effort in tho ranks of the industry. How many ministers of the following denominations are there in the United States: Me*hodlst, Baptist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic? The Year Book of the Churches for 1925 lists 52,316 Baptist ministers, 48,620 Methodist, 14,497 Presbyterians and 22,545 Roman Catholic priests. What are the colors of the papal flag? It consists of two horizontal stripes, the top one of gold and tho bottom of white; in the center of the flag is the coat of arms of the pope, which consists primarily of the pope’s tiara, or crown, and

crossed keys representing the keys of the church given to St. Peter. Who was Zeus? The chief god of the ancient Greeks, the father of gods and men, the greatest among the immortals, the supreme ruler of the universe. What is the largest fresh water lake in the world? Lake Superior, having an area of 317,200 square miles, and a depth of 3,000 feet. Where, and what la “Judges Cave?’’ It Is a crevice between some large fallen rocks on West Rock, New Haven, Conn., where tradition says that the English regicides Goffe and Whalley sought temporary concealment In 1661. What is the total population of Italy and what per cent of these are protestants? The population Is 87,276,738. Os these about 95 per cent are members of tho Roman Catholic church and .36 per cent Proteatant. The remainder are aflUlullion.

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Tom Sims Says In Los Angeles, a girl says he was going to marry her but turned her down, so she turned him up. A scientist finds they had quack doctors in 1600 B. C. You would fe x p e c t them then. But not Chicago plans to build a seven-million-d o 1 l a r I jail if city ofdon't steal m o s t of the seven millions. look worse than • Michigan has Sims refused to choose a poet laureate, probably feeling no one man should be blamed too much. Oh, to be in Vienna in thi spring, where there are 200,000 more women than men, according to the census. Bad London news. They may broadcast Parliament speeches by radio, it not being against the law to do so. New York taxi driver got arrested for running over a man and killing him. We don’t know why he was arrested. The winner of a national beauty contest has returned from Paris minus her husband. This speaks well for Paris. (Copyright. 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

Movie Actors Will Go to School, Not in Little Red Structure, but on Film Lot

Establishment of the Paramount Pictures School, Inc., designed to train young men and women for screen acting, was announced today by Jesse L. I.asky, first vice-presi-dent of tlie Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. To solve one of the most acute problems facing the picture business,

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

A PAYING BUSINESS R! ... iicHMOND, Ind., owns and oi>erate the electric light plant supplying current to that community. Three years ago it \vt\s a typical municipally operated utility—run down at the heel, and burdened with a bonded debt of $387,000. Tuesday the last of the plant's bonded debt —matu .ng between 1930 and 1940 0 financed purchase sumers have been ceded to be one Nelson of the outstanding achievements in the management of a municipally owned utility in the United States, Most municipally opernted utilities sink Into decay, debt, and despondency, and are gladly sold by disgusted taxpayers to private corporations. Why has the Richmond plant been such a thriving enterprise and so different? The reason la simple. For three years the plant has been run entirely as a business enterprise—partisan politics have been kept out of Its management. If so successful In operation of a municipal light plant why wouldn’t business management and elimination of partisan politics he equally successful In the city government of Indianapolis? Municipal affairs of Indianapolis have been managed by partisan politics for a century. Have they ever yielded a profit or paid a dividend in economy, efficiency, or public service? LAUGHTER A NECESSITY humorist and scientist of — Cleveland, 0.. told the Indianapolis Rotary Club the other day that laughter Is not a luxury, but a necessity. “Wit, humor and laughter are shock absorbers of life,” he said. “Laughter amounts to a momentary escape from restraints of civilization, and It gives us a rest." Certainly genial boys with selfstarting chuckles seem to get more out of life than the dour Individual whose Idea of relaxation Is a somber funeral. Laughter brings the highest market price of any human product. In the realms of stage, screen and printed page, one who can convert facial contortions or wiggling adjectives into laughter wins the capital prizes. No doubt wholesome mirth* prolongs life more effectively than pills and serums. But many who think they have a rich sense of humor are mistaken—they merely are crueL A black eye or a man-killing banana peel aren't Inherently funny—but they form the basis for much so-called humor. When a pedestrian springs to the curb with the agility of a mountain gpat to escape a malicious automobile It’s no Joke to him. Freqfuently, though, the motorist laughs. | Humor may be essential but too Auch laughter la founded on the

CHARLES W. HALE AHSWERS MRS. BILL

To the Editor of The Times | NEWS item In your issue of j A I March 30, under the caption, i “Branch Christian Sr.it n o Church Being Organized,” contained several misleading statements and allegations and the following is submitted in correction thereof. The organization referred to is not a part of tho Christian Science movement, and the “branch” which is reported as being organized is not a branch of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., organized by Mrs. Eddy. It is a small group of individuals who have, for personal reasons, withdrawn fre m the Christian Science Church. Mrs. Annie C. Bill, mentioned in your article, has not been connected with the Christian Science Church for many years. In fact, she withdrew frorp that church in 1910 while Mrs. Eddy was still actively the leader of the Christian Science movement. Since that time Mrs. Bill has had no connection with the Christian Science Church, but has been endeavoring to establish a church of her own. This endeavor was largely confined to England until May 24, 1924, after the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts sustained the board of directors of the Mother Church in its dismissal of John V. Dittemore as a director and sustained the Christian Science organization as established by Mrs. Eddy and her church manual as governing that organization. At that time Mrs. Bill and Mr. Dittemore joined in what seemed to be an attempt to establish Mrs. Bill's organization in competition with the Christian Science Church am) in the en-

that of finding new faces for the screen, the entire enfintry will be combed, it was stated by Lasky. The school will be housed in the Paramount Long Island Studio at Astoria, Long Island. An entire section of the building has been set apart for the school which, while it will have its own quarters, will

infliction of pain to others—it requires a victim. What the world needs is less laughing at and more laughing with. POLICE AND WEAPONS IO LICE MA X FORREST SWANK several months L._J ago fired at a speeding motorist. He missed the quarry, but the bullet winged an Innocent bystander, who has just filed suit in Superior Court against the city for $5,000 damages. In his complaint, the punctured bystander declares a policeman hasn't legal right to carry his revolver concealed. The court will be asked to pass on that point. Revolvers as police equipment are frequently sources of annoyance. Occasionally they disrupt the Internal economy of peaceful citizens, and sometimes perforate the officers themselves. Such incidents bring the officers’ weapons into public disrepute. However in the present imperfect state of society it seems advisable to arm policeman with more lethal tools than stars, political righteousness, and steely eyes. Seme malefactors fall to quail before those emblems of authority. Os course policemen seldom have occasion to use firearms but —except for his gun Sergt. Ralph Dean would have been the centerpiece at a funeral a couple of months ago. Instead a youthful bad-man was removed suddenly and violently from the sketch. If compelled to wear their artillery outside doubtless police would strike a more warlike note on Indianapolis streets —even if they didn’t strike more terror to evildoers. But It isn’t where they carry their weapons that matters —it is how they use them. INVASION OF PRIVATE HOMES mUPGE COLLINS, in Criminal Court Tuesday, scored a police officer who broke down the door of a private home without knocking, in bis effort to catch a suspected prohibition law violator red-handed. “Kicking In doors of private homes isn’t right,” declared the Judge, “If you knew they were violating the law. you had a right way to arrest them.” Zealous officers may feel handicapped If required to observe all legal niceties when hard on a blind tiger’s trail. To knock ceremoniously or serve a search warrant hpfore entering a suspected home would encourage the evidence of evaporate. However. Inviolability of a person’s home—except by process of law—ls guaranteed by the Constitution. It is the echo of the ancient boast "an Englishman’s home is his castle,” that has come down the centuries from the meadow of Runnymede. On that (principle Is founded the liberty and security of private citizens. It was evolved from long conflict between sovereigns and subjects. It seems hardly worth while to throw the hoary, old safeguard Into the ash-can and permit Indiscriminate Invasion of private homes even to suppress some modern high crimes and misdemeanors. Violation, by zealous law enforcement officers, of- sacred personal rights established by society at great cost Is as damaging to society as the crime the officers seek to check.

deavor to overthrow the government of that church as established by Mrs. Eddy. .Mrs. Kikiy’s Successor Among other things in the article referre to, it was asserted that “Mrs. Bill claims to be the successor to .Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy.” This claim is made regardless of the fact that Mrs. Bill deserted Mrs. Eddy and her church, and regardless of Mrs. Eddy’s own statement given to the Associated Press May 16, 1901, wherein she says: “I did say that a man would be my future successor. By this I did not mean any man today on earth. • * * What remains to lead on the centuries and reveal my successor is man in the image and likeness of the FatherMother God, man the generic term for mankind.” (“Miscellany,” pages 346 and 347.) Furthermore, it is manifestly Impossible for any one to take Mrs. Eddy’s place Or to assume any position or title which she possessed. That which she accomplished cannot be transmitted, as it was the fruit of her spiritual consciousness and the achievement of her life work. The allegation that “since Mrs. Eddy's death the church has been paralyzed, without new truths being discovered and expounded,” is specifically answered by Mrs. Eddy, who declared, “Truth is revealed. It needs only to be practiced.” ("Science and Health,” page 174.) This state, ment should be sufficient to one who claims he stands "unreservedly on Mrs. Eddy’s teachings.” Has Occurred Before The substitution of a manual written by Mrs. Bill, the attempted

also be amid the practical surroundings of the finest motion picture studio in the world. The school term will he six months, and twenty. students, ten young men and ten young women, will compose the class for each term. These students will bo drawn from all sections of the United States. The Board of Directors of the Paramount School, Inc., has as its chairman, Adolph Zukor, president of the Famous Corporation. and includes Jesse L. Lasky; Joseph Hergesheimer, the noted author; Daniel Frohman, president of the Actors’ Fund of America; Gilbert Miller, general manager for Charles Frohman, Inc.; John Emerson, president of the Actors’ Equity Association: Thomas Meighan screen star and Shepherd of the Lambs; and D. \V. Griffith, one of t lie world's foremost directors. The actual operation of the school will be in the hands of an executive council of which Lasky is chairman. The other members are Walter Wanger, Claude H. Mitchell, John W. Butler. lvlwin C. King, Tom Terriss, Bijou Fernandez and Charles E. McCarthy. Plan of Admission The general plan of admission has been carefully prepared. Thirty representatives have been appointed in diferent parts of the United States. The representative for this district is the local Famous Players-Lasky office here. Any young man from eighteen to thirty years old or any girl from sixteen to twenty-five may send an application to the representative nearest his or her home, sending also three photographs—front view, side view and full length figure. These applications will be weeded out until five from each district, or 150 in all, are left. The 150 applications and the accompanying photographs will be sent to the Paramount School where the weeding out process will continue until 75 remain. Each of these 75 will be notified h.v telegraph to report at one of the branch offices of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. These central reporting points will be located In New York, Atlanta, New' Orleans. Chicago. Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City, Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles. At these offices will be stationed cameramen w'ho will make film testa to the candidates. The cost of making these tests will be borne by the Paramount Pictures School, but the candidates will be expected to defray their own expenses from and to their homes. Film Tests These film tests will be submitted to the school authorities who will select fifty ns being worthy of personal interviews by Mr. or his representatives. Fifteen candidates from the east will report at the Paramount lying Island studio. Fifteen from the west will go to the Famous Players-Lasky Hollywood studio and twenty from the middle sectlbn of the country will report in Chicago. The result of the interviews with these fifty by Mr. T*asky or his representatives will be that twenty, ten young men and ten young women, will he selected actually to enter the school. They will roach New York on July 8 and the school term will open on July 13. The term will close on Dec. 5 and graduating exercises will take place on Dec. 12. The curriculum of the school will include complete and thorough instruction in tho movie acts. • • • Indiana indorsers of photoplays this week indorse for adults the features at Ohio, Apollo and Colonial; family, the , Circle and Crystal. The new bill opening today at the Palace features Doc Baker and his “Protean Revue." Bill Includes Lionel Ames. Kelly and Pollack, “Good Morning Lady” and Raymond and Geneva. Houdlni Is the headline offering at Keith’s, Bernard Granville is at the Lyric, “Why Men Leave Home,” at English’s; "Charley’s Aunt,” at the Circle; “Excuse Me,” at the Apollo; “The Dressmaker From Paris.” at the Ohio, and a complete new show at the Isis.

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interpretation of Mrs. Eddy’s “intention” as to the application of the Church Manual written by Mrs Eddy, and the injection of personal opinion as to Mrs. Eddy's "intention" regarding a “successor,” are at least presumptious. This, and in fact the whole plan of the new organization, is but a repetition of what has occurred a nupiber of times before, wherein a small group of dissatisfied people has attempted to overthrow the established Christian Science Church and to disrupt the organization founded by Mrs. Eddy. Regardless of such attacks that church has continued undisturbed in its growth and development, and is fulfilling its mission In overcoming evil and In blessing mankind. To all who “stand unreservedly on Mrs. Eddy’s teachings” the following admonition of Mi-s. Eddy should be sufficient: “Adhere to the teachings of the Bible, Science and Health, and our Manual, and you will obey the law and gospel. . . . Keep yourselves busy with divine Love. Then you will be toilers like the bee, always distributing sweet things which, if bitter to sense, will be salutary as Soul; but you will not be like the spider, which weaves webs that ensnare.” (“Miscellany,” pages 251 and 252.) CHARLES W. HALE, Christian Science Committee on Publication. Irritations By Hal Cochran When real satisfaction’s controll ing your mind, I wonder how often you’ve found that a person can say things, though not meant unkind, and change all your feelings around. It isn’t so bad to be doin' the things round the house that the Missus is wishin’, but then comes a neighbor, whom restlessness brings, by sayin’, “Come on, let's go fisliin’.” “This grass cuttin’ job is my favorite task,” a home-body man often thinks. But just at that time an acquaintance will ask, "How come you’re not out on the links?” You don't mind it much if a tire blows out while you gaily are drivin’ along, till some passerby very loudly will shout. “Hello, there, has something gone wrong?” ”Tis nice just to take things that hit you, and grin. You might just as well, on the whole. But, always some person will stick their nose in and knock all your thoughts for a goal.

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In New York® By James \\. Dean BMij E\V YORK, April |M I “Beauty, not self-preser\® | tion. is the first law of nil t.ure to women today,” reads a mefl sage sent to me by a beauty laborfl tory. 1 It goes on to say that a woman on 27 was discharged from her posil tion because she had wrinkles and that a double chin was the cause of anothe ’ losing her job. Even laundresses have lost positions because of the lack of beauty, to say nothing of telephone operators, chamber maids, waitresses, nurses, models and stenographers. With the spread of such propaganda this beauty parlor has had more than 200 women apply at its free beauty clinic—and already three girls have new Jobs because their beauty has been increased. Which all goes to prove that, you can get away with any kind of bunk in this man’s town. Plants budding in the old Portu-guese-Spanish graveyard Just off Chatham Square form the only bright spot in the neighborhood. The graveyard has been there since the Seventeenth Century. Battle of the Revolution were fought over it. Now dirty tenements border it on three sides. Washings hang above the tombstones, sweeping the tops of markers of graves of the first aristocracy New York had. Now the lowliest of the low live in the neighborhood and the few bits of green in the graveyard are as verdant fields to them.

Meetings Here Friday May Wright Sew r ell Council of Women. Meeting 9:30 a. m. and 1:30 p. m. Claypool. Press Association Union No. 39 Meeting. Denison. U. C. C. of E. No. 31. Meeting. Denison. Phi Delta Theta. Luncheon C. of C. Laymen’s League. Luncheon C. of C. Purdue University. Meeting 8:00 p. m. C. of C. May Wright Sewell. Convention Luncheon. Lincoln. Optimist Club Luncheon. Claypool. Exchange Club Luncheon. Lincoln. Altrusa Club Luncheon. Lincoln. Delta Tau Delt Luncheon. Board of Trade. Industrial Lenders Luncheon. C. of C.