Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1925 — Page 4

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Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. —Prov. 21:23. Speak little and well, if you wish to be considered as possessing merit.—From the French. Certain Sane Questions mHE tone of discussion as to prohibition of late indicates that we are getting away from the hitter partisanship that has colored the argument between wets and drys for so long. The time may not he far distant when this tremendous experiment in government may he discussed dispassionately. Only when the problem can be handled scientifically, rather than politically, will it be solved satisfactorily. Ts it is approached scientifically, the question will be: What is the truth about prohibition? Thus far the argument on both sides has been so bitterly partisan that the truht has been unable to appear above the noise of conflicting opinions. When we get down to facts the prohibitionists have a big advantage in the fact that the Eighteenth amendment was legally adopted and the Volstead act was legally and constitutionally enacted. Their advantage is reinforced by the opinion, or superstition, that the best way to kill a bad law is to enforce it. But even if there be conflicting opinions as to that, it is true that every officer of the law, from the President on down, takes oath when he takes office to enforce the law. It makes no difference whether he likes the law or not. Those opposed to prohibition will have to prove their case. They will have to convince a big majority of the people, first, that the Volstead act, is a bad law, and after that, that the Eighteenth amendment should he stricken from the Constitution. To prove their ease they will have to prove it by facts. Propaganda either by professional wets or professional drys will not be convincing. It will be taken as prejudiced and partisan, like much of the political argument when the Republicans and Democrats are fighting for control of the government—and the offices. If it were possible for an impartial body of scientists, including physiologists, psychologists and professors of law and government, to conduct a survey of the entire problem and get at the facts, some attention might be given to their report and conclusions. There are some questions that might be answered fairly and scientifically, questions all fair-minded citizens would like to have answered : Is the general contempt for the Volstead law teaching general contempt for law and government? Is there any relation between prohibition and the increase mi crime? V bat is the influence, if any, on the morals af the people, particularly the young people :>f this generation? If prohibition will actually prohibit the use of alcoholic drink and make all the people arood in the way that, the sternest prohibitionists want all people to be good, will the American race be : mproved ? Another way of putting that question would be: Would the American race be improved if all of us were molded to the type of the leading exponents of prohibition? Has the Volstead act degenerated our Federal courts to the level of the old-time police courts? If so, what is the effect on popular respect for Federal government, law and authority? Will the success of prohibition lead to further regulation of human conduct by law? There are other questions that might be included in this list, and which a research organization might seek to answer, but this is enough for the present purpose—which is to suggest that there could be an impartial, scientific inquiry into the wisdom, efficacy, desirability and possibility of prohibition as the remedy for the evils of the use or abuse of intoxicating liquors. Politics won t solve the problem. Science may.

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What Price Glory “npri RITAIN’S chain of graves encircles the IP | earth,’’ proudly claims the fifth annual report of the imperial war graves commission just made public in London. “They stretch across France and Belgium from the English Channel to the Vosges,” writes Major General Sir Fabian Ware, vice chairman of the commission, “including nearly 1,000 war cemeteries in these two countries and more than 1.500 French and Belgian communal cemeteries and church yards. “Tn Switzerland there is one cemetery at Vevey, where the remains of British prisoners of war who died in that country have been gathered together. “The chain continues across Italy, where there are in all ninety-three cemeteries in which the commission has an interest. It stretches across Macedonia, the Balkans and the Greek islands, where there are twenty-five cemeteries, and down the Gallipoli Peninsula, where there are thirty-one, to Smyrna; through Syria, where there are two; through Palestine, where there are ten, passing over the Mount of Olives itself, then branching, off south through Egypt, where there are nine, into East Africa, where there are forty, and eastward to Iraq, where there are seven. “Then the chain extends across the north of India to China, where there is a cemetery at Tsingtao, and twenty-three other scattered burial grounds, to Australia and New Zealand, across Canada and back to the United Kingdom, where there are more than 67,000 graves in some 7,500 church yards and cemeteries. There are fifty other countries, off the track followed, where British war graves have been found.” So. without boasting, the tragic story runs. In it is much to make any Briton proud, but there is also in it much to make the sick. Wilson visioned this endless chain of warmade graves that stretches around the \\ jr'J and that is why he gave his life to make the World War the last. Graves in every land and graves in every clime! Graves that reach around the world! Here you have the inevitable corollary to that other proud claim that “the sun never sets on British soil.” What price glory? There’s your answer. Buying the Mayor’s Office [ rn] HE present argument among candidates I 1 I and their friends over the subject of how much it costs to elect a mayor of Indianapolis is just another argument for abandoning the political system and substituting therefor the business-like city manager plan of city government. The controversy started when Mayor Shank, who has the faculty of being just a little more frank than most politicians, declared that $300,000 would be spent in the present contest for mayor. He said he spoke from experience. Judge Delbert O. Wilmeth, one of the Republican candidates, and the candidate who worked hard to defeat the city manager movement through a wholly unwarranted attack on the manager law, replies to the effect that not more than 2 per cent of the $300,000 will be spent in his behalf. He admits that some $6,000 will be spent to elect him to a job which is supposed to be one of public service for which he would receive $7,500 a year. Lew replies that unless Wilmeth spends more money than that he will not be elected. And for once in his life Lew is right. It takes money to be elected mayor of Indianapolis under the present system and the candidate with the most money to spend usually is successful, regardless of his qualifications or lack of qualifications. Does Indianapolis want a mayor who has bought his way to the job or does it want one who has been selected because of his qualifica tions to hold the job.

wrecks and other floating dangers to navigation; extenshion of medical aid to American vessels engaged in deep sea fisheries; protecting of the custom* revenue: operation a* a part of the Navy In time of war or when the President shall so direct; enforcement of laws and regulations governing anchorage of vessels in navigable waters, and quarantine and neutrality; suppressing mutinies on merchant vessels: enforcement of navigation and other laws governing merchant vessels, etc.; protection of game and seal and other fisheries In Alaska and work as an international ice patrol off Newfoundland. Who wrote “The American’s Creed?” William Tyler Page, clerk of the United States House of Representatives, In 1917. It was adopted and promulgated by the Government's Committee oa Publication ami ac-

cepted by the House of Representatives, on behalf of the American people, April 3, 1918. Who Is the present poet laureate of England. Robert Bridges. He succeeded Alfred Austin. In figuring one's income tax Is alimony or other money paid to a divorcee deductible? It is not. What is “katoc?” The name of the Hawaiian vegetable silk. Who was the Babylonion God of the sky? Merodach or Bel. How many motion picture theaters are there In the United States? , Approximately 17,386.

Mendelssohn Choir Will Bring Famous Prima Donna as Guest Artist for Recital

(—■"IT the annual spring concert of I the Mendelssohn Choir, which l**l will be given at Caleb Mills Hall Monday evening. April 27, the public will have an opportunity of hearing a combination of a great artist and a fine choral organization in one of the best, programs ever presented In Indianapolis. The choir will be under the direction of Elmer Andrew Steffen. The assisting artist of the evening. Mile. Marguerite D’Alvarez. the noted mezzo-contralto prima donna from South America, is one of the most Interesting singers now before the American public. Mademoiselle D'Alvarez has appeared In the principal opera houses of Europe and first came to this country ns a member of Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Cornpafty. Until she decided to devote herself entirely to the concert stage, she was a member of the Chicago Opera Company. In addition to her own recital of songs and operatic airs. Mile. D'Alvarez will sing the solo part In Victor Herbert's beautiful composition, “The Angelus." from his opera. "Serenade This number will be sung by the male section of the choir. Many of the choral numbers will be sung “a capel'.a.” In those numbers In which Instrumental accompaniment will be used. Paul R. Matthews, organist of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, will assist at the piano, and Mrs. S. K. Rulck. organist of the First Congregational Church, will play the organ accompaniments to those selections requiring the organ. In order to Insure the future permanence of the Mendelssohn Choir, a list of over two hundred associate members have been secured. The reservaiton of seats for the public will open Monday at the Ful-ler-Ryde Music Company. 27 E. Ohio Street. ,

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NF.LSON

IN-AND-OUT JAILS BTLACKIE LINTON, conviot ed Spencer hank robber, i__ facing a fifteen-year re formatory sentence, escaped from the Owen County jail the other

night. He and a com panion walked out while the guards slept. It was his second escape from there In recent months. Yet, despite his wellknown elusive qualities no special precautions were taken to guard him after his first break. A month ago. Ralph Lee. held In the Franklin

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Jail, awaiting trial for an Indianapolis murder, sawed his way out and has not been recaptured. Once before he trickled out of that jug, and has a record of eight escapes from pennl institutions. Hardly a day passes but some one—usually a more or less desperate character whom the law Is especially anxious to hold—escapes from an Indiana jail or prison. Perhaps all ordinary precautions are observed to prevent these Jail deliveries. But the management of the average Hoosler Jail must be lax when an energetic desperado with the aid of a bent hairpin or a confederate can escape so easily. Os course, it may be discourteous to watch prisoners closely. However, lockups have another function than merely to play ‘‘it" In games of hide-and-seek with criminals. There would be fewer in-agnln-out-again-gone-agaln performances around them if officials in charge regarded them more seriously as places of detention and less as sources of fees. SHEPHERDS AND FLOCKS LEETE of TndianI K I apolis in a recent address before the North Indiana Methodist Conference denounced “sheep steading”’—as he termed the practice of ministers soliciting members of other congregations to join their flocks. This practice, the Bishop declared, Is more prevalent in Indianapolis than in any other city tn the State. Competition is the life of trade. Apparently some ministers are carrying that idea into the pulpit. Many of them, seem to be busilness executives, go-getter salesmen, and efficiency engineers first and spiritual leaders afterward. They work with raid indexes, filing systems and statistical data. They reduce their pastorates to figures. Attendance and collection at church service and Sunday school school this week compared with last -veek and last year become vita’iy, Important to them. If there is a decrease In the church’s "customers” they put on advertising campaigns to “sell'’ the church to the community. In America success is commonly measured by the size of fortunes, houses, yachts and automobiles. Perhaps naturally some ministers should measure their success by the size of their collections, Sunday schools and flocks. Os course the bigger the congregation. the wider the field for the minister. However, size is not all in spiritual affairs. The Master left a little flock of eleven disciples. They founded the Christian church and changed the history of the world, a

FACULTY MEMBERS TO GIVE CONCERT Miss Frances Ann Wishard. pianist, and Elwln Jones, violinist, members of the faculty of the Metropolitan School of Music, will give a recital at the school next Tuesday evening at 8:15 In the Odeon. Mr. Jones has only recently Joined the Metropolitan school faculty and this will be his first recital appearance at the school. The recital is open to the public free of charge. The following program will be given: "Toccata” Paradlcs 171<> "Conoett Study in A ' Scarlatti 1083 "Sonata. Op. 57" < Appaasionata) First Movement. Allegro assai... Beethoven Mlg* Wiahard "Serenade" Gallune "Menuett" Porpora-Kreislcr Mr. Jones “Nocturne. Op 27. No. 2" Chopin Waltz Tango—" The Dancer In the Patio". Cossack Dance Charles Repper Miss Wlohard "The Old Refrain" "Schoen Roetnarln" Kreisler Mr. Jones "Concertstuek. Op. 40" Chaminado Miss Wishard Orchestra! Parts on Second Plano, Oeraldine Trotter. I- I- -IRECITAL ANNOUNCED FOR NEXT SATURDAY Students of Miss Francis Belk of the Metropolitan School of Music, will give an afternoon of readings net Saturday afternoon at the Odeon. The program will begin promptly at 2 o'clock. The public Is Invited. The following pupils will take part: Helen Stephenson. Lavoran Robbins, Kathryn Oeorgieff. Elizabeth Roberts, Eleanor Corrle, Kdthryn Harrod. Jean Allen. Louise, Cos. Kathryn Walker, Ross Rissler. Lorena Letsinger. Betty M<’Fadden. Thelma Gardner. Alice Wagnon, Virginia llahig, Mildred George. Irene Mcßane. Elizabeth Whetsel, Carlton Beall. Martha Hoyle. Norma Justice. Bess Chambers, Thelma Peterson. Gwendolyn Srhort. Virginia Pitman. Charlotte Brown,

SAFETY IN MINING mHE State mine inspection department has caused the filing of affidavits in court at Terre Haute against nineteen miners employed at Shlrkie mine No. 1. The men are charged with violation of mine safety laws. Five shot flrers have been killed at this mine In recent months. Inspectors investigating found that faulty shots were responsible in almost every case. They found that holes for shots were drilled deeper titan the limit set by law; that detonators and explosives were stored together; that more detonators were taken into the mine at one time than the law permits. In short, they found that safety regulations were commonly ignored by the miners themselves. despite the frequent deaths. Coal mining is hazardous, as was shown by the Sullivan catastrophe which c-ost the lives of fifty-one miners—and stirred the State. Following that disaster—as always—there was agitation for more stringent mine safety legislation. State authorities were spurted to activity to reduce the toll of lives In mining. Yet in spite of such disasters and Innumerable lesser accidents miners frequently oppose additional safety regulations. Only by constant argus eyed inspection by State officials can they be made to observe existing rules. Safety devices and legislation can’t, in themselves, eliminate all the hazards of coni mining. Safety in mining. In the final analysis, depends on the miners. MORE WAR ON SHOPLIFTERS IHOPLIFTHRS will learn with sorrow that the ... Stores* Mutual Protective Association is increasing its force of private detectives. Fifteen of the larger retail stores in Indianapolis are members of the association. Since operatives of the association began patrol'ng memher stores three years ago shoplifting has been greatly reduced. By increasing the force it is hoped to stamp out this —to the merchant —particularly annoying crime. Perhaps it will. However, the association’s records show that nine-tenths of the shoplifters arrested are persons able to buy what they need. Many-are young women between sixteen and twen-ty-two, financially able to gratify whims, who steal on impulse. This rather belles the theory that petty thefts and similar crimes result from physical want, unemployment, or distressing economic conditions. Btories of miserable mothers stealing loaves of bread for starving babies are touching, hut are usually fiction. Petty criminals pursue their activities not from grim need but because of moral obliquity. Their wishbones dominate their backbones. They aren't driven into committing overt acts —they go astray voluntarily. For every Oliver Twist, a thief by compulsion, there are a dozen Artful Dodgers who glory in their craft. Many shoplifters and other offenders are dealt with leniently because of easily aroused sympathy. Such sympathy is largely wasted: It Isn't tears they need, but time. And Now It’s Kbhoo LONDON. April 18.— Mah Jongg is on the wane in Great Britain and the new game is kbhoo, which, like Jazz, originated in Central Africa. The boar dfor the game represents a valley between two ranges of mountains and “men,” similar to those in chess, are carved to represent African warriors. The game calls for •considerable skill.

Helen Emert, Lucile Carter and Cordes. -!- -I- + CONTRALTO AND HARPIST GIVE JOINT CONCERT On Sunday afternoon. April 19. at 4 o'clock, there will he a concert, in the sculpture court of the John Herron Art Institute, given through the courtesy of the Matinee Musicale. The program will he given hy Edith Jane Fish, contralto, and Ruth Rainier, harpist. Miss Fish is an artist teacher of singing who studied for five years under Herbert Witherspoon in New York. She has appeared since her dehut for the Italian Club, New YorK Evening Musical. New York City; Daughters of Indiana. Astor. New York; the Chicago CTub, the Suburban Club. Denver; the Coterie Club. Shelbyville. Ind., and the Rotary club, Indianapolis. Miss Rainier has also played both In this State and in the East. She is a graduate of Wellesley, where she received her theoretical training In music, and she was for several years a pupil of Alfred Holy, solo harpist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She has also studied with Mildred Dilling of New York. Miss Rainier has appeared In Indianapolis as soloist at the Circle Theater and upon numerous programs. * She Is member of the faculty of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts and a member of Sigma Alpha lota, a national musical sorority. • • • MUSIC NOTES OF VARIED INTEREST Mrs. ITenrv Sohurmmann. president of the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs, has recently become a member of the Advisory Board of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. On Monday night. April 20. a dance will be given at the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. Students and friends are Invited. • • • PROGRAM ANNOUNCED FOR VAN HOESEN CONCERT On next Friday night at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, Harrington Van Hoesen, baritone, will he guest artist of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Chruch choir at the church. This concert Is known ns the annual spring concert of the choir. The program follows: "Caro mio hen" Giordani "Where'er Yju Walk" Miyidel Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves’. .Handel “Le Miroir" Ferrari "Noun irons Plus au Bols" Beryl Rubinstein ' Bergere Legere" Ar. by Weckerlin “K Muss Was Wunderbares Sein”...Rie9 "Lehn' einn Wang" Jensen “Aufenthalt" Schubert A L*end—St Francis walking on the waves" Liszt Mr. Flandorf Sei.g from the Cycles "Myself When Young'' <ln a Persian Garden I Lehmann "The Brooklet" (The Morning of the Year i Cad man "Robin Goodfellow" On Fairylandt . . . Morgan Leetle Bateese" Geoffrey O Hara "Memory” Mary Willing Megley "Heav'n Heav'n" Burleigh ■Hard Trials" Burleigh Chorus. _ ••Landsighting” Grieg Mr. Van Hoesen Walter Flandnrff aooompanlst for Mr. Van Hoesen Pan! R Matthews scromtianist for the choir. Fred Newell Morris, driector. •I* -IORATORIO SOCIETY TO GIVE "ELIJAH" At the spring concert of the Indianapolis Oratorio Society Mendelssohn's oratorio “Elijah" will be sung by chorus and soloists, with orchestral accompaniment. Rehearsals are now being held on Monday evenings at 7:30 in Hollenbeck Hall, V. W. C A. This announcement carries with it an invitation from the officers of the society to all singers of the city, including old members of the People's Chorutj. from which the Oratorio Society was formed, to take part In this presentation of the oratorio. The various parts of the chorus are well balanced and are rapidly developing a fine ensemble under the skillful directorship of Horace Whitehouse, who has had wide experience both as choral and as orchestral conductor. The concert will be given during the third week of May.

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Tom Sims Says In a Boston Are, things were carried out by three neighbor girls In

pajamas, so now no house in Boston Is safe. A Los Angeles innocent bystander is expected to recover. Bakers struck in New York, ten thousand of them. They wanted more dough of one kind or less of another. People are so Impatient. In

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New Jersey a bank was robbed by a paying teller who couldn’t wait until he became cashier. Women will not he men's equals until there Is a bride shortage instead of a bridegroom shortage. April showers bring new cuss words. (Copyright. 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

Eagles of Financial World

By M. K. Tracey SHRY started out to manufacture automobiles some fifteen years ago—John and Horace Dodge. They were familiar with the business, especially from a mechanical standpoint, and glimpsed the bigness of its future. But the bankers were still skeptical, still waiting to he shown, still willing to stand on the sidelines and watch. The Dodges had a pretty tough time of It. for the first few years, but in 1914 they were able to organize a $10,000,000 company. Since then, they have prospered, or. more accurately their heirs have. Meanwhile, the five years before the Dodges decided to strike out for themselves, a young Texan named Dillon graduated from Harvard. He, too, had ambitions, but along somewhat different lines. Having come from the biggest State In the Union and polished off his academic career at the oldest and hardest-boiled American college, he was content to tackle nothing less than the center of the universe, otherwise New York, and he was content to tackle It at no less vital spot than Wall St. In course of time —a suprlsingly short time —he became head of the banking house to which he had at-

Serving ~ Ry Hal Cochran It's nic? to sit down to a table of grub, when every one there's nearly starving. Real appetites thrill you, but shucks, there's h, rub, if It happens you’re doing the carving. We’ll say, just for Instance, four kidlets sit tight, 'jes waitin' for meat and potatoes You're carvin' and servin’ with all of your might, and aimin' to fill np their plates. At last you've succeeded: the kiddles are sel, impatiently achin' to go. It's hunger, of course, that Is makin' 'em fret, and they think that your carvin’ is slow. When you and the missus are ready to eat, comes the fact that is always a bore. You just start enjoyin' the supper-time treat, when the youngsters start yellin' for more. The old job of carvin' for tots who are starvin’, with all sorts of pleasure's instilled, but the story is old, that your own food gets cold while you’re keeping the other plates filled. In New York By James VV. Dean NEW YORK, April 18.—Are New Yorkers Americans? That question is on a par with Alice Duer Miller's "Are Women People?’’ At any rate, consider the sixteen hoys selected by the New York board of education for merit, study. Initiative and leadership a* the group from which one was selected to meet President Coolidge as the representative Now York boy. The nationalities represented in the list of sixteen are Italian, Austrian, Greek, French, Chinese, Syrian, Irish. Russian, Spanish, Polish, Brazilian, Cuban. Argentine, Czechoslovakian and German. With the selection limited to that group, you can see that It was Impossible to select an American as a representative New York boy. • • • Say what you will of New York’s crowded traffic, it is the only city In which I have lived where sidewalks are kept unobstructed. Despite great building operations, the rajsing of old buildings and the rearing of new ones, the pedestrian still finds a place on the sidewalk, either under a protective canopy or over a raised platform. In most cities he must detour Into the street and take his chances with autos. • * • Warren Gamaliel Harding came hack to America on the freighter Carenco the other day. He had been gone three months as a purser and had called at the ports of Egypt. Greece and Syria. He Is a nephew of the late President and Uvea at Cos lumbus, Ohio. A student of an abnormal psychology and a prospective medical student, he had a notebook full of observations of strange characters encountered on his trip.

tached himself, and he not only became its head, but he clothed It with anew prestige and power. In looking about for wortwhile game, his eyo lit on the Dodge Company, though Just why is still a mystery. Perhaps It was because he really wanted to take a flyer in automobiles, or perhaps It was to show the house of Morgan that a formidable rival had come to town. Anyway, he saw it, made up his mind to get it, went after it and took it right away from the house of Morgan ani from General Motors, for whom the house of Morgan was supposed to be acting. It was a huge transaction, and a splendid triumph for this young banker, but what does it promise the bnyers of Dodge cars, the workers in the Dodge plant? You have heard of that monarch of the skies, the eagle. One of his tricks is to watch a gull dive for fish. If the gull succeeds in catching one, the eagle pursues him on swifter and more powerful wings, until the terror-stricken fugitive drops his fish, when the eagle falls like a thunderbolt, seizing It sometimes before It ever strikes the water. I have often wondered why the eagle was looked upon as glorious. Perhaps it is because he makes gulls catch more fish.