Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1925 — Page 4

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He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; but he that honoreth him hath mercy on the poor.—Prov. 14 : 31. Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.— Landon, What Is the Word? SJOB for some cross-word puzzlist: Produce a word that means ship subsidy but doesn’t arouse the stubborn opposition of the American people. Certain private interests, who have a hungry eye on the people’s treasury, ought to pay a good deal for the word. In Washington, so,dispatches to The Times reveal, they are beginning to talk ship subsidy again. They are talking all around the subject, trying to avoid that unfortunate word, which has been swatted by the American voter ever since the days of Mark Hanna’s notable, but unsuccessful, efforts to make him like it. It is quite clear that ship subsidy legislation will be attempted at the next session of Congress and very likely with the Administration’s approval. The American Steamship Owners’ Association is working on a plan 'and saj s it has President Coolidgc’s assurance that he will carefully consider any bill it prepares. Meantime Chairman O’Connor of the United States shipping board has got into an argument with Senator Calder of New York. O’Connor, who used to be a longshoreman, sometimes uses refreshingly frank language. Listen to a of it: “Senator Calder says he is in favor of getting our United States ships back to private owners at once. Private owners never had these ships. Ho w** are you going to get something back to a man that he never had before? There have been no private ocean-crossing ships in America, to speak of, since 1861 * * * “At the present time, as I have said so many times before, most of the ships have got to be operated by the Government or they will not be operated at all. Our ships are for sale. We forget completely the original cost, and we are willing to sell for an extremely low figure to any one who can satisfy us of his Americanism and his sea-going experience.” He might have added that in the case of the Pacific liners’ sale to the Dollar line the matter of Americanism was not scrutinized too closely. But that is beside the point. The point is that the private ship interests are working unremittingly to get the Government out of the shipping business, but they aren’t willing to take the Government’s place unless a subsidy is given them. There is food for interesting speculation in the case of the United States postoffice. Our founding fathers mado the postoffice a Government enterprise. Suppose they had allowed it to start'as a private business. What sort of socialism would it now be called if the Government were forced, by the sheer necessity of maintaining communications, to take over the postoffice? The Government does not make money out of the postol service, but, our present civilization would fall down if there were! no such service. The analogy is not strained. Chairman O’Connor is properly proud of the fact that the shipping board put into commission a large number of ships—at a loss—to carry American wheat and cotton abroad during the recent period of top prices. He estimates that this action meant ten billion dollars to the American growers. (Look at that figure again; it is

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You can gret i.n answer to any question of fact or Information by writing: to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1333 New York Ave., Washlnton, D. C., Inclosing 3 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, leg-al and marital advice cannot be ptven, nor can exteuded research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a peril mal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is the Thomas Jefferson Bible? This is a notebook compiled by Thomas Jefferson in the following manner: He cut from three versions of the Bible, passages treating on the same pha.3o of the Life of Jesus and pasted them in a notebook in three parallel columns. This he called “Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth." Tho original volume, as prepared by Jefferson, is deposited in the Department of State, Washington, D. C. Can wrinkles be removed from the face by simple homo treatment? Premature wrinkles can be helpfully treated by bathing the face twice a day in warm water in which a small quantity of Epsom Salts has been dissolved. Rinse with cold water. Ironing the face with a small piece of ice, after massage with a good cold cream, is helpful. For occasional temporary relief, bathe the prfrts where the wrinkles appear with a solution of alum and water in order to tighten the skin. Do not do this often. Are thfere any schools of etv ginering where ode can get practical experience while studying? There are universities that have what is called cooperative courses in engineering; that is, a student is given an opportunity to work for firms in the city, thus gaining experience while receiving technical education. In some cases the studeqk works a week and attends jrchW a week* alternately. Among

the shipping board’s own estimate.) Yet the whole thought of the board now Seems to be centered on ways of getting rid of those ships, turning the American growers and other shippers over to the mercies of private owners—and, perhaps, paying these private owners a subsidy-besides. * Hawaii a Menace mHE capture, of the Hawaiian Islands by the Blue, or attacking fleet, in the joint Army and Navy maneuvers now in full swing in the Pacific, came as no surprise to those familiar with the situation. For years both the Secretaries of War and Navy have been drumming into the ears of Congress that our mid-ocean naval base was too weak to withstand an attack by any considerable naval force, and have just as consistently, though vainly, begged for,the funds and authority to strengthen it. The Island of Oahu, or Pearl Harbor, in the Hawaiians, like Panama, is intended exclusively for the use of the Navy. But both are defended by the Arruyj. Manifestly if our battle fleets are forced to hang around these bases to keep them from falling into the hands of the enemy, they will not be of much use elsewhere. An enemy could play havoc with the United States proper if the Navy were pinned down by the necessity to defend the Hawaiians or Panama Cana 1 . Thus the problem of the Pacific maneuvers this year was to see if the present Army, Navy and air forces regularly stationed in Hawaii could stave olf an attack, say by a fleet almost the size of the third largest. You already know the answer. They could not. The islands were captured. That means that instead of being a bulwark of defense capable of holding an enemy at bay some 2,000 miles off our west coast, they could be captured and used as a base of operations against us, cutting us off from the Philippines and making it possible to sweep the Pacific clean of our shipping. Hawaii lacks a sufficient number of big guns. It lacks airplanes. It lacks heavy, mobile artillery. It is insufficiently manned and there is neither enough reserve ammunition nor fuel oil for naval purposes. If our Navy is up to the minute, and Panama and the Hawaiians are secure, we can well afford to maintain only a small starring army within the United States proper. Both material and personnel could be built up before an enemy could very well get to vs. But in the event of war the very first blows would likely be struck against Oahu and Panama, so there would be no time to send reinforcements or rush up guns and munitions. They would have to do the best they could with what they had. It ought to be clear as daylight, therefore, to everybody that whatever our policy may be at home, both the Hawaiians and Panama Canal should be on a war basis, ever and always. For upon whether they hold out or are captured depends the whole trend of any war we are ever likely to get into. Folks, Hawaii and Panama are the two most vital outposts of defense standing between you and danger. They are there to keep you and yours, your home and your job, safe. They are a vital part of our national .insurance. You ought to see to it, whets Congress meets again, that it understands the menace which the Pacific maneuvers have just laid bare.

these universities are the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio; University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio; Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.; University of Detroit, Detroit, Mich., and Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis. - r iVr ". n • What is the “Estate and Gift” tax? The Estate Tax, which is in lieu of the tax laid under Title IV of the Revenue Act of 1921, is imposed upon the transfer of the net estate of every decedent dying after the passage of the law, whether a resident or non-resident of the United States. The tax is also imposed upon gifts during life, on or after Jan. 1, 1924, at the same rates. What are the chief unexplored parts of South America? They are in the central and southern part of Brazil, the far reaches of the Amazon, northwest Brazil, and the Selvas region, Venezuela, and the source of the .Orinoco, northeast Bolivia, Elbeni, 1 Chaco, and in southern Argentina, Clubut-and Santa Cruz regions, Patagonia and the Caupea region of Colombia. There are routes and trails across some of these areas, but the woi;k of exploration has only begun. How many home owners are there in the United States? According to the census of 1920, there were 10,866,906. How can scratches be removed from glass? Slight scratches may be partially polished out by rubbing the part with rouge wet with water, upon a piece of soft leather. If it is a deep scratch, it will have to be ground out with the finest emery, such as is used by opticians, and the spot polished with rouge and water. Then polish with a felt buff and rouge water. ( p

Tom Sims Says Cut glass makes a fine wedding present, but a poor er. g&gement ring A * No man is Sims worthless, but some are worth less than others. All’s fair in love and war and they are alike in other ways. It takes a couple to mend a broken engagement. Fish caught this spring are not as large as those caught last spring, but they will be by next spring. Only a very foolish man sets his vacation for the same time the boss will be away on his. They say there are more women than men in an Italian town, but it may be the men stay home more. Fall in love wflEfe yourself and there won’t be any competition. May flowers bring June bills. Many an amateur gardener hasn’t even grown disgusted yet. 1 (Copyright, 1925, NEA.Service, -Inc.^ * ■ .is...

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Indianapolis Is Called Upon to Support Rea and Rosen as Music Week Feature

By Waiter D. Hickman I I DARING thing: has been done by the fine art comli * mlttee of the Chamber of Commerce. The committee has decided to sell every reserved seat at the Murat for the joint concert of Max Rosen, violinist, and Virginia Rea, soprano, on Saturday night, nine for $1 plus war tax. HJere are two leading concert and Brunswick record artists being offered to tho public in Interest of promoting better entertainment in music. ' Considering the high price that the talent costs and other expenses.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

NEW LAWS IN EFFECT IOVERNOR JACKSON Issued his proclamation late I Tuesday putting Into effect the measures passed by the last Legislature. Only once have tho acts been promulgated at an earUer date.

Os course the | dispatch with [which Stato ofIficlals have handled this matter Is I :ommendable. But [innocent hystnnd|ers might say [there was no need |Tor breathless haste —lndiana wasn't suffering from lack of laws. Even without the 1218 acts of the 1925 Legislature there were enough laws to go around.

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Every Hoosier could easily find one to break, if he felt in the mood. And, though the new statutes have now been in operation almost forty-eight hours, there is no greater security to life and property than heretofore, nor apparent improvement in public and private morals. Possibly the latter will take place 'as soon as the “bone-dry” law begins to growl and show Its teeth. That law expunges alcohol and all beverages of which it is a constituent from the Hoosier dictionary. That is, theoretically. Whether it will produce actual aridity in the State as well as the statute book, will depend on law enforcement agencies and public conscience. * Public conscience Is the determining factor in the success or failure of laws. It is not the publication of the laws that matters. It is the individual citizen’s attitude toward the laws. LOSS OF “ MEMORY EATROLMAN BARGE was approached yesterday morning at the corner .of Illinois and Georgia Sts. by a well dressed young man who asked: "Who am I? Where am 1? Where am I going?” The man was an amnesia victim. *He had awakened at the Union Station early in the morning, he said. Back of that —how he got there and identity—all tvas blank. Memory is the most important faculty of mind, upon w'hieh depends identity, ego, personality. Without it a person would be like a lump of protoplasm—living matter not a sentient being. But it Is a most treacherous, unruly faculty. A strain, a shock, or a grand jury subpoena is liable to make it fade away temporarily. It is industrious only in spots. Useless odds and ends of information are filed away and treasured by it, but many matters of importance are ignored. And facts stored are frequently mislaid so that they can not be found when wanted. A man may easily remember last year's batting averages but forget his wife's birthday. Memory is troublesome. But whatever its faults living without it is more difficult than living with it. It is the faculty that ties persons to time, space, and the scheme cf things. Except for his memory an individual is nobody, going from nowhere to novchere—just a flash in the dark. CITY BUS FRANCHISE > SHE Peoples Motor Coach Company, operating busses In Indianapolis, was granted a twelve-year franchise on fifty-nine streets recently by the board of Works. The followI Wonder Why By Hal Cochran A case comes to mind, and it leads us to find just how qeer are the workings of fate. It’s just an affair that concerns curly hair, and the opposite—perfectly straight. A sister and brother both envy each other, and locks they are willing to trade. For hers are quite straight, while her brother’s poor pate with the curliest tresses is sprayed. He’ll brush and he’ll comb, and he’ll work on his dome, while attempting to take the curl out. But try aa he might, 'tis a boomerang fight, for a lot of new cur-lets willsprout. While she, with her lot, keeps the curling Iron hot. At the break of the dawn she’ll begin. And then, when she quits, she will nearly throw fits, for the curl simply will not stay in. The story is old and has often been told, so I needn’t go on with the rest of it. When fate has come through, with the wrong hair for you, what’s the best thing to do? ( Make the best of it! -4.-. „ I

the committee has done a most daring thing in fixing a $1 price for this great concert which will be the climax of Music Week in this city. The only possible way that the fine arts committee of the Chamber of Commerce can break even is to sell every seat In the theater at $1 plus war tax. No profit is desired and none can be made at this scale of price. It has been the aim of the committee to bring* great artists here for music week at a price that will be within the reach of every man, woman and child. The seat sale opens Saturday morning at the Murat box office

ing day board members declared they would rescind the action. They said they were hurried into the contract and were told it was the last day such agreement could be consummated before the S.ate law putting busses under the public service commission became effective. They declare they were misinformed. Act In haste and repent at leisure, seems to be the board’s motto in this connection. Probably it will make little difference to the city whether the franchise lives or dies. The fees paid into the city treasury under it would only amount to $3,000 a year—and motor transportation will continue regardless of its fate. If the agreement is revoked the bus line will simply come under the supervision of the State, in accordance with the provisions of the new law, instead of' regulation by the city. So practically, the rapid changing of the board's mind only fans the air. The franchise may or may not be advantageous to the public. But to the average citizen it would seem the best time for the board to have determined that was before, not after, acting upon it. In his private business affairs a board member wouldn’t hastily sign contracts without deliberation and investigation. Why shouldn't he be equally prudent with public business? AVOIDANCE OF DEBT mAMES M. LYNCH, president of the International Typographical Union, announced yesterday union members will be urged to greater thrift. A living cost survey made by the union shows that the personal indebtedness of the average wage-earner has grown alarmingly. “It is possible these days to buy almost anything with a small down payment,” he said. “Our statistical department found the case of a man who engaged himself to meet monthly payments actually in excess of his salary.” Deferred payments are mighty useful creatures. By them, homes, bonds and indeperfdence can be acquired. But there is a very obvious tendency at present to abuse them rather than use them—they are run ragged. Whether it is the acquisition of a home or a twenty-seven volume history' of the world many can’t resist the seductive phrase “a dollar down and a dollar a week.” And thrift files out the window. Os course, it is nice to have luxuries like other folks. They impress the neighbors. A deferred-payment automobile looks like any other—the chattel mortgage doesn’t show on jthe outside. Hut running into debt for luxuries is mortgaging the future. It is spending wealth before it is created. One who follows that road is liable to come to the end with sore feet and a headache. THE PAROLE HABIT D ”| ETECTIVES arrested an Indianopolis young man, age 22, in connection with the robbery of the South Kokomo bank a month ago. Bank employes identified him as one of the seven engaged in that robbery. This is not the young man’s first entanglement with criminal statutes. He was sentenced to one to fourteen years in the State reformatory in 1922 for auto stealing. As soon as possible he was paroled. In September, J 923, he was again arrested for automobile theft. Upon conviction he received the same sentence as before—one to fourteen years in the reformatory. Once more he wa3 paroled after serving the minimum period. A few months later he Is gathered In as a suspected bank robber. The indeterminate sentence law —with the large discretionary parole power it confers—ls no doubt a humane statute. It was conceived with the laudable purpose of graduating punishment to fit the crime and character of the ln/dividual miscreant. But in practice it does little but soften the punshment. A sentence of one to fourteen ' years usually means confinement for one year regardless of the prisoner’s previous record. The fourteen years is merely a formal flourish, like the phrase ‘‘yours respectfully” at the bottom of a letter. ‘ If along about the second conviction an offender was compelled tb serve the maximum term instead of the minimum, indeterminate sentences would do society real service. Paroles would then mean something more than a habit. Merchants fl’lll Elect Annual election of officers of the Merchants Association was to be held at a meetlilg at 3 p. m. today in ,1906 Merchants Bank Bldg., according to Paul H. Krauss Jr., secrei tary* Charles Hartman is president.

and at the uptown box office located at the Merchants Heat and Light Company. Great Program The committee announces the following program for the Rea-Rosen concert at the Murat: 1 ''Concerto in E Minor" Nardinl Allegro Moderate Andatne Can labile Allegretto Gioeoso I Max Rosen II "Girometta” Sibells "Solvejg’s Song” •. Grieg “Norwegian Echo Song" Thrane Aria. “Una Voce Poeo Fa" (II Barbiere di Siviglial Rossini Virginia Rea 111 "Irish Lament" Franko "VaJse In E Minor”... .Chopln-Huberman “Preludo" Bach-Kreisler Max Rosen IV "Tea Yeux" - Rabey “Le Rossignol" Saint-Saens "L'Heure Exqulse” Hahn "Lo, Here the Gentle Lark" Bishop Virginia Rea V Aria. “II Re Pastore”..! Mozart Rudolph Gruen. accompanist for Virfinia Rea. Richard Wilens. accompanist or Max Rosen. A Proclamation In interest of Music Week which begins Sunday in the churches and continues all next week. Mayor Shank has issued the following proclamation: "One year ago the citizens of Indianapolis united to observe their first annual Music Week. “It is with a feeling of pride that we look back upon the achievements of this first attempt, the inspiration of which is with us still. “I need not point out the power that music has upon our people for the making of better citizenship, for tho stimulation of patriotism, and the inspiration for better and more useful lives. All these things are matters of experience and history. “But with the lessons that we have learned fresh in our memories, it seems fitting that I should set a *ue a time for the observance of n.usic weeek, and exhort our people to participate in its activities and make it an occasion of interest, rejoicing. and incalculable benefit to the entire community. "Therefore, I call upon the music lovers of Indianapolis and vicinity to unite in observing music week, beginning May 3 and culminating May 9, 1925." The- committee has planned to present hundreds of school children in competive musical contests from all over the State In concerts here on Saturday, May 9, having has its climax the Rea-Rosen concert, Abolsute capacity at the price must be had if the committee is to continue its aim of giving great concerts at price within the reach of all. . •I- -I- INEW BILL OPENS TODAY AT PALACE Hughie Clark, the rotund comedian, whose weight and sense of humor have been causing some stir among jazz hands that go in for novelty and comedy, will head the new opening at the Talace

That Bill Against France

By Herbert Quick mN these days In which' propaganda has so largely taken the place of those stern things which we used to know under the name of facts, it is Interesting to read something aside from propaganda and v sickly sentiment about the four billion dollars which France so contentedly owes us. Senator Borah has written the facts—some of them. When Borah writes or speaks we are all sure of one thing; a mind of great capacity has tried to get at the truth and is telling us what it finds. Here is what Borah tells us: France is in no position to ask for the benefits of the bankrupt law. She is the most prosperous nation of all those of Europe engaged in the World War. Her industrial development since the Avar has been remarkable. She has practically no unemployed. In short she can pay, on any reasonable settlement, if she wants to do so. Nobody tvants to crowd her, or give her any harder terms than AA'ere given to Great Britain. Has Not Paid Cent Yet in all these years she has not paid a cent of either interest or She has never sent us a word to show that she eA'er expects to pay. Some of her statesmen like to repeat that France will pay, but when they telle to each other by speech or print, they talk like a people who haA’e resolved never to pay. a They like to say that the money was bortjOAved during the war, as if that made any difference; but more than a billion dollars of It was loaned after the war to keep France from bankruptcy then. It went out of the American taxpayers’ pockets to keep French taxpayers from having to dig it up then. They say that much of what they borrowed was spent in this country—as if that made any difference. But Borah points out that huge sums of this was loaned to France by our taxpayers to pay back loans France had made—so as to save the French taxpayers from raising it then. When our troops Avent to France they charged us for everything, and their charges were not low. We paid French port charges for the ships which took our troops and supplies to her aid. We paid France a third of a billion dollars for ordnance. And we never complained, though we spent there about a third as much as France owes us. Makes Connter-Charges And the claim is made on behalf of France, notably by a distinguished Belgian writer, that we were loaned money by France during our Revolutionary War, which we never repaid, and that with compound interest this would noAV equal France’s debt to us. This is one of those false statements which one is tempted to call a lie; but probably those who make it belle\'e it to be true. Borah makes It impossible for them to believe it longer. France did lead us money. It helped us much. When the war was over, France promptly dunned us for the money. We expected pay and were not offended Avhen she asked us for it. And we paid it. Considering our condition we paid it promptly. We owe France nothing

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Virginia Rea

In keeping its faith in American artists, the Pine Arts Committee of the Chamber of Commerce will present Virginia Rea. soprano, and Max Rosen, violinist, two American artists, in a joint program at the Murat on Saturday night, May 9, as the closing feature of Music Week.

Thursday. Hughie Clark first came into prominence when ho scored a decided hit in Irving Berlin’s soldier show, “Yip Yip Yaphankers.” Other acts on the bill will include “The Broken Mirror,” twenty minutes of laughter, not seven years hard luck, with Fred Schwarz, its creator, as chief comedian. Herbery and Neely, billed as “The Laughlanders,” are recruits from the legitimate stage, lately featured with the “Ziegfeld Follies.” Eddie Fritzgerald and Harry Madison offer a comedy skit, “It Might Have Happened,” wherein one appears as a detective in the guise of a traveling salesman who meets up with a crook also traveling under false colors. The closing act will feature Harry Brown, the singing juggler. The screen attraction will he “Barriers Burned 'Away,” a drama of the great Chicago fire, with Frank Mayo and Wanda Hawley in the leading roles. Pathe News, Screen Topics, a comedy and review make up the balance of the program. Indianapolis theaters today offer; Royal Scottish Clans at the Lyric; “Little Miss Bluebeard” at English’s; Jack Joyce and his horses at Geith’s; Lena Daley and players at the Capitol; Nick Lucas and “As Man Desires” at the Circle; "Omar” at the Murat; “The Great Divide” at the Apollo; “One Night in Rome” at the Colonial; “Madame SansGene” at the Ohio and a complete new show at the Isis. The Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays indorse the features as adult entertainment at Ohio, Apollo, Colonial, Circle and Crystal.

but gratitude for her aid in that war. If any debt should be collected to the last cent, it is a Avar debt. If nations can contract debts for Avar purposes, and tho beg out of them, what incentive is there financially to keep the peace? France is able lo pay. She should pay. There is not a single reason why she should haA-e any better settlement than Britain was given. This is the conclusion of Senator Borah, and it should solve the doubts of every American. Keeping a daughter in clothes isn’t always a financial problem. Lame excuses can’t go far. The boss doesn't have as good a time as the office boy. One beautiful thing about popular songs is they don't last. Distance lends enchantment to the old swimming hole.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 30,1925

In New York By James VV. Dean t ■ ■ NEW YORK, April 30.—Two night ago I saw President Machado of Cuba whisked through the streets with a big detail of motorcycle cops clearing traffio for higfe Coming to a stop at Times SquiMr many of the passersby crowded about to get a glimpse of him. Then they turned one to another and asked "Who iaf that gink?” The president of a neighboring country could walk ,up and down Broadway attracting little attention. Yesterday I saw Jack Dempsey in an open car stop on Eighth Ave. Within .half a minute there were a hundred persons around him, holding forth cards and scraps of paper for his autograph; Within two minutes traffic was blocked and a cop ordered Dempsey to more. Tho crowd ran after his car and when it drew up to the curb in the next block a score of men were on the running board before it stopped. Tho chauffeur drove up Eighth Ave., circled several blocks and returned to the Pennsylvania station again. A new crowd quickly formed and the cop chased the car again. Dempsey drove to Fifth Ave. and back before he could shako off the crt)Wd and enter the station. These contrasting scenes are related that you may reflect on the question: What is fame? Your correspondent asks your kind indulgence if the quality of his daily record seems below' its usual low level for the present. His first radio set is keeping' him doors much of tho time and hearing more than he la seeing* There is more thrill for him in getting a static squeak from Omahas than in getting a peep behind Broadway curtains. And just to think! He does it with an indoor aerial on a three-tube set which wasn’t built for distance, distanco being the ond thing that didn’t interest him when he bought the set forty-eight hourq ago!

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