Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 306, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1925 — Page 6

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He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.—Prov. 11:28. Rich men without wisdom and Darning are called sheep with golden fleeces.— Solon. We Can Expect Nothing SHE primary is over. It interested a few hundred politicians, who play the game, and several thousand voters went more or less half-heartedly to the polls and cast their ballots. The public generally was amused at the numerous bonehead plays on the part of the politicians. Two or three weeks from now the average citizen will have to think awhile before he can recall who the nominees are. And the average citizen can not be blamed for his attitude, for it will make little difference who is elected next fall. It will simply be a choice between two political groups, either one of which will conduct the affairs of the city to the best advantage of itself. The public is not fooled. Neither is it so apathetic as it seems. The citizens of a city like Indianapolis when they strike sometimes strike rap'dly. • # # |7=T|N the face of returns, John L. Duvall has been nominated by the Republicans and Walter Myers by the Democrats. Duvall has the backing of the George V. Coffin Republican machine. Coffin is an oldtime politician, schooled in the ways of professional party workers. If Duvall is elected and can keep Coffin from becoming the Bill Arinifage of his administration, he will have done better than his predecessors. Duvall has noting particularly to recommend him. lie is the beneficiary of a peculiar set of circumstances. He rode into the nomination on the crest of popular sentiment, based not on qualifications nor on issues but on religious and racial division. But Ralph Lcmcke, his nearest opponent, ns a candidate, would l ave been no better. He was on the other side of the fence in the popular division. He had the hacking n? a crowd of machine politicians that are no wo/se and no better than the politicians who are on the Duvall bandwftgon. The result of the Republican primary will make little difference in the future of Indianapolis. (

By >l. L. Tracy E 1 "—“ NGfLAND’S return to the gold standard—meaning that she i___J will permit the export of gold to pay bills and establish credits—is but another proof that she dares to play the game. England has * recovered more rapidly than any other European nation, not because she suffered less, or the war cost her less, but because her men of affairs, her manufacturers, industrialists and landlords, have had the nerve to pay taxes. England, including some of the rich, has actually gone without things, while other people danced. England has paid, while other people borrowed. England has Insisted on a balanced budget insofar as It was possible, while other people bet on an

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Av> Washintnn, D, jC., inclosing 2 cants in stomps for rpply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor, Is a contract legal If dated on Sunday? No. What is the salary of a college accounting teacher? About SI,BOO per year. 1. Who is the new premier of France? 2. What , Balkan country is threatened with another revolution? 3. Give the name of the important negro na-' tional organization meeting in Indianapolis during the latter part of July? 4. What leading nation recently changed Its monetary system? 5. Who invented the first successful airplane? 6. What Important reform in the legislativebranch of the national government Is Vice-President Dawes advocating? 1. Paul Paineleve. 2. Bulgaria. !. National Association of Negro Musicians. 4. England. 5. Orville *nd Wilbur Wright. 6. Dawes Is trying to establish a rule to pre/ent any sen or from engaging In unlimited de. ate, by means of which a session can he prolonged until adjournment time, when it would be too late to act on the quesion before the house. Generally speaking, what kinds of food are fattening? Foods rich in fat. carbohydrates nd protein. Among the foods rich

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inflated currency to take care of the mounting deficit. 1 England has funded her debt to the United States, while other people were content to default. And now England will establish huge credits In this country, though she has to let go of some of her gold reserve to do so, and buy goods in ever-increasing quantity. You've simply got to hand it to the English people. They are stubborn, self-willed and, as some try to Imagine, lacking in a sense of humor, but they play the game straight through. You don’t hear them whining when they’re down, or see them kicking a fallen foe In the face after they have won a victory. They are hard, when it comes to driving a trade, and a’ways insist on an even break, If not more, but once the trade Is closed, they can

In fats are bacon, butter, cream, oils and Engli h walnuts. Foods rich In carbohydrates are apples, bananas, cornstarch, dates, honey, potatoes, rice, sugar. Foods rich in protein and fat are almonds, fat beef, cheese, eggs, whole milk, peanuts and sardines. Y’oods rich In protein and carbohydrates are beans, bread, macaroni, oatmeal, dried peas. What is the salary of Babe Ruth, the baseball player? It is given as $52,000 per year. Are the Bohemians all gypsies? The Bohemians are people of Bohemia; a province of Czecho-Slova-kla. They have been called gypsies because *he gypsies have at times lived in Bohemia, and the name “gypsies” has therefore been applied to all Bohemians, but the name Is not correct, as used In reference to all Bohemians. L What are sofbe of the best works of De Maupassant? Perhaps the best known are “The Horla,” "The False Gems," "The Piece of String” and the "Necklace." How many firms are represented in the membership of the United States Chamber of Commerce? The membership at present Is about 1,350 organizations, with approximately 15,000 firms and individuals. llow is the value of a violin determined? Jlas the thickness of the wood anything to do wltn it? The study of thickness, form and quality of the wood used in a violin determines its v>.lue. The thick-

On the Democratic side, Myers has been in the political game for a number of years. He is known as a Democratic organization man — so far as the Democrats have an organization. If he is elected he will he a Democratic organintion mayor. It will be the same old political story. • • • • W IYISIONS within parties do not last very bzL J long. There is much talk today about the Lemcke strength being thrown to Myers in the fall, hut if Myers expects mmh support from this quarter he will be disappointed. Republican politicians have slept in the same lied too long for a difference such ns exists today to be in the least permanent. When the fall campaign gets under way we shall see them all lined up at the same pie counter with Gecrge Coffin and Bill Armitage pulling together side by side. All of this has happened before and it will happen again, if the present system is continued, • • • tV UT this sort of thing is not going to last J__J forever. Thousands of Indianapolis citizens—most of whom never were and never will he active in party politics—are aroused over the condition of municipal affairs under party domination. They are insisting on anew deal and they expect to get; it. They will get it in the form of city manager government. A petition, ( now bearing many more than enough signatures to call a referendum on the subject, is in existence. Additional signatures have been obtained daily through the heat of the primary campaign. This petition will be filed. It will result in an election on the subject of whether Indianapolis is to continue under the present type of political control or whether the city shall he put on a business basis. There should be no question about the outcome. The city manager movemonf is more alive today than it ever was. The campaign is going forward steadily, gaining momentum as it goes. The group of men and women who were behind it at the start arc still behind it. TV . ~ V* * The city government of Indianapolis will be put on a business basis. But this will not he accomplished by any candidate nor by any political party.

usually be depended upon to abide by it. It is rather unpopular to pra.'se the English in this country, because our great-grandfathers had a couple of quarrels with them, but they still come nearer speaking the same language and thinking the same thoughts that we do than any other nation. We can not afford to cousin them too much, because they are such sharp and cold-blooded jergalners, but neither can we affutd 'o Ignore their good points, or the community of Interest which natural i,/ exists between them and us. It means dollars and cents in our pockets that England Is back to the gold standard, not only because of the Immediate trade that may result, but because world commerce has been stabilized by Just so much.

ness of the wood has much to do with the tone of the instrument. What is the size of the Sahara Desert? It is about three thousand miles long and one thousand miles across at the greatest width. Uncovers an area of about three and one-half mil lion square ml es. What is the postage rate for air mall? Eight cents an ounce for each zone. There are three zones: Ntw York to Chicago, Chicago to Cheyenne, and Cheyenne to San Francisco. The rate an ounce for the entire distance is 24 cents. A Real Book By Hal Cochran Os all of the tooks that are printed these days, there is one that is up In the lead. It s king of them all In a good many ways and It’s one that we all like to read. To have and to hold it brings pleasure galore and It keeps lots of worries away. We all ought to know what this book’s really for. for the owning of one seems to pay. We open the pages and read from the book. It chases away a!! th* frown. The cause of the thrill, when we’re taking a look, is the figures, in Ink, scribbled down. You sure ought to know what I'm talking about. This booklet that stands out alone, and gives us the greatest of pleasure, no doubt, is the ihin little bank book we own.

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Virginia Hea and Max Rosen

Virginia Rea. American soprano, and Max Rosen, violinist, will ap-

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

OFFICERS AND LAW CHARGES of drunkenness were preferred against a police sergeant and a patrolman before the Indianapolis board of safety Monday. At the

boards last meeting nnother local police officer was haled before It for a similar offense. Quite likely most policemen are human — few of them resemble cherubs even remotely. So perhaps It Is not surprising that occasionally one should display human frailty and succumb to thirst. However even one

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swallow Is now banned by statute. East week the former mayor of Gary and four other Lake County officials began prison terms for conspiracy to violate the prohibition act. About the same time thirty-three ex policemen of Cincinnati were consigned to the same Institution for the same offense. A short time before the mayor and chief of police of Bicknell, (Ind.,) matriculated at worth by direction of Federal Court. They flouted the same aot. Os course some laws are more generally conceded to l?e Innately righteous than other*. Murder and robbery are frowned upon by everybody except their perpetrators. Violation of some other statutes joes not involve ’he same degree cf popular moral censure. However, officers sworn to enforce tha laws must respect and observe all the laws—without distinction—themselves. They should be mo> i severely punished for violations than private individuals. They not only break the statute, bur. black the eye of law enforcement. f MULTIPLYING TRAFFIC RULES mHE Indianapolis city council Monday night passed an ordinance prohibiting more than three persons from occupying the front seat of an automobile. The measure is intended to promote traffic safety. No doubt overcrowding the front seat may cause accidents by cramping *he driver in an emergency and distracting his attention from the business in hand. Perhaps the practice should be officially condemned. But an ordinance aimed at that particular menace simply adds another frill to the already complex fabric of traffic regulation without corresponding Increase In traffic safety. It isn’t the number of people in an automobile that Is dangerous—it is the manner In which the machine is operated. An automobile with a single occupant whose mind Is elsewhere may be more hazardous than another car that Is packed like a eardine can. Os course regulations may be multiplied Indefinitely until they are so numerous that neither motorists nor traffic officers can remember them. Traffic accidents will still happen. Merely multiplying the rules won’t prevent them. Strict, regular. Impartial enforcement of a few Important existing laws will accomplish more for safety than a regiment of minor regulations—each enforced fitfully following a fatal smash and then allowed to slumber. *

pear in a great joint recital to bo given Saturday night at the Murat under auspices of the Fine Arts committee of the Chamber of Commerce. These two artists have been engaged to give the final concert of Music Week here. Members of the winnning high school orchestras, glee clubs and the like will be on the stage. Indianapolis should give a capacity audience as proof of appreciation of good music.

Weekly Book Review , This Time White Measures Woodrow Wilson

By Walter I). Hickman ml IE measurement of Woodrow Wilson has been taken again. This time by William Allen White who does not consider the former war President ns a god but a man who had a big Job. The big thing about this book is that White does not give wings to Woodrcw Wilson nor does he plaster him with cheap mud. Woodrow Wilson was a man—a man who became president and who

BUDGETS MUST NOT BUDGE State board of lax comI missloners recently advised _J Marion County commissioners that the county council can not meet in special session and make appropriations not provided for in the annual budget— except In extraordinary emergencies. But in Marion County the can of milk is already spilled. Not long ago the county council, in special session, appropriated over $-10,000 to cover expenditures beyond the budget. And it was no Extraordinary emergency—just an ordinary yearly occurrence. Os course, county Institutions must be continued, and dependents cured for. even If the funds allotted for the purpose fall exhausted by the wayside. County governmental functions can't take a vacation toward the close of the fiscal year and wait for the budget to catch up Consequently, if not sufficient money is provided for necessary purposes originally, the county council must make several appropriations or must sally into the highways and byways and, with short sections of lead pipe, collect additional funds. However, a budget that does not actually control expenditures Is useless. Its nothing but an Idle gesture. There is no use In pointing with pride to cute in the budget adopted—and then piecing out expenditures with additional appropriations. Why not adopt in the first place a budget adequate to the county’s needs, and stick to it? A TUNEFUL WEEK mN Monument Circle there is a band or orchestra concert—with talented soloisJts—eveiy noon this week. Large audiences are attracted. Throughout the city special musical programs are being given afternoons and evenings at schools, churches and clubs. Indianapolis is observing music week. Perhaps it is fitting that this particular period should be dedicated to the gospel of harmony. Following the primary, defeated candidates need a touch of something to soothe their Jangled nerves. The appeal of music is universal. I* Is the common denominator of human life—knowing neither national, racial nor linguistic barriers. It is welcomed and understood by '*ople everywhere. for it Is the medium by whick every human emotion is expressed. Even persons who cannot stumble flat-footedly up the scale and know not one note from another love music. The notes of a song, march or symphony thrill them. Sometimes ’he melodious voice of an alarm clock will arouse them to speechless frenzy. It is not only humans who feel the power of music. Other living creatures from cows to canaries and cobras feel Its Influence. And a Milwaukee man, who has experimented, claims that flowers retain their blooms for many days if subjected to the strain? of music. Os course, its is a poor week these days that Isn’t set apart for some special purpose. We have “fire prevention week,” "boys’ week,” "knit underwear week”— the list extends indefinitely. Nevertheless there is room for music week—and its observance In Indianapolis Is a source of inspiration and otaaaura.

Good Resolution For Music Week Is tc? Start a Phonograph Library at Home

By Walter I). Hickman mT may sound like all applesauce to speak of a collection of phonograph records as a "musical library,” but that is just what it is, nothing more or le*s. Only a few people have their own library of bqoks because the public library with its many branches eliminates the need of a large personal library. But with music, it is different. Call it just a collection of records, a library or just a pile of records but the second you put the library tag to it you increase your personal appreciation of music. This week is Music Week all over the country and a splendid resolution would he to start a phonograph library right today as a part of your own Music Week activities. I am not plugging for any one brand of records because every library should contain Victor, Brunswick. Edison. Okeh. Odeon, Gennett, Columbia and others. But in starting such a library he s'ire that you get a good start. On Saturday night Virginia Rea, Amerb can soprano, and Max Rosen, violinist, will appear In a joint recital at the Murat under auspices of the Fine Arts committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Both Big Artists Both Rea and Rosen are Bruns wick phonograph artists. I suggest that one of the first steps would be

became a world figure, and loved at the same time. Through the eyes of cold fact, White gives the world a chance to understand and study Wilson as a man who really had two natures. White in his Introduction outlines his task in "Woodrow Wilson. The Man, His Times and His Task,” published by Houghton Mifflin Company, as follows: “This book will try to tell the story, as simply as may he told, of a man, his time, and his task. His partisans have idealized his virtues and so have sought to create a superman—some sort of Heaven-sent Messiah to redeem a wicked world from iniquity. His enemies—alas, they have seen his weakness through the green and red glasses of envy and hate, and a fine old striped devil they have made of him. He was neither god nor fiend, hut in his political career a shy. middle-aged gentleman with the hoar-frost of the cloister upon his public manner, with an academic respect for facts and with a Calvlnistic addiction for digesting the facts Into his own God-given truth. On the surface he was half or two-thirds Irish and so turned to his friends a gay and lovely face. But the dour kcot. big and dominant inside him, turned to his adversaries a cold and implacable heart that transformed even the most amiable of his opponents into ardent foes with a lust for torture." Another item of interest Is that White knew Woodrow Wilson, but slightly He says: "I met hint casually several times: once while he was Governor of New Jersey, two'or three times while he was President, once or tw-lce In the White House, and I saw him once in Paris.” And, so White does not write of Woodrow as a friend but as a writer who tries to explain .certain facts and throw light on certain questions. Certain Facts Whiif gives the reader certain tools oy which to arrive at an accurate measurement of Woodrow Wilson. You first see Wilson as a hoy, accepting, the inheritance of his people. The first few chapters

Only a Few Days Lest — If you don’t get. your advertisement in the July Telephone Directory, Which goes to press May 9th, you can’t get in for six months. An advertisement in the Classified Section of the Indianapolis Directory reaches buyers at the psychological moment—when they want something. 93,000 telephone directories—a big circulation—will be distributed to stores, shops, factories and homes in this city. Will your message be included? % • i Press time is near at hand. Act now by calling Telephone MA in 9800

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to obtain some of the records of Miss Rea. Brunswick announces the following Rea records: ‘‘Barbiere di Sivijjlla—Una voce poco fa” • Rossini ■'Dlnorsh”—Shadow Son* Meyerbeer ‘‘Lo, Here the Gentle Lark” Bishop ‘‘The Lass with the Delicate Air”... Arne ‘‘Old Folks at Horae” Fosten ‘‘The Last Rose of Summer” Moore ‘‘Chanson Provencale” Dell'Acqua “L’Heure Exquise” Hahn “Sin*. Smile, Slumber”- Gounod ‘‘The Swallows” Binxham-Cowan ‘‘Break O' Day” O Reilly-Sanderson “Carmena” Walton-Wllson “Italian Street Soar” Victor llerliert “A Kiss in the Dark” Victor Herbert Victor has GaUi-Curci, McCormack and other great artists. These two should be in every h6me. Odeon has released some great symphonic compositions Including Schubert’s "Unfinished Symphony.” This should be In every home regardless of everything else. In Person Thursday the following Music events will he Rtaged here: Noon—Mcptronolittan School of Music, concert, Butler chapel. 8:00—Claynool trio and Kathrlne Murdoch. concert. Chrlstamore settlement. 8:00 —Junior student concert (negro). Second Christian Church. 8 :00—Radio programs. The following program will be given at 4 p. m. Thursday in the music room of the public library: ‘‘Roinllno” Kreisler ‘ Caprice Viennots” Kreisler “Romanza Auduluza” Sarasate Mr. W. E. Tallentire. Violin Mrs Leonora Coffin. Accompanist “Dance of thn Gnomes” Liszt Recorded for the Amplco by Ferruccio Busoni “Marche Slave. Op. 31". . . .Tschatkowsky Recorded for the Amplco by Wilfred Pelletier and Arthur Locsser. Couducted by

throw a lot of light on why Woodrow Wilson did do certain things when President and failed to do something else. This book Is one of the best sellers, not only because it concerns one of the most commanding personalities of the present generation but because William Allen White has been honest In taking measurement of Woodrow Wilson. White throws a lot of light on the graduate school fight with Dean West when Wilson Was president of Princeton. It 1 important to knoW this because you are brought face to face with certain elements or characteristics that were evident when Wilson dealt with the prob1< ms of war. And another thing—at one time there was a lot of unhealthy stories going around regarding Woodrow Wilson and a certain woman. White goes to the very bottom of the controversy and gives proof that these stories were vicious and unwarranted fabrication*. Am speaking of the Mrs. Peck matter. Ask you to read carefully page 267 of this book. Wilson In Europe In discussing Wilson’s failure to win peace. White writes: “Woodrow Wilson lost the peace, because It could not have been won: not the peace he visioned. Humanity was not ready for It. • * • The common people of the world were ready highly to aspire with Wilson. But they were not wise to choose leaders of his kind. * • * His peace implied more good will in the heart of the white race than 2,000 years of Christian philosophy had been able to put there. White prints a marvelously human and great picture of Wilson when he realized that the people of the United States had rebuked him by putting in a Republican administration. And White adds: “ * * ♦ He had to live to see everything that he held high and holy reviled by the governing majority of his country. It was

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Arthur Bodanoky ‘‘Zigeunerwelson” Sarasal* Mr W. E. Tallenttru. Violin Mrs. Leonora Coffin. Accompanist On Thursday the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will give : the following events: ... g Miss Cleon Colvin, violinist. Eleanora Beauchamp, pianist, and Miss Laura Martin, vocalist will give a musical program at School No. 18 at 1:30 p. m., and School No. 47 at 2:30 p. m. ... The Sigma Alpha lota will broadcast a program from Station WF’BM, Indianapolis Athletic Club between 6:30 and 12 p. m. ... A program on Friday will be given at the Y. M. C. A. at 8:1f p. m., by Mrs. Charles Davis, Mr. Everett Todd. Miss Anne Carpenter, Mr. Cole Watkins, and Miss Mary Virginia Wallace. ... Indianapolis theaters today offer: William Hodge In "For All of Us” at the Murat; “The Fool,” at •English’s; Jack De Sylvia Revue, at. the Palace: Shortrldge High School Glee Club In addition to the regular program at Keith’s; Daley at the Capitol, the Renee Sisters Revue at the Lyric; Jazz Week at the Ohio; “The Denial,” at the Apollo: "The Recseatlon of Brian Kent," at the Circle; “The Price of Pleasure,” at the Colonial, anad "Across the Deadline," at the Isis. a bitter curse that fate put upon him. • • *" And here Is a line or two that I like very much*. “Every physical care and comfort surrounded He often went to Keith’s Thcate® when the bill changed, and tw™ strong doormen gently helped him to his seat. • * •” Here Is a great study of a great man—human and true. Tom Sims Says Get your front teeth all tightened up for corn-on-the-cob season.

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static during its first few years. The more we see pictures of Hindenburg the better we like Pershing. You can't be wise in all ways. Even a wisdom tooth has its aohe.c Famous detective says women poor investigators. We say doubt if he is married. Can you Imagine the surprise of a Boston woman when a Jury found her husband perfectly sane? About 900 tons of sugar burfied aboard a freighter, smelling just like a husband was making candy. Ambulance had a wreck In New York, proving you are not even safe there after you are hurt. One tells us it is better to be married than lonely. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

Birds building their nests seem happy. They don’t try to make them larger than they did last year. The troubles of the world are chiefly Imaginary, but imaginary Ills are the hardest to cure. Don’t worry about the future of radio. Every infant has