Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1925 — Page 4

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Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee. —Job. 15:6. No more delay, vain boaster, but begin.— Dryden. Labor Injunctions Going Out SHE attitude of the Federal courts toward labor injunctions is becoming more rational. Federal Judge Baker in West Virginia has just ruled that in the future his court will not issue temporary restraining orders until the defendants have had an opportunity to answer the complaint; that the plaintiff will be required to file a bill of particulars and the defendants shall have the right to inspect and answer them. The ruling was made in connection with the court’s decision that peaceful persuasion of miners to join the union is not a violation of an injunction issued by the Federal court back in 1913. 'f Henry Warrum of Indianapolis, chief counsel for the United Mine Workers, declared the court’s decision was the greatest victory ever won by the miners. It certainly marks a change in West Virginia. There the operators had been accustomed to obtain injunctions just for the asking and to use their own police in arresting officers and members of the union for alleged violations of the order. Judge Baltzell in Federal Court last week took a position similar to that of Judge Baker. He refused to issue a temporary restraining order against coal miners in Indiana, saying none could be issued until the defendants had had a chance to be heard. If this sort of clear thinking becomes general among Federal judges, presently the injunction may be reduced to a “due process of law”—after having been for years much more than that.

The Lame Duck Amendment mT is unlikely that Vice Tresident Dawes will listen to the suggestion of Senators Moses, George and others that he put his voice behind the Norris plan if he really wishes to expedite the business of the United States Senate. The Norris plan provides for amending the Constitution so that the short holdover sessions of Congress would be eliminated. Under it, the Congress elected in November, as well as the President then elected, would take office at the first of the year. As it is now the President takes office in the following March and the new Congress not until the following December—more than a

i Issues Warning on Impressionable Age*

Hebert Quick, noted author and newspaper editor, who dlea at Columbia. Mo., Sunday niKht, wrote mrularaly for The Indianapolis Times. The following article from Quick's pen, received by The Times today, was ouo of the last things written by him.) By Herbert Quick SWO remarkable statements have recently come to me. They relate to the very basis of our society—the sort of children we are rearing. I think It true that character Is formed at an age much younger than people generally think. I doubt whether much basic alteration In character often occurs after the age of 12. Analyze the characters of people who have seemingly made ra’dical changes in their characters after they have grown up, and you will usually find that they are really surface changes. The passionate, wilful, deceitful, Intemperate or unstable person will usually be found In the exercise of the same qualities In another way after wha t Is called reform. Hence, whatever our children are at the age of 12 a quarter of a century and probably—nay, Inevitably—much longer. If they show a downhill lapse, it Is something actually fearful to contemplate. One of th?se statements comes from New York City; the other from Toronto, Canada. Both tell the same story as to the character of many of the girls and boys in schools and colleges. They state that these young people are dishonest. If they can steal the answers to examinations or recitations, they do It without any apparent qualm of conscience. This is but a sample of what is given as a moral breakdown in the young in these two cities, so widely separated, and so disconnected from each other, and under two governments. What does It mean? How widely do these conditions prevail? Is the same thing true to a greater or lesser degree In your town? Have our youth lost their sense of honor? The basic depravity of a race manifests itself In the breeding of liars. Lying involves all the other sins In the category so far as character Is concerned. The habitual liar has lost the something which keeps him from crime. There is not much left of him worthy of respect. If the opportunity for profit from other wrongs, whether ojf falsehood or violence, presents itself, the habit-

year after elected. The old Congress, however, proceeds to have one more session, beginning in December of the same year and continuing until March. This is what is called the short session. It is in this short session that most of the filibusters, of which Dawes complains, occur. The shortness of the session makes them possible. But, if we read the vociferous V. P. correctly, the Norris plan is unlikely to appeal to him. ne is bent on curbing the Senate, bringing it to the heel of the President, or, at least, making the Senate take its orders from the dominant party organiza . >n. The Norri? plan would check filibustering, but it wouldn’t hand the legislative branch of the government over to the executive branch, as Dawes seems to desire. It would have the opposite effect, for it would put an end to iame duck government. Lame ducks are those members of Congress who sit through the short session, after having been defeated at the polls. Every four years Washington witnesses the spectacle of lame duck statesmen, repudiated by their constituents, voting blindly to please the White House. They throw overboard their own opinions and their self-respect to win the favor of the President. They are looking for jobs. Many times the will of the Senate has been defeated in this manner. There would be no lame duck sessions if the Norris amendment should come to pass. But it is too much to expect that Dawes will join in the effort to bring it about.

Valet Service “w 7 HAT the blazes ~ r valet?” Joseph L. ** Hogue, city contioiler, is reported to have asked Mayor Shank in connection with the expense accounts of members of the city plan commission for their recent sojourn of one week in New York. It seems that somebody turned in an item of $3.50 for valet service. As we understand it, a valet of the common or garden variety is what is known in jolly England as a gentleman’s gentleman. In the case of the member of the city plan commission, the item probably meant merely that he had his pants pressed. After all, an expense account of this kind is only a small item. The chances are that Hull Moose Walker wore out more than $3.50 worth of tires when he used that city-owned car to further the interests of the Lemcke campaign. I erliaps $1,500 is too much for eight men to spend for a week’s trip in New York. Perhaps it isn’t The way to cut the tax rate is to cut some of the big expenses at the city hall. Asa starter, it might be decided that in the future all city employes should spend eight hours at the city hall, even during campaigns.

ual liar has lost the first safeguard in his nature against committing the crime. Lying Is the open door to every eln and crime. I wonder how prevalent this degradation of the young really is. If It is gradually going on among us, It Is an omen of the gravest evil. And It is not the fault of the young people themselves. It Is the fault of the present genera-

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by v/riunjf to The Indianapolis Times Washington bureau, 1322 Now York Ave., Washinton, D. C„ inclosing' 2 cents in stav.ps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research bo undertaken All other questions will receive a persona] reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Have the priests of the Roman Catholic Church always practiced celibacy? The church law forbidddlng priests to marry was not put Into effect until the eleventh centpry. But even in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries many priests were married. Since then the law has been in full force. Are there any birds that mate for life? Yes. Among these birds might be mentioned the cardinal, the white breasted nut hatch, the Canada goose and several varieties of the swan. How man/ miles of road and how many miles of trails were constructed during the past fiscal year within or adjacent to the national forests? One thousand 'eight hundred and fifty-seven miles of roads and 4,805 miles of trails. For what novels have the Pulitzer Prizes been given In the past five years? 1924—"50 Big” by Edna Ferber; 1923—" The Able McLaughlins’ by Margaret Wilson; 1922—"0ne of Ours" by Willa Cather; 1921—“ Alice Adams’’ by Booth Tarkington; 1920 —“The Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton. Ts it possible to remove rust stains caused by the presence of Iron in the water from bath tubs without ipjuring the enamel? Rust stains of this character that do not yield to the action of ordinary household scouring powders shouh be rubbed with a piece of

tlon of grown-ups. I am not making any statement of the farts. I do not know. them. I have been reading such things as those above menu >ned, however, and 1 believe they call for an examination everywhere. For If these evils exist they are not confined to any two cities. They must be exhibitions of wide-spread tendencies of baleful Import.

cloth moistened with a weak solution of oxalic acid. Make the solution by dissolving one teaspoonful of oxalic acid crystals in a half glass of hot water. If the rust spot Is not removed by this treatment the iron is probably combined with the enamel in such a way as to stain it permanently. Is the consumption of milk and cream decre-ruiing hi the United States? On the contrary there has been a steady Increase for a number of years. The consumption In 1924 was 62,772,000,000 pounds, as compared with 50,440,000,000 pounds In 1923. The increase is said to be due to Improvement in quality of product, delivery In sanitary containers and a general Increase in the know! edge of the value of milk in the falet, the result of campaigns and special advertising. The .figures are based on reports of the board of health in about 850 large cities in the United States. Who was the Indian that was a member of General Grant’ staff? Brig. Gen. Ely Parker, a New York Seneca Indian. Is there such a thing as the spontaneous generation of disease germs? Pasteur proved years ago that there was no such thing. Who was "Lochlnvar?” The hero of a ballad in Scott’s “Marmlon” who carries off his sweetheart Just as she Is about to be sacrificed In marriage to another whom she loathed. What Is the difference In the weight of anthracite and bituminous coal? Anthracite coal Weighs forty-seven to fifty-eight pounds to the cubic foot and biturpinous coal forty to fifty-four poundb to the cubic foot.

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Her Name Is Not Flashed on Program, but She Is Important Person at Palace

By Walter D. Hickman mT is impossible to flash the name of every person that helps put over a show on the ; program. Some artists In a theater work j day and night, week in and week out, and yet they never get their names in the big lights. Ever since the Palace installed its big organ, with the exception of about three months. Miss Justine Herder has presided at the pipe organ. She hag more to do than Just preside at the organ during the showing of the movie part of the program. Before a picture is presented at the Palace Miss Herder and the musical director must not only look at the picture, but must it. In triis way. the pipe organ music each week follows the tempo of the movie. Music is selected that will reflect the mood of the various scenes. In this way, the organ builds up additional atmosphere, which aids In putting over the movies at this theater. If one stops to consider for a second, he will arrive at the conclusion that the organist must be a regular walking musical library. And that is true. This makes it necessary for her to he ready to play hundreds of the standard numbers as well as new hits. A Jazz scene must have Jazz music, and a dramatic scene often Invites classical music. The need of appropriate organ music has resulted In the Palace building up a valuable organ library, as well as orchestral. It costs lots of money to put music to pictures. But this Is absolutely necessary In the modern vaudeville and movie theater. Although the name of Justine Herder does not appear each week In the bright lights. Just the same she is a most important person at the Palace every hour that the big theater Is open.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

DIET AND HEALTH T“T|ISS CLARA BAUER, 17. of Columbia City adjudged the healthiest girl in Indiana in the recent health contest at Purdue —never drinks milk. She

drinks coffee and 'eats candy. George C’uskaden, 14, of St. Paul —the-health-iest boy—drinks | a quart of milk ! daily. He doesn't touch tea or coffje. Between meals he only | eats apples. For breakfast he has eggs, ham, mush, pancakes,and bread. The girl winner break fasts on cocoa, toast and fruit. Apparently they

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are normal young people and in eating follow their appetites. That may be wrong, but It seems sensible. Paavo Nurmi, the great Finnish athlete, munches an apple, throws away the core, and goes out and breaks a world's record. Charles Mellor, American marathon runner, races with a bulging chew of tobacco In his mouth. Chauncey Depew, who recently celebrated hi* 91 birthday, eats no meat except poultry. Some other 90-year-old probably eats corn beef —d cabbage thrice dally. Diet Is r dodbt Important—but dietary rt . applicable to one person fail flat when applied to another. Probably most people will be just as happy and long lived If they eat what they want and follow their Inside Information In regard to diet Instead of rules in a book.

DUTIES OF HEALTH OFFICERS r=-\n. Herman n. bundeI r)| SKN of Chicago told IndiL I ana health officers, meeting in Indianapolis Tuesday , that a great many duties now assigned to health officers should be performed by police and fire departments. "Energies of health officers should be directed toward keeping sources of food pure,” he said ‘ instead of keeping tin cans out of alleys and ordering replacement of plaster fallen from ceilings and walls.” By a process of accretion, health departments have become, with or without their consent, the repositories for all sorts of public chores. If a neighbor paints his house an atroci us green complain to the city health officer. He will compel the offender to repaint the domicile a demure white. If a city dump becomes obstreperously fragrant call the city health officer. If a cat dies in the street and Inconsiderately refuses to bury itself, notify the health officer. These and many others are the customary duties of the health officer. Asa result he becomes a sort of official Paul Pry. Probably If his activities were concentrated on food and water supplies and controlling epidemics there would be more public health. Boy Scout Field Meets Five district field meets for Indianapolis Boy Scouts will be held Saturday. Troops of North Star, Rainbow and Harrison districts will compete at the fairgrounds. Scouts from the Yankee district go to Brookslde park, Pioi.eer district to Jameson park, West Side troop to Belmont Ave. anad W. Washington St., and Garfield district to Garfield park. ( f

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When the organ plays at the Palace, you can be sure that Justine Herder is the cause of the pleasing melody.

NEW SHOW OPENS TODAY AT PALACE Written and staged by Lee Mattlson, "Just a Little Different,” the act presented by Mattison's Broad way Society Orchestra, Francis Guilford and Beronyce Branche at the Palace Theater the last half of this week, Involves all kinds of entertainment, including comedy. songs, dances and music. Mattison is a member of musical comedy, appearing in the opening of the Follies of 1025. "Stolen Bits From Musical Hits" comprises'a large number of popu-

By GAYLORD NELSON.

BUSY BANK BANDITS EP. COX cashier of the Wajlemillo Cnd.) tank. • bank, was forcibly taken from his home to the bank when his wife Monday night by robbers and compelled to unlock the vault. He couldn't work the time lock on the money safe so the bandits only got $75. This was the sixth Indiana bank robbery in a little more than a month—with a total loot of $21,000. Evidently bandits are about the busiest gentry in the State and are enjoying considerable prosperity. Asa result cashiers and other employes of Hoosler financial Institutions spend their days with faces to the wall and hands stretched celllngward. Even their evenings are given to entertainment of bank robbers. Various remedies have beenproposed to stop this Increasing pillage of financial institutions by outs. lers. Vigilance committees orga dzed In each community are sugr _*sted. Bounties for dead hank rob ers are offered by the Boone County Bankers' Association. Illinois is a State bounty law. Possibly all such special efforts might eurh the bandits. But. after all. there Is nothing new about bank robbery’. It Is an old. established crime. The frequency with which It Is committed Is dlstrewrfrig—but needn't make society hysterical. Probably without resort to special methods and agencies, the bandits can be checked by relentless pursuit by sheriffs, relentless prosecution, and relentless sentences under present laws. CHILDREN IN THE STREETS SWO children—a little boy, 4. and a girl, 9 —were taken to city hospital Monday suffering Injuries, perhaps fatal, from automobile accidents. Three times as many little children have been injured by autos In Indianapolis during she past month than during the previous month. Apparently many Indianapolis youngsters are finding that the call of sp'Hpg—luring them Into the streets—results In calling an ambulance. Asa result of the mounting toll police are warning parents to keep children from the streets. A month ago similar warnings were Issued and police indulgel In quite a campaign to keep youngsters out of traffic danger. Despite which, with warm weather, the casualty list grows. Play Is an important business to children for health and growth. However, thoroughfares are not suitable playgrounds. There pastime and children are too likely to be disorganized by traffic. Children darting unexpectedly across the pavement are not only trying to nerves and brake-bands of motorists but fatten accident records. One-third of the 20.000 persons killed In automobile accidents last year In the United States were children under 15 years of age. Motorists are not always to blame for accidents Involving youngsters. Not even the mo4t reckless driver enjoys running over a child and crushing Its body. Such treatment does neither, the driver, the child, nor the pavement any good. But many youngsters Just naturally gravitate toward the center of the roadway and danger. Consequently a temporary safety campaign won't reduce accidents to them. Eternal vigilance on the part of officers, parents and drivers is required.

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lar songs taken from this season and last. Harry A. Keesler, tenor, and Hazel Moor, soprano, supply the me! odles, while the Newton sisters dance. Grace Annette is at the piano. Although she is “Late for Rehearsal,” Emily Darrell stops a bit to chatter and sing. The Worden brothers are featuring a fete of feats by the feet that are asserted to he remarkable. "A Study In Thlnology” Is the humorous offering of Grindell and Esther. "The Man Without a Heart" is the photoplay In which Kenneth Harlan and Jane Novak are starred. Pathe News, a comedy, and a scenic are the short reels. -I- -I- IOther theaters today offer:' “Song and Dances of 1025,” at the Lyric; Berkell Players in "The Best People,” at English’s; "Runnin’ Wild,” at the Capitol; "Adventure.” at the Apollo; "The Charmer.” at the Ohio; “Introduce Me,” at the Colonial; "My Son." at the Circle, and a complete new bill at the Isis. The Indiana film indorsers Indorse the following features at the Circle, Ohio, Apollo as adult pictures and “Introduce Me,” at the Colonial, as family.

Coolidge, Congress and Potash

mT comes up every so often, that story of potash deposits in Texas. This time they have found potash deposits while drilling deep for oil. Scientists once more say that there are evidences of immense amounts of it—but no certainty. Congress has appropriated a small sum for test drillings. It could properly give a hundred times as much. For on the supply of potash the future of agriculture in many parts of this country depends. We have to put in nitrogen. We get that from Chile; and we can get it from the air. In the superphate9, or as wo usually call them, the acid phosphates, we put back some of the phosphorus and the sulphur we take out. Phosphorus Is In the earth In the form of a mineral. We have In our phosphate rocks as much of It as any nation In the world, and there Is plenty of sulphur available for centuries. But unless we have a great potash de-

Tom Sims Says News from London. Rainbow shoes are the fad. Hot dogs! Brooklyn (N. Y.) clock fell out of a tower, striking one. Great Britain’s back on the gold standard. So are our dentists. Haircuts are up In Chicago, maybe due to the fKing of England has had his pay cut In half. What the | king business I needs is a strong union. Nebraska girl plon speller of five States. She didn't learn by being a stenogThe London Zoo has mice smaller than bees, which may look as big as 'horses to some women. Doesn't matter, but Liangllng Chang, new Chinese consul, may have been named for a fire wagon. Boston cops are using tear gas. It Is not made of spring onions. Girl who met a millionaire in Florida will marry him In California. It was quite a chase. Uncomfortable chairs In the office will get a lot of work done. Little power bids often are raised on the bottle. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) This and That By Hal Cochran You hie to the kitchen ’cause, golly, you're ltchln’ for Just a wee nibble of grub. The ice box is open, and soon you are gropin’. For what? Well, that’s really the rub. You can’t Just decide, as the food Is all eyed, what it is that you’re craving to eat. You're appetite’s strong but you know you'll go wrong, If you mix up the sour with the sweet. There’s this and there's that. There are lean things and fat. There is lettuce and jelly and cheese. You get out the bread and you go right ahead, and you’re soon eating Just what you please. What fun to be piecing, while hunger’s Increasing. Why, even the meat loaf is carved. 'Tis thus every night. Y'ou just wanted a bite—but you eat like you really are starved. Repair Bridge Approaches Approaches to the Delaware St. bridge over Fall Creek, which have been In bad condition since bridge was opened for traffic January 1, will be repaired soon, members of the board of works stated at meeting Wednesday. Board has adopted resolution acquiring land for north approach and bids are sought for paving on south side, it was announced. Funeral Service Saturday The Rev. O. A. Trinkle, pastor Englewood Christian Church, will officiate at funeral services for Mrs. Mary E. Du Granrut, 67, an active member of the church, at 2 p. m. Saturday at the residence, 43 N. Bradley St. Burial will be In Crown Hill Cemetery. She had lived here more than flfty years. Broad Ripple H. S. Dates The June graduating class of Broad Ripple High School will give the play "Agatha’s Aunt,” at the school Friday. Class arid Annexation day exercises will be held May 22. baccalaureate sermon June 7 and j commencement June 11.

Hope to Tame Earthquakes

Times Waahinaton Bureau, lset Neio York Avenue. TyTI ASHINGTON, May 14. Human ingenuity probably ■ J will never be able to prevent earthquakes, but at least It can do much to make them harmless, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey believes. < Accordingly it has determined to put aside the ancient attitude of fatalism toward earth shocks and face the problem of making it possible for earthquakes to occur with the least possible damage and loss of life. The last Congress authorized the Coast and Geodetic Survey to study earthquakes in the United States to locate the regions of their most fre quent occurrence, their causes, and if possible a method of prediction. This work has been started by E. Lester Jones, director. After determining the sections where earthquakes are most probable, the survey will try to make cities safe fmm tremblers by studying typos of earthquake-proof construction and the effect of building on different geological formations. It has already been established by the Chilean government that special construction moth .de can greatly reduce loss of life and property damage. While earthquake prediction would

posit in Texas, we hsve none so far as we know which is cheap enough and plentiful enough to make our food supply safe. Hence, Congress should be liberal. But when Congress meet/* again we shall as sure as fate see bills introduced to stimulate the search for and production of potash through a tariff. This will be merely a preparation for theft. There are some salt lakes which yield potash. Their ownera might through a high tariff push up the price of potash until they could make money out of them; but it would be ruinous to our farms. What we need Is cheap potash. Cheap potash can never come from theee lakes. It might possibly come from the Texas deposits. Whether or not it ever does is a gamble. Congress should

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be immensely valuable In discover ing menaced districts and giving them an opportunity to build wisely, the Geodetic Survey will make little effort to learn how to predict the exact time of earthquakes, fearing that such prediction would disorganize life to an unreasonable extent and cause added panic when the earthquake did arrive. In the case of submarine quakes followed by tidal waves, however, time predictions would be valuable, the department believes, permitting vessels to go to sea and shore dwellers to move from positions menaced by the waves. The theory that volcanic action or falls of rock in great subterranean caverns cause all quakes has now been discarded by scientists. At present, the most widely accepted theory places the blame upon faults or cracks In the earth’s surface caused by great strain from un known internal forces. After the fault has occurred, the two parts slip either horizontally or vertically. It has been proved also that there is a connection between earthquakes in the sea and the deep ocean troughs existing off the coasts of Japan, of the Philippines, of Jamaica, and of Mexico and Central America.

finance the search. But it should never raise the .tariff on potash. President jCoolidge should put the screws to France and Germany in every possible way to stop the extortion of that combine of FYench and German potash monopolists which makes the price so high. The slogan of the farmers should be: "Spare no money to develop the Texas field; give us free potash from France and Germany and stop the robbery by the European potash combine.” Some of Mr. Coolldge’s railway specialists might look into the freight rates on fertilizers. We have talked enough about doing something for the farmers. It is time for a show-down on these very practical things.