Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bug. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • * ♦ Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week • • • FTTONE—MA lit 3500. \ I

There is nothing- covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. - -Luke 12:2-3. The craftiest wiles are V>o short and t igged a cloak to cover a had heart.—Lavate-r. A Coliseum Site SHE question of erecting a public auditorium or coli teum in Indianapolis has been before city official's during several administrations. On many occasions the city has been on the verge of selecting a site and taking s epa to erect the building, but something always has happened to prevent it. That Indianapolis needs such a building is beyond question. Other cities have demonstrated the fact that municipal auditoriums of generous size are profitable. Such an auditorium in Indianapolis would go a long way toward making out a case for Indianapolis as a convention city. Many things must be taken into consideration, however, in selecting a site for a coliseum. The most important is accessibility. The building must be near the center of things. It must be near car lines radiating from all directions. But of importance also are railroad accommodations. The building wolild be used frequently for exhibitions of various kinds, many of which would consist of machinery and other heavy articles shipped in from other cities and not readily transported over streets. The board of public works is considering a site several blocks east of the downtown district. It is near a railroad, but it certainly is not readily accessible to the general public. The Chamber of Commerce has suggested the Shortridge High School site. It is a little easier to get to but it has no railroad accommodations of any kind. Why not compromise on a site somewhere in the rapidly growing district just south of Washington St.? Such a site would combine accessibility and the much needed railroad connections. Going Outside The Law to Enforce It mT is becoming increasingly difficult for one to judge his neighbors in their attitude toward the law. A citizen may violate both letter and spirit of the Volstead Act, for example, and easily square himself with his conscience; yet he can’t justify a public official in refusing to perform his sworn .duty to enforce the law. That is, he can’t justify him publicly. Advocates of prohibition demand in the name of patriotism, and the Constitution, and the law, rigid enforcement of the Volstead Act. At the same time they will justify and encourage lawlessness on the part of officials in such enforcement. At least the official conduct of the chief of police of Des Moines, lowa, and the public approval it appears to meet, seems to indicate mixed emotions in the minds of Des Moines lovers of the Constitution and the law. Every law provides the punishment for its violation. The Volstead Act is no exception. Yet in his war on bootleggers the Des Moines chief of police appears to have become a law unto himself, and has invented new and unusual punishments not provided by national or State statutes. While the story that he intends to place bootleggers in stocks appears to be exaggerated, ho admits he would like to do it if the laws of lowa would permit. But he now plans to ride bootleggers about the city in a placarded patrol wagon, and has already picketed drug

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You can sot an answer to any quei'on ot fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washmton. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stuaips for reply. 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. Whero was the “Ballad of Reading Gaol” written? Oscar Wilde, the author of the balled, was condemned to prison for two years and served his term in Reading jail, where he wrote this well-known ballad. Reading is the capital of Berkshire, England, on the Kennet, near its junction with the Thames, thirty-six miles west % of London. What is the proper dress for a woman at a breakfast or luncheon given at a hotel after a wedding ceremony at the church? An afternoon dress with a matching hat and accessories. What is the best method of killing a tree? I Girdling. Cut a band three or four inches through the bark about six inches wide, clear around the tree, .c.ear the bottom. This will in a short ume kill the tree. From where did the tern? “pulpit, ' as applied to the place from which the sermon is given, originate? "N The word is from the Latin “pulpitum,” and originally meant a scaf-

stores, and one of his pickets searched the mayor when the latter came from a drug store. What is really more interesting than the spectacular efficiency of the police chief is what a newspaper story says is the attitude of the “better element” or “the church-going people.” It seems that when the mayor was searched by one of the chief’s pickets he threatened drastic action, but did nothing, “since sentiment of churdh-going people seemed to be for Cavender, ’’ who “seems to have the upper hand. Ministers in churches laud him and gene-rally back him in his ideas. • * * The better element of the city seems to be for him. Temperance organizations, women’s clubs and civic clubs are supporting him. The W. C. T. U. has ilected him delegate to the international convention in England in June.” Little sympathy will be wasted on the bootleggers. The law will take care of them on conviction. There is more significance in the mental attitude of the so-called better element which backs a police chief in taking the law into his own hands, and even violating the law and Constitution in his determination to enforce the law in his own way. This would seem to indicate that disrespect for the law is not confined to those who violate the prohibition law, but is coming so widespread as to take in what we have been accustomed to term the better element of society. Very likely none of us is entirely free from the human weakness of being willing to go to extreme lengths to make the other fellow obey any particular law we want him to obey. Whither Now, Mr. Trotsky? , VERY capital in Europe today is asking what Russia will do next. Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary, calls Russia “Europe’s most menacing uncertainty.” And now Leon Trotsky, deposed head of the Soviet army, is back from his exile in the Caucasus. For a year he has been in seclusion as punishment for his book, “1917,” which dared criticise certain of the communist leaders. The question uppermost now is, has Trotsky come back victor or vanquished? Has the Communist party decided it can not do without him, or has Trotsky taken his spanking, dried his tears and promised to be good from now on ? The Communist party numbers scarcely over a million members. There are 130,000,000 people in soviet Russia. The million, therefore, run the hundred and thirty million. That is because the masses are unbelievably ignorant and have precisely the ox’s indifference as to whose yoke they wear. Sb far as they are concerned a yoke’s a yoke. The million Communists are bossed by forty men —the central committee—and over the forty are a final seven—the political bureau. It is this little group that now rules Russia— Zinoviev, Stalin, Kamanev, Bukharin, Rykov, Tomsky and, once more, Trotsky. Trotsky was deposed by the big three— Zinoviev, president of the third international; Stalin, secretary, and Kamanev, vice premier and president of the council of labor and defense—at a time when the leaders were maneuvering to grab the power from the dead hands of Lenin. It looked for a time as if Trotsky might win. Then, swish, and he was gone. Thus the Russian triumvirate of today has either lost all fear of Trotsky and allowed him to come back for whatever his name may be worth to the party, else they need his advice and have backed water themselves. Only the future can tell which.

fold or platform, and especially a stage for actors. The root of the Latin word Is unknown. The elevated desks in our churches would naturally be termed pulpits because of their elevation. In the days of the Reformation the pulpit came into great prominence in both Catholic and Protestant churches because of the new emphasis upon the imWashin' Up By Hal Cochran Get out the bucket, the chamois and hose, and roll up your sleeves for a spell. Put on your boots, and an old suit of clothes. The auto’s not lookin’ so well. came the dust that has buried yoUr car? You'd best run the bus on the rack. Hop to it, man, show now peppy you are, and bring the old shinniness back. Bet you’ve been drivin’ the fam’ly around on the roads that are open and free. Rollin’ along brings the dust from the ground. Why, the same thing has happened to me. Call to your youngsters, and let them assist. Turn on with interest that’s keen. See that no part of the auto is missed. Doll up your bloomin’ machine. When you have finished, your saver will burn, to ride in the open, and then, you can look forward, upon your return, to washin’ th auto again.

portance of the sermon as a part of worship. Before that time the mass had held the supreme place. Os whai nationality is Bull Montana? Italian, Did the United States ever make any three dollar gold coins? These coins were minted from 1854 until 1889. There may still be some in circulation, but as they are paid into the treasury they are retained. Does it hurt plants to throw soapy water on them? Soapy water is not harmful to a garden; in fact, it is beneficial in that it helps exterminate insects. Where is the headquarters of the Girl Scouts? , 189 Lexington Ave., New York City. From what is the quotation “A little learning is a dangerous thing” taken? From Pope’s "Essay on Criticism.” The whole quotation reads: “A little learning is and dangeroue thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pieran spring; Their shallow draughts Intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us agai^.”

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Bel Canto Club Will Hold Its Monthly Meeting at the Conte Residence Sunday

The Bel Canto Club will hold Its monthly meeting Sunday afternoon, May 17, at 3 o’clock at the Conte residence, 250 S. Audubon Rd. Miss Olga Krause, Miss Katherine Lapenta and Miss Victoria Poggiani will read their own compositions on ‘‘The Italian Method of Voice Emission.” Each member will sing a selection and say a few words about the composer of the song. The musical program will be critlsed in note books and these notes will be commented on later by Miss Gertrude Conte. A little chorus work will complete the program. • • • PIANO RECITAL TO BE GIVEN WEDNESDAY Miss Flora E. Smith will present the following pupils from her class in piano in a public recital at the Cropsey auditorium on Wednesday evening. May 20. at 8 o’clock: Marie Hammontree, Ray Kealing, Marshall Keallng, Roberta Izor, Eunice Vestal, Helene Carrico, Charles Haug, Elizabeth Williams, Helen Miller, Faye Miller, Mary Louise Wilson, Margaret Henderson, Lawrence Leonard, Jane Leonard, Marion Rose Stock dale and Theresa Classick. There will also be selections in dramatic art and saxophone. • • • ANOTHER SCHOOL CONCERT MONDAY Edward Nell, head of the voice department of the Metropolitan School of Music, will present his students In an annual spring concert Monday evening. May 25. Owing to the length of the program it will begin at 7:45 and will be given in the Odeon. the school’s recital hall, comer North and Pennsylvania Sts. Taking part will be: Mrs. Dwight Ritter, Mrs. Austin Devore, Mildred Schneider. I-iola Mae Trusty, Lucretla Grlffln, Helen Seidel, Vincent Haines, Louise Wisehart, Ruby Buscher. Zelma Flora, Frank Sabac. Iris Hopper, Maxine Moore, Dorothy Ryker, Elizabeth Thale, Paul Richman, Edna Lanham, Mrs. Joe lacobelll, Mrs. Sidney

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

TWO EARS OF CORN G' " IOVERNOR JACKSON and officers of the Indiana Farm Bureau attended a celebration near Griffin yesterday. It marked the turning of the last

furrow in plow- ! ing for relief of farmers in the tornado stricken section. Between 7,000 ! and 8.000 acres i have been plowed by tractors and machinery donated for the I purpose More ground in the section has been put into crops at this time than usual. To dwellers In towns demolished by the wind.

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after the dead were buried and survivors provided with food and shelter, plans for permanent relief could proceed slowly. A few weeks’ delay didn't matter. People can live in temporary shelters indefinitely and suffer only inconvenience But growing: seasons do not wait—regardless of tornadoes and human convenience. If a farmer does not get in his crops in a few weeks in spring his annual income and living is lost. Ftm ers In the path of the tornado faced an appalling situation. Their fields were covered with debris, their buildings, livestock and tools were destroyed—and the time to plant their cropi was at hand. The prompt measures to assist them in plowing and planting was a great work of practical relief. Because of it two ears of corn will grow In Gibson and Posey Counties where perhaps none would have grown otherwise. THE HOMING” INSTINCT GEORGE HARPER of Goshen, banded and reL__J leased an oriole, caught in her yard, June 6, 1824. Yesterday the bird returned to her home, after wintering in Central or South America. It was not unusual. Northern birds winter far south near the equator and return in the spring to the same localities. They travel back and forth, year after year, unerringly and on schedule. What started them? They went south in the winter long before the ancestor of Florida realtors lost title to the Garden of Eden. What guides them on their semiannual Journey between Labrador and Gaudeloupe? Second bird migration is one of the most fascinating mysteries of nature. Other creatures likewise—dogs, horses, cats—possess a sense of direction that is never at fault. Unbelievable tales are toid of iheir feats in finding their way back from lorn? distances. To travel from Indianapolis to Florida a man must have a pocket full of railway guides Or, If by auto, a bale of road maps. Then if every mile of highway isn’t conspicuously marked he ends up In a farmer’s barnyard. North, south, east and west mean mothingto him except in print. He may get lost between home and office. Man thinks he has all the brains in creation. But birds and beasts have something on him yet. When they travel they carry their guideposts in their heads.

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On Monday nlgAt, Oct. 19, the New York Symphony Orchestra will open the orchestral season of Ona B. Talbot with V. alter Damrosch conducting. Grubbs. Claude Palmer, Helen Payne, Doris Adams, Robert Geis, Ruth Stockton, Minnie Shaner, Kathryn Bowlby, Selma Zahl, Elizabeth Clements. Mrs. John Kolmer will be the accompanist. RUTH TODD WILL, PRESENT PUPILS On Wednesday evening. May 20, 8 p. m.. Ruth Todd of the Dramatic Art Department of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts will present her students In two sketches, "Any Child Meets Memory” and "Not Quite a Bargain.” . Those taking part are as follows: Anne Carpenter. Mrs. Frank Hunter. Marthabel Pierce. Mary Pauline Phillips, Mary Katherine Miller, Nidrah Dunn. Martha McKinney, Betty Lou Wright. Janet Meditch. Several musical numbers will also be given. This program will be pre-

THE MARRIAGE BUSINESS -=7jILLIAM GARVIN, a 14VY/ year-old iX).v*of New Albany ” (Ind.), was married by a magistrate of Jeffersonville the other day. His bride was some ten years his senior. The nuptial escapade aroused juvenile court authorities. The boy, recently paroled from the Indiana Boys’ School, will be returned to that institution. The bride will be prosecuted on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a Juvenile. Probably that is as it should be Child marriages are condemned by sociologists as Inimical to public welfare. Those who violate law and public policy by contracting such marriages should be punished. But how about the marrying squire who tied such an obnoxious nuptial knot? A woman’s age is not written on her face—or anywhere else if she can prevent. By modern art a grandmother of sixty may be disguised to pass for sixteen —and vice versa. But with the male of the species it is different. A hoy of fourteen looks fourteen or thereabouts. A casual glance at him, even in the chaste light of a marriage parlor, convince the officiating squire that the youth was under marriageable age. Marrying squires, however, don’t see the brides and grooms for the fees. That’s all they look at. . Gretna Greens are supposed to be romantic. The havens of refuge for true lovers fleeing from cruel and Irate fathers. Fiction and fact don’t jibe. In Indiana’s Gretna Green, maintained by marrying squires, weddings are not romantic but pretty sordid business. TO STILL THE CRIME WAVE -pr'OLICE CHIEF RIKHOFF P is stirred by the crime wave * that has swept over Indianapolis during the past week. Loot totaling SIO,OOO has been taken in a doen hold-ups and robberies. Asa result the chief yesterday started an Investigation within the police department to devise steps to check the banditry. Bandits, he said, might be taking advantage of the fact that Jhe police are stressing, for the moment, bonedry enforcement. Mayor Shank, however, favors no let-up in the pursuit of prohibition violators. ‘‘l would rather have a bootlegger behind the bars than to have a bank robber in jail,” he said. Crime waves floo'* ebb at irregular Intervals .• no special reasons. Probably the pi :nt crest that Is swamping the city Is not due particularly to police concentration on bone-dry violations or any other individual cause. The bandits are simply working at their trade as opportunity offers—and In the past week they have hap pened to have several fat opportunities. Law enforcement by special drives accomplishes little. Intensively striking blind tigers this week, guntoters next, then the week following forgetting them and concentrating attepiion on auto drivers' under sixteen, and so on, keeps a police force busy, but that is all. Protection of life and property and law enforcement is a steady day-ln-day-out job. A police department keyed up to a state of efficiency all the time instead of by fits and starts in the armqer to a crime wave.

sented in the College Auditorium and is open to. the public. • • * CRAMER BECOMES CHURCH ORGANIST Bomar R. Cramer of the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts has recently accepted the position of organist jLt the Christ Church. • • • PROGRAM FOR CONCERT ANNOUNCED HERE A recital will be given tonight by Iris Carrol and Paulwirth Waldo, pupils of Olive Kiler. assisted by Alletah Eash, pupil of Lois Brown Dorsett, in the Cropsey auditorium. Program follows: “Sonata In F maior" Grieir Allegro Con Trio—Andante—Allegretto Quant Andantino —Allegro Molto Vivace Paulwirth Waldo and Opal Mae Thomaa "Old Refrain" ... Kreisler "Caprice Viennoia" Kreisler Iris Carroll •‘Homing" Del R4cgo dpletah Eash "Paradise” Kreisler “La Gitana” Kreisler Paulwirth Waldo “Deep River" Coleridge-Tavlor Llebes fraud Kreisler Iris Carroll "Thou Hast Bewitched Me Beloved". - Coleridge-TavlrtT “Georgia Sleep Song" Bllck Alletah Rash "Ghost Dance of the Zunis" Troyer Paulwirth Waldo Accompanists—Opal Mac Thomas. Narcte Pollit. Lois Brown Dorsett so* PUBLIC RECITAL TO BE GIVEN THURSDAY The Irvington School of Music will present its students in a public recital on Thursday night, May 21, at 7:45 p. m. at the Irvington Masonic Temple. Miss Adelaide Conte is offering one free scholarship in voice and one in piano to the one who i declared to possess the greatest gift for the subject applied for. Applications may be made any time between now and June 12. CAMPAIGN BY LEGION Marion County Posts to Gun For More Member. A membership campaign among Marion County posts of the American Legion will be held from May 25 to 29, it was announced Friday night at a Seventh district meeting of the Legion. John A. Royse. United States custom collecter, will have charge. v A mass meeting will he held at Cadle Tabernacle before the campaign. Vice President Charles G. Dawes or Judge Kenesaw Mountain Laddls, baseball czar, may be asked to speak.

National Park May Surround Cave City

Times V.'ashin(jton Bureau, IStt Sew York Avenue. rr—WASHINGTON. May 16. \Y7 Events of the next few days . T V will very largely determine whether the Mammoth Cave region of Kentucky, including the Sand Cave region where the tragic death of Floyd Collins attracted world-wide attention, will be made a national park. The entire region is to be Inspected by members of the Southern Appalachian National Park Commie* sion authorized by Congress to recommend the boundaries and areas of the proposed new national park. Headed by Representative Henry

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The New Slavery

Editor’s Note: For three years. Herbert Quick, distinguished novelist and economist, had been a regular contributor to The Times. His death- occurred Sunday. May 10. At that time he had completed several articles for this newspaper. one of which appears herewith. The others will appear from day to day. By Herbert Quick mHE president of the Illinois Agricultural Association has been looking around hie own home to see what the status of the farmer is. His home is in the heart of the corn belt of Illinois —and that means as good, black land as lies outdoors. And then he asks this question: “What has taken place here at home?” In answering his own questions he tells of following the roads running in front of his own farm for six miles. This represents twentyTom Sims Says Spring’s o lazy we eat marshmallows instead of chewing candy.

Florida man wants bachelors to pay a tax, maybe a luxury tax. Nothing on earth bores us so much as people with gimlet eyes. Ancient Babylonian ruins •show they had flappers. So do our ruins. Russian chil-

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dren are starving. The Moscow doesn’t give enough milk. London girl says 110 pairs of stockings are reasonable. We say they would be. for a centipede. Auto bumpers on telephone poles may be the next step. Hotel men held a convention in Boston. Hope they were forced to .sleep four or five in a bed. There are laws to protect game fish, but none for suckers. The hard thing about saving a dollar is keeping on saving it. There’s no place like home, except, sometimes, a mad house. Sarath Ghosh, a Hindu, left SSOO so two artists’ models could buy some clothes. Good Ghosh! Synthetic love’s awful stuff. CoDunoht. 1925. NBA Service

W. Temple of Pennsylvania, the five members will arrive at Louisville, Ky., May 21 to start on their official inspection tour of the three proposed eltes. In addition to the Mammoth Cq,ve region, areas in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia apd the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina are to be inspected. Although the areas are several hundred miles apart, many Congressmen favor including all three regions in the proposed park. Last year the same commission recommended informally to Secretary of Interior Work that the Blue Ridge

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four farms of 160 acres each. Only five were operated by their owners. The rest were run by tenants, Most Are Tenants He was surprised. A portentous fact right under his nose astonished him. So he followed another road through the same township north and sofith, and in the same number of quarter-sections found only three owners running their own farms. On the next six-mile investigation he found only four owners. All the rest were tenants. "This,” says Mr. Thompson, “made a stretch of eighteen miles, repre senting seventy-two 160-acre farms, with only twelve owners operating their own farms. There must be some reason for such a wholesale change taking place in my community in a few years.” Why, Mr. Thompson, this change has only begun In this country. Farm tenantry is growing in the United States faster than it ever grew in any country in the world. We were once a Nation of independent farmers, each owning his own farm. And the shame of the agricultural economists in this land lies in the fact that there are such men as Richard T. Ely and the men in the Department of Agriculture who write books and reports—for* tunately so dull that nobody reads them —apologizing for the tenant system and urging that farm ten* ancy is a step toward ownership. Must Bea Reason It is a lie. Sometimes a fnrhi tenant does save and buy a farm; but the cases are rare. Yes, as Mr. Thompson says, “tnere must be a reason for such a wholesale change.” ilt is not that all these tenants have lapsed back into the semi-slavery of the renter to get a start toward farm ownership. It is because land has been so high In price that a poor man can no longer buy a farm. And it is because town people like the distinction of owning places in the country. Land, In city or country, is a necessary of life as prime as food or drink. The man who has it not in city or country must pay for lta use to the man who has. Like p.ny other prime necessary of life, it should be cheap. should never sell for much more than the improvements are worth. Unimproved land should be practically free. If this were the case, city people would not own farms, and the quarter-sections along Mr. Thompson's Illinois roads would be owned by the men working them. And all they produced from them would belong to the workers. The method by which this state of things could be brought about is as plain as those roads themselves.

site rank first and the Great Smoky area next. At that time, however, they had not visited the Mammoth Cave area. From Louisville the commission will be taken in a private car to Cave City and three days will be spent in looking over the Mammoth Cave area. From Ckve City they will proceed to ikyland, Virginia, for the fifth national conference on State parks. They will he joined there by Secretary of Interior Work for an Inspection of the Blue Ridge area. An inspection of the Great Smoky Mountains Is proposed for July.