Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1925 — Page 6

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■No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or re■fcing the right to speak, write, or print, freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of

layor Shank and Busses jOWING his usual policy of favor- ; the Indianapolis Street Railway ' in all things, Mayor Shank has come rely opposing operation of motor i street caT-liues, in neighborhoods adcar lines or in localities where street tsions are contemplated, e are a few sections of the city in •eet car extensions have not been conlat one time or another. Os course, knows that a contemplated car line l means exactly nothing, would leave little open for the bus s. His letter could rot have been imn if it had been dictated by a repreof the street railway company, interests of the, city administration confined to the interests of the public. I open competition always is in the terest. Competition makes for better nd lower rates. Monopoly usually ior service and high rates. This has lonstrated time and again, it probably is too much to expect of int administration that it would opwishes of the street car company in est particular. I When We Say ‘Please Remit’ HIS summer will likely see the commencement of parleys for the settlement urope’s debts to the United States. First France, then with Italy, Belgium, Roua and the rest. Counting the now arranged British debt, people of Europe owe the people of this try some $11,000,000,000. That’s $lO ;e for each one of us, an average of SSO amily. Now SSO is a lot of money to the average ly. Naturally we want to collect. The s are out and when they fall due they be paid. And if European taxpayers do )ay them, American taxpayers must. But, in our eagerness to collect, let us not ook our own best interests. Now is the time when Smile is a better horse than Sneer, tnd we can lead, in this case, better than we can drive. If Europe chooses not to pay, or refuses to pay, we can not make her pay, anyhow. You would search in vain to find one American who would advocate sending an army across the Atlantic to collect.

We should seek to drive no sharp bargains nd try to remember that a sincere effort to

THE BATTLEGROUND OF EVOLUTION

Editor's Note: Thi* Is the first of two articles intended to make clear the nature of the edueatoinal battle in Tennessee. which is rapidly drawing- in the whole United States. The second will appear tomorrow. ""'IAYTON, Tenn., May 20.—Tennessee has long required that i the Bible be read in Its public schools. Now It has undertaken to prevent the teaching of any theory in conflict with literal translation of the Bible. It has thus become the field on which evolutionists and anti-evolutionists will ride full tilt in their firs, legal battle. William Jennings Bryan will again enter the courts as a lawyer, brandishing the State’s bludgeon against evolutionists. Against the State, Bryan ar and the Commoner’s backing of Fundamentalists will be the American Civil Liberties Union, the influence of champions of free speech and religion, and J. T. Scopes. He Is Defendant Scopes la a biology teacher in the Rhea County High School here. In the legal sense, he Is the defendant. 'ln reality, he is one of the least 'mportant factors in the case. The defendants are the high school, col’ege and university teachers of the State, all who believe In the commonly accepted theory of evolution, # md all who do not believe the ISible literally. In the background are all contending religious and poetical factors in Tennessee, from jltra-Modernists to rock-ribbed Fundamentalists, from Governor Austin Peay to the Ku-Klux Klan. Scopes, like many other high school teachers, used a State-ap-proved biology text. This book taught that animals progressed gradually from the lowest types to man. There scopes ran afoul of the new “anti-evolution law.” Tne law prohibits teaching in public schools any theory that man 'descended or ascended from lower •animals. It bars any theory which conflicts with the Biblical account T)f the creation of man. It followed massage, of a Sunday theater-closing saw by the preceding Legislature. ;tt was considered concurrently with •a bill to make belief in Jesus Christ r prerequisite for school teachers. This bill, apparently aimed at Jewish teachers, was swamped by public censure. Heard by Justices Scopes, charged with violating the ,anti-evolution law, was heard by a court of three Justices of the peace. He was bound over to the grand Jury, which vfill convene in August. of evolutionists.

understand Europe’s worries and to help her get rid of them will carry us farther than any amount of pounding the table and reminding her of her foibles. To us Europe may seem bristling and to be spending far too much money on arms. But if we will only realize that each and every nation of Europe is honestly and not-entirely-without-reason, afraid of its neighbors, we may eventually contribute vastly to doing away with those fears. Above all, as Owen D. Young, the real author of the Dawes Plan, advises, “let us see to it that the great moral, physical and financial power of this country is not used to impose impossible and unfair terms and so pave the way for future default with all the evil reactions and bitterness which that may bring to the next generation." By all means let us look after our own interests. If we do not, nobody else will. But nothing could possibly be more detrimental to those interests, or more dangerous to our own future peace perhaps, than to give the world the impression that we are a bunch of Shylocks after our pound of flesh. So when we say, “Please Remit," let’s don’t growl and tack on an unnecessary “P. D. Q." The Golden Hill Project SHERE is not the slightest excuse for a city park at Golden Hill. An effort was made early in the Shank administration to sell the property the park board now contemplates buying to the city. At that time the project was frowned on, as it should hsve been. Then Mayor Shank moved to Golden Hill. This changed everything. The park project was revived immediately and now the city is planning to spend $51,000 for land in that neighborhood for park purposes. The neighborhood is sparsely populated. The reason for this that the inhabitants, being for the most part wealthy, have houses surrounded by spacious grounds. The population, including Mayor Shank, have parks of their own. Os course, the Golden Hill project would be fine business for the few persons who live in Golden Hill. It would tend to prevent the encroachment of residences and filling stations on that exclusive neighborhood. But there is no reason under the sun why the taxpayers of Indianapolis should buy land in order to keep up real estate values in an exclusive section of the city. Why not establish a few more playgrounds in the congested districts?

anti-evolutionists, Fundamentalists, Modernists and politicians mobilized to join the scrap directly, by proxy or by propaganda. The State, Bryan et al., will charge that Scopes wilfully violated a State law. They will defend +ho law with the contention that tho Utf.te. having created and developed Its system of education, can control It. Scopes does not deny violation of the law. He ond his co-champlons

OUR FIVE-FOLD FREEDOM

By Harry B. Hawes Member of Congress from Missouri m 1 HE original Constitution could 2 I n °t have been adopted except upon the express promise of its framers to immediately pi epare and submit certain amendments. When we study either the original Constitution or these first ten amendments, we are immediately impressed with the care with which each word was selected, the shade of meaning whlcl? it was intended to convey, and the order of importance in which subjects were arranged. The very first amendment presented by the first Congress, and the one which concerns this discussion, reads as follows: * "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: or abridging tha freedom of speech, or of the press; ro the right of the people peacably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” This is one of the articles in our Bill of Rights, and it has been followed in substance by every State in the Union. In Five Parts The old fathers divided this first, clause of our Bill of Rights into five parts: 1. Freedom of religion: 2. Freedom of speech; 3. Freedom of press: 4. Freedom of assembly, and 5. Freedom to petition for redress of grievance*. We are at once- Impressed, first, with the logical of arrahgement, anfl then with the close relation. Intertwining and contact of the five parts, j No student of democracy will dis-

of freedom in thought and religion will attack the law Itself. They will claim It Is unconstitutional in that It tends to deprive Scopes of hls livelihood. It Is conceded the case will go to the Supreme Court for final decision. It Is admitted that it will be a Fundamentalist-Modernist fight, not of Tennessee alone, but of the Nation, and with every available resource of each faction doing Its bit.

pute the statement that we could not lose any one of these five without destroying the force of all. There can be no freedom of the press or of speech without religious freedom, because if we struck down the right of men and women to exercise their individual choice in the selection of the most sacred thing in Ife, the grantng of freedom of speech and freedom to print would be useless. Tarts Interlock Freedom of speech which denied freedom of expression in the matter of religion would not be freedom. It would be an arbitrary government censorship of the first order. Freedom of the press could not exist without freedom of the other two, because freedom of the press is merely freedom of speech reduced to writing and printing. If men could not lawfully assemble and exercise freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the freedom of their press, then the first three would be of little value. And when, having acquired the freedom of religion to direct morals and control vices, freedom of speech to discuss these things, freedom of the press to explain and record, and freedom of assembly ln which to gathei together and secure a majority voice on a subject, and then to stop would be a disastrous limitation, because out of ail these things should come the sifting process of ascertaining reforms that are necessary and grievances that might arise, and to deny the right of petition of grievances to a government would be to prohibit a forum where complaints could b 9 beard. Therefore, we find that all five are connected; that they cannot be divided or separated, and each form a special part of a single.subject

THE INDIANAPOLIb TIMES

Tom Sims Says The paths of glory lead but to the gray hair. Keeping your nose to the grlnd-

stone never wears out the stone. Most people’s aim in life Is happiness. And most people are aiming so high they miss it. We didn't know a couple were married until we saw them yawning. First patent for balloon tires has been Issued. Oversized heads need protection also.

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This is the silly season, and In New York one policeman arrested another policeman. How busy Isn’t as Important as why busy. The bee Is congratulated. Mosquitoes are swatted. Two Boston men caught a girl who fell from a window. They usually drop their handkerchiefs. Teacher married her pupil In St. Louis. Same as most weddings. X - - that's so rare's beer In June? (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA .By GAYLORD NELSON

KEEPING THE FOOL-KILLER BUSY

I ' -IYL.VESTER KUHN, while I S I jotting gas for his truck I lat a Prlncteon (Ind.) filling station Monday, struck a match to see how his tank was filling.

He still lives though hls clothing was blown off and he was burned. To think that such an accident could occur in this enlightened age In Indiana! Os course gaeoline. In these degenerate days. Is dull and sluggish. It does not burst into activity with the suddenness and enthusiasm that character-

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ized its behavior in bygone years. Frequently on cold mornings it won’t bestir itself at. all until prodded by blistering profrnity. But even yet it retains a spark of temper and virility. It unanimously resents being slapped In the face with a lighted matcl. And Hoosiers are practically weaned on gasoline. One would presume that here, where every one, almost from birth, is acquainted with its outstanding peculiarities r.o one would take liberties with the stuff. Year after year playing with unloaded guns, starting fires with kerosene and similar performances claim the usual number of victims. Warnings are ineffective. Apparently people, while they know better, persist in taking chances by unnecessarily flirting with thoroughly advertised and proved hazards. Borne seem determined to keep the fool-killer busy. LIFE-SAVING DEVICES T"T|ISS LILLIAN WEYL, art jVJ director In the Indianapolis ■ schools, was on the Mississippi River steamer Norman the sank recently near Memphis. She has sent & detailed report of the tragedy to Federal authorities at Washington. Thirteen years ago the Titanic ripped against an iceberg. Over 1,600 persons were carried to death in the frigid North Atlantic. The world was shocked. There were exhaustive official investigations. Asa result rigid rules have been prescribed governing passenger boats. Life preservers, boats and rafts—sufficient to provide for all on board—must be carried. Nothing has been left undone —theoretically—by American navigation laws to safeguard passengers' lives. Yet the Norman—unequipped with even meager life-saving devices—sank practically under the nose of Federal officials. When the boat’s danger became apparent Miss Weyl could find no life preservers. The few small life boats, full of leaves, dirt and trash, were Immovable and useless in rusted davits. Wireless equipment was out of order. Help, Just around the couldn’t be summoned. So a score of people were drowned as casually and prosaically as one would throw into the creek a litter of kittens tied in a sack. Os course there w ll be a searching investigation to affix the blame. But investigations aren’t life-saving devices. Perhaps some time. it will occur to authorities that such tragedies might be more surely prevented by enforcement of safety rules. mufflingT CITY NOISES mNDI A^JAPOLIS street vendors will have to cry their wares in the deaf and dumb alphabet if an ordinance introduced in city council and other night is adopted. It permits, on streets and alleys, only the hue and cry of newsboys and taxi drivers. Doubtless suppression of noine is desirable. But why should the dulcet tones of rag, fish and vegetable peddlers, and other haw-

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You can ret an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington > Bureau. 1322 New York Avs.. Washlnton. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, oor can extended research be undertaken All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. By whom was the steam shovel Invented? Invented in. 1840 by an American named Otis, but did not come Into general use until 1866? What Is a good remedy for “leaf curl” In a peach tree? Spray with lime-sulphur in the fall or early spring before the buds swell. Be sure to cover every bud with the spray. 9 Do flies have eyes? The fly has a pair of compound eyes projecting on each side of the head as convex, immovable structures. The compound eye consists of a great many similar parts, each a complete organ of vision, but requiring the surrounding elements to form the whole Image. To what country does Czechoslovakia belong? It does not beling to any country. It Is a completely Independent and fully sovereign state, having a republican form of government. Can small pox scars be removed? Only by surgery. All treatments for their removal have proven of little value. The scars will tend to diminish with time, however.

kers, he muffled, while newsboys with brazen lungs tear the precious, early morning hours to tatters? Os course It is Important to know that Abby Rockefeller is married and that Jack Dempsey will or will not fight. But It Is not vitally Important to know such things at 6 a. m. The news will safely keep until after breakfast. Then there are many other classes of noise-makers that might well be restrained by ordinance. There Is the sheik who Infests quiet, residential neighborhoods evenings and, with his thumb frozen to his auto horn. Imperiously summons his sheba. Also there's the fellow with a light, shivering roadster, equipped with a horn like an Inter-city bus, who scares other traffic up telephone poles. And many others. But even if every unnecessary city noise was muffled, enough din would be left to keep eardrums aqulver. A city dweller will never know perfect quiet and repose until his final sleep. Then probably flat-wheeled street cars will haunt him. Cities are constructed of steel and concrete, not cotton batting, so they unavoidably clatter and clang at every wiggle. They can’t sneak up on greatness on gum shoes. CURE FOR THE BLUES mESSE ALTUM, Indianapolis carpenter, took slow poison ton days ago. He wanted to die because of financial difficulties and In order that his life insurance might rave their modest home for his wife, e “I’m not sorry, '* he said in city hospital, where he had been rushed, following his act. “I want to die. It Is the only way out.” He didn't get his wish. Prompt medical attention saved his life—but It was p. narrow squeak with the outcome In doubt for several days. Now, slowly convalescing, he impatiently awaits his discharge from the ward. “I’m the happiest man In Indianapolis,” he declared yesterday. “I’m glad I’m going to live. I had the blues, that was all. I’m over them now. We’re going to give up the home and go to the country. It’s a great place to be in the spring.” He is now full of vim, vigor and optimism—but there has been no change In his financial affairs. His debts still stalk grim and forbidding. The possibility of losing the modest home is as great as ever. The only change Is in his attitude toward such troubles. The case Is a concentrated sermon on optimism! What are debts and harassing business troubles compared with life and health? When mortgages growl and creditors show their teeth it is annoying. One then becomes despondent and longs to escape. A walk through the valley of the shadowed, however, is usually convincing that it is no way out. It’s a sure cure for the blues.

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Serving Supper Without Food to Two Baritones and a Famous Foreign Teno r

By Walter D. Hickman mN your wildest imagination could you conceive of having as your supper guests two noted baritones and a famous foreign tenor. Without sending Invitations, I gave a supperless supper, meaning without food, for John Charles Thomas and Giuseppe Danlse, both great baritones, and Richard Tauber, noted German tenor. It Is good to dream and dreams are the best that a lot of us get out of life. So I dreamed a great musical supper and with the aid of my phonograph and Brunswick and Odeon records I had Just that—a wonderful musical evening.

Dawes May Aid Norris Plan

Time* WaehinOton Bureau, ISti New York Avenue. ASHINGTON. May 20.—For \jy several years Senator Norris . of Nebraska has been advocating, in and out of season, the elimination of the biennial lameduck session of Congress. He proposes a constitutional amendment changing the date of inauguration and the beginning of congressional terms from March 4 to early in January. His proposal has been accepted by the Senate in the past, but in order to come before the states for their approval it will again have to be acted upon by both houses of Congress durinj the same session. Moses for Plan It is now thought possible that Dawes' agitation for a change in Senate rules may unwittingly lend strength to the Morris plan. Senator Moses, G. O. P. regular from New Hampshire and President Pro Tern, of the Senate, stated In an address at Syracuse. “There is a remedy for everything complained of, and one which may be applied wholly outside of the rules of the Senate. The Senate itself ha* twice shown a willingness to adopt this remety. Senator Norris has proposed, and the Senate has agreed to submit, an amendment to the Constitution which would enable the new President and the new Congress to take office in the January following their election. , “Under such an arrangement there would be no so-called short session of Congress, and in consequence no filibuster could be indulged in. I have not observed that any of those now so busily engaged in defaming the Senate have shown any willingness to endorse Senator Norris’ proposal. It may be that they are as ignorant of it as they

THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

I permitted Brunswick to introduce Danlse, sensational Metropolitan opera baritone, to open the evening with "Panis Angellcus,” (O Dord Most Holy.) I discovered that Fredrlo Fradkln played a violin obbligato while a harp and a pipe organ assisted. This Is sure getting a wonderful musical background. Great Beauty It seems that most of us enjoy best a tenor, but the more I hear of the great baritones the more convinced I am that both are equally good as to voice. In this number, Danlse made me feel a certain spiritual reverence

are of the actual effect of the Senate rules.” Senator Moses and Senator Norris, though both nominally Republicans, are seldom In agremeent on legislative matters. Vice President Dawes and Senator Norris are as far apart as the poles in their political philosophy. That Dawes, through an attack on the Senate, should provide JuX the necessary assistance needed >y Norris to put over his long south! reform, Is regarded as highly Housing in Washington. /, With evidences that jresident Coolldge has no sympathy with Dawes in his Senate fight becoming more evident each day, even the stanchest supporters of the Vice President are now Intoned to doubt his success. But, wnatever njfty be the outcome of hls attenYt to put a limit on Senate debate’, the forces that have been opposed to the exercise of legislative power by lame-ducks have been encouraged by the present unexpectd turn of affairs.

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Vacation in The Northland

Leave the sweltering city. Go to the cool northland. Rough it in the exhilarating air with nights so cool you’ll want blankets. The Adirondacks Great, deep, shadowy forests. Crystalbright lakes. Gamy fish. Invigorating swimming. Golf courses* tennis courts — and peace and calm and beauty all around. Thousand Islands Fishing parties—golfing parties—riding parties—exploring parties all in this glorious water-surrounded, island-dotted •pot. A thousand islands, a thousand gayeties, a thousand good times. Canada Y*rimeval forests ribboned with rivers and dotted with lakes teeming with pike, bass and muskellunge. Splendid hotels. Delightful trip down the St. Lawrence. Visit Montreal and Quebec. Tor booklet end complete informntlon cell or ■ddreeeCity Ticket Office, 34 W. Ohio St., phone Circle 5300, or Union Station, phene Main 4567. J. W. Gardner, Div. Paaa. Agt., 04 W. Ohio St.

BIG FOUR ROUTE

WEDNESDAY, Ml

which brought a sort of a calc to my apartment. On the other iid * of this Brunswick, I felt the' ame spiritual rest filling my house*** 11 ® Danise sang “Pleta Signore, Have Mercy.) Decinding to keep the atones together, I invited Brunsw^ 4 to ver ' mlt John Charles Thom/ 1 to Bln *> his two latest numbers. And I discovered that* 1 * 8 n * w *’*' lease contained twV American favorites, “At Dawnli/" an< * " ln The Gloaming.” Her**™ two " w * et numbers, reflecting American love sentiment, especial "Gloaming" number. Here is a voice/* lßl records with marvelous ease. f y° u lov ® the ol(1 ’ fashioned stuff, then get this new Thomas-Brunsw' lc record. \ ijtle German By this tlf* I wa* ln the right mood for t^ al quiet inviting and restful mu*i°* * was glad that Richard TA*ber waß "present.'* So I lnvite<j. jdeon to permit Tauber to sing delightful numbers ln German/'’ woe "Der Lens,” ("The f sing”) and "Eln Traum,’* (“A Tredm,”) by Grieg. Her* is a ’fclorlous tenor voice. The record was recorded in Europe and is rich. Oh, so rich, ln real melody. If ever you feel that you need a sympathlo voice to sing into your very self, invite this tenor on an Odeon record to visit your home. Try this little musical supper at your home any evening and I am sure that it will turn out to be a banquet. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Silent Witness” at English’s: Olympia Desval at the Lyric: Twenty Minutes in Hollywood" at the Palace; “Deolaase” at the Circle; “The Way of a Girl” at the Apollo: Lena Daley at the Capitol: “‘The Little French Girl” at the Ohio, “A Roaring Adventure” at the Isis and “The Mad Whirl" at the Colonial.

Greatly Reduced Round-Trip Feres to Summer T ourlat Points From Indianapolis to Niagara Fall*, N. Y. $26.90 Thousand Island Park, N. Y. 642 Kfi Lake Placid,N.Y.. $46.40 Toronto, Ont... .$26.00 Bala, Ont $32.75 Montreal, Que.. $46.40 Corresponding form to other points Tieksts on sots to September J*

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