Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1925 — Page 6

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

WHAT’S IMPORTANT mT isn’t so important, perhaps, that our children learn the theory of evolution. It isn’t so important, even, that they learn of the theory that Columbus discovered America. The A-B-C’s are important. Writing is. Arithmetic is. These are not education in themselves, so much as they are the instruments of education and a child thrown into the school of life nowadays without them has small chance of surviving. He must be able to read the traffic rules, for instance, if he is to avoid being pinched. He must be able to write, if he is to write home for money. He must be able to add up his change or he soon won’t have any. But we can imagine a boy growing up to be a successful hod carrier or feed merchant or Florida real estate salesman or, above all, politician, without ever having heard that the scientists have a theory, based on hard searching and study, that man as we know him today evolved from a lower form of mammal. And we can imagine a girl growing up to become a successful bride —aye, even to become the bride of the Prince of Wales—without being aware that the consensus of opinion is that Christopher Columbus was the first to find America. Also we can imagine the boy and the girl achieving these or similar successes in life without having been taught that the human race originated with Adam and Eve. These things are not important as facts. Indeed, they are not facts, in the sense that the fingers on your hand are facts. They are only theories. The statement that Columbus discovered America is open to question 'and is being continually questioned. Certainly the same can be said as to the theory of Adam and Eve. What is important is that children of school age shall have access to such knowledge as has come into the possession of mankind; that teachers sjaafi be free to tell them wha they themselves have learned of human history and to put them in touch with the teachings of others. No school can undertake to say to a child of a certain age, you shall not graduate from your present class into the next unless you believe in evolution. All the school can say is, you shall not pass unless you have learned what that theory is, whether or not you believe it. Likewise, you shall not pass u’Jess you have learned that Columbus is gener.illy reputed to have discovered America. 7ou are free to believe it was Eric the Red, if yo a like. There is where we disagree with those who call themselves Fundamentalists. They would not allow either the teacher or the child this essential freedom of thought. They would, in effect, say you must believe. They would stifle thought. That is a real menace. If they should succeed completely, if they

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should put an end to the use of the mind, it might have the effect of proving the case for the evolutionists. For, whether or not man developed from the ape, he certainly will retrogress into the ape if the process of thinking is ever stopped. Arms Control Fiasco And Why r q ]Y the time the Geneva arms conference f P I has finished its job the only weapons of war subject to international control will be paper cap pistols and popguns. And this will be optional. Thanks principally to America and Britain, the scope of the convention called for the purpose of limiting the sale of war paraphernalia, is shrinking like a snowball under a July sun. Both countries carry on quite a traffic in arms of one sort or another. And then again the United States wishes to be able to continue the unhampered sale of war supplies to Latin-American governments which it desires to support. Furthermore the United States does not intend to allow any League of Nations project to be an unqualified success if it can help it, an- 3 the arms control conference happens to be under the auspices of the league. British maneuvers to prevent warships from being placed on the control list succeeded. She has some she wishes to sell. Ditto guns and other arms carried on warships, de spite the fact that such armament can be used ashore—and were, most effectively during the world war. Airplanes—generally admitted to be the most deadly of all future arms—will not be subject to control, nor will armored cars and the like. Most important of all, each country, in the final analysis, will be left to publish its own statistics on the importation and exportation of arms. This last resulted from the United States refusing to cooperate with any international arms traffic office with which the league had anything to do. And league nations, under the covenant, cannot set up such an office outside the league. So there will be no such office. Which means that any agreement arrived at now, at Geneva, for the control of arms will not be worth the paper it is written on. Any nation could disregard it—and would whenever it felt it -was to its own particular interest to do so. If the United States was sincere in its expressed desire to see some sort of control placed over international traffic in armaments, it has played a most surprising game at Geneva. * If, on the other hand, it desired still further to undermine the influence of the League of Nations for political purposes back home, then its delegate can report progress.

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Giving Cake to Jordan River Revue; ' Hodgini Helps to Make Circus a Hit

By Walter D. Hickman rpTI OMETIMES J cut the cake of I I success and divide the pieces, * I but today I give the whole cake to the Jordan River Revue. Because the 1925 college show of Indiana University turned out last night at the Murat to be the most satifaetpry of all the college shows I have seen this season. And the reason Is a simple and vital one—every one In the big cast remained a universal student. They did not atte npt to be professional. There were no males parading about as female Impersonators. No *ets and scenery or costumes made In Chicago, but an entire university show. The musii and lyrics were written by memters of the student body. The show wo a written, staged and directed by them. Even the costumes were designed and made by the home economics department of the university. And that Is Just what should be done In a college show. Personally, lam getting tired of seeing college students trying to imitate professionals. But the Jordan Revue had the best dancing girl chorus I have ever

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

RUSH FOR GUN PERMITS OLBERT H. LOSCHE. Marion County clerk, Is being rushed by applicants for permits—under the act of the last Legislature—to ~*rry revolvers. “There will be a lot of gun

toters,” he declared. The first three permits granted went to men whc. said they wanted to carry pistols for personal protection. FVorn the rush to get armed one would think that Indianapolis Is a frontier mining camp where the citizen's chance of survival depends entirely on his

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quick ness on the draw and ability to shoot from the htp. Indianapolis Isn't the New Jerusalem. More bandits than cherublms flit through Its streets at eventide. Nevertheless there would probably be no decrease In crimes of violence or greater personal protection for the In* habitants If the entire citizenry was armed. Frequently It Is urged that the way to check hold-ups, burglaries and similar outrages Is to arm people so they can fight back. Theoretically that's a perfect cure. Practically it would probably result in more peaceful citizens getting perforated. Bandits and hold-ups don’t announce their Intentions until they have the drop. For every ease fn which a lawabiding householder has protected Ills life and property with a revolver, there are a dozen tragedies caused by Its presence In the home or pocket. To the ordinary man, engaged In peaceful, prosaic occupations, a gun Is about as useful for his protection as a battle-ax or a bow and arrow. ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE A*’"”"""" N Indianapolis woman Is out {270. Two men Worked the old fake pocdtetbook game on her the other day, with the usual results—she has lost her savings and the polios have another Job. The swindle was simple. While one of the men was’talklng to her his confederate aproached with a pocketbook he claimed to have found In the street. It contained $2,100, he said. The pair offered to split with her if she wouldn’t report the And. She Joyfully aoqulesced. But In order to get her share of the treasure trove she had to provide change for a SI,OOO bill. She gave them $270 for that purpose and they left. Right here the plot curdied as far as she was ooncemed. She’s still waiting for the SI,OOO bill. Perhaps the police will apprehend the swindlers and recover her money. More likely they won’t In any event the victim isn’t entitled to much sympathy. The victims in all confidence games are trapped by their own cupidity—the attempt to get something for nothing. In fact, In all such swindles there Is little difference In the moral status of victim and perpetrators. About the only way to get something for nothing Is by the natural death of a rich uncle. Yet every minute one is bom who thinks otherwise. If It wasn’t, for them the police would have little to do except chase bandits and bootleggers. THE LAST~ STAND M l- -” ARION County Grand Army veterans are seeking to ——l raise $15,000 to repair and improve “Fort Friendly,” their home at 512 N. Illinois St., which through the generosity of the owner they occupy for a rental of $1 a year. Only a few survivors of the Civil War are left in Indianapolis. At Fort Friendly they are making \thelr last stand. In the State the G. A. R. membership has shrunk from 4,124 to 3,203 In the past year. However, though the of these veterans are dwindling rapidly and will soon be extinct, other

seen In a university show. Miss Mildred Legge, Zenda Bertram, Jane Adams, Francis Luke and Norma Nagel had real voices and charming ways In which to put over their songs. Some of the cpmedy bits were well handled by John Mutz. His topical song was a winner. William Romey was not only a good looking general, but he had a real voice. The male chorus could sing and dance. The orchestra In the pit helped to put over the show and the Princess Theater orchestra certainly could spill moonlight Jazz. But the real victory of the evening was that every man and woman in the cast remained university students. And for that reason I tell the world that this revue Is the most satisfactory of all university revues I have seen this season. A LITTLE OF THIS AND MUCH OF THAT AT PALACE It is no difficult Job to pick the winning act on the new Palace bill. Name It. I wll. Here goes— Franklin D'Amore. Even handicapped by a rather crude beginning this act lands with

veterans will take their places. For thfe next sixty years It will he those who fought In the SpanlshAmerlcan and World Wars. After that? America Is a peaceful nation, neither quarrelsome nor aggressive. Yet since the founding of the Republic the longest interval of unbroken peace It has known was the thirty-three years from Appomattox to the sinking of the Maine. And in that period occurred numerous little, Indian wars. It has been involved In major wars with more frequency than almost any other civilised nation. After Waterloo, Germany did not engage In war for fifty years. After Sedan, It remained at peace until the invasion of Belgium forty-three years later. France, after Waterloo, enjoyed two periods of vndlsturbed peace each of more then forty years. Compared with these bellicose European countries America Is about as peaceful as a couple of wildcats. We talk about the end of war. Certainly International peace Is s great Ideal. However, unless the national character of America Is entirely changed. It will he some time before pacifism here becomes more than skin deep.

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a wallop when the two men put on a burlesque classical dance, topping that fur.ny triumph with some real balancing stunts and exhibitions of strength. Am telling you that this act has talent and novelty. Both men work with ease. The company part probably refers to the woman who presides at the piano. Swor and Lee, a blackface and tan act, have some clever Jokes which they mix with songs. MacBryde and Redding offer a playlet, "The Meanest Man In the World.” To me it was pointless and uninteresting. Poorly played. Rice and Caddy have enough showmanship to get laughs with the old gag of mixing up the English language. Audiences seem to still like this line of patter. Danny Graham is- presenting hi® revue In which Graham Is the whole works. He Is an eccentric stepper of real ability. He can stop the show any time tik desires. I think that three of the girls of the company expose too much cuticle, meaning flesh. I am not old fashioned but bare legs must have the proper background if an artistic effect Is to be obtained. The movie Is “Who Cares.” At the Palace today and Saturday. • • • KLAN CIRCUS GETS A GOOD START HERE As the f*iks who visited the opening performance of the Klan circus, last night were taking their well satisfied kiddies to home and bed, I was Introduced to a real circus boy. His name is Joe Hodgini. “young Joe” they call him to distinguish him from his famous father. Joe, Sr. Is one of the greatest riding comedians of all time and the feature of the circus. And little Joe, he told me, although only t\go years old. cries to get on a horse. He Is a great boy and no doubt will in a few years be handing circus patrons laughs and thrills as his father Is now >dolng. The Hodgini troupe Is the biggest hit of this good show. Never before have I seen a circus act forced to do two encores as Hodgini was last night. There are many other features to this show. In fact, It Is a regular circus with everything from monkeys to pink lemonade. There are many thrilling aerial acts. Among these are the Five Fearless Flyers, a casting act. Bobbie Fisher Is the feature performer of this troupe nnd he had the audience cheering last night. Charlie Cofctello also hands out thrlls from the top of the tent. .He walks upside down by sticking his toes in loops suspended from en apparatus, as far from the ground as he can get and still stay in the tent. I also met Costello nnd found him a regular old time trouper. Incidentally Costello risks his life twice a day because he can’t get out of the habit. He owns a large cotton plantation In South Carolina and does not have to work. Also had a talk with Lorette, the famous clown policeman. Ixirette

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Women and elephants are afraid of mice. Men, however, are afraid of all three of them. What the United States needs is a substitute for substitutes. Wealth may not be a curse, but It cause a lot of cussing. Life has Its ups and downs. The best way to forget the downs is by remembering the ups.

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Funniest news today comes from Peoria, 111. Frank Nohootch was fined for having booze. Movie man admits he is getting only SBSO a week. We don’t see how he manages to live on It. Winder if any of the popular songs of today will recall any fond memories in the future? News from Paris. Famous painter says he uses his wife for a model. That’s a model wife. has clowned all over the world. Told me about performing for the Prince of Wales and receiving a box of cigars from the president of the Argentine Republic. And then there is Cecil Iv>wnnde, whose family have all been riders since his great grandfather's day, and many others. It Is a great array of circus talent. There will be performances at 7.30 and 9 each night, except Sunday, until May 30. (By Observer.) •!• -I- -IBROAD RIPPLE TO HAVE A PRELIMINARY OPENING Arrangements have been made between the Chamber of Commerce of Broad Ripple nnd the management of Broad Ripple Park for a preliminary opening of the park which will take place at 8:80 p. m. Saturday. There will be talks by James Makln, president of the pftrk, as well as by members of the Chamber of Commerce, and others interested In the affair. The opening will be held In the new open air theater. A special attraction for the affair will be the appearance on the stage of Mile. Theo Hewes’ dancers, which consists of a group of young women who will stage an elaborate terpslchorean act. Other stunts will be provided for the occasion. A dance will follow the opening ceremonies and vaudeville offerings. • • • Other theaters today offer "The Silent Witness,” at English's: Jimmy Watts at the Lyric: Daley at the Capitol: “Declasse" at the Circle; "The Way of a Girl,” at the Apollo; “The Little French Girl.” at the Isis. The Shortrldge High School orchestra will give a short concert at 9 p. m. tonight.

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