Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1925 — Page 4

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SIO,OOO Well Spent mN Lakeland, Fla., the directors of a cooperative fruit packing organisation ware deciding to spend $40,000 for anew plant. That would provide a plain, useful bijjlding. But one of the directors had a different idea. “lsn’t this a real cooperative project, with a stake in the community?” he asked, ‘“the better we make this community, the better for each of us it will be.” The result was the building on a beautiful sifcfe of a beautiful building of Spanish style, surrounded by palms and tropical foliage. The additional cost was SIO,OOO, but the members of the society regard it as the be*t expenditure ever made in Lakeland. A Friend of the Court ’ Amicus curiae, a friend of the court; hence, In practice, a bystander or party who suggests or states some matter of law for the court’s assistance.—Websty’s International Dictionary. pjpIHE minimum wage law for women enacted I I 1 by the State of Arizona is up for consideration by the United States Supreme Court. Certain interests in Arizona want it declared unconstitutional, as a similar law enacted by Congress for the District of Columbia was declared. One Warren H. Pillsbury, San Francesco attorney, has filed a brief in the case as amicus curiae—friend of the court —on behalf iof the industrial welfare commission of California. California has a minimum wage law for women and doesn’t want it killed by an adverse decision in the Arizona case. So .Pillsbury has been given the task of helping conyjjnce the Supreme Court that the Arizona law i* perfectly valid, perfectly constitutional. If R|lsbury talks the way he writes it should be a £rand day for spectators in the little chamber of the United States Supreme Court when he stands up to argue the points he has made in his brief. For Pillsbury has to. convince the court that it was all wrong—or, rather, that the decision of the majority of the court was all wrong—in the District of Columbia case. What he is asking is that the Supreme Court reverse itself. This would not be anew ex-

Turning ‘ Dixie ’ Into Opera as Well as Into Ragtime Tune Is a Job Well Done

By Walter D. Hickman I j-v I REBSING up ‘‘Dixie*’ seems ID\ to be 1116 new pet ° f mu ' I ' sic writers. We are even turning the rich old classics into stuff for Jazz dancers to hop around the floor. And “Dixie” was not to be reused ■up, because its theme can b" handled effectively and with much c&arm in various moods. I hurried home the other evening to see what Brunswick had done with “Dixie” under the title of "The Evolution of Dixie.” This record is played by the Veccella’s Italian Band, a sort of a syihconcert band. ■‘Dixie” is developed into various midods on this Brunswick record in the following manner: Introduction, dsnee, aboriginal, minuet, 1865, waltz, ragtime, grand opera and finale. Tn the second movement, the dance aboriginal, the composer of “evoluting> ‘ this song, we seem to feel the effects of wild Indian music. This ,rry3od is tantalizing and full of color. Was surprised with what ease “Pixie” yielded to a waltz movement. The grand opera touch shows ttfe rich suggestion of an overture wlslch rests some place In the melody of “Dixie.” * This Brunswick Record is highly interesting in the development and adaptation of American music. The band plays it symphonic. On the other side you will hear the orchestra playing “Love in Idleness,” of average interest. If you want to increase the value of your record library as well as kebp up with the modern touch I suggest a copy of “The Evolution of Dixie.” 7 Being Popular the other night going out on the Btileet car, I heard a woman, unknown to me, exclaim that she wished that “Hickman would tell us about some hot weather popular places.” i And that Is just what I am going , to do as follows: Harry Snodgrass—Here is the | chap who stayed in prison and when released ho discovered (or knew very well) that the radio had made him pofular. His new Brunswick release is “Dusting The Keys” and “Kue Evening Blues,” of the two numbers, I like the “blues” the best because of its snappy little tune and the way he plays it. The “dusting” .nutnber is what I call trick piano playing. rapid and full of surprise tones. This record is a great improvement over his first. Vincent Lopez—One of the most consistent orchestra winners that Okeh has is the Lopez organization. It seems to me that he has better developed sense of pleasing combinations than m.'.ny directors have. You have that iiea while hearing Lopez conduct "Why Do I Dove You” from the Broadway show, ‘•‘Tell Me pVfore.*."' and Sing-Lop," a

perience for the Supreme Court, but it would be painful just the same. Actually Pillsbury will address his remarks to only four justices who held the District of Columbia law unconstitutional. There were five, but Justice McKenna has retired. Chief Justice Taft, Justice Holmes and Justice Sanford dissented; they thought the court had no right to declare the D. C. statute unconstitutional. Justice Brandeis did not participate in the case for the reason that he had been an attorney in the/ Oregon minimum wage law case years before. So it is the minds of Justices Sutherland, Mcßeynolds, Van Devanter and Butler, or one of them, that must be changed. Either that or the new justice, Harlan Stone, must be convinced, if Pillsbury is to save the California law from going the way of the District of Columbia law. The interesting thing about Pillsbury’s argument, if it follows his brief, is that instead of stirring up the musty precedents of the past for the court’s edification, he brings the present day into court; he brings in the views of State lawmakers. State executives, State and Federal courts of today, eight Canadian provinces and six foreign countries; he brings in the comment of legal periodicals and other free agencies of opinion. He brings into court, in fact, the whole outdoors. And, as he presents it, it is a complete condemnation of the action of the majority in the District of Columbia case. Is this unfair upon the court? No. The gist of the opinion outside the court is that the court stepped beyond its proper bounds in the District of Columbia case; that it decided the case not on the law and not on the Constitution, but on its own view of public policy. Now from outside the court room, Attorney Pillsbury brings the voice of the people to remind the court that public policy must be determined by public opinion, acting through elected legislators. It is not the court’s function. Taft, Holmes and Sanford reminded the others of this fallen the District case was being decided, but without success. Maybe the breeze from California carrying with it the opinion of the country, will clear the minds of those judges Pillsbury is trying to convince. If he does this Californian will be a real friend of the court.

weird and pleasing little oriental flavored fox trot. Arcadia Peacock Orchestra—ls you desire that hold-me-tighter effect while dancing just put on “Waitin' For the Moon” and “If It Wasn’t For You I Wouldn’t Be Crying Now.” it is an Okeh record as played by the Arcadia Peacock Orchestra with Jack Ford, conductor. ■ The piano and saxophone work in both numbers is splendid. Some Sentiment Ray Miller and Orchestra—Song song writers aro getting sentimental about everything nowadays. They have been silly over Louisville, dear old Georgia and San Francisco, now they are getting wild and foolish over things that are not city or States. The leader of this brand of thought is expressed under the title of “Just a Little Brink.” Prohibition might have inspired the thought, but I doubt it. Weight and Bessinger while singing a chorus to the music, as played by Miller and his corking orchestra declared “Let us have a little drink for two,” and “If I had a little drink, just a little drink, I wouldn’t feel so blue.” Well, I can

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sympathize with the sentiment, especially In hot weather. On the other side of this Brunswick you will hear “Moonlight and Roses," using the cornet and the “sax” to great advantage. From a syncopating standpoint this record is the real goods. Had a thought the other day that many of us are playing our phono-g:-aph records too rapidly/siow down your machine and see the difference in effect by not racing the machine too much. The wise orchestra director takes care of the speed. I find I have made a mistake by racing my machine too rapidly. • • * Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Spring Cleaning” at English's, the Ranee Gray Players at the Palace, Three Aces and a Queen at the Lyric, Lena Daley at the Capitol, “Soul Fire” at the Circle, “The Painted Lady” at the Colonial, bathing and variety acts at Broad Ripple Park, “The Tenth Woman” at the Apollo, “Men and Women” at the Ohio, and “The Fighting Demon” at the Isis.

and the eggs are carried into the ant caverns and carefully attended until spring, when they are again placed on the swelling plant buds. Is it against the law to mend an American flag? No, there is no law forbidding this. What were the three leading States in the production of corn in 1920? lowa, Illinois and Nebraska. Has the King of England much power so far as the government of that country is concerned? The United Kingdom is a limited monarchy and the King of England is the titular head of the kingdom and also of the British empire. His actual powers are very limited and the government Is, in sac% in the hands of the Parliament, ax'd more particularly the House of Conmons, and the kingdom is In reality ruled by the prime minister and his government, which has at the moment a controlling majority in the House of Commons. The king performs certain ministerial functions, signs all acts of Parliament, but he is largely an ornamental official with little real power. What is a “kiva?” This the Hopi Indian name 1 for the ceremonial chamber of an Indian pueblo. In the older ruins of the southwest the kiva Is 'usually a circular underground room, but in the modem villages they are most frequently rectangular and stoove ground. The entrance is always through the root. •

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Tom Sims Says New York’s 6,000 police had a parade. The Irish are fine folks. What this country needs is to want what it needs. War debts are hard to collect. All gambling debts are.

The best suggestion for better mailing week Is, don’t give them to your husband. When a girl shoots herself she dies of heart trouble; but a man. he dies of ‘cold feet.r* The North Pole seems to be the favorite summer resort. It’s disconcerting to see a lipstick and wonder what part will reach some other

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man's face. Being dignified doesn't leave much time for working. A girl has to act silly else her friends will learn she Is old enough to know better. If you get out and work to pay the doctor It will cure you. Even if a Havana newspaper did burn, the editor didn’t have to hunt a bootlegger. A Boston man w \n jailed for kissing a girl before tht y had been properly introduced. So many tourists are going to Europe there will be no talk shortage next winter. A man eloped with his brother's bride recently. All the world loves a good lover. Just as we had sworn off reading crime news Tennessee started an evolution argument. Figures say we have 18,000.000 autos. But a Cleveland drunk, driving, reduced it by two. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

THE WARDEN PASSES DWARD J. FOGARTY, warden of the State Prison, resigned Monday. For fifteen years, despite changes in the political complexion of the State administration, he has been at the'head of the Indiana’s chief penal institution. With his retirement the State loses the services of an eminent

penologist. He is an acknowledged authority on prison management, . recognized as such both in this country and abroad. He Is particularly noted for his work with the criminal insane. Under Ms supervision the Indiana institution gained the reputation of a model prison. From time

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immemorial prison wardenships have been political plums. It was thought that anybody could run a prison, that no special training or ability was reqhired for the Job. So most of them were run that way. Wardens were appointed and decapitated according to the political exigencies of the moment. But Fogarty’s long tenure at Michigan City dispelled that Idea In Indiana. His special fitness and aptitude for the work raised the wardenship to the dignity of a profession—and he was kept in the place because of ability. Asa result probably the old. political-henchman type of warden will seldom fee seen In Indiana again. People will expect that in selection of wardens in the future ability, experience and expert knowledge will count as much aa in the choice of a president for the State university. Why not? SITE FOR~ COLISEUM EHE Indianapolis city council Monday night authorized purchase es land bounded by Washington, Market, Davidson and Pine Sts. as a site for a municipal coliseum. The tract will cost $465,000. The mayor was all in a lather a couple of months ago over the project of a magnificent municipal coliseum to cost $2,500,00. But his ardor cooled. The proposal lacked public support, he said! A large auditorium, easily' accessible, would no doubt be a deslrl able acquisition for the city. It may be a public necessltv—without which life is not worih living. But $465,000 just for ihe site is quite a lot of money. By the time Ihe coliseum Is completed the structure will represent a large Investment. Even If the funds for It come from a bond Issue the taxpayer will not escape unscatched. He’ll pay. Economy in public expenditures Is urged. Federal employes save erasers and pap„r "lips. And one Indianapolis city official recently objected because another, while on an official mission, had his pants pressed at the city’s expense. Such economy Isn't a drop In the bucket. Real economy can be practiced only by limiting public improvements to profits that are absolutely necesary. Before buying a coliseum .site the council should be certain the project is necessary •*—itiat a dollar in the coliseum will benefit the taxpayer more than a dolls t In his pocket.

In New York By James W. Dean NEW YORK. June 3. The psychology of travel seems to me to be a verdant field for those whose wont It is to learn the whys and wherefore of our thoughts, Impulses and emotions. It would be of particular Interest, I believe, to such behavlorists as Dr. John B. Watson.. This thought is prompted by observation of the conduct of passengers on the great ocean liner* which dock here. Many men of high position In finance, arts, letters and commerce who are tight-lipped and flee before Interviewers on all occasions on dry ’and become quite loquacious and affable once aboard an ocean liner. They are willing to talk on almost any subject and at any length. The metropolitan newspapers have long recognized this peculiar quirk in human nature and assign reporters to meet all incoming and outgoing liners. And there is the matter of posing for photographs. Fully half of the photographs of the great and the near-great now in the files of news, paper offices throughout the country were taken on board ships. Women of the most exclusive society will pose in the most informal of poses on board incoming liners. And some times the poses are so informal that they are not printed in newspapers. Those same women would not allow a > photographer to enter their homes, giving to newspapers and magazines portraits posed in studios. Before and after Abby Rockefeller's marriage to David Milton she avoided cameramen until the day they sailed to Europe on their honeymoon. John D. Rockefeller Jr., her father arranged with photographers to have the pictures taken on board just before it sailed. Why? Certainly photographs could have been taken under more favorable circumstances and a photograph in her wedding trousseau would have been more charming and interesting. And there is the matter of the conduct of visitors to New York. 1 know a bishop who goes to the Follies and other flashy shows when here. There is no attempt at concealment. He tells his friends back home about the shows he attends.

PARING THE BUDGET Ms— —IAYOR SHANK has expreosed intention to pare i__J to the bone the 1926 city budget. “Let my successor worry about bills,” he stated. “We must have lower taxes.” The flinty determination to reduce taxes will meet with popular approval. Actual reduction will be greeted with wilder cheens. But just paring the budget will not necessarily produce that result. Last year the 1925 budget was trimmed and manicured, preparatory to a year of municipal economy. Yet In the past few months appropriations of approximately $290,000 have been made outside the budget, and from indications the city at the end of the year will owe thousands of dollars in unpaid bills. These must be paid sometime. From whom will come the money? * The burden of the taxpayer isn’t eased, no matter what the budget says. From 1917 to 1923. the property tax in Indianapolis increased over 170 oer cent. City administrations talk about economy. Often In Its final year *ln office an administration will pare the budget and cut the tax rate for its successor —then boast of its record for economy. That’s good politics perhaps. But such arbitrary slashing of budget figures and tax rate brings the taxpayer no permanent relief. To reduce the cost of municipal government the expenses not the budget figures must be reduced. If a city administration will cut expenditures to the quick, budget and tax rate will pare-themselves. GAIN IN POPULATION , mNDIANAPODIS has a total population of 371,745, according to estimates of R. L. Polk & Cos., who have just complied anew city directory. The Federal census bureau estimates the present population to be 358,819. ■Whichever is correct it is evident that the city is steadily growing. Postal receipts, building activities, police court docket, all confirm the fact. Undoubtedly the 1930 census will show the city well over the 400,000 mark. Os course the steady growth is gratifying. Particularly as It is not the result of hothouse forcing methods, but normal accretion. People come to Indianapolis to live, establish homes, raise families, and work, not to ride a boom to sudden wealth. . Consequently the flesh that is being put on the city’s ribs is solid meat. Population figures In themselves mean very little. Mere numbers do not make a community great or famous —they only make It big. An ant-hill Is populous, but doesn’t achieve much. Athens In the days of Its greatest glory would hardly make a suburb for Peking, Canton, Hankow or a half-dozen other cities of China. A city’s importance is determined by its civic, industrial or cultural accomplishments the quality not quantity of its inhabitants. Nazareth was a mean village, but it is still famous. From there went forth one who indelibly wrote the name of the town on the ages. Because of what it has accomplished and Its industrial and cultural influence Indianapolis has always been bigger than its population.

■ — -v. , -T THOMAS, MYSON, THIS IS A GREAT ''l / DADDY-THERp's\ 1 gs BLOW DO YOU KNOW PEOPLE § AWaUREWA YOU IGO WHO THINK? THE FIRST you = A PICT UK 6: OF A B KMDU/ YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER | MONKEY IN My WHAT ff. w ,II_BEVISITINQ YOU IN JAIL/ TO BOOK AN’ HE ??? | THINK A .BOY YOUR AGE SHOULD | LOOKS JU&T LIKE V ItW r BE A MENTAL BOOTLEGGER/ 5 A MAN I HOW DAYS THINKING 13 AS SAFE . V THINK** / |SL=ses?"r lAS SHOOTING OFF ROMANI CANDLES ) \ y Y .AWfty- y AS MAN TO MAN yoUVG GOT TO ■ """ CHECK THIS VICE/ ASA GOOD AMERICAN f h CITIZEN VOU MUST REALIZE THAT ALL / AW SHUCKS'' = yOUR THINKING WILL BE DONE FOR YOU , yUIKIU H I RUN = 0V SELF APPOINTED SYNTHETIC THINKERS' * * a X T * IF you EVER FEEL AHOTHER THOUGHT AWAY AN BE A |Vj COMING ON FOR HEAVENS SAKE TAKE IT , PIRATE-V; OUT BEHINDTHE WOODSHED AND V * J

the point is—if those same shows were to be seen back home he wouldn’t attend. In the most bohemian cases and resorts you see very sedate ladies from out of town trying to have a good time, acting in a manner that would scandalize the entire county back home. I believe my observations p.re true, yet I can't understand why travel on ocean liners or on trains changes the temper and temperament of people. Here’s a story for someone who does understand that. June Brides By Hal Cochran Well, Mister Dan Cupid, your looks, far from stupid, would Indicate something's astir. You’re looking right cheerful. Say, give us an earful. What Is it about to occur? You say that’ you’re dizzy from being so busy. Just what is the burden you tote? You act like a king, with your satisfied swing and there's something that’s making you gloat. Says Dan. “I've a reason, for this Is my season. ’Tis June and my toil starts anew. All lovers who'd marry, need no longer tarry- I'm rsady to hear their ‘I do.’ “So start up the tune, so familiar In June, and bring on your joy and your laughter. May all of the brides, with their grooms at their sides, live happy and long ever after.” COLLEGE CHANGES MADE Indiana University Now Owns Dental School—s3s,3oo Paid. Indiana Dental College today was a part of Indiana University, purchase of the institution having been made on a $35,000 cash consideration. Governor “Jackson and Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom approved the appraisal, made some weeks, ago. The school will be operated in Its present looation a year and then transferred to the medical buildings n W. Michigan St.

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THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBERT

A Useful Political Party

Editor’s Note: For three years Herbert vjuick. distinguished novelist and economist, had been a regrula- contributor to The Times. His deaUt occurred Sunday. May 10. At that tine ho had completed several articles tor this newspaper. one of which appears herewith. The others will appear from day to day. By Herbert Quick aT comes with rather a shock t 6 an outsider to learn that a woman is now the "boss” of the Bowery district of New York City. She is described as a good, gentle, womanly woman; and she Is a Tammany boss! We always have known that, evil as it has been in many ways and divers times, evil as it probably is to some extent all the time, Tammany has always had many virtues. And when we read of what Mrs. Nolan as a Tammany boss says of what she is doing in her official capacity, we can understand that there is much in the Tammany work in which a good woman may take delight—as she plainly does. She Helps People A young man wanted a license to become an undertaker, if he was entitled to it under the law, an outsider can not see why he needed help; and if he was not, of* course he shouldn't have Vie permit—but Mrs. Nolan thought she might help him. Another wished to go to Italy and was fearful that he would not be allowed to return because of hi® lack of his citizenship papers. Some people needed coal, and were helped as were the would-be undertaker and the man without the citizenship papers. She got them what they cffll coal'tickets In New York. She also hepled people who were short of the month's rent-money—-how is not explained. She is greatly interested in social meetings which will keep their girls from taking part in the gay night life uptown. She talks theee things over with her husband when he comes home, and goes to many others for advice. She is less the boss than the Good Aunt of the district. Odd Political Work Now all this is work which a good woman is well adapted to do. But

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to one familiar with those political activities which are carried on by organizations elsewhere, the sort of work Itself is a surprising thing. This is useful, humanitarian work, of a very practical nature. It accounts for Tammany’s perennial hold on the people. A man belonging to the Tammany organization, especially a workingman or woman, gets some benefit from his membership. Here is a political organization which is useful every day in the year to those in need of help—useful in thousands of ways. I do not remember that Tammany ever entertained such a thing as a political principle, or carried on any crusade for any good causes as a party organization should; but so long as It is not only willing but eager to help people in this way, like a great, powerful neighbor, it will keep Its power and wield its votes.' It is a pity that political organizations generally are, save for the one purpose of making nominations and electing people to office, so utterly useless. They might well study system of Tammany. They might well become in every community a league of neighbors. Perhaps when we get anew party which amounts to something it will be just that—plus some principles. BUILDING WORK HALTED Hotel Construction Stops Until Permit Is Secured. Because builders had failed to obtain a building permit, Francis F. Hamilton, city building commissioner, Tuesday halted for a few hours construction of the new $3,000,000 apartment Iptel being erected by E. G. Spink and George J. Marott at Meridian St. and Fail Creek Blvd. Spink applied for permit and Hamilton allowed construction to proceed.