Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1925 — Page 4

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\ * \ - 4 . The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. Wlf. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * • Member of the Audit Bureau or Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Tndianapolis Times Publishing Cc, 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA In 3500.

No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange 9 thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print, freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana.

Politics in the Fire Department rjpnißE CHIEF O’BRIEN has been in the 1 j fi. re department long enough to know that the law providing ‘that the personnel of the fire department shall he as nearly as possible equally divided between the two political parties means exactly nothing. O’Brien is raising a rumpus because there are 160 more Republicans than Democrats in the fire department. The department totals 610 mr explanation of this situation is not hard to find. The last two city administrations have been Republican. That should be sufficient answer to- anyone at all versed in the ways of city politics. If the last two administrations had been Democratic, undoubtedly the majority of the fire force would be Democrats. The fire department and the police department are political institutions and as such are valuable f the party in power. They can be assessed n funds, they can be used for the cir .iuii of petitions and for numerous other purposes necessary to keep party lines intact. Efficiency, of course, is considered last. The principal trouble with O’Brien is that he thinks a fire department is organized solely for the purpose of fighting fire. Under our present form of city government there is no possibility of taking the fire and police departments out of politics. The only solution is a nonpartisan, business form of government, such, for instance, as the city manager form, on which the people of Indianapolis will vote next spring. A Flaw in Judicial Divinity mN Memphis, Tenn., there is a Federal judge who has endeavored persistently to put over the idea that his views on one thing and another are sacred, a little more sacred, at least, than the United States Constitution. That he has not succeeded must, at this moment, because of serious regret to him. For this Federal judge is in imminent danger of occupying one of those cells to which he has so enjoyed sending others. The judge is J. \y. Ross. Daugherty appointed him. He became known outside his own bailiwick at the time of the railway shopmen’s injunction issued by Judge Wilkerson at < hicago. The editor of a labor weekly <n Memphis expressed in leather raw language his views of strikebreakers and Judge Ross ■;ent him to jail on the charge that he had violated Wilkerson’s injunction. The editor of

All That This Guy Gets When He Takes a Sweetie Out Is to Get Cold Good Night Rt WflJtAr n Hkl/man ■ _ ...

By Walter D. Hickman.

This fellow sure Is afflicted with the “door blues.” Every time he takes a girl to a theater and gives her a porterhouse ■Jteak with all the trimmings, all he gets is a handshake and the words, “Good night.” This out-of-luck guy figures in Margaret Young's latest jazz teaser called, “Take ’Em to the Door." She declares to a slow movin' melody that she knows a fellow that complains that the women don’t treat him right and that he is gettln’ to hate the sight of ’em. "When I give them a good evening, they give me a good night," Margaret sings on her new Brunswick record. And the kind this guy gets tells Mm not to hold ’em tight and to call ’em up some other night. This chap eure has the "take-’em-to-the door blues.” He declares that the "other fellow gets more on coffee and cake than I get on champagne and a porterhouse steak." And when he wants to be just kind, this lad gets into more trouble. Listen while Margaret sings his woe: “I tipped a servant girl a dime just to be kind and what she told me was what only a servan't would." So this guy has only the “door blues." The Other Side On the other side of this YounBrunswick record you will hear Miss Young sing "Ukulele Lady,” one of those soothing South Sea Isle things. It is a wise cracking worded ditty about how wise and good old men forget all about their “good wives when they go to the South Sea Isle. This song gives you to understand that a "Honolulu dame” like the moonlight on the bay if her daddy loves the same. Here are two hot Margaret Young records. Sure fire stuff. And to my way of thinking Brunswick has never d< better recording. Please i I<y ■ record slow because you will li.iss lot of that "moaning" stuff if you race it. Juot between us two—this new Margaret Young record is corklgn good entertainment It will not keep the fireplace burning these

the Scripps-Howard newspaper in Memphis criticised the action of Judge Ross on the ground that it transgressed fundamental freedom of the press and of speech. He didn’t indorse wtat the labor editor had said, but he defended his right to say it. Jail for you, too, said Judge Ross. Eventually he made it a S3OO fine instead. Well, that water’s over the dam and the stream of publicity continues to flow in Memphis. But the judge apparently lost none of his faith in the sanctity of his personal self. A bank has just gone smash in Memphis. Among its “assets” has been found $57,000 in six drafts drawn by Judge Ross. All six had been returned dishonored by the persons against whom they were drawn. One of these persons was the attorney for the Memphis Street Railway Company and another was the receiver for the same company. Another was the judge’s brother, a banker in Savannah. All said, when interviewed, that they knew of no reason why the judge should have issued drafts against their bank accounts. Maybe the judge won’t go to jail. Maybe putting him there would be contempt of court. Presently we shall see. Meantime Daugherty is gone, but the evil he did lives after him. Perhaps the reason there aren’t more Democrats in the fire department is that there aren’t that many Democrats. * # • A State policeman stopped Mike Glenn, head of the traffic department, and told him he was speeding. Now Mike knows how it feels. • * • There are two things about which we all kick, but about which we seem to do nothing —bank banditry and the weather. * • • Some of our prominent gamblers probably will be making a pool on where the next bank robbery will occur. • • • This is the season when we learn that “Over the Alps Lies Italy”—but most of the graduates will have to go to work instead of to Italy. 1 • • • Next to prohibiting teaching of certain subjects in the schools, opposition to erection of adequate school buildings is about the narrowest policy we can think of.. • * • ■When anyone quits his job nowadays it can be taken for granted that he is going into the estate business in Florida. * • • Florida real estate would be a good opening for the new crop of college graduates should the demand for bond salesmen be supplied.

summer days but It will keep Ha.rold and John, Dad and Mother, Sister and her Feller at home near the electrio fan. It is a known fact that I haven’t been strong for this radio business, that Is the receiving end on a set at home. Sometimes I thought that there was nothing in the air hut

Tom Sims Says Worry is great stuff. It is about the only thing that can make most of us think. They eay snakes won’t bite In

water. We know fish that won’t, either. The school board has been put aside for the spring-board. The people In some offices are just like a large family, always fussing and Raising caln. It’s a wrong lane that has no turning.

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Some of the blooming idiots have blossomed out with red bands on their straw hats. Save up all your old alibis. They are valuable. You can sell them to the golfers. Don’t eat a heavy lunch unless you are the boss and caji loaf around all afternoon. The only fool like an old fool Is a young one. You can't keep a good loafer up. Most of us want things different even after they are. It takes all kinds of people to make a world laugh. Weather and people are about the same. We have so much of both they all ct n’t be good. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) ' V

Old Man Statlo and a guy that whistles. The other night, my friend John brought his portable radio out to the flat. I heard the Circle theater orchestra play and then was Informed that the Times’ famous Ferial, “Chickie” was about to be shown on the screen. Then we decided to “go South,” and In a second we were hearing a Jazz orchestra broadcasting from a deck of the Sunshine Special at New Orleans. I was Interested to know what the public wanted as requests from this station and I found that "Oh Katherlna,” "Katlnka, Ah-Ha,” "Blue Eyed Sally,” and "By Best Girl,” were the songs most in demand . So after hearing these numbers on the radio, I hauled out my Brunswick and Okeh records and played those numbers over again. That is a splendid way to combine the radio and the phonograph. My first love was and Is the phonograph, but I use both the radio and the phonograph to get a real musical evening. -I- -I- -IIndianapolis theaters today offer: "Chlckle” at the Circle; "Fashion Follies” at the Lyric; Ranee Gray Players at the Palace; “So This Is London" at English’s; "The Crowded Hour” at the Apollo; swimming and open air events at Broad Ripple; "1 11 Show You the Town’’ at the Colonial; “Grounds for Divorce" at the Ohio, and “The Bandit Tamer” at the Isis. The Oratorio Society tonight will sing "Elijah” at Caleb Mills Hall. WORD - TO INVESTIGATE Bu United Pre MANILA, P. 1., June 10.—Governor General Wood is leaving here tomorrow for the province of Lanao for Investigation of the situation resulting from attempts to capture Sultan Raya, Moro bandit chieftain. Fourteen Moros were either killed or wounded In the battle yesterday between contsabulary and supporters of Raya, the latest check revealed. ,

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

THE OLD SWIMMING HOLE j— HERMAN G. MORGAN, IDI health officer, warns against bathing In White River, Fall Creek and Pleasant Run. The streams are contaminated with sewage—Pleasant Run so badly that Inspectors have been detailed to patrol Its banks to prevent youngsters from using It. Sanitary science has given the old swimming hole a black eve.

As depicted In unforget table Immortal Riley the old swimming hole was a cross between the Elyslon fields and a three-ring circus. In its cool depths youth found relief from heat, dust and the trappings of over-clothed civilization. As depicted by the board of health the old swimming holes

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—at least around Indianapolis—are a cross between a garbage can and a city dump. Fearsome, deadly germs skitter about the surface. In the cool depths raw sewage coils and uncoils among the old tin cans. - A boy who has not stripped down to his sunburn and plunged off a grassy bank Into a quiet pool fashioned by nature has not lived. A concrete dipping vat In a city park with guards, bathing suits and everything. Is p poor substitute. If a boy can’t splash Into a creek or nver around Indianapolis. In the Immortal manner, without having a typhoid germ glare at him he Is paying a high price for the so-called civilization of the present day. NOT ENOUGHCHURCHES IEV. GEORGE C. CHANDLER, chairman of the Baptist city planning commission, reported at a meeting of ministers of the denomination the other day that 60 per cent of the Indianapolis territory 1b unoccupied by Baptist churches. Doubtless his hearers were distressed. To them it Is obvious that there are not enough churches in the city. Ways and means for denomination to organise new flocks and erect more meeting houses will be earnestly dlsoussed. Os course the city Is not without churohes. It has nearly 800 of all denominations—enough to accommodate comfortably all worshippers. At many of them services are conducted with halffilled pews. Nevertheless more edifices for religious worship will be built—not because of Increase in the city’s population, but because of the ambitions of various denominations to extend the Influence of their particular brand of salvation. Because of the endless multiplication of denominations and sects there Is much duplication of effort and overlapping of churches. Two churches have sprung up where one would suffloe. Asa result the country Is dotted with mediocre churches with half-filled pews and half-starved preachers. Union of sects Is often proposed. From the standpoint of business efficiency that of oourse would be advantageous. But every tentative step toward union dies aborning. Denominations admit a oommon goal, but Insist on thedr own path to It. Every man thinks his way Is best. So while churoh union Is desirable It oollldes with human nature. SHOULD THEY HAVE SUBSIDIES? r“T|AYOR SEEBIRT, of South lyl Bend, as a witness In a bus ___l hearing before the publlo service commission Monday, declared busses should be operated by established rail lines rather than by Independent Companies. He opposed granting a certificate tc a bus operator whose route parallels an interurban line from South Bend to Michigan City. Bus competition has made serious inroads on earnings of the interurban, whloh Is under the same ownership as the South Bend street car lines, and Imperils the whole system, Recording to him. It’s a gloomy picture he paints of an important transportation system being slaughtered by wildcat competition. But that particular traction line has not paid a dividend on common or preferred stock since 1908. Thus for many years before it was menaced by automobile and bus competition the line was not an economic success. , Perhaps there Is sound argument in favor of protecting traction lines against busses. They | represent large Investments and | are heavy taxpayers, whereas a ' bus line requires small Invest- j ment and service can be abandoned easily, and It is lightly taxed. Still a traction line that has not earned a dividend since 1908 would seem to be an economic failure. Apparently the transportation needs of the section it serves have not Justified Its existence. With or without bus competition it has led a precarious existence. Many traction lines are In a similar predicament. They were constructed not In response to actual public needs tut In the hope that they could divert sufficient traffic from steam roads and other transportation agencies to make them profitable. Should such lines, now that busses are doing to them what they tried to do to the steam roads, be given any special public consideration? Should they be subsidized by the State by v nir*g given exclusive rights to operat* busses in their territory ?

FINGERS IN THE PIE fprilßE CHIEF JOHN J. , Jp I O’BRIEN protested Monday ——J to the mayor against activities of politicians in attempting to obtain appointment and preferment for their proteges in the fire department. Apparently the chief has the quaint idea that the purpose of the fire dsportment Is to fight fires and the department should be organized and run in a manner to makf It efficient in that work. He seems to think men should be appointed and promoted on their qualifications as firemen nont as vote getters. The simple citizen, who pays the taxes and possesses combustible property, won't quarrel with that attitude. He, too, has the delusion that he hires firemen for fire protection. But to city politicians the fire department merely represents pie —lnto which they can stick their fingers. ’'Pie” being any city Job wltji salary attached. What do they care for efficiency in municipal departments? The important thing is to take care of their hungry followers. In some cities police and fire departments have been taken out of politics. Civil service examinations and merit have been substituted for pull. However, that's not In Indianapolis. Why couldn't it be? Ask The Times You can get jj answer to any quae- ; l °nos fact or information by writing to The IndianapoUa Time* Washington Bureau. 1322 Sew fork Ave.. Waehlnton. D C., tncloeir- 2 cents In or reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other queetlone will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letter* are confidential.—Editor. What does it moan to "soil short” when speaking of the stock market? To sell short Is to sell securities expecting to repurchase them at a lower price. The seller Is "short” If he lacks what he has sold. All sales In the stock exchange are practically "spot cash,” delivery being required within twenty-four hours

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(with rare exceptions eo those short must purchase what they have sold (to deliver the next day) or falling to do so must borrow the necessary securities to deliver, which loan they expect to ultimately repay by purchasing securities at a lower price. The Eagle Is used often to represent the Ur.lted States. What similar character la used to represent some of the other large countries of the world? The lion for England, the bear for Russia, the Dragon for China,

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the elephant for India, the threeleaved Shamrock for Ireland, the thistle for Scotland, the bull for Spain, the crescent for Turkey, the kangaroo for Australia, the beaver for Canada, the sphinx, pyramid or camel for Egypt and the liberty cap for France. What will rid hose bushes of Insects? A combination mixture for all rose Insects and blight le suggested by the American Rose .Society. It consists of nine parts of powdered

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sulphur and one part of powders# arsenate of lead. Dust the bushel with it four or five times during the season, starting soon after the leaves first appear. Second dusting Just before the flowers come. Who is “Loki” in Norse mythology? A primitive spirit of evil who mingles with the Norse gods, distinguished for his cunning and en snaring ways, whose devices are only evil in appearance, and ars overruled for good.