Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1925 — Page 4
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TKe Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, B is. Mgr. Member of the Serlppu-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • * client of the United Press and the NBA Service • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland Si., Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA In 3300.
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The Question of Intelligence “q“|OME of the intelligent residents of the great State of Tennessee object to such of the comment on the evolution trial as assumes that the people of that State would rate as subnormal in intelligence tests. One objection offered is that the people of Tennessee are being judged by their Legislature, raising the assumption that the average intelligence of legislators is representative of the intelligence of the entire population, j Theoretically, that would be a fair assumption —on the ground that Tennessee has a representative form of government and the legislators are elected by the people. Practically, however, the assumption is not fair. Legislators in Tennessee are not on intelligence tests any more than (they are in any other State in the Union. They are elected because they are either Democrats jor Republicans, which, as a rule, has nothing whatever to do with intelligence. But that is true as well of Indiana, New York, Ohio, California, Minnesota or any other State. I There is no educational qualification for .membership in legislative bodies in any of the States. A citizen who can neither read nor (write can be just as good a Democrat, or Republican, as the wisest college professor or the most learned scientist. In fact, the less one (knows the more orthodox his partisan politics is apt to be. Os course there are just as cultured and intelligent people in Tennessee as there are in any other State, but their beliefs, opinions and convictions are less likely to be represented in a legislature than those of the larger number who are ignorant. Education alone will cure ignorance; and the education of the mass of any people anywhere is a long, slow, laborious evolutionary process. Evolution means change, and even those who hope .for a hereafter in heaven with harps and halo Sand golden streets are evolutionists, in that they hope to evolve from humans to angels.
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?
You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washlnrton Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washin ton. D. C„ inclosing- 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor ian extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests car.not b3 answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. What was the Force bill of 1890? A bill introduced in the United States House .of Representatives by Lodge of Massachusetts. It provided that on petition of 500 voters in any local district Federal officials of both parties be appointed o t election boards. The .bill was aimed at the southern States, where the negro had been illegallly excluded from the polls. It aroused a storm, and though It passed the House of Representatives, it never came to a vote in the Senate. What causes the small flying ants to get in the woodwork of buildings and how can they be eradicated? These ants come from the woodwork of buildings that have not been properly constructed. They have entered the woodwork of the buildings because somewhere there is untreated wood in contact with the ground. They cannot be killed by insecticides or fumigated. They must be prevented from getting into the building from the ground' by means of their hidden burrows through untreated woodwork. No untreated wood should be laid on or in the earth and untreated beams should have at least an inch of concrete between them and the earth. "Where It is desired to put wood in direct contact with the earth it should first be impregnated with coal tar creo-
Evolution—Pro and Con \
The subject that is uppermost in the news today: What do you know about it? Does the evolutionist say we are descended from monkeys? If not, what does he say? Does the theory of evolution preclude a belief in creation by God? What are the arguments that will be used in the big trial in Tennessee? What does William J. Bryan have to say on the subject?
CLIP COUPON HERE EVOLUTION Editor, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C. I want a COPY of the bulletin, EVOLUTION PRO AND CON, and enclose herewith 5 cents in United States postage stamps or coin for same: NAME ST. A NO. or R. R CITY STATE . I am & reader of The Indianapolis Times.
We Advise Alice SLICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH is said to be one of the most influential political generals in Washington. She is given much credit for landing her popular husband in the speakership of the coming Congress. But than only means that Alice still h-s the j"b on her hands of making her speaker husband a howling success. Being always willing to help out any praiseworthy enterprise we are disposed to give Alice a friendly tip. Here it is: Nick is too fat. When Nick first entered Congress he was a rather good-looking, well-groomed, dapper young man. He was neither too fat nor too lean. Now, however, the adipose tissue has begun piling up on his neck and jowls, to say nothing of his waist-line. This indicates that he fc either eating too much or not taking enough exercise. So Alice would Jo well to put Nick to work or begin bossing his diet. Fatness tends toward drowsiness. Nick might doze off into dreamland at a critical moment. He might pull a boner like Dawes did when he was needed to save Warren from the senatorial wolves. Anyhow, Nick’s too fat for any good use.
Cash Your Checks ppilHE American Bankers’ Association, I * 1 through its press bureau, suggests that it is not good policy to carry around a check for an indefinite time before cashing it. The advice is sound. First of all, it’s easy to mislay a check. If you carry it around indorsed and then lose it, the finder will find it as negotiable as specie. If it gets worn or dirtied in your wallet the signature may become almost illegible and your bank may refuse to cash it. Further, it causes serious inconvenience to the bank. The bank keeps its books carefully balanced, and a check that is made out but not cashed for some time brings no end of annoyance. hen you get a check, cash or deposit it at once.
sote. -If this is not practical there should be foundations of concrete or stone. No lime or mortar should be used in brickwork in foundations of buildings, since the ants are able to penetrate lime mortar after a few years service. Such brickwork, either on or extending below the surface of the ground, should be faced and capped with concrete at least one inch thick. I see a reference to "Dick’s Coffee House.” What was this and it it still in existence? This was a London, England, coffee house originally called "Richard's,” after Richard Tomer or Turner, who was its first proprietor
Wheat doom Psychological?
Timet Wothinnton Bureau, 1322 Xew York Avenue. WASHINGTON, June 24.—The government’s recent efforts to curb speculation In wheat were revealed in anew light today with the publication of a wheat report compiled by the Food Research Institute of Stanford University. The -ecent "speculation probably worked \to the benefit ol' growers rather than to their disadvantage. The trade, the flour millers and the speculators suffered most,” the report states. In reviewing the sensational rise in wheat prices last winter, the Research Institute says, "without marked changes in the 'statistical position,’ with great diversity of opinion as to the normal value of wheat, under Influences largely
Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a bulletin on the subject, giving BOTH SIDES of the question: It gives briefly and simply the main arguments for and against the Theory of Evolution and especially the theory that man evolved from lower forms of life. Whichever side of the argument you may personally take, this bulletin gives YOUR side and the OTHER side. Fill out the coupon below and mail as directed:
(1680). The building artlll stands on the south side of Fleet Street (No. 8) near the Temple. How many Vice Presidents of the United States have served under two Presidents? Only two: Clinton under Jefferson and Madison and Calhoun under John Quincy Adams and Jackson. Should horse radish roots be dug up or left In the ground over the winter? Horse radish roots multiply and should be dug up. The big ones should be used and the little ones kept In slightly moist sand in a cold cellar over winter, and replanted in the early spring.
psychological In nature, a bull movement drove the price up to extreme heights In January." Famous Statement It was in the midst of the boom in wheat that the Department of Agriculture issued Its famous statement shat “wheat prices are not unduly Inflated and are governed by the law of supply and demand. ’ This report, issued in January, put the final touches to the soaring market and sent wheat past the $2 mark. It was when the market was in this unstable position that the bottom suddenly dropped out. "A bear movement brought about the great crash in March,” the Institute reports. "However, the theory that the break in prices directly injured the farmers of the country has little basis in current experience. "There was very little merchandlsable wheat still In farmers’ hands in March. Growers who had retained their wheat through the winter marketed the bulk of It at $1.50 or better." Except In time of war wheat markets such as have prevailed since last autumn are seldom seen. Wheat started booming as the November election approached, and then, having attained tremendous momentum, kept on for several months more. Outlook Promising It was this unusual state of affairs which led to the intensive study of both American and foreign markets by the Standard Food Research Bureau. In sharp contrast to the recent Government report which predicted the lowest wheat crop in many years, the food institute reports that "the outlook for new crops is fairly promising. Planted acreage has increased. Winter wheat crops in the United States, India and Russia are' below average, but In Europe and In North Africa generally conditions are above average. "In the spring wheat belt of North America there Is prospect of increased acreage seeded under favorable condition*.”
THE -INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
What Is a Third Term?
Times Wnshinoton Bureau. ISZi Veto York Avenue. ASHINGTON, June 10.— What constitutes a third term ■ ''J for a President of the United States probably will cause a sharp division among Republican statesmen before the next Republican National convention. Already lines are forming ana two schools of opinion are airing their views. President Coolidge’s trip to Minneapolis has brought the is?ue to the front. Heretofore all effoits to smoke out the President on his views concerning a third term havs failed. Since the trip to the Northwest, however, close friends of the President have let It be known that he does not regard his present incumbency of office as a second term. Mr. Coolidge's trip to Minneapolis had all of the signs of a preliminary political swing. Aside from a large group of newspaper correspondents, he was accompanied by a special representative of the Republican National Committee and also by Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, who will have his troubles next year In trying to overcome the La Follette group within his State. I’p to the People During the trip It wa* made known that Mr. Coolidge does not regard his succession to Mr. Harding as a term and, also, that if the people want him to run again he will be guided by their wishes. President Coolidge is the sixth Vice President who has become President, although only the second Vice President who was elected President as his own successor. Colonel Roosevelt, who succeeded to the unexpired term of President McKinley, was the first President, filling an unexpired term, who subsequently was elected on his own account. Presidents John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson and Chester A. Arthur were not given second terms. Difremioe in Time Vice President Roosevelt became President Sept. 14, 1901, six months and ten days after his predecessor had i been inaugurated. This early
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA
-By GAYLORD NELSON
OF SUCH ARE CITIES BUILT ITH the death Monday of |\jy| James W. Lilly, president * I ’of the Liiiy Hardware Company, Indianapolis lost a prominent business man, a friend, and an esteemed citizen. For forty years he was part and parcel of the commercial life
of this city. Success came to him In a business way. He saw the modest hardware store of forty years ago become a great es tabllshment. With the passing years the scope of his .n----te rests broadened and he became identified with a dozen large enterprises. Despite the pressure of private affairs,
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he devoted himself unsparingly to civic, church and philanthropic matters. He displayed the same zeal, devotion and enthusiasm in all enterprises for the public good as in his private aafflrs. A useful, successful citizen. There is nothing spectacular in such a career. He never commanded an army, harangued a peace conference, nor campaigned for public office. He was Just a plain, unassuming, upright, amiable gentleman who worked twenty-four hours a day for himself, his family and his community. Os such men—not of stone, steel and cement —are cities built. NO RECORD TO GLOAT OVER rT“IUTOMOBILE deaths per I Jjk I 100,000 population in In- ' -i dianapolis increased from 15.5 In 1923 to 19.9 In 19M. according to recent figures published by the United States Department of Commerce. Indianapolis was one of the few cities showing an increase in fatalities. In Cincinnati, where the streets stand on their heads and encourage traffic accidents, the auto death rate was reduced from 25.1 in 1923 to 20.6 in 1924. Kansas City, another city built on edge, reduced its rate from 25.6 in 1923 to 22.4 In 1924. In New York, presumed to have the most acute traffic congestion in the world, automobiles killed only 16.6 per 100,000 population in 1924. The rate was less than in the Hoosier metropolis, where neither topography nor density of population are factors. Truly the 1924 record of Indianapolis is nothing to gloat over. Nor has there been any Improvement so, far this year. Despite all the agitation and perennial drives of State and city authorities street traffic in this city collects its alarming toll of victims. Automobiles cause more deaths here than typhoid fever. Yet persons who would quail at sight of a single, puny typhoid germ perched on the pavement will flirt with death-dealing motor cars, either as drivers or pedestrians, without a quiver. Until there is realization that the automobile is the most deadly bug In Indianapolis, and traffic law enforcement is backed by public opinion, our death record will continue from bad to worse.
succession allowed him almost three and one-half years on his flrat term and Colonel Roosevelt regarded it as a full term. President Coolidge succeeded President Harding on Aug. 3, 1923, two years and five months after Mr. Harding had been inaugurated. This allowed Mr. Coolidge only one year and seven months in his Art term. There Is a difference of nearly two years in length of service of the two first terms and although the principle may be regarded as the same by some there are others who take the opposite view. The result is that Mr. Coolidge's third term Is giving the politicians something else, other than the heat, to worry about. Tom Sims Says The only thing an amateur gardener raises is blisters. Put confidence In everybody and soon you won't have any in anybody. About the most popular person on a moonlight
night is a sleepy chaperon. Doctors get by. They have Inside information. It is amusing to see an old bachelor holding a baby, especially if the baby is about IS. Many a poor fish gets caught in a hairnet. Woman’s pdace
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seems to be In swimming. You can't keep a good weed down or a good head of lettuce up. A woman is as old as she thinks, but a man Is as old as his rheumatism feels. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
BACK TO THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY IHIEF RIKHOFF announced Monday that Indianapolis fc policemen would go back on eight-hour shifts. The outbreak of outlawry, which compelled them to work twelve-hour fihifts for tho past week, has been quelled,'he bellevee. Immediately following the announcement three dowtnown safes were cracked. Yeggs got 51,728. However there has been no assault on a bank in the city for a week. Perhaps that signifies that the crest of the crime wave is broken. Nevertheless It still spatters. Asa result of the Intensive activity of the police, during this so-called emergency period, a couple of sure-enough bank bandits have been captured. Dives have been cleaned out, and a flock of suspects herded into the hoose-gow on vag charges. Other undesirables were driven out of town. But crime Is still he.-e. It will take something more than a temporary police spurt to drive It out. If the city can really be made pure and sweet in a week's time, when the police department puts its mind, talent and energy to the Job. why can’t it be kept that way? Why is it necessary to resort to sudden outbursts of activity and twelve-hour shifts? An efficiently handled police force, not an eight o rtwelve-hour day, suppresses crime. Furious raising of dust in spasmodic cleanups accomplish little. Unless the police force is a well-disciplined, effectively managed body it makes little difference whether it works eight or twelve hours a day. INFIRMARY STILL DISGRACEFUL mHE Marlon County grand Jury, In Its report submitted Monday, declared the conditions at the county infirmary disgraceful. That’s the normal state of affairs at the county’s horrible almshouse. Condemning conditions at the institution is one of the regular functions of the grand Jury. Except for the date the last report is practically identical with those made by grand Juries, charity boards, and other investigators in the past two years. Buildings are insanitary and unsafe. Feeble old men sleep on straw ticks on cots without springs. Beds and bedding are untidy. Because of insufficient attendants infirm old men must take care of them. For sanitary reasons women inmates wear their hair bobbed. Food is sufficient to prolong the agony of life for the aged paupers, but poorly prepared because of lack of proper facilities. The various reports on the institution give a perfect picture of a revolving, squalid almshouse—a reproach to a civilized community. But, though improvements have been urged repeatedly, nothing has been done. County authorities plead lafek of funds. Still they can And money to buy high-priced motor cars for county officials. Perhaps the paupers deserve no better treatment than they are getting "It does seem to us”—remarks the grand jury—"that our helpless, old dependants should at least have as good and humane care as our criminal class, which we have found is not the case.” Which seems logical. If Marlon County can’t afford to maintain Its Infirmary adequately why not close it and turn the old derelicts out on the street to starve? Or chloroform them. What’s the use of keeping them half alive? That's not humane.
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Susie Wears Long Dresses but Oh, Boy! The Way Susie Carries on In\a Parlor
SUSIE is not as bad a ‘‘gal” as Lulu but both are some dames. Take it from one who has heard all about Susie and Lulu. You wilP meet Susie on anew Brunswick record called "If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie.” It is warbled by Billy Jones and Ernest Hare with Phil Ohman at the piano and Henry Reser presiding over a most wicked banjo. Ernest sings to Bill: "Say, Bill, I found a brand new girl by the name of Susie.” Bill replies that "her name doesn't interest me.” Ernest maintains' "that her name will oound mighty plain.” Bill asks, "What might her attractions be?” To that Ernesh contends that "if you knew Susie like I know Susie” and further orates to syncopated melody that "we, we go riding it is me that walks back, not Susie.” Also that Susie has a perfect reputation, that she wears long tresses and long dresses but "out in public she can freeze but in a parlor, Oh! Oh! Oh!” The banjo and piano are hot darlings on this record. Here is a novelty syncopated record that sure is the goods. If you are looking for hot stuff this sure is the article. On the other side you will hear the same bunch sing and play “Who Takes Care of the Caretaker® Daughter.” Have told you about the "Caretaker" on an Okeh record some weeks ago. Odeon Importations It has been the conviction of the writer of this department for some time that the Imported Odeon orchestral records would some time be really appreciated.
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THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT
Where art is found it should be praised whether it is in this country or abroad. Three such organizations are rapidly winning large American publics. Am ©peaking of Edith Lorand and her orchestra, Dajos and orchestra and Marek Weber and his orchestra. If you are not acquainted with Edith Lorand get hold of her new Odeon called, "Selections from Operetta ‘La Bel|e Helene,’ ” in two parts. Am sure that this piece of merit will make you a Lorand faj:. You know how this department regards Bela and his orchestra. In this organization we have the nearest approach in this country in Paul Whiteman and what he stands for In the modern musical world. Hear him play ‘‘Caucasian Suite" in four parts. Here is real symphonic harmony, modern in treatment. Marek Weber has just put out on Odeon a delightful collection of modern music the head of “The Pearls of Cleopatra” and "Don’t You Know How I Care For You?” Victor Announce* Victor announces a short list of "worth while" records which should be In every home. The list follows: "Traunvrei" (Reverie) (Robert Schumann). Violin Solo—Miacba Elman, "Serenade” (DrifO), Violin Solo—Mtscha Elman. “The Japanese 9andman” (R. B. EirnnR. A. Whitinc)—Olive Kline "Old-Fashioned Garden" < from * HitehyKoo'i (Cole Porter)—Olive Kline. “Kiss M* Acatn" (from "Mile. Modiste") (Blossom Herbert)—Mabel Garrison. "When You're Away" (from "The Only Girl") (Blossom-Herbert)—Mabel Garrison . "Eyenimr Chimes" (Heins), Violin. Flute Harp with Bella—Neapolitan Trio. “Woodland Echoes" (Wyman i—Neopolttan Trio. "Valse in D Flat Major" ("Minute Waltz") (Chopin)—Rachmaninoff. "Waltz and Elfin Dance" (Grieg), Piano—Rachmaninoff. "When You're Gone I Won't Forget"— Peerless Quartet. "There's a vacant Chair at Home,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1925
Sweet Homo"—Charles Harrison. "Dreams of Long Ago" (Carroll-Ca-ruso)—Enrico Caruso. “Love Me or Not” (Seechl)—•Enrico Caruso. "Bohemian Girl—Tho Heart Bow and Down" (Balfel —werrenrath. "Faust—Even the Bravest Heart” (Goudnod) —Werrenrath, •I- -IOn view at the theaters today: English's "It's A Boy:*’ Palace, Peter Pan Revue; Lyric, Miller Sisters and Rob; Broad Ripple, outdoor vaudeville; Circle, “The Desert Flower;" Apollo, "Sporting Venus;” Ohio, "The Shock Punch;" Colonial, “Stop Flirting,” and Isis, Harry Carey. Sally By Hal Cochran ill ~ "JALLY! Oh, Sally! Come out of that alley. Say, put down that stick and that dirt., I dressed you up clean. earth ran you mean? Come now, you'll ruin your skirt!" “Jimmie! Say, Jimmie! What worries you ginunle. I told you to go to the store. Don't loaf on the way. Now, I'll bet you can’t say what It was I was sendln’ you for.” “Lillie! Why, Lillie, what makes you act silly? Be nice, now. Shake hands with your aunt. You could be so good, if you only Just would, but you make all my friends think you can’t," "Eddie! Oh, Eddie! Your supper is ready. Say, how many times must I call? You piece all day long and you know that it's wrong, for you ne'er eat at meal time at all.” Mother, poor mother, her call, like no other, will find where a youngster is at. The call of the child is the call of the wild, but you can,’t blame poor mother at that (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)