Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1925 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times ROT W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service • * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times P üblishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • * * PHONE—MA in 3500.
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stricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution o: Indiana*
This is the Day, Hoo-Ray! Hoo-Ray! HEN in the course of human events it beW comes necessary, as it does once each year, to write an editorial on the Fourth of July, this particular editor is afflicted with doubts and uncertainties. Not, let it be hastily explained, that he doesn’t thoroughly indorse the Fourth of July-and all it stands for. He approves heartily the action of the Continental Congress in declaring the colonies independent of Great Britain and he approves just as heartily the custom of setting aside this day to commemorate their courage. In this he belongs with 100 per cent of all Americans as well as with all the 100 per cent Americans. It is just a matter of knowing what to say on the subject. The day is dedicated to patriotism—love pf country. Who is there that doesn’t have it ¥ * whom should, argument be addressed that they might be induced to become patriotic, if they are not now 1 Frankly this editor cannot n.t the moment think of a single soul within the radius of this newspaper’s considerable circulation. He believes every reader is not only ready to fight for our country in time of \tar, but to be the best citizen he knows how to be in time of peace. (It may be the editor’s private opinion that some persons have mmething to learn about the business of being good citizens in time of peace, but somehow this doesn’t seem to be the day to express it.) Here’s one national topic, generally speaking, on which all 110,000,000 of us are unanimous and unanimously right, whether we say it with firecrackers or silently to ourselves, whether we proclaim it in a public .speech or in a private prayer. Let us renew our homage to the men who first declared our national independence and renew our resolve that we will retain that independence, not only against any outside aggressions but against any aggressions within. That is all we can do. r ~ Better Than Dime Novels PEAKING of the evolution law, S. L. Smith, State director of Tennessee for the National Education Association, attending the N. E. A. convention here, “said : '‘Down in Tennessee we regarded the act as a joke and it still is. About the only thing established so far is that every child following the theory of wanting the forbidden fruit is smuggling treatises on evolution out back of the barn and devouring them as they formerly did the wild West dime novel.’'’ Perhaps the anti-evolutionists are doing more than the evolutionists to spread the knowledge.
St. Louis Municipal Opera Season to Be Extended Two Weeks to Meet Demand
A"“| NNOUNCEMENT is made by the Municipal Theater Association of St. Louis that the civically directed season of light opera productions now current at the Municipal Open-Air Theater in Forest Park, and originally scheduled to close Aug. 2, has been extended t\£o weeks to allow the presentation of Victor Herbert’s “Naughty Marietta’’ and Franz Lehar's “The Merry Widow.” Both works have been produced previously by the theater association. “The Merry Widow,” holds the record for receipts ana attendance at the outdoor theater, with “Naughty Marietta.’’ a close second. / The present season i- the seventh since the alf-resco opera series was established as a part of summer life in St. Louis. The season opened on May 25 and new high attendance marks have been set. The Opening The first production was Johann Strauss’ "A Night in Venice,” and despite extremely cold weather on the first three nights of the week, 35,0 CC persons A ere attracted to the sat en per’ormanoes. The second week was devoted to Vidor HerbeTt’s operetta, “Mile. Modiste.” and the astounding receipts of $30,000 were registered by the piece a,ade famous in this country bv F-'tzi Scheff. Over 50,000 nersons were charmed by Herbert’s tong, “Kiss Me Again,” this time sur.g by Eleanor Henry, a Herbert protege, -who understudied Miss Scheff when “Mile. Modiste,” was revived in 1913. The Municipal Theateer Association’s third production was a magnificient revival of “Ruddigore,” a Gilbert and Sullivan classic, which has had few presentations in this country. The St. Louis critics were a unit in declaring the opera to be the most worthy, and the production the most artistic yet offered by the theater association. Large audiences were present at each of the seven performances and for the first time ii the history of the St. Louis enterr iso. a Gilbert and Sullivan opera rece : pts and attend-
Cal and George Washington of the 150th anniversary of George Washington taking command of the Continental Army, President Coolidge’s speech at Cambridge, Mass., Friday was not without its international, as well as national, importance. The Old World and the new come in for a lecture. Was Washington an isolationist, he asked in effect. No, said the President: “He harmonized the divergent and conflicting interests of different nationalities and different colonial governments by conference and agreement. He demonstrated by his arguments, and our country has demonstrated by experience, that more progress can be made by cooperation than by conflict. * “The world has not outgrown, it can never "outgrow, the absolute necessity for conformity to these eternal principles. I want to see America assume a leadership among the nations in the reliance upon the good faith of mankinds I do not see how civilization can expect permanent progress on any other theory. If what is saved in the productive peace of today is to be lost in the destructive war of tomorrow’, the people of this earth can look forward to nothing but everlasting servitude. There is no justification for hope. This was not the conception w’hich Washington had of life.” So much for those Americans whose principal stock in trade is the theory that Washington, were he President now’, would tell the rest of the world to go hang. And this was his message to Europe: “If the people of the Old World are mutually distrustful of each other let them enter into mutual covenants for their mutual security, and when such covenants have been made let them be solemnly observed no matter what the sacrifice. “Such a course would be sure to endow’ the participating nations with an abundant material and spiritual rev’ard. On what other basis can there be any encouragement tor a disposition to attempt to finance a revival of Europe?” Here we find a repetition of Ambassador Houghton's warning of a few weeks ago. Now, however, it comes at a critical time. The new European security pact, suggested by Germany and fostered in a slightly altered form by Britain and France, is in the balance. The various parliaments have yet to ratify it. The President’s open advocacy of it is likely to meet with criticism in England, France and other countries v’here the pact has its enemies. Here at home the speech will bring gooseflesh to the tender skins of our isolationists, but, on the whole, it must be said that as far as it goes the advice is fundamentally sound.
Booked Here
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Walter Damrosch
Ona B. Talbot has booked the New York Symphony Orchestra with Damrosch conducting as the first of next, season’s orchestral concerts at the Murat. The Damrosch date Is Monday night, Oct. 19.
ance of the works of the modern music masters. Fine Operas Following in the order named, is the remainder of the repertory: Julian Edward's, “Dolly Varden”; Edward Jaakobowski’s, “Erminie”; Mascagni's, “Cavalleria Rusticana,” and “H. M. S. Pinafore,” by Gilbert and Sullivan, as a double bill; Lehar’s “Count of Luxembourg,” Von F'lotow’s, “Martha”: Herbert’s,
“Naughty Marietta," and Lehai’s. “Merry Widow'.’’ The St. Louis cast is headed by Yvonne' D’Arle, a member of the Metropolitan Opera forces, as prima donna. Leo de Hierapolis is baritone and Forrest Huff, the tenor. Eleanor Henry sings the prima donna ingenue roles. *Detmax Poppen is the basso; John E. Youijg, principal comedian: William McCarthy, second comedian., and Roland Woodruff, juvenile. * * CHOIR DIRECTOR IN EAST Mr. Fred Newell Morris, voice teacher and director of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church Choir, with Mra. Morris and two daughters, Dorothy and Katherine will motor east for the sommer. * * * PIANO RECITAL TUESDAY EVENING Miss Mary Ellen Galbraith, assisted by Gwendolyn Schort, Marguerite Billo* Mary Lohrtnann and Dallas Galbraith, will present her pupils in a piano recital next Tuesday evening, 8:15 o'clock, at William McKinley School Auditoriuhi, corner State and Lexington Avenues. Pupils taking part include Bumelle Bailey, Maryaliee Shimer, Mrs. William J. Ziegler, Minnie Margaret Betts, and Arnold Kelly,
Postal Rates
The omission of the words, “to foreign countries,” in a recent question on postage rates on newspapers and magazines, constituted an error in this column. The question and answer should have read: Q. What is the postage rate on printed matter mailed by an individual to foriegn countries? Is it less than if mailed to a person in the United States? Or to Cuba? A. The rate to foreign coun ries, including Cuba, is one cent for each two ounces of printed matter, whereas in the United States the rate is 1% CENTS FOR EACH TWO OUNCES up to, eight ounces, abov~ w hich it goes at parcel post rates. It thus costs more for an individual to mail a piece of printed matter to a friend in the United States than to a friend in a foreign country.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
TOM SIMS SAYS
You can't keep a good thermomter down. .Not having any faults is a very great fault.
The sun’s rays ' reach the earth in only eight minutes, so no wonder they are so hot. When a man is full of himself he is just about vacant. The Indians had a hard life. But they didn’t have to listen to popular songs. Most of us having the key to success can’t find
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the lock. Women always look their best to find a man. Calling a spade a spade was once considered bold. But now they often are called plows. Shock absorbers on glasses would heap at a bathing beach. A stitch in time may save staying in swimming until dark.
Going Where the Money Is
Timex Washington Rur<ou. 1322 Sew York Avev.ue. ASHINGTON, July 4.—Prospects of greater earnii gs as attorneys and accountants is about to lure more high officials from the Internal Revenue Bureau. Deputy Commissioner James G. Bright and S. M. Grenidge, chief of the engineering division, are expected to resign soon. Internal Revenue Commissioner David H. Blair is expected do retire as chief of the income tax bureau after Senator Couzens' committee subnuts its report to Congress next fall recommending changes in procedure at the bureau. Blair, already a wealthy man. will not retire in order to earn more money, as a lawyer. Politics probably will dictate his retirement. R. T. Lohmann. another bureau chief at the Internal Revenue Bureau, recently resigned and it is re-
Haynes to Retire as Dry Boss
TimeS Washinotnji Bureau. 13!2 \(>o York Aeenur. TylJ ASHINGTON, July 4.—\fter four years’ service, Prohibition Commissioner Roy A. Haynes soon will retire. He will be the first major victim of the reorganization ofthe prohibition machinery. His retirement will lemove from office another ofthe “original Harding men” given jobs by the late President during his first year in the White House. Haynes, a former country editor and an ardent prohibitionist, has thought persuasion more effective than strong-arm methods. Because of this he has been blamed chiefly for the alleged failure of prohibition.
Doheny’s Amazing Revelations
By C. A. Randaii Times Stott Corrrsnondent CUT3 ASHINGTON, July 4.—“CerW tainly.” and unqualified. The speaker referred neither to law books nor to his subordinates. The question w r as: “Can the President legally transfer the naval oil reserves from the Navy to the Interior Department? The questioner was Albert B. Fall, the then Secretary of the Interior. The man who made the prompt answer was Harry Daugherty, then attorney general. The place was the Cabinet room at the White House. “At the head of the table on that day sat the late President, Warren G. Harding. Near by sat the then Vice President Coolidge. Among the men around the table was Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State. Also there ’ w-ere present most, if not all, of the other members of the Cabinet." “Inside Story” Such is Edward L. Doherty's intimate description of the Cabinet minting at which the Teapot Dome <-nd California oil leases were said to have been discussed. Doheny's “inside story’.” a part of his confession to New York Times, is much more informative—in some respects-—than W'ere the Senate hearings. Though hundreds of witnesses were questioned Senator Walsh could never definitely establish bhat the oil leases had been discussed by the Cabinet. That Daugherty was asked about tho legality of the oil lands transfer was not discovered by the Senate co'rnnditee. In fact, it reoorted to the Senate: “No information was sought from any law officers of the government on the power of the President to make this extraordinary order.” According to Doheny. only Fall and Secretary ofthe Navy Denby remember this occurrence. Even Daugherty, who so debonairly passed on the question, can’t recall it. * “It may be,” says Doheny, “that their memories (those the others present, Coolidge, Hughes, et al.) will not retain matters discussed and
The silver lining to most clouds needs a lot of shining. Women have a hard life. The model girl is built for speed and the model wife for comfort. The height of ignorance is worrying all night about having to get up in the morning. A fool and his equilibrium are soon parted. It’s been years since a man could do much cussing in barber shops The boyish figure for girls looks much better than the girlish figure for boys. Reading the wrong kind of books is all right if you want to be the wrong kind of a person. Truth dwells in the inner man, but bringing it out into the light never hurts it. Circumstances don't make a man happy. A happy man makes his own circumstances. Anticipation is about all their is to a pay day. Very few of us get what we wan*. We usually get only what we think we wanted. (Copyright, 1025, NEA Service, Inc.)
ported there may be other changes. Practice before the Internal Revenue Bureau has become one of the most attractive fields in Washington to lawyers and accountants. Large corporations and individual taxpayers, having income tax disputes with the Government, frequently employ special counsel to help obtain reductions. Fees usually are based on the amount of the reduction. Headed by former Internal Revenue Commissioner Daniel Roper, many former officials of the bureau now practice before their former associates. Some of them have become wealthy. It is said. Recently regulations were established prohibiting fornrer employes from practicing before the bureau for approximately two years after their retirement. Thereafter they may practice to the extent of their ability to obtain clients.
The reent appointment of former Brigadier General Andrews as coordinator of all prohibition enforcement bureaus, including the coast guard and customs service, forecasts the retirement of Haynes. As General Andrews has gradually taken hold Haynes has been crowded to the roar. Recent report that Hayne would j retire to seek the Republican nomination for governor of Ohio is re- | garded ;is a complimentary paving of the way. The Ohio gubernatorial primaries will not occur until August, 1926, and if Haynes wished to capitalize his prohibition prominence he would continue at his post as long as possible.
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Only One Defender Except for Federal Judge Kennedy, sitting in Cheyenne, - no responsible defender has ever been found for President Harding’s act in transferring the oil reserves. Even administration Senators never attempted to sustain its legality. Doheny’s story also contains a heart-rending description of his conference with Admiral John K. Robison, chief of the bureau of engineering of the Navy. “Robison convinced me that war actually hung over the United | States. He recalled to my mind the I horrors of the invasion of Belgium, j He called my attention to the fact | that my home, the home of my son, and of my grandchildren, of all that I hold dear, were out here on the Pacific coast, and he asked me to consider the rest >f the people on this coast and their position much as I would consider that of those near and dear to me.” He I*l edged Ills Word So Impressed was Doheny that "on that December night, nearly four years ago, I pledged my word —even if it took the last penny of my resources." Testifying before the Senate committee on December 3. 1923, before the Teapot scandal really boiled over, Doheny said: “I would say that we will be in bad luck if we do not get back SIOO,000,000 profit.” Admiral Robison also testified before the Seriate committee. At that time he didn’t mention the horrors of Belgium. Instead he said he endorsed the leasing of the oil reserves BECAUSE DOHENY HAD CONVINCED HIM they were being drained. My Pipe By Hal Cochran REETINGS. old pipe: You’re a good friend of mine. I i want you to know how.l feel. Sweet-like and ripe, with a taste that is fine, you’ve given me pleasure that’s real. There, on your tray, mid the ashes and such, you patiently rest, on your side. Waiting, all day, till you’re feelin’ my touch and know- ; ing you’re soon to be tried. Think of the fun, when I take out j my pouch, and cram you right up !to the brim. Then, when it’s none, ! you’ll admit I'm no slouch at puffin’ ■ your bowl Into trim. Say, when I'm tired, and am j needing a, rest, ’tis you that puts hope in my cup. After you're fired, 1 with a soothing I’m blessed. You’ve reason for feeling puffed up. Yea, friendly pipe, you’re a woebegone sight, but you'd never feel uad, if you knew; overworked nerves need a tonic at night, and w’ho do I urn to? To you! Vpyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
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By GAYLORD NELSON
EXIT MISTER HAWKINS ORTON S. HAWKINS, head of the defunct and malodorous Hawkins Mortgage Company, was convicted in Federal Court Thursday of using the mails to defraud and conspiracy to defraud. The jury returned the verdict almost instantaneously. Thus ends another chapter in the gigantic fake stock swindle
that mulcted trusting investors in Indiana and other States out of millions. Life savings of widows, farmers and small Investors were taken by the glib knaves for stock in the Hawkins Mortgage Company and its subsidiaries. For stock worth little more than the paper on which It was printed, the defrauded victims
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paid $6,000,000. After the bubble burst the officials and promoters of the enterprise were haled into court. Fourteen of them were convicted several months ago and sentenced to imprisonment from a few months to a couple of years. Now the head of the promotion faces a similar fate. Doubtless that’s justice. But the duped and defrauded widows will have to take in washings the rest of their lives. A few years’ imprisonment for a smooth swindler seems inadequate when the swindleld suffer for life. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ELEGATES at the N. E. Aconvention in Indianapolis enthusiastically indorsed the bill before Congress for the creation of - a Federal department of education with a secretary in the President's cabinet. For five years the teachers have been push ing this proposal. According to the present plan the proposed department would have only a modest appropriation and would devote its activities to research, collection of educational statistics and other useful information. Federal aid for schools or interference with State management of schools Is not contemplated—at first. Probably a Federal department of education will be created, if not now, eventually. Why not? Commerce, labor and agriculture already have Federal departments headed by cabinet officers. There are more school children in the country than business men, farmers. or laborers. Why shouldn’t their welfare be of equal interest to the national Government? Such arguments by the supporters of the proposal for Federal recognition of education are unanswerable. But if a department of education is a proper function of the national Government why not Federal departments of religion, health, entertainment and so on indefinitely? Where can the line limiting Governmental activities be logically drawn? If the present tendency to expand the functions of the national Government continues, soon State lines might as well be rolled up and depqSited in a museum—a Federal museum. They will be only relics.
THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT
VANISHING HOME INFLUENCE —J. N. SHERWOOD, superin-r-J tendent of public Inst rue- ■* tion of Indiana, addressing the teachers’ convention, declared the moral training of children is being neglected by parents. The vanishing home Influence, he believes, is responsible for the prevalence of juvenile criminals. Probably he is right. Other educators. Judges, and welfare workers make the same complaint. And more and more the burden of moral training and ethical instruction for children is being entrusted to the schools and similar organizations. Rearing children Is still a major social problem despite the fact that it has been an important human occupation since Cain and Abel were raised with such disastrous consequences. No Infallible system has been devised. Proper child training Is both an Individual and a collective social responsibility. At present the tendency Is to make it a collective responsibility and train them en masse in school. The results are not altogether gratifying—as disclosed by Juvenile court records. Troops can be trained In platoons and companies and on a wholesale scale. Dogs, performing seals, acrobatic goldfish and children require individual treatment. Proper attention to the Individual child can only be given by Individual parents. Os course some children who have been reared by diligent and faithful parents end their careers on the gallows or In political offices. Nevertheless raising children is. and must remain, essentially a home industry—not a profession, but a handicraft. AIRPORT FOR INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis Real EsI J I tate Board Is sponsoring a movement to acquire a suitable tract of land near the city for an airport. It la planned to raise $25,000 for the project. For the moment there may bo no more urgent need for an airport in this city than for a harbor for submarines. Not enough planes use our air to discommode even our smoke nuisance. But the project Is more than a bit of civic bombast, or the dream of a Babbitt. A few days ago night air mail service was Inaugurated between New York and Chicago. On the first flight the planes winged safely through the night and arrived two hours ahead of schedule. Practicability of the service was brilliantly demonstrated. Almost coincident with the Inauguration of this night service postal authorities asked for bids for operation of eight new air mall lines. Also recently Ford Motor and other large corporations have become interested In development of commercial air lines. Apparently vve are right on the threshold of the era of commercial air transportation. Development will come with a rush. Within a few years at most—possibly within a year—freight and passengers will wing in and out of Indianapolis on regular schedules. It will he as common to see commercial flyers as disgruntled taxpayers up in the air. When that time comes an airport will be as necessary in the city ns a Union Station or Bus Terminal. Movement to acquire an airport now will not be premature or a grandiloquent gesture. It will be a prudent anticipation of future necessities It may help Indianapolis to retain Its pre-eminence as a transportation center.
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Ask The Times Vou con pet an anrwrr to any question of (ant or information by writing to The Indianapolis Timoa Washington bureau, 1322 New York Ave., Wuthlnton, D. C., Inclosing 2 rent* In (tamps for reply. Midi cal. legal and mamal advice cannot bo given, nor can extended n eearch be undertaken. All othrr queittonn will receive a peroona! reply. Unalgned requc*t cannot bn annwcrnd. All lullcra are coufldeutial.—Editor. What Is the "Fhta Morgana?” A mlrnge occasionally observed In the Strait of Messina, In which from refraction In the atmosphere, Images of objocts, such as men, houses, trees, etc., are seen from the coast under or over the surface of the \TOtcr. What Is the moaning of the term “tenancy at sufferance’’? This Is a legal term defining ths occupation of land. When a tenant enters upon land lawfully, but continues In possession through the leglect of the landlord, he Is a "tenant at sufferance." Such Is n plred, or the possession of land under holding over after a lease has exa parole agreement of sale. What Is the beet method of killing the common barberry which spreads the black stem rust of cereals? The four prime requisites of a satisfactory cherr.'cal with which to kill this ore cheapnvss, availability, effectiveness and a minimum of danger to adjacent plants and to grazing animals. Three chemicals have been found to meet all these requisites—salt, sodium arsenate and kerosene. Os these, salt Is perhaps the best and most effective. Should lead pipes be used for conveying wntcr for drinking and cooking purposes? Lead, brass, or lead-lined pipes should not be used for conveying water for drinking and cooking. This caution applies with especial force to lead pipe and to cases where the water Is soft and contains much free carbonlo acid and oxygen or stands for some time in the pipes. Different waters and soils vary greatly In their power to attack and corrode metals. There might be danger, therefore, In drinking water from lead pipes unless the water Is allowed to run until the water that has been standing In ths pipes has run out. Can a person honestly surrender his adjusted service certificate for bonus to pay a bill? The only legal way by which money can be obtained or a loan made on the bonus certificate is that provided by the bonus law whereby a certain amount will be loaned the veterans by the hanks after the policy has been In force two years. If tho loon Is not paid off by the veteran at maturity, the bank presents the veteran’s note, secured by his policy, to the government. If one wishes to make his bonus certificate security for a house or any property or for a private loan the only way to do It Is to make the person, from whom the loan Is secured, tho beneficiary of the policy. Tills, however. Is risky for the perron taking the policy as security, a-i tho veteran has the privilege of changing the beneficiary of the policy at any time and without tho consent of the beneficiary. Is there such a tree as a "traveler's tree”? The traveler’s tree is a remarkable plant, of the family Musaceae—a native of Madagascar. The stem resecbles that ofthe plantain or banana, hut sends out leaves only on two opposite sides. The lower leaves drop as the stem grows and In old trees they fire some times thirty feet In air. A tree often has twenty-four leaves, each leafstalk six or eight feet long and the blade four or six feet more.' The hlado of the leaf is oblong bright green and shining. Tho fruit is not succulent, but. Is filled with a brilliant blue or purple line silky fibre, among w r hlch are thirty or fourty seeds. Forty or fifty frulta grow in a bunch and three or four bunches may be at. once on thl v tree. The leaves are used for thatch and for other purposes and the leafstalks for partitions and often for walls of houses. The bases of the leafstalks usually hold water, even In the driest weather, more than a quart being readily obtained by piercing the thick part of the base. This water*, used for drinking in case of need, has suggested the name.