Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1925 — Page 4

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I Building Gains Ff“|riS this is being written steel beams are ■ A being hoisted directly outside the writ.cr’s window. Anew building is going up. *■ Tfew buildings are being erected in every v.seetdon Os the city. Figures show that valuation of new structures this year considerably exceeds that of last, and considerable- major -construction still is in sight. This is a sure, sign of prosperity. % \ The N. Meridian St. Plaza district is changing rapidly. The new American Legion i biii'd’ng. - has just been completed. The Elks Club and the Athletic Club have changed the skyline. The Chamber of Commerce is planning ft Rev” building and the Scottish Rite will ereft-an enormous temple on Meridian St. All this fs'ifr addition to the Avar memorial building itself. t- Monument Circle has undergone a great change during the last three years. It Avould hardly he recognized as the same place; New construction there includes the ucaa* Golumbia Club, about to he opened; the hoav Commercial National Bank Building, the new Guaranty Building and the Xcav Test Building. Directly behind the Test, Building, on Illinois St., is being erected one of the largest office buildings in the city. North Illinois St. and X. Pennsylvania St. aibo are rapidly developing, and there has been some construction on Washington St. In addition there has been considerable construction of residence and apartmejit buildings in the njore outlying districts, and one of the most riotable examples of the growth of the city is the erection of a 1,000-room hotel at Meridian St. and Fall Creek, a section once almost uninhabited. Business is good. Cutting Witness Fees Auditor Harry Dunn is objecting I lto the high cost of sanity inquests. He has suggested that as a remedy fewer witnesses be used in inquests held at the city hospital. Witnesses receive $1.25 each, paid by the county, and the county is objecting to paying for any more witnesses than it has to. One of our laAvs most susceptible to abuse is that Avhich cpA r ers the commission of an individual to an institution for the insane. We do not contend that the laAv is abused at the t I City hosp tal, but we do contend that arbitrary reduction of the number of Avitnesses in a sanity inquest as a means of saving money is a short-sighted polio l '. It is absolutely true that with a proper “set-up” of Avitnesses and “experts” it is possible to declare almost any one insane in Indiana. The decision in the matter is more or less up to a justice of the peace, and Ave all knoAv hoAv avcll qualified is the average justice

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elude all that area, land and water, which lies north of the Arctic circle. This area is 8,200,000 square miles. The north pole itself is the (theoretical) point where the" meridians of longitude the latitude is 90 degrees. Where was Tom Mix, the movie star, born and what was the nationality of his parents? He was born in a log c%bin just north of I*ll Paso, Texas. His mother, as stated by him in his own life story, is part Scotch and part Cherokee Indian, while his father is Irish. What are the words of the Moselm <-a\U to prayer or the cry of the Muezzin from the minarets? “Allah is great (repeated four times). I testify that there is no God but Allah (repeated twice). I testify that Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, (repeated twice). Come to prayers (repeated twice),

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of the peace on the subject of mental diseases. The records are full of cases in Avhich persons have been declared insane for ulterior reasons. A person suspected of insanity should be given all the safeguards of any one else in danger of losing his liberty. Certainly the number of witnesses should not be limited. The Taste Tells I •plj PIETS PICKETT, research secretary for Ll-'i the hoard of temperance, prohibition and public morals, has Avritten a piece for the papers concerning Brig. Gen. Lincoln AndreAvs, the present, director of the Federal Avar on drink. In one respect, at least, it is an admirable piece. Deets lives up to his title. It is piire research, not A'ery dpep, perhaps, hut. pure. That, is to say, the author only tells what, lie knoAvs; he doesn’t draAv conclusions. Which is the proper procedure of researchers. “Ninety-nine times out of a hundred it would he highly important,” says the research secretary, “to knoAv Avhether he (General AndreAvs) is a convinced prohibitionist. In his case, hoAvever, it is not so important, because he is a gentleman in the old sense of absolute loyalty to h-is duty.” Then, further along in his pieces Deets quotes the General as saying: “Many a man thinks hee is drinking ‘Scotch’ of good flavor, Avhen if I Avere to give him a drink of real ‘Scotch’ he Avould he amazed at the difference, in taste and quality.” Noav, sufficient research having been done, suppose Ave supply Deets with, the ans Aver. Isn’t it clear that General Andrews is, as they say in Kentucky: “A gentleman and a scholar and a fine judge of whisky?” To Make Travel Still Easier xv/IHAT a nation of travelers Ave are becom- ** ing is illustrated by a thing which the Knights and Ladies of the Maccabees have undertaken to do. Ten thousand Maccabees Avill sAvarm by auto into Washington this month for their national conA-ention. All have been asked to report, on their arrival every fact of interest and importance concerning the roads and the traffic regulations they meet. If the happy pilgrims take enough notes and are careful to be exact, they will furnish a very useful survey of national traveling condition/?. They may hasten the desired day Avhen traffic regulations Avill be uniform in all cities and States. The day Avhen one is arrested in Maryland for doing Avhat one is arrested in Ohio for not doing will come to an end.

Come to salavation (repeated twice). There is no God but Allah (repeated twice).” Why is Rome called "The Eternal City?” > Legend states that Rome was raised by or under (he immediate supervision of the immortal gods, and the teir.is "Eternal City” arose from that fact. How many varieties of the real English primrose are there? There is only one real English primrose. It is the Primula aucaulis. It is pale yellow, and rarely purple or blue, 'becoming greenish in drying. It is a native of Europe, Cultivated there and ;in the United States and is a hardy garden plant. From what is nitro glycerine made? 1 When glyoerine is treated with a mixture of concentrated nitric and sulpphuric acids, it forms and caster commonly known as nitro-glycerine. It is a yellow, heavy, oily liquid.

Foot Power By Hal Cochran It’s nice to go riding in automobiles. It's lovely to journey on four rubbe? wheels. No matter what type of an auto man owns, he just likes to ride ’cause .it's ‘restin’ his bones. The Whistle of trains sends a man on a rfvce to hop right aboard and go speeding through space. There’s always a lure yo\*'re unable to kill. You know, as you ride, that you move, though you're still. Why is it we all, when we’re going to lunch, will pften encourage that lazy-like hunch to hand out our fare'so's to ride on a car, when, frankly, we know just how foolish we are? It seems we’ve for~otten our legs and our feet. 7" cy’re robbed of their chance when we purchase a seat. Where, formerly, all sort of hiking was tried, today it’s too easy for people to ride. We talk about health, but we don't do our bit. The. exercise thought makes us all throw a fit. Let’s stick to the health gag, but cut out the talk. The best aid to health is to get out. a#d walk. Nf:y fieryjrp, Tnc)

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Some Heroes Should Be Shot

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Or— —i H, FOR a good old-fashioned hero! t> know that we grin nowadays at those honorable, self-sacrificing, long sufering men who pranced through the books of yesteryear—the Northwest Mounted Police type, who would he boiled in oil before they would sully a woman’s honor. But why leap fj-om one extreme to another? For contrariwise, the., modern fictional hero is generally a most unmitigated cad. I have, just finished reading three new books—all brilliantly written — and in each Instance the fellow w-ho walks in the spotlight from the first to the last page seems to me to be a fit subject for some good reform I school. * ’ Want to Write These modern heroes don’t give a darn about their country, or their friends or their families. They usually have but one aim in life—to write a book. Perhaps this is because to the authors of their beings writing a book—-oh, just any old kind ft a. hook —is considered the acme of human achievement. Therefore, from the time when the little lad of ten senses something mysterious and moving and sad in the universe—they all do it —you may he perfectly certain that he will be a blase and cynical author at the end of the last chapter. In’ order to write a hook It seems necessary thrft he should express himself without restraint, that he should taffle life with a capital L, and experience all those emotions to which men in books are subject. AA’ell, nobody would object to that. Several of our more ancient fictional loves stumbler’. now and then. Rut this passionate tea-hound who inhabits our 1025 edition goes them one or two better. He thinks nothing of deserting a faithful wife and a couple of babies. AA'ith magnificent unconcern he flings caution to

■RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA I By GAYLORD NELSON

GOLDEN HILL PARK E MON ST R A X C E against the issuance of $52.00(1 in u. bonds by the Indianapolis park board for acquisition of a park site in Golden Hill was heard

by the State tax commission the other day. The commission is studying the matter. At the public hearing hizzoner the mayor— Avho by strange coin cidence dwells in Golden Hill —characterized the r e monstrance to the project as “plain spite worls.” Quite likely he is r i g h t. What other mo-

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tive could impel anyone to oppose that park which .would so benefit the toiling masses of the city? The project would provide a little open space v acre the crowded denizens of Golden Hill and. the wraiths from Croxvn Hill hard by could enjoy the moonlight and the twitter of birds. Os course the Indianapolis park system must be extended in time to take cure of the city’s future needs. At present it has a larger percentage of its area set aside for park purposes than the average city of its class. Why the haste to acquire more tracts? Right now there are enough necessary public improvements, which will betipfit the whole city, to engage all the time, attention and bonds of the municipality. The administration doesn't need to look around for worlds to conquer. Golden Hill park, Laurel Hall and similar enterprise* might safely he left for future administrations without endangering the average citizen's life, liberty or pursuit of happiness. A STIFF SENTENCE mUDGE ROBERT C. BALT55ELL, in Federal Court Monday, sentenced Morton S. Hawkins, head of the Hawkins Mortgage Company swindle, to fifteen years imprisonment and fined him SIO,OOO. It was one of the stiffesl sentences ever imposed in the Federal Court at Indianapolis. And all Hawkins did was to engineer a blue-sky scheme that took some millions of dollars away from elderly widows and other unimportant persons. Vet he was punished just like a common felon who had stolen an automobile or a loaf of bread. Perhaps the judge was harsh. But apparently he looks upon slick swindlers with unfriendly eye. A short time ago he sentenced the young promoter of a work-at-home fraud—who victimized house- " wives, cripples and shut-ins —to ten years in the penitentiary and a fine of SB,OOO. The fraud netted it3 operator $175,000. - j No matter how stiff The sentences of such swindlers they fall short of pure justice and can not be made commensurate with the crime. The swindlers’ victims are still losers. When a bandit robs a bank there is no serious loss to anybody. An insurance company is gouged. Perhaps even the victim of a murder is not a real loser by the crime. His advent to the realm of bliss he ultimately hoped to attain is merely hastened. But one whose savings are swept away bj r the fraudulent scheme of sogie shrewd rogue is permanently injured. The .loss-is irreparable. No sentence, consisting of years. uch. sharpers. _

the w.n , hies him to the south seas or some other lax place, with an affinity who does nothing'but cater to his whims and praise his genius. t Irritating Hero We all know that men will he men, but there seems no reason why we should allow them all these ruthless liberties in fiction, the while we are asked by their doting creators to regard them as something fine and exquisite and marvelous. Even a hero* who goes trampling upon all the people who love him. and w r ho is out for himself and everything he can get, becomes a bit irritating. I am frankly" weary of these neurotic, introspective men that saunter to perdition through the pages of our books. They have no manners, no morals and very frequently np sense. Let them express themselves to the limit, through (ranting and sensuality and cynicism, if the authors must, but don’t ask a reading public to regard them as anything else save what they are, plain, common, everyday rogues. Personally I think the whole "kit and bilin" of them should be <=hot at sunrise. CITY JANITORS BUSY Mayor’s Threat to Fire Some of Force Brings Results. Following Mayor -Shank’s threat to fire a number of janitors at the city hall, there was nfuch scouring and scrubbing of floors today. Elmer Williams, secretary of the hoard of works, said repairs to city hall ceiling and walls, badly damaged hv a leaky roof, would not be made during the present administration. Contractors are repairing the roof. The council chamber is to be redecorated next year.

ISPANK ’EM WHEN NECESSARY m* he Marion County board of education recently upheld corporal punishment as a means of disciplining school children. It believes that -appropriate use of such corrective measures should he left to the discretion of teachers. The board takes a case .and sane view of corporal punishment. £nme squeamish souls hold that j lickings are relics of barbarism. ! that refractory human twigs should be. bent In the proper dli reef lon by love, caresses, frozen suckers, and bribery. No doubt the old maxim "spar* the rod and spoil the child" hn been overworked. In the old days it was the excuse for a lot of sheer | brutality t/> youngsters in and out j of school. In many schools the ! hickory switch was the whole i curriculum. Education was a ays- ; tern of painful welts. It is doubtful if a youngster is ! permanently improved by being I knocked lopsided for every peccnj dillo. Put the primary purpose of child training is development of character. The child must learn discipline as that is an essential of character. One of the surest methods to Instil a wholesome respect for discipline is to punish for trangressions. , . One wouldn't attempt the training of a bird dog or a lion without Ia whip to enforce authority and instil fear of punishment. ' Usually now teachers don’t whip for exercise—but for cause. If they have enough judgment to tearh arithmetic and'-, geography they have enough judgment to tearh discipline even if occasionally they have to do it from the rear avith a club or other form of corporal punishment. STREET CARS AND BUSSES mHE Indianapolis Street Railway Company has protested to the public service commission that it plans establishment of such transportation service itself, in conjunction avith its Broad Ripple line. The need of better transportation facilities to Ravenswnod has been obvious for some time. Residents have appealed for bus service. Put the street car company made no move to provide service until an independent bus line threatened to eater the field. For taa-o months the street railway company has been fighting before the commission granting certificates to the Peoples Motor Coach Company. It seeks authority to operate bus lines on all the routes now served hA' the Peoples Motor Coach Company. Last wlnt®- feeder bus lines were established by the traction system on Capitol and Central Aves., covering sections long in need of better transportation. These busses were not put in service unitl independent bus lines were proposed for the territorA'. The street railwa> - company claims it is able and anxious to furnish adequate transportation to every section of the city, by trolley or bus. Perhaps it is. But it is remarkable that it never discovers the need of additional facilities until some independent bus line appears on the horizon. Apparently the street railway companA' is less concerned with providing bus service than in throttling bus competition. , BANKER IS SUED Bu United Press ANDERSON, Ind., July B. Charging malicious persecution. W. !W. Glass today is seeking $20,000 damages from Oscar Vinson, Sum nfitville banker. Glass alleges Vin son had him arrested on a charge of issuing a fraudulent check Without., gr/uirdli.

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Susie Had Leaving Blues, Butterbeans Told Her to Have Them for Fifty Years

By Walter I>. Hickman r—j FTTKRBEANS was by |U| his Susie that she had the 1 I leaving blues. Ami she sure did. AVhen she told ’’Beans” ahout it, she told him in slow movin’ Jazz time. She groans that he has not hqen fre.atin' her right: that she has her grip packed because she has the Infixing blues. Hot tomntoe sauce! Butterbeans answers her in the same hot language and tells Susie to have that brand of blues for all he cares for fifty years. Am telling A'ou about the first Butterbeans and Susie number on the Okch record. Am speaking of "leaving Blues." written by Putterbeans and Hartack with hot piano plaA'ing by Eddie Hey wood. And Eddie is a true blues player. He certainly puts temperature inti) the ivor> - on the keyboard Butterbeans is a baritone and Susie is a contralto. These two seem to have all the charm of Slssle and Blake. Some weeks ago, I wrote Okeh telling them that numerous readers of this department asked mo to get acquainted with Butterbeans and Susie. AA'hen I returned from my xacation. several new Butterbeans and Susie records were waiting for me. On the other side of the reeorfi that I am telling you about >-ou will find "I>o Right Papa.” another one of those moaning Ja/.z>- things. Also hot. 'These two turn out the intimate, human kind of blues. They moan, me into joy. New Brunswick Have to confess that it hds kept me runnin' round in circle since I got hack on the job. Am going to list some new Brunswick records. Most of these I will

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Tom Sims, Says Once Sunday wap a day of rest. Now we spend six days resting up from Sunday.

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ous. She is trying to get married. You must make your own way to really have. Women are people who wish men wouldn’t he so foolish. It is easy to mistake ignorance for a good dk-'osition. These are the day* you are too sick to work and too well to stay home from going fishing. You couldn’t say slapping a man on his sunburned hark was striking him in the right way. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, InO.*

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mental system. Some 1 have told you about. The new Brunswick list follows: ’bet It Hln. bet It Pour.” fox trot Red Hm Henry brown, fox trot. .fUy Mlllrr nnd His Orchestra , . Ttvllighl lli" and You. fox trot; On Virn, ' fox trot. Bennie Krue grrn Oivhfptra. Deep in M,v Heart. IVar " “The Mart" of Moonlight ind Love." violin solo with orchestra. Krrdrlo Friidktn. “Sons* My Mother Taught Me' (Dvorak i. “Perfect Oa,v" (Jacobs Bond), violin, cello, piano cUhueo Trio. Ivo Named Mv Pillow After )OU." voice and guitar ,r lf T can't Have tou. voice and guitar. Nick buras. “Oettln' Tnld," fox trot; “play Me Slow, fox trot. Mound Ctty Blue Blow, era. "Three O'clock In the Morning." ptsno solo, Witten announcing ‘"The Moonlight a wait:’ and You " nianp solo “King of the ivories " Harrr M. Snodgrass. "‘.tune Brought the Boses," tenor: West of the Great Divide. ’ tenor. Alien MeQuhie Dustinr th" Keys ' piano solo. Witten announcing "Blue Evening Blue*.'' piano solo King of the Ivories, Harry M, Snodgrass Midnight Waltz " waltz (vocal chorus b\ Frank Munn); Memories of a Rose." wall? t'arl Fenton s Orchestra. “Suwanee Butterfly."' fox trot. Boat hhul.le. fo\ trot I*ham Jon^^B"- ■ 'Larky Kentuckv," fox trot: That Train, fox trot OHolr Orchestra Wrerh on the southern Old 07. ' fox trot ivnoal chorus bv Jones and Hare. ' The Old Gray Mare." fox trot i vocal chorus by .tones and Hare). Carl Frnfon Orchestra. "I'll See You tn My Dreams" popular concert. When Yon and I were Seventeen, nopular 4-onorrt. Brunswick Hour Orchestra. Have- also received snme mighty interesting now Ode<v.i record*. I sure have lota of mu*io 10 get in and out of my system. ' -I- •!• •!• * Indianapolis theaters today pffer: "Lightnln’ " nt English’s; ’’Peaches From the Benches" at the Lyric; "Marry Me" at the Ohio; "Just a Woman" at the Circle: Circus at the Palace; "The Light of the Western Stars" at the Apollo; “The Bandit's Baby" at the Isis and “Head Winds" nt the Colonial.

on a bathing beach, it hasn't much to blow about. Procrastination wao invented by a sink full of dirty dishes. Every young man dreads the time when he will become old and useful. The modern girl who doesn't kiss Is danger-