Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1925 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD. President. „ FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. 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 of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a W eeK PHONE—MA in 3500.

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Campaign Promises 2nd the South. Side fyTIILLIAM H. FREEMAN, member of the board of public works, in discussing the contention of the south side that it is receiving a raw deal in the matter of public improvements, stated this piece of wisdom: “A campaign promise is not a public necessity.” To our way of thinking, a campaign promise is the most useless thing in the world so far as the public is concerned. Mr. Freeman meant, we take it, that because a candidate promises a thing shall be done is no reason to believe 'that there is a public necessity for doing that thing. Also, we might add, because a candidate promises to do a thing is no reason to believe he will do it if elected. y , 1 Campaign promises rise up to haunt office holders. There still remain a number of citizens with the unreasonable idea that officials should be held to their pre-election promises. Nothing could be further from the situation. Campaign promises are made for votegetting purposes only. They should be forgotten immediately after election. The successful candidates forget them, so why shouldn't the rest of us. For instance, Hon. Sam Lew Shank, who will continue for several months to be mayor of our fair city, went into the then Democratic wards of the south side and told them that “you folks down here haven’t been getting a square u 1. By golly, we are going to see that you get things just like the north side”—or words to that effect. And the south side elected Lew and the north side voted against him. Things went along more or less smoothly for a couple of years. . Meanwhile, a good part of the south side had joined the Klan and Lew refused to join. Then Lew decided to run for Governor. The Klan couldn’t see it and the south side voted against Lew. Score, one election for Lew and one against him. Then Lew moved up on the north side. He got himself a house in Golden Hill and proceeded on a movement to obtain a part of Golden Hill for park purposes. Then he started a movement to obtain for the city the Stoughton Fletcher white elephant known as Laurel Hall. In ftfet Lew, now that

MEDICAL EXPLORERS FIND SIMPLE REMEDY FOR RICKETS IN CHILDREN

Ultra-Violet Rays or Cod Liver Oil Relieve Dread Ailment.

By David Dietz XEA Service Writer I _ "I ICKETS, one of the most I serious diseases of early childI . hood has been conquered. Such is the message from the medical outposts upon the last frontier, the frontier of science.

Two methods for the prevention and cure of rickets have been discovered. Rickets is a failure of the bones of the body to grow nard. In normal children, the soft bones become hardened through the deposit of mineral matter, chiefly calcium phosphate in the

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cells of the bones. This has been known for a long time. It was obvious at once, therefore, that children rickets must be given a diet rich in calcium and phosphorus. But it was found that something was wrong with the internal reactions of the child with rickets so that his bones failed to absorb the mineral matter. Now it has been discovered that either the feeding of cod-liver oil or the exposing of the child to ultraviolet radiation will cure and prevent rickets. This discovery has opened up a new line of research y'hich may to even more amazing discoveries. Scientists want to know why a dose of cod-liver oil should have the same effect as ultra-vio!?t wys. Accordingly experiments have been undertaken to study cod-liver oil. It is now believed that reaction goes on when cod-liver oil is absorbed by the human system which results in the oil itself giving off ultra-violet rays. These rays cause the bones to absorb the mineral matter thev previously refused. • * • E''| OW old .s the earth'* This is II one of the protbir.ui along the frontier of science. The National Resear-h Council has appointed a committee the committee on the of

he has become a north sider, has, according to many south side residents, forgotten all about the south side. The south side forgot its enthusiasm for Lew and Lew forgot his campaign promises to the south side. Such is life in a politics ridden city. J. H. Edwards, Policeman Extraordinary JUPPOSE the burglar, slipping out of your window with your silver in a bag, met a policeman. Would the policeman wait till you had entered a complaint at headquarters? You certainly hope not. A majority of tile city supervisors in San Francisco decided to let the Pacific Gas and Electric Company have the electric power for which the people had spent $55,000,000, instead of distributing it directly to the people as the Government's water power grant to the city required. First, however, the majority supervisors wrote the Interior Department asking if it would be all right to do this. Then, after a feAv days, they got impatient and went ahead and signed the cont-act. What will the Department of Interior do about it? Assistant Secretary John 11. Edwards, handling the matter, says he sees no need to do anything. There is no need of ruling on the legality of the contract, he thinks, now that it is signed. He doesn’t have to give or withhold permission, because they didn’t wait for him to do so, he says. Os course, if someone complains that the law is being violated — ah, then watch him act! Meantime the power is being turned into the private company’s transmission lines. The people are losing their power and their money and every day decreases their chances of getting them back. The Interior Department, in fact, has ample power to act, without waiting for some citizen to complain. It is the government’s grant that is being violated. As an official of the Government department, it is to enforce the terms of that grant, Edwards has a more direct interest than any single citizen of San Francisco could have. And he doesn’t have to wait for any official notification or protests, if he wants to do his job.

THE FRONTIER OF SCIENCE

WHAT $2,500,000 WOULD BUY/fl RADIUM ~ DIAMOtIDSPLATItiUtI AhD GOLD GOLD 3% TONS

Radium, Rare Mineral of the Earth, It Surpassed in Rarity by New Substances Found at the Frontier of Science.

Geologic Age Through Atomic Disintegration to study the matter. We know that radio-active elements are disintegrating or going to pieces. Thus uranium in time becomes radium and radium in time becomes lead. The rate at which this disintegration goes on is always constant. Thus if a rock is found which contains both uranium and lead, the lead must have originally been ura- 1 nium and we can calculate how long it would take the change to occur. The age of a uranium deposit at | Lusk, Wyo., is calculated to be 32,- j 000.000 years old on this basis. One . in Ontario, Canada, is at least 1,300,000,000 years old. More study of this sort, it is thought, may enable scientists to estimate the age of the world. * • y ADIUM is not as expensive as it used to be as the resuit of the discovery of a high-grade radium ore in the Belgian Congo. A few years ago,-radium sold for $120,000 a gram. Now it can he pur- ; chased for $70,000 a gram.

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, w T hat does he say? Does the theory of evolution preclude a belief in creation by C-od? 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. & NO. or R. R CITY STATE ' ct I am a reader of The Indianapolis fimes.

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

PRICE OF SCHOOL COAL I . ,'Tl Indianapolis school 111 board Tuesday awarded a | | contract for 3,880 tons of West Virginia Coal at a .price of $5.37 per ton. Another bidder offered the same kind of coal for $5.32 per ton.

The majority Os ' the board claimed the higher priced coal was the better. The superintendent of buildings and grounds, who is presumably familiar with the type of coal best adapted for ifcie In the schools, recommended acceptance of the $5.32 bid. His recommendation was ignored. The difference

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between the two bids would only amount to $194. A small item certainly to a body that has the spending of millions of dollars annually. Perhaps it. isn’t worth saving. However, the school board is constantly bemoaning the debilitated State of the school treasury- It is volubly and ostentatiously committed to rigorous economy. In order to provide funds for needed new school buildings, maintenance, salary and operating estimates are being pared to the bone. Days have been spent going over the plans for the new Shortridge High School and sweating Inches off the dimensions of its rooms to reduce the cost of the structure. Under the circumstances, when every dollar the board can lay its hands on is neded to provide adequate facilities for Indianapolis school children, a saving - of $194 on the coal bill is not to os sneezed at. STOP AT CROSSINGS ARION COUNTY officials, at a recent safety mee'ing, i__| considered the possibility of requiring lnterurban cars to stop at all main road crossings. The succession of fatal crossing accidents recently has aroused them. It has been conclusively proven that crossings where highways ani rail lines intersect cannot be used simultaneously by automobiles and lnterurbans. Two bodies > cannot occupy the same space at the same moment without discomfort. Nevertheless, many a hopeful or careless motorist thinks otherwise. He tries to use a crossing at the same time as an interurban. Usually an instant later he finds himself grasping a harp Instead of a steering wheel. Therefore, in the interest of safety either the automobile or the rail vehicle must stop. If an interurban is compelled to stop at every main highway intersection, it might as well throw its schedule in the waste basket. It will spend all its time starting and stopping—getting nowhere. Its passengers will get a vacation, not transportation. That plan would be about as logical as to expect the earth to pause every few minutes in her journey around the sun to let a shooting staf cross her orbit. A regulation to compel either highway or rail traffic to come to a full stop at all crossings wouldn't prevent acidents. Crossing safety depends on individual prudence and vigilance, not on unenforceable general rules. HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES SHE State highway commission and the I. C. Railroad have reached an agreement to replace the old wooden bridge over the railroad's tracks on State Rd. 22, south of Indianapolis, with a modern concrete structure to cost SBO,OOO. Construction will start at once. The agreement between the commission and the railroad was reac.he after only three weeks of negotiation. Which establishes a record for speedy action, according to highway officials. Pavement on State Rd. 22, between Martinsville and Indianapolis—in progress more than a year —was completed about a month ago. With the completion of the bridge it will be a perfect stretch of highway. But for several months there will be a bumpy,- profanity—inspiring detour on the route while

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:

the bridge is under construction. The old bridge has been tottering on the brink of dissolution for years—a menace to Jraffic. Before starting and during the paving work, highway officials knew the decrepit bridge would have to be replaced by a modern structure. If negotiations with the railroad company were so easy why weren’t they started a year ago? Why did the highway commission have to wait until all the rest of the work on the road was done before taking up the bridge question? With a little foresight the whole improvement project could have been completed at the same time. As it is State Rd. 22 has a fine stretch of paving and a detour. And no road is better than its detours. TOO MANY LAW ENFORCEMENTS IRED C. GAUSE, former judge of the State Supreme 1 Court, at the annual meeting of the Indiana Bar Association Wednesday, condemned self-con-stituted law enforcers and private agencies engaged in apprehending violators of particular statutes. ‘‘lt Is the duty of each citizen to obey the law, but the duty of enforcement is upon those regularly chosen for that purpose by methods prescribed by law,” he asserted. “If public officials do not do their duty, then get those who d(v” We If - reached a condition in this country in which the regnlarly constituted officials hardly play a speaking part in the drama of law enforcement. Swarms of private and volunteer agents fill the picture. Each new law regulating condct raises another crop of amateur cops for its enforcement. If a law is passed to prevent cruelty to angleworms a society is formed for its enforcemeent and volunteer sleuths prowl abroad to catch villains who crop the ears and tails of angleworms or Impale them on fish-hooks. In Indiana horsethgf deteectives abound to preveent the kidnaping of Dobbin. State motor police •hase speeders. Volunteer vigilantes are organized against bank robbers. The Lord's Day Alliance patrols the lakes and streams to harry Sunday fishermen. The Anti-Saloon League wields an industrious mop on damp spots. The list might be extended indiflnitely. Os course, the reason for all these special agencies, treading on each other’s heels, is the failure of the duV constituted authorities to enforce all laws. But official agencies can't enforce all laws—there are too many. The Government can't, he expected to do everything from regulating stellar traffic in the Milky Way to weaning the babies without the help of volunteer law enforcers. Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indlanapoll* Timea Waahlngton Bureau. 1322 New York Ave Waah Inton. D C . inclosing 2 cent* in stamps for reply Medical legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken All other questions will receive a personal reply Uns'gned requests cannot be answered 411 letters are conflden tipi—Editor From what kinds of grasses are the most important hays made ‘ and how much nutriment does the average hay contain? Hay is a term applied to a considerable number of cured crops used for feeding farm animals, the most Important hays being made from the various grasses (timothy, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail. brome grasses, etc.), legumes (clover, alfalfa. etc.), and cereal grains (rye, oats and barley). The different crops are usually cut from hay before they have fully ripened seed as generally speaking the nutritive value, increases up to this time and decreases afterward. Hay contains more nutritive material in proportion to its bulk than the green crops from which it is made. It has been concentrated by the evaporation of a large amount of the water originally present. It contains fairly large amount of carbohydrates, both nitrogen free extract and crude fibre, and a considerable amount of protein. Animals were at one time wintered on hay alone, but now it has been fouqd that, although they can be maintained on hay alone it is advisable to supplement the diet with grain or other concentrated food.

Where and when was the first factory of importance Tor the making of artificial' ice erected? It was erected in 1881. at New Orleans, La. By 1870 three other factories were located in southern States. Who was “Iago”? i A character in Shakespeare’s Othello, a calculating and malignant person, the ancient enemy of Othello, whom he secretly hates while re taining his confidence. In revenge for imagined wrongs he skillfully concocts evidence which convinces Othello of the unfaithfulness of his wife. Desdemona. Othello in jealousy murders Desdemona, and stabs lago when the plot come to light. Is it possible to purchase from the government a copy of the War Message of Woodrow Wilson? A copy may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office., Wash ington, D. C. for five cents. The title of the booklet is “The War Message and the Pacts behind it.” Where are the Government Navy Yards? The United States Navy Yards are located at the following places: Portsmouth, N. H.; Boston, Mass. Brooklyn, N. Y.; Philadelphia, Pa. Washington, D. C.; Norfolk, Va.: Charleston, S. C.; Mare Island, Cal.: Bremerton, Wash., and Pearl Har T. H. \

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Grace Edler Minds Not the Hot Weather While Dancing

By Waiter D. Hickman jpl HERE is a dancer on the ] I variety stage by the name of L.i ■ J Grace Edler. She and her girls go in for masculine impersonation. doing the steps that men generally uo. Miss Edler and her girls appear first dressed as male nifties, evening clothes and the like. They go in for tap dancing with Miss Edler doing an Impersonation of Eddie Leonard that is the real goods. This is no false alarm impression. The thing that I admire most in Miss Edler's act is the simplicity and the ease with which the act is mounted and presented. It looks cool and so do the dancers. There is lot of class In this act. A hot weather delight. Robinson and Pierce are presenting something new in vaudeville — the sight of a man quarreling with his wife. Method of delivery makes this act popular. ''Amateur Nite in London" isn't as funny as it might be. It is full of hokum, but not the brand that makes one howl. The operatic travesty is rather well done. Murray's American Beauties turn out to be trained dogs. Larry Rielly sings Irish songs and tells Irish stories. He goes over with ease. The movie Is "Silent Pal." At the Palace today and Saturday. -I- ‘l’ -IOther theaters today offer: ‘‘Lightnin'.“ at English's; Crest and Parrel, known as "The Two Sheiks," at the Lyric: Jack Meehan in "The Passing of Wolf Melean,” at the

July Furniture Campaign

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THE SPUDZ FAMILY —By TALBERT

Isis; ‘‘Marry Me,” at the Ohio; “The Light of Western Stars," at the Apollo; “Just a Woman," at the Circle; “Head Winds,” at the Colonial, and outdoor events at Broad Ripple Park. Best Friend By Hal Cochran ._ J HO do you turn to for good \JJ common sense, and who does VY your thinking that's clear or that's dense? Who, after all, rules the things that you do? The answer is no other person than YOU! Other folks, maybe, can give you advice, but YOU are the one who must stop and think twice. Yours is the credit, or yours is the blame, when flopping to failure, or rising to fame. Stored in your brajn there is some sort of force that acts as the rudder that's steering your course. Keeping it busy is wise, you will find; you simply can’t move till YOU make up your mind. Honestly, now, If the whole world stopped dead, could you and would you keep going ahead? Worthy the man who can stand all alone and always get by himself, on his own. Turn to yourself on all things, when In doubt, for YOU are the one who should figure them out. After a while, you'll find out. like as not. that you. your own self, are the best friend you’ve got. (Copyright, 1925. NEA Service. Inc.)

FRIDAY, JULY 10,1925

Tom Sims Says Most of these clinging vln* Mromen are polsor ivy.

You would think an auto speeder would run Instead of walking when afoot, but he doesn’t. Don’t hesitate about telling a man you wish to marry his daughter. The chances are he wishes you would too. Babies hav advantages. ' hen 6ne wants to

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leave a party all It has to do i cry a while. i Remember the old fashioned girl who screamed when you saw picture in a bathing suit* ■■ As you look so are you going. And if you keep looking backward v ou will go that way. Changing your mind too fast may get It twisted. Women's clothes may he the most sensible. But a man can't drop clgaret ashes down his collar. Distance lends enchantment except when you are out of gas. Some clouds have silver linings and others are silver coated. Kissing too much may make your nose flat. (Copyright. 1925. NEA Service. Inc.)