Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1925 — Page 4

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

Scopes Might Lose in Indiana mF the Indiana General Assembly should enact a law prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution in the public schools of 'this State, similar to the Tennessee law now at issue in the. Scopes case, it apparently would be valid under the Constitution and could be legally enforced. The Indiana Constitution is silent on the power of the Legislature to prescribe courses of study. In the absence of any provision on this subject, the Legislature has repeatedly designated what subjects shall be taught in the schools of Indiana and in one instance, at least, it has set a precedent by forbidding the teaching of a subject in the public schools. The 1919 Legislature, convening shortly after the close of the world war and actuated by what it 1 elieved to be patriotic motives, forbade the teaching of the German language in the public and high schools of the State. This law was allowed to stand until repealed by a later Legislature. While the subject matter and motives involved are entirely different from those involved in the Tennessee case, from a legal viewpoint it would appear that the action of the Indiana Legislature and that of the Tennessee Legislature are exactly parallel. If the next Indiana Legislature should take it in its head to prohibit the teaching of evoluion cr any other subject—and Indiana legislatures have been known to do peculiar things—it would have a precedent in the action ■qfethe 1919 Assembly and, on the surface, at ¥?ast, it would appear to be well within its rights.

Business and Philanthropy SHRKE years ago the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company asked the New York Legislature to enact a law which would permit iife insurance companies to purchase land and build apartment houses. The insurance company asked that the law contain a provision that rents in such apartment houses should not exceed $9 per room per month. The law was enacted, the apartment houses were built and have now been occupied more than a year, the company selecting as tenants only persons who could not afford higher rents than those proposed. Now the company-lias reported on its first year’s operation, as follows : Cost of land and buildings, $7,363,168.84. Rent collected the first twelve months, $1)040,196.06. Expense of operation, $359,014.64. Profit, $681,181.42, or more than 9 per cent on the investment. Most of the apartments contain four rooms and bath. The bath was not counted as a room and thC -ent was $36 per month. Hot water, heat and janitor service was furnished. The apartments are described as unusually attractive and convenient. The construction is sound and enduring. The location is a pleasant one. Forgetting for the moment the weary, har-

More Than a Thousand People a Night Are Thrilled By Guy’s New Mystery Play By Walter D. Hickman keeps one more than interested. The the final rnie aetnaiiv mnire one

.1 HE stage today is needing f I comedy mixed with thrills. I 1 Many of the new Broadway revues are strong on beauty but silent on comedy. This week the Municipal Theater at Brookside Park is offering Carlton Guy’s new three-act comedy drama mystery, called “The Green Football” or "Hokum." Guy when he writes uses the name of G. C. Mercer but Mercer and Carlton Guy are the same person. I: know this, that when more than i thousand people sit' for over two hours in an open air theater with at least 500 standing there must be something real in the entertainment offered. "The Green Football” has a talky first act but there is a bunch of action, suspense and laughs in the next two acts. At times too much talk and not enough action retards the play but I am convinced that "The Green Football” is as good a mystery play as "The Cat and Canary.” l am not throwing flowers at Guy just because he lives in Indianapolis, >ut I do know that he has a “show” n “The Green Football.” A9 it stands now, this play would >e a. winner on the road. Knowing svhat makes the hits in Chicago and Mew York, I would not be a bit Utrprised that "The Green Football” (vijh some changes would have a diance in the larger cities. The central character is really a lual part. Cain Gavin and Abel Savin are modern brothers. They ook alike. They live up to what he Bible terms these names. One i sa fiend, Cain, and Abel is i lovable and honest brother. Guy ias successfully worked this dual dea into a corltedy drama which

assed mothers and fathers to whom this building enterprise has offered a ifaven— 2,125 families in all—consider what it has done for several thousand children. Decent surroundings mean at least a chance at health and happiness for all these youngsters, which chance would have been very slight in the environment from which they have been rescued. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company went into this undertaking as a matter of business. Edward W. Browning, millionaire real estate operator of New York City, is endeavoring to adopt a “pretty, refined girl, about 14 years old.” He proposes to give such a girl all the luxury and pleasures that his millions will permit. Also, of course, he proposes to give her an education and what are called the advantages of wealth. She is to be a companion for another little girl whom he adopted six years ago and who 'now, according to the newspaper dispatches, has 100 dolls, 150 dresses and a Rolis-Royce of her own. 'Mr. Browning's undertaking doubtless would be called philanthropy. The Metropolitan is getting 9 per cent on its investment in cash. The return it gets in satisfaction over a good job well done and in the happiness of some thousands of children is just as real, though it cannot be estimated in money. But God alone can guess what return Mr. Browning will receive on his investment!

Where Do They Get It? 1 NEW YORK newspaper notes the deparSperansky, granddaughter of General Grant, with her daughters, Princess Bertha and Princess Ida.” Why do they call them “princesses?” Because Russia has abolished all titles of nobility and the United States never had them? THE city tax levy is going up—as usual. * * # THERE has been an earthquake in Illinois. Santa Barbara papers please copy. # # # MAYOR SHANK is being urged to become an evangelist. Well, he has tried all the other paths to publicity. # # * POLICE chiefs blame judges for lax traffic law enforcement, judges blame policemen, and pedestrians continue to be run over. # # # BOYS at the citizens military training camp are not permitted to wear their hair long. We’ll bet the same boys object to girls wearing their’s long. #, * * THE city houses mules in the city barns over which ' here is so much controversy, but the city hall houses several individuals with mulish tendencies. • • • A SOUTH DAKOTA boy killed his sweetheart Sunday. Wednesday he was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor. This kind of action is much more effective in discouraging crime than sentence to the electric chair after two or three years of legal arguments.

keeps one more than interested. The mean brother is after the family fortune and he impersonates Abel after removing him at times for that purpose. A murder happens at the close of the first act. This sudden clouding of the waters in the old Gavin mansion really gets the play started. In solving the murder mystery in the spooky house, Guy explains other mysteries. v One unique feature in the play is that a prosecutor and a newspaper man are seen working on the murder mystery. For comedy effect, Guy permits the newspaper man to become tongue twisted, getting his lines all mixed up. This robe the character of the realistic touch of complete characterization but I noticed tnat such a trick did produce general laughs. And when people laugh these days, something has been accomplished regardless of what a dramatic critic feels about it. The scene in which the newspaper reporter attempts to get finger prints of all those present at the time of tfye murder is made more baffling as Gain is forced to bring Abel back because it is Cain’s finger prints which are upon the collar of the dress of the dead woman. Guy has been mighty clever in working up this strange scene. It has a terrific punch because the audience is let in on the know all of the time and yet when the trick is pulled the audience is again all up in the air. The secret of the possible success of this play will rest upon the way the dual role is played. It is a gigantic part from a theatrical standpoint. There Is a lot of business to this play, such as secret passages and the like. This may sounif, like old stuff, but

the dual role actually makes one forget that some old stage tricks are being used. , And I still maintain that “The Green Football” is as good a piece of theatrical entertainment as “The Cat and the Canary.” I will give you the cast in full: Dr. Gavin B. K. Bennett Martha Inez Wolfe Olive Gavin Eisie Fowler Maybe Mayfair Jean Selkirk Taylor James Morgan Nat Nation Bert Mernng Cotton Col lander Ray Jerome Abel Gavin Earle Ross Cain Gavin Earle Ross Robert Fulkerson Jack Davis Lucy Wells Ethel Adamson Guy has built a good set. Earle Ross, who is seen in the dual,role, is both clever and convincing iji the two widely different parts. Ray Jerome and Jack Davis are splendid. With a little mfire work and pol ishing up some of the scenes, it is my belief that Guy has a good chance to win out with this one in the legitimate theater. I remember that the wise ones said that "Abie” would never live. When a play is human and has human laughs in it, I am willing to speak in favor of it. -I- -!- -|- NEW SHOW OPENS TODAY AT PALACE The Palace management announces the following new bill: A bill booked to arouse curiosity merriment, and excitement is the one presented at the Palace theater the last half of the week which is headed by the baffling act, “Concentration, produced by the George Lovett company. The “girl with the X-ray mind” and the “musical oracle” are two young women who take mental suggestions from Mr. Lovett. "The New Stenographer” is a rollicking comedy sketch which has for its actors Thomas P. Jackson

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

The World Over By Chester H. Rowell

SHE Society lor the Control of Cancer issues a statement that the knowledge already possessed about cancer, if people would only use it, would save thousands of lives now sacrificed. This does not mean that any new “cancer cure" has been discovered or is definitely In sight. It does not mean that there Is any medical evidence for the newest, much-exploited lay theory that cancer Is caused by the “auto-in-toxication” of too much meat and concentrated modern food. It does mean that the cancer quack who advertises to “save” you from the imaginary horrors of “the knife” is a murderer. Jt means that the avoidance of certain definite sorts of irritation will lessen the likelihood of cancer. And it means, especially, that physicians can now recognize cancer early; that you should go to them early, on any suspicious Indication, and that not shrinking from “operation,” but early seeking It, is the cure— wi h the emphasis on “earl; - ,” and again “early.” The "horror of the knife” Is a mere tradition, from the days when it really was a horror. Now it is a mercy. EVENTS IN CHINA DO CONCERN US Senator Borah is quite right in saying that there is nothing in the Chinese situation to Justify a departure from our “traditional policy” regarding China. But it also must be remembered that our traditional policy regarding China has always been the exact reverse of our traditional policy regarding Europe. Until 1918 It was our tradition that what happened across the Atlantic did not concern us. Some of our Senators are so traditionminded that they think that is still our policy. But our tradition has always been that what happened across the Pacific did concern us acutely,

Tom Sims Says People who sleep on sleeping porches should live in clean pajamas.

'M ay be one time a girl had on an evening dress as large as her bathing suit, but we were absent. Clothes are ,so foolish. Toes feel muc,h btetter when you let them just roam at large. Teach the children table manners. Then they won’t get into the soup or spill the beans. •

Sims

Gold fish and human fish stay in water over their heads. Every summer seems to go crazy with the heat. First thing after getting rich we are going to put a calendar where our clock is now. It’s hard to get fleas off a dog but you can get the ticks out of a clock with a hammer. Picnics would be more fun if there was a law making all snakes wear muzzles. (Copyright, 19?5, NEA Service, Inc.) Whe-e-e-e By Hal Cochran OISTEN here, grown ups, I’ll give you a tip that will help you cut age feeling short. Youth will return if you’ll just take a trip to a peppy amusement resort. Out where the thrill and the fun’s runnln' high and the thought of all works on the shelf. That is the place you too often pass by and you really are cheatin' yourself. Shootin’ the chutes makes you tingle with zip, through the speed and the splash that you get. Jiggles and Jerks from the ride on the Whip jar you loose from your worry and frert. Pleasure is there and can eas’ly be found when the grownups, like kids, take a fling at riding a horse on the merry-go-round and flying the aerial swing. No matter how old, you would like to be young. Well, hie to the jcy park and then —soon you will know why the praises are sung of the spot where we’re all young again, and Jean Russell. The ways of a flapper and a staid business man are contrasted. Rice and Newton, although a pair of quick and eager comedians, promise “Nothing Rough” in their skit of songs and chatter. The California Trio is composed of three girls who offer "an episode of youth, beauty, and music.” Dances, songs, and instrumental selections are found here. Daring feats are performed on skates by two young men, Koehler and Roberts, who execute pirouettes and acrobatics. Clyde Fitch’s ' play "Barbara Frietchie” has been transferred to the screen and is showing with Florence Vidor and Edmund Lowe in the picturesque Civil War roles. Pathe News, a comedy, and a scenic are the short reels. -I- -I- -IIndianapolis theaters today offer: “Nothing but the Truth” at English’s; Sid Lewis at the Lyric; "The Marriage Whirl” at the Circle; Fearless Greggs at Broad Ripple; "Man and Maid” at the Apollo; “The Monster” at the Ohio; “Pampered Youth” at the Colonial; "The Mysterious Stranger” at the Isis and "Lilies of the Street” at the Crystal. The Indiana Film Indorsers indorse the feature at the Ohio and Palace for adults and the Colonial for family. , J

even when the only harm threatened was to China. The independence of China; its equal treatment by and to all nations, anl the prevention of any dispute whose natural outcome would be domination or privileged position for the winner—these have been not merely Chinese, but American policies. Unless we are to reverse our tra ditlonal policy across the Pacific, what is happening in China now Is decidedly our concern. WHY ARIZONA REPORT . SEEMS AT FAULT Arizona has got into the news by claims of discoveries which seem to the amateur finders or to Indicate that man existed in the age of the dinosaurs, millions of years before any other creature even remotely resembling man lived, and long before either the vegetable or animal foods or the climatic conditions adapted to human life were developed. If man lived with the dinosaurs, he lived when there was no other creature on earth that suckled its young; when there was no mammal as high as the opossum; when the trees did not bear fruit nor the earth yield grass and grains; when the most primitive forms of what later became birds were just beginning, and when there was no other creature on earth as Intelligent a a modern crocodile. He has lived unchanged through ages during which every other form of life then extant became extinct and was succeeded by forms almost unrecognizably different. During all those ages, he Is the only form of life that never improved and never learned anything. While the intelligencer of the world has Improved from that of the frog to that of the dog and chimpanzee, his intelligence has remained stagnant, perfect and unimprovable from the beginning, but, somehow, never used. From all of which it is likely that these Arizona amateurs need the aid of a trained observer.

Ask The Times You can ret an answer loan; question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Wushinrton Bureau. 1322 New York . Washtnton. D. C . inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be giten, nor can extended research be undertaker.. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor. If an Immigration permit were granted to a person to come to this country in July and he found that he could not come until September, would the permit still hold good? The person should write to the immigration officer who granted the permit and ask for an amendment thereto, specifying the reasons for such amendment. Should he fail to do this he must come in July, or his entry before or after this time will be considered as not within the time allowed him and may cause him to be sent back. Jerusalem by Titus we? the city fcompletely destroyed? Titus began to attack Jerusalem in the spring of A. D. 70. at Pass over time, when there were many strangers In Jerusalem for the feast, probably more than a million persons shut up within the walls. After five days strenqous attack, the second wall of the city was battered down, and Titus was master of the lower city. Then commenced the slow process of starving the inhabitants. Six months later, September 8, 70 A. D., the city fell and was levelled to the ground by Titus. The temple was destroyed contrary to the General's orders by a firebrand thrown by a Roman soldier. Titus himself ran into the Holy of Holies in ah effort to put out the flames, but to no avail.

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PIONEER OF SCIENCE WINS HIGH HONOR FOR SERVICE

By David Dietz XKA Service Writer Rr— ECENT action of the University of Chicago creating “dlatinguished service professorships” is one of the best pieces of news from the frontier of science. Prof. A. A. Michelson, who measured the velocity of light, built the interferometer, the instrument by which the diameter of stars can be measured, and performed many other experiments of great importance to the world of science, has been appointed the first "distinguished service professor.” The new rank is made possible as a result of Chicago University's $17,500,000 development program. Distinguished service professors will receive salaries of SIO,OOO a year and upwards. The university believes that by conferring adequate financial reward and distinctive honors upon worthy scientists, It will encourage more young men to choose a life of research in science. * * • EF you should become Interested in the study of bugs—entomology, ns the scientist calls it—you would find all the material you need in your back-yard garden. Dr. Frank E. Lutz, curator of entomology at the American Museum of Natural History, has just completed a study of the varieties of insects found in an ordinary small garden. He finds that there are approximately 1,000 different kinds of Insects. The reason gardens survive at all, says Dr. Lutz, Is because all the Insects do not feed on the plants. Many feed on one another. • • • OLIvS who find neighbors L* | pianos, saxophones, phono--1 I graphs and radio sets distressing, will be Interested In news from England.

THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

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Prof. A. A. Michelson

Tests are being made there of buildings constructed from com pressed cork covered with an outer layer of concrete. Among the claims made for the new process Is that It results In an absolutely soeund-proof structure.

THURSDAY, JULY 16,152D

Speaks Freely To the Kditor of The Times: mT Is Indeed gratifying to fine prominently displayed upor. your editorial page an extrnrt from the Constitution of the State of Indiana. The principle of freo speech la indeed one pf the best tenets of our glorious country. 1 am glad to note that you obviously believe In the proper observance of our State and National law. Usually on the same pnge appears an alleged cartoon, "The Spud* Family.” Consistent with your zeal for the observance of law, Talburt offers this timely suggestion of flagrant violation of established law. The ICighteenth Amendment was passed by a majority of the accredited representatives of a majority of free people. It la Just ns much a part of the Constitution as the amendment abolishing slavery or*the portion sanctlor'i.g free speech for newspapers. Surely no orgnp worthy of public confidence and esteem ran countenance law violation, whether banditry, thieving or bootlegging. Possibly you may say that “Spud*” is humor, yet the thoughts It brings to Impressionable minds tend toward the popular conception of anarchy. If the law Is not beneficial let it be repealed, but rs professing good citizens let no selflsh faction recommend and glorify Its violation. I'll bet you you don't print this. I jiwrenre \V. Borden. Os course we are printing your letter. You know we believe In free speech.—Kditor. But a gold fish doesn't have such a hard life. Even if one has a cold he doesn't need a handkerchief. If you could tench a gold fish to fly he would be handy In getting cob we'js off the celling. Many a dark horse has a bright future.

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