Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 58, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1925 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times KOI W. HOWARD. President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM ' A MAYBORNI Bus - M * r ’ Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sunday bv Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • • • n eg ubg( ,j| ption Rateg ; Indianapolis —Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week •* • ; PHONE—MA In 3500.
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.
A New System of Education rrn NEW theory of public school education | A.| has come into being over night in Indiana. It has resulted from penetration of the /Tennessee evolution controversy into Indiana. It was too much to expect that the Hoosier State would not be involved in the argument. The new theory is this: The township trustee is sole judge of what shall be taught in the public schools under his jurisdiction. A township trustee, as all of us know, is a gentleman who succeeds in getting more votes than his opponents who are seeking the same office. No educational qualifications are provided in the; law. A young high school teacher in Perry County objected in a letter to the Hon. Dr. Henry Noble Sherwood, who is State superintendent of public instruction by virtue of having received more votes than his opponent, that a trustee had discharged him (the teacher) because he had expounded the theory of evolution. Dr. Sherwood says there is nothing he can do about it. He says that under the Indiana law a trustee can dismiss teachers as he pleases. The teacher who makes the complaint points out that he taught evolution from a book that until 1923 was a authorized high school fextbook and that even now is prescribed for supplemental reading by pupils. The book referred to not only contains so pages about evolution, the origin of species, and survival of the fittest, but it also contains a picture of Charles Darwin. On top of this situation, the trustees of Blackford County announce that they will discharge any teacher found teaching the theory of evolution. Indiana does not need a law barring teaching of evolution, such as that passed in Tennessee. The trustees are a law unto themselves. One trustee not only has banned evolution, but he has bought Bibles for all of his schools and has ordered that teachers read the first chapter of Genesis on the first day of school. Every high school pupil most certainly should know the first chapter of Genesis, and all the rest of the Bible, for that matter. But, under the ruling of trustees they are not to ( be permitted to know that scientists have speculated on the origin of man and evolution of plants and animals. Just imagine what would happen should any one chance to mention Luther Burbank in a Blackford County schoolroom, or if a pupil should dare to bring to school in his lunch basket a seedless orange! Here is the way one of the learned trustees of Blackford County sums up the theory of evolution : “There’s nothing to it., It’s all bosh. If there is any evolution, why hasn’t man evolved to higher grade of animal than he is now? There ought to be no stopping point. I don’t believe in evolution and I would certainly discharge any teacher who used the theory in the classroom.” We wonder how this particular trustee gets along with the agricultural agent of his
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county who is preaching improvement in dairy cattle and corn. One of these days we expect to discover a township trustee who believes two and two make six. The State board of accounts says some of the trustees’ mathematics read that way now. Such a trustee probably will discharge all teachers who say two and two make four. And, according to Dr. Henry Noble Sherwood, he will be well within his rights. Women Can Drive I WOMAN can stand over a hot kitchen AH stove preparing a complicated dinner, with some element in it to be watched and manipulated every minute; can at the same time prevent the baby tugging at her apron strings from getting stepped on; can keep up a running fire Sf admonition to the youngsters in the yard; can tell Dad where he put his other tie; can answer the telephone and the doorbell; can lend her neighbor a cup of sugar and discuss the evolution trial and the latest length in skirts with her; can get everybody into the dining room for dinner when it is ready; and then can take her own chair at the table, cool and unruffled and without having burned her elbow. And still the American Automobile Association goes to the trouble to prove by scientific tests that women make as competent automobile drivers as men! Os course they can drive. Os course they react as quickly in emergencies. However, perhaps even the women, who’ve known this ail the time, will be pleased to have science give its indorsement to the fact. The A. A. A. conducted its tests with groups of men and women students at George Washington University. Ten of each, about the same age, and of about the same'driving experience, selected from all parts of the country, were tried out with exactly the same methods. For example, a pistol was fired as a signal for putting on the brakes. It was found that the average reaction time of the women was fifty-six seconds; for the men fifty-nine seconds. Furthermore, it was found that there was less variation among the women than among the men. Os course, we sometimes do wish that the women wouldn’t be so doggone—but why start the argument all over again, now that it is officially settled! Loving Our Neighbor ST IS one of the most tragic facts of human history that although all religions teach that all mankind is one,,and that men should demonstrate this unity bjr love and forbearance toward their neighbors, yet in every age men have hated and tortured and killed each other because of their differences over religion. In Dayton, Tenn., the authorities have found it necessary to forbid preaching on the streets because of the feeling caused by the clashing of fundamentalists and modernists. The founder of the Christian religion said: “Anew commandment I give unto you; that ye love one another.”
order to pass the necessary entrance examinations. Graduates are commissioned as Ensigns in the United States Coast Guard at the same pay as a Naval officer of like grade. A part of the training includes summer cruises on the Coast Guard gunboat, which is used as a training ship. The Academy is conducted on military lines, and due to the limited number of students the boys are given individual attention. Each applicant for entrance must be certified as to a good moral character, and the class of boys Is in general good. Cadets are allowed the same pay allowances as at West Point and Annapolis. Why are people new at anything or any trade called “greenhorns”? This familiar slang phrase had it?
origin during the reign of Louis XIV of France. A law was passed compelling all bankrupt Hebrews to wear small pointed caps or hats made of green cloth. This green cap was the badge of bankruptcy, and its purpose was to warn people against doing business with the wearer. For a period of about twenty years these green hats were worm and if an insolvent Jew appeared in the streets without one, he was liable to be seized by his creditors and thrust into-a dungeon. Progress and tolerance have robbed the expression of its original meaning, but the phrase “greenhorn” has remained, and is used now to denote a person “bankrupt” in brains rather than in business. Who is the Amrerican Minister to Czechoslovakia? What is his address? Mr. Lewis Einstein. Address him "American Legation,” Prague, Czechoslovakia. Who was the last person successfully to swim the English Channel? Charles Toth, an American who crossed from Cape Grisnez, France, to Dover in 16 hours 54 minutes. What king had the longest reign in history? According to H. G. Wells, Pepi 11, a Plmroah of Egypt, who reigned ninety years. To what State. did • Panama formerly belong, and when was her independence recognized by the United States? t Panama was formerly a department of Colombia, and declared its independence November 3, 1903. On November 13th, of that year the United States recognized its independence.
THE TIMES
ANTI-SALOON MAN REPLIES TO ‘YEWKANT’EDITORIAL
To the Editor of The Times: Y" _ ’i OUR editorial of July 15, on an article by James O’Don--1 J nell Bennett, in this week's Liberty maga'zine published by the very wet Chicago Tribune Company, entitled “The Kingdom of Yewkant,” contains a number of statements and quotations, which it seems to me do not square with e ther the letter or spirit of our institutions. You, and the magazine article in question, complain very b.tterly of the provisions and usage of the Wright Dry Law passed byfthe last Legislature and hold the same as utterly at variance with the Fourth Amendment to the Federal Constitution from which you quote. Provisions Unchanged Permit me to say that the search and seizure provisions of the Wright law are just the same as those in the 1917 State dry law; and that these provisions in the 1917 act were the same as those in the 1907 blind tiger law, and that all three of these acts followed the exact methods for both the obtaining and use of search and seizure warrants as those which had hitherto existed in all other Indiana laws, such as searches for: The recovery of stolen or burglarized property. The seizure and destruction of nets and seines used in unlawful fishing. Gambling games and gambling paraphernalia. Forged, or counterfeit coins, and dies for the same. Lewd and obscene books, pamphlets, pictures, etc. Animals treated inhumanely, baited, or used as targets. Dead human bodies secreted on premises. Trade marks belonging to others. Besides the above state search and seizure laws agents of the Federal Government will search private property for goods which have been smuggled into our country to evade paying the duty. Such agents will search a passenger’s baggage when crossing the border into the United States without even a search warrant. Further, they will stop automobiles coming into this country to search for goods not paying the duty. And we hear no loud “hullabaloos” against any such searches and seizures. Defends Law Why this outcry, then, against search and seizure in carrying out the spirit and letter cf the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States? Is any one who is not a law breaker harmed by such a law which differs in no respect from search and seizure acts in other laws which are not even
The World Over
A 1 LL the cartoonists represent the children as rejoicing at u___J the summer’s release from hated school. Os course they are correct. Yet why should children hate school? Because it makes them learn? But children do not hate learning. They are eager for it, everywhere else. Because it is confining? If confinement is unnatural for children, why should schools confine them? There are other ways. Because they are lazy? They will work twice as hard, all summer, and yell for more. Perhaps it is because schools are adult-made. They have given the children what the grown-ups thought was good for them, on the total depravity theory. If it were possible to make children’s schools childish; to teach them by utilizing their natural eagerness to learn; to use instead of suppressing their natural activity; to make school a part of child life. Instead of an untimely promonition of adult life—perhaps the children would be as glad to go to school as they now are to get out. And they might learn more. educatioTmay HELP POLITICS Foreign observers, noting that business is attracting more of the able men of America than Government, see hope in the multitude of graduates now being turned out by our high schools and colleges. Theflr can not conceive of so vast an educated citizenship that will not include enough leaders devoted to public affairs and enough observers to follow them interestedly, intelligently and critically. When education was the special privilege of the few, and these could not constitute a political aristocracy as they did in other countries, but could constitute something as advantageous in business, naturally, aristocratic education did not contribute democratic leadership. But now, when education is the common right of all, and multitudes are enjoying it. there is hope that it will- contribute to democracy the interest and sense of re J sponsibility which has been its chief lack. OIL MEW CANT BE ‘VINDICATED’ Because fraud taints all it touches. Federal Judge McCormick voided the Elk Hills oil lease. Because Congress omitted a comma, Federal Judge Kennedy sustained the Teapot Dome lease. Now the Supreme Court will decide which opinion is the law. If Judge Kennedy is the one sustained Fall and Doh'eny will proclaim that they are “vindicated.” But vindication is just what no court can confer. The leases may have been legal. They may have been good business. It may be that the navy will be better off for the farming out of these developments. But there would be no “vir dication,” even if these things were established. Even good business, within the law, must 'not be done that way. And whatever the outcome, on these legal and business aspects, it would be a national tragedy if last year’s hoi indignation on the moral assets should give way to forgetfulness or indifference.
imbedded in th? National Constitution? More criminals today are trampling under foot this prohibition law than all the other laws mentioned above put together. Why then come to their defense and encourage them to continue making a “scrap of paper” out of this, our nation’s, basic law? ' Yoy say in your editorial: “Perhaps the greatest single paragraph in the Constitution” is the one “that makes inviolate the property and person of the individual.” The property and person of the 1 individual inviolate? Yes, so long as he uses neither to commit crimes against society, but no longer. Suppose one commits murder, or arson, or rape, is this person then inviolate? Suppose one uses his home to shield, aid, and abet homicide, counterfeiting, gambling, burglary, and to make and sell the deadly “white mule,” is !.is property still inviolate, even beyond the reach of a properly drawn and authorized search warrant? An affirmative answer would mean personal liberty run mad. It would mean the freedom of the outlaw, the reign of anarchy in our country, and the eventual overthrow of government itself. Calls Charges Strange Certain charges in Mr. Bennett's article, and repeated in your columns, are very strange, to say the least. In thousands of instances barred doors have had to be broken down by officers of the law in order to apprehend criminals. And, who is this person whose home was maliciously Invaded three times and who lost his business connections as a result? Then who are those persons who have so “browbeaten and coerced,” “thjit they haven’t the courage to defend their legal and God-given rights as free men?” There is a “colored gentleman’ somewhere on these premises, or either civil or criminal proceedings, or both, would have been instituted against such violators of the Fourth Amendment at once, as every well informed lawyer well knows. It is a ten to one chance that all such stated grievances come not from innocent parties, but from persons who are themselves guilty of violating both the States and Federal dry laws. Unquestionably a cabal exists in Indiana and the nation today to get rid of the Wright Law, because it makes the possessor and purchaser equally guilty with the seller, just as it ought to do. But here in a nutshell is the cause of all this outcry. E. S. SHUMAKER, Superintendent Indiana Anti-Saloon League.
WATCH CHICAGO’S BOOZE FIGURES Now watch for figures of drunkenness in Chicago. The police have been ordered to arrest on sight anyone showing signs of intoxication. In the old days, no one was arrested for drunkenness unless he actually obstructed the traffic, or was obviously unsafe at large. It was in Chicago that a barkeeper gave the classic definition of drunkenness. “You are drunk if you lie in the gutter and the water runs over you.” Now, if these n*w instructions are carried out, the arrests for drunkenness may easily become more numerous than they ever were before prohibition. And these figures will be worth exactly nothing. Tom Sims Says Drive carefully. Blow your horn. St. Louis man run oyer a girl and she up and married him.
* Keep your shirt on. Knoxville (Tenn.) man whipped a neighbor for taking his off. Ship’s in from Australia. Three
kangaroos on board. They are what pedestrians came from. Serious news from Paris. Man shot a head waiter. And most men are afraid of head waiters, France is going to do something about her debts. That’s the trouble with debts. You must do something.
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Don't ever look for sportsmanship or open and aboveboard dealings In the boxing game. You won’t find them. Stay at home. Boston man made a fortune in Africa. First day back thieves got his watch. Marry your daughter to a butcher so maybe he will let you sleep In his refrigerator. New York dentist kissed a patient. Fined SSO. Bet he told her it wouldn’t hurt a hit. • Ireland has a bachelor 100 years old. Another 100 years and he will be safe from matrimony. Reliable news comes from summer resorts that there really are SIOO bills in circulation. How’s your wife? How's her kitchen? Waco (Texas) man found his missing wife getting paid for cooking. Wonder how the Christmas Savings Clubs are doing? Must be as hard as buying coal in August. Bad news from Persia. Women are taking up American styles. Bet they get called Persian cats. They claim Japan ha/< cannon factories In China. Hope the Japs don't start that old shell game. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, IncJ
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Youth Holds Center of Musical Stage in Our City at This Time of the Season
By Walter D. Hickman |Ppl HE appearance rtf two young • I people in concert at the Y. M. f C. A. on Saturday night, July 25, holds commanding interest, in the musical circles of Indianapolis. Nedelka Simeonova, a young violinist, who has studied under the great masters of Europe, including Auer, and who has been decorated by royalty, will be one of the chief artists. Os an unusual interest will be the appearance of Olindo Mastropaolo, 10 years old, conducting an orchestra. This young artist is said to be
WHITES CLOSER TO ‘CHIMP’ THAN TO NEGRO, IS THEORY
intermediateiO) yl ancestors \ C 1 ORIGINAL Y |aNCESTOR
The evolution of fh© races of man, and their relationship to ape types, according to the theory of Prof. E. G. Crookshank.
By David Dietz yEA Service Writer _ '1 AN had a three-fold origin, ac|w| cording to tho theory just aniliJ nounced by Dr. Francis G. Crookshank, London physician and scientist. The origin of man is one of the most important questions which the pioneers upon the last frontier, the research workers on the frontier of science, are trying to solve. For while there Is no disagreement among scientists yas to the general fact of evolution, there are still many details concerning the way in which evolution works and the paths It takes upon which scientists do not agree. The general belief concerning the origin of man is that an original parent stock split into two branches The descendants of one brunch are preser.t-day men. The descendants of the other branch are the apes. Dr. Crookshank, however, believes the original parent stock split into three branches and that each of these in its turn split into two, one giving rise to a certain type of ape and the other to a certain type of man. According* to this theory, the white race and the chimpanzee are the result of the splitting of one of the three branches. The Mongolian race and the orang represent the second branch and the negro race and the gorilla represent the third.
THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT
the youngest orchestral director before the American public today. He lives at 335 Blake St. Mme. J. Kolmer will be the accompanist for Simeonova. The program is as follows: I "Concerto in B minor” Baitit-9acn Allexro non troppo Andantlno quam Allegretto Molto Moderate e maeatoao Nedelka Simeonova II •'Pilgrim Chorus" Richard Wagner (From the Opera Tannhauaer) "Sweet Melody WaJta". ... .Emil Anchor Orchestra conducted bv Olindo Maatropaolo fll “Nocturne in D Flat" . .Chopin "Le Coucou" . Daquln-M alien “Hllla" Cecil Burleigh
Dr. Crooksshank believes that the relationship, therefore, between the white race and the chimpanzee is much closer than that of the white race and the other races of man. • • • OEGETAJUANS who inslet that eating meat cuts short the span of human life are wrong, according to experiments performed at Leland Stanford University by Professor James R. Slonaker. Dr. Slonaker carried out his experiments on white rats. These rats are the favorite subjects for such experienments because there is a marked similarity between the reactions of men and rate to different diets, drugs, changes in environment and the like. The vegetarian diet cut the life of white rats from 35 to 40 per cent. They also lost weight. Dr. Slonaker says he is convinced that the human race requires meat in its diet. • • • 0 1 " - —"I NE million dollars has been pledged to a 110.000,000 fund >— for the erection of a National Museum of Engineering and Indus try in Washington. The new museum is to be under llie direction of the Smithsonian Institution. It is expected that the United States Government will provide a site.
SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925
"Perpetunm Mobile" Prana Riea Nedelka Simeonova V! "I/* Paloma" (The Dovo) ... De Yrand.er "Barcarole' J. Offenbach (Prom Talea of Hoffmant "Now York Life March". ..Emil Anchor Orcheatra conuuctwi by Olindo Maatropaolo V "Kol Nldrei" . Mane Ilrucll "Slavonic Dance" ...... Dvorak ■J(rlnler "Spaiilh Serenada"... .Chamlnadi Kn-lnler "Zapatcado" ......... Pablo de Saranato Nedelka Simeonova • • • COIjORKD musicians TO MEET IN CITY. Plans are being mode for the entertainment of the National Association of Negro Musicians in their seventh annual convention which meets In Indianapolis, July 26-81. It lit announced. Negro artists and enmpoaers from all section* of \he country will attend thla meeting. Among this group are R. Nathaniel Dott, Hampton, Va., president of the association and composer of several noted compositions, and Clarence Caniero i White, artist and composer besides others equally as well known. Week's program will begin Sunday, July 26, at 3 p. m., when a songfest will be given in which various choirs and musical organizations In the city will participate. R. Nathaniel Dett, and J. Wesley Jones, composers and directors will direct these exercises. The sessions will* close with a pageant at. Douglas Park, Friday evening, at 6:30 p. tn. under the direction of Mrs. W. E. Brown and Mrs. Lionel Artis. The special feature of the week’s entertainment will be the artists' recital at Caleb Mills Hall on Thurs day evening, July 30th. It Is expected that a large number of delegatee and visitors from every section of the country will l>e in at tendance. Local people have thrown open their homes for the entertainment of the visitors. Isn’t It Hot? By Hal Cochrane Isn’t It hot? Aw, that's all tommy rot. To ask it’s a long ways from kind. Let’s get together and talk of the weather and get it all off of our mind. Hardly a day ever passe-v awny, that some friend doesn’t start to complain. It Isn’t discreet when you’re kickin’ of heat ’cause there's nothin’ a person can gain. All that you’re doin’ when frettln' and stewin’ is robbin’ yourself of the chance, of havin’ the treat of forgettln’ the heat. Come on, now, snap out of the trance. Collars keep wiltin’ and faces per spire and by nighttime your energy's ehot. Then, In that mood, It'a no wonder we tire of the question, "Say, Isn’t it hot?” Let’s change, our style from a frown to a smile and we'll find after while, like as not, that it'a really a treat, not discussing the heat. But, say, honestly—lsn’t it hot? , (Copyright. 1925. NEA Service, Ine.) In New York By Janies W. Doan NEW YORK. July 18.—" What sre those night clubs on Broadway?" queries Elmer Roessner of Cleveland and California. "Are they clubs or are they cabarets?" Elmer, my boy, they are called * clubs because they are the places you go to get clubbed. The clubbing is done when the waiter hands yojj the ead newe ae you go out. Sometimes you have enough left for cer fare, or maybe you'd prefer cyanide. Os courae, none of these night clubs sells liquor. But they sell "apple champagne" at 120 a bottle. It may be non-alcoholic, but It has something In it which makes you want to sing or lick a cop. They all display signs n&yfng It Is unlawful for you to bring intoxicants with you, but nobody who toss to * night club believes in signs.