Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. . WM - MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Kcripps-Hownrd Newspnper Alliance * * • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. * Published dailv except Sunday by Indianapolis Times P üblishlng Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * • * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cento 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.

?rohibition Grouping ROM here the plan to group Indiana either with Michigan or with Illinois as a prohibition enforcement unit does not appear wise from an enforcement viewpoint. Either district would have one big problem, —either Detroit or Chicago. It would seem that the natural tendency would be to stress enforcement in these centers to the exclusion of 1 he smaller cities and the rural districts. Still, with a larger force at the command of enforcement officers and available for use at strategic points, it might be possible to clean up some of the more flagrant cases of booze selling. , The trouble with enforcement, it sfems to us, is that too much attention is paid to the man who has a quart or two in his home or in ais automobile and not enough to the bootlegger who is doing business in a large way. Any one who would take the trouble to investigate, with the possible exception of a prohibition officer, would be impressed by the large number of the latter. Some Good May Result (From This mUST one possible benefit is visible at this moment in the ne west lawsuit growing out of the controversy over the teaching of evolution. The suit is that brought by a Government clerk and two young Washington lawyers seeking to enjoin payment of the salary of the superintendent of schools- and the head of the high school department of biology and chemistry. The ground offered for the injunction is that the school officials have taught “disrespect of the Holy Bible,” in defiance of a provision of the Federal appropriation bill. It may be an injustice to the Government clerk and his lawyer friends, but it is hard to escape the feeling that the present action is not brought in a spirit of sincerity. They, of course, are entering into it merely as a test suit. They consider the clause in the appropriation bill improper and perhaps unconstitutional. They hope, technically, to lose their suit; that is, they want this queer clause in the appropriation bill nullified rather than sustained; they want the superintendent and the biology head to receive their salaries. But to accomplish this they have brought up issues that are likely to confuse in the popular mind the broader question they have raised. They assert in their complaint that these school men actually have taught disrespect of the Bible through the courses in biology and other sciences. They cannot believe this. They know that not a man or woman in the schools of Washington has the slightest inclination 'to inculcate disrespect for the Bible in the minds of the pupils. They know, on the contrary, that every member of Washington’s large corps of teachers desires above all things that the boys and girls in the schools should revere the Bible and its teachings.

—Weekly Sunday School Lessonj Question of Personal Liberty Always Before World

By Win. E. Gilroy, D. D. Editor of The Congregationalist tyr] AS there ever, anywhere in W the world, or at any time, a ——l great work of' good going on when doctrine-mongers and nar-row-minded quibblers did not take advantage of the occasion to exploit their own pety opinions and prejudices? Things were going splendidly in the early church. The Gospel was spreading and making its power felt. Real conquests were being achieved. New life had come to many. But among those who found this new experience of life in Christ were Gentiles, and certain Jewish Christians were shocked at the 'dea of anybody professing to be a Christian who had not been circumcised. And like all people who exalt their narrow dogmas above the realities of vital religious experience, they were not content to express their own opinion. They must claim divine warrant and sanction for It. They presumed to know the mind of God, for they told these new Gentile Christians that unless the were “circumcised after the manner of Moses, they could not be saved.” Sincere, But Narrow Dhat miserable presumption! What presumption on the part of any man to assume the prerogatives of God and say that any other man can not be saved because his beliefs or experiences are not just thus and so. However, narrow-minded people, especially when they are sincere,, can stir up a lot of trouble. Sincerity does not prevent people doing a lot of harm. So these Judaizers stirred up a lot of real trouble in Antioch. The disciples were turned for the time being from the glorious and all-im-portant task of making Christian converts to the inglorious and unimportant business of petty squabbling about non-essentials. There was a great deal of disputation, but the only speech that we have recorded is Peter's. He recalled his fljiwn experience in the rebuking of his prejudices and his

They know that, while probably every teacher is a believer in the theory of evolution —indeed it would be difficult to supply even a small part of the schools with teachers if belief in evolution were barred—there is not likely to be oue among them that finds the Bible and evolution in actual conflict. Washington teachers as a whole believe in the Bible and at the same time believe in evolution. Suggesting that they arc capable—from the kindergarten classes to the superintendent’s office —of teaching disrespect for the Bible is absurd and the suggestion cannot be made with sincerity. So it doesn’t seem so very to raise the issue in this manner. It may close the public’s mind to the real issue, rather than to open it. As for the one benefit that may come out of the suit, it is this: It will focus the attention of the next Congress on the efforts of misguided religionists to put the authority of the Government behind their personal religious beliefs. The objectionable clause in the teachers’ appropriation bill ivas slipped in a year ago when nobody was looking. There was no der bate; only a few members of Congress were in their seats. It will be different next time. Next time Congressmen will have to face the issue. It is an issue they cannot dodge and they must rise to the stature of statesmanship. It is in their powe*' to guide the course of the Government away from a now threatening fusion of church and state. In no one thing did the authors of the Constitution reveal greater wisdom than when they declared that church and state in free America must forever be kept separate. Political leaders, playing to religious prejudice, are Seeking to undermine this basic principle. If the present injunction suit awakens Congress to the menace and causes Congress to stain]) out this tendency before it has caused real damage to our free institutions, some good will have been done. “Conflict'May Mark Hearing On Elevation”—headline. It would be news if there were no conflict at such a hearing. Illinois has taken the Burnett brothers into custody. Illinois is welcome. Perhaps one of the best proofs of Scott’s insanity lies in the fact that he is kicking because an insanity plea saved his life. The Stephenson case seems to be just one false alarm after another. Howover, Steve is Still in jail. Perhaps those safe crackers worked so near police headquarters so the police wouldn’t have to go so far to investigate. The Union Traction Company will add fifteen new steel cars to its system. That’s one way to pull the traction business out of a financial hole.

ministry to the Gentiles, and made a very sensible speech. He wound up by putting salvation just where It belong—in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, What does this lesson mean to us? While professing Christians quarrel over matters of form and ritual, in what respects are they different from these Judaizers of old? Religion is a matter of the heart.

SUN’S SHORT, UNSEEN RA YS HELP GROWTH, HEALTH

By David Dietz OIFE upon ‘his earth would be Impossible vere it not for invisible rays from the sun. These rays are just as important as the visible light. One is the infra-red ray. This ray is so-called because it consists of waves of red light, the longest visible waves. The Infra-red waves are waves of heat. Os course every one realizes that we need the heat of the sun quite as much as the lightBut it is only - recently that the pioneers on the last frontier—the research workers on the frontier of science—have revealed the necessity of the other ray. The other ray is the ultra-violet ray, so-called because it consists of waves shorter than violet light, the shortest visible waves. The necessity of the ultra-violet ray for life la dramatically demonstrated by an experiment performed at the University of Maine. Two batches of week-old chickens were placed in an ordinary glass greenhouse. One was allowed to run outdoors part of the day. The other was kept locked In the greenhouse at all times. Both were given Identical food The group which ran outdoors thrived and grew normally. The other group lost appetite. Growth dropped to half normal. The leg bones ot the chicks In this group

Its greatest evidence is In the changed life. How careful we ought to be not to lay down the law for others! , The great way of keeping out of needless and useless controversies Is to keep occupied with the essential business. Men who are earnestly fighting sin, and seeking to save men from its thralldom. will not have time, or inclination, for fighting one another.

became so weak that they could neither scratch nor stand upright. The glass of the greenhouse allowed the' light of the sun and the heat or infra-red waves to get through. But it screened out the ultra-violet waves. The difference between normal, healthy growth and stunted, disease:. growth was bound up In those invisible rays of the sun. There’s a moral In this experiment for all of us. Get plenty of sunlight. • * * E'”""" AT or be eaten seems to be one of the rules of life. Big animals eat smaller ones and the smaller ones prey on still smaller ones. In the sea It Is the same. Each fish feeds on a sizf smaller fish. And now D’Herelle of the Pasteur Institute of Paris has discovered that the law applies also to the invisible world of germs. He has discovered what he calls "bacteria eaters” or "bacteriophages," which eat germs or bacteria. Strangely enough, however, the rule of size is reversed, for these "bacteria eaters” are smaller than the bacteria. It is not unreasonable to suppose that the .day may come when scientists will use these new-found creatures as a means oZ 'ig disease.

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ACH, dot • brohibition •

Editor Times: Iffy AT you denk aboud dot BROHIBITION? Dit you effer - denk vat a mu 11 it u des us dings such a voort cuffers?( Yy der und millions dollars spended effery year to kept

that voort alife, iss awful. Der beer und visky, to said nutting aboud der gin und vite mules, vat iss destructioned by der Gufferment effory year, iss not one-tenth worth us der money vat iss spended to gotten him. Now comes der questions: Iss der money nutting voorth? Yy trow avay does lickers vat iss confiscated ven der iss not a hospitals in der country but vat vood use him *nit der sick peebles und dereby give safeing some lifes yet? Yust denk vat a reliefs id vood bin to peebles mit chills, fever und lumbago. I don’t cood understant vy so much moneys shood bin spended und ven dey found someding to trow him avay. •Vy not kept him? I vill admission he don’t cood bin kept in vnn blace, pecause, funny as he may be, some vise guy steals him avay. . \y, id giffs almost heart failures ven you reads in der pabers vere twendy dousand dollars visky und beer iss in der sewer poured by der Sheriffs office. No vunder der streeds bin mit vatter flooded ven such a performings tooken blace. Der bin yet no sewer builded big enuff vat cood tend to bissness rite after he gotten such a dose beer und visky, pecause such vood made him fuller as a geese. Ach, brohibition as he iss, iss a connundrums. Nine dousand doctors said visky iss a necessities und eight dousand fife huntred udder doctors said ve don’t need him. Ye- shood not forgit dot Kolumbus made discoveries by our country mit dree schooners und dit id vile he got surroundin fs mit vadder. Yell, I rohibition und Mr. Write got us, so I denk Kolumbus und schooners bin dings son der past, aber dey don’t cood made us haff forgettings us vat used to vas. In some dings memory iss a gread inventings. So vats der use ? HANS HOFFMEIER, 1622 Sout Vest Streed.

The World Over

By Chester H. Rowell

Nationalists are Iv X J disillusioned. No respon- * sible leader had told them that their marks would be good and their bonds worth par if Hlndenburg was elected, but the impression that some such thing would happen was subtly spread. The whole atmosphere of the Nationalist movement was the memory of old Germany, and the dream that it could be restored by voting to do so. Os course it cannot. The world which ended on Aug. 1„ 1914 will never be restored in Germany or anywhere. Perhaps the German Nationalists had to find this out by experience. If so, their present dlsilltislonment may be one element in turning the face of the world forward. WHERE THE BRITISH WAY IS BETTER Foreign Secretary Chamberlain told the British Parliament that the British secret service had indisputable evidence that “another government”—meaning, of course. Russia—was fostering the Chinese troubles. j Secretary Kellogg had the same evidence, and similarly wanted to make It public. But he did not go into Congress and tell what he knew. Our system does not admit anything so simple and direct. Instead, an anonymous article appeared in the newspapers, which every experienced reader knew was inspired, but which made no direct statement to that effect. There was nobody to question or criticize it, and nobody was formally responsible for it. Is there not something to be said in favor of the British way —which is also the V'ay of practically every other free govern•ment in the world, except our own? IF SERIOUS CHARGES ARE TRUE Bolshevik-baiting has become so common a hysteria that the temptation is to discount it. But when the heads of the two most cautious and responsible governments in the world officially or semi-officlally declare, under the responsibility of world-wide publicity, that they have evidence that Russia is behind the present troubles in Chinn, and when the American Government Inspires a suggestion that Japan is counterplotting In the same field, It means that this evidence exists, and that either it does establish these facts or these two governments have been duped. Either some on has forged documents so successfully as to deceive the experts of the British and American secret services, or else this mischief is being done, in China, by influences from outside of China, which bode no good to the stability of China or the peace of the world. Such statements ought not to be authorized unless they are absolutely known to be true. If they are true, they are a challenge to the peace-loving psasm of the world.

Hans Hoffmeier Says: NO SEWER FULL OF WHISKY COULD BE EXPECTED TO ATTEND TO * BUSINESS

CITIES ARE SAFE PLACES Life is more healthful In the city than in the country, says Dr. George E. Vincent. In his report to the Rockefeller Foundation. Which merely means that art has surpassed nature. In the ancient world, no great city was permanently possible until Rome built its aqueducts, sewers and baths. Citieß had been held down by their death tyites. Then, for a thousand years after Rome fell, towns were small or pestilential. You can not live In the city the way you do In the country without multiplying danger. n When modern cities began to grow, water supplies, sewers, street-cleaning, garbage-collecting, medical and sanitary services had to grow with them. Until these services caught up, city life was dangerous. Now city water is safer than the country spring; city milk is safer than farm milk: city food safer than country food, and city conditions better than those of the farm. We have hived the race and made the hive safe. . Tom Sims Says * The average crop of a cocoanut tree Is sixty nuts, but the crop of a general election varies. Kentucky man of 70 has Just ridden on his first train. It does take a long time to save up the fare. Everything seems to come to him who goes.

A conservative estimate would be that lots of fruit Jars have home brew in them now. The trouble with being a man Is shaving takes them longer than Just smearing on a little rouge. When a man gets disappointed in love he

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goes around blaming the world in general for It. A picture of health looks fine framed In a bathing suit. The Chinese language has about 15,000 words. It Is very difficult because they all sound funny. We bloomed out In a straw hat, but It has gone to seed. No matter how much time a Judge gives, he always has some left. , Mosquito lotion is great stuff. Get some. It makes them so fat and lazy they are easy to hit. Rum boat blew up off the Atlantic coast. Hurt almost as many as If it hand landed. I *' (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

COULD NOT REACH > HEAR THE WOMANS /Y ~1 DAVTON BEFORE THE f v/JELL I NAME AGAIN -AS fBY GOLLY TRIAL ENDED - HOW ( ' A REVOLT OF HER THAT REMINDS POT I MV SHOULDER I ™] WARD 9tER RIDICULE lAM MORS li ME-I’ll HAVE TOTHEvSiSELTHAT I CHEE9EBAU. DETERMINED THAW |TO AO DOV/N TO SHALL CRUSH OUT H TURNED OP AT. * evE v ß ,J o ..Jot£r COURT AND GET LICENTIOUS LIBERTY I LAST/ SHE ! WICK OF- UNRJSTRAIWEDI' THE CMecK , 1 IN THIS GREAT LANO.7/ CERTAINLY 3 V

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Dream of St, Matthew’s Church Is Really Ready to Come to Life By- The Visitor “T-1 church congregation has had a wonderful dream. Members of St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, together with the pastor, the Rev. L. 0. E. Fackler, have had the same'dream. The dream—-A brand-new and modern $70,000 church structure to take the place of the present building ,/t Randolph St. and Hoyt Ave. The dream site‘is at East New York and Oxford Sts. The church now owns that location.

The Men’s Brotherhood will hold a picnic on the new site on Thursday, July 30, ns the first step In the rejoicing of the realization of the dream. | The church building program will be of five years until the building Is ! completed. The Rev. Fackler states that an auditorium seating about 300 people will be completed late In the fall or early winter. In time over this structure will he built the super structure which will accommodate from six to eight hundred people. It has been a great task but the pastor and all members of the church have been “growing" a modern church structure for several years. The reason is that so many people try to get Into the present church building that there Isn't room to accommodate the crowds. Os course, the Rev. Fackler maintains, as he Is modest, that It Is not his sermons that attract the crowds but the ‘'go-getting" spirit of the men, women and children of the church. AnywaJ the dream Is coming true. Sunday morning, the pastor will preach on "Discontent." No night service. The Dorcas Society will meet ftt fi:3o p. m. next Tuesday at the shelter house of Riverside Park for a picnic supper. The Standby Club will frolic all day Wednesday at Garfield Park. • • • CHURCH BULLETIN ON PROGRESSIVE BELIEF The current Issue of the Indianapolis Unitarian Bulletin, the official organ of All Souls Unitarian Church, has this to say on "Progressive Belief:” “Unitarians constitute a progressive movement of religious thought and life. There is change In all religions, even those most enslaved by tradition or most bound by creed. But there Is a radical difference between Unitarians and many churches. The changes which others resist, we welcome. The progress which they reluctantly accept, we most gladly foster. "Conservatives defend the faith once given to the saints. They stand guard on the ancient walls built around the beliefs of a Luther, a Calvin, a Wesley. Urfltarians reverently watch the present heavens. In the conviction that God now abounds and that his oracles are still open, and earnestly listen to living voices for the revelation of a still more glorious gospel. “Among Unitarians, differences of belief cause no bitterness and occasion no censure. But Just because we are so free to handle the facts of life, nearly all of us reach nearly the same conclusions. Those among us who differ with us are not "heretics" but beloved fellow-work-ers, whom we are to Instruct or from whom we are to learn. “Our chief aim is not so much to Impose opinions as to cultivate the spirit of a true life, to develop and enrich character, and lead people Into helpful service. All that we ask Is that everyone shall live according to his best conviction; this Is the demand of God upon all.” •• • ' AT HALL PLACE M. E. CHURCH, the Rev. Guy C. Hartman will preach at 10:45 a. m. on "Planted by the Living Stream" and at night, "Under Cover of Night.” • • • AT BETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH, communion service, at 10:45. Service in charge of pastor, the Rev. Earl Coble. Sermon theme: ‘ Proclaiming the Lord's Death." No evening oervlce. ~, U M AT THE EMERSON AVENUE

THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

Judson Morris will speak Sunday morning on “The Gospel of Expectancy.” The Sunday evening service will be held on the church lawn. The subject of the evening address lg "The Cure of'Souls." • • • “NEW WINE IN NEW WINE SKINS," will be the sermon subject of Dr. David M. Edwards, resident of Earlham College at the First Friends church at 10:45. • • • "HAVE FAITH IN GOD," is the text for the Rev. J. If Rilling, pa tor of Second Evangelical Church, sermon at the morning worship. Baptismal service Sunday afternoon. • • • "THE MINISTRY OF HEALING," will be the theme of the morning sermon of Homer Dale at Hillside Christian Church, Sunday. In the evening his subject will be "Religious Liberty." * • RIVERSIDE PARK M E. CHURCH will observe Sunday as "World Service Sunday." The sermon themes of the pastor, the Rev. E. F. Prevo are: Morning, “Our Place In China," Evening. "Perfect Peace." • • • ANNUAL CAMP MEETING of the Pentecoet Band opens Thursday, July 30, at Salem Park. The Rev. G. Jewell and Rev. William Smith of Westfield and other ministers w-111 preach. Missionaries from China. Japan, India and Egypt will bo present. The Rev. William Craig, recently returned from Palestine, will tell of recent occurrences ful filling Bible prophecy. The camp closes on Aug 9 to be followed by the annual conference. • • • HARP. VIOLIN AND ORGAN TRIO, AND HARP SOLO, by Miss Helen Harson, harpist; Miss Margaret Harrison, violinist; with Miss Vaughan at the organ; also tenor and baritone duet by Messrs. R. A. Edie and C. B. Miles, will be given at the "Peoples Service," First Evangelical Church at 7:45 p. m. Message by Edmond Kerlln on “The Insight of Jesus.” Mr. Kerlln speaks at 10:40 a. in. on "The Groaning Creation Waiting for the Sons of God." These are Mr. Kerlln': last sermons before his summer vacation. • • • THE REV. P. BROCK will speak Sunday morning at the Centenary Christian Church on "Watch.” He will Also preach at night. • • • AT ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCH, the Rev. Benjamin Ivey will assist the pastor. Dr. Frank L. Hovls, administer the Holy Sacrament at the morning service. At night, the pastor will talk on "In-aa-Much." Vinson H. Manifold will teach the Other Fellows Bible class. A Thought Trust, in the Ixmlxind do good; so shalt thou dwell In the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.—Paalina 87.3. • • • How calmly may we commit oneselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!—Jean Paul Richter. Nothing makes a grouch madder than seeing how happy some people are when they should be otherwise. Distance doesn't lend very much enchantment to a rough road. Exerlenoa la a great teacher. It teaches u to avoid mors of 1L f ■: *

SATUBDAY, JULY 25, 1925

Ask The Times You can cat an answer loan? uues Don of fact or information by writing to Thn Indianapolis Times Washington bureau, 1322 Sew York Ave. Wash Inton. D C. inclosing 2 cents in •tamps for reply Medical, legs) ana marital advies cannot bn given, nnr can sxtetu.'ed research bn undertaken All other question* will receive a per aonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered 411 lstters are couftdsntial.—Editor. How many Islands are there In the Philippine group? There arc 7,083 Islands, of which 2,441 are named. The principal Island Is Luzon on which the city of Manila is located, The total sres is approximately 41.000 square miles. In a formal dinner when should the sherbet be served? Between the entree and the sals.l.

Who was the first American inventor to qclilnve world fame for an Invention? Ell Whitney, Inventor of the cotton gin, which was patented In 1794. Is generally given credit for being the first American to achtove world fame In this way. What was the exact date on fl which General Foch was made stt- " preme commander of the allied armies during the World War? Did this Include the Italian troopa In Austria? General Foch whs made supreme commander by the Supreme War Council of the allies on March 28, 1918. This Included the Itnlinn troops on the western front. Is there any universal rule concerning tipping? No. In traveling It la customary to tip porters and others who perform small services 25 cents. In dining roms and on dining cars the usual practice Is to give a tip representing 10 per cent of the amount of the check, The tips on trans Atlantic ships Is fairly well established at 12.50 for each stewardess who serves you. How many children has Tom Mix, the movie actor? Two, a daughter named Rti*h. who Is about 12 years of age, and Is playing In vaudevllUe and another daughter, Thomnsinn, aged 3. When did Babe Ruth begin his professional baseball career? - In 1914, How much money was appropriated during the fiscal year 1924 by the United States Government for prohibition enforcement? For prohibition enforcement. 110.629.770, and $13,500,000 for the Coast Guard to prevent smugggllng. When one uses the terms, "Eng land." "Great Britain" and "Brit ™ ish Empire," what is Implied by them? The word "England" Is usually used to refer to England taken by Itself, while the term "Great Britain" heretofore line meant the British Isles. Including Wales, Scotland and Ireland, ns well as England. The "British Empire" Includes India, Australia, Canada, South Af rica and all the British possessions; In fact, about one-quarter of the land area of the globe, The term "British" may refer to England alone, or to the whole empire. Baby Chicks By Hal Cochran m PURCHASED a whole flock of cute baby chicks that could barely stand upon their legs. I’ll frankly admit it was one of my trlcka Just to cut down the high cost of eggs. Tho missus kept busy st feeding the things and she'e done everything that I'vo told her. I've constantly harped on the saving It brings If you have your own egga, when It's colder. By fall they will grow to a nice layln’ size, was the way that I planned on my chickens. But fate's butted In and it's opened my eyes—and the museus is raisin' the dlckeue, You really can\ Yvhuno 4*ee, dhe'e . worked night and day. and ehe'M takln' It out upon father. Hha's™ perfectlj willing I give them away, for they really are merely a bother. You’re sure In a fix, when you buy baby chlcke, and I haven’t the hunch that I use'ter. The fact-end It's tough—la they've grown big enough, so I know that each chick la a rooster. (Copyright. IMk MM Inc )