Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 66, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1925 — Page 6
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The Indianapolis Times KOY W. HOWARD. President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAVBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-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 Week * * • PHONE—MA in 3500.
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Mayor Shank Denies jTTJAYOR SHANK foolishly rushes into print IVI denying that he demanded $15,000 as the price for closing Oriental St. • Nobody ever said he did. By his statement the mayor has stirred up again the controversy over whether Oriental St. should be closed and other streets in the neighborhood opened, or whether the street will remain open and elevated tracks built over it. Undoubtedly the statement will cause much speculation as to the justice oij the stand of the board of works against closing the street, but it will stir up even more speculation as to just why the mayor found it necessary to deny something of which he had not been accused. Sometimes the ways of Lew Shank are beyond understanding. f Climate rrmE you looking for an ideal summer cli|_£jy mate? Stay in Indianapolis. We certainly have the laugh on the Florida boosters who insist they sleep under blankets every night. s They have nothing on us. Besides, the Florida crowd doesn’t say much about the temperature during the day down there. We are in a position to boast about even that. Coats are comfortable in Indianapolis in July. We do a lot of grouching about the climate and talk about other places, but, averaging the whole thing up, we are not in such a bad way ourselves. At least, not until the next hot spell. The Budget Boost rpTINCE again the city departments are askIWI ing the taxpayers for more money. Tentative budget estimates indicate it will cost $6,645,000 to run the city next year. This is an increase of $852,000 over the present year. Year by year the cost of conducting the affairs of the city goes up. Year by year the tax rate increases and the taxpayers complain and bear it—or go to Florida. Indianapolis must prosper. All of us are determined about that. But the biggest handicap we have is a constantly increasing tax rate. It is high time the political system was changed and a business system unstalled. MoTe business and less politics at the city hall is the only sure way of reducing taxes.
Outline of Evolution
Author’s Foreword—Come with me, back before time began, and wet shall follow (he history of Indianapolis up through the ages to the present administration. It is a long, long journey—yet not much longer than some that the commissioners make. On our way we will try to determine how evolution has proceeded. And then, at the endi, we will witness a modem demonstration of (he evolutionary process—the evolution -■of a jellybean into a man—as accomplished under my personal direction. Now we are ready. Our first stop is .it the most distant point of all—the time when the world consisted of hot gas. Ah! You claim that time was not so far distant—that it is still mostly hot. air. But you shall see that I am right. All aboard! CHAPTER l The Age of Hot Gas The world is millions of years old —so old that It ought to know better than to do lots of the things it is still doing. It is so old that had there been •living beings when it first came into existence, and had the first living being left a will, the lawyers could have carried it through every court in the universe and still have had millions of years to spa'-e. This gives a concrete idea of its vast age. It is believed that the world first consisted of hot gas. Since this was before the age cf meters, there is r.s way of telling how much gas there was. And since there was no Congress and no politicians and no
Household Pests Summer time brings the insect pests that are the bane of all housewives —the house-fly, the mosquito, the house centipede, the bedbug, ants roaches and fleas. The latest bulletin, just ready by our Washington Bureau, on Household Pests tells you exactly ho.w to make effective war on these destroyers of comfort and health. Fill out the coupon below Ana send for It. Clip Coupon Here Household Pests Editor, Washington Bureau The Indianapblis Times, 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin, HOUSEHOLD PESTS, and enclose herewith 5 cents in loose postage stamps or coin for eame: Name St. and No.-or R. R City State I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times.
Land Values S'” - "" TATE tax board announces taxable valuation of property in Indiana has been reduced $100,000,000. This is a big figure, but not necessarily alarming. Tt is a case not so much of loss as of getting back to normal. We are gradually getting away from inflation and getting back to a pre-war basis. The biggest cut, as was to be expected, is in the value of farm land. This is not particularly serious, except to those who speculated in land at the peak and expected the inflated prices to last forever. \ Is It in or Is It Out? EROHIBITION is out of politics, said General Andrews, the new boss. Prohibition is out of politics, said President Coolidge. Prohibition never will be out of politics, said Senator Jim Watson. Arranging his new administrative districts, Andrews linked Ohio with West Virginia and Indiana with Michigan. All wrong, said C. Bascom Slemp, Republican satrap in Virginia; we want West Virginia hooked up with our State. All wrong, said Senator Watson; we want Illinois hooked up with Indiana. General Andrews has announced a changt in the district arrangements. West Virginia if attached to Virginia. Illinois is attached tc Indiana. A TEN-BILLTON-DOLLAR harvest is forecast. Look out for a back-to-the-farm movement. # # # BEFORE you go to Florida, remember the fate of a majority of the prospectors in every gold rush. r * THAT Florida real estate gamble is just like a poker game. Somebody is bounc to lose. Probably the inexperienced citizens from Indiana and elsewhere. • • • THE Government points out that half of the 4,000,000 children who start to school every year fail. To say nothing of the hundreds of thousands who leave college annually. • • • NOW that Lew Shank, Bill Armitage et al. are getting on the Duvall band wagon, we wonder what will become of all the righteous indignation of the Duvall supporters.
luncheon clubs, we cannot conceive of how the gas originated. This gas was first in the form of what we scientists call a nebula —that is. it was of uncertain shape, like many old maids. Since there was unlimited space, the gas floated around without anybody stepping on it or trying to tax it and moved wherever it pleased. The gas was unbelievably hot—of a terrific, white heat. Therefore, It Is certain that it was not the same kind of gas you get from the Citizens Gas Company. (Tomorrow—A Gaseous Globe.) Tom Sims Says Reliable figures show that by this time every good fisherman has had one hook stuck In his finger. The rain falls on the just and the unjust, but especially on the just started picnic. If you choose your words carefully you won’t have to take them back. Look out for vacation love. The opposition may think you are playing for keeps. A loafer Is always glad when Monday comes because then he has another whole week ta loaf. It’s all right to do as the Romans do in Rome, but when in swimming fish don’t wear any bathing suits. The world is too small for golf to replace baseball.
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You can gel au answer lo any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washlnton. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply Medical legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a per sona) reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered 411 letters are confidential.—Editor Who were the “Hospitalers?” They were charitable brotherhoods founded at various times and in different countries for the care of the sick in hospitals. The vow to devote oneself to this work of mercy is usually superadded to the ordinary vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, commanded by St. Augustine. One of the earliest recorded instances of such a brotherhood is the Order of the Madonna della Scala in Italy In the ninth century. The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem as also the Teutonic Knights were originally Hospitalers. There are many local Institutes or congregations having various names and living under various rules. The sisterhoods are now much commoner tnan the brotherhoods; over 100 are known to be in existence. When were finger bowls first used? The finger bowl, as we know It, probably made its first appearance In the fifteenth century. In 1455 at the court of Anjou (third son of Louis 11, king of Sicily) It was the custom to wash the hands just before leaving the dining room. For these ablut’ons, scented water—usually rose water—was brought into the dining room in ewers of precious and delicately wrought metals. Pages or squires handed the ewers to the ladies in silver basins. From the court the custom spread through the cities and was adopted by the wealthier ■ and the fad seeking classes. Finger bowls thenceforth appeared upon all fashionable tables. V What proportion of the meat slaughtered in iheNJnited States is uninspected? According to the Bureau of Animal Industry, in 1924 the Federal meat inspection covered 66.5 per cent of the estimated total slaughter. The remaining 33.5 per cent was uninspected except for a small indeterminate portion which underwent inspection by State and local authorities. What are the proper measurements of a tennis court? For the singles tennis court the distance from baseline to baseline is 78 feet; from sideline to sideline, 27 feet from baseline to service line, 18 feet; from service line to net 21 feet; from sideline t * half court line, 13 feet 6 inches. Tne measurements for
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
SCIENCE DISCOVERS TRACES OF TWO BRAND NEW ELEMENTS
By David Dietz XEA Service Writer r ■ ■*> ISCOVERY of two of the five Tj missing chemical elements is l*-* the most important piece of news today from the frontier of science. The discovery was made by Dr. Walter Noddack of the University of Berlin, with the aid of two assistants. He found the missing elements by careful X-ray analysis of platinum ores. It is thought that they escaped previous detection because they exist in such minute quantities. Dr. Noddack has christened them masurium and rhenium in honor of two of the provinces which Germany lost by the peace treaty. A question whidh arises at once is -why the scientist is so certain that only three more missing elements exist. This is because of the work done just prior to the World War by Henry Moseley, a young British chemist who later lost his life In the Gallipoli campaign. Moseley showed that every element could be given a so-called atomic number which expressed the
The World Over
By Chester H. Rowell
SHIS is from Hawaii, as all this column will be for several days. All touri3t resorts have their boosters, but certain Hawaiian boosters have discovered perhaps the most original "talking point” of them all. In Hawaii, they say, you can escape jazz! There are, to be sure, hotel dance orchestras in Honolulu which perforce play Jazz for visitors who would not know how tn dance to anything else. But they play it apologetically, and none too well, as good musicians should. And generally, even tourist commercialism finds it profitable to banish the Jazz. Possibly this is the only accessible spot on earth still relatively uninfected. The plaintively melodious native Hawaiian music has gone all over the world, and even chance visitors are already familiar enough with it to want to hear it on its native soil. Probably it could not happen now even in Hawaii, but the writer recalls a few years ago, attending a jazz concert in Honolulu with one of the most cultivated ladies in the islands who had, until then, never heard Jazz. This was from & college glee club stopping over one day on their way to the Orient, and naturally they Jazzed the Jazz as only college boys can. It was interesting to note the reaction of a cultivated and sensitive but wholly unprepared mind. The comment was "startling, but interesting.” There was no suggestion that it was music. POLYNESIAN MUSIC AND HOW IT ROSE EHIS Polynesian music, of which the Hawaiian is the only form familiar to the outside world, is an interesting development. Originally the Polynesian peoples had chants as primitive as
the doubles court are exactly the same as the singles, with the exception of an Increase of 9 feet in the distance from sideline to sideline, an alley 4% feet wide being extended from each sideline. How old should chickens be to be used as broilers? This varies according to the breed. The general rule, however. Is four to five months. What or who were the "Six Nations” as spoken of in American History? The "Six Nations” were a confederacy of five tribes of the Iroquois Indians, the Mohawk, Oneida, Onandaga, Cayuga and Senaca, to which was afterwards added the Tusoarora, occupying central and western New York in colonial days, and the remnants of which still exist. What Is the oldest library In the world? What is said to be the oldest library was recently discovered near Mexico City. Is is 7,000 years old. By whom was Brooklyn Bridge built? It was designed by John A. Roebling. After his death the work of construction and of completing the details of designing was carried on by his son, Washington A. Roebling had his foot crushed during the construction of the bridge, and died from lockjaw sixteen days later. What kind of work Is done by a mineralogist? His work is concerned with the characterization. Identification and classification of minerals. He also investigates their occurrence in nature with reference to their mode of formation and the alteration which ‘they have undergone. Do the eggs of the Rouen duck differ from ordinary duck eggs? No, they are like other duck eggs, white with a greenish tinge. Was tobacco discovered in America? Yes. The Indians were smoking the dried leaves In pipes when the continent was first discovered. It was afterwards taken to Europe by British and Spanish explorers. Are there any Islands of the Philippines which are so small as to be uninhabited? There are 2,775 islands in the Philippine .archipelago less than a square mile in area, and very many of them are entirely uninhabited. Mountainous ajid rocky conditions make them uninhabitable.
number of electrons revolving around its nucleus. Hydrogen with one election was No. 1. Uranium with 92 electrons was No. 92. There were no elements known, however, to correspond to six numbers. Therefore, said Moseley, there are six missing elements. A little over a year ago, two scientists working in Copenhagen, Dr. Costa and Dr. Vevesy, discovered an element which fitted into vacancy No. 72. They christened it hafnium. The elements discovered by Dr. Noddack fill vacancies Nos. 43 and 75. Only three vacancies are left, Nos. 61, 85 and 87. * * * SHE monkey shows a greater degree of physical evolution than does man over the common ancestor, from which scientists believe both came. This is the belief of Dr. Adolph Schultz of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Schultz claims that the development of man has been chiefly physical evolution has taken place. The monkey, on the other hand, he says, has evolved Into a creature ideally fitted physically for life in the trees.
those of African savages, with a scale of only four notes One can hear chants in Nubia and in Fiji which a western ear could scarcely tell apart. The missionaries had difficulty teaching them the western scale. But, when they once learned it, their inherent artistic genius caused them to develop It in forms more delicate and melodious than any the missionaries knew. The world knows the plaintive Hawaiian form. In Fiji it is more barbaric. The Fijians are only part Polynesian, and are mostly of negroid blood. One of them intones the melody. In a way familiar in the singing of American negroes, while the others “boom-boom” the accompaniment in constantly accelerated "4-4" time, in a way that belongs distinctly to the jungle. Yet the air itself is probably recognizably derived from some familiar Methodist camp meeting hymn. In Tahiti, it takes the form of orgies of singing “himenes.” All are totally different from the original native chant, but all are also refinements of the early nineteenth century Protestant church music from which they are derived. Light Globes By Hal Cochran You never can tell when you’re gonna have light, or be in the dark with the coming of night. For, just at the time when in light globes we trust, the switch doesn’t work for the bulb has gone bust. It’s funny how people forget to replace the globes that are blown, but that’s alwayss the case. We never believe that we’re gonna get stuck for we’ve all got the habit of trusting to luck. The globe in tbi dining room flickers a bit. When it’s blown we will start in to monkey with it. We tap on the glass till it glows forth, and then, an hour or so later It blows out again. We’ll carry the globes ’round from this room to that till we don’t know where all of the good ones are at. Poor father will figure that someone has gall for removing the lamp light out into the hall. It seems that, in daytime, we ne’er stop to think that a lot of our light globes have gone on the blink. Forgetting to purchase just brings on disgust, when the light globe's most needed, at night time go bust. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
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Girls all Like the Hugging of College Boys, so Claims Writer of Song Hit
By Walter D. Hickman mHERE were the days when "Under The Shade of the Old Apple Tree” was the undisputed hit of the day. But those days are gone forever and anew "fit” has struck the world. The fit at the present time is a free thing called "Collegiate,” a shimmy fox trot. It has struck the land with an awful wallop, so much so that it has pushed everything to one side. The melody is one of those thing that is bound to catch on. The lyric is the "hash house" expressions that are supposed to be cultivated only on a college campus. The main theme is that the college boy doesn't care for suspenders but hey are crazy over knickers. And the song writer declares that the girls like to be "hugged” by c, college boy, especially on the back porch. Hot dog. (Not a college expression.) It seems to me that the lyrics of "Collegiate” are as responsible as the tune for Us great vogue. To many the college lad is a carefree individual who wears the most terrible trousers and who is a "wow” playing poker. But 1 know a different side of college life. I can look back to the day when I know that the representative student was not the rah-rah boy but the young man who was willing to work his way throflgh school. This type didn’t have time to wear a college blanket. He was known as the "grind.” And yet I know many a grind that turned out to be an awful mess in the world while the rah-rah type sailed on to one victory after another. On the Brunswick You will run across "Collegiate" played by Carl Fenton and his orchestra with a vocal refrain. It is a Brunswick. It is done in glorious freedom. One of those lively things that causes people to smile, whistle and forget. Or. the other side of this Bruns
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wick, you will hear "Sweet Georgia Brown,’ a Charleston fox trot, as played by Tsham Jones and his orchestra. The Charleston haa become quite a violent fad. Have been asked to recommend a dance record and I do by saying that "Collegiate" and the "Brown” girl number will surely fill the bill. There Is a lot of rhythm to be found In “Sometime When You're Alone. and "Cross-Word Mama You’re Puzzling Me." both fox trota. on an Okeh played by Papalla and his orchestra. This Is a southern organization which has an Individual swing to their music. You will also And “Collegiate" done as a tenor-baritone duet with ukelele and guitar on an Okeh. The vocal fireworks are by Charles Surgent and Burt Lewis. On the other side is "The Farmer Took Txmd Away! Hay! Hay!" It is a companion piece to "Go 'Long Mule." Heife-z Again Jacha Heifez. violinist. Is represented on a Victor by the following
Hall of Fame Into qiy own Hall of Fame goes a Victor record: Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra through the haunting melody of "Danse Macabre," parts one and two, as written by Sainf-Saens. Here is great abandon such as only a great musical organization can attain. At times the melody is really savage, but suddenly the light appears and rich flowing beats appear. Stokowski leads his orchestra to marvelous heights. At times you hear insnme laughter and then as suddenly a certain calm, majestic and powerful, appears. This Victor record goes into my own Hall of Fame.
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new releases: "Nocture," Boulanger, "The Gentle Malden" and "Cortege." Understand that IJly Boulanger was a young French girl who died tyring the last years of the World War. I am sure that her "Nocturne" possesses great beauty, more so when Heifez causes it to be brought to lTght. It Is nearly oriental and its melody Is as dainty as the finest piece of china. I believe that you will enjoy this exquisite quiet record of true and inviting melody. •I- + •!• The theater* today offer: "The Easy Mark," at English’s: Four Pals, at the Lyric; General Pisano, at the Palace; open air event* at Broad Ripple; "The Lady Who Lied,” at the Circle; ‘'Confessions of a Queen," at the Apollo; "Lost— A Wife,” at the Ohio; "White Fang/* at the Colonial; "Don Daredevil,” at the Isis, A Thought Take no thought for year life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more Ilian meat, and the body (Iran raiment?—Matthews fi; 23. \yr E make provisions for this life as though It were never to have an end, and for th* other life as though it were never to have a beginning.—Addison. Are the poeple known as Lithuanians Poles? There is a decided distinction be. tween I.lthnnians and Polea. The former come from Llthunia. which was formerly a part of the Russian empire, but since the World War has been a separate State. There peoples have their own language and eustoms and a civlllzalton quite as old as Poland. They are not Tole .