Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 67, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1925 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alllnnee * * * 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 3300.

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True to Form | r-j-i iTTR Indianapolis political situation in ad- { 1 I vance of the fall mayoralty campaign is shaping itself true to form. In other words, all the various Republican factions are getting together and the Democrats are simply drifting along hoping for the best and expecting the' worst. For the first time in many years, factional lines seem to be disappearing among Indianapolis Republicans and perfect harmony is in prospect. Factional differences heretofore always did subside more or less during a campaign, but now it appears- they are about to be wiped out entirely, # • . SHORT review of Indianapolis political A history should not be amiss in this connection. The factional row started with the split between Jewett and Shank. The bitterest kind ft feeling prevailed. Then Shank was sucBbful and the Jewett-Lemcke faction was out the cold. A short time afterward a third faction, the Coffin organization, began to make itself felt. It grew in power until it became necessary for Jewett and Shank to get together as a matter of self-defense. Almost a year before this amalgamation was admitted publicly, The Times predicted a joining of the Shank and Jewett elements and the idea was poohpoqhed by the politicians—but it happened. However, the combined forces of Shank and Jewett were not sufficiently strong to defeat the Coffin faction, aided and abetted by Governor Jackson and D. C. Stephenson, and the newest organization succeeded in nominating its candidate for mayor, John L. Duvall, tsr: # # * 777711TH the nomination of Duvall, there is W gradually coming about a cessation of factional strife. The boys evidently have discovered that quarrels among themselves fail to pay. Under a ’ factional system only the chosen few have a chance at the pie counter. Under the unified party system everybody has a more or less equal chance to grab something. Now that all the boys are getting together, we have the spectacle of George V. Coffin, supreme high mucky-muck of the Republican party in these parts, not only influencing appointments in the Statehouse, but •hob-nobbing on intimate terms with the crowd at city hall. Mayor Shank, who was so strbngly “oft” Duvall and Coffin a short time ago, is taking up questions that will affect the next administration with the Republican candidate. There appears to be a perfect understanding, despite recent opposition to Shank among Duvall’s friends. * * * HERE is some feeling that Coffin, as supreme boss, will not be very popular with the rank and file of Republican voters. This has

It’s Wonderful Sport

By Mrs, Walter Ferguson miss of sixteen writes that she is engaged and that she ___J thinks marriage must be great sport. My dear, it is. Wonderful sport, if you don’t weaken. Perhaps never under the sun has there been devised such an interesting and complicated and thrilling game as marriage, and one which calls for such powers of endurance and patience and faith. But, if you play, you must abide by the rules, and one of the fh*st rules of any game is never to cheat. To get the best sport out of the marriage game you have got to ;rnake up your mind to give the best of yourself, and you cannot :ajlow your wits to go wool-gathering •too often into other fields; you cannot fudge on your partner, nor refuse to cooperate with him; you 'must not complain if you grow .weary before the game is played ?out; you must save your best licks for the finish, and if you can’t win.

Outline of Evolution

SYNOPSIS OF YESTERDAY’S CHAPTER: Many millions of ypars ago the world war, a caseous nebula that floated around through space without anybody stepping on the gas or trying to tax it. We do not know r where the gas originated. It was unbelievably hot. so it wasn’t the kind you get from your cook Stove. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER 2 A Gaseous Globe All things have a natural tendency to crowd together—so don’t blame the young couple on the back seat of an auto for obeying, the law of molecular attraction. Following this tendency, the. nebtila of hot gas which had been floating around in space began crowding Up, like passengers on a street car just before the supper hour. Due to this process, the gas gradually took the form of a globe and began spinning around, although I cannot tell you what made It dizzy. Probably the gas was hundreds of thousands —perhaps millions—of years cooling off enough to take a liquid shape. At least, it was a very long time —long enough to buy e? dozen encyc.lopdias on the installment plan. Only there weren’t any book agents ’ to sell encyclopedias for the earth was so hot that

led to a story that Duvall is trying desperately to “shake” Coffin. Smoke screens are* useful in politics as well as in war. Meanwhile, D. C. Stephenson has established a more or less permanent residence at Noblesville and for the time being is not particularly active in Indianapolis politics. So far as the Democrats are concerned, only those who always are particularly enthusiastic; no matter what the indications, would give a nickel for their chances of success. It is becoming more apparent every day that they can count little or no Republican support. So, if the Republicans are successful, the next administration will be put across by the support of a line-up something like this: George V. Coffin, Ed Jackson, Lew Shank, John Duvall, Bill Armitage, Charlie Jewett, D. C. Stephenson, ‘Big Jack” Jackson and various and sundry lesser lights. To the tender mercies of this group of citizens the voters of Indianapolis seem doomed to leave the destinies of their city. May some power deliver us!

A Woman Declines to Be Senator SHE La Follettes of Wisconsin insist upon being different. They decline to take the easy and obvious ways. Mrs. Robert M. La Follette, widow of the great progressive leader, has formally refused to be a candidate for the office vacated by his death. According to all reports from Wisconsin this amounts to a refusal to be the first woman elected to the United States Senate. She could be elected, it appears. At a time when the country has become accustomed to the election of widows to fill out husbands’ terms, including governorships and the lower house of Congress, Mrs. La Follette sets herself apart. It is not that she is not interested ift politics and the affairs of government. Her whole life, since her graduation from law school has been spent in public affairs. And her idea of public office is that of a place of public service, a place for workhard and often unhappy work—not a place of idle honor. Mrs. La Follette is no longer young; she has other work of her husband’s to complete, his very important memoirs to prepare. She regards the successful accomplishment of this as of more importance than all she might be able to do in a few years in the Senate. Women of the country who had hoped she might use this opportunity to break the precedent against election of women to the Senate will be disappointed, no doubt, but they will admit the courage of the course she has chosen and the clear thinking that lies behind it.

you must be a good sport and lose gracefully. The sixteen-year-old babies who think of marriage should be reminded that once you enter the lists of matrimony, there can be no drawing back. For, while its rules may be mainly the same, this is a game that, once you have started to play it, you can never again quite so whole-heartedly take up another. In spite of divorce laws, in spite of the new women who refuse to bear their husband’s names, in spite so all our modern interpretations of marriage, it remains ,at all times and forever the same, a Walled fortress from which there is no escape, or a place of flowering asphodels where love dwells. So, if you are still very young, think for a long time before you determine to surrender your girlhood suddenly and without grave consideration for after you have vowed your vow unto the Lord and given yourself into the keeping of a man, there is never again any real go-

had a book agent attempted to walk on it, he would immediately have been burned to a crisp in a lake of molten fire. That is one reason why folks speak of “the good old days.”. Then followed another long period during which the rising young earth abandoned some of its wild ways and quit wandering around with Venus and Neptune and a lot of other astral joy-riders. Instead, it started circling around the sun, which it has been doing steadily ever since then without getting anywhere. During this time it was still in liquid form, being so hot that Brightwood was nothing but a series of fiery bubbles. There is no accurate scientific proof, however, of the suspicion that some of the town was bottled at that time and is still being shipped in from Clinton. Gradually, however, the molten globe cooled off till it became more and more solid and finally was covered with a crust. Thus, you see, the world started as gas, developed into firewater and then became crusty—which, to the mind of the evolutionist, clearly demonstrates its close relationship with modern life.

ing back. You may get your divorce, you may have the courts restore your maiden name, you may imagine that you can run about and play as you once did with an innocent and child-like heart, but soon you will see that this can never be.— Marriage not only changes you physically, but it makes your soul over into something different. { And whether this transformation causes you to develop into a being fne and lovely and good, or whether it debases you and atrophies your sensibilities and corrodes your nature, depends entirely upon yourself. Your husband, no matter what sort of man he may be, can never have anything really definite to do with what marriage makes of you. That is determined only by the manner in which you play the game. Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., WashInton, 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 personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Os what country is the common goldfish a native? Os China, but It has long since been domesticated in this and other countries. What did it cost to build the Suez Canal and how many vessels pass through it in a year? The cost of construction was approximately $80,000,000. During thfe year 1923, a total of 4,621 vessels passed through the Suez. Does the word “fiance” apply to a man as well as a woman who is engaged to be married? No, fiance is masculine, fiancee, feminine. How broad is the pardoning power of the President of the United States? He has the power to pardon all offenders of every nature against the laws of the United tSates. But he may not (1) pardon an offense against a State law, or (2) remove the disabilities incurred by an impeachment. Congress t cannot limit the effect of a Presidential pardon or withdraw from the exercise of the power any class of offenders.

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WEATHER IS BIG FACTOR IN BATTLE WITH DISEASE

By Da\id Dietz .YUA Service Writer ■“] AN is only beginning to learn how important a part the i___J weather plays in his welfare. It is not only storms and the extremes of heAt and cold that affect him but the everyday variations of weather. The pioneers on the frontier of science are making a careful study of this fact in the belief that the knowledge will eventually prove of immense value to man. A committee of the National Research Council called the committee on the atmosphere and man, Is conducting the study. Statistics Just completed by the committee on the influenza epidemic of 1918 show how important this study is. The committee made averages for

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This picture© shows Dr. Harry Hayes, Government scientist, experimenting with the new submarine telephone.

The World Over

eAWAII, like California, has a season when It Is at Its best by contrast. When you come in January out of the frozen east into blooming California, the contrast is overwhelming. But to the resident, California is then, not at its best, but at its worst. Merely, the difference between its best and its worst is so much less than that of the colder zones. But if you would see California at its absolute best, come when the east is also at its best, or, perhaps a month earlier. The contrast is not so great, for the east is blooming and beautiful then, too; but, omitting comparisons, California’s beauty is then supreme. So with Hawaii. The greatest contrast is to come to this winterless land from a frozen northern winter. But the time to see tropical Hawaii at its uncompared

Tom Sims Says The button’s mightier than the pin. The dangerous part about trying to forget your past is you may succeed in forgetting it. Some of these new dance steps make the St. Vitus look like a slow

motion movie. I A cheerful man is one who knows it is impossible for things to be as bad as he thinks the yare. Try too hard to be the life of the party and you will be the death of the party. The only place California earthquakes are

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popular is among Florida real esate salesmen. Vacation helps father. He doesn’t have to stay defon town until son works the arithmetic. Going with a tall girl will straighten your shoulders and keep your head thrown back. Moonlit nights are beautiful, but people passing in other autos can see who you are. Everything has its good points. Taking a deep breath for a long kiss develops a girl’s lungs. It’s so hot on the farm the homemade wine is about the only thing that feels like working. When your steering gear gets loose tighten the grip on your life insurance. Political machines differ from radios. A radio works fine at times and is very entertaining. A rushing business demands a man who can keep ahead of it. Our prediction that this would be the hottest summer since back in ’24 is coming true. (Copyright., 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought God Is a spirit; and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.—John 4:24. * * • ORSHIP as though the deity \)y were present. If my mind is TT nbt engaged in my worship, It is as though I worshipped not. — Confucltfa. #

the thirty-six largest cities in the United States for which temperature records and influenza death records were available for the first ten weeks of the epidemic. These show that the mortality was highest in the hottest cities and lowest in the coolest. A difference of 16 degrees separated the hottest from the coolest. The difference in the influenza death rate was 50 per cent. The six hottest cities had an average temperature of 70 degrees and an average death rate from flu of 5.2 per thousand inhabitants. Here are the records for the others: Second six: Average temperature, 65 degrees, average death-rate, five per thousand. Third six: Average temperature, 62.6, death-rate, 4.2. Fourth six: Average temperature, 60.8, death-rate, 3.5. Fifth' six: Average temperature, 57.5, death-rate, three. Coolest six: Average temperature, 54 degrees, death-rate, 2.6. * • * Ml ANT think of science and learning as the exclusive property of greybeards. Such, however, Isn't the case. The recent appointment of Glenn Frank, age 38, as president of the University of Wisconsin, and of Dr. Clarence Cook Little, age 37, as president of the Univeresity of Michigan, illustrate this fact. Records show that twenty-seven American college presidents were 40 or under when they assumed their present posts. The record was made by Miss Helen H. Taft, now Mrs. F. J. Manning, who became acting president of Bryn Mawr College in 1919 at the age of 28. • * • A"" I NEW type of telephone just developed at the naval reresearch laboratory makes it possible for two submarines to carry on a conversation when both are 'submerged. Tests of the new device were recently made by Dr. Harry C. Hayes of the laboratory on barges in the Potomac River. Naval authorities believe that the new device would be extremely valuable in time of war.

best is in the summer, when most of America is also tropical. Just now, the ponciana regia is blooming at its best—great trees, all one mass of vivid scarlet —the “golden shower” and “pink shower” wave their masses of bloom, the hibiscus hedges, the fragrant plumarias or frangipannis, and the many-colored croton plants are at their best; the pineapples, alligator pears and mangoes are ripe; the climate is warm, but not oppressive, and the country supremely beautiful. Do not hesitate to come to Hawaii in the summer, its most beautiful season. A GOOD PLACE TO ‘PLAY AT TROPICS’ "Z”AW All is a good place to li play at the tropics. The real tropics are more luxuriant, and, in photographs, more beautiful. Whether they are to you in the reality depends on how high the necessary price seems to your particular temperament. The “price” question is not money. Tropic Jungles steam with humid heat and swarm with Insect pests. They lack most or all the conveniences of civilization, and theli picturesque inhabitants are often ignorant of sanitary and other decencies. Not all the odors of the spice islands are perfumes. If you can overlook these features, the far tropics are the most beautiful and interesting part of the world. But Hawaii, fortunately, exacts none of these prices. It Is civilized, clean, comfortable and tropical enough. Its many raced population seems exotic enough, If you have Just come from America. If you have Just come from the Orient, it seems very American; and if you have Just come from the cannibal islands, it seems autoundingly metropolitan. It is all a,matter of contrast. WHERE RACIAL LINES ARE NOT DRAWN —i reception at “Washington A Place,” the official residence •** of Governor Farrington of Hawaii, to’the delegates to the Institute of Pacific Relations, presented a sight such as could he seen nowhere else in the world and rarely on such a scale here. The house, formerly the desidence of Queen Lilioakalanl during the twenty years from deposition to her death, and with a long and conspicuous history in island life before that, has been enlarged into a spacious official residence, ample for any social gathering. But this gathering—American, Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino and British empire ladies and gentlemep, most of the Orientals in their native costumes —was unique. They were, of course, most of them persons of the highest standing in their own countries, who would be welcome guests in the finest homes anywhere in the world; but nowhere except in Hawiia could they have been assembled in such numbers with so little racial consciousness. Hawaii was until recently the world example of racial non-ex-clusiveness. Social lines, among persons of equal standing otherwise, practically ignored race lines. If that Is no longer completely the case, in all circle, at least It could be so, unconsciously and unobstructively, in a company like this. It was not strange. In fact, to one projecting himself for the moment to the outsider’s view, the only thing strange about It was its lack of strangeness.

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Carl Diton, Writer of Negro Spirituals, Sees No Menace in Modern Jazz Music

By Waiter I). Hickman HEN there is a gathering of \U musicians in a city for a conL vention it is interesting to study their viewpoints on the condition of modern music. I have been wanting for some time to ask a composer of spirituals what he thought about Jazz music. Carl Dlton, probably the best known negro pianist and composer, is here attending the national convention of negro musicians. “To me,” Lrtton said, “jazz is wonderfully thrilling. We must be sure that clusslcal music is not seriously affected.” This Is indeed interesting, coming from a man who is identified with some of the best known negro spirituals, such as “Poor Mourners.” “The negro spiritual'is a religious song expressing serious feeling,” he told me. “The real serious attitude of the negro is expressed in his spiritual.” Diton is of the opinion that we “must not keep jazz developement down” and claims that we are getting some fine orchestral ideas for classical compositions.” ’lt seems to be a prevailing opinion among many composers of the various moods of music that jazz is not a menace at the present time but

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that In the years of development it will become more symphonic and more expressive, a sort of American folk lore music. Many, of course, differ in opinion upon this subject. Diton appears tonight on a program to be given by visiting negro artists at Caleb Mills Hall. * • • NEW VARIETY BILL OPENS AT PAIiACE The Palace management announces the following line up of today’s new show: The Metropolitan Five are a group of vocalists who are offering their miniature opera at the Palace Theater the last half of this week with a wide repertory of well-known operatic selections ns well as several of the better popular songs. The quintet includes a singing quartet of mixed voices and a pianist. The comedy end of the bill is held down by the troupe of funsters headed by Jerome Merrick, who offer “Behave Yourself,” a laughter bit In the form of a sketch. Coulter and Rose are blackface comedians who dance, sing, and deal in laughs while billed as “The Two Black Crows." “Non-Cents” is the title for the

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varied act of foolishness, singing, burlesque Juggling, and clarinet playing by Murray, eccentric “nut” comedian, and his partner, Charlotte. Contributing several difficult feat a-, on blcylos and unlcycles Alfred Time and company stage “The Limit on Wheels.” James Oliver Curwood's novel of the out-of-doors, "The Hunted Woman," is the feature photoplay with Seena Owen in the leading role. Pat he News, a comedy and a acenlo are the short reels. Other theaters today offer: “The Easy Mark” at English's; "The Lady Who Lied” at the Circle; Bonnio Reynolds at the Lyric; "Confessions of a Queen" at the Apollo; “Lost—A Wife,” at. the Ohio; “White Fang” at the Colonial and complete new hill at the lain. The Indiana Indorse re of Photoplays this woek recommend as adult * entertainment the features at the Circle, Ohio and Crystal. SOLVING “DEAD SPOT” If you live in a so-called “dead spot," that is, where you can't receive certain stations, take off the ground connection. This will make local reception better, at least.

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