Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1925 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, J-resident. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlppß-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * • Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. , Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times P übllt ng 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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No More Room in Our Prisons! murder, highway robbery and bank W banditry apparently the favorite outdoor sports in many American communities, you may think a lot more of your fellow citizens should be in prison. The fact' of the matter is that the prisons right now are doing a recordbreaking business. Nearly all of them are overThere isn’t room for any more! The Department of Justice gives these figures on the three Federal prisons: 1913 1925 Atlanta IjOOO 3,258 I Leavenworth 1,200 3,294 McNeil’s Island 300 618 Totals 2,500 7,170 The Federal prison population in twelve years has almost tripled. Meantime, what has been happening elsewhere? The Department of Commerce has just issued a report furnished by the United States consul in London on Great Britain’s prisons. “More than twenty prisons in England and Wales,” says this report, “practically a third of the total, have been closed since 1914. There are now only forty prisons in use in the country and these are by no means fully occupied.” * Opponents of the Volstead act are quick to point out that England is a wet country. They charge the increase in crime, as well as the increased prison population, up to the effort to impose on the American people a law that is repugnant to a great part of the citizenship. There may be something. in this, or there may not be. But the contrast between what is happening in "Great Britain and what is happening in Americt is worth very serious thought.

Oh Paris, How Could You? S HEY’RE using Eiffel Tower, in Paris, now as an electric sign. It advertises the little five-horse power Citroen, flivver of France. From top to bottom of this 1,000-foot wonder, we are told, the framework is picked out in razzle-dazzle electric lights; while from midway to summit, on all four sides, a sign 160 yards long blazes forth the ad, “CITROEN.” Q n off —on —off- -with maddening, mechanical precision, it flashes forth all the night long, visible far into the country. As the price of this piece of esthetic sabotage, the flivver maker pays, in rent and publicity tax to the city, some 650,000 francs a year. It makes us want to tear our hair, little as we have left. Paris, the artists’ mecca and beauty’s shrine desecrated for commercial gain! Heretofore Frerichmen have sneered at Broadway’s blaze and the billboard disfigurement of our countryside. And we’ve felt ashamed. But now we know that the only reason why the Frenchman himself has not been euilty of the same crime is that he did not have, or was too stingy, to pay the price.^ There is some excuse for New York —modern, ugly, hodge-podge, high-in-air, flat-on-the-ground, styleless New York. In fact, the bright fights by night have been her glory. There are so many of them, and they are so colorful and dancing, that to her drab has been given a certain touch of beauty all her own. But Paris 1 We’ll be surprised at nothing now. Perhaps we’ll be hearing of the Venus de Milo, in the Louvre, wearing and advertising the Gallerie Lafayette’s brassieres or undervests, or being made to stand in ft bathroom surrounded by modern tubs and plumbing which she would be hired to advertise. Now that France has started to prostitute her charm, there’s no end to the money she could make at the game. Oh, well,,what’s the use! Life’s always like that. Each day sees another idol shattered, another of life’s illusions lost. Confessions of a Confession Writer “rr-ri ERE is the first line I used in one of my rl confession stories: “ ‘I am a woman who has lived too much, too daringly, too dangerously.’ “The average reader seeking entertainment will want to go on after reading that line. In this story I assumed the character of a woman writing a story of her girlhood mistakes and trials before happiness finally came to her.” And who do you that? Mr. Dick P. Tooker! You never woul*d have guessed, *

would you? Note the “Mr.” Mr. Tooker is s a man! The quotation is from an article by Mr. Tooker in the current issue of The Author and Journalist, in w r hich he reveals the technique of writing what are called, these days, “the confessions or true stories.” He tells other writers how to do it. Some sentences of advice by Mr. Tooker follow: “The ring of truth is the-first and paramount demand of the story for the confession and first-person magazines.” “Second in the demands of the true story is simplicity. Use short sentences and paragraphs, and ordinary words. Conversation should carry few fancy speech labels and descriptions should be cut to the minimum. The first line, as in good fiction, should catch the eye of the most simple-minded reader. “It is far more desirable to write from the woman's viewpoint, for there is among the true-story magazines an inclination tow r ard the story told by the disillusioned woman or girl, rather than the man. Perhaps some men writers will find it difficult to give their w r ork the feminine tang. A few suggestions may help. “Simply think of a girl or woman you know rather well and drag her through the most heartbreaking and unfortunate love affair you can imagine, then make her happy.” And now, Dear Reader, you know how it is done. Take your typewriter in hand, think of some “girl or woman you know rather well” and “drag her through,” for Mr. Tooker says in his closing paragraph: “The days of the ‘true story’ magazine are numbered, but there is no reason why writers should not profit while these millionaires scrap with one another.”

Italy Banishes a Reporter mHE Chicago Tribune reports that its Rome correspondent has been ordered out of Italy by the Mussolini government. This must be something of a shock to the Tribune and to other reactionary newspapers -which have tried desperately to see something good in the Mussolini idea. You know the line: A Strong Man, the Iron Hand, Law and Order, and all that sort of thing. Well, the Tribune’s correspondent has been formally chased off Italy’s premises because, so he relates, he refused to take the government’s hint that he no longer was welcome. The Tribune had suspected that something was up. It hadn’t heard, from its correspondent for three days, except in a dispatch so garbled and censored it couldn’t make heads or tales of it. But the public is not so much concerned with the Tribune’s discomfiture at finding Mussolini unreasonable, as it is with the situation Mussolini is striving to cover up. The situation must be bad. A group of American correspondents, headed by theUnited Press bureau manager, and including representatives of the New York World, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Daily News and Philadelphia Public Ledger, have taken action to protest against the treatment of the Tribune’s correspondent. The only American correspondents not participating in this action were those of the Associated Press and the New York Times, who are Italian subjects. Mussolini has followed a course very much like that of the Russian Soviet government. He seized the government, without any color of authority, and, riding roughshod over the rights of the people, has managed to hold it. The very interests in this country which have condemned the Soviet most bitterly have had only applause for Mussolini. The same interests in other countries have likewise looked on without a murmur of disapproval. Despite this moral support, things apparently are not going well. The lid is about to blow off. The situation seems to be one in which the truth hurts and Mussolini proposes to spare himself the pain as long as he can. Concerning Pie HHE pie season is fully upon us now. To be sure, we have it with us all the year round, more or less. But the pie made from canned fruit is one thing and pie made from fruit which was on the tree —or bush—day before yesterday is another. The baking and eating of pie seems to have reached its highest development in New England. Entirely proper. Consider the luscious blue berries they raise there; consider the huge pumpkins, the juicy cherries, the rosy apples, the marvelously flavored mincemeat. Did you ever eat anew England blue berry pie? If you ever did, you’ll understand perfectly well why the Bostonians got the habit of eating pie for breakfast.

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The World Over By Chester H. Rowell

| —-ALBERT P. TAYLOR, librar- | lan of the archives of Hawaii, writes to the papers asking- the kaniaainas for information whether the original location of the royal tombs on the palace grounds was on the present site of a hibiscus lei, or a trifle Ewa and a bit mauka of that spot. An old photograph, he says, shows a fall on the Waikiki and Kawaiahao sides. This is the English ‘ language, as spoken and written in Hawaii. Nobody thinks of it as foreign. After the luau on the lanal is pau, the kamaaina host apologizes for so much pilikia. especially to a malihine. Noticing a mystified look, he adds another apology for his hapahaole speech. On Kameihameha day, the hale ana alii lead the procession. And so on. SHIS process, in Hawaii, is doubtless finished. With the diminishing numbers and increasing Americanization of the native Hawaiians, no more Hawaiian words are likely to be added to the language. Even some now used may be dropped. For Instance, “humuhumunukunuguawapaaa” is a rather formidable name for a very small fish. But if English once becomes the "universal language”' which seems to be its destiny, what will happen to it in other far countries? Will --It break up into new languages, as Latin did into Italian, Spanish and French? Or, if modern fluidity of travel and education prevent that, will it acquire a large vocabulary in each country which is not used, or perhaps even known, in the others? Already this is beginning to happen in the colloquial speech of England and America, and to a smaller extent in the written language. And the orient and the antipodes have their own variations. "Tiffin” means luncheon and "godown" means warehouse, all over the orient, while "bush" means forest or backwoods, in Australasia. In Apia it is perfectly intelligible English to lament the downfall of a friend who took to the lava-lava and went faa Samoa, and in Shanghai a thing that is my pidgin is not your business.

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By David Dietz XEA Service Writer |ep| HE chemists of France, Ger- [ I many and England are all - J working to find synthetic methods of making gasoline. The pioneers on the frontier of science are always looking ahead. Consequently, they foresee a day when our natural supply of gasoline will give out. Artificial gasoline wyi be needed

Ask The Times You can get an answer to anj question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Are.. Washinton, D C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps lor reply. Medical legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a per sonal reply. Unsigned reuuests cannot be answered <ll letters are confidential.—Editor What is the size and depth of Lake Zurich? It is twenty-five miles long and from two and one-half to one-half mile wide. Its depth is 470 feet; area is thirty-four square miles. Why did the rest of the Jews hate the Samaritans? * * During the Babylonian exile he Babylonian monarch had brough a number of captives from other countries which he had conquered, and settled them In the hills of Samaria. The remnant of the Jewish population left there had intermarried with these people, and the result was a mixed population, despised by the Jews who returned from the exile anc who hated the idea of intermarriag i with peoples of other nations, and consequently the Samaritan population never ceased to be looked down upon by the Jews, who considered themselves the pure stock of Israel. What is the largest city in North Dakota? Fargo, with a population in 1920 of 1-4,331. Is it proper for a girl to accept a present of a diamond ring from a man friend, if she is not engaged to him? Jt Is not proper for her to accept my valuable presents from a male i.-lhnd unless she Intends to marry hi ip.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SPREADING FAST mNCREASINGLY. around the world, the English language is becoming the accepted common speech. Everywhere, unless In Europe, it is assumed that an educated man of any race speaks English, and that the ignorant or uncivilized, if they have any contact with foreigners at all, speak, "pidgin” English. French remains "a" language of diplomacy, but no longer "the" language. In everything else, English ■s supplanting it. HOW TO BUILD THEM EARTHQUAKE-PROOF T- 1 HE cables say that Santa Barbara Is to be rebuilt in l__l Spanish style. That is interesting. But much more important than artistic styles of external architecture is sound internal construction. It is possible to make buildings earthquake-proof. In fact, any well-articulated construction, whether of wood, bamboo. 6teel, or reinforced concrete, is safe against earthquake of even much more than the Santa Barbara Intensity. Second-class brick or stone construction falls down. The experiences of San Francisco and Tokio have established knowledge on this subject and multiplied men who know It. Santa Barbara, being warned, will probably heed. But also, having during the life of the new buildings, been hit once, It la probably safer, than the places that think themselves Immune. The most dangerous place is the one that has been long without an earthquake. In the earthquake belts, says Dr. Jaggar, the famous volcanologist, this means Los Angeles and Honolulu. In the regions of longer Intervals, it means Chicago and New York. An earthquake will come to any of these regions if we wait long enough, and the chances are nearest for those that have already waited longest.

then to keep the motors of airplanes, autos and speed boats humming. The foreign chemists are all trying to. make gasoline from coal at the present time. In Germany, the so-called Bergius process has been developed. Powdered coal is treated with hydrogen under high pressure and at a high temperature. The result is a fairly good petroleum. The French method begins with the making of coke from the coal in coke ovens Just as coke is mad 6 at the present time. The gases given off during the process are then mixed with hydrogen and passed through an electrical furnace where chemical changes take place in them. The process is completed by passin the gases through tubes which contain a number of powdered metallio compounds called catalysts. The nature of these catalysts Is kept secret at the * present, but the French engineers claim that they turn the gases into a mixture of oils of which about 75 per cent is gasoline. The British chemists are experimenting with a process of distilling the coal at a low tern pert ure. LTTtJ HILE scientists are unwilling yy to believe the story of Jonah L_J and the whale literally, they admit that fish beg enough to swallow a man once lived. Only the scientists Insist that the big fish inhabited the sea some millions of years before man made his appearance on earth. At the American Museum of Natural History, the jaws of a fossil Shark were recently put on exhlbl- - tlon. A man can easily seat himself in one corner of the Jaw. This particular shark lived more than 10,000,000 years ago, the scientists believe. What is the origin of the honey- j dew melon and when was it first raised in the United States? Its origin is unknown; it has been known for centuries. It was Imported into the United States by Professor Hanson and others from Turkestan in 1998 99.

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SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS—Many millions of yefctrs ago the world was a gaseous nebula, floating around In space. Finally It took the form of a spinning globe of tremendous hot gas, from wliich it cooled to a liquor over millions of years. Eventually a crust formed and it became more and more solid. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER 3 The First Hot Air Although the young world was a red-hot globe, a person sitting ten feet above Its surface would have gotten no more heat than the average tenant sitting on an apartment radiator. Ahl This surprises you. So, without holding you in suspense, I will explain that the earth had no air and therefore there was Home Talent By Hal Cochran The evening meal is over and the family’s 111 at ease. To break the spell of quiet, sister's drumming oe’r the keys. The old pianos tinny and the notes are klnda flat, but strains of Ol’Virginny and the like sound good,, at that. Dad gets to feelin' tuneful, as his fa Write songs are played. He takes his old mouth organ and he joins the serenade. While mother, at her sewin’, now and then suggests a song and as they turn to playin’ it she’s hummin’ right along. It isn't lo'ng till cousin starts her fiddle in to squeak. She frankly tells them all she hasn’t practiced for a week. Then brother Bill adds vigor to the rhythm of the tune by joinin’ with the fam'ly on his tenor saxophone. The neighbors sit in silence as they lend a willing ear. There’s something quite appealing in the music that they hear. A family joined together is a gath’ring hard to beat. Perhaps it's Just that thought that makes the eourest tune sounds sweet. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

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no way to carry heat. A red-hot mama sitting on its surface would have become an Iceberg a few feet away. Only there were no red-hot mamas then, so It was a very uninteresting world. Again we Indicate a long, long lapse of time a „ while the earth was putting on Its atmosphere. It took the earth unspeakable periods of time to make ready for Its final appearance, which probably caused the custom of speaking of the earth as "she." Finally, however, as the crust hardened there developed a steamy, sticky atmosphere that was mostly water. The world was all wet. It was an Infant world. You understand, of course, that this Is a very hasty trip back Into the past, so we will hurry along for a few more eons until the steam became rain, and hot torrents poured down on the sizzling rocks so that there was always wet grounds and no game. How fortunate was no life then, with the ground too soft to stand on, the rocks too hot to sit on, and the roads always Impassable. The air was so hot that even Jim Watson would not have felt at home. Os course, there was constant volcanic activity and new lands were shooting up every day; but unfortunately there were no Florida realtors to subdivide and sell the ground before it had a chance to sink beneath the surface again. (Tomorrow —Preparing a Layette) A Thought I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk In truth.— John 111:1, 4. • • • God offers to every mind Its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, and you can never have both.—Emerson.

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Tom Sims Says A man tells us he Isn’t so fiat now. Says he used to back up to a door to ring the belL Women may be slaves to fashion. But their burdens are light. There's lota of money In Interior

decorating. You never see a good dentist broke. Society's easy to stay in If you have enough money, otherwise you can’t look bored enough. Love laughs at locksmiths and cusses bill collectors. Every failure thinks he could come back if he only hod some

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one willing to put him on his feet j Take advantage of your opportu™ nltles. If you had started 100 years ago you could be the world's oldest man now. Many a man who objects to his wife's crying thinks she should enjoy his cussing. Youth may be served, but it's hard to get a young chicken In a case. Many a flame is started by the flicker of an eyelid. Men will never be women's equals until they know things are all right even when they look all wrong. Fat men don’t etand the heat better than skinny people, but they seem to sit it out about as well. It would be easy to be your brother's keeper if he would give you. anything to keep. A good education enables you*to worry about things in all parUeof the world. (Copyright. 1925. NEA Serviost Inc.)

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