Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1925 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. A - MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance *, • * Client of the United Press and the NBA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dnilv except Sunday bv Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St. Indianapolis ** * Subscription Rates: liftianapolls Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere— Iwelve Cents a Week * • PHONE—MA in 3500.
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Tax Valuations "TIRE tax valuations facts or theories? A The State tax board has just ordered various townships and cities to make blanket increases in the valuation of their taxable property. The law contemplates valuation of all property at its actual worth. Then the tax board comes along, under authority of the same law, and makes arbitrary blanket increases. The question arises: Could local assessors have been so far wrong in‘so many cases in the valuation of property in their own neighborhoods? It hardly seems likely. Os course, it is true, that so long as valuations are raised or lowered a given amount, and all taxpayers in a given unit are treated alike, the individual taxpayer pays no more under a blanket increase that he would under the old valuation. ’ The most important feature, from the viewpoint of the interested politicians, is the fact that the higher the valuation the lower the tax rate can be placed and the more the administration in power has to crow about. For instance, a tax rate of $3 per SI,OOO of taxable property will raise $3 on a piece of property valued at SI,OOO. By the mere expedient of valuing the property at $2,000 and cutting the tax rate to $1.50, the same amount is obtained and the politicians have something to which they can point with pride. We hear a great deal about low tax rates nd very little about the amount of money actually passed through the treasurer’s window at the courthouse. It’s a great systerrf.
The Curfew and Burglars IHE curfew law is being enforced in Indianapolis again. Police authorities found this necessary as a step toward preventing burglary. That statement has a peculiar sound but nevertheless it is true. The other day two 17-year-old boys eon? fessed to a long series of burglaries and highway robberies. One of the boys admitted he had been a burglar and bandit since he was 14. So the police have ordered that all children under 16 years old must be in their homes by 9 p. m. In this way they hope to reduce the number of burglaries and robberies. . Such is the precocity of modern youth.
Your Lizzie and the P. I. aF you own an automobile or ever expect to own one, you should interest yourself in the fate of the Philippines. With what amounts to a monopoly on rubber, Great Britain now controls the price. A few weeks ago American tire-makers were paying well under 20 cents a pound. Now they pay around sl. As the United States uses three-fourths the total output, or just under -700,000,000 pounds a year, the difference between what we ought to pay and what the British make us pay amounts to more than $500,000,000. It’s a
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You can ge; an answer to nay uu tion of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Timeß Washington Bureau. 1822 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 per sonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered 411 letters are conflden--I.—Editor xatrw is the number 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. read? Six sextillion. what age of the earth do •*sil forests belong? The Carboniferous, representing the passage of some 9,000,000 years. When were spurs with rowels first used? Originally spurs were made with a ’'single point, or prick, and were known as the prick-spur of goadspur, but they soon developed into the rowel. Although the rowel Is first met with in the thirteenth century, It. was not common until the middle of the csntury. £fid Benny Leonard ever fight Mickey Walker, and if so, when? They have never met in the ring. What is the name of the former New York Giant pitcher who was expelled from baseball when accused of "throwing” a game? "Shuffling” Phil Douglas. How many chapters of the Eastern Star are there in the world? Approximately 11,500. How is the city of New York governed? \ Ihe government of the city is vested in a Mayor and Board of Aldermen. The mayor is elected for a four-year term, and is eligible for re-election. He presides over the entire city as chief magistrate; he appoints or removes heads of all city departments except that of finance. In addition there are presidents of th five boroughs, Manhattan,
new tax they make us pay to ride in our own car. Now government experts tell us that there are 3,000,000 acres of A No. 1 rubber laud in the southern part of the Philippines. The world’s present supply is grown on less than 4,000,000 acres so, under proper conditions, there is no sound reason why we cannot arrange to grow all our own tires for years to come. Then why don’t, we do it? The answer is it takes money to start a rubber plantation and nobody wants to risk money in a country whose future is shrouded in mystery and doubt. Today nobody can say what the Philippines will be tomorrow. They may be absolutely free; or an American dependency; or possessed of a Cuban -status; or serving out a twenty or thirty-year period waiting to decide their future by a plebiscite. Or they may be free, like Belgium, under international guarantees. Or something altogether different. Now, nobody knows. And until the status of the islands is fixed, business is bound to be dull and big money will not go there. Money will flow into any country with a definite future, however bad, for it can discount conditions. But it freezes up solid when it has no way of forecasting what may happen. Congress should act. It is not fair to the Filipinos nor to Americans out there, nor to us here in the States, to keep us all dangling. The question concerns every American. Even if we / don’t care a hang for the moral side of our promise to free the Philippines, We still have our pocketbooks to consider. Sergio Osmena, brilliant Filipino leader, is now on his way to Washington to stir up Congress. We wish him luck. JUST look what Mayor Shank got into by moving to the north side. THIS is good weather to get out the flivver and go detouring. THESE cool nights remind one that a coal strike is in sight. Rises in utilities rates hit line. Evidently referring to the family budget. BIRMINGHAM, ALA., is suffering from numerous cave-ins. This should be a good story iu California. JOHN THOMAS SHAW, accused of murder, is to be tried a third time. Some day they will run out of citizens to serve on his juries. BELL company is engaged in big extensions—headline. Probably adding to the list of wrong numbers. IF you are tired of the drab monotony of life, get a job at the Statehouse.. There is plenty of uncertainty there. EVEN the- fish suffer from prohibition. The Duckwell booze went into the sewer, but the sewer led to the reduction plant instead of to the river.
Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Richmond. The legislative power is vested in the Board of AJdermen, of seventy-three members, elected for a two-year term. Are distillates of wood liquified wood? Wood cannot be liquified. Distillates of wood are made by various processes of heating and condensing to extract the juices. A Thought All the ways of a man are Mean in his own, eyejcs; but the Lord weigheth spirits.— Proverbs 16:2. • • * Judgment for an evil thing is times delayed some day or two, some century or ttvo; but it is as sure as life, it is as sure as death I —Carlyle. YACHT RADIO STATION Summer campers and cottagers along the Great Lakes will be provided with radio programs broadcast from the Muroma, Powel Crosley, Jr.’s., motor yacht. The call letters will .probably be WLW, Jr. Gossips keep a lot of people from doing a lot of things. Being a rugged character is hard because it is noticed eo seldom. Bobbed hair causes more conversation than cooking recipes. Married men are the happiest because the troubles at home take their minds off the office troubles. Ijots of people drive as if they were going for the doctor. And some who don’t know it really are. Ninety in the shade may not be as warm as a couple in the auto.
Tom Sims Says Wish the doctor would tell us we couldn’t eat anything except fried chicken.
What’s become of the girl who admitted she couldn’t hug because she hadn’t practiced much? Not long ago a girl was more proud of her cooking ability than of her necking ability. Men are funny people. A man will chase a girl until she catches him.
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Lots of loving now and then has caused the shooting of some men. When kissing a girl In an auto arrange matters so she Is looking one way and you the other. Some people worry because they worry too much. Every man has a regular line of funny things which he says to his wife before company. Trie female of the species stands between people and the light more often than the male. i Some people feel at home everywhere except when they are at home. The hardest thing about living to a ripe old age is making your credit last. *Doing nothing hurts rhost just after you finish it. The honeymoon is over when he would rather keep his trousers creased than have her in his lap. (Copyright. 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
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Der Public is der Piker
Editor Times BACK in der days ven Villiam Shakespeer und a few udder fellers us such big minds made saidings like “Came easy, vent easy” und “Der bin no
fools so big alls der jenerals publicks, ” dey giffs vise peepings into der futures und shows vat der voorlt iss venting on der axles too fast yet. Mit horsen races und basen ball on der oudsite, dot great insite spordts, boxen und prizen fiteing haff der publicks attention gotten now. Ve don’t gis talkings aboud money in dousands anymore aber he iss in der millions'und der biggest key to der pockets to gotten such oud in der open, iss der spording idees. Der spordting voorlt sure haff got der spots lites now. Americans bin not Only der jem son der oceans, aber der vunder us der voorlt, und ven you sits mit yourself down alone und made calculatings aboud der spordting elements, ve all mit der mouth open, vunder ven und vere he iss going to stop. Yust denk vunce mit dot Jack Dempseys. Id iss not such a long vile ago ven he vas a piker und vas busted. Vere iss he now? He iss der boss prizen fiter now, ain’t id? Iss he busted? Ask dot feller Kerns, who owns half us Jack when id comes to madeings dates for him. He allso gotten rich und he don’t bin done yet. Dot quarrels bissness mit dem too Jacks iss a bluffs und means dot putty soon he giffs der publicks to understand dot next time ffey gotten to seen him in vun us his dree minit exbositions, vill be so soon alls der spordts gotten togedder anudder one us dem millions dollars purses. I tell you dem fellers bin anyding but pikers now und der publicks bin going to did der piking ven der bin such. Veil, ven such a outrages iss permissioned, der abuff saidings iss rite, und der voorts us dot oudspoken breacher, Sammy Small iss allso rite, ven he said der peeples bin venting to der deffil. For der goot us der jeneral publicks so veil as der spordting elements in berticular, lets hope not. HANS HOFFMEIER, 1622 Sout Vest Streed.
SCIENTIST SCORE ONLY TWO HITS OUT OF MILLION SHOTS
By David Dietz NEA Service Writer mMAGINE a speed of 10,000 miles a second. That’s Just 20,000 times faster than the fastest rifle bullet flies. The speed has been attained, however. It Is the speed with which the tiny particles known as alpha particles leave radium, so Sir Ernest Rutherford, England’s greatest physicist, says. Rutherford has been using these
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The World Over
By Chester H. Rowell
S'” — OME interesting lights on racial "superiority” or the claim of it have been brought out in recent discussions in Hawaii. The Emperor Chien Lung, rejecting a proposal of the English king for commerce between their nations, nn the ground that China had everything it needed, congratulated King George on his becoming. humility, and closed with the saluation, "fear and tremble.” The Tongan islanders have a tradition that God made the Tongan first, the pig next, and the white man last. If there have been certain great men in the outside world —the Tongan have heard of George Washington and Napoleon—these, because they were great, must have been shipwrecked Tongans. The Greeks called all outsiders "barbarians,” and the Jews were the "chosen people.” Just now it is the ‘‘nordics" who claim superority, because they happen to fill. In this generation, the place held in earlier generations by other peoples. The sense of superiority is a form of racial egotism. * WHERE MAC DONALD WAS ILLOGICAL rjr~| AMSAY McDonald moved a lIV I vtjte of censure on the prest* v | ent British government for not solving the problem of unem-
Hans Hoffmeier Says: THE BIGGEST KEY TO FOLKS’ POCKETS IS THE SPORTING IDEA
high-speed particles from radium to bombard other substances. Asa result, he has been able to knock electrons out of the nuclei of the atoms of these substances, thus changing them from one substance in,to another. Rutherford has been abla in this way to disintegrate the atoms of boron, fluorine, sodium, aluminum and phosphorus. The disintegration so far, however, is only a laboratory phenomenon. The amount of disintegration is exceedingly minute. This is because both the atoms of the substances being bombarded and the alpha particles which do the bombarding are so small that no microscope could ever reveal their size. A marksman would despair if ho had to use alpha particles for bullets. For Rutherford’s record so far is about two hits for every million alpha particles used. OTH beet and cane sugar may find a rival sugar crowding u— them for a place on the market soon. The new sugar might be called artichoke sugar because it is manu' factured most easily from the artichoke. The scientist calls beet and cane sugar, “sucrose.” The scientific name of the new sugar is “levulose" of "fructose’’ because it occurs naturally in fruits. Two research workers at the United States 'Bureau of Standards, Drs. Silsbec and Profitt, have worked out all process by which fructose can be prepared on a commercial scale from the artichoke.
ployment. It was the natural move of the opposition. But it must have worried MacDonald’s logical soul to pretend to censure his enemies for not doing ,what he himself had not been able to do, and which he believes nobody can do while the present social system lasts. ELECTING WIDOWS NOT ‘MODERNISM’ ■" —. NE more congressional widow I( J has been elected to fill the 1 , place made vacant by her husband’s death. The sentiment which leads to such a choice is natural, and, fortunately, in most cases, the lady had been active enough In her husband’s career to indicate her competency. But It is an old-fashioned, not a "modern" sentiment. Whoever else may approve It, the women's party and other feminist organizations should protest. The sentiment, by their standards, be longs to the masculine and feudal type. It. represents, not women's right to stand on their own merits, but women’s title to the) protective chivalry of the "stronger” sex. It Is a man’s notion of what he wants women to want. It belongs to the pre-suffrage age. These women repx-esent, not themselves or their constituents, but their husband’s memories. It is fortunate that they have usually done well. But this is not feminism.
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' Outline of Evolution
CHAPTER 4 ' Preparing the Layette ”_ J E now reach a very critical yXJ period In the earth's history. It was getting ready for the first life, and so, of course, there was great preparation and much speculation. Let us digress for a moment and consider how fortunate It was that the work was not under direction of a commission. • Buppose, in such an event, the commissioners had been unable to decide on a location, or gotten into a dispute over laying the foundation for the first mountains, or had shown favoritism in purchasing supplies and materials, or that part of the atmosphere had disappeared, leaving a shortage of air. You and I might never have been here today. What a tragedy. But there was no commission, so everything went along very nicely. The hot globe kept spinning around on schedule, although it spun so fast that the days were much shorter than at present, and had there been any paydays then they would have come much oftener than is now the case. However, the
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THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT
first of the month would also have arrived earlier, so it's Just as well that the days gradually grew longer. Somewhere or other the infant world had collected a surprising amount of water, and as it cooled off more and more of its surface was covered with oceans and likes, including the particular spot where Indianapolis was destined to he and which is still pretty thoroughly cov ered after heavy rains. Everything, you see, was developed by evolution except the sewer system, which fell into the hands of a commission. Os course, nobody had thought of Indianapolis in those early days—although I realize the Chamber of Commerce will resent this admission —because there war nobody to think. But now everything was ready, and somewhere in the widespread oceans and shallow lakes of the young world the original life started without any thought of the troubles toward which it was headed. Life originated in the water, we evolutionists believe, and the prohibitionists are determined that it shall die there. (Tomorrow —Our First Ancestors).
SATURDAY, AUG. 3,1D25
Painting Ky Hal Cochran SHE bedroom floor Is badly worn where kiddle's feet have tramped. The woodwork's of its luster shorn and needs to be revamped. So father buys some paint and shellac, n limber brush or two, and proudly boasts he has the knack of fixing things anew. The room Is cleared of odds and ends, ns dad turns to his tasks. His Ills peace and quiet shortly ends, when little sonny asks, "Aw, lemme' help ya, will ya dad? Aw, lemme paint a while." The Int'rest of the tiny tad ust kljnda makes dad smile. So Sonny quickly starts to dip a brush down in the pall. "Be careful” is a kindly tip, and yet to no avail. There’s shellac upon his clothing and there’s paint splashed on the door. In fact, he daubs It every place except upon the floor. At last the painting's finished and a brand new Job's begun, for dad must clean the spots where little sonny's had his fun. When youngsters beg to aid you. never greet | them with a frown, unless you’re not afraid you’ll tear their willing spirit down. Covurinht, 1911, XEA grn-fee