Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 72, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1925 — Page 6
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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FET.IX F. BKI’.NHH, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORX. Bus. Mgr. Member of the Serlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * • Client of tko Inited Press and tbe NKA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-020 W. Maryland St, Indianapolis * * * Subscription Kates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Wees. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week * * PHONE—MA in 3300.
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Our Busy Statehouse ■priCCUPANTfc (we were about to say inU mates) of the Statehouse, lead anything but dull lives, even in the vacation season. There always si something going on under the dome—usually several.things at once. For instance: The State highway department is all mussed up over road specifications, pay rolls, used war material and sundry other things, including an indictment or two. The State board of health has called its secretary and is seeking to remove him on charges of malfeasance ia office and the misuse of funds. The State police department saw fit to discharge recently a State policeman who was formerly) chauffeur for the rather widely known D. *C. Stephenson, and now that State policeman Us under indictment charged with accepting ai bribe from a bootlegger. The State board of accounts, which acts as a combinatioruspy and chaperoni for the other departments, is running around in circles trying to investigate everything at ; once. The remainder of the ‘.Statehouse is spending most of its time'listening to that strange sizzling noise which means dhat there is likely to be another blowout at any minute. This present administration has been in office only seven months and it is almost a flat t-ire already. Os course, a, great deal of the trouble was inherited from the administrations "qf the various Governors who served during the hc-tic four yearsiprecedijigtthe present administration. The present Governor is not entirely to blame except insofar as hethas failed to make a clean sweep of inherited State government personnel.
Crime mS murder becorrdng an American habit, crime a national characteristic? Killings and other acts oFviolence have become so common that the term, crime wave is no. longer adequate. It has become a flood a deluge. It sweeps the whole tenantry. What is the cause ? The sale of ’firearms to anybody that Wants them, some people think. But, while bullets arsesdoing their share to depopulate the land, thetpe still remain murders by knife, ax and club, by germ, poison and ground glass. Guns would, seem to>be only a meansfof murder, pot the cause. It’s thei jazz age,with its lack of restraint, its impatience with old moral standards, its philosophy :of a good time regardless, other people may /think. But folks are befog murdered in remote villages and farms, well away from the excitation of the saxophoney the movie and the brighSt lights—murdered font of sheer ennui, perhaps. Ignoranceiand poverty, vou may say. But there is the spectacular Leopold and Loeb, educated and rich. Biches and* education? The/poor and unlettered are being arrested everyday for murder. Bootleg liquor? Well, bc/th the prohibi-
NEW EXPLANA TION OF THE NATURE iOF LIGHT GIVEN
By David Diets. XI:A Service Writer S|HE structure of'light isrone of the most perplexing problems facing the pioneers upon the frontier of science. In general light nets as though it were composed of waves. Jt seems ashhough this'jvere actually the case, for it isri a simple laboratory experiment 'to measure the lengths of the waves of different colored light. But in studying X-ray and related phenomena, scientists have found that light frequently acts as though It wejre - composed of definite little particles each containing a definite amount of energy. This energy content has also been measured and has‘been named the quantum. Now scientists, are faced with the difficulty of picturing a/structure for light which will explain both the wave phenomena andtthe quantum, phenomena. This has been attempted recently by Sir Joseph Thomason, famous British se’entist. Sir Joseiph believes that the electrons are held to the nucleus of atoms by what he calls ‘‘tubes of force.” When an object is heated; sufficiently it gives off light. Sir Joseph says that this is because the electrons are moved out into larger orbits. This, he says throws the tube of force into a loop and it becomes detached and travels out Into space as a “closed ring of force.” The quantum theory matches up with this theory, because such a ring of force would contain a definite amount of energy. Sir Joseph says it also matches up with he wave theory because these rings would he of different diameter and that the so-called
tionist and the anti-prohibitionist do agree on this one cause. But teetotalers, too, are running amuck here and there. The lack of stern, swift justice, say criminologists. Some of them wish to see more criminals hanged or electrocuted, but the States in which imprisonment is the heaviest penalty certainly hive no morn murders .than those in which illegal killing is> penalizedflby legal kill-, ing. Materialism. But murder far sentimental reasons is among tha commonest •. varieties. Well, then, sentimentalism. But coliilblooded murder for cash is just.as common^ Bad examples, at the top. But scores) of murderers did know of conditioifo in the United States Department of Justice u oder the Daugherty-Jess Smith regime, and do* not now know the department is spending a forge part of its time trying to convict the United States Sonator'.who had the courage to expose those conditions. Legislative aowardice. But how many murderers are awtaredliat many of the legislators who enact laujJs—such as prohibition—ex--pect to break those* same lawsvwhenever>*occasion rises? Increasing disregard for law and ordep, Judge Gary may say,, but he is only stating the disease, not the cafose. And think of tine crimes with -which organized labor has charged Judge Gary at one time*or another! What is the answqrV A national commission to study crime recommend a cure is being formed. It may bind the remedy an-J it may not. Meantime, voiv have been thinkifo; about it yourself. What ccnclusionsdiav.e you reached ? K >• AT least there is a lot ch motion in jthat| Stephenson case. * # # *. , / BET Florida would likedo tradeisoms of its mosquitoes for some of our/hail drifts r ight now. ** * \ INVESTIGATION Started (headline.’ They’re becoming almost as frequenWas iu urders in Chicago. , *** \ I COUNCILMAN RAY,may be right\ajlout, the south side, but when iticomes to wrifvil ig*a funny letter, Mayor Shank,has him beaten a, mile. . # * # ft L FAR be it from us to object to duction, but we can’t help wondering if Shank would have made just the same culls/in. the budget if he expected to be?mayor forgans other year. 5 • • • PROSECUTOR REMY announces his f, in-< tentions .to stop disregard for the* dry lawsfon Marion County. When he gets- through .he might start on the laws burglary and robbery. * • * THE city may stop streetveleaning activities- but Bull Moose Walker t;> be our leading political prophet. Also, we’ll bet he finds enough money to continueito buy gasoline for that city-ownc I coupe.
wave length is only the diameter of the ring of force. A seismograph or earthquake recording machine has just been installed by the Canadian department of the Interior at St. Anne de la Pocatiere, Quebec. This is near the center of area affected by the earthquake of Feb. 28. This quake, which, it will be remembered, was felt slightly in parts of the United States, was strong enough to shake down chimneys and smash windows in Quebec and nearby towns. The, Canadian government does not anticipate another severe shock in this region. But it is a well-established fact that any rather severe shake is usually fo’Jowed by a number of minor tiyemors. The new seismograph will obtain records of these as they occur. Ask The Times ¥ou can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Awe., Waehinton. D. C . inclosing 2 cents in stamps tor 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. 411 letters are confidential.—Editor In the cabinet of which President of the United States did Jefferson Davis serve as Secretary of War, and what were the dates of his service? In the cabinet of Franklin Pierce, 1853, 1857. Are ferns and mosses found in Antarctic regions? Science Service. reports that ferns are not fount in the Antarctic regions. Mosses, however, are very .numerous and over fifty species have been discovered'there.
Tom Sims Says Explorers found anew dffep. hole in the Pacific Ocean. Fine plaice to.
drop a player piano. Terrible hews from Paris. Men are wearing wrist watches. Does it mean they are ready for another war? Truth Is stranger than fiction. You can buy ( button holes. Talk a b o u*t cleaning house, a Chicago woman cleaned out a picture show by
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yelling “Fire!" Fee- and people may become too rich to agree with one. Might as well get your shoes all shined up for the millenium. New York chorus girl married a poor man. Seattle doctor says many have died from kissing. AVe say maybe there are more dying to be kissed. Robbers got SBOO from a Boston filling station at noon, which is poor pay for running in the hot sun. Good news from Turkey. New law says have only one wife. But they may change it when the weather is cooler. In St. Louis, a man fussed at his wife thirty-six years before she finally decided to shoot him. Life is short enough without drinking moonshine and then trying to eat a watermelon. Experience is a great teacher, but the tuition is rather high. Distan :e lends enchantment which must be paid back in some way.
•CHE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
RIGHT HERE m INDIANA
By GAYLORD NELSON
■SHOWV.JG ’EM THEIR' HANDIWORK I c U .'GGESTION that the reckI I les:l automobile driver in I— —) Indianapolis, responsible for a fa'i tl accident, be compelled to spec# i an hour alone in the room witl/ the body of his victim has bee/, made. It is argued that this pu J ishment would curb the auto “k t llers.” I .'ertainly it would be an' interand spectacular punisht flfent. But would ist be effective? It wouldn’t bring the dead vic-
tim of the reckless driver back to life. Nor ■would it prevent the ♦accident. Anyway the deceased. victim of the tragedy, if he could speak, might object to being thus displayed. Several cities have tried some such scheme to chasten reckless drivers. In Detroit guilty drivers have
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been coy .ducted on tours of the hospital?, and shown the maimed, broken/and suffering children, victims ?,f traffic accidents. Very affecting scenes, but no diminut tion ir a traffic accident, resulted. Kill ing and maiming persons seldom gets to be, with any driver, a ha’ bit that can be conquered only by 7 staking him view a grewsome exhibit of his haoidiwork. Usually onr) serious or fatal accident is sir fficient In itself to reform the pf .rticular motorist responsible. It is the reckless, careless, lntoxf cated driver who has not yet 1 caused an ac fident, who needs curbing. Get him and you have f the accident problem by the nape of the neck. Energetic enforcement of driving laws now on the books and infliction of maximum punishments now permitted by statute will do the trick. EDUCATION? " NOT CONTROVERSY nr~T| ARION County township VI trustees, at a meeting of - . J the? county board of education Monday, refused to adopt a resolution urging the teaching of evolution in the county schools. They were discreet. Their attitude toward the most explosive question of the day was wise. The purpose of the county ( schools is education, not controversy. Why should the Marion County schools be unnecessarily dragged into a fight on a subject of slight concern to primary education? Despite all the uproar about it, the theory of evolution Is of no importance to the average man. He can live and die a good citizen without knowing anything about it or forming any opinion as to its truth or falsity. The theory is merely the working hypothesis for biologists and . scientists. A specialist in certain branches I of science must come In contact with the theory of evolution and j study It. But even without special legislation the extent to which It will be taught in the natural course of events In grade'' and high schools courses In science Is infinitesimal. Making a special point of Its Inclusion, or exclusion, In the curricula of such schools Is silly. For township trustees to order it in, or out of, the course of study In public schools is as Illogical as for them to order the teaching of the Einstein theory or the Ptolemaic theory of celestial mechanics. What to include in any course of study should be left to teachers and tralne’d educators, who are ; devoting their lives to the education of bpys and girls. THE SECOND . CHANCE OVERNOR JACKSON, in an address at Bethany —J Park to the Disciples of Christ the other day, characterized children as their parents’ second chance at life. ‘‘We can live our lives over again in their lives and run the race a little better,” he said. To most parents their children are the most important thing in life. They are willing to endure any hardshp or sacrifice to give their children greater opportunities than they themselves enjoyed. They submerge themselves In the lives of their offspring. That is in accord with the scheme of life—characteristic of living creatures generally. Nature cares little for parents. Her concern is offspring. To her the individual Is nothing and the perpetuation of life everything. She doesn’t care what becomes of the queen bee or the human society queen after the functions of parenthood are performed. Parents can best conform to the infinite plan and perform their duties to ther offspring by themselves making the most of their own lives. The greatest asset any child can have is a great parent. One who Is that won’t feel the ! heed of a -second chance. PRUNING BUDGET REQUESTS mDSEPH L. HOGUE, city controller, has declared his intention to amputate ruthlessly the 1920 budget estimates submitted by city department , heads. He hopes by major surgery to keep the 1926 city tax levy at the present level—sß cents. Very laudable. But to keep I within that limit will reqiiire ac- I tive and heartless figuring. , Almost every department be- I lieves it needs next year more I
money than was allotted to it this year. And, doubtless, each department head can present a plausible argument for the increase. However, if all their requests are granted the 1926 will increase 28 to 30 cents and the Indianapolis taxpayer will pass out in a blaze of bankruptcy. Never was a city department that couldn't spend more rnonfey than was available. Every year departmental budget requests are in excess to the previous year's appropriations. Indianapolis city government may be a poor, starved creature—but it suffices. There is no good reason why its ordinary functions should cost more in 1926 than in 1925. Reduction in the cost of government is attracting attention in this country. Federal authorities have actually taken steps to cut expenses; the State government makes a pleasing gesture toward economy; and Indianapolis city officials talk about it —but ask larger appropriations. If, instead of requesting greater appropriations for next year, the heads of the municipal departments would keep their estimates within this year’s figures they would prove more than an academic interest in economy. The only way to reduce the cost of city government is to spend less.
Florida To The Editor of The Times: 1 wish to express appreciation for the splendid editorial in your paper “The Florida Bug.” I don’t know how more truthful an article could be written in proper caution to the thousands that have gone and the multitude that yet remain that are crazed with the “get rich’quick” idea, yet a very small percentage of those that have left and taking their all with them will realize a profit and aimost to a man the final result will be countless sorrow, sadness and with their last dollar gone, without a job or home. Your newspaper and other reputable newspapers should do all within your power to save people fropt < his very dangerous gamble. It is not only mon that will lose, but thousand of women with their last dollar, which In many cases has been
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willed to them for dependents, are taking the chance. There tare many unscrupulous sharks tlu.t care not whose dollars or bed they take. GEORGE J. MAROTT. TALKS WELL RECEIVED Prof. W.i C. Monahan of tho Massachusetts College, has boen givlnfoa series of poultry lectures’ from broadcasting station WBZ. He has received many flattering -compliments on his work.
THE ISPUDZ* FAMIT iY*—By' TALBHRT
Jokes By llnl Cochran. W r— ”1 E all like to ha, ha at any old thing that’s really a reason for laughter- TVe all like to hear any joke that folks bring that will give us a laugh ever after. A humorous yarn that is cleverly told Is worthy, at least, of a smile, and the joke with a kick, when It's properly dolled, seems to always be well worth the while. A number of men gather round in a group, and for moments there
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isn’t a sound. And then, when there suddenly cometh a whoop, you can tell that new stories are found. The he, he's and ha, ha's and ho, ho’s each day are fine, ’cause they give us an earf-il of something that chases the bines all away—a tonic that really is cheerful. There’s only one manner of Joks we can score. It's the one whore the teller goes lame. TVo know that we've all heard; the story before—, but wo'ro kind, and we laugh Jue/t tho same. (Copyright, 1925, N£A Service, Ii , c ;