Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. „ FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. ™ A ’ MAYB ORN. Bus. Mgr. kember of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • * Client of the United Press and the NBA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. ass? PHONE—MA in 3500.

No law shall he passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana. * < 1

The Meaning of the Better Indianapolis Movement SHIS better Indianapolis movement is something more than a carnival or a parade or a “ drive ’ ’ or any of the usual stunts. It is a mighty serious business. We must sell Indianapolis to the citizens of Indianapolis. Having done that, we must sell Indianapolis to the world in general. Parades are all right in their way, but no one should lose sight of the purpose of the movement. Different sections of the country are conducting an economic war. The claims of Florida have attracted from this part of the country thousands of persons who have gone to the land of sunshine destined either to make their fortunes or be ruined financially. .Probably a fair proportion will make money. Thousands will not. What we are starting in Indianapolis is a counter-attack. Florida, through keen salesmanship has succeeded in selling itself to thousands all over the country. We should organize just as efficient a salesmanship and sell Indianapolis to the rest of the country. Florida has advantages that we do not possess. We have many advantages not possessed by Florida. Our problem is to make these advantages known. It will cost money, as Sol Meyer, the banker, has pointed out. But, if the project is handled properly, we are bound to receive a big return on our investment.

Let the State llave Julietta SHE State of Indiana should care f<v the unfortunates at the Julietta Hospital for the Insane. There is no reason why Marion County should maintain a hospital to take care of its insane while at the same time the county pays its proportion of taxes to maintain the various State hospitals. It is true that the Central Indiana Hospital is overcrowded. This condition has existed for years. It seems to be increasingly difficult to obtain adequate appropriations from the Legislature for improvements. Perhaps this is

WEATHER IS NOT FICKLE AT ALL, SCIENCE SHOWS

By David Dietz Nil A. Service Writer ( < j * | S jhangeable as the weath- | Zal er.” The saying Is in comI mon usage. But recent mathematical studies of the weather, made by the pioon the frontier of science, show that the ancient adage does not express the situation at all. In fact, it would be a great compliment) to say any one was as “steady, as the weather.’’ Dr. C. G. Abbot, director of the astrophysical observatory of the Smithsonian Institution, points out that, in most parts of the world the mean daily surface temperature of the air rarely varies more than 1 per cent from day to day. Furthermore, the mean annual temperature of any*one place shows hardly any change in thousands ai ' years. Many of the higher food plants I thrive only in ceirtain temperatures. Wheat, for example, can only bo raised where the mean annual temparature is between 39 and 68 degrees. But there is no evidence of any change in the habitat of this or any other food plant in the last 5,000 years. There were great changes in the far distant past such as thp glacial periods. But the evidence shows that these were slow changes, if taking more than 5,000 years for a glacial period to get under way, and another 5,000 years for the earth to Return to nomalcy at the close of a glacial period.

There Ain’t No Such Animal

said the rustic who saw a giraffe at the circus for the first time. That's carrying Incredulity to too great a length. But—how many things do you know that are not so? ’ Do you believe In the hoop snake? Have you been told that a cat will kill a baby by "sucking Its breath,” are you sure that a drowning person always rises three times? Do you think monkeys search for fleas In each other’s fur? Have you been

FACT AND FANCY EDITOR, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin, FACT AN® FANCY and enclose herewith five cents in uncancefled 17. S. postage stamps, or coin, sor 1 same: Name St and No. or R. R City . - ~ > A

because no apparent political gain would result from such improvement. The inmates of the Central hospital can not vote. The suggestion of county officials that the State take over Julietta temporarily seems to be a good one. At least, there is no good reason why Marion county should pay a large proportion of the cost of maintaining the Central hospital and at the same time maintain a similar institution of its own. When Courts Hit Below the Belt mN many States no appeal can he taken . from a small fine. In Kentucky, for example, a man fined I as than S2O cannot appeal. Editor Susong of Covington, Ky., convicted of Violating Kentucky’s new “g° ss ip” law, wished to appeal his case. He wished to test the validity of a ridiculous statute, for one thing, and, for another, probably felt he would find less prejudice in a court outside the realm of city affairs, siftce the complainant against him was the mayor of the city. Anyhow, he was fined sls and his request to the court that the fine be increased to S2O was denied. He cannot appeal. No stigma attaches to this conviction in Covington, but in many cases the harm done is real. A man may be able to prove his innocence, but, if his arrest endangers those responsible for it, he may be fined a nominal sum and, with appeal thus cut off, he has no recourse. The little courts set themselves up as the Supreme Court in such cases. Some sense of judicial self-respect should prevent this practice, if nothing else will, for fining below the line of appeal is certainly hitting below the belt. Sic Transit A r ~ mm DD Lincoln Ellsworth to the list of heroes who have learned that fame is fickle. Worth hundreds of columns of newspaper space while he was lost in the polar ice, Ellsl ,worth returned to the United States the other day and found nobody at the dock to welcome him sa\ c the customs officials and the ship news reporters.

SHE American engineering standards committee has has completed its work upon a code for national uniform traffic color signals. The code is to be published shortly, it is announced. It will recommend the use of three primary colors for signals—red for stop, yellow for caution and green for go ahead. * * * *] LANS are now under way for the third Pan-Pacific Science _i Congress to be held in- Tokio in October, 1926. Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, director if the Scripps Institute for Biological Research, is the American representative on a committee which has been appointed to draw up a consti tution for a permanent organization for these congresses. Three subjects will receive chief attention at the Tokio meeting. They are, first, the study of the tides, currents and other features of the Pacific; second, the use for the transmission of weather forecasts and time signals on the Pacific, and third, the cause and frequency of earthquakes in the Pacific region. The chief trouble with women is men and the chief trouble with men is women. 4 Nobody wants to shake hands v?ith a crab. It may be more blessed to give than to receive, but it isn’t more fun to pay than to collect.

told that it’s dangerous to drink too much water in hot weather? Do you think that cats see in the dark; that snakes fascinate their' prey; that eight months babies never live; that thunder sours milk? These and maAy other interesting beliefs, myths, fables and oommonly accepted fallacies are explained in our Washington Bureau’s new bulletin on FACT AND FANCY. Fill out the coupon below and mail as directed .

Tom Sim& Says A serious shortage of people with nothing to say is reported. The more beautiful the' moon the more autos you see parked by the roadside out of gas.

The trouble with the United States is it has about run out of something *to blame everything on. The smaller the town the more it needs big men. There would be more men at the top of their pro if people could find a way of sliding up hill. Scientists are hunting a substi-

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tute for gasoline. About the only one found so far is shoes. The world owes us a living. We shouldn’t' gst mad if it doesn’t pay us two or three livings. Save up all your troubles and cuss them when the weather cools off. As age creeps upon a girl’s lines she improves her line. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Ask The Times You can eel an answer tu any question of fact or information by writing to The lndiauapoJis Time* Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washlnton, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice can Dot be given, nor can extended reeefcrch be undertaken. AU other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answetid. 411 letters are confidential.—Ediyir. What does fiddler’s green mean? The elysium of sailors; a land flowing with rum and lime-juice; a land of perpetual music, mirth, dancing, drinking and tobacco. How are swimmers made to disappear below the water in a tank? This is one method: From the side a platform is built out two or three feet above the surface of the water. From the front of this platform is extended woodwork, or any other material downward into the water. But, instead of this woodwork reaching to the bottom, as it appears to do, it ends perhaps two feet below the surface. It is easy, therefore, for a swimmer to dive under this woodwork, and once behind it, to come up. under the plat'form and leave the tank. Who was the *bachelor President? James Buchanan, who was the only unmarried President. Cleveland was, at the time of his inauguration, unmarried, but married during his term of office. What does the Sioux Indian name, "Winona,” mean?

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RIGHT HER% ; IN INDIANA GAYLORD NELSON

THE EASY PAROLE SYSTEM CUrtJESLEY M’QINNIS, alias [YIU Frank Gordon, of Indian- ( ™ | apolis, <was arrested at Rochester (Ind.) a couple of days ago, charged with reckless driving cafrying concealed weapons, speeding and transporting liquor. Officers found 375 gallons of grain alcohol in the truck he was driving. He was recently paroled from the Pendleton Reformatory, where he served thir-

teen months of a two-year sentence for rum running. Local police say he has been arrested on other occasions for liquor law violations. He is proof that our system of indeterminate sentences and easy paroles—hailed by sentimental ists as a 'great Instrument for the reformation of offend-

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ers—doesn’t reform. In practice it most frequently gives the criminal a chance to resume unlawful activities sooner. Another proof. One of the pair of bandits, who a month ago-held up the Straughn (Ind.) bank, was recently jailed. He has been identified as an ' old offender, who has served three short, snappy sentences in the Atlanta Federal Prison for dope peddling. Tjie only reform short, humanitarian sentences accomplished in his ca.se was to graduate him more quickly from d<jpe peddling to bank banditry. Not much of an improvement. Occasionally short imprisonment and quick parole will effect moral reclamation of fa. youthful or accidental criminal. But the batting average of the parole system is low. Its heme runs are few and its strike-outs many. The net resume of the system is not more good, law-abiding citizens, but more crime."

A HOME BEAUTIFUL mN A Vanderburg County home-beautiful contest, recently, a century-old log house near Evansville captured first prHe in living room and bedroom improvement. When entered in the competition the interior of the ancient log structure —a decaying relic of the pioneer period—was dark, dingy’, dilapidated and barren. It wasn’t a home—just a shelter. The woman and her husband, who occupied the place, wrought a complete transformation at little expense. A few dollars spent for wall paper and gay curtains, native ingenuity and enthusiasm sufficed. They made window seats, book cases and other furnishings themselves. Into the work they put themselves. Result: Bright, attractive rooms and first prize. Home-beautiful contests are common. In most of them are entered proud dwellings filled with costly furnishings. They are designed and furnished by professional experts. The result is grace and harmony and art, as pure and cold as a tombstone chiseled by a master hand. After all said and done It is the spirit, not the money put in, that makes a home beautiful. Home may be where the hat is. but the character of the home will depend on the will under the hat.

ANOTHER STEP IN ELEVATION | 1 J. LANDERS, superinten--1-* I of the Indianapolis I X I * Union Railway, announced Saturday that actual construction on the $14,000,000 track elevation program for the Belt line on the south side will start about Oct. 1. That’s good news. . For several months the railroad officials and the city administration have Wrangled over the apportionment of thp cost of (.he $1,600.000 bridge over White River at Raymond St. on which depends the whole Belt line elevation project, apparently that controversy has been settled before it became chronic. More than two years have elasped since the railroad Was ordered to prepare plans for this track raising program'. In the interval,! city officials have prodded and railroad officials delayed. And even if construction work Is pushed energetically the elevation planned will not be completed for ten years. Elevation moves with slow, stately steps. However it Is worth the expense and effort. It will open up a large section of the city and stimulate municipal development and expansion in that direction. But the program adopted won’t entirely remove the hand-cuffs from the . south side. Plans call for the opening of nineteen and the closing of twentynine streets in the Belt line elevation. A track-raising project that cuts off almost two-thirds of the well as help the future growth of the affected sectidn. Why elevate at all if it involves the irrevocable closing of a majority of the streets? They can be closed as effectually, and at lessexpense, by leaving the tracks where they are. MARION COUNTY’S STEPCHILD mULIETTA is Marion County’s stepchild. Members of county council declare no thore tnoney will be appropriated for the maintenance of this county insane hospital and State - authorises,sgjiijte ag

its patients as gift. Nflbody loves it. t Os course, Julietta is not a profitable enterprise. The reluctance of State and county officials to assume the cost of its maintenance is understandable. Both can fortify their position with powerful argument. Theoretically the county —alone amorg the counties of the State--should not be compelled to support Its own Insane hospital and also be taxed for the State institutions. That's flagrant double taxation. On the other hand, State hospitals have neither funds nor room to take care of the 2?4 inmates of Julietta. State institutions are already overcrowded and mentally afflicted are being held in jails. Marion County patients now exceed the quota of beds allotted to this county in the Central Hospital for the Insane. Truly the situation is a pretty problem. The heart of the problem is decent, human care of the unfortunate inmates of Julietta. Solution of that problem can’t be accomplished by stubborn county officials insisting on abstract right and strict justice. Nor by State authorities so wedded to economy that proper provision for the State’s insane seems less im- . portant to them than the money it. will cost. Julietta is a condition, not a theory. If the State won't take care of its 254 patients, the county must. The patients can't be erased by argument or abandoned on any convenient doorstep. Howdy, World By Hal Cochran EISTEN here. World. I have scored you a lot. Yea, I've given you more than your share. I’ve felt, many times, that It's all tommyrot—your make-up of nature and air. When things have gone wrong, they have downed me with ease, ’cause I’m a bit human, I guess. I got to expectin’ that all things would please, and I blamed you for jolts, I’ll confess. But, after a while, man will open his eyes and he’ll see things as ought to be seen. It takes him some time ere he’ll full realize your worth, if you know what I mean. We’re here for a spell with our own life to live, and the world is the stage where we play. Existence is just what we take, or we give of 'the good and the bad every day. Yea, frankly, old World, you are slighted a bit till a man comes to know that he’s small, to blame but himself. Then he’ll gladly admit, you're a pretty good place, after all. (Copyright, 1925 NEA Service, Inc.)

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Outline of Evolution

CHAPTER 10 When the World Had Delirium Tremens. H 1"”"! AD St. Patrick lived in the Mesozoic Age, he would have <_been busier than a one-armed boy at a petting party. For that was the golden age of serpents, the time when the world had delirium tremens. Even a prohibitionist would have seen things he couldn’t describe to the neighbors. Life, after creeping out of the water, seems to have had some sort of intermission that science cannot yet' explain. At least, there is a lapse in the fossils Indicating that all the skeletons for some long period have disappeared. The highway department is not suspected, however. When geologic history resnmes, we discover a world infested by cute little serpents thirty yards or more

THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

long, flying dragons, swimming snakes and other pleasant companions for a dark night. The most wonderful thing about these creatures, however, is their names. For instance, there is the brontosaurus and the stegosaurus and the diplodocus and the tyrannosaurus and the pterodactyl and other cunning animals as long or even longer than their names. The pterodactyl, incidentally was a snake which flew through the air —something I haven’t seen since the night the doctor strapped me to the bed. The fifth finger on its paw grew longer than its tall, supporting a skin wing that was hitched to the rear leg and which enabled it to skim through the air. And following its example, the first known bird developed in this period—a chickenlike animal with hands at the end of its wings for grasping things. Some

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modern chickens have this same power of grasping. Thus we have seen the prlmiUve blob learn to live out of the water and Anally to fly Into the air, gradually developing new organs and slowly losing ones no longer needed. Indianapolis at that time was a place of swimming, crawling, walking and flying snakes. And here wo come to a sudden and mysterious interruption in our Journey. NEXT—A case for horse thief detectives. A Thought Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you. —Matthew 5:44. • • • t *i OVE Is the medicine of all f moral evil. By it the world I — 1 I i s to he cured of sln.~Henry Ward Beecher.