Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1925 — Page 6

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Legal Football rpriNE of our greatest indoor sports is legal |Q football. We have a wonderful example of it in the case of D. C. Stephenson and his two companions, charged with murder. As we go to press, the case seems to be exactly where it started four months ago. It is presumed that when a man is arrested on a charge of committing a crime he shall be tried by a jury of his peers, his guilt or innocence determined and that if he is guilty he shall suffer the sentence imposed by law. But the lawyer? know a lot more about the game than that. The determination of guilt or innocence usually comes after every other possibility is exhausted —and there are a lot of possibilities. Stephenson was arrested on a charge of murder in Indianapolis last April. It was charged that a murder had been committed in March. The indictments were attacked and sustained. A motion for bail was filed and withdrawn. Then a change of venue was asked. This was granted under the law. The scene shifted to Noblesville. Stephenson and his associates took up their residence in the Hamilton County jail. A petition asking bail was filed. A hearing was held and the petition denied. Trial date was set and then changed. It was asked that the defendants be tried separately. It was asked that the defendants he tried jointly. It was asked that a rehearing be held on the question of bail. Then<a request was made for anew judge. Now anew judge has been appointed—the third to hear motions in the case. Will all the previous routine be gone over before the new judge? It seems very likely. , Meanwhile, are Stephenson and his associates guilty or innocent? We don’t know. Nobody has said anything about that. The Check-Off SHE rumor persists—though denie'd by the miners—that if the anthracite Operators will concede the demand for the “check-off, the demand for a wage increase will be dropped. That would mean peace in the hard coal fields instead of war. What is the check-off ? It is a system whereby union dues are deducted from the miners’ pay envelopes and turned over to the union. In other words, a system whereby the coal companies would help the union to function effectively. If the coal companies desire a state of war with their miners obviously they will do nothing to keep the miners’ ranks solidified. If they desire cooperation with the miners’ organization a different situation is presented. The more efficient and responsible the miners’ organization is the better the degree of cooperation that can be obtained. • For many years the United Mine Workers have taken great pride in their ability to keep a contract. Time after time they have whipped dissatisfied units of the national organization into line on this policy. They have thrown their support to the operators when strikes have been called by local unions in disregard of wage or other agreements. They

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

You can get an answer to any uueetion oi lact or mloru.ia.Uou 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 receives personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor. Why does a person sink In quick sand? Can it be prevented? Quicksand is a mixture of fine round grained sand and water. The density of the sand being greater than that of water, should be able to support the body of man better than water. However, quicksand prevents quick movements, so that

There Ain’t No Such Animal said the rustic who saw a giraffe told that it’s dangerous to drink at the circus for the first time. to ° much water & hot weather? „. ~ . , . ... . . _ ■ Do you think that cats see in That s carrying Incredulity to too .. ", , .. , . . * s the dark; that snakes fascinate great a length. their prey; that eight months But—how many things do you 'babies never live; that thunder* know that are not so? sours milk? Do you believe in the hoop These and many other interestsnoke? Have you been told that ing beliefs, myths, fables and a cat will kill a baby by “sucking commonly accepted fallacies are its breath,’’ are you sure that explained in our Washington a drowning person always rises Bureau’s new bulletin on FACT three times? Do you think AND FANCY. Fill out the monkeys search for fleas in coupon below and mail as dieach other’s turf Have you been rected; FACT AND FANCY'EDITOR, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Ave., Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin, FACT AND FANCY and enclose herewith five cents in uncancelled U. S. postage stamps, or coin, for same: Name St and No. or R. R City •'

have fought to make the union’s word good and, to a remarkable extent, they have succeeded. Union officials regard the check-off as absolutely essential if the national organization is to remain a responsible organization—a responsible parity to a contract. The check-off is not new. It was developed long ago in the British coal fields and is in general use in American unionized soft coal fields, where the operators favor it. When a miner is to be penalized for breaking the union's agreement with the mine owner, the penalty is collected through the checkoff. It works automatically and surely. It is the operators’ insurance. If only the check off issue stands between the public and a peaceful settlement of the coal dispute, the public should throw the weight of its opinion behind the miners on that i question. Conceding the check-off will give the operators no excuse for boosting the price of coal. Conceding the wage demand would. It may be that the operators would prefer to concede the wage demand. Easy Pickings for Lame Ducks A r “'“| ME RICAN prestige in Central America is at low ebb, says Otto "Schoenrich, former special commissioner to Santo Domingo, now lecturing before the Williamstown Institute of Politics. The trouble, he explains, is mainly due to the type of diplomats we send down there. Mostly they are just politicians. Generally ignorant of the Spanish language and knowing little of Latin-American affairs, they are totally unfitted either to explain the United States to the natives or the natives to the United States. The result is misunderstandings. Mr. Schoenrich was discussing Caribbean problems only, but what he said is just as applicable to the rest of the world. In fact, he put his finger on a national disgrace. Now and then you will run across an American ambassador or minister abroad of whom we may well be proud, but more often he is a joke and the joke’s on us. Why? It’s very simple. Washington, in the first place, generally underestimates the importance of having, real diplomats stationed abroad, thus the tendency is to treat these posts as private plums to be awarded to the Administration’s henchmen or as havens for its lame ducks. Education, fitness, previous experience, linguistic ability, such things as these play little part in the selection of our ambassadors and ministers. The big butter and egg man, the truck garden magnate or cheese king who speaks only English, and mighty little of that, has the inside track on such jobs providing he carried his State for the party in power or performed some other important piece o’s political wire pulling. We must take diplomacy out of politics. We are the only great country in the world that tries to mix them and it is high time we were beginning to see they are so much oil and water.

swimming is. out of the question. When people try to walk on it the pressure of their feet per square inch on the ground is considerable and the ground gives way under this pressure, letting thm sink in gradually. When an attempt is made to lift one leg out, the pressure on the other is more than doubled. Quicksand does not flow readily into a void, so that in trying to lift a leg a partial vacuum is formed around it. This causes the other leg to sink in the sand much more rapidly than if the person remained quiet'. The safest thing to do is to

I lie full length on the sand and roll over it, or if the sand is too soft for this to lie flat on the back. It is important to remember ..that quicksand is much more dense than the body, and therefore your body cannot sink into it entirely—provided you are lying flat on your back and do not struggle. Can you give a recipe for dill pickles? Select cucumbers about four inche s long. Wash arid dry them and pack in layera in half gallon fruit jars. Place a small bunch of dill and a grape leaf between every alternate layer. When the jar. is full pour over the contents a brine made by adding one cup of salt to twelve cups of boiled and cooled water into which a tablespoonful of alum has been dissolved. Seal the Jar, making sure it is perfectly airtight, and keep in a dark place. What is- the amount of food required by the Average person for one" day expressed in calories, and in a bout what proportion for each meal should it be devided? The amount of food required for a normal person every twenty-four hours rarely exceeds 3,500 calories. Some persons can do with much less. Os this amount, the proportion might be 700 calories for breakfast, 700 for, lunch or supper and 2100 for dinner. A Thought Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the.way; and he that hateth reproof shall die.—Proverbs 15:10. ** * * A VERSION from reproof is not wise. It is a mark of a little | mind.—Cecil.

EVERY SCIENTIST ACCEPTS EVOLUTION, IS ASSERTION

By David Diet* NEA Service Writer N exact statement of the scienJjk I tist’s position on evolution H has just biVn Issued by the council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This association has 14,300 members. They include every scientist Os note in the United States. The resolution is divided into fourparagraphs. The first states: “The council of the association affirms that, so f\r as the scientific evidences of the evolution of plants and animals and man are concerned there is no ground whatever for the assertion that these evidences constitute a ‘mere guess.’ No scientific generalization is more strongly supported by thoroughly tested evidences than is that of organic evolution." The second paragraph states that "the evidences in favor of the evolution of man are sufficient to convince every scientist of note in the world and that these evidences are increasing in number and importance every year.” The third paragraph states the association’s belief that the theory of evolution is “one of the most potent of the great inliuences for good that have thus far entered into human experience.” The last paragraph deplores anti-

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

AN UNOFFICIAL AMBASSADOR mOHNNY HENNESSEY. Indianapolis tennis star, one of the Americans who took part in the great British tennis tournament at Wimbledon this summer, returned home today. He was accorded a welcome as befits the home-coming of a conquering hero. Abroad he captured no cups nor championships, but his brilliant play carried him far

toward the finals before he was eliminated. As this city’s unofficial ambassador to the British empire, we are proud of him. Diplomats of the old school, who fumble with international affairs until they explode may poohpooh the idea, that a mere tennis player can accomplish

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anything in the field of foreign relations. The latter doesn’t lie fluently or wear plush pants and bow and scrape at royal levees. Bathed in perspiration he just whangs a gutta-percha ball hither and yon over the foreign landscape. Between times he is just a sociable human being. Nevertheless, international competition in sports is a powerful cementer of friendly relations between nations. In classical Greece jealous city-states fought each other bitterly. Theban phalanx hacked Spartan phalanx. But ■through It 'all the Olympic games made for the unity of Hellenism. Today our Johnny Hennesseys, Helen Wills, Gertrude Ederle and other ambassadors of sport are effectively promoting Anglo-Ameri-can friendship. As diplomats they could beat Talleyrand at his own game. ABANDONEDGRAVEL PITS C 1 REESE, 12-year-old Indianapolis lad, playing J “injun” waded into the water of an abandoned gravel pit near West Regent St. Monday afternoon and was drowned. He waa the third child of the neighbor-’ hood to he drowned in that pit in recent years. Not long ago a man sank to his death in another water-filled gravel pit in the southwestern part of the city. Throughout the State many such falalitles are recorded every summer. An old pit that doesn’t claim at least one victim during the season is neglecting ita job. The outskirts of Indianapolis, especially in the vicinity of White River, are scarred with holes from which sand and gravel have been taken. Filled with water these holes become small, surprisingly deep, ponds—a lure and a menace to wilted lads in the dog days. But what is a “feller’’ going to do? He has an inalienable right to go swimmin’* To most of the lads of the city the bathing beaches along White River are Inaccessible. Board of health minlono pursue him if he attempts to splash in Fall Creek or Pleasant Run because those streams are contaminated k with sewage. He can’t plunge into the concrete pools In etty parks without first submitting to a bath and perhaps an eye, ear. nose and throat examination. That’s too antiseptic for him. So he flocks to the abandoned gravel pits with their perpendicular sides an treacherous depths. And drownings occur. To keep him away from such danger Indianapolis needs more reincarnations of the oM swimmin’ hole. MISS SOUTH BEND BARRED mHE young lady selected to represent South Bend in annual bathing beauty contest at Atlantic City has hpen declared ineligible. She w-as chosen because of her vote-getting ability not superlative pulchritude, says the contest director. Barring Miss South Bend, perhaps, is an awful blow to the proud metropolis of St. Joseph

evolution legislature as tending to retard the advance of knowledge and human welfare. • • • t HE sun’s corona is not as hot J | as astronomers formerly I * thought it was. The corona is a sotd of silvery halo f.ur -minding the sun which becomes visible only at the moment of total eclipse. Astronomers believe that the halo consists of finely divided particles of material hurled out of the curt by the force of the sun’s radiation. • The temperature of the corona wss at one time believed to be 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. However, calculations just completed by Dr. W. W. Coblentz of the United States Bureau of Standardss, based on observations made during the January eclipse, Indicate that the temperature is only about 5000 degrees Fahrenheit. • • • rTT"I EALIZING the importance of I kcl scientific research to national 1. ... welfare, the Frencrf Chamber of Deputies hao begun debate upon a bill which would force the industrial and commercial concerns of France to help support scientific research through a special tax. The tax, as proposed, would yield about three-quarters of a million dollars a year.

County. But probably that city's industrial and civ'c life will not he completely obliterated oi paralyzed by the shock. The bathing beauty contest is one of the silliest manifestations of our present so called civilization Prudes and uplifters rail against such exhibitions as immoral. They are no more immoral,than a fat stock show-—only useless. Nature and Art have made some young women beautiful. If they want to don a ppeck of ribbon and a splash of rice Rpwder and display their charms in competition for a pulchritude prize there is no reason why decent society should disintegrate. But beauty at best is only skin deep or less, and fleeting. A victorious bathing beauty may bring home a sunburn but not enduring fame to her home city. The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame—none noted for pulchritude—with their hair full of mud and their hands full of footballs have done more to spread the fame of South Bend than all the bathing beauties the city might produce.

THE RED PERIL

|HE Americanization commission of the American fc- Legion, at a meeting Monday in Indianapolis, determined to probe communistic activities and “red schools" reported to be flourishing in this country- In these schools young men imbibe deadly re-fl propaganda, it is said, with which they saturate their peaceful home towns.. To many sensitive patriots the “red” peril in this country is real and alarming. They lie awake nights in shivering expectancy that any minute the Constitution and American institutions will be blown to smithereens by a communist bomb and their own throats will be cut in a “red” uprising. Some time ago Secretary of Labor Davis, in an Indiana speech, declared there are 200,000 alien communist missionaries at work in this country spreading their weird and subversive doctrines. That’s a lot of agitators for one country to harbor. Perhaps they should all be deported instantly. Still the ordinary citizen fails to get very excited over the situation. To make America a communist state, each alien missionary must convert some hundreds of native horn citizens. A fairly difficult task. In tne war days when enemy spies hid under every patriot’s bed. no criticism of our "government was tolerated. Free speech was unfashionable. Those days are past. Now the nation can’t be hurt by talk. Alien agitators preaching communism in our midst or conducting clandestine "red” schools are no more dangerous to our institutions than preachers of free love, single tax, or any other vagaries. If they commit overt acts, lock ’em up like carriers of hip-pocket flasks and other law violators. As long as they merely preach they aren’t dangerous. Perhaps the 11C.000,000 people in this country can be converted to communism by them. But if we are that susceptible to “red” propaganda, the United tSates of America and its institutions are in a bad way. Hardly worth preserving. On Your Way By Hal Cochran ■Where are you hound for, and what is your trail? What Is the goal that you seek? Life is a ship that each person must sail, to the lowest depths, or the peal You are the captain and rule your own course. Seas may be stormy or still. Riding successward depends on the force of your mind, and your grit, and your will. Failure’s ahead, on the carelessness road, and' you’ll find It the easiest way. There you will drift, on neglecting your load. It’s tne , toll that the shiftless must pay. Better watch out for the rocks of distress where the fates wait to hin- j der your trip. Lining the channel that leads to success, tney are waiting to shatter your ship. 1 Give jVery chance that you meet' with its dues and when floundering, start out anew. Much you can gain, and there's nothing to lose If the course you are sailing is true. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

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Outline of Evolution

CHAPTER 12 Familiar Scenes in Beech Grove "We have been through strange places and times, but now we arrive at scenes we will soon recognize. We have reached Beech Grove in the Cainozoic Period; we get our first glimpse of Marlon County under conditions that make it recognizable, even though the grand jury wasn't investigating any officials at that time. , There were the same sorts of trees and grasses as today. In stormy weather—and it was usually stormy then—the water overflowed Indianapolis as it still does: and, I presume, the first mammals complained then as now about the grade crossing and the smoke. For,. in V lace of railroade shops, Beech Grove then had volcanic activities which made this a great place for laundries. It was a, very busy time for volcanoes, and the crust of the earth was continually being rent by explosions or wrinkling up into bumps and hollows. Just as our wood, block pavements do today. Very probably the first men hac! appeared somewhere on the earth by this time, although the records relating to them are missing. Perhaps their politicians destroyed the records. At least, the fossils of that time are confined exclusively to the ancestors of our present animals, including giant pigs, primitive horses, mastodons, rude dogs and the like. Because of volcanic conditions

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THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

the hot dog probably also had its origin in the Cainozoic Age—pay. Ing the way for Greek prosperity in time to come. Evolution had progressed until this was peculiarly an age. of mammals—which are creatures who have progressed four stages from the fish age. While some men are fishes, figuratively, no true mammal can live exclusively under water. The first step from the fish stage was the devolpment of amphibians; and from the amphibians our fossil record shows the growth of serpents. It was from the serpent that both birds and mammals branched off after developing some unique features such as hair. Life started growing long hair in the Cainozoic period and bobbing it in the Cornozoie. But il needed hair worse then than it does now, for the glacial ages were coming on and dress makers had not been evoluted. For untold ages the ice crept southward and the earth spun around like a huge ice cream freezer. When finally the ire receded, we find our first traces of earth's most glorious product—man. And. of course, its most expensive product, woman, was there, also. And. as the earth was still cold and the ice still far south and the winters still long, think how her cold feet must have brousjfit chills to man’s back. It was not a pleasant age. (Next—The first Rogue# Gallery.)

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away from baseball grounds, and light bulbs If kept In the dark. Preacher* have a fairly good Job In summer. None of their flock wants to go where It l* hotter. The faster a rumor travels the^f bigger It grows. Old-fashioned ld*as may he the hest at times, but you can t run an auto by feeding it oats. ivorld seems worse than It really is because you never hear about tha had things that don't happen. v (Copyright. 1925. NEA Service. Inc.)

The honeymoon is over when he forget* how to drive with one hand. A real dog like* to eat steak, but he had raihac have a good bite ont of a pedigreed pupEven If anew era were to dawn there wouldn't be enough of u* up. Window panes last longer if kept