Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 79, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1925 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times ROY XV. HOWARD. President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBCHN. Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance ‘ * * Client of the United I-ess and the NEA Service * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday' bv Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 XV. Maryland St., Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week * • • PHONE—M Ain 3500.
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The McCray Pardon Plea "T“l CCORDING to press dispatches, Attorney A General Sargent was told by someone in the group of Indiana lawyers and politicians seeking a pardon for Warren T. McCray that all the Indianapolis newspapers favored his release. There is no authority for such a statement so far as The Times is concerned. The Times has never expressed itself as favorable to the pardoning of McCray. A jury in Federal Court, after hearing the testimony, found on the first ballot that McCray was guilty of using the mails to defraud. Anyone who heard the testimony and knew the facts in the case could not have the slightest doubt about his guilt. The question then resolves itself only into one of whether the sentence given McCray by Judge Albert B. Anderson was too severe. It has been argued that McCray was forced by circumstances, including the agricultural depression, into his action in disposing of fraudulent and forged notes. McCray was only one of thousands of farmers who suffered from the agricultural depression. Would every farmer who felt financial pressure at that time have been justified in peddling worthless paper? McCray’s position is very similar to that of a bank cashier who takes money from the till because he needs it, expecting to return it, and who gets caught in the act. If the cashier of McCray’s own bank had done this, McCray would hardly have declined to prosecute him. Admittedly, there may be a difference in degrees of crime. It was apparent that McCray hoped to make good the various fraudulent securities he circulated, but that he became so deeply embogged in the financial mire that this became impossible. Perhaps such a crime really is not as bad as the one in which a stock swindler goes out and deliberately takes money away from innocent persons without any intention of returning it, but nevertheless it is a crime. It is argued that the bankers of Indiana who were swindled by McCray should have been sufficiently shrewd to have known bet* ter than to fall into a trap. This in no way condones McCray. If the bankers had refused to accept his paper he would have been no less a criminal. - Perhaps Judge Anderson was influenced when he sentenced McCray to serve ten years in the Federal penitentiary by the fact that McCray was the Governor of the State. We can not help feeling that this very fact did make a difference. The governorship is the highest office in the gift of the people of Indiana. It is a place of public trust. The people who voted for McCray had the utmost confidence in his honesty and integrity. He violated that confidence. Under Federal regulations, a prisoner is subject to parole after he has served a third of h.s sentence. In the case of McCray, this would be a period of three years and four months. From all reports, McCray is not suf-
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?
You can get an answer to any oue I,ion of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Waahinton. D C., Inclosing 2 cents In stamps fur 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. What is the airplane speed record for the United States? The recognized airplane speed record is 266.59 miles per hour, made by Lieutenant Williams, U. S. N. in a Curtis Racer. R-201, at Mitchell Mineola. Long Island, New York, on November 4, 1923. Are five or six pointed stars used on the coins of the United States? There is no regulation prescribing the use of five or six pointed stars on the United States coins, but the number of points is left to the dis-
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 F A NCY 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. jiostage stamps, or coin, for same: Name St and No. or R. R City \
sering physically from his incarceration. He has not been required to perform any harder labor than editing the prison newspaper. Editing a newspaper sometimes is no snap, bus when it is issued only once a month no one could rightly contend that the editor is hurting himself very much physically or mentally. Seriously, as a matter of justice, McCray should be compelled to serve his minimum sentence. No one should object to his being pardoned or paroled at the end of that time. Bolstering the Budget | a opposed to the old catch-cs-catch-can iy*l scramble for Federal funds, the present budget system is a virtuous institution. It has converted a log-rolling, wire-pulling free-for-all fight into ah orderly and business-like proceeding. But like all highly moral and illustrious institutions, the budget system has at least one outstanding weakness. It is not equipped to appraise the value of the various kinds of scientific research being conducted by the Federal bureaus. The committees of the budget bureau, which review the proposed appropriations to the various Government agencies, are composed of financial specialists. They are not scientists. They are interested primarily in reducing governmental expenses. These committees cannot judge intelligently the various types of research conducted by the Federal Government. They are continually tempted to veto expenditures regardless of the fact that they might save the country SIOO for every one spent. From the decisions of these committees there is no appeal. It is a difficult situation. The budget bureau cannot approve every proposal to investigate potato bugs or potash or peanuts on the chance that it will be a great thing for the country. On the other hand, it cannot veto proposals for such investigations wisely without knowing better than it does the significance of the investigations. It is just as possible to cut Federal appropriations too much as not enough. To meet this situation the United States Bureau of Standards has devised a plan that may work. A board of visitors, composed of eminent scientists who have no direct interest in the bureau, investigates the establishment periodically, and issues a report on the work being accomplished. The last report of the board of visitors, recently issued, says the bureau, through one class of investigations concerned with the motor industry, has saved American consumers approximately $155,000,000 in a few years. The annual appropriation of the bureau is less than $2,000,000, and if the report of the board of visitors may be conceded any degree of accuracy it would be poor economy to cripple its activities in this field. A board of impartial visitors for other bureaus, the scientific Vork of which cannot be clearly understood by financial experts, mis , ht be a good idea \
cretion of the artist designing the coin. Six pointed stars were generally used until 1892. The first five pointed stars were introduced on the half and quarter dollars of 1892. Has the Revenue tax on amusements been entirely removed? An amusement tax was formerly charged on admissions over 10 cents, the rate being 1 cent to each 10 cents. This tax is still In force at the rate of 1 cent for each 10 cents of admission, but, according to the present law, admissions of 50 cents and under are exempt from taxation. How long does it take for the light of the sun to reach the earth? Light travels at the rate of 186.324 miles per second. The approximate distance of the sun from the earth is 92,900,000 miles. It takes there-
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 many other interesting beliefs, myths, fables and commonly accepted fallacies are explained In our Washington Bureau’s new bulletin on FACT AND FANCY. Fill out the coupon below and mail as directed;
fore a little over eight minutes for the light cf the sun to reach the earth. How did the song "Yankee Doodle” come to te written? The origin of “Yankee Doodle” is unknown. The words, which were in derision of the ill-assorted provincial troops, were probably written by Edward Bangs between 1775 and 1777. How many children has Princess Mary of England and what are their names? Princess Mary has two children; Gregory Henry Hubert, born in February, 1923, and Gerald David, born in August, 1924. Were there ever any four dollar gold pieces in circulation in the United States? No. Some pattern coins of this denomination were made in 1879 and ISBO, probably not more than 150 in number. They were made merely to detetrmine the advisability of minting coins of this denomination and were not made a regular Issue. ■ What do the letters R. O. T. C. stand for? "Reserve Officers Training Corps.” j These are established in civil educational institutions in the United States to give theoretical and practical military instructions to the students. They are found in most colleges. How much gold, is contained in the gold coins of the United States? Standard bullion, from which United States gold coins are made is composed of 900 parts of pure gold to 100 parts of copper alloy. Is there a Romanian language daily paper published in the United States? "America,” published at 6705 Detroit Ave., Cleveland. Ohio. Is there more than one breed of collie? There is but one breed of colli*.
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CAN NOT INCREASE NUMBER OF FISH WITHOUT CHEMIST
By David Dietz NEA Service Writer •""AMERICA is neglecting the A. food possibilities of rivers and small lakes and ponds. This is the opinion of the National Research Council, which has appointed a committee to study the problem. Professor Maynard M. Metcalf, chairman of the council’s division of biology, is organizing the committee. Professor Metcalf believes that the supply of edible fish from small ponds and streams could be greatly Increased. The study, however, will necessitate the services of chemists and botanists as well as experts on fish, This Is the reason: The large fish in any pond or stream thrive only because there are smaller fish for them to eat. These smaller fish in their turn eat water insects and tiny shell fish. These In their turn feed upon microscopic animals. These microscopic animals live off microscopic plants. But the beginning of the problem I>3 even deeper than this, for every one of the varieties of life, including
Outline of Evolution
CHAPTER 13 The First Rogue's Gallery The first man of whom we have any record goes by the scientific name of “Pithecanthropus Erectus.” But if you are accustomed to attending fistic affairs you have probably seen his counterpart, introduced by the refree under the name of the “Battling Wop,” or “Knockout Dugan,” or some similar monicker. Police have a poor description of “Pithecanthropus” because thus far only the top of his skull, some teeth and a thigh bone have been found, deep in some rock strata in Java. However, they hope to develop some excellent clews. Already we are sure that his brain was only about' half the size of the average man—in other words, about twice the size -A the average pugilist. His jaw was undershot and his teeth were excellently adapted to restaurant steaks and bakery pie crusts. From his thigh bones we know that he walked erect —hence he did not live in trees regularly. And yet, because he is so near an ape in other respects, he has been given the fancy scientific name which I have twice spelled and will not attempt to spell again, but which means “the walking ape man.” We will now hurry along some 200,000 years from the time when Pithy roamed through the Java forest until we find the next occupant of our primeval rogue's gallery. He is somewhat fragmentary, only his jaw bone having been discovered in a sand pit near Heidelberg, Germany. Around this Jaw bone has been constructed what is known as the Heidelberg man —a creature which certainly had close human characteristics, but which lacked a chin. Whether he wore bell-bot-tom and pants and oiled his hair is unknown, but the lack of a chin certainly points in that direction. Somewhere along the line work had been discovered—a discovery from which the world is still suffering. and our friend of the Heidelberg sand pits left some of his impkments, too big and heavy for anything save a genuine white hope. So we scientists j ige that he had huge legs and arms, probably covered with long hair, and a small skull, big mouth and no chin. I have seen
What’s a Million Dollars If You Have No Children to Enjoy Every Red Cent of It?
By Walter D. Hickman HILDREN everywhere. I (.1 Great kiddies, children ■ with a smile, children with a frown, children hungry for love—children everywhere. That is what you will find in “Drusilla With A Million” with Mary Carr as Drusilla, Priscilla Bonner as poor little Sally May Feris and Kenneth Harlan as Collin Arnold. You will discover that “Drußilla” will be present at the Colonial next week, starting Sunday. I have seen this picture at a private showing. It is another "Over The Hills” but a better picture. I seldom urge people in advance to see a thing but I am going to get right now on the band wagon and yell loudly that “Drusilla With A Million” is the best “mother” story ever given the screen. Drusilla is the only charity ward at an old ladies’ home. Although over sixty, Drusilla is the Pollyanna. of the home —she dqes the washing, takes all the abuse and smiles real sunshine all the time. And then—a distant relative leaves Drusilla one cold million dollars. There sure was a sensation when Drusilla became the grand lady. And then Drusilla moves into her palace. What does she do? She turns this wonderful home into a home for deserted babies. Then the fun, the tears, the screams and everything else starts in this picture. I am 'willing to go on record right now and state that among the most enjoyable hour in my life was spent while seeing Mary Carr in "Drusilla With A Million.” Plan right now to see this picture at the Colonial all next week. It is the greatest human interest picture ever filmed. -I- + -INEW SHOW OPENS TODAY AT PALACE The Palace management announces the following new show, opening today: Natalie and Damelle, whose ability in classical dancing has won for them places in the “Nifties of 1923,” the "Ziegfeld Follies” and Schubert's productions, are now featured with Toney Lopez' Castilian Serenaders at the Palace today, Friday and Saturday. The musicians furnish the music for the dancers as well as for sole entertainment purposes. “To Let” is a comedy skit which shows the humorous side of the shortage of living places. J. Joseph Clifford, K
the microecopic plants, are extremely sensitive to chemical changes In the water itself. That Is why the study must start from the viewpoint of the chemist. • • • Scienists in all parts of the world are launching criticisms against an Italian scientist who undertakes to predict earthquakes. Professor G. Agamemnone. Italy’s leading student of earthquake phenomena, says that the scientists in question. Professor Bendandi, works on the laws of chance and predicts enough earthquakes so that he is sure to hit some right. He point® out that this difficult since Italy average® 38 tremors of varying intensity per month, while Japan averages four a day. • • Anew cure for hookworm has been announced by Dr. Maurice C. Hall and Dr. J. F. Shillinger of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. It Is an organic chemical substance known as tetrachlorethyline. Carbon tetrachloride was formerly used to combat the disease. It Is claimed that the new remedy; is safer and more certain in its operation.
many a heavyweight who fits the description. I regret that it is impossible to enter any Indianapolis exhibits—for undoubtedly the Convention City was producing skeletons, but the Chamber of Commerce hasn’t located them yet. So the next entry must be what Is called the Sussex man—a creature with tremendously thick skull, discovered in England. He lived very, very long ago—so distant that had somebody told him a joke the day before he died he might have had time to see the point by now. And here we must stop for a closer inspection of the first remains to which an undertaker could ,<oint with any degree of pride—the members of a lost race. (Tomorrow—A Quiet Day With the Neanderthal Family).
Home Again By HAL COCHRAN There's a long winding road trailing over the hill, and away to the country where everything’s still. Where trees are the greenest; where rich is the loam. You hie down that road when you’re driving back home. Away in the distance a cottage appears. It’s shaggy and worn for it's stood there for years. But age n’er can put the old homestead to shame. To people returning. I*. looks just the same. There’s somebody waiting, out there by the gate. A welcoming log burns away in the grate. There's something that's real in the queer little shack and you always can feel that you’re glad to get back. A porch that is sheltered, yet wel- I comes a breeze, is calling you. come and enjoy it, at ease. With all of the best things of nature 'tis blest. The only real spot that affords you ! a rest. I envy the folks who can always return to places that give you the homesickness yearn. It still Is a castle, though likely forlorn—the little old place where a fellow was born. Coovriaht. 192 5, XEA Serf ice
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psychologist, will present a performance of comedy and mystery. A melange of harmony and comedy songs are included In the original act "All in Fun” presented by Cronin and Hart, a man and woman, who are described as being “full of pep.” ' “Mirth and Mystery” is the inducement that Lloyd Nevado offers for laughing purposes. “Shattered Lives” is the story of a mother’s love and an adopted son’s fidelity with Edith Roberts and Robert Gordon in the leading roles. Other films are comedy, a scenic, and Pe.the News. • * • Other Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Polly With A Past” at English’s; Fred Ireland’s Dance Revue at the Lyric; musical comedy and pictures at the Broadway, complete new show at the Isis; “Fine Clothes” at the Circle; “The Lucky Devil” at the Apollo; “Siege” at the Colonial; “A Slave of Fashion” at the Ohio; “Birth of a Race” at the Crystal” and outdoor events at Broad Ripple Park. Indiana indorsers of photoplays indorse the following features as adult entertainment- at the Ohio, Circle, Apollo and Colonial.
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Tom Sims Says Every now and then a man tries to repeal the laws of nature and the laws of nature repeal him. Summer is that brief hot spell during which coal dealers buy more cash registers and adding machines. The strangest thing on earth is to go back to the old town and see who has turned out so well. Any man who gets up early on Sunday when it isn't necessary is just too lazy to go back to sleep. Swimming is becoming more popular every summer because some people have no show with their clothes on. If you lose sleep at night don’t
try to find it while at work the following day. Life is short enough without learning to be a high diver. You don’t have to go in swimming to have a shark pull your leg. A telephone ex change is where they swap right numbers for wrong ones.
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Upper—Mary Carr surrounded with Just a few of the Jolly little youngsters who share a million with her in ’’DrusiU.a With A Million.” Lower —Priscilla Bonner as poor little Sally who didn’t have a million. but stye had one cute little youngster in this Mary Carr picture.
THE SPUDZ FAMILY*—By TALBERT
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA
A DESERTED CHILD EOLICE are searching for a couple who callously abandoned their 3-year-old boy on a downtown Indianapolis street Sunday. A compassionate passerby rescued the forsaken youngster, and, after keeping him over night, turned him over to Juvenile court authorities. To a decent human being, child desertion is the most brutal and revolting crime. One can condone a snappy murder executed in a flare of anger, but it Is inconceivable that a parent would drop a tender, helpless son In the gutter to live or starve as circumstances might direct. Yet child desertion is not un-common-even in enlightened Indiana. There are parents to whom children are only Incumbrances to be abandoned at suitable opportunity. Such parents do much to refute the theory that man was created by Divine decree. They seem to have evoled from worthless weeds, for even beasts of the field cherish and protect their offspring. The deserted babe—the foundling—is the most pathetic figure in stories and human history. Occasionally some waif, thus cast aside, .rises to eminence. The distinguished foundling Moses fashioned a nation out of an enslaved tribe. Romulu and Remus —abandoned babes suckled by a wolf—founded Rome, so the story goes. D'Alembert, one of the most brilliant philosophers and mathematicians of France, was a nameless waif found at a church door. Henry M. Stanley, the great African explorer, was a poorhouse waif, who died a knight. There is no telling what a helpless babe may become —within him may be the spark of Immortality. Parents who abandon their offspring not only commit a crime but may be trading future fame for present convenience. INCREASE IN SCHOOL BUDGET SHE Indianapolis school budget for 1925-26, approved by the board Tuesday, calls for $10,320,192. This is an Increase over last year's expenditures of $3,168,447 —or 44.3 per cent. The taxpayer may well shudder. A ten-miUion-dollar budget will pluck him clean, pinfeathers and all. Even financing the cost of Shortridge and other new high schools included in the estimates by bond issues will merely pad the brick with which he Is hit. Estimates for operating ex pensas—administration, instruction. maintenance —In the new budget are only 2.67 per cent more than last year. Probably that is only the normal increase to be expected from the growth of the schools and increase In number of school children. The item that chiefly fattens the budget is the school building program. Nickels and dimes may by pruned off some of the estimates. Protests of anxious citizens and the omniscient State tax commission may trim every budget frill. That is proper l:i the Interest of economy. But nothing should be done to reduce the building program. Even with the new buildings planned, school rooms will fall short of the city’s needs. Children will continue to attend classes in corridors, basements and flimsy, drafty, portable structures. Such conditions can not he overcome in a single year. But a real start can be made For several years the building program has lagged, in the mistaken idea it was economy. That was pleasing to the tax rate, but now we must begin to pay the piper.
By GAYLORD NELSON
STREET CAR EARNINGS SLUMP E r ~~~“ ARNINGS of Indianapolis Street Railway Company -I lost month totaled $367,997.3ft—526,742.51 less than In July 1924. Totaled July recelpta this year were also under those of the previous month, June.
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anclar tide la all ebb. Motor bus competition can't be held accountable for all of the decrease. There were no more bus lines operating In the city last month than the month before, and probably there was no marked Inoreaae In bus passengers In July over June. Yet street car receipt* slumped. Bus competition may prick and harass the city rail line but the most serious affliction of the latter is the private automobile, the increasing disinclination of people to ride the cars except a* a laet resort. Neither law nor friendly regulatory bodies can stop the tendency. Street cars must win heck customers by offering better, cleaner swifter t ransportatlon service ot a more moderate cost than other agencies. There lies their oalvatlon. TALKING PICTURES BY RADIO R. C. FRANCIS JENKINS. former Hoosler, succeeded the other day In transmitting a moving picture and a vocal description simultaneously at ths same wave length by radio. He predicts that soon people may be able to sit in their own homee and see and hear ball games, plays, operas, etc. Talking pictures by radio! Thi* Isn’t the wild fancy of a Jules Verne, but the prediction of a sober scientist and Inventor already fanu-d for his work In the movie and radio fields, who by toll in his laboratory has made dreams come true. Only yesterday radio was a toy. The man who invented wireless telegraphy—and whoae suecesa in thus transmitting a message across the English Channel astounded the world—is still In his prime and considering getting married. Now wireless telsgraphy seems cumbersome. Radid is as common as an old shoe. By radio MacMillan, buried in the Arctic wastes, chats as casually with a reporter in Chicago as If they were leaning over the same back fence. Science and invention are outstripping Imagination. In 1960 the material civilization of 1926 will probably seem as remote and crude as the ago of Columbus now ap pears to us. Two thousands year* ago Alexander sighed for more worlds to conquer. The vanity of ignorance! Now, twenty centuries later, the ingenuity of man i* luet beginning the conquest of the world in which he lives, and to make the invisible forces of nature do his bidding. A THOUGHT Rejoice with thorn that do re. jolee, and weep with them that weep.—K<>ni. 12:15. • • • Symo’nthy Is especially a Christian deity.—Spurgeon.
More gray hairs for the st rest railway men. They have a robust nnd growing problem of dlmlnlahlng returns with which to grapple. The slump In car fares is a progressive disease of the Indianapolis street car (system. Almost every month shows a decline In revenues from the preceding month. Its fin-