Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1925 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY „W. HOWARD, Presiient. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. * WM. A- MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dailv except Sunday bv Indianapolis Times P übliebin* Cos., 314-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Weak, ■loawhera— Twelve Cents a Week * PHONE—MA in 3.500.

No law shall be 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.

Mote or Beam ■ (rjYVHE Senate Public Lands Committee is i 1 amazed and disturbed at charges that private monopolis have secured control of concessions in national parks, and are making it hard for any but the rich to enjoy these beauty spots that were reserved for all the people. The committee, it is said, will demand that Congress take immediate action to recover these public lands from “the interests.” Let us hope that the committee will not become so absorbed with removal of the mote of the concessionaire that it will fail to discover the beam of Hetch Hetchy that is threatening the national parks. The Hetch Hetchy mess is a thousand times more amazing and disturbing than the concessionaire monopoly. Through it private interests are seeking to take from the people a treasure incalculably more valuable than, auto camp or hotel privileges. The committee is going West and will hear what the people have to say about this gigantic steal. If it acts to save power resources of the national parks for the people it will perform ore of the most valuable public services possible today. Maybe You Know a Word PpIHE word “scoflaw” has not been a suc--1 a j cess. Another term is needed for those who take the Eighteenth amendment rather lightly. Scoflaw covers too much ground; it could apply to one who parks overtime, for instance. • In recent months the term “practicing prohibitionist” has come into the use to indicate a person who not only believes in dry laws for the country at large, but for himself personally. In other w.ords, a practicing prohibitionist is a prohibitionist who doesn’t drink. He is, in fact, an “inhibitionist” as well as a prohibitionist. If an educational campaign could acquaint the country with the word inhibitionist as thoroughly as it knows prohibitionist, we might get the short word we need. The trouble is, of course, that most people have the instinct to prohibit much more developed than the instinct to inhibit. We’d rather make others be good than be good ourselves, that is to say. “Prohi” has done duty for years as an abbreviation of prohibitionist. “Inhi” might become the short form of inhibitionist. Keep in mind, however, that an inhibitionist is not necessarily a prohibitionist. There are some good citizens who follow what they consider the correct course without ever trying to make others accept it, either by law or otherwise. But, when you’ve got an inhibitionist who is also a prohibitionist, couldn’t you call him an “mhi-prohi?” It pronounces more easily than it looks and it certainly is much shorter than “practicing prohibitionist.” Well, that takes care of the dry prohibitionists, but what about the scoflaws? “Anti-inhi-prohi” takes up too much room. It sounds like that campaign song of 3896: “We are the Eepubo'Prohi-Populistic-Democrats!” It certainly is hard to name those non-be-

NATURE’S FORCES MUST BE ADJUSTED PERFECTLY

By David Diet* YEA Service Writer mT IS almost imrusslble to realise how delicate are the calance of forces in nature upon which we must depend for healthy, normal growth. Recent experiments have shown how necessary the ultra-violet radiation from the sun is for normal growth. Yet it Is terrible to think what the effect would be If any great Increase took place In the amount of the sun’s emission of ultra-violet rays. Reoent experiments of Dr. Marie Hlnrlchs of the University of Chicago Indicate that it might even Wipe out all life upon this earth. Dr. Hlnrlchs experimented with direct ultra-violet rays upon the eggs of fish. Exposure of the eggs for more than half of a minute completely' killed them so that they failed to hatch. Exposure of less than one-half minute was the cause of terrible distortions. Freak fish with distorted hearts and other internal organs, with only one eye and abnormal in other ways, resulted from the eggs so treated. The experiments show that the rays have an especially deadly effect, attacking most severly those portions of the egg where the life development is going on the fastest. * * * Ar— COMPARISON of the mentality of criminals with that of the great body of American citizens has just been completed by Dr. Carl Murchison of Clark University. The tests reveal that as a classJ the criminal* seem to have the edge £• the rent p* us.

lieving, unreconstructed rebels who can’t get over the idea that they want a drink when they want it! Fundamentals in 1785 r~T”|T’S a far cry from the days of the original j laying down of the principles of Amerr can Government to our own time of court injunctions, prohibition and “fundamentalism.” However, it is interesting today to read how one great State felt about religious freedom just after the War of Independence. Writing in his “Autobiography” of the Virginia Legislature in 1785, Thomas Jefferson said: “The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had to a certain degree been enacted before, I had drawn in all the latitude of reason and right. It still met with, opposition; but, with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally passed; and a singular proposition proved that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting the words ‘Jesus Christ,’ so that it should read, ‘a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion.’ The insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend within the mantle of its protection the Jew and Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination.” Those were the days when our institutions were a-borning. In those days men, even State legislators, felt that freedom of conscience, personal liberty and State’s rights were the real fundamentals that should distinguish our country. How, When, and Now, Whether mHE United States Supreme Court always has had the privilege of saying when it would do its work and how it would do it. Now it has the privilege of saying whether it will do it. New rules will go into effect at the opening of the fall term. Attorneys accustomed to practice before our highest judicial body are none too happy as they contemplate the latest changes. Many kinds of cases which the Supreme Court formerly was required to review will now be reviewed only if the Supreme justices are willing. The explanation for the new rules lies in the - increasing pressure of work confronting the court. During the October term of 1924 the court established a record by disposing of 699 cases, but there were still pending at the end of the term 533 cases. That was more unfinished business than at any time in ten years. Seeing what was coming, the court obtained from Congress a revision of the rules and procedure whereby its discretion was extended as described. The pressure of work probably will be lessened, but some lawyers are inclined to doubt the wisdom of thus increasing the arbitrary powers of the final court.

Psychologists say that twenty-nine out of every 100 citizens have an intelligence equal to the “C” rating In the army Intelligence tests. Thirtythree rate better than “C” and thirty-eighth worse. Dr. Murchison’s study shows that twenty-nine out of every 100 criminals also rate “C,” but that of the

Outline of Evolution

CHAPTER 1-1 A Quiet Day With the Neanderthal Family |"~1 UR trip is now almost over. Iv7' are very close to our I I own times—only 60,000 to ivu.oOO years distant. So we will stop off for a few minutes and make a call on the Neanderthal family. The Neanderthals are now extinct, but once they were the leading family of the whole world, as testified to by the excellent skeletons and wellpreserved family Implements which they left. Oh, here we are; they reside right in that cave In front of us. I wonder if the Neanderthals are at home? Watch out! Who threw that stone? Oh, it’s all right—only Mrv. Neanderthal making love to his fifth wife. Mr. Neanderthal Is the gent with the hair —the fellow who stoops over as he walks tlil his thumbs nearly drag on the ground. It was a bit cold last night, so he has smeared himself with mud. It even extends up to the point where his chin would be. if he had one. , Here comes another fellow of the same general appearance. Maybe we’d better hide behir.d that rock iver there; It looks like trouble. Sure 'enough, there is trouble. Look at thorn browling and sputtering at

remain edr, thirty-nine, rate better than “C," while only thirty-two rate worse. • f) EVEN billion cubic feet of s*ock and gravel disappeared —■ when the crater of the Kilauea volcano In Hawaii collapsed. This is the estimate of Dr. Arthur L, Day of the geophysical laboratory of Washington, who made a study of the volcano. The new opening has ten times the volume of the old crater, he says.

each other. Maybe the other fellow's a bill collector-—at least. Mr. Neanderthal has grabbed his club and the other fellow has seized a rock. Now they are going to It. They clinch. Mr. Neanderthal uppercuts with the club. The other fellow feints with his rock and then lands square in the solar plexus with a broken tree. Now It Is all over, and we find that the other fellow Isn’t a bill collector at all. He’s only a rival for the affections of Mr. Neanderthal’s six wi/es—and he has won them. And the ladies are fliiAing with their new boss. They are carrying out Mr. Neanderthal’s choicest clubs and his flint choppers and his hand ax and his speear heads and his skin scrapers and his jimmy pipe and Prince Albert and home brew. You can see that the fellow weloomes their attention, for he Is so playful; he has Just knocked three of them down and now he Is kicking the children out of the way. Maybe we had better go, dear readers, without making our call. For the man Is rumbling out sotne gutteral sound aa If trying to eay that he is hungry and the wives axe looking around to see If there’s anything in the pantry, quick. (NEXT—Meet Mr. Homo Sapiens.)

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By GAYLORD NELSON

MORE MONEY IN THE BANK banks and trust companies __ Increased $39,440,291, during' the year ending Juno 80, 1925, according to recent report of the State banking department. Total resources of the 851 institutions included in the report were >661,. 405,252. There is more money In Hoosier bonks than ever—despite the rav-

ages of the bandits, tax collectorq and Florida realtors. In three year* their resource* have Increased almost $100,000,000. That's a tot of money. Sounds like the salary of a movie queen. But It represents the thrift, toll and Increased prosperity of Hoosier farms, industries and business enterprise*. Some States

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enjoy spectacular booms and are widely heralded as lands of promise, People flock thither in such numbers that a man who stays homo in Indiana fears that ho will soon be the last survivor of a once teeming population. But he needn't he alarmed. He will continue to find this a good State In which to live, with abundant rewards for hla industry within poach. A Slate where bank deposits and tangible wealth steadily increases—whose banking resources grow $40,000,0110 in a year —la a long way from being a lead nickel, HORN-TOOTING ~ SHEIKS E ESTER ALLEN was fined 15 and eoeis in eity court Wednesday far honking his automobile horn, while parked on a downtown street, Vo attract attentlon of young women pausing. He is the first casualty In the war Indianapolis police are waging on horn-teeUng sheiks. These amorous gallants draw up to the curb near movie houses and other strategic point* and aeooat passing young women by manipulating their auto horns. What a crude way to start a fiirtation, Romeos Jn the past were wont to tinkle guitars Jn the moonlight under their Juliets' balconies. Sir Walter Raleigh with , a graoeful gesture spread hla rich eloak over a mud puddle that hla queen'rf shoe might net be soiled. The modern ahetk woes with a klaxon, Nat only downtown, but. In residential sections he and hla everready hern are nuisances, In the gloaming quiet neighborhoods shiver aa sheiks Imperiously summon theJr shebaa, with thumb fro3en to horn, AU of this unnecessary honking pan not be suppressed by polio© warfare, probably even the of, fenslv®, horndoeting mashers downtown can not be entirely eliminated. He can't be eliminated, because frequently hla advances are enoouraged. As long as shebaa responded sheiks will honk. Nevertheless, police war him Will meet general approval, SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IRS, J. O, CAMPBELL, of Marten, lnd., has at, „ tended Sunday school for twenty-eight consecutive years Without missing a Sunday, Also she has attended church services every Sunday for twenty-three year* without a miss. Perhaps her record es Sunday school attendance doesn't give her the world championship. Nevertheless she should rank high among ehampion attenders for her unusual performance, Sunday sehool ha* become a settled habit with her, Quite likely in establishing her record she has had to forego seme of the lighter amusements and frivolities that characterise the Sabbath for so many people. She has never robbed a bank, killed her mother, nor Indulged in ether diversions so common of the younger generation, Some say the Sunday sehool today is falling in character building, Others, especially some Judges with soft hearts and minds, believe the Institution Is a worker es miracles. Every once in a while such a Judge sentences a wrong doer to a few compulsory attendances at Sabbtah school under the delusion that It will effect a moral reformation. Generally it fails, An occasional enforced attendance at Sunday school won't change a sinful, human weed Into a rugged moral oak. But regu lar attendance, from ehoice or compulsion, through the formaItive years, will strengthen the fibers of a child's character and give it a better chance to grow up into something besides a squash, INDIANAPOLIS IS HEALTHY ** R. HERMAN O. MORGAN, city health officer, reported i—— yesterday there was only one case es typhoid fever in Indianapolis and no contagious disease cases, There have been only ten typhoid cases In the city this year,/ Ttys ip a community of 578,000 people! iPifUanapeiis la sanitary, naeptle and} healthy, at least. It should be proud of Its reeord for health, That is a 1 civic asset of value —decidedly worth boating about, Tvphold-ljfta filth-born disease, n always been one of the

greatest scourges in large centers of population where people crowd together. It can’t be successfu.ly combated by the wearing of siafetida bags or by dabbing perfume on thf richer civic odors—as was long t he fashion—but only by civic cleanliness and sanitation. Lack of sanitation rather than Divine vengeance pre ved the undoing of many ancient cities. When the black plague ravaged London and swept off a third of its the pious attributed it to the wrath of the Almighty. It wag checked, however, by the great fire' wt ich destroyed the filthy sections of the city where the plague bred, not by prayer. Burning down a city to check pestilence is ■ expensive and no longer necessary. We have learned that a few drops of chlorine in the city’s drinking water and sewage disposal and purification will prevent the birth of pestilence. The absence of contagious disease and the high standard of sanitation maintained by the city should do as much to boost Indiacapolis as a bevy of factories. With cities as with individuals, health is wealth. Ask The Times You can gel an answer lu <juc uoo ol fact or :nlorniaUoa By writing Ad The Indianapolis Times W&atungton Bureau. 1322 New York Are. Wash In ton. IJ C . Inclosing 2 ceuts tn sunup. for reply Medical legal and roarital advice c*nnot be riven, nor can extended research be undertaken AH other qnt.Uont will receive a per tonal reply. Unsigned reflueatt cannot be answered Al! letter* are connotn t*a! -— Editor What is considered the most valuable jeweled ornament in the world? The Gaektrar of Baroda tn India has a shawl of pearls, ten feet long and six feet wide. This shawl or rug literally is woven of strings of pearls and its center and border are set with diamonds. It Is worth Severn f million dollars and is said to be the most valuable jeweled ornament in the world. Who was Omar Khayyam and what philosophy is expounded in his poems? He was an astronomer-poet of Persia, born at Naishapur, in Khorassan, lived in the latter half of the eleventh century and died in the first quarter of the twelfth century. He wrote a collection of poems which breathe an Epicurean spirit and while they occupy themselves with serious problems of life, do so with careless sportiveness. Waiting "By Hal Cochran eOW long has it been since you've written a line, that you know gives the old folks some cheer? How long since you've told them you’re get tin* on fine?

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Just a week, or a month—or a year? It’s always too easy to merely forget to write to your mother and dad. The day’s gortru>. come when you're sure to regret, that your system of writing was bad. Yon always feel sure that they have you in mind and are waitin’ to hear from their kin. How little it takes, after ail, to be kind, for they’re pleased when the letters roll in. You plan, day by day. that you’ll start out anew, and you'll write, so’s to head off their sorrow. Then something turns up that you’d much rather do and you put off the task till tomorrow. Your mother and dad get to frettin’ 1)001 you when ycu’ve left them and started to roam. It seems that the least that a person can do Is to keep up the writing back home. (Copyright, 1925 NEA Service, Inc.) Many a woman watches the frying pan on a hot stove while hubby watches the thermometer on the porch.

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People who- mete newer seem to have matches and those who wear hair never seem to have hairpin/. Nice thing about clean pajama* the possibility of a fire doean t worry you much. The** are the nights veu kick off that blamed hot sheet which CeU. to cold lest winter. Peace of mind 11 eften fleatroyeil by a piece of somebody's mind. Germ* wanting to ride now hare to Jump higher than they Aid. ah* skirt* were longer. (Copyright. 1925 NEA Service. Inc.) A THOrCHT I know that the Lord wfiT mater tain the cause of the afflicted, and the tight es the poor.—-Pa- lilfclL The eternal etars shine rrrt im soon as It Is dark enough—-CArtyl*.

If yon could fasten your money op as tight if * bottle of olives all the burglars would starve. Modern music has reached the point where yen cant tell If the neighbors a re spanking the baby. This Is th* reason the worm turns. And when he turn* he turn* from fruit to nuts.

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