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Words of Warning “T"! tremendous amount of bureaucratic govA| eminent and regulation of citizens from Washington is one of the things that chiefly characterize life in America today. Also our Federal judges, with their injunction and contempt proceedings that short circuit the jury trial system laid down in the Constitution, are mnch in the limelight. In his autobiography, started Jan. 6, 1821, Thomas Jefferson said on the first head: “It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected. Were not this great country already divided into States, that division must be made, that each might do for itself what concerns itself directly, and what it can so much better do than a distant authority. Every State again is divided into counties, each to take care of what lies within its local bounds; each county again into townships or wards, to manage minute details; and every ward into farms, to be governed each by its individual proprietor. Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. It is by the partition of cares, descending in gradation from general to particular, that the mass of human affairs may be best managed for the good and prosperity of all.” Os the Federal judges Jefferson had this to say: “It is not enough that honest men are appointed judges. All know the influence of interest on the mind of man, and how unconsciously his judgment is warped by that influence. To this bias add that of the esprit de corps, of their peculiar maxim and creed, that ‘it is the office of a good judge to enlarge his jurisdiction, ’ and the absence of responsibility; and bow can we expect impartial decision between the general government, of which they are themselves so eminent a part, and an individual state from which they have nothing to hope or fear? We have seen, too, that contrary to all correct example, they are in the habit of going out of the question before them, to throw an anchor ahead and grapple further hold for future advances of power. They are then, in fact, the corps of sappers and miners, steadily working to undermine the independent rights of the States.” Jefferson contended that Federal judges should not be appointed for life. He said, “I would not make them dependent on the executive authority; but I deem it indispensable to the continuance of this government that they should be submitted to some practical and impartial control; and that this, to be imparted, must be compounded of a mixture of State and Federal authorities. * * * I do not charge the judges with willful and ill-inten-tioned error; but honest error must be arrested when its toleration leads to public ruin. As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be with-

Outline of Evolution

CHAPTER 15 Meet Mr. Homo Sapiens mF you were to step up to the stranger and address him as “homo sapiens,” he might knock you down. Or if you were to use that phrase in speaking of a member of the highway commission, the board of accounts might call an investigation to see if it was true and, if so, who got the money. Yet, actually, there would be nothing out of the way about your remark. For "homo sapiens” is the correct scientific title of the animal which is sometimes dignified by the name of “man” The phrase can also be used correctly in speaking of a woman, some of whom are also known as “homely sapiens." “Homo sapiens,” in other words, is ourselves. Nature, it seems, tried out several varieties of men before she finally settled upon us and was satisfied. Looking around on the street car any night, Incidentally, you will see men that make you think Nature is pretty easily satisfied. Anyway, the Neanderthal man, who we met in our last chapted, seems utterly to have disappeared. He was evidently a member of a differen species from us and something happened to him. Maybe the weather was too cold for his cave apartments; maybe disease overtook him; maybe the prohibitionists drove him to bad liquor. He disappeared, as did the Piltdown men and the Cro-Magnon men and several other types of early men. And in the place of these trial races we find Mr. Homo Sapiens starting life full of hope and vigor —yet destined to fall victim to blue laws and prohibition and bell-bot-tomed trousers and politicians and saxophones and almost every other conceivable ailment. In spite of this, homo sapiens is the only one of the primitive races which has survived, and regardless of what you hear about the younger generation, he gives every promise of continuing to do so. When first we make his acquaintance he was living in caves, the rent being cheap and the furnishings quite inexpensive. And so he was happy and could look every man in the face, including the landlord and

drawn from their bench whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution.” Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and one of the chief men among the founders of the United States Government, was in a position to know what he was talking about. Maybe even we can well afford to listen to his words, that now sound like words of warning. Some Tax Rates Reduced T“n P goes the park board tax levy and LJ down comes levies for resurfacing streets, flood prevention and other city activities. In other words, Hizzoner Lew Shank has decreed that while it may be perfectly all right for the city to pay huge sums to enhance the pursuit of the elusive golf ball and to permit motorists to drive on wide, smooth boulevards through perfectly good farm land, it makes little difference how many flivver springs are broken inside the city limits. Hizzoner, it will be remembered, was very enthusiastic about the purchase of ground in Golden Hill and even advocated buying Laurel Hall, erstwhile home of the Fletchers, including Louisa, who may some day become a countess. Os course, this sort of thing was bound to affect the tax rate, even as it would be affected by the establishment of more playgrounds and swimming pools. But that was all right with Hizzoner. He is willing to be economical—inasmuch as it will be the next administration that will have to skimp—along certain lines. Os course, nobody objects to reduction of the tax rate, but we wonder sometimes about why some rates are reduced and others increased. Resurrection yiXPERIMENT has been tried of reprodnctli ing on a small scale the conditions of life on the world as taken as a whole. An aquarium is stocked with a balanced population of small water animals and plants, and then sealed up, so that nothing, not even air, can get in or out of it. Life goes on, generation after generation; the animals eating the plants and each other; the animals breathing in oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide and the plants breathing the carbon dioxide, restoring its oxygen for the animals to breathe and storing up its carbon for animals to eat. The earth has such a closed circle of life. The same food materials are used over and over again; the same breath exchanged between animals and plants. The resurrection of the body is a continuous and universal process.

tljs furniture dealer. He killed his food with rude stone hatchets and tore it apart with even ruder stone knives. At night he crouched in thq depths of his fireless cave and argued with his wife —the beginnings of domestic bliss. But there came a time when rude stone would no longer suffice for his instruments and an unheated cave for his home. He wanted nice, shiny stone tools and something beside the ground to place his foot on, a dressed skin to cover his nakedness and some gaudy paint to daub on his wife, colors to picture his deeds of valor and an elaborate funeral when he died. And thus, in the dim and distant days of the fourth interglacial period began the evolution of hardware and department and drug and 5-and--10-cent stores, of coal bills and undertakers, dressmakers and beauty parlors, comic supplements and

What Every Wife Knows

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson RS. Dora Winifred Russell, British novelist, has anew i_book in which she defends what she calls “the double standard of Immorality.” She says: "It would not be wrong for a man to have six wives provided he anil they found mutual happiness, nor for a woman to have six husbands if she found such a life satisfactory.” That seems a safe enough assertion, as it stands. Nobody has ever yet seen a woman who wanted six husbands at ones. She might take them in relays, but having them all together would be a bit beyond any woman. Think of having six husbands all screaming for their matched sox, all wanting you to find their clean underwear, all losing a button at the same time. Think of having to plan dinner for six different men so that all would be In a good humor. Imagine having to be at the door every night with six pairs of slippers and a sweet smile for six growling, overworked baseball fiends. Just vision your life trying to pick up the newspapers and

apartments, barbers and haberdashers and even plumbers. In our next chapter I will tell you the sad, sad story of how they started. NEXT—Evolution Into Debt. A Thought For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. —1 Tim. 6:7, 8. That is true plenty, not to .ave, but not to want riches. —St. Chrysostom. Now is the time to put coal In the cellar If you can get prices out of the attic. Most returning vacationists have changed so much they have very little change left. Statistics show every fish weighing over 10,000 pounds has gotten away lots of times this summer.

sweep up cigar ashes after six men instead of one. /Why, the task would take a dozen amazons. It’s all any woman can do to keep one husband ms 'ded and fed and petted. No hum; n could hope to do this for six. It’s quite easy to see why polygamy worked only one wpy. Why men took unto themselves many wives while each woman had only one husband. Sometimes now you feel like it would be a sort of relief to have a couple of sister wives in the house to help with the one man who wants eternal looking after. Maybe those harems were not so bad as they seemed. At least when the collar button was lost there was somebody else to, stand the brunt of official comolaint and when the bacon was tpc crisp it must have been real nice to have somebody to help bear the blame. Lots of men we know actually need six wives to wait on them. Some could keep a round dozen on the jump all the time. But this Mrs. Russell is going a bit too far when she suggests that a woman could do with six husbands. Why the poor thing would be in her /grave before the first week was out.

THE INBIATfAPULIS TIMES

Ve All Vant Quickness

Editor Times golly, der longffgy ger vat you liffs der more der big dings vat iss venting on effery day yet, giffs you der idees dot der Peebles vat vas madeing inves-

tigatings years ago, vas a lot of lias-bins. Ven Kolumbus, Napolions, Vashington und Fulton cood came back und seen vat iss didding now in der line us bissness in vich dey made history, id vood giff dem chills und fever. In der feerst blace, Kolumbus tooken on his hands a big job ven he made discoveries by America, vedder he did id by accident or stumbled on id und vile some Thomases got doubts, yet history giffs him der credit. Did you denk Napolions vood stood oud in der open long enuff to put his hands in his breast pockets ven a var vas venting on mit der veppons, aboff und below, vat iss used by der armies now? Not much. He vood bin looking for a kammaflodge in a duggs oud. Dit you denk Vashington vood tooken a chance now to vent der Delawares rever oafer on der ice, ven ve cood budded a bridge oafer dot crick in a few hours? Vat you denk Fulton vood said ven he seen vun of dem big fifty millions dollar boats vat bin mit iron und steel made, skipping der vatter oafer, yust der same alls ven he bin from vood made? Vat you denk dem four big mens vood said von dey gotten a look by der Shannandoas und der Los Angeles who made der Atlantics oacean oafer in eighty vun hours? Don’t you denk dey vood admission dot dey starded someding? Now look vat iss predictioned by some of der vise guys us today. Dey said dot in a leedle vile der air bin made full mit flying machines alls iss der streeds mit automoboobles. Ven Henry Forts und John D. son der Stranded Oils Compamny, says so, id iss. Dem fellers allso got Harry New und der gufferment interested. Vat more is necessity? Shanks Louie und Mike Glenn denks he iss alrite as he giffs reliefs to det Stop und Go policerman on der corners und vile der pedestrian vood still bin knocked oud mit der same regularities dey vood haff no goot reason to complains. Mit flying machines ve cood vent to Florida und gotten back der same day. Quickness iss vat der peebles vant, so lay on McGuffy. HANS HOFFMEIER, 1622 Sout Vest Streed.

SCIENTIST WORKS FOR YEARS WITH NO HOPE OF REWARD

By David Diet* VEA Service Writer the loyalty end the unselfishi___ ness which the scientist —that pioneer on the world's last frontier —brings to his work. It is doubtful if the sort of legislator who votes for anti-evolution laws could ever understand the Ideals of a scientist who spends half a lifetime upon some obscure problem of research and gives the results to the world without the slightest hope of any monetary reward. An outstanding example of the methods of the scientist is revealed in the history of Dr. Johannes Schmidt of the Carlsberg Laboratory of Copenhagen. Ih 1904, Dr. Schmidt undertook to discover the birthplace of the European eel. All that was known at Tom Sims Says A man's face may be his fortune. So may a woman's. Then a vanity case holds a lot of fortunes. Only time a man’s hair will really stay parted Is after •he has parted with It forever.

Furs will be most popular this coming winter among those wild animals which haven’t been trapped yet. They are going to make a little money out of wheat If prices don’t go against the grain. Horses and cows and pigs and such are valuable stock, but jack-

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asses are the laughing stock of the world. Wonder if men like women with little feet because sooner or later they expect to be stepped upon. And it’s natural that lots of natural things seem unnatural. If a girl likes antique furniture she needs an antique bank account for buying the blame stuff. Everything isn’t foolish. Maybe eating yeast would pep up a man so he could get out and raise some dough. They are still working on the gigantic Stone Mt. Monument. Bet a dentist could drill it in a week. Some people get frantic ever} time they see a little of the world. Leaving footprints on the sands of timh is considered harder than leaving fingerprints at the police station. Don’t blame a girl for rolling her stockings until you learn if there is a hole in the knee of one. Our guess is the Dead Sea dropped dead when some ancient girl appeared in a one-piece bathing suit. And could you call a girl who.sits up and eats a big box of candy on you a stuffed date? (Copyrigjjt. 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

Hans Hoffmeier Says: Napoleon Would Not Put His Hand in His Breast Pocket in Modern Battle

the time was that in the autumn the eels migrated from the river* of Europe into the Atlantic and that in the spring the young eels came up the rivers out of the Atlantic. Dr. Schmidt set out in a small sailing vessel equipped with dredges to find the breeding place of the eel. Dr. Schmidt continued his hunt for the breeding place of the eel for eighteen years. In his small ship, the Dana, he cruised to Egypt, Iceland, the Canary Islands and America. So small was the Dana, that upon his arrival in New York, seamen were at first unwilling to believe that he had crossed the Atlantic in her. At the end of eighteen years, Dr. Schmidt made the astounding discovery that both the European and the American eel breed in an area of the Atlantic between the Leeward Isles and Bermuda. The newborn American eels make for the American coast, and the European eels for the European coast. Dr. Schmidt’s story is a happy one. He achieved his aim. But science is full of tragedies. Many scientists have worked for half their lives upon problems only to have some other piece of research anticipate or else Invalidate their own work. • * O'"”" - ' RANGES, lemons and limes may soon be grown in desert i__l regions now considered too arid for them. This is indicated by experiments undertaken by the United States Department of Agriculture. The plan is to graft these fruits on the Australian desert lime, which grows under arid conditions, jpp HE importance of giving an J infant every chance to grow ■ normally’ is indicated by recent clinical studies by Dr. Arnold Gesell of the Yale University Psycho-Clinic. Dr. Gesell points out that the retardation of one month during the first year of an infant’s life has as harmful effect as a whole year's retardation in a child of school age. Pleasure Riding By Hal Cochran ATHBR'S in the front seat. H I and mother’s by his side. 1 I Sure, they’re in the auto, and they’re gonna take a ride. Engine’s runnin' splendid, though it’s pullin’ quite a load. Out a-pleasure seekin’ as they're skimmin' down the road. Sun is shinin’ brightly, and there's not a hint o rain. Everything seems set to make their worries start to wane. Greenest kind of hillsides ’neath a sky that's clear and blue. Ridin' in the open like all pleasure seekers do. Isn’t that a picture that should give a man a thrill? Think of pleasure touring with a lot of time to kill. Still there’s something mars it as the hours roll slowly by. When the trip is over mom and pop will heave a sigh. , Sittin’ in the back seat there are tiny youngsters—three! Gettln’ kinda sleepy and are fussy as can be. ’Maybe it is pleasure at the starting of a roam. Still, it’s even more so when you get the kids back home. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON—

OFFICERS AND GUNS eIRAM FISCHER, traffic officer, In pursuit of a fleeing negro through crowded downtown streets late Wednesday afternoon, fired a volley of shots. No casualties. The pursued was wanted for Insulting a woman. Chief Rikhoff censured the officer for his target practice in a

crowded t h o roughfare which endangered the lives of Innocent bystanders. The reprimand was proper. Another policeman the same day blazed away because a truck driver failed to stop after damaging his auto In a minor traffic accident. A few months ago another zealous officer fired at

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a speeder and punctured a peaceful pedestrian. The victim of that gun flourish Is suing the city for damages. In the present state of Indianapolis society j>ollcemen. of course, must carry guns for something besides ornaments. They must possess the courage and skill to use their weapons when occasion demands. Local bandiljl can’t always be overawed by metal badges, steely eyes and less lethal police trappings. But promiscuous use of firearms by policemen Is a practice to be condemned and should be stopped. A peaceful citizen killed by a stray bullet fired after a speeder or a fleeing purse snatcher isn’t in position to see the point of such zeal ous law enforcement. As far as he Is concerned the hasty trigger finger of the officer does more harm than good. Indianapolis. It is better to let a dozen minor malefactors escape than to perforate a bystander. PLUNDERING THE DEAD iDVVARD RECTOR, prominent Chicago attorney who i___ died recently, bequeathed 12,300,000 to De Pauw University It was a notable benefaction for the common good to further educcation, but how much of the bequest will be applied to the high purposes intended by the donor? According to William C. Harrison, ex-secretary of the Indiana State tax commission, inheritance taxes assessed in Illinois and Michigan, in which States is the property of the deceased, may amount to $900,000. Each State will compute and collect Its tax on the whole estate. Forty-two per cent of the bequest, Intended for education, may be grabbed by the tax collectors! That’s outrageous, double taxation with a vengeance. In the degenerate days of the Roman Empire rich private citizens, without immediate kin, were forced to make the emperor their sole heir. That was merely confiscation of estates under another name. Our present inheritance tax methods would teach Nero, Caligula and Domltlan that they were mere pikers in plundering the dead. We have made the tax collector the principal heir of every estate of considerable size. The Rector bequest. If It only shrinks half,' gets off easy. In several cases where the property comprising the estate of a deceased person was scattered through many States the total inheritance tax assessed by the various States actually exceeded the total value of the estate. An heir not only received nothing but was expected to pay for being an hek\ There is abundant Justification, perhaps, for inheritance t&xetL

THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

both as revenue measures and as devices to prevent dangerous accumulations of wealth. But when each Individual State grabs all it can from every estate, without reference to other assessments, the levy becomes mere plunder. PLANT BREEDING AND DEITY f ri. E. KUNDERD. Hoosier plant breeder, famed as a grower of gladioli and as the originator of beautiful new ruffled varieties, whose gladiolus farm near Goshen attracts visitors from all over the country, has quit the church of which he was a member for many years. The strict elders told him if God wanted anew variety of gladiolus He would make It Himself. Scientific plant breeding to improve old and produce new varieties they believe to be a reflection on the perfection of Creation and impious Interference with the Divine Plan. Could bigotry be more absurd? If the narrow brethren could have their way we would not have the prankish grapefruit, seedless oranges, loganberries and other luscious common fruits. The sweet cantaloupe would he a Persian weed bearing hard, acrid little gourds. Hoosier corn would bs wild teoslnte grass. Practically all of the fruits, vegetables and grains which go to ,make up the food of the human race are, In their present form, the result of human Improvement on nature. Through untold centuries man has by cultivation. ' crossing, and scientific plant breeding produced new varieties and perfected plant species for his use. Without the Burbanks, the Kunderds and their predecessors back to the beginning, man would be a nomad, drifting from place to place and subsisting on wild berries and the products of the chase like any beast. If Providence didn’t expect man to bend nature to his use, to make a more beautiful gladiolus than ever bloomed before, to produce by crossing and breeding anew and more perfect rose, why was man endowed with reasoning faculties and such ability? STUDY AND WORK EJLEVEN Anderson boys received regular high school J diplomas this week, having graduated In the first cooperative high school course to be completed In Indiana. For the past two years they have worked half-time In the plant of the Remy Electric Company and attended school halftime. The success of this venture In cooperative schooling, combining study and work, will doubtless attract attention of educators. One of the pressing school problems is the better fitting of education to practical life. Too many high school boys feel that their school years are wasted because after they roll up their diplomas and go out and huatle for a Job they have to start at the bottom as unskilled laborers. Manual training courses and trade schools help to bridge this gap between education and jobs, between theory and practice. But at best Industrial training In academic surroundings Is a poor substitute for the training in an actual factory, where production and profits, not scholastic credits, are the goals. A real wedding of school and factory offers the solution. Halftime in Industry and half-time in school will train both hand and mind ofthe boy. At the game time he Is learning that all Gaul Is divided Into three parts, and other Important things he Is acquiring manual skill and practical training that will fit him for a better Job than assembling sandwiches in a barbecue stand after graduation.

SATURDAY, AUG. 15, 1925

Ask The Times you can cel an answer to any qua* lion of fact or information_br wrltins to The Indianapolis Tiim '■VMhlnilon bureau. 1322 New York Are., WiuInion D 0. moioelni 2 cents in •tempi for reply. Medical legal and marital advice oannot be riven, nor oan extended research be undertaken All other question* will receive a per Knal reply. Unsigned requests cannot anawrred 411 letters are oonAUeo tlal.— Editor, _____ Answer to question about Jennings family William Jsnnlnga Bryan’s mother was Marlah Elizabeth Jennings before her marriage. Is the “roller pigeon" the result of cross breeding? Yes. This breed, Ilka the tumbler and other almltar breeds of pigeons, originated from a certain form of inbreeding and crossing until the desired results were achieved, after which they became a distinct breed. How many commercial and bank failures were there In the United Btates from 1921 to 1923. Inclusive? The figures are as follows: Commercial failures, 1921, 19,(152; 1922, 23,076, and 1923, 18.713: bank full-, ures. 1921, 404; 1922. 277, and 1923,1 578. How many laws and resolutions have been passed by Congress since Its first session In 17997 How many were passed by the lost Congress? Congress has passed 50,080 laws and resolutions since that time. Os these 80,310 were private measures and 19,750 public acts and resolutions. Os theae 10,914 were laws. The recently adjourned session of Congress enacted 032 public laws. Can gophers be kept In captivity as pets, and what kind of food should be given them? Gophers eat grass, roots, vegetables and nuts. They can be kept In captivity, although they do not make especially good pets. The bottom of the cage or pot must he of some hard substance like cement or metal to prevent tbelr burrowing through to liberty. Where is the Indian River? This la an Inlet on the east coast of Florida, length about 100 mllea. It Is connected with the Halifax River by canal, and with the sea by the Indian River Inlet. On Ita banks are popular winter resorts. What, was the “hundred years' war”? The struggle between France and England from 1337 to 1458, Interrupted by Intervals of peace. The first period (1837-1860) was concerned 4 with the claim of Edward 111 off England to the French throne through his mother, Isabella, daughter of Philip IV, as against that of Philip VI of France. This period ended with the peace of Bretlgny and Included the English victories of Crecy, Polters and Calais. Charles V of France renewed the war In 1309 and hostilities continued until the treaty of Troyes (1420). Charles V won back much of the territory lost In the earlier struggle, but Henry V of England was victorious over Charles VI at Aglncourt, and was nominated as his successor to the throne of France. Henry VI, who renewed the war, was defeated by the French through the Inspired aid of Joan of Arc. By the year 1453 the English were driven from France and Calais was all that remained to them. What was the Confederate officer Thomas J. Jackson called "Stonewall Jackson?" This Is an sllusion to hla stubborn defense of a position In the first battle of Bull Run. MAN'S IDENTITY SOUGHT Middle-Aged Person Is Drowned In I-ake Michigan. Nil Timm Special LA PORTE. Ind„ Aug. 18 Authorities are endeavoring to learn the Identity of a middle-aged men who was drowned when his canoe j capsized off Waverley beach In Lake 1 Michigan near here. The canoe was about 800 feet off shore when seen to upset. Another unidentified man swam out to the canoe In an effort to save Its occupant hut was unsuccessful. The canoe fvaa bright red and carried the initials "JL B."