Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1925 — Page 4
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What Is a Public Utility? E3R a bit of diversion between debates on the big league pennant races, the relative merits of different motor cars, and the sins of the younger generation, ask your neighbor what it is that causes an enterprise to be a public utility. After you have failed to find out, as you undoubtedly will, ask why it is that courts seem to be universally agreed that the furnishing of unfrozen water is a public utility service, while the distributing of ice, or frozen water, is generally regarded as a private undertaking, with which public regulating authorities can not properly concern themselves. After that question is answered, if your neighbor hasn’t slain you or gone to sleep, ask him why the business of providing gas and electricity for heat and power is a public utility almost everywhere in this country, while the coal business, which is concerned with heat and power in another form, is strictly private. If power and heat, in the form of coal, is carried to your house in a truck or wagon, the business is private, and you have nothing directly to say about how it is managed. If, however, the heat and power comes- to your house in wires above or pipes below the street, the courts say that it is a matter of public concern, and prices as well as the quality of the service and product can be regulated. There may be logical answers to these questions. A few of the consumers of anthracite coal, however, are wondering as they dream of a smoky or chilly Christmas, just why they are allowed to regulate fuel distribution over wires and through pipe lines, but not when it comes in chunks.
Kellogg, Mexico and Japan fFn ROM Germany comes the low-down on [£J Secretary of State Kellogg’s explosion over Mexico. Japan was at the bottom of it, says the “Deutsche Allgemeine Zietung.” The activities of Soviet propagandists in Mexico, the confiscation of foreign property under the new agrarian law; the murder of Mis. Evans and all that, sort of thing could have been quietly adjusted, says that paper, but the presence of a deeper hurt still, na aely, the friendship between Mexico and Japan. Japan, the writer explains, is busy courting President Callos’ favor. She alone of the powers waived all claims to compensation for injuries done her citizens during the revolution. She wants to colonize in Mexico—she
Times Readers' Forum
MORAY PARDON PLEA To the Editor of The Times: I want to thank you for your straight to the point and fearless editorial on “The McCray Pardon Plea.” Giving this man a pardon soon will prove to hundreds of people that we have one law for the rich, another for the poor. What could be a greater breeder of "contempt for the law?” THEODORE SATERBOK. SMOKE ARRESTS To thfc,Editor of The Times: I saw in the paper that Mr. R. Sinclair of Kingan & /Cos. has been arrested for violating the smoke ordinance. Previous to that I saw that Sol Meyer was willing to donate $25,000 toward betterment of Indianapolis. Now to sum it all up, can we make this an lndusrtlal center by creating useless Jobs or favoring the industries themselves? ; We elect a bunch of pin heads to the legislature and those same pin heads make a lot of laws which benefit nobody. I am told that the sun can’t be seen in Pittsburgh before noon because of the smoke. If they put a ban on snake where would Pittsburgh he? , Kingan & Cos. could move its plant out of town and still operate, I imagine. It’s the same with the Chamber of Commerce. "When there is money on the board they notify Mr. Meyer that they have a committee to take care of such funds. The smoke inspector has a job to hold down so he has somebody arrested. Such useless laws interfere with business and are liable to hurt thousands of working people who depend on factories for a living, If I remember rightly, someone put a bill before the last legislature to force all factories having offensive odor out of town. That would just about leave us the soda parlors and hot houses. The idea is this, give the factories a boost and not interfere with them continually. We can't all live on the smoke inspector’s salary. POOR PEOPLE. “PRACTIBITIONIST” To The Editor of The Times: Anent your editorial of Aug. 14, “Wanted, a Word.” Practibltionlst —One who practices or follows prohibition for practical reasons. F. A. H.
wants room so-r her emigrants now barred from the United States. This was the real cause of Secretary Kellogg’s sharp warning to Mexico, we are told, and so dark clouds are piling up over the Rio Grande. The biggest menace to the friendship between the United States and Japan comes from the outside. What chance have they of getting together when the rest of the world keeps putting chips on their shoulders and shoving them together ? We’ve seen schoolboys egged on to fight by just such tactics when at heart they’d much nther shake hands. And nations are just like schoolboys. SSOO-a-Day Men on Your Pay Roll E CONOMY is Government is a good thing. ___ Where should it end? Should it end with the $5-a-day Government clerks? Interstate Commerce Commission Eastman thinks not. He thinks it should include the SSOO-a-day men, too. The Interstate Commerce Commission has just awarded $1,500,000 to certain New York bankers and lawyers for their services in reorganizing a Southwestern railroad. That is, the commission has o. k.d the expenditure by this very hard-up line. Eastman thinks the reorganizers did a poor job, but apart from that he is shocked at the SSOO-a-day fees asked by, some of the bankers and lawyers and granted by the commission. He dissented, but the majority was against him. The bankers and lawyers got their fees. Who pays for Government extravagance? The taxpayers. Who pays for railroad extravagance? The same taxpayers. That is the point Eastman makes. They pay directly when they pay excessive freight rates and indirectly even more when they pay for the necessities of life. Walker D. Hines, former railroad administrator and for years a railroad executive, once estimated that the ultimate consumer actually pays not the mere freight rate, but the sum of the freight rate multiplied five times. Those SSOO-a-day fees naturally will come out of freight rates. They will come out of the public’s pocket. Which is why Commissioner Eastman, in his dissenting opinion, said: “Economy in Government service is much stressed at present and quite properly so, but economy in public service, interpreting the term broadly to include all private corporations engaged therein, is no less important.”
Greater Indianapolis To the Editor of The Times: A greater Indianapolis will mean more prosperity for all and is what we need. But remember, if our public officials continue to increase taxes your work for a greater Indianapolis is all in vain. It appears to me the main idea is to get behind the community in a broad-minded movement for our mutual benefit and our organizations should also work toward the taxpayers’ interests. It seems each year taxes are being increased. Your paper could do a good turn for the interests of the public by pushing this strongly. Why not suggest that each township or property owner be taxed equally for each $100? If you live on the north side of Thirty-Eighth St., why should you be compelled to pay more than those living south of Thirty\Eighth St.? A few of our bankers are finally waking up to the fact that it is their duty to get new industries for our city. Why did our bankers and good business men let the Overland Motor Company leave Indianapolis a few years ago and go to Toledo, Ohio? That plant alone has done wonders for Toledo. ' Something further; If we had men without yellow down their backs, we also could have had the Nash automobile plant here. F. M. To the Editor of Thte Times: I wish t cull your attention to a news iten which appeared in your paper Aug. 12, in which I am quoted as saying “He obtained approximately SSO # from each applicant to whom he is alleged to have promised a position.” I never made this statement at any time to any person. The statement made was “Fifty-three teachers were employed for twenty-one positions and there evidence that some of the teachers paid for their contracts.” In view of the fact that several teachers made their contracts in good faith and without fraud it is unfair to them to change this statement to include “each” teacher. In justice to this class of teachers this correction should be made. W. C. ROBERTS, County Superintendent of Schools, Lawrence County. A job at the ice plant, working on the inside, would make an ideal vacation and wouldn’t cost much. Trouble-makers always find a market for their wares, but seldom get good prices.
Tom Sims Says Marry a blond and you won’t notice hair in the soup, a brunet and yod won’t notice it oh the steak. After washing a piece of ice never hang it out to dry. Place it in a hot oven instead. A few hatpins left in anew hat will keep it from being sat upon
more than a second or so. You may eat your cake and have it, too, by making two cakes. Peach preserves will keep much better if placed in a closet where the children can’t find them. The first thing to do with anew cat* is wonder why the county doesn’t fix the roads.
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When jerking a chair out from under a lady friend it isn’t polite to sit on her head as she falls. A girl with sharp fingernails can scratch a man for kissing her, or for not kissing her. You can make dishwashing easy by cooking something sticky so all dishes will have to soak. If you drop a dish on the floor and it doesn’t bounce it Is best not to try again that day. Never cry over spilled milk. Keep a cat to lick it up. You may keep the children from making marks on the wall paper by hanging it on the ceiling. Autos are changing this world. Once love made the world go around. Now love makes it park. One can make one’s hair thick by swimming in muddy water. Things are so complicated. Narrow minded people are thick headed. Laughing may make one fat, but being fat in this weather is no latighing matter. The college graduates are working until something turns up. No telling what would happen if you were rich. You might have a daughteY parry your butler. (Copyright 1925, NEA Service. Inc.)
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SCIENTIST SA YS WE AL WA YS LIVED IN THE IRON AGE
By David Dietz NEA Service Writer j IHE historian sometimes di- | J vided his subject into the ULJ Age of Stone, the Age of Bronze and the Age of Iron. But that pioneer on the last frontier, the research worker on the frontier of science, has now come to the conclusion that from one point of view at least, we have always lived in the iron" age. In fact, he believes now that without iron, life itself could not exist. The reason for this was explained recently in a lecture before the Rockefeller Institute by Professor Otto Warburg of Berlin. Germany. Life, as everyone knows, is impossible without oxygen. The oxygen we breathe is carried to every cell of the body. The action of respiration, that is the absorption of oxygen and the giving off of carbon dioxide is carried out by every cell in the body. Just how this occurred has been a puzzle but Dr. Warburg is believed to have solved it. , Dr. Warburg points out that every living cell contains iron. The iron is not a part of the cell itself but is contained in the cell. The iron, Dr. W r arburg believes, reacts with the oxygen to form a very complex iron oxide. This in turn reacts with the organic parts of the cell, giving up the oxygen to them and returning the iron to its original state. The cycle then begins all over again.
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
INCREASE IN POPULATION EEONARD V. HARRISON, secretary of the civic affairs department of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, estimates the city’s population to be 363,467. The estimate is the result of an exhaustive survey and is probably as nearly accurate as possible without an actual count of noses. Greater Indianapolis Week has a real reason for being aside from
local pride, for the city has gained 50,000 in population sine*" 1920. This despite postwar deflation and the industrial prostration o f in t e r v e ning years. Greater Indianapolis is fact not a phrase. More important to the city's well being than mere Increase in population
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are the growth in homes and development of suburban areas revealed by the survey. Since 1920, 16,500 dwellings and apartments have been constructed in the city—more than eno’ugh to house the additional population. Yet now the number of vacant houses is only normal. The workers without family and the floaters, drawn to the city in the opulent industrial years immediately preceding 1920, have been replaced by sober family men who come to live and rear families not to work a few months and move on. The Indianapolis population here today, will be here tomorrow. Suburban development also indicates the solid character, of the city’s growth and expansion. Cottages and bungalows of determined and ambitious home owners dot a landscape wb.ere yesteryear were weed patches and corn fields. While the population of the city proper only increased 15 per cent between 1920 and 1925, the combined population of Warren, Perry, Washington and Wayne townships outide the city increased 60 per cent. Homes and families are the basic factors that make Indianapolis greater, and it is the steady increase in homes and that will make it greater. FARMERSON TOUR P 1 . 1 TER a week spent tourI ing Kentuck y< OWo and | southern Indiana a motor caravan carrying 100 Hoosier farmers and wives, from Jackson, Clark, Harrison and Floyd Counties, returned home yesterday. More than 60 miles were covered in the jaunt. Famous estates, stock farms, dairy -farms and progressive agricultural enterprises were visited and inspected as well as scenery'. The trip combined business and pleasure, instruction and enjoyment—an ideal vacation. Every summer more of these farm caravans set forth to tour adjacent States and study improved agricultural methods. Some of these tours are large undertakings on a big scale, as the imposing cavalcade of lowa farmers who recently visited Washington and the East. The movement is one of the most hopeful signs of the times in farming. Seeing how the other fellow does it, inspecting firsthand big farms and estates employing most up-to-date methods, will do more for the professional education of the individual farmer than a ton of literature, as in other lines is, after all, primarily a visual process. MALARIE AND PARESIS | v . IT city hospital the other day j A was tried, for the first time ** in Indiana, on a patient from the Central Hospital for the Insane, the malarial fever treatment for paresis. This method of treating softening of the brain is a recent discovery but has already proved effidacious in many cases in east-
Dr. Warburg has performed laboratory experiments to show that this cycle can actually take place. His conclusion is that life is impossible without the presence of iron. i * * * H"— "J EALTH experts believe that if bad weather could be elimii__J nated, the death rate in the United States could be reduced by one-tenth, or about 150,000 a year. In other words, the expectation of life would be increased by five years for every person in the United States if excessive hot and cold spells and severe storms could be eliminated. The experts have no hopes of ever being able to do away with bad weather. What they hope to do, however, is to learn how to counteract its deadly effects. * • * STUDY of the death rate of New York city extended over u_J the past eight years shows to what an astounding degree it keeps step with the thermometer. An average change of one degree in the temperature from one day to the next has its effect on the death rate. The rate falls as the temperature goes down, and rises -with increased temperature. However, if the temperature remains for any length of time at a very high or low level, there is a sharp increase in the rate.
ern hospitals, it is said. The process consists simply of inoculating paresis sufferers with malaria germs. Apparently .the malaria germs chase the paresis ger.ns into a comer then kill and eat them. After which quinine is fed to the malaria germs and they turn up their toes. Freed thus from both groups of devastating organisms the patient regains mental and physical health. Attempting to cure one ill by giving another in one of the mo3t ancient medical practices. Most of such systems merely served to distract the patient's attention from his original complaint. The old Incas of Peru to cure headaches and brain disorders scraped holes in the sufferers’ skulls. They thought the hole would let out the evil spirit causing the disturbance. As they used no anaesthetics for the operation, doubtless the method was effective. At least he patient undergoing- the operation temporarily forgot his headache even if he later died from the hole in his skull. At first glance giving a patient malaria to cure paresis seems to belong to that same system of therapeutics. But it’s based on scientific investigation. Eat and be eaten is the law of nature. Big bug3 eat little bugs and so on ad infiinitum. A good deal of the attention of modern medicine is devoted to finding the bug with the proper appetite and training him to do his bit. MORE AUTOS IN INDIANA ICHARD BREUNE, head of the State automobile license department, reports that during the first seven months this year 15,000 more automobiles were registered in Indiana than 'for the entire year 1924. In the first sever months this year 581,858 passenger autos were registered. The entire population of Indiana could pile into the automobiles owned in the State and take to the highways at the same time — and apparently does. Motor vehicle registration in every State shows substantial increase over last year—and that oyer the preceding and so on back to the beginning when the horseless carriage first sputtered and died on the highway. In New York city alone there are 53,000 more automobiles and trucks than last year. Where will the end be? Ten years ago conscervative statisticians proclaimed that automobile production was rapidly approaching the saturation point. In a few years at most, they said, every possible purchaser would have a car, and the industry would reach the limit of expansion. Ten years ago there were 96,615 automobiles in Indiana. Today there are six times that number and apparently the saturation ,point in automobile production is as far off as it was ten years ago. Until every Ford owner possesses a Rolls-Royce or a Pierce- ' Arrow and every member of every family owns a Ford the saturation point in automobile production will not be reached. The only real limit to the number of possible automobile owners in this country* seems to be the capacity of the highw-ays. A Thought He is-in the way of* life that keepeth instruction: bat he that refuseth reproof erreth.—Prov. 10:18. * * * SHERE are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. —Swift. DIVORCED IN PARIS Son Os Late Montana Millionaire Senator Loses Wife. Bv United Press PARIS, Aug. 17.—A divorce has been granted here to Mrs. Cecelia Tobin Clark from Charles William Clark. The couple were married in 1904 in San FranciscoClark is a son of the late Senator Clark, Montana millionaire.
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SCIENCE TAKES ANOTHER LEAP
r2L 1 NE after another the vexing jfj j problems of humanity are LV_J solved by science. Man emerged from the Simian state with a brain just capable of molding a grunt to a word. He slowly realized that a tree struck by lightning and emitting a strange light also took away the chill given him by the shower, and that this thing which he finally came to speak of
Men Are Funny!
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson mWILL grant you that there are any number of women who, by the aid of cosmetic and other gay ruses, hope to create the impression of perennial youth, but they are not one bit funnier than the sight of an aged man trying to kid himself back to boyhood by having a love affair. Plump middle-aged fathers cavorting about and preening themselves like cockatoos, attempting to fool the -world into believing them gay young dogs, are about the most amusing thing that life offers for our diversion. And the strange thing about this joke is that the men can never see it. They are forever poking fun at us because we attempt to stop the ravages of time by artificial aid. They admonish us to resign ourselves to the inevitable and grow old gracefully. But how about their growing old morally? A man is never so ancient that he does not nurse the fond delusion that if he were foolish enough to do it, he could step right out and fascinate any woman who happened to take his eye. He actually believes that any member of the
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Taking a Dip By Hal Cochran If you want to see grace, that is right in its place, it is best that you hie to the beaches. For there, ’mong the women, who really go swimmin’, you’re sure to be eyein’ some peaches. In bathing suits neat, they are really a treat; quite the best you can find in the land. Cute capers they're cutting while doing their struttin’, and playin’ around in the 3and. They’ll shivver arid shake when the first step they take and they 11 shout that the water is colder. And then, in a minute they’re all the way in it 'and feein’ much bolder and bolder. At last they are swimmin’ and gracefully skimmin’ through water that leads to a log. The dlvin’ board's ready. They pose a bit, steady, then leap through the air like a frog. , The beach folks enjoy it for, really, oh, boy, it’s a treat for the eyes that are sore. We hope, when they’re done, they get half as much fun as the people who sit on the shore.
TEE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT
as fire -would not only burn the garter snake or skunk he had hung in the tree before the rain, but made what was left of it more tender and toothsome. Then he learned that if he put more wood on the coals he could keep the fire going. A great step had been taken in what Mr. Wells is so optimistic as to call human progress. These awkward and accidental experiences were the beginning of
feminine sex would not’ only receive graciously, but be highly flattered with, his attentions. In spite of all their proud boasts regarding reason and logic and superior mental qualities, the men go on blandly thinking that all the pretty girls who laugh so innocently into their eyes are doing so because they are held spellbound by their masculine charms. It seldom occurs 1 , to them that their purses may often T>e more precious than their persons. Yes, God was .kind to the men. Besides giving them Wbains and brawn he endowed them with this vanity which makes their pathway pleasant wherever they may go. The majority of them go to their graves trusting implicitly in their ,own personal fascination for women. Like his Neanderthal forefather, modern man believes that anything male is condescending and considerate when he notices anything female. Somehow they can't get over the idea that they are always doing us a bit of favor when they seek our society, and that they have conferred a magnificent benefit upon us whenever they marry us. The dear, big, funny babies! And the older they get the funnier they grow.
abrupt hillside to Wheeling Creek, and made his escape. It was a most daring exploit and Is commemorated by a monument there. Why does Great Britian control the rubber market? Why have prices risen so much within the past few months? > Practically all the rubber consumed in industry now comes from plantations in the British possessions in Ceylon and Malay Peninsula and tho British government limits the amount that can be exported, so that automatically a short age has occurred which causes the price to increase. The embargo on exports was ordered to protect the plantation owners and enable them to get higher prices. Is there anything that one can do to keep pigeons from roosting on the fence and hedge. The best method of discouraging them is to have sharp spikes sticking up sufficiently close togather to make it difficult for the birds to find footing.
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 Vdieve 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
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science. It is now organized and leaping from crag to crag in its ascent of the Hill of Knowledge. The other day it took another leap in a statement made to the National Academy of Science in Washington. A Yale scientist announced that an intoxicated person may sober himself up if he so desires by working his lungs rather violently for half an hour. Deep, rapid breathing will carry the alcohol oif in the expired air. How It May Be Used This is a very gratifying thought, the Volstead forces insist, a belated discovery. We may expect to see men panting violently at the approach of a policeman while leaning against a lamp-post. Even ladies, when overtaken by unwise indulgence at evening hip-pocket parties, can achieve sobriety by bursting into pants. Thefie will Be, as might have been expected, some disadvantages to the bystanders or bysitters in the utilizing of this new discovery. The air in street cars may become so surcharged with the expired alcohol as to become not only disagreeable, which Is something to which we are accustomed, but, in view of the fact that lungs absorb as well as give forth, actually intoxicating. If your husband comes home and says the car was full of men panting away their loads and that he had absorbed a jag by breathing, you may not sneer the thing lightly off. He may he a drunk one degree removed from the violation of the law. Be kind to him. And magistrates will be forced to recognize the state of drunkenness by Inhalation. Os course the stuff which is used today in the place of alcohol will often be panted off; and if your back hair happens to be scorched by the bootlegged breath of the person behind you, you may be vexed, but you need not be surprised. Has Been Done Before The idea Is new only in its clear statement. For ages men have worked their lungs violently as soon as the alcohol they drank began to produce Its deadly effect. The writer once saw a powerful brandy punch served through the natdral error of the Kentucky lady who furnished it to a company made up largely of Methodist preachers. They drank it in their innocence, thinking it their usual fruit-juice punch. Almost at once they began working their lungs violently. As the expelled air went through theil larynxes it was automatically turned Into voice and carved by the organs of speech Into words. What ensued was not conversation, for nobody paid any attention to what any one said. Most of their utterances were filled with love for every one and appreciation of the value of such social relations as this which they were enjoying. And the Y’ale man is right. They very soon became sober. lam glad to give this testimonial from experience to the truth of this new, epochal, though, let us hope, belated discovery of science. The secret of sobriety is a combination of pants and conversation —or oratory.
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