Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1925 — Page 4
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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER. Editor. t WJL A> MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis t * * Subscription Ratesr Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week * • * PHONE—MA in 3500.
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Roast Pig and Arson MOST reformers —prohibitionists, women suffragists, single-taxers or what not — are generally well meaning and sincere people. They do not always, however, mind the adage, “Look before you leap.” They are like the Chinaman who kept his pigs in his house, and who got his .first taste of roast pork through accident when the house burned down. After that there were many fires in the neighborhood —he as well as his neighbors liked the taste, and burned down a house every time they wanted to indulge it. Lately this newspaper has been calling attention to the pew Indiana dry law, since the passage of which the houses, automobiles, cow barns and other “effects” of Indiana citizens have been “searched and seized” contrary to the United States Constitution to an extent that has aroused nation-wide interest. In this Indiana has been perhaps unjustly singled out. Similar occurrences are common in California, Ohio and other States, whether condoned by State laws and courts or not. The big question in all of these cases is the constitutional question. The parts of the Constitution which particularly apply are the Fourth amendment, effective in 1791, which says, “THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO BE SECURE IN THEIR PERSONS. HOUSES, PAPERS AND EFFECTS, AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES, SHALL NOT BE VIOLATED. AND NO WARRANTS SHALL ISSUE BUT UPON PROBABLE CAUSE, SUPPORTED BY OATH OR AFFIRMATION, AND PARTICULARLY DESCRIBING THE PLACE TO BE SEARCHED, AND THE PERSON OR THINGS TO BE SEIZED”; and a part of the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, saying: “NO STATE SHALL MAKE OR ENFORCE ANY LAW WHICH SHALL ABRIDGE THE PRIVILEGES OR IMMUNITIES OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.” / There are few reformers believing in “State dry laws with teeth in them,” or in ruthless dry law enforcement, who would say that they are willing to give up tfie right to trial jury, or the right-to be represented by a lawyer in court. Yet the only legal hold we have on these last two rights is established in the same “Bill of Rights,” is one of the same first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, as the Foufth Amendment quoted above. AN INVASION OF ANY ONE OF THESE RIGHTS CAN ONLY LAY THE WAY OPEN FOR INVASIONS OF ALL OF THEM. To show the vital importance of the “Bid )f Rights” as a whole, as the real basis of American liberties, here is a list of things covered by it, over and above the search and seizure provisions of the Fourth Amendment: Limitation of the power of Congress with respect to freedom of religion, speech, press and assembly. Right of citizens to bear arms. Freedom, in peace times, from the quartering of soldiers in private houses. Freedom from arrest or imprisonment without due process of law; private property
Outline of Evolution
CHAPTER 16 Evolution Into Debt | rri IHE ' early story of ~ Mr. J Howard Sapiens, the first L mi * real man Is divided into three periods. The first is the old-stone age, which we scientists term the '“Paleolithic Period." Then came the age of polished stone implements, or the "Neolithic Period." Finally came the age of metals, starting with the use of bronze for weapons and culminating in the working of tin into flivvers. Men lived very happily in the old stone age, wtihout rent, stores, clothes or other Expenses, their sole possessions being rude stone implements. Now I realize that the fundamentalists are opposed to anything that is conjectural, anything that cannot be said with absolute certainty. However, there is much evidence to support the hypothesis that the old stone age ended, because the women folks wanted something fancier, something for which they had to pay. I am sure that the men will easily believe my hypothesis. Thus came on the new stone age* with more elaborate household implements, and possessions, better caves, dressed skins for clothing, etc. Even now- I can picture a happy family group, sitting on the veranda of their Meridian St. cave, as the boy comes along to deliver the evening edition of the Neolithic Times. Everybody scurries inside for fear of being hit, for It is no joke to be struck by an 800-pound stone page— Not even by the comic page. Incidentally, at this same time the Stone Age News started giving away free cavegy because It was losttg readers so rapidly.
not to be taken for public use without payment. Right to a speedy trial; by a jury, with witnesses, and will legal counsel. Freedom from excessive bail, excessive fines and cruel and unusual punishment. Broad rights of the States, and of the people, in all matters not covered by the Constitution. This is the real “Magna Charta” of our country. It embodies the great American idea of “a government of laws, not of men.” It is threatened whenever one of its -provision? is violated. This is too magnificent a structure for anybody in his senses to tear down just to save a few days in putting a few bootleggers in jail. Asa matter of fact, if the enforcement officers would do their duty they could find plenty of practical ways of apprehending, arresting and convicting the bootleggers without acting like Bolsheviki and jeopardizing the safety and security of everybody else in the country. Roast pig and arson do not necessarily go together. Neither do reform and a species of red terror. The Soft Coal Problem O'”"" — UT of the chaotic conditions which have i ___ disrupted the bituminous coal industry, there are now emerging a number of large coal company consolidations. Negotiations are pending for a $500,000,000 merger of Kentucky and southern West Virginia mines. Another half-billion-dollar merger o£ the immense holdings of the Consolidated Coal Company of northern West Virginia, the Pittsburgh Coal and Coke Company of western Pennsylvania, and several other companies is being discussed in New York. Overproduction of coal, and the lack of a uniform wage scale for miners, have been the chief causes of coal company troubles. During the war production . was speeded to a point far exceeding peace time needs. One of the first steps of the large consolidations will undoubtedly be the shutting down of many fiaia&s. :s r. . The attitude of fhese large combinations toward labor problems will bear watching. In the past, the non-union mines of southern West Virginia and Kentucky have been able to disrupt the coal trade. The low wages in these regions have enabled the operators to undersell the union operators of northern West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illirijois. Recently the northern West Virginia operators, on the ground that they must meet this non-union competition, have broken their agreements with the United Mine Workers. To date. mo=t of the companies mentioned in connection with the mergers have either been those operating with non-union labor, or those openly opposed to the union wage scale. If the mergers are intended largely as a means of breaking down the miners’ union through intimidation, troubles undoubtedly lie ahead. If a sincere effort is made to stabilize an industry long noted for lack of stability, and this effort Is extended to include a sympathetic attitude toward the problems of the mine workers, the mergers may prove to be beneficial.
Immediately uy on receiving the paper the women folks scramble through the ads, to get the latest quotations on 3tone hatchets and pans, bone knives, palm leaf stenins, dressed cave b3ar skins, ox hide corsets, granite ear bobs, mastodon hide teddies ard other articles ofpopular demand. And the next day they were down making purchases—and on the first of the month the postman lugged in 14,739 pounds or bills. But evolution progressed and over a period of thousands of years folks began to tire of stone, so metals were developed. The first mej;al was bronze, which made very soft hatchets that dented the first time they were used. Many of them were preserved and can now be purchased at any 6-and-l'o-cent store. Then came the working of tin—and as the news spread the ancestors of Henry Ford ; and John D. Rockefeller roared with 'glee and knocked down a half dozen wives, just to show how happy they were. ND now that we have completed the history of man to b—l the age of metals, we have covered the historical field of early evolution. Next we will turn our attention to the reasons why man seems so closely related to the rest of the animal world, mentioning the apes first. NEXT—Why pick on the Xpe?, A THOUGHT Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.—Prov. 16;3. • • • Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. —Bible. *
Tom Sims Says A man was arrested for sleeping in a Chicago theater and we think we have seen the same show. Nine men were unable to land a fish off the coast of New Jersey where booze is thrown overbc-ard. Latest report from the movies claims a movie actor and hi3 wife are close* friends. Press agent stuff. We never read a news item from Hong Kong that we don’t think it
• like an auto norn blowing. Human nature is what makes your dog seem to have more sense than any ot her known dog. Just as the boys are planning for college a New York professor resigns to become a carpenter.
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Everybody’s an antique hunter when it comes to looking for real old prices. Loafing and loving sound alike. And neither of, them leave you much time for stacking up money. One of these blankets of snow the movies talk abput would make swell cover for the next few weeks. Be careful about the bee in your bonnet. It is so liable to be considered a humbug. Better start carrying out'last winter’s ashes before long. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
DIVISIONS OF SCIENCE ARE NOW BEGINNING TO MERGE
By David Dietz NEA Service Writer SHE scientist for many years has been the target of the humorist, because of his habit of giving things long navies. And now he seems to be engaged in the process of inventing new names for the various sciences themselves. Seemingly n<}t content with chemistry, 'geology, physics and astronomy, .he is compounding such names as bio-chemistry, astrophysics, geophysics, geochemistry and others. There is good reason for this, however. It means that the arbitarary divisions of knowledge of the universe into so-called branches of science are beginning, to break down. As we approach closer and closer to the fundamentals of natural phenomena, we make astounding discoveries. We find the foundation of a certain chemical problem must be explained on the basis of physics and that a problem in geology really has its basis in chemistry. , Hencefwe are gradually developing what Sir William Bragg, famed British scientist, cal’s “border line men,” men who work on the border between two sciences. The biochemist works on the borderline between chemistry and biology, the astrophysicist works on
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA
By GAYLORD NELSON.
BATHING BEAUTY PARADE mNDIANAPOLIS young women—loo or more—participated in an extensively advertised bathing beauty show at a local amusement park Sunday. Wearing a suggestion of September Morn they passed in review . before an enthusiastic capacity crowd in spirited, open competition. It was a most successful bathing beauty parade—unmarred by a drop of water. Os course it was an important event to the participants. No doilbt'
prize winners will feel 'highly elated over their victory. They will be photographed and will enjoy publicity and passing local fame. To a young woman possessing the proper foundation and background the bathing costume seems to offer a short—very short —cut to fame.
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Hence the popularity and keenness of competition in the numerous bathing beauty contests. Certainly a bathing suit can make a young . woman famous. This morning Gertrude Ederle, dad in a heavy coating of oil and a bathing suit, slipped into the sea off Cape Gris-Nez, France, in an attempt to swim the English Channel. If she is successful her picture will be in all the newspapers of the country. She will be a much talked about young lady—with more than a few days’ claim to fame. Yet her bathing costume wouldn’t even place her as an also ran in a corn belt bathing beauty review. It isn’t the bathing costume, but what one does in it that assures a young lady more than momentary applause. CURE FOR DESPONDENCY H”""l AROLD OLSEN, an Indianapolis man. died at city i__J hospital Sunday, from the effects of poison he took several days before with suicidal intent. He iGft a wife and three small children. Despondency presumably caused his act of self destruction. Os course a person can, if sp disposed, pure despondency, falling hair or halitosis t>y gulping down a brimming goblet of parts green or using a. shotgun. But such cure is worse than the disease. And when a man has family and 'dependents the actis likely to cause more depression and dejection than it cures. In some countries suicide is an honorable mode of exit. The aristocracy of Japanese gentlemen politely falls on his sword when he is displeased with the course of events. He regards hari-kari as a suitable method of vindicating soiled honor or voicing a protest. But suicide seldom does any good It effectually removes the actor from the stage but that rarely untangles the skein of human relations which prompted his , act. He merely goes and leaves his dependents behind to battle with life and its problem. He settles nothing but himself. If one is despondent he can find the surest cure for the,affliction in this world, not the next. CITY BUILDING COMPETITION IN the United States are enwJ in or are planning industrial development campaigns, according to information received by Sol Meyer, whose proposal of a $1,000,000 industrial promotion fund in Indianapolis is under discussion. City building competition is keen- There are many suitors for the grimy hand of industry. Some aye bound to disappointment as there is not enough industry to satisfy all. The hard facts of gepgr-phy will prevent many of these in-dustry-wooing communities from
the borderline betwen astronomy and physics. Keep your eye oh the borderline scientists. For they are the ones who are expected ro make the biggest advances of the future. * * * H”"A USBANDS who feel henpecked will realize that things could be a lot worse after hearing of a species of Arabian water beetle which has been observed by Maj. R. E. Cheeseman, naturalist and explorer. The female beetle lays her eggs upon the back of the male beetle, where they hatch, turning tfle poor papa beetle into a sort of animated nursery. Major .Cheeseman reports finding one male beetle with more than ninety tiny newly-born beetles on his back. * * * STUDY to how muchpower was developed by memv. - bers of the Yale crew during a race was undertaken recently by Dr. Yandell Henderson and Dr. HW. Haggard of the Yale University department of physiology. Their study showed that each man in the racing shell developed .about one-half horse power. The amount of energy expended by each man was from thirteen to twenty times the amount which he “burned up” while resting quietly in a lying position.
attaining their desire. Others will probably fail to realize their ambitions because of mistaking bom bastic conversation for aggressive campaigning. Geography and facts favor Indianapolis industrial development. Here a campaign conducted with money and intelligence wilf accomplish results. The problem consists principally of coaching the city’s natural advantages to get in their deadly work.' ! But merely patting itself on the back won’t increase Indianapolis industry or prosperity. Nor will the earnest but desultory debate as to whether the proposed industrial promotion fund can be most effectively handled through the Chamber of Commerce of a separate organization perfected for the purpose. Every citizen wants to see India-i napolis strengthen its industrial position for that is the basis of the community material prosperity. To some esthetic souls a bigger, busier city may not seem a better city but it will offer more opportunities for material prosperity, in pursuit of'which most people devote their lives. The actual campaign to make Indianapolis such a city is more important than whe shall direct the campaign. PLEADERS FOR EARLY PARDONS R. ORIEN W. FIFER, at the Central Ave. M. E. J Church Sunday morning, said that sentimentalism has prevailed over common sense in our administration of justice. To this he attributes some of the lack of regard for law and courts so prevalent. "Those who hastily intervene to obtain early pardons for men convicted, especially men of high position, have to reckon with the effect of such action upon the mass of people,” he declared. There’s food for serious thought in that statement. Almost before the prison door clangs on a convicted man of prominence powerful friends begin to plead for early pardon. The higher his position the more prominent t&e petitioners for clemency. We have the spectacle of Governors, Senators, and others, who vocally uphold the majesty of the law, actively pleading for the release of convioted friends before expiration of minimum sentences imposed by the courts. Such pleaders would indignantly deny they were attempting to thwart justice. To them the cases in which they are interested are special cases meriting special cases. Probably so. But every success of prominent, powerful, personally law-abiding men in securing early pardon of a once-prominent friend gives justice another eye. If such can escape full punishment—assessed by courts after hearing the evidence —for their evidence —for their misdeeds, why shouldn't common malefactors likewise? Every convicted man thinks his a special case deserving clemency. The sum total of all pleas for early pardon is not \ beautiful mercy, but greater encouragement to lawlessness. Lunch By Hal Cochran It’s funny how your appetite will often rule your mind, and make you buy a lot of food you’ll likely leave behind. You see a mess of dishes that appear to be a treat, and then you purchase much too much fot* any map to eat. You work all through the morning, then, at noon you get the hunch that you’ll be feelin’ better if you hurry out to lunch. You join the merry throng that takes the middle of the day to court a lot of pains and aches at luncheon or case. There’s, roasted beef and gravy and there’s pork and navy beans. You start to figure closely on the dough that’s in your jeans. Y'our hunger’s runnin’ rampant and you eat with lots of vim. Then, when your lunch is over you are filled up to the brim. The food that’s around you, with a saddened eye you scan. You’ve simply got to waste it, ’cause you’ve eaten all you can. Your appetite’s a focler, is the fact that you have found. But, shucks, you do the same thing, when tomorrow comes around. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service. Inc.)
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And In Walked Four Wonderful Women; •Everything Is In Good Shape at Palace
By Walter D. Hickman rri.ND in walked four wonderful | | women. I* H Meaning these four: Mary Hill, Edythe Elliott, Idabelle Arnold and Alice De Lane. These four walk away with "Mother’s Millions,” a play which was written for a well-known star some years ago. May Robson used this vehicle seasons ago. It is built upon the lines for a great star, magnificent entrances and exits. It is good theater of theater. This week at English’s the four “queens” of the Berkell organization each - give performances that
will make them more faVorites than ever. The first act gives Idabelle Arnold a chance to domi-1 nate with the brand of comedy that this women knows how lo serve: Give her a -gingham dress role and 3he will “clean up.” As Marie Pepp/, the slavey . of a kitchen, who becomes a railroad “maget,” she reaches new comedy heights. The
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show this week belongs to Mary Hill as the Stern business woman and a mother who used strange tactics upon her children. In the first act she catches the “home” spirit of the character, but in the last two acts she becomes the new woman. As fine a piece of work as one would want to see in a stock production. Edythe Elliott shows what she can do with a quiet emotional daughter role. This is not the star pair, but she plays it with as much sincerity and charm as if it was the whole play. Another fine big thing to the credit of Miss Elliott, she permits Miss Hill to take her own curtains. Fine, mighty fine. This is the second week of the return of Alice De Lane to the Berkell company. \ This woman is best in flash roles, such as she has this week. She is mighty clever along these lines. Will give you the cast as follows. Faire Breen Edythe Elliott Marie Peppy Idabelle Arnold David Talbot Milton Byron Thomas Breen Robert St. Clair Harriet Breen Mary Hill Mrs, Talbot Alice De Dane Wright Hadden Alexander Campbell Craig Mason Larry Sullivan Joseph Clark Tommy Evans William Remington Al. C. Wilson James Burk William V. Hull But it is the women who shine forth this week at English’s. •1- -I- -ITOBY RETURNS TO PALACE WITH NEW ACT. It has been said that variety is the spice of life and the show business as well. / For the sake of variety, I presume, the Palace is offering a departure from Its regular style of bill, this week. Toby Wilson and his musical comedy company present the entire show with the exception of the movie. Their bill for the first half of the week is called “Not Tonight Dearie." Wilson is a first class comic of the regulation “rube” type. In this show
he is cast as an Inn proprietor ■who is constable, fire chief and bootlegger on the side. Toby knows how to get business. He digs a hole in the road and fills it with glass. The Inn does a flourish in g business while the victims of Toby’s sense of business are having their
cars and tires repaired. Several couples who are acquaint- J ed but not desirous of each other’s company are forced together in the Inn and this furnishes the basis for the slight plot needed for a musical comedy. Chief In support of Wilson is Peggy Earl. Miss Earl Is good looking
THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT
and vivacious but she does not sing so well. A quartette offers a specialty and does good work in the musical numbers. The chorus of twelve girls look good and work well. The show has been nicely staged, feting, costumes and “big time"
Stage Verdict English’s Mary Hill in "Mother’s proyes that she has the right to be starred. It is a Mary Hill triumph this week. Lyric—lt is easy to pick the winner this week. It is—Boob Smalzried and his Rube Quartette. The bill stacks up as a fair one only. Folate —Toby Wilson and company hre contributing the entire bill .with the exception o£ the movie.
musical number's add a great deal to the effectiveness of the production. I think Wilson and his company will be well received as a pleasant break in the routine of vaudeville at the Palace. The feature movie is “The Dancers.” The Wilson company will be seen in anew offering starting Thursday matinee. (By Observer.) * • * LOOKING OVER NEW BILL AT THE LYRIC Boob Smalzried and his Rube Quartette is built along new' lines. Smalzried acts as a sort of an announcer of w T hat is going on in his act. Several of the numbers are cleverly arranged and presented. The old time town band number is good and some of the comediy effects used are new. Smalzrjed has enough personality to assure an act that becomes different from the start and ends up
Lenora’s Jewels
mighty, mighty sad and not of good taste. Leave out every spoken word and you will have an act that will get by. A safe rule for an impersonator to follow is not to speak a line. Lamonte should learn that lesson. Pisano and Landauer have a hokum offering that ends up with a loud travesty on songs and a drum. Audiences seem to like this brand
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,” 9-re 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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of hokum, because I find the same brand in the best revues on tjie legitimate stage. Billy Broad, blackface comic, tells some stories that are good and others that are just so so. The Four Hamil Sisters specialize in playing brass in- , struments. Stross plays from the pit. He is an artist. I do not know the name of the | first act. Sort of picture malring j with clothe. A violinist is pi-esent I who attempts to tell stories. The whole bill “does not seem to ’ build up to that general satisfaction i that has been the rule at the Lyric this summer. -I- -I- -IOther theatrs today offer: “Beggar on Horseback” at the Ohio. Tom Brown in a great musical offering at the Circle; “Drusilla With A Million” at the Colonial; “Sun-Up” at the Apollo; The Pepper Girls at the Broadway and “The Eild Bull's Lair” at the Isis. Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washinton. D. C., Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can' extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. 411 letters are confidential.—Editor. What is the size of the American flags that are flown over the White House at Washington, D. C.? Two sizes are flown. The smaller flag, (jx9 feet, is used in bad weather, while in fair weather, the larger flag, 12x16 feet is flown. How can rhododendrons be grown successfully? The secret of success with rhododendrons is to have the soil cool and moist. They will not grow in soil that has lime in it. In the winter they should be deeply mulched with leaves. In the sunimer they need an abundance of water. They prefer shady places and should be madded in one bed. Who is the highest paid baseball player and what is his salary? Babe Ruth, whose salary is $52,000 per year, is reported to be the,highest paid baseball player. Was Samuel Gompers, the late president of the American Federation of Labor, born in the United States? No. He was born In England and became an American citizen through naturalization. Is sawdust a good fertilizer? No. It adds nothing to the plantproducing properties of the soil. How many varieties of birds are there? It has been estimated that there are approximately 20,000 varieties. How much has Niagara Falls receded? Seven miles, the full length of the gorge.
that way. Lenora’s Jewels is a dancing act that does not employ lavish settings. Some of the ensemble work of the girls has merit and the solo dancing work of the man stands. Lestra Lamonte is a female impersonator who wears some stunning frocks made out of paper, but some of his stories are
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