Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 94, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1925 — Page 6
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The Civic Parade as An Inspiration mODAY we reach the climax of Greater Indianapolis week. The greatest parade in the history of the city is the leading feature of the program. The city is in gala attire. The streets are crowded. All sorts of industry is represented. We are celebrating our own greatness. All of this is very well—if it is followed through. If the parade is just a parade, and everybody turns out simply to see the pretty floats and hear the bands play, Greater Indi' anapolis Week will have accomplished no permanent good. The parade itself is merely symbolic. At bflfet, it' is educational. But our interest is beyond even this. It is frankly a selfish interest. We are attempting to make Indianapolis a bigger, better and more prosperous city. The parade can be a starting point in this direction. Certainly, it is not an end in itself. If the movement is going to end simply with a grand display it is not worth the time, money and effort expended on it. What Indianapolis is seeking is more industry, more and better opportunities for its citizens to make a living, to become prosperous. The Greater Indianapolis movement, with the parade as a climax can serve as an inspiration in this direction. It can serve to show to the citizens of Indianapolis and of Indiana the present flourishing condition of the city and the possibilities for improvement. But it can do nothing toward improving conditions, toward bringing more industry here, toward building a more prosperous city, unless the inspiration thus provided carries with it sufficient momentum to cause the work to go on. The big job still is ahead. When an industry seeks to locate in a city the heads of that industry do not ask:* How big a parade can Indianapolis get together? How good looking is Miss Greater Indianapolis? How many people will lay off half a day to see beautifully decorated floats go by? But here are some of the questions that are asked: What is the tax rate of Indianapolis? Are the people of Indianapolis able and willing to help finance legitimate business? What are labor conditions? What about transportation facilities? What is the attitude of various commercial and civic organizations toward new business? Are the laws of the city and the State such that legitimate industry can prosper? What is the attitude of the city administration toward legitimate business expansion ? What advantages does Indianapolis possess that other cities do not possess? Happily, Indianapolis is in a position to give satisfactory answers to most of these questions. The answers to these questions are the facts that we must put before the rest of the country. It will cost money to do this, but money thus spent will be even better spent than money put into a monster parade. Other cities are doing this very thing. They are accomplishing results. That is what we mean by following through.
Haywiring Our National Defense mF you ever owned an automobile or rode in one you will agree that to repair a broken steering gear, or other vital part, with a piece of haywire is mighty poor economy. A man might save a little money that way, temporarily, but in the end the chances are he will lose his car and maybe his life by so doing. Which is bad business. ■ Next December Congress is going to take up again the question of our national defense. And there is every indication, if one reads between the lines, that some of our politicians are going to try to use haywire on it. President Coolidge, you see, has gained for himself considerable—and deserved—popular-
Outline of Evolution
CHAPTETR 17 Why Pick on the Ape? RDINARILY it Isn’t hard to tell who your relatives are. Anybody who chronically wants to borrow money, who seldom writes except when he has a favor to ask; who likes to visit at your home with all the children, and who sends you cheaper presents on Christmas than you have sent him, can almost certainly be classed as a relative. The one exception is the ape family, which is probably the reason that the anti-evolutionists refuse to recognize them as relations. For all the millions of years that life was developing upward, culminating in the man of today, the ape family was also living an independent and peaceful existence, never suspecting how it was about to be maligned. Man developed civilization and garments and debts and wars and blue laws and reformers and bad liquor and bill collectors and pol-
ity by his advocacy of national economy. There is not a man or a woman in the country Out who disapproves of waste. So the little fellows in Washington, aiming to make a similar hit with the folks back home, are planning to steal some of Ccolidge’s thunder. They are preparing to slash appropriations right and left regardless of what they are for the effect the cuts will have. Asa result of joint Army and Navy maneuvers conducted during the past two years, it has been found that the Hawaiian islands. Panama Canal, the Pacific coast naval bases, the air force and the whole national defense machinery need to be placed on a readier footing. Officials who have devoted months to a study of the situation will ask that this be done. This will be the great moment for our political opportunists and congressional hay binders. They will come forward demanding, in the name of economy, to skin and “save” on the machine that carries and defends an institution worth $320,803,862,000 —the 1922 valuation of the United States of America, not counting the lives of its 110,000,000 citizens. Don't let them get away with it. We’ve got the greatest country on earth. Let’s keep it safe. Our insurance against war—our national defense—now costs only about one-sixt.i of one per cent, the lowest per capita insurance of any nation under the sun. Now, nobody wants waste. There has been, and is, far too much of it in Washington. But skinning the pennies by haywiring our defense machinery is worse waste. It is criminal negligence. Let s have none of that sort of economy in our government.
Concerning Mexico and Us mN our attitude toward the Republic of Mexico we an standing at the point of decision. There are three things we can do. We can dig up a casus belli, unloose the dogs of war, cut a bloody path to the isthmus and make Mexico into another Cuba, as many of our jingoes urge. We can do as we have always done, permit the billion American dollars invested in Mexican oil, mines and land to dictate our governmental policy toward Mexico and thus blum der along the edge of intervention. Or we can adopt anew course, one of helpful cooperation with the government of Mexico in its efforts to rehabilitate the Mexican peon. The first course is happily not imminent. From the implications of the Kellogg note the second is still the State Department’s policy. The American people would do well to study the third course and find out what it would mean to them. Here, right over our back fence, are sixteen million people tragically behind in culture, industry and farming. Less than a day's journey from El Paso or Laredo you cau see peasants plowing with oxen and the antique implements of Pharaoh’s day. Far from having reached the rubber-tire age, Mexico has hardly reached the shoe leather age. Last year we sold her people of our surplus only $135,000,000 worth of goods! Forget sentiment for these unhappy masses. Forget the ethics of diplomats and political precedents. Let your pocketbooks answer. Now we get the income tax from these American billions abroad plus a lot of worry over madein-America counter-revolu-tions and intervention talk. What would we get if these sixteen million Mexicans were finally elevated from peonage to the status of shoe wearing, auto-riding, tractor driving, radio listening citizens like our own? Not Wall Street, but American manufacturers and business men, job holders and consumers, should answer the question. What do we want of Mexico? Do we want a neighbor republic of overworked and underpaid peons, or do we want one.of prosperous buying citizens?
iticians and luncheon clubs, but the ape family followed the even tenor of its ways without any of these afflictions. Until there came a day, when man, -seeing how much better a job the apes had made of life, tried to claim relationship with them. Yet, even in the face of that affront, the apes have gone serenely onward, hunting for food and bugs and undisturbed rest, while manias noisily clamored over whether or not it is an insult to be related to anything showing such superior intelligence. There is, of course, a particular reason for claiming relationship to the apes; and, having followed the history of life down to the flivver age, we will now trace ths biological side of the question. To begin with, apes and monkeys and men are all “primates”—that is, they walk on their hind gs. They walk on their hind legs, but
often find It difficult to stand on their own feet. And, physically, they are almost identical, in spite of superior habits of the ape. In bones, muscles, nerves, arteries and blood composition man and the higher apes are the same. Man’s brain, however, is far heavier, although most of it is excess baggage with lots of folks and could just as will be omitted. Man and ape have the same diseases. If they drink bad liquor or smoke bum tobacco, they behave the same; the same microbes use both ape and man as a happy hunting ground, and elaborate tests show that the blood of man and of the higher apes is of the same general composition. And so, because man and ape resemble each other so closely, we say they are related. But the ape has had the decency never to try to borrow from man on that score. Which shows that it’s safer and more convenient claiming relationship to an ape than to most people. Next—Why, Mr. Darwin!
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SCIENTISTS BELIEVE IN THINGS THEY CAN NOT SEE
BY DAVID DIETZ NEA Service Writer SHE scientist is sometimes accused of lacking faith. Yet in some ways the scientist has far greater faith than many other classes of people*. For the scientist believes absolutely In the existence of many things which he has never seen. Some of these things, he is even willing to tell you, he never expects to see. He believes in the existence of molecules, atoms, electrons, vitamines and harmones. Yet he has never seen any of them. And it is only the last two that he ever expects to see. The scientist believes that all substances are composed of molecules, which in turn are composed of the atoms of the chemical elements, and that these in turn are merely combinations of electrons. Despite the fact that no microscope could ever reveal these things, the scientist is positive of his statement. That is because all the actions of chemical combination, light, heat, X-ray and radium lead him to believe these things exist. These phenomena can be explained satisfactorily upon the basis of the existence of molecules, atoms and electrons and upon no other theory. The scientist is also able to per-
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA
By GAYLORD NELSON
PAYING FOR DEAD HORSES IyyiARRY DUN N, Marion 11—I | County auditor, hopes the U *1 1926 county budget can be kept down so that the tax levy required will not exceed the
present rate of 26% cents on each SIOO. He believes this rate can be retaineu uy pruning estimates. But he points out that nearly two-fifths of the county tax must go to paying interest on bonds and old county debts — among which is the courthouse, built nearly fifty years ago, for which Marlon County
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still owes $400,000. Nearly two-fifths of the county revenue used in paying for dead horses! At that Marlon County Is better off tha ninnumerable taxing units. It is not uncommon for principal and interest on old Indebtedness to absorb half the money raised by current taxation in cities and counties. More than half of the stupendous revenue of the Federal Government goes to pay bond charges of dead wars. Credit is a valuable and sweet possession of a government as well as an individual. Ability to borrow makes possible public improvements and undertakings that, otherwise would have to wait. But it keeps the taxpayer constantly paying for dead horses. Easily contracted debts of one generation become the burdensome taxes of the succeeding. The average taxpayer would be better satisfied if he had more cash and his various governmental units less credit.
HE CHANGED HIS MIND C* - —jlarence Stout, and two other young prisoners pried l__J out of the Erownstown, (Ind) Jail early Sunday evening while the sheriff was away. After several week’s confinement the freedom of all out-doors looked good to them and they grabbed it at lrst opportunity. Young Stout, his escape, walked all night and in the morning reached his parents’ home in a distant part of the county. There he ate dinner, then trudged back to the jail and surrendered. Parental advice changed his mind about the desirability of liberty illegally obtained. To one confined behind bars freedom frequently seems worth any effort, sacrifice or violence But the Ralph Lees, “Dutch” Andersons and other courtly desperadoes famed as jail breakers don’t seem to get much joy out of the liberty so attained. They merely get into more trouble, burrow from one hiding place to another in constant fear of detection. With every man’s hand against them they are usually laid by the heels before they have had a real chance to taste the joys of freedom. Jail is irksome. But it does afford three meals a day and opportunity to sleep with both eyes shut and mouth open. To a prisoner held for less than a capital offense jail is not so bad. It is better than being the nerve-wracked quarry of an energetic man hunt. CAUSE AND EFFECT the Indianapolis police dei__J partment’s accident prevention bureau, reports that twelve serious traffic accidents have occurred in the last eight days on Twenty-Fifth St. between Indianapolis Ave. and Dearborn St. One child was killed. The casualty list is a perfect demonstration of cause and effect. Twenty-Fifth St. has recently been paved, thus permiting traffic to speed up. And the smooth, virgin pavement has enabled the speeders to get in his deadly work. Results prove his success. There is no blinking the .fact that excessive speed, and that alone is responsible for the majority of autombile accidents. From 60 to 76 per cent of all automobile accidents ye attributed to this cause
form experiments in which certain results can only be explained on the basis thatan individual molecule, atom, or electron was concerned in the result. The scientist has hopes of seeing vitamines and harmones one of these days. Vitamines are the substances supposed to exist in certain foods and which are necessary in the diet to preserve health. Harmones are the substances which are poured into the blood by the ductless glands. These seem necessary to preserve the normal balance of the human system. The scientist has been able to prepare extracts which he knows from their actions on animals contain slight amounts of either vitamines or harmones. He believes it only a matter of time until he can isolate the actual vitamines and harmones by chemical means. * * • The of six-wheel auto trucks was urged recently at a meeting of Califo-niar automotive engineers in Los Angeles. It was pointed out that this would distribute the weight of the vehicle upon six points instead of four and that as a result the destruction of highways would not be as rapid.
by authorities who have studied the situation. Few accidents occur on rough, unimproved roads. An automobile laboriously wallowing through sand or threading an unending series of jolting chuckholes won’t chase pedestrians up trees nor demolish other vehicles at intersections Most smashes occur on level, hard roads, which tempt the driver to open the throttle and let ’er go. War on speeders is proclaimed ever and anon. City and State authorities engage in intermittent bushwacking operations against them. Such sporadic warfare is entertaining but not especially effective. To put a permanent crimp in the accident record the campaign against speeders must be pursued day in and day out by sudden bursts of activity. A TRAVELING BAG Os WIND HE Navy dirigible Shenandoah will visit Indianapolis ■ the first week in September, according to announcement from the Navy Department. Five Middle West State fairs are included in the airship’s Itinerary, and an effort is being made to arrange its visit to the city to coincide with the opening of the Indiana State fair. That is, the Navy’s fragile bag of wind will traverse Hoosier skies, as planned, if it doesn’t rain, if the atmosphere is quiet, if the Los Angeles—the Navy’s other dirigible—isn’t using all the Navy’s helium gas just then, if a dozen other trifling contingencies don’t prevent. Hoosiers will he interested in the Shenanhoah flight, and countless middle western necks will acquire cricks, for the giant soap bubble in the skies is a spectacle worth seeing. But touring State fairs is about all the big airship is good for. It’s a curiosity—a sideshow attraction. Some day perhaps the huge, unwieldy, lighter-than-alr craft may be really practical. Today they are neither serviceable in war or peace. They are as soft and vulnerable as a juicy caterpillar. Recently when the intrepid Amundsen and his companions were lost In the polar Ice, on their attempted airplane flight to the pole, It was suggested that the Shenandoah be sent to their rescue. It w-as a silly suggestion—like sending a squab to rescue eagles. An airplane can survive weather conditions that would be fatal to a dirigible. While the Shenandoah cowers in its hangar for fear of a few drops of rain or clings to its mooring mast afraid to venture aloft in a hatful of wind the airplane wings its way unconcernedly. Day and night the air mail swoops from coast to coast on schedule, indifferent to storms, blizzards and the elements. The dirigible is an expensive aerial toy—the airplane Is a practical, economic tool. For the cost of one Shenandoah the country could maintain a fleet of hardy airplanes and master the air. 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., Washlnton. D. C.. mclosing 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. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How long has rouge been used by women to color the face? Women have painted their faces since the earliest days of civilization. Rouge pots have been found in excavations of many ancient ruins. Are there any statistics as to the number of vacuum cleaners manufactured In the United States? The latest census figures are for 1923 and show that there were 1,245,742 vacuum cleaners manufactured in that year. Do lemons contain calcium? Lemons contain .036 per cent calcium. / Are there any Indian reservations in Pennsylvania? Only one. This is in the northern part of the State not far from the New York line. How many eggs are there to the ton? 16,000.
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