Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 95, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1925 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Serlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • * • Member of the Audit Bureau o' Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates: India “oolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA in 3500. /

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You Can’t Blame the War Now Mryi T’S the war,” said our taxing officials when a few years ago everybody kicked about high We shrugged our shoulders, worked a little harder, and paid. There was nothing else to do and, anyway, everything was being blamed on the war, so it was reasonable enough to assume that our political office holders were right. We heard a lot about inflated dollars. They contained a large percentage of air, we were told. Our taxes would come down, we were informed, as soon as the balloon was pricked and some of the air allowed to escape. So we went to work and paid our taxes because there was nothing else to do. The war ended seven years ago. The boys came home and we all tried to forget it. Taxes still were high. “It’s the aftermath of the war,” the politicians told us. “We are trying to hold down expenses, but the dollar hasn’t, shown any inclination to listen to reason. As soon as inflation ends, taxes will come down. We are doing our best.” So we went to work and paid our taxes, still trusting those who toid us the reason why they were so high. Then prices of many commodities came down. Reasons for abnormal expenditures ceased to Things were getting back, financially, to what President Harding called normalcy. But the politicians continued to raise our taxes. They had formed the habit, They had worn out the war explanation and didn’t take the trouble to think up another one. Taxpayers had been more or less docile for a lot of years and there was no reason to expect a change. Down in Washington they took a different attitude. They started cutting taxes and a very substantial reduction was made and further seduction is being planned. We have heard a lot of complaint about Federal taxes being high, but the bulk of the burden is local taxation. And here is a good thing to remember: The tax money you push into the treasurer’s window at the Courthouse is not the only tax you pay. You are paying taxes every time you buy food or clothing or furniture or any other cojnmodity. Included in the iirice of everything you buy is a percentage for taxation. The merchant is forced to pass on his tax expenditures in order to stay in business. Yesterday, while the Greater Indianapolis parade was going on, the evening newspapers were carrying announcement of an increase of 5 cents in the county tax rate. A reduction of the same amount would have done more to boost Indianapolis than the parade itself. THE rumor that plans call for a statue of Darwin at that proposed fundamentalist college at Winona Lake has been denied.

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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 etampe for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. AH other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered 411 letters are confidential.—Editor. How can velvet be'cleaned? Lay a damp cloth over a hot iron, and run the velvet over it. This will steam out the greater portion of the dirt, and raise the pile of the material. Where was Thomas Meighan born and educated? To whom is he married and are there any children. Born, Pittsburgh, Penn., April 9, 188", and educated in that city. His wife is Frances Ring, former actress, the sister of Blanche Ring. There are no children. What was the first magazine published in the United States? The history of the periodical in the United States begins in Colonial times with the American Magazine,

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? Lo you believe 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 mon* ys search for fleas In each other’s fur? Have you been

FACT AND FANCY EDITOR, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New Y'ork Ave., Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin. FACT AND FANCY and enclose herewith five cents in uncancelled U. S. postage stamps, or coin, for same: Name St No. or R. R y

School Buildings mT is gratifying to know that the Taxpayers’’ Association js not planning to oppose the bond issue for new school buildings in Indianapolis. It appears at last that even this minority group has decided that Indianapolis really does need some school buildings and that it is not seemly for the city to house its children in poorly heated and poorly ventilated shacks that would not be tolerated a week in some of the poorest rural townships in the State. All of us want low taxes. In this same column today there is a discussion of this very subject. But we do not want low taxes at the expense of the children of the community. The school board has worked out a very sensible construction program, one that will give the maximum of service for a minimum of money. This progranTis one to which no one should object, and, as we said at the start, it is gratifying to know that, for once in the long fight for better school facilities in Indianapolis, there is no formal objection SOMEBODY should tell McMillan before he'starts home how hot it is down here. • # • DR. KEENE says he won’t quit. Dr. King says he won’t quit. Stymied! # # EVERYBODY laid off yesterday to see the parade. It was a great demonstration. Now let’s get busy and help make Indianapolis a better and more prosperous city. • • * JUDGING from the crowd on the streets during the parade, everybody hasn’t gone to Florida to pluck money from bushes or shovel it from the streets. • • • DID you eveT stop to think that there may be a difference between the price paid for a piece of Florida real estate and the actual economic worth of the same real estate? % • * A BIG insurance company denies it is dealing in Florida real estate. Insurance companies are noted for their conservative investments. • • • THE only reasonable explanation of all those warning notes written by Dutch Anderson from widely separated place: is that Dutch is traveling in an airplane. • # • IN many ways Indianapolis may not be any greater today than it fcas yesterday, but the number of cases of sunburn and stiff neck has increased. • • • WHILE they are widening E. New York St. they might take a few of the bumps out of the pavememt.

issued at Philadelphia, Feb. 13, 1741, by the printer Andrew Bradford, a business rival of Franklin's and edited by John Webbe. The Idea was due to Franklin, who had planned aa imitation of the Gentlemen’s Magazine and had incautiously divulged his scheme to Webbe. Franklin's own periodical, the General Magazine, was issued on Feb. 16, 1741, its projector thus losing By three days the honor of having edited and published the first monthly magazine In America. What Is the earliest form of religion? Animism, or the belief In spirits and ghosts animating objects such as rocks, trees, clouds, lakes, etc., is supposed to be the earliest form of religion of primitive people. What kind of wheat flour is the •most wholesome? There Is no agreement among food chemists as to which kind of wheat flour is the more wholesome. Generally speaking, however, It is agreed that flour made from whole

tcld that it’s dangerous to dr.'nk tr o much water In hot weather? Do you think that cats see in t.ie dark; that snakes fascinate their prey; that eight months babies never live; that thunder sours milk? * These and many other interesting beliefs, myths, fables and commoj ly accepted fallacies are explained in our 'Washington Bureau’s new bulletin on FACT AND FANCY. Fill out the coupon below, and mall as directed.

wheat is more nutritious than the refined flour from which by-products have been extracted. Who were William the Conqueror’s father and mother? He -was the illegitimate son of Robert 11, Duke of Normandy, by Herleva, or Arlette, a tanner’s dau; hter, and was known in early life as William, the Bastard. How does the size of the Pacific compare with that of the Atlantic Oceao? The Pacific Ocean is much the larger. Its area is 67,699,630 square miles, while that of the Atlantic is only 34,801,400 square miles. Is there any difference in thr meaning of the words "finite” and "boundless”? • The term ’ "finite” means not too great or too small as to be naturally susceptible of measurement. The term “boundless” means without boundaries, unlimited, unconfined. Does there ever come a time when a tree stops growing? Trees grow from the ground up carrying the branches with the upward growth of the trunk. This continues until the tree reaches its majority which is a different age in different species of trees and varies widely After that the trees expand in diameter both as to trunks and branches, increasing in spread but not in height. It is believed that after a while trees stop growing, but the exact age at which this occurs has not been ascertained. What4n the value of a Finnish Mark? $0.1930. Was Betty Compson on the ! legitimate stage prior to her entrance in movies? She was a violinist in vaudeville. Can you give me a rectpe for crumb cookies? Beat one egg until light, add M cup sugar, % cup rich milk then add % cup fine bread crumbs, two cups sifted flour in which has been put 1 teaspoonful of salt. Last of all add two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Toss on floured board, roll lightly to desired thickness, cut in shape and bake in a moderately hot oven. I

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

‘THE MAN IN THE MOON’ IS RESULT OF BIG EXPLOSIONS

By David Diets SEA. Service Writer n | ■ '"j HE man in the moon” is the I I I result of some thousands of 1 * I explosions, each one million times greater than the biggest shell ever exploded in the World War. This is the theory advanced by A. C. Gifford of the Hector Astroriomi cal Observatory, one of the workers on the astronomical sector of the frontier of science. Gifford’s theory seeks to account for the origin of tha craters on the moon, fo* a telescope reveals that the markings which seem, to the naked eye, to form a face oh the moon, are in reality great mountain ranges and craters. Thfre are about 30,000 craters. The larger ones are a smuch as 100 miles in diameter with walls rising to heights of 19,000 feet. Some of the craters have a solitary mountain peak rising in the center. Astronomers have been at a loss to explain the formation of these craters, particularly because no similar structures are found on our earth. Gifford believes that in the early days of the solar system, space was crowded with many meteors larger than those existing now. Since the moon has no atmosphere these meteors must have struck the surface of the moon with full speed.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

THE LAW _ „ r OF GRAVITATION E‘ IGHT airplanes, manned by Army aviators, cavorted, stunted, dodged flag staffs and skimmed roofs over downtown Indianapolis yesterday afternoon. The performance added to the zest of the celebration of Greater Indianapolis week. Tne exhibition was a thrilling defiance of the law of gravitation, also of War Department regulations. City ordinance forbids civilian aviators stunting at low altitudes over the city. And almost a year ago the War annul the law Nelson of gravitation, It merely pushes It In the face. A monkey wrench a remark, or almost any unconsidered trifle dropping from a plane skimming over crowded streets might make a gap in the city 8 census. A pedestrian gazing aloft would be discommoded if a landing gear wrapped around his neck. Stunting over a city Is. admittedly dangerous. Then how come Yesterday’s exhibition was permitted? Such performances over the downtown section are more likely to flatten Indianapolis to a pancake Instead, of making it greater. THREE MILLION HOOSIgR EARS , ■ redbrick bremer. mwIts | chp-ndising expert of the I*• I Saturday Evening Post, told radio dealers In Indianapolis Tues- * day there is possibility of the sale of more than 1,500,000 radio sets In Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. In the United States 2,500,000 sets are now in use. If his prophecy comes true It won't be long until every Hoosier home has a radio set and three million pairs of Hoosier ears will be glued to the ether. In the evenings Instead of listening to the corn grow the most isolated Indiana farm house will tune in on "Bed Hot Mamma” and other creatures that ride the ethereal waves. Is his estimate of the extent of the radio market fanciful? A radio sec Is a luxury, not an necessity, and its potential market is limited to those who can afford luxuries. A hundred years ago there was no bathtub in the White House. Nor was any other dwelling in America equipped with a bathtub or open plumbing. The first bathtub was regarded as a pure luxury* or worse. Now the country possesses one bathtub for every 29 inhabitants and the potential market for the device is unlimited. , Twenty-five years ago a few whimsical automobiles sputtered on city streets. They were luxuries appealing to a restricted market. Now we have one motor car for every half-dozen inhabitants. Nothing so foreeably attests the high standard of living in America than the quickness with which luxuries become conveniences and necessities in common use. Here the only limit to the possible market for any device that adds to • the comfort, pleasure or convenience of living js the country’s population. Every person Is a prospective purchaser. CRACKED TEAPOTS AND WOOLEN SOCKS mOHN CHARLES, a farmer near Marion (Ind.) didn’t trust banks so he hid $9,000 in Liberty bonds in his hay mow. A couple of days ago he discovered he still had the hay mow, but thieves had the bonds. Another Hoosier —a fruit and vege.Able man— was recently rcbbJh of SSOO as he napped In his truclju while awaiting the opening of Marion city market. He alsi Jkept his savings by him, .in-

Gifford estimates the speed at forty miles a second. This force, he says, would have buried the meteor two miles in the moon’s surface and at the same time generated enough heat to turn the meteor from a solid to a gas. The sudden expansion from solid to gas would have resulted in such a high pressure that an immediate explosion would have taken place, Gifford says, a crater being formed as the result of the explosion. • • • Mr— EASUREMENT of the force exerted by waves upon the L__J sea shore, show that during a gale the waves sometimes strike a blow of 6,000 pounds to the square foot. This makes it easy to see why the sea is continuously encroaching upon the land and why each year the waves eat their way a little further into the shore line. * • T* | HE American mountain sheep and the wild sheep of Asia ■■■ had the same origin, according to Professor P. P. Sushkir of the Russian Academy of Science. He believes that the wild sheep originated in Asia and made their way to America about 100,000 years ago at a time when a land bridge connected the two continents at the spot where the Bering Sea now exists.

stead of in a bank, for greater security. The security of savings ha® always been a problem to the thrifty and frugal. In the days before banking institutions sprang up in every hamlet the cornshuck mattress, the old woolen sock, the cracked teapot and the hip pocket all served as the depositaries of family wealth. The servant in the parable who took his single talent, digged a hole in the ground and hid it, followed the customary method of safeguarding treasure. Perhaps such depositories sufficed in bygone days. But the frequency with which the hoards secreted in woolen socks, cracked teapots and haymows are now rifled suggests the world Is getting worse, or that before invention of banks the thrifty must have had a gaudy time watching the hiding places of their savings. It is surprising that people still < persist In using such crude depositories. Os course even banks with burglar-proof vaults occasionally fail to keep savings in security. Sportive cashiers, with speculative tendencies, and bandits with six shooters and high-powered automobiles cause the humble citizen’s savings to leap the fence and vanish In a cloud of dust. Nevertheless, except for spiritual treasures laid up In Heaven, the average man will find his savings safest in banks. GAMES OF CHANCE IROSECUTOR JOHN E. SUMMA, of Bartholomew County, the other day visited the fairgrounds at Columbus, Ind., during the progress of the county fair and race meet and ordered all alleged lllegaK games of chance and betting suppressed. Members of the Pair Association —all honorable men—protested against the flinty prosecutor's order. They declared the Fair Assoclaton would lose $2,000 on the enterprise as a result. That’s terrible. How can the breeding of horseflesh or pumpkins be improved if race betting, klondike and chuck-a-luck games, and well trained candy wheels are divorced from the county fairs? So argue the protestors against Prosecutor Summa’s order. Apparently they think trimming the boobs Is a moral enterprise as long as It Is profitable to the county fair—that educational, entertaining and enlightening institution. But ari’t the upright gentlemen in favor of law enforcement? Would they have the prosecutor —sworn to uphold the sacred statutes promulgated by ,a free peo> pie—lgnore public and commercialized gambling* under statutory ban for these many years? Perhaps games of chance aren't morally wrong—only financially debilitating to the sucker —but the law frowns on- them and the law should he respected. The episode reveals the attitude of many respectable people toward law enforcement. They favor strict enforcement of all the laws that don’t Interfere with their personal interests. If a county prosecutor only enforced the laws that had unanimous approval he could enjoy a perpetual vacation. Defeat By Hal Cochran .7-rO HERE never need be such a I thing as defeat. If a man has L* J the wherewith to # flght. You can’t go far wrong In the things that you meet If you start out at doin’ ’em right. If all things .come easy, and needed no pains, and rattled along upon luck, a man wouldn’t have any use for his brains, or his courage or get-up or pluck. It’s fightin’ it out that will give you the kick, that will klnda make livin’ worth while. He's shy of a frown, is the man who can stick, for his work makes know how to smile. Y'our job, after all, can be turned into play, if you’re sailin’ right in, and don’t fear it. ’Twill never seem hard if you start out each day with the ’’sure T can finish it” spirit. Forget that there’s ever a word like defeat for it’s only a sign of distress. 'Just fighVlike a man and stand up on your feet where you’re always in reach of success. (Copyright,, 1926 NEA Service, Inc.)

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Outline of Evolution

Why, Mr. Darwin! JACK in the days before the Legislature started doing our i_—J thinking, Mr. Darwin, an Englishman, wrote a book called “The Descent of Man.” It Is fortunate that he lived In England a good many years ago. For had he lived in America today, he would have been tried for the crime of thinking; he would have been arrested for studying insect life on Sunday; he would undoubtedly have been convicted under the anti-evolu-tion, prohibition, parking, sedition and contempt laws; he would have been censored and suppressed and expurgated—and, finally his book would have been produced in the movies under the title of “Flaming Man” or . “Primitive Passion,” or some Similar name. And the author would have gone to the movie performance and have seen a voluptuous feast in the primitive forest, wjth the apes throwing confetti and balloons and falling into the golden swimming pool and dancing in wild revels with half-clad apesses. And ( at the conclusion, everything would suddenly have become happy with the nice, good fundamentalist and the nfughty, wicked evolutionist reconciled, -while the picture faded out in the midst of a three-minute kiss. Then Mr. Darwin would have gone home and shot himself. But, fortunately, none of these things happened. He wrote his "Descent’of Man” without being excommunicated, indicted or shot, and told of man's possible descent from a common ancestor of man and ape. Darwin, briefly, 1 followed the lead that I have set; he sought to show that all animal life has many things in common. Then he explained how life is always changing, how variations, lead to new species, and how somewhere there had developed a simian stock from which the lemurs and monkeys and higher apes and finally man had developed. Since Darwin’s day many things have happened, both to discredit some of his theories and to substantiate others. For Instance, the finding of primitive skeletons has greatly strengthened the ape theory. Then, too. we are better informed scientifically—for example, my own scientific works have since made their appearance. So In our next chapter we wfll fol-

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low the hypothetical history of man from our first simian ancestor right up to the present time In Indianapolis based on the researches of Mr. Darwin and myself. (Next —Unnatural Selection) Tom Sims Says Every man is entitled to life, liberty and a few hours of loafing. Somebody Is always favoring a drastic change for others. Some marry for better or worse and some to talk. ’ Making money is easy. Making more money is the Ha picnic we all have some idea of how a stuffed olive must feel. And what makes the sea salty is fish crying because they can’t get out on the t swimmers are. Knowing what’s Sims what isn’t half as important as knowing why. On returning from a fishing trip the fish are divided while their weight is multiplied. Ambition Is all right, but thermometers have too much of It. The ship of state Isn’t as bad as the state of shipping. The swimming pool is more healthy than the Kelly pool. Even an optimist can’t see much fun In missing a street car. A furniture dealer tells us his porch swings are guaranteed to run for three proposals. The difference between dreams and nightmares is often nothing tn the world, but a lipstick and rouge. Some people never will wake up and find themselves rich simply because they never will wake up. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

THURSDAY, AUG. 20, 1925

What Is New On the Stage

mOBY WILSON, who is respon-: sible for all the vaudeville i entertainment at the Palace Theater during this Midsummer i Frolic 'Week, will present anew musical comedy for the remainder of this week. “Peggy” Is the name of! the offering. The same company of thirty people which was instrument-* al in staging “Not Tonight, Dearie” are featured In this production, opening today. The plot centers around a native of the Ozark mountains who over night strikes It rich in an oil well, I The old gentleman role Is taken by Toby Wilson, takes his wife and daughter to Palm Beach where he tries to become accustomed to i luxuries and to gain a social posi-i tion for his wife. In both attempts 1 he is ludicrous and the humorous 1 situations that arise are said to be 1 very numerous. When the ter falls in love with a bogus counfK affairs are at a climax. The management has booked anl especial attraclon to back the show in the form of an eight-piece woman's orchestra. "Welcome Stranger.” the film ; adapted from the Broadway success Is the photoplay with Florence Vid-i or, Lloyd Hughes and Do re David-1 son in the leading roles. Pathe news' a comedy and a sdenic are the short 1 reels. ■I- -!- -!- Other Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Drusilla With a Million." ati the Colonial; Pisano and Landauer] at the Lyric; "Mother’s Millions” at| English’s; “Sun Up” at the Apollo;! "Beggar on Horseback," at the I Ohio; complete new show at the Isis;! “The Half Way Girl at the Circle;! movies and comedy at the Broadway l and outdoor events at Broad Ripple.t The Indiana Indorsers of Photo-1 plays this week Indorse the feature; at the Colonial as family entertain-j ment; also the features at the Pal-j ace, the Circle the Apollo and Ohio as adult entertainment. — .■■ | , A THOUGHT As far as the east Is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from ns.—Ps. 103:12. • * • | 1 UFFER anything from man, I O I than sin against God.—j I U 1 Sir Henry Vane.