Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1925 — Page 6

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Our Municipal System Again again we have an example of the KJ failure of our present form of city government to function in the interests of the people. The city council is investigating the affairs of the department of public works. There have been many stories concerning activities in this department which may or may not be True. But Mayor Shank says he will not sign any ordinance passed by the city council calling for funds to investigate the affairs of the department. "I have full confidence in the members of my board of works and I am sure they have no fear of the result,” he says. We are not assuming to pass judgment on the board of works. But under any, circumstances, an investigation is justified, in fairness both to the people of Indianapolis and to the members of the board. Investigation does not pre-suppose guilt. But, unless it ;an pass over the mayor s veto an ordinance - taking an appropriation for the investigation, the council will be powerless to make an extensive investigation. Thus the mayor, who is supposed to be the executive head of the city, can legally prevent members of the council from making an investigation they believe to be in the interest of the people of the city.^ In addition to all this, William H. Freeman, member of the board, insists that the council can not impeach him because his is an appointive and not an elective office. Thus, the board is responsible to no one but the mayor. If the mayor decides the board suits him, that settles it so far as the council or any of the voters they represent are concerned. Thus, still bearing in mind that we are not judging the board of works, we have a system that makes things easy for the politicians. The board and the mayor can do pretty much as they please and the rest of the city is wellnigh powerless. How long would this condition be tolerated in a business organization, with business heads responsible to a board of directors? There is no good reason why the government of a city should not be a business proposition. There are many good reasons why it should be. The Chinese [Tariff] Wall A r ““IFTER four years’ delay, one of the agree- • ments reached at the Washington Arms Conference is approaching a practical test. Harassed from within and without by internal disorders which it is powerless to stem and by the protests of powers which it is incapable of satisfying, the so-called government of China has' at last called a conference of nine nations to meet in Peking in October to discuss a revision of China’s tariffs. Delays in ratification prevented summoning of the conference at an earlier date. The increasing gravity of anti-foreign strikes and riots in China impelled France to make the series of ratifications complete only a few months ago. The ratifications recently were formally exchanged in Washington, and now China has invited the powers to send delegates to Peking as provided in the agreement. President Coolidge, alive to the need of maintaining America’s traditional policy of friendliness toward China, weeks ago appointed John Van A Mac Murray and Silas Strawn as the American delegates. Slrawn and Mac Murray face a tough job.

Work By Hall Cochran Whatever your task is, in everyday work, you make it much harder whenever you shirk. You’re cheating yourself when there’s time you can kill. The loafing stunt’s wrong, and you soon get your fill. I pity the fellow who frets through the day and kicks ’cause the hours pass so slowly away. With manner of working there’s something quite wrong when the hours that he labors seem always too long. What boss ever feels he can take healthy stock in the man who’s continually watching the clock? The worth of that type of a fellow will sdp, for his mind, as to work, is just hit —and then skip. The world likes the sticker, who does all he can. The world will admit he’s a regular man. You’re either just loafing—or doing your bit. Say, honestly, now, in what class do YOU fit? 'Copyright, 1925, N’EA Service, Inc.) How much alcohol is allowed in the manufacture of flavoring extracts, toilet preparations, etc? Flavoring extract, patent and proprietary medicines, toilet and antiseptic preparations and solutions containing alcohol are required to be unfit for beverage use, and to contain no more alcohol than is necessary for the extraction or solution of the elements contained therein and for the preservation of the articles.

China wants her tariffs increased from the 5 per. cent maximum fixed long ago by the powers which-dominate her ports. She protests, reasonably enough, that while she is limited to this nominal charge on imported goods, the other powers show no leniency in duties on imports from China. Great Britain probably will offer no objection to a small increase in the Chinese customs, but will insist that a maximum still be imposed. The big fight probably will be over China’s desire to be left free, as any other nation, to fix its own duties at whatever figure it may choose. This would be too much for Britain to swallow. It raises the whole issue of extraterritoriality—the right of foreign powers to intervene in China’s own affairs, running municipal governments, courts and customs offices. And there is whe*e British commercialism and America’s open-door policy may clash. Settling the War Debts i\Y HILE comparatively few people in this IWI country ha\e followed the course of negotiations that finally resulted in agreement on terms for tiki settlement of Belgium’s debt to the United States, the general feeling is one of satisfaction that some kind of agreement has been made. It is pleasing to know that the millions loaned by the American people are to be repaid, together with a part, at least, of the interest due. A settlement with France, according to all reports, will not be reached so easily. The representatives of the two countries are in for a long, hard period of haggling. Eventually a settlement will be reached because it must be. Americans generally see the matter as simply one of a debt that is due, a purely commercial transaction that should be wound up, although not unmindful of the debtor’s financial situation and quite willing to be lenient as to the terms of settlement. The average French citizen is inclined to remind us of the fact that much of the money borrowed was used in the common cause of defense against Germany, that it was used for our benefit as well as their own. But once elements of this kind are introduced into the case, others follow. Americans begin talking about the manner in which France is spending her present national income, about the size of her army and her expenditures for armaments. There are suggestions that France’s policy in fcuch matters be taken into consideration- in fixing the terms of the debt settlement. It is hardly open to dispute that it ivould pay America to wipe out all the war debts due from European countries, if it could thereby be assured that an en dhad been made of European wars. It would be a cheap price to pay for a long period of peace. It would pay in money and in men and in all that goes to make for pleasant living. But the “if” can not be hurdled. Nothing much has occurred to indicate that Europe has learned any real lesson from the war that reduced her to her present unhappy plight. There is no assurance that if the billions of debt were wiped out, the financial security thus obtained would not lead directly to another continental confiflagflration. So when it comes to settling with France there seems nothing can be done save to re' qu’ie that the debt be paid in full, while making the conditions of payment as easy as possible

TOM SIMS SAYS

Well, in St. Louis a tailor petted his wife with an iron so the touchy

woman wants a divorce. One might say the St. Louis tailor’s wife seeking divorce has a tailor made divorce suit. In union suits there is strength, .'rut divorce suits £re caused by some weakness. And some of these divorce suits being pressed should have been sent to the cleaner

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first. Divorce suits are worse than bathing suits, because they leave something for the imagination. A man’s rights to drink booze are liable to become his funeral rites. And Moscow has a shoe shortage. They haven’t any leather. You can get leather off of Moscows. ■ But since there are no stockings in Moscow mosquitoes will get so fat they will be easily slapped.

lowa man tried to make his son work. So the boy shot him. Maybe he will dlalm he is a college boy. A boy tells us he will be glad when college starts. Says he hasn’t had a decent drink all summer. Had a slight earthquake in Mexico California doesn’t know yet how those others crossed the border. That’s why the Mexican border is guarded. So tourists won’t return with a bottle full of earthquake. When coal starts for the cellar its price heads for the attic. Cloudburst hit Fabens, Texas, making the place almost as wet as New York. London has a street made of rubber. No doubt the younger children there are bouncing baby boys and girls. Rubber prices are still up. They are stretched. But some day one end is going to get loose. One might say the Moscow stocking shortage is caused by our seeing just about all of the stockings here. Water is fine to swim in and you can drink it by itself, but you can’t improve milk by adding water. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

THE JLl\ JJJLAiN Ar OiriiS TIMES

INTERBREEDING OF SPECIES BRINGS TWO NEW ANIMALS

By David Diet® yEA Service Writer EET the huarlzo and the pacovicuno. They are brand new creatures fresh from the last frontier, the frontier of science. The bearers of these almost unpronouncable names are what the scientists call hybrids, that is, animals obtained hy the Interbreeding of different species. These new hybrids have been produced' at the experimental farm at Puno, r*9ru, under the supervision of its director, Colonal R. J. Stordy. The h.iarizo Is a cross between the llama and'the alpaca. The llama is a large animal while the alpaca Is small. But the alpaca has wool of far greater value. The huadzo combines the virtues of both. He has the size of the llama but wool whose quality approaches that of the alpaca. The pacovlcuno was bred for somewhat similar reasons. He represents a cross between the alpaca and the vicuno. Unlike the llama and the alpaca, the vicuno is not a domestic animal. He is a small animal that lives in the Andes mountains. Though he belongs to the camel family, he has no hump. His wool is extremely valuable. By breeding the vicuno with the .alpaca, it is hoped to obtain a hybrid with wool as valuable as that of the vicuno but which, on the other hand, can be easily domesticated.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

THE CHRONIC KICKER 1 RED HOKE told the Kiwanis Club recently that -1 some of the things needed for a Greater Indianapolis are< more civic pride, better politics, and more tolerance. “I have no sympathy," he declared, “for the fellow kicking con-

tinually about I bad conditions ; politically and I otherwise who offers no constructive criticism. There must be tolerance of other persons’ views and purposes.” All quite true. Chronic kicking, opposition to every civic enterprise under taken or pr o p o sed by Other citizens, gets a city down, not up.

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But the chronic kicker is not the only civic weed that chokes progress. The smug, congenital optimist who Is bombastically satisfied with his city, its politics, government and every public undertaking, who wouldn’t oppose any civic evil because it would be' bad advertising for the city, Is more harmful. This country was settled by kickers against the established order. From the Pilgrims to the signers of the Declaration if Independence they were the fellows who laid the foundation of our nation’s greatness. Vigorous kicking, caused by a desire to better conditions rather than dyspepsia, has knocked the spots off many civic ills and ageold evils. Indianapolis can stand a lot of such kicking. POWER OF~ SUGGESTION SWO Frankfort (Ind.) lads —10 . and 9—derailed a Nickel Plate freight train the other day by throwing an unlocked switch. They hoped to obtain watches and money from the wreck, they explained. The act was suggested, they said, by a story the mother of one of the boys had read to him in which boys had wrecked a train and secured rich loot. The Incident will furnish fuel to the censors who would suppress crime news, and prevent circulation of pictures and stories portraying crime. They contend from such sources impressionable children draw inspiration for criminal careers. Perhaps they do. The young of the human species possesses to a high degree the imitative faculty and is particularly susceptible to the power of suggestion. It is thus the child is taught. But it is doubtful if every reference to crime and wrong doipg was expunged from newspapers, movies and stories that all lads would in gpnsequence be Little Lord Fauntleroys. Some would continue to wreck trains and shoot their papas. As long as crime and violence exist in the world the active youth will itarn about them. A lad can’t be packed in cotton batting and Insulated from all contact with humanity as it is, not as it is pictured in the Rollo books. It is not so much what a boy sees or reads about crime as what he is taught by parental precept a nd example about virtue that determines his course. The power of suggestion can as easily be made to lift him up as to push him down. e TOO MUCH EXERCISE ""I HE Indiana State Medical Association, in a recent in ■ " bulletin, warns against too much and too violent exercise for the tired business man. Strenuous week-ends crowded with muscular exertion and perspiration are more likely to lead to blue Mondays and thd cemetery than renewed youth, is the warning. Exercise is the modern business man]a fetish. After an exhausting week of baiting bulls and bears and! making figures behave he spends Saturday and Sunday in the blazing sun alternately playing eighteen holes of golf and

r fj 'TEMBERS of the French AcadH\/r emy of Science have revived I*"*I a forgotten engine which is more than 100 years old. Nicephore Niepce built it. Niepce was the father of photography. He is not as well known to the world, however, as his assistant, Daguerre, who perfected the daguerrotype. His engine was an internal combustion engine which used solid fuel instead of gasoline. It ran on powdered coal and resin. The French scientists believe that although the original engine was not very satisfactory, they can perfect it in the light of modern knowledge. The scarcity of gasoline and the possibility of the world’s supply giving out some day, is what inspires the Frenchmen to undertake the study. * • • CERTAIN aniline dyes can be used as antiseptics, recent work by Dr. John W. Churchman of the Loomis Laboratory, New York, shows. Dr. Loomis says they can be used for internal treatment as well as for cuts and other skin wounds. He says that they attack the invading bacteria but not the human tissues and for this reason he believes that they may be used successfully in the near future in treating certain types of blood poisoning.

drinking eighteen gallons of Ice water. Then he wonders why he dies in the prime of life while the rocking chair philosopher, whose only regular exercise consists of crossing and uncrossing his knees, approaches the century mark. Theodore Roosevelt rhe. joyous apostle of the strenuous life died at 61 —at about the age when Chauncy M. Depew, whose principal exercise was aCer-dinner speaking, was beginning his larger public career. With alarming frequency celebrated college athletes die at the threshold of their business careers. Os course the human machine must be kept in order both physically and mentally. It will rust out by inaction. For the sake of all around efficiency it is as necessary to exercise the muscles of the back as the appetite and imagination. But all in moderation. Too often the Americans, who gulp down their exercise in big doses and attempt to cure fatigue with more fatigue, instead of building up their own systems strengthen the muscles of the gravedigger. FRANK FOREIGN" CRIT CS J. SAMPSON, a native of India, scored America for its many faults in an address at the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. Wednesday night. Our crime record, lynching, pauperism, administration of justice, and feminine fashions “which are corrupting the morals of mankind” were all criticised. Probably we deserve much criticism. Anyway finding fault with American manners, customs, speech, morals and institutions has become an international pastime In which foreign visitors to this country freely indulge. But we have some virtues. Among other things we are good natured. And foreign visitor can criticise us from A to Izzard without being torn to pieces. We grin and bear it and, if the foreigner i9 sufficiently distinguished, we’ll pay good money to hear him lecture on our faults. Admittedly America is not flawless. But is any country so much more perfect that its natives can point the finger of scorn at us? A native of India scores American pauperism, and feminine fashions. In India a rigid caste system has reduced the greater portion of the population to squalor, ignorance and utter degradation, always on the borderline of starvation. To America they turn for succor during recurrent faminess. In India girls are sold in marriage at an age when American girls are going to kindergarten. Until recently casting a wife into the flames of her husband’s funeral pyre was \ a perfectly proper custom there. Yet a native of India says American feminine fashions corrupt the morals of mankind. We are called Shyloeks by Italian publicists because America insists on payment of war debts. Yet the original Shylock was an Italian Jew. And the very signs of our pawnshops—the three gilt balls—are borrowed from the coat of arms of the Medici —the illustrious Italian family whose fortunes w r ere founded on outrageous usury. Picking the mote of the American eye while ignoring the beam in their own seems to be the idea of the fault-finding foreign visitor to America. Ask The Times You oan fret an answer to any qufeetion of fact or information hy writinir lo Tlie Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washineton. D. 0.. indosinir 2 cents in etamns for reply. Medical, leeral and marital advice cannot be (riven, nor can ox tended research be undertaken. Ml ether questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot he answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. How much forest land is there in Canada? It is estimated that there are 696,746,240 acres of forests in Canada. What is the address of the main office of the Standard Oil Company of New York? 26 Broadway, New York City. How many dwellings are there In the United StJtes? According to the 'isJet census figures, ttyere were 20,6!Hr,204,

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Outline of Evolution

CHAPTER X Un-Natural Selection R. DARWIN believed that new species originated and - that life was greatly changed by the operation of what be’ termed "natural selection.” We who live In Indianapolis, however, know that what he actually meant was un-nat-ural selection, for otherwise how could we account for our choice of city and county oficials, wives, etc. Natural selection is also often termed "survival of the fittest”—the basis of the theory being that occasionally there Is some slight peculiarity In the characteristics of any type of animals, w’hich gives some particular animal a better chance to live than his fellows have. Thus the development of other animals with that same peculiarity is very likely. For instance, suppose a pedestrian should be born with legs like a grasshopper. His chances of surviving in ! downtown traffic would be tremendously increased, giving him a decided advantage over his fellow pedestrians. Soon there would he a marked increase in the percentage of grasshopper - legged - pedestrians, tending to form anew species. Or suppose that a politician should

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THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

be bom ■with two mouths. He would be able to make promises with one mouth while at the same time explaining with his other mouth why the promises hadn’t been kept. You can easily imagine how, by the law of the survival of the fittest, all the other politicians except Lew Shank would soon be talked to death, while the two-mouthed species multiplied rapidly. In this same way, there must have come a time in the development of life when there grew up a tree-living animal, with agile limbs, easily moved head and semi-erect spine, which developed and "multiplied because it could live in the trees and on the ground. It was lacking in physical strength as complired to the giant serpents and huge mammals with which it competed, but lack of strength was compensated for by superior brain —and the more the brain was used the better it grew. So, from this agile, tree-living, semi-erect animal that used Its head for flight and protection and meals, there developed the first simian ancestors. From this original trunk, Mr. Darwin and I believe, there gradually grew various branches, chief of

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which are the lemur*., or half-mon-keys; the real monkeys; the anthropoid or walking apes, such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangoutangs; the various primitive races of men which died out, such as the Neanderthals; the real men of today; the reformers; the made ballet dancers and several other related but independent species. Thus we are, at tost, second or third cousins, descended from a common pre-ape and pre-human ancestor, through whom we are indirectly related to all the rest of the animal kingdom. (Next: The supreme test.) A Thought He that loveth - pleasure shall be a poor man.—Prov, 21:17. * * SHERE is no euoh, thing.-as pure unalloyed pleasure? some bitter ever mingles with the sweet. —Ovid. ROUND BOTTLE BEST A coll wound on a round horttffe eliminates much high distributed pacity found in "pickle-bottle colls.** The wire is wound about the bottle on which three strips of gummed paper are laid gummed side up, aa is the case in the "pickle-bottle ■coll/*'