Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 102, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 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 Scrlpps-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 \Y. Maryland St., Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana.

—And Obey’

mFIE question of whether or not the bride should promise to obey the groom, as prescribed in the marriage ritual of the Episcopal church, is up for re-agitation. Just when it was generally believed that word was on its way out, prominent persons in the church are rising to insist that it shall remain. To help along the discussion, here’s a thought: Suppose these church .leaders who believe that brides should continue to promise obedience, supply a definition of the word “obey.” Everybody has heard at least one bride remark laughingly, when the question was raised, “Oh, that doesn’t mean anything!” But the word must mean something. The bride becomes a mothe/and she makes it mean something in the case of her children. If it means something else in her relationship to her husband, she should be frank about it at the outset and not fool the poor goof into believing that if ever he should undertake to give her an order she would obey it. There is a certain amount of deceit and unfairness about this business. Many a chap would never get married if there wasn’t held out the prospect of bossing somebody else. Every man wants to be a boss and most of them never rise to any position of authority outside their families. If their wives, who appreciate their wisdom and know there is sound reasoning behind every command, won’t obey them, what is to be expected of the children? Husbands are not being obeyed; there is no question about that. You’ve only to observe the number of heads that are bobbed after the lord and master’s foot has been put down firmly against it, to appreciate the truth of this. It’s all wrong. The groom wobbles weakly up to the altar borne down by sense of the responsibility he is assuming. Taking supreme authority over a blushing maid, who probably never obeyed her own parents in her life ,is calculated to make a man serious, not to say nervous. He feels the gravity of the occasion. That is why he looks so pale. But the bride! Gaily she recites the words and when she comes to “obey” she slips her tongue in her cheek and ripples that off along with the others. She doesn’t take it any more seriously than half the population takes the Eighteenth Amendment. If, as so many brides assume, the word doesn’t mean anything, it ought to come out of the marriage service. If it does mean something, the scholars of the church should amend the service to include a definition.

Yelling ‘Politics’ EAKE COUNTY and northern Indiana _ would get better roads if politicians would quit tampering with the affairs of the State highway commission, Taylor E. Groninger, himself a Statehouse employe, told persons attending the Indiana Muncipial League convention at Gary. Did you ever notice how the politicians are the first to cry “politics” when the public takes an interest in the administration of its own affairs? Most of the defense of the high-

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You can pet sn answer to any question of fact or information by writing io The Indianapolis Times Washington iureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital rdrice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other nucstlons will receive a personal reply. Unsigned rsuuests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. — Editor. When do you use "farther” and when “further?” "Farther” Is used to denote distance, for example, "He went farther than I did.” "Further denotes something additional, for example, “Jones said nothing further.” What makes water look milky white sometimes when It flows from the faucet? How do flsh breathe? Do they breathe air? Fish breathe through the drills by opening the mouth and taking water in and closing the mouth, and expelling It through the gills, absorbing oxygen from the water In this way. Is the police force of New York City greater than that of London? The polioe force of New York City, Including Inspectors, surgeors, lieutenants, captains, sergeants, superintendents, etc., totals 13,17*. The London Police consists of. City Police and the Metropolitan Police. The total number Including all officers, Is 21,697. What Is the difference between a molecule, an atom and an Ion? A molecule Is the smallest part of substance that can exist separately. Atoms are the hypothetical Indivisible parts of which substance Is supposed to be compounded. lons are substances that are supposed to result from electrical disintegration. Was the first electric street railway operaUd, run on the streets of Dublin, Ireland. The first electrlo street railway was operated In Berlin In 1879, by Siemens and Kalsks; It was 1,000

way department, some members of which are under indictment, thus far has been that somebody—identity of the person or persons not specified—is playing politics. It happens that the long investigation of the affairs of the highway department started with an investigation undertaken by The Times more than three years ago. The Times found that many carloads of used or discarded war material were shipped to the State commission by the Federal Government. It was found that much of this material was in no way usable in highway construction. It was found that the material "was disposed of—almost all of it to one firm—without competitive bids. The Times objected in behalf of the taxpayers of Indiana to this method of doing business. The State board of accounts, a State department controlled by Republicans, made an investigation and the Marion County grand jury, under a Republican prosecutor, charged that the law had been violated. Where does politics come in? The Times has not the least objection to a Republican highway department. We do not care whether the department is operated by Republicans, Democrats or mugwumps, so long as the public gets a dollar’s worth of return for every dollar expended. We don’t care who the members of the commission are or whom they employ, so long as the department is operated along business lines. Why should a Republican board of accounts or a Republican prosecutor go out of thtir way to play the kind of politics that would be detrimental to their own party? Politics has no part whatever in the so-called “tampering” with highway <lejiartment affairs. And the politicians who are forever yelling “politics” know this better than anyone else. Judge Leahy and Editor Magee HERE ’S how Editor Carl Magee was sent to prison on the last of the seven times Judge David Leahy found him guilty. The charge was contempt of court. “Stand up Carl Magee . . . Stand over here .... you lying, lowdown, un-American political harlot ... . you remittance man . . • . cow thief .... horse thief .... skunk .... lying, mangy, coward]* reprobate . . . .What, have you to say for yourself?” Editor Magee replied: "I deny that I am accorded due process of law, and I deny that this is a court.” The judge’s judicial opinion: “For saying that I find you in contempt of court and sentence you to from three to six months in the common jail of San Miguel County.” Seven minutes later the editor was in jail. Two days later the Girvernor of New Mexico issued a pardon, freeing him.

feet long. In 1880 Thomas A. Ediscon and Stephen D. Field began experimenting in the United States. In 1813 Werner Siemens built a third rail line six miles long from Portrush to Giant’s Cai.seway in Ireland and this Is the one to which you refer. The first praritical overhead trolley lines, In this country, were built in Kansas City in 1884 and in Richmond, Virginia. In 1887. What is the most difficult string instrument to learn to play? The violin, because the stem is not marked with frets, as other Instruments are. and one has practically to make his own tones. Pressing By Hal Cochran Says mother to father, "Your suit la a fright. It looks like you slept In a rain storm last night.” Then father replies, "Get the iron from the shelf. I'll save me some coin, ’cause I’ll press It myself." The Iron sizzles hot, while the ironing board’s set, and dad starts to press with a cloth that, is wet. He’s having his troubles and frets, goodness knows. He wishes the tailor was flxin’ his clothes. The trousers are spread where the crease used to be, and the Iron just enlarges the l>ag at the knee. Poor dad Is convinced that he’s wise to his stluff. but he presses right over the dust in the cuff. And then comes the portion that gets father’s goat. There’s trouble a-plenty in pressln' the coat. The shoulders are saggin’, the back’s out of line. When pop's half-way through, he exclaims, "Not for mine!” And then does the missus rush In to his a id. She grabs up the iron and proceeds, unafraid. How easy he’s stumped, though how hard a man strives. Say, what would men do, if It weren't for their wives?

Tom Sims Says National budget for next year Is put at 83,080,000,000. It's those little naughts that count. They drove an auto by radio In New York. Even news for boarders Is feeding soldiers Sims salmon. And the salmon crop Is short. When you see a man all Sleepy and worn out he may have a bad baby or a good radio. Had a forest fire In Montana. This Is not the correct way for campers to blaze their trails. Wheat crop is short a lltlte this year. But wild oat are plentiful according to the police. Buckwheat crop Is estimated at 16,400,000 bushels. Is It buckwheat because It’s a dollar a bushel? No. Rice crop is good. Thirty-six million bushels. Now we could have a hundred million weddings. Hay crop is put at almost a billion bales. Wish you could burn the stuff In a sliver. And over a billion pounds of tobaoco will be grown this year. Put that In your pipe and smoke It. With a billion bales of hay and a billion pounds of tobacco being grown, the two may become mixed. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

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MUZZLING THE GOSSIP IRS. LETHA HAYDEN, of Columbus. (Ind.,) was fined i_| $25 and costs In a Justice of the Peace court the other day for violating the Indiana gossip law. She uttered 8 alleged slanderson to be desired. Notoon Umber tongues have done more to blast reputations, spread grief and injure innocent victims than any other single agency. But no really effective muzzle has yet been devised. Laws have been passed to suppress the evil. The ducking stool and other ignominious punishments have been inflicted. In all ages the righteous have Inveighed against it. But the slanderous tongue is still active and finds a ready ear. The Indiana gossip Isw Is Just another one of those statutes that attempt forcibly to pin wings on human nature by an act of the Legislature. Theoretically it Is valuable, practically It Is useless. For every one convicted under It a thousand guilty persons escape—and the majestic total of gossip rolls on unscratched. To enforce rigidly all such laws enacted In Indiana would require a squad of sleuths sticking to each citizen closer than a porous plaster. THE END OF WAR mUDOE J. F. RUTHERFORD, In an address before the International Bible Students’ Association now meeting in Indianapolis, declared that all the nations are preparing for another great conflct. A recent tour of Europe cqnvlnoed him the war will soon come. The impending conflict will be the last the earth will ever have, he said, basing his {prediction on interpretation of Scriptural prophecies. Let’s hope h* has read the Scriptures aright. The last war Just about broke the world, a few more such bloody orgies In the life of this generation would finish civilization. But unless human nature undergoes a decided change even one more conflict will not put an end to war. From the beginning of time war has been one of the principal businesses of mankind, and the warrior has been glorified. Ancient history lq Jltle more than & reoord of battles and slaughter. Only three tlmee in 700 years were the doors of The Temple of Janus In Rome cloned —signifying Home was at peace. Events of the past century proved that modem men have not changed much from their bellicose ancestors. From Waterloo to tha breaking of the Hlndenburg line soldiers marched, fought and died just as they did on the windy plain of Troy before Homer’s time. After evehy great burdened, exhausted people say ’’never again”—and mean It. The next generation goes through the same experience. War Is an Inherited trait. Only after several generations have lived and died In peace and human nature changed by the

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slow process of education can the world look forward to an end to war. Those who base expectation of the early end of war on their interpretation of Scriptural prophecies may be disappointed. THEY RETAIN~ THEIR SPOTS 1 RED SMITH. 22, was arrested at Connersville recently on charge of stealing an automobile. He confessed and was taken back to the State Reformatory, from which Institution he was paroled two months ago after serving a fraction of a sentence for a similar crime. Short sentence and clemency didn't reform him. -Three weeks ago the driver of a truck carrying 375 gallons of alcohol was arrested at Rochester, Ind. He was charged with carrying concealed weapons and transporting liquor. A short time before he had been paroled from Pendleton —after serving half of a short term for rum running. In that case clemency also failed to reform character—convert a squash into a rugged moral oak. Easy parole merely gave him another chance to get in trouble. Violation of paroles Is one of the commonest features of the crime news of the day. Burglars resume burgling and auto thieves steal cars Just as soon as they regain liberty by weeping on tho bosom of the pardon and parole board. Sob sisters and soft humanitarians believe that the criminal Is a victim of circumstances and glands, easily reformed by petting. But few criminals change their spots any more than leopards. Short sentences, half served, merely bleach them temporarily. As now operated the parole system Is a species of nature-faking. AMATEUR SPORT BY INJUNCTION ml T DGE JAMES M. LEATHERS, of Superior Court, took a hand Wednesday in deciding the Indianapolis amateur baseball championship. He enjoined the Druids team, of the Fraternal League, from meeting The Prest-O-Lites, of the Commercial League, in the finals. The court battle was precipitated by a controversy over the eligibility of a player on the Polk team which had previously defeated the Druids. Doubtless the Issue was of vital Importance to the parties Involved In the controversy—sacred principles were at stake. But the average citizen, to whom the city amateur baseball championship means little or nothing, has no Interest In the dispute. He can't see where the sport is In amateur sport by Injunction. Why not sport by injunction? That has become the favorite weapon in Indiana. Here the sun shines, the rain falls, political bosses rise and fall. In aoeordlPnoe with restraining orders Issued by the courts. We are governed, taxed, paved, go to bed and get up In response to the bidding of sundry injunctions. Perhaps its use In regulating amateur athletics and social relations is a . logical development. Boon Mrs. High Hat may be enjoined from leaving Mrs. Low Brow off her calling list. Knute Rockne may be restrained from developing another winning football team at Notre Dame, and the Indiana Interscholastic basketball tournament be played in court Instead of at the tSate fairground. No doubt the Injunction is a great device for preventing grave Injustice. But In Indiana ft clutters up the courts without serving any public interest.

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By David DMi .YEA Service Writer —r-i ROFESSOR ALBERT EIND STEIN seems to be becoming * increasingly the storm center on the frontier of science. One argument Is already raging as a result of Dr. D. C. Miller’s etherdrift experiment atop Mount Wilson. Dr. Miller is now repeating It and if results are the same, it may be necessary to modify the section of the theory which has to do with the relativity of motion. Now a second battle Is looming as a result of the experiment performed by Dr. A. A. Miohelson of the University of Chicago at Clearing, 111. Dr. Michelson built a rectangle of water pipe, 2,000 feet long and 1,500 feet, wide and pumped the air out of It. Thin he reflected beams of light through the rectangle and measured their speed. The results do not directly challenge the Einstein theory but in some ways are hard to reconcile with it. Dr.'Ludwig Bilhersteln, the foremost American authority of relativity, says they can he explained by assuming that the ether of space Is compressible and subject to the action of gravity. Dr. Lorentz, the famous Dutch physicist, also makes the same explanation. But Professor Einstein announces from Berlin that he is unwilling to believe that the ether behaves that way. Only further experimentation, it seems, will prove who is right. • • • D r "1 ENMARK is making plans to send an expedition to explore the interior of Greenland in the spring of 1926. Plans for the expedition are being made by Dr. Lange Koch of Copenhagen with the aid of Professor William H. Hobbs of the University of Michigan, who Is now in Europe. Little Is known about the condi-

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tions In the ice-covered Interior of Green lawn. It Is expected that Commander Donald B. MacMillan will do some exploring In this territory by airplane before he returns from the north. • • • M.._. xILIONS of dollars will be saved to the shoe Industry by the substitution of Glauber salts for common salt in tannnlng the leather, the American Chemical Society announces. Common salt contains a certain amount of calcium chloride which has a > destructive effect on the leather. The. Glauber salts, on the other hand, have a preservative action. It is stated.

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A Thought Ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good.—Mark 14:7. mHERE Is r noble manner of being poor, and who does not know It never will be rich. These Aver airplanes worry us. You'll have to have on* soon to get up In society. London doctor says a healthy baby shouldn’t cry. We say a healthy doctor shouldn’t be so foolish. Living from hand to mouth Is all right until your hand slips. A man Is one who doesn't use manicures because he has pockets. He who has the swelled head froquietly finds himself In a tight place. One thing about bobbed hair Is you know It Isn’t false.