Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 108, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. ' W.M. A. MAYBORX, Bus. Mgr. Member of tbe Sel'ipps- Howard Newspaper Alliance * • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing- Cos., 214-220 \V. Maryland St., Indianapolis ♦ * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week * * * PHONE—MA in 3500.

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The Shenandoah Disaster mHE history of lighter-than-air craft is written in blood. The Shenandoah tragedy is only one of a long list of similar occurrence in connection with this type of air transportation. One of the tragedies of our boasted scientific achievement is the fact that much of our progress has been accompanied by a tremendous sacrifice of human life. Heavier-than-air transportation has been worked out much nearer perfection during the last few years than has balloon transportation, although the use of balloons far antedates the use of airplanes. The Shenandoah disaster and the apparent loss of the naval airplane which attempted the flight to Hawaii bring home strongly the fact that we still have a long way to go in the development of air service. We must have a strong national defense. Aircraft have been shown to be a necessary unit in our defense. But until there has been further development making aircraft more dependable, such disasters as have occurred this week will continue. The lighter-than-air ship of the Shenandoah type has been of doubtful value in the minds of many. Os course, such ships can carry tremendous loads, but until they are made easier to handle under all weather conditions their practical value will remain doubtful. The men who lost their lives on the Shenandoah and on the Roma and the*Zß-2. wheih also met disaster, have given their lives to their country and deserve as much honors as heroes as .he men who died in battle. None knew better than they the possibility of just such a disaster as that which occurred Wednesday. Whether the Shenandoah crash will have any bearing on the future policy of the naval department concerning this type of airship remains to be seen. The State Fair Q TATE fair season has rolled around again. Next week the fairground will be crowded with Hoosiers and, as usual, the exposition will be “bigger and better than ever.” A State fair is a sugar-coated pill of education. Many object to taking their education “straight,” but if they can learn something amid the ballyhoo of sideshows and the shouting of toy balloon salesmen, they will pay as much as 50 cents to learn something. Indiana primarily is an agricultural State. This is a fact that we citizens of Indianapolis are inclined sometimes to forget. But the very backbone of Indiana prosperity, not only on the farms but in the cities:, is agriculture. The State fair is a concrete exposition of Indiana progress in agriculture. The fair deserves the support of everyone for this reason. .Some of us, who do not seriouslv object to learning something about our own State, would prefer an exposition without the usual strained effort at entertainment. But even if you go to the fair merely to be entertained you may learn som. thing in spite of yourself. Is it too much to expect that the bumper com crop will bring down the price of the ultimate pork chop?

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You can srrt sn answer to any question of fact or information by writlne to The Indtanaoolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in etamns for rcoly. Medical, legal and marital rdvic© cannot be Riven nor <;an extended research be undertaken. All other euestions will re.eeive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. When did The Tangle start In The Times? When will it end? Is it printed in book form? The Tangle started March 5. 1923. and will run indefinitely. It is not printed in book form. Can you give me an Indian word for “house in the woods”? “Kulsate adahi." What is a "Pithecanthropus Erectus’’? It means “walkin ape-man’’ and is the name given to a skeletal remains of an extinct animal discovered by Dubois in 1891-1892, at Trinal, Java. How old is the publication of newspapers? ' Newspapers can be traced back to antiquity ( The Romans and Chinese had issues similar to our modern newspapers. The most noted in Rome was the Acta Diurna. The Peking Gazette was published in Peking. China from 714 to 741. The earliest newspaper in the United States was Public Occurrences, issued in 1690 in the form of a small quarto sheet. Can turtles be caught on hooks? TAey will bite at flies or other smSil insects or bits of meat held

An Editorial By Charles Evans Hughes (From his address as retiring president of the American Har Association, Detroit, Sept. 2) mF progress has taught us anything, it is the vital need of freedom of learning. If we have any assurance for the future, it Jies in education, in the dissemination of correct information, in availing ourselves of the investigations of science in the formation of a sound public opinion which must rest on a broad liberal culture. But reliance upon education will be in vain if we do not maintain the freedom of learning. Perhaps that is the most precious privilege of liberty—the privilege of knowing, of pursuing untrammeled the paths of discovery. of inquiry, of invention. And like other privileges of liberty, it is not one to be reserved to a few. It belongs to all, and the only protection for all is that it does belong to all and that society is thus assurer! its full benefit. • • • SHE question is now presented as to the control of education in the public schools. Ido not propose to discuss evolution, or a particular statute and litigation recently much advertised; or even constitutional issues which, grave as they are. are of less concern than a sound public sentiment on the larger question involved. I desire in a noncontroversial spirit to emphasize the vast importance of the freedom of learning in the hope that our people instinct with the spirit of liberty will not lay hands on our public schools and State universities to set obstacles in the path of knowledge. # * m a X we reflect upon the course of history, **•l we cannot fail to appreciate how little we owe to governments and how much to education and to the methods and achievements of scientific inquiry. Governments and statesmen have too often stood in the wav; they have helped to the extent that they have kept the avenues open Believing, as I do, that the freedom of learning is the vital breath of democracy and progress, I trust that a recognition of its supreme importance will direct the hand of power, and that our public schools —for the mass of our young people can know no other and our State universities, the crown of nur educational system, may enjoy the priceless advantages of courses of instruction designed to promote the acquisition of all knowledge and may not he placed under restrictions to prevent, it, and that our teachers and professors may be encouraged, not to regard themselves as the pliant tools of power, but to dedicate their lives to the highest of all purposes, to know and to teach the truth, the whole truth and nothing hut the truth. This is the path of salvation of men and democracy. * * • wt HAT could be a nobler exercise of gov- ■ ■■■ ernmental power than to destroy religious error and save the souls of men from perdition? That plausible pretext has given us the saddest pages of history. That is the road that leads hack to the perversion of authority and the abhorrent practices of the dark days of political disqualifications on grounds of religion. of persecution, of religious wars, of tortures, of martyrdom. Me have problems enough without introducing religious strife into our politics.

on the surface of the water. Ordinarily they are not caught with hooks, however. Are white and black colors? White and black are not, strictly speaking, colors. White is a combination of all the visible colors of the solar spectrum. B'ack is the absence of spectral color. Tots By Hal Cochran Take any two tots that you may have in mind, and kindly consider them well. Jes’ total the things that they do, and you’ll find that there’s truth in the story I tell. To raisin’ the dickens all kidlets are wise, and they're chuck full of deviltry, too. Their queer little pranks often open your eyes. Every day they spring something that's new. Real spirit runs free in the life of a child, and there's get-up and pep up and go. From sun-up to eve they are rarin’ and wild and there’s seldom a moment that’s slow. They’ll fight when It's time to be washed up for meals. They’ll argue when time to retire. I’ll bet every parent knows just how it feels when a youngster is rubbing their ire. A bundle of life is the every day tot, and living is merely a game. But they worry and tret us or r.aflßßal! love the kids Just thr ''.MBt NEA • . Inc.)

Tom Sims Says The more things a loafer should be doing the happier he is. Some people’s idea of clean movies is having lots of bathing girls. Isn’t it strange how a dollar hill some help less Sims than otlfers. Swatting flies is better exercise than cussing the Government and helps things along more. What we need is an auto that will stop and count a hundred before hitting a telephone le. Easier a girl is to look upon the harder it is to stop looking. The sad thing about being yourself is you look it. Many a man can’t go forward because he always has his brakes on to Keep from slipping backward. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service. Inc.)

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SCIENTIST THINKS THE SUN HAS A COMPANION

By David Dietz SEA Service Writer O r “~l UR sun may have a companion in the skies. The possii bilities of this being so are indicated by recent work of Dr. W. J. I.uyten of the Harvard observatory. Astronomers have known for a long time that many stars might be Classified as companions. This was because they were moving through space with exactly the same speed and in exactly the same direction. Asa rule these stars are usually members of the same constellation, or group of stars, but all the stars of a constellation are not necessarily companion-stars in this sense. For example, in the familar constellation of the Great Dipper, five of the stars are moving together in one direction at th“ same speed, while the other two stars are moving in a different direction. Now our own sun is moving through space with a speed of about twelve and a half miles a second in the general direction of the star Vega. Asa result of this motion of our sun, a motion which our earth and the other planets also has. measurements of the stars show an apparent motion in the opposite direction. But in the case of a star in the constellation of Taurus, the Bull, I)r. Luyten finds that this apparent motion is absent. The only explanation, he believes, is that this star is moving in exactly

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

GASSING THE YEGGS LL Henry County (Ind.) banks—eighteen in number . —are installing in their vaults poison gas equipment as protection against robbers and yeggs. Ma n y their treasure. And it has tion on the vault Nelson the gas released drove them from the building. They escaped with their lives and 11 cents. Probably henceforth bank yeggs will hold their noses when passing through Henry County and will practice their profession in more salubrious localities. Since tho first cast-iron bank strong box was rifled by enterprising robbers with no other tools than a can opener, there has been a race between safe makers and yeggs. The former are now definitely ahead. Modern bank vaults with impenetrable steel doors, alarm systems, surrounded by a cloud of poison gas, are wellnigh impregnable—when locked. Now the banks have more to fear from daylight hold ups than from midnight assaults. But the easy harvest, of daylight bandits will eventually come to an end. It is foolish to suppose that methods of protecting bank funds day times as effectually as present vault equipment protects them nights will not be devised. The bank bandit plays a losing game. Every success makes his profession more hazardous and precarious. RADIO DOWN ON THE FARM j n EVENTEEN thousand Indl- | ana * armers have radio sets I in their homes, according to an estimate of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, result of a recent survey. In the whole country more than 550,000 rural home3 are so equipped. The radio is fast succeeding the mortgage In popularity as an agricultural implement. Farm radio sets only numbered 145,000 in 1923 and 365,0000 in 1924. In 1925 th°y have Increased 50 per cent. The rapid increase Is due. dry and musty department officials declare, to the farmers’ need for prompt market Information, to the eductaional value of radio, and its entertainment features. Perhaps those are the reasons. But a radio-owning farmer quite resembles a human being. Like the urban fans he has a set and twiddles its dials more for entertainment than for instruction or market information. American agriculture experiences periods of depression, but the general prosperity and high standard of living of tho average farmer is shown by the way he quickly adopts new conveniences and luxuries as they are perfected. Not one farmer out of a thouS'ind in France, Germany, England or elsewhere in Europe possesses a radio set, telephone, automobile or many other articles common on American farms. And when enry Ford builds easilymanaged airplanes in quantity he will find the farmer his best customer. BUSINESS IS" LOOKING UP SHOMAS D. BARR, deputy State bank commissioner, in a recent statement says that deposits in Indiana State banks have increased 514.910,735 since Jan. 1, 1925. The general condition of Indiana banks is better than at any time during four years, he declared. Similar reports come from neighboring Slides. More money in the bank3. fevrer slow loans, and indi > cations of excellent Jail business,

the same direction and wtih the same speed that our own sun is. and that therefore this star constitutes a companion to our sun. The star is small and very faint. It is known in the astronomical catalogues as 46 Tauri, that is star 46 in the constellation. Taurus. * * * OLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has perfected plans by which it u__J will take over all patents arising from inventions or discoveries made in the institution’s laboratories. This action has been decided upon to protect the discoverer or inventor in his rights to the patent, to insure that the public will be served at a reasonable price and under the best possible conditions, and so allow the university to share in the benefits of the patent a3 a means of increasing the funds at its disposal for further scientific research. * * • Ts~ -"l HE University of Toronto has embarked upon a public cami___Jiaign to raise by popular sub scription a fund of $500,000. This is to be known as the Banting Research Foundation and is to be used to finance medical research work. Dr. F. G. Banting and his three associates at the University of Toronto were the discoverers of insulin. . They were awarded the Nobel prize for this discovery.

report Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and lowa financial and commercial circles. E. W. Stout, president of the Fletcher American National Bank, at a meeting of the buyers visiting Indianapolis this week, predicted that a period of prosperity is just ahead that will last for many years. All very encouraging. Apparently the Middle West is beginning to feel twinges oft he long-expected attack of normalcy. Meanwhile Indiana has prospect of a bumper corn crop—the best in years. It is estimated that probably tile crop will he about 90.000,000 bushels larger than Inst year. Elsewhere in the corn belt the corn outlook is not so flattering. But if the market price is only 60 cents a bushel the Hoosier crop will put $50,000,000 more in Indiana purses than last year. That will stimulate business in all lines. * Oother States more vorciferously extol their climate and the opportunities they offer for sudden fortune. Perhaps Indiana isn't the garden of the Hesperides, where apples of solid gold grow on trees, hut it's a long way from being worn-out, dead and ready for the ashcan. A FATAL ~ SOAP BUBBLE dirigible, which crashed U— i. near Ava, Ohio, Thursday morning en route to Indianapolis, adds another to the appalling list of disasters to the fragile, unwieldy lighter-than- air craft. A puff of wind and the lives of the ship's captain and a third of the crew were snuffed out. Man's conquest of the air is still far from complete. The forcing down of the PN-9-3 and the fate of the PN-9-I—the Navy planes attempting to fly to Honolulu—show that type of aircraft is vulnerable. Despite such occasional mishaps, however, heavier-than-air machines drone through the skies in thousands of flights in all kinds of weather in safety. In tempest and blizzard the air mail crosses the continent on schedule. Compared with dirigible airplanes are as safe and reliable as family Dobbins. In the last few years this country has purchased four huge dirigibles—each the last word in airships. One broke her back in her final test flight and plunged into the English channel with great loss of life. Another burst into flames above Newport News. The crew perished. The third, the Shenandoah, has just been torn to shreds by a gale. Only the Los Angeles remains. And she cowers limply in her hangar, unable to fly because the Navy’s stock of helium gas was lost with the ill-fated Shenandoah. Four ships, three annihilating disasters. The record is no encouragement to spend more time, and money, and lives in development of dirigibles. The very quality that permits them to fly is their undoing. They are lighter than air, fragile and susceptible to every gust that blows. They are at best fatal soap bubbles. Dominion of the air must he won with sturdy wings.

What Is New on the Stage

B.v Walter 1). Hickman A” “1T THIS time my thoughts are more on the hot weather ■„ than anything else. But will try to get my mental box in shape to tell you about the new Palace show. A splendid and satisfactory, as well as anew way to use a male quartet has been worked out in “The Love Nest." Four young men call upon a pretty girl to ask her hand in marriage. After some quartet and solo work the girl makes her choice. Then we have a ragtime wedding. Act pleases. The men have good voices. An intelligent working out of the quartet idea. • Donahue and LaSalle go in for some rapid acrobatic tumbling and jumping. Good act. Sherman and Rose Rerue is the regulation dance routine with nothing in particular to make it stand out. Lang and ( Voell; indulge in some

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THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

'of the act. The movie is "The Slanderers.” At the Palace today and Saturday. * * * Other theaters today: "What’s Your Wife Doing?”, at English's; Mcßae and Mott at the Lyric; Shrine

FRIDAY, SEPT. 4, 1925

Frolic, at Brooksldo park; “Tho Mystic," at the Ohio; "Graustark," at tho Circle; Harry Carey In “Tho Bad Lands," at tho Isis; "Ughtnin'," at tho Colonial; "Drusllla With A Million,’* at tho Crystal; "Tho Trouble With Wives,’ at tho Ohio and burlesque at the Broadway^