Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1925 — Page 4

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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 dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indiannpolls • * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA In 3600. •

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Can the Navy Justify This? | rr*i] HE Navy Department may have difficulty |, I I in justifying its unfortunate experiment with three seaplanes and the lives of fifteen men between the California coast and Hawaii. Five of those lives appear to have beeu snuffed out to prove something that scarcely needed to be proved. Had Commander Rodgers and his crew reached Hawaii it would have been proved that —given good luck all the way, absence of unfavorable winds, absence of any accident to the machinery, absence of any miscalculation on the part of the fliers—their particular seaplane was capable of flying that far. But the Navy Department could not provide its fliers with this necessary element of good luck. It could only send them off into the blue and trust to fate. The distance in a direct line from California to Hawaii is 2,100 miles. The severest test to which any of the three planes used in this experiment had ever been put was a flight—within safe distance of shore—of 28 Yz hours. No mileage record was kept of that flight, but the estimated speed was 80 miles an hour, which would give a distance of 2,380 miles. That would be 180 miles more than required for the flight to Hawaii. Taking into account all the possibilities of disaster, was 180 miles extra cruising radius a sufficient margin for a 2,1001 jnile flight ? The Navy must answer that. Commander Rodgers’ plane carried 1,273 gallons of gasoline, which was regarded as sufficient for 200 miles more than the required distance. In view of the fact that the plane came down because it had exhausted its gasoline supply, it is hardly necessary to ask if the supply provided a sufficient margin for safety. Would it not have been possible to work out this disaster on paper as completely as it has been done in the air? Could the naval . authorities not have said, “180 miles extra 'cruising radius is not a sufficient margin for a ::2,100-mile trip over uncertain seas aid through uncertain atmosphere?” Could they not have said, “Gasoline for an extra 200 miles not enough?” In other words, could they not have tested their planes on their own commonsense instead of the distant waters of the Pacific? “Every thinkable precaution had been taken,” it is said. Every thinkable precaution—save waiting until they had devised seaplanes that offered , some reasonable margin of safety to the heroic aviators and mechanics ordered to make the flight. In wartime men of the Navy must sometimes be sent on expeditions in which every chance is against them. Is that also necessary in time of peace ? The Paving War E (DOMING in ’he background of recent squabbles over street improvements is the free for all, rough and tumble competition between asphalt and cement interests. While this rivalry may be the life of the paving trade, yet members of the board of works often bear the brunt of public criticism as a result. Its evidences are questionable signatures to petitions for paving, intrigue to convert

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You cn srt an answer to auy question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bv-“su. 1322 Mew York Ave.. Wa.shli D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in eta.i.js for reply. Medical, legal and marital rdvice cannot be gi\cn. nor can extended research be undertaken. All other ouestions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned reaucsta cannot be answered. All letters are conflden- ' tial.—Editor. Os what rank is an “Ensign” in the United States Navy? This is the lowest commisskwied rank. Midshipmen, after graduating from the Naval Academy at Annapolis are commissioned “Ensigns.” After a service of three years they are promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, Junior Grade. — How deep can a submarine descend under water? This depends entirely on the size and make of the submarine. The " United States Navy record for submarie descent is 296 feet. If one wishes to add a note to the bottom of a letter that he wished to make very emphatic would he use “P. S.” or “N. B.”? The letters “P. S.” mean postscript, or after-thought, added to a letter after the signature has been affixed. The letters “N. B.” stand for the Latin “nota bene,” meaning “note well,” and are used t. 9 draw attention :o some note wjiieh fol- ; lows. ”N. It ’ is therefore tfte more emphatic of .he two. Is there any way that another person can find cut, by the ballot, Just who a persin voted for in the Presidential election? The ballots for Presidential . electors are cast under the Australian or secret ballot system, and [lnasmuch as they ire placed In the 1 ballot box by the voter and there is

signers for asphalt to concrete and vice versa, favoritism to certain property owners who ar promised rewards for circulation of petitions, much rustling about by attorneys soliciting business, remonstrances and suits in court. Board of works members say they attempt to authorize the type of paving preferred by a majority of the property owners, but in many cases are bewildered by the smoke screens east by petitioners for the two types of material. The trade war has fomented hundreds of neighborhood quarrels and in many communities enmities and jealousies have been created that lasted for many years. The theory of the right of petition is that a property owner who desires an improvement shall consult with his neighbors and record those signatures of persons agreeing with him as to the kind of material. In practice, scouts of asphalt and concrete companies are roving about the city, instigating the circulation of petitions and endeavoring to cut each other’s throats commercially. Citizens with ample influence are persuaded to obtain their neighbors’ names for either type of material. When the board of works receives the petitions, oftentimes the same name is on both petitions, with an hour marked to indicate that the signer has changed his mind for the last time in favor of one petition. The board having threaded the maze, the losers remonstrate, then swear the material is faulty and. as a last recourse, bring the matter to the courts. It’s difficult to define the advantages of the present system. Its faults are obvious. Has a Times reader a remedy ? Bill Is Busy EVERLY HOWARD, colored custodian of the city hall, was discharged a few days ago. For the good of the service and as a measure of economy, was the reason advanced by Charles E. Coffin and William H. Freeman, Republican board members, who signed the order. Dr. M. J. Spencer, Democratic member, refused to sign the record of the transaction, asserting he believed a man who has served the administration three years and eight months should be allowed to remain until the end of the four-year term. Several weeks ago Howard was put on the grill by William H. Armitage, political director of the Shank administration, who sought to obtain his heavy influence with colored voters for John L. Duvall, Republican nominee for mayor. Howard refused and started the organization of Myers for Mayor Clubs. “I hear the board is going to fire you unless you fellows get right,” Howard said Armitage informed him several days ago. Monday Howard said a special courier, who declared he ivas from the “Big Boss,” bore an eleventh-hour appeal for a change in his political views. Armitage is a consistent visitor at meetings of the board of works. He arrived at the board office a short time after the order releasing Howard was signed. Board members deny Big Bill influences their decisions. Roll your own conclusion.

nothing upon them save the crosses placed there by the voter in pencil, there would seem no way in which a voter could be Identified by his ballot. This cduld only be done through “crooked” work on the part of the election booth officials, who might examine a ballot before it was placed in the ballot box, but inasmuch as the law provides for watchers at each booth representing each of the political parties, this could not happen without their connnivance. Are tomatoes classed as a fruit or a vegetable. They are classed as a vegetable by the Department of Agriculture. For how long was General Pershing chief of staff of the United States armies, and who now holds the position? Pershing was commander-in-chief of the United States forces during the World War and chief of staff from 1921 to 1924. Major General Hines is now chief of staff. Wiirjwm name some rivers of the Ujffted States which flow north ?y The Shake River, between Idaho and Oregon; the Big Horn and Powder Rivers flowing into the Yellowstone (in Wyoming and Montana), and the Souris River of North Dakota, flowing into Canada, are all rivers which flew north. There are also a number of smaller rivers, such as the Genesee River in New York State. Several large rivers flow north for a part of their course, Including the Missouri River. \ \Can old trees be transplanted? 'nhe size of a tree that can be depends a zreat deni

upon the variety. Asa general rule, however, old trees that have passed beyond the sapling stage do not take root as well after transplanting as the younger trees. There Is no rule about it, however, and some transplanting of large trees has been quite successful. In what mountain is Iron Gate? Iron Gate is the name of a mountain passage and obstructed course of the Danube River, between Orsova in Hungary and Clladova in Servia. The boulder masses impeding navigation were removed in 1896 and the river was declared open for navigation on Sept. 27 of that year. Sleep By Hal Cochran __fi HEN you’re all brain-fagged V fJ and down In the rut and feel _LU far from properly keyed, sleep, lots of sleep man, and nothin’ else but, is likefr the thing that you need. 'Funny how people will toy with their eyes and use ’em till aches start to come. Many a headache and nervous spell lies in the fact that your optics are numb. Stop and consider the past week or so and add up the sleep you have lost. Autos and movies keep folks on the go, and they seldom consider the cost. Cost to your eyes la the thing that I mean—not just the meager expense. How can you hope that your sight will keep keen If you fall to use good common sense? God gave us eyes so we clearly might see. Your sight is a thing you would keep. The kindest advice, ff you leave *lt'to me, is see your way clear to get sleep. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service. In^

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IssCoolidgea Strike Buster? hTI Editor Times: , meier dw Talks flying machines About Mine *rubN ll * and Ad Walkouts, lasts und ven jjjjpi Marriage ings. Ven id costs der Gufferment $30,000,000 to bust der bootleggers how much iss he going to cost to bust der strikes? Der flying machines bin already busted. Id iss admissioned der strike costs der miners a $1,000,000 effeiy day, so vat you denk he cos f s der jeneral publics? Rite now iss der time der Bresident shood show uns he bin a strike buster. Good he duplication vat he dit in Bosting? Der peebles now bin up a trees und don’t cood help him, aber you bet in der ent dey bin der fellers vat got der settlings to made. Id looks like efferyding iss gotten upside down turned no matter vich vay you vent. Look vunce vat iss didding mit dot marriage vows. Der vimmins don’t stood for any bromise to luff und obey. Not much. Id iss now a fifty by fifty contracts. After vile dey vood not said, I DO und maybe not even said YES. Dot olt rock ribbed knot tying iss a ding us der past und mit der doors son der court houses swinging bote vays, id made der untying vust so easy as vas. Id iss a cinches ven der honey moons iss not satisfaction der knot iss gabusted and der court house seddles id. Ven dem judges vood cut der lawns closer der vood not bin such a many grass vidders. Allso sometimes der new names vat der Fadder und Mutter giffs der grooms iss allso a briers in der side. Veil, ven you don’t got a names vat giffs good soundings, go by der judges und gotten him changed, aber ven you did so, just look vunce vat iss habbening to der old family tree. Vile id iss admissioned some names vat iss spelt not der same vay got der same meanings, yust like Schwartz iss Blaek und Blaek iss Schwartz; Schneider iss Taylor und Taylor iss Schneider; Glick is Luck; Lieber iss Dear; Kirschbaum iss Cherry tree und Sehwartzkopf iss Blackhead. Und ven you vent on bis der ent us der voorldt you found no improofments in der name changing bissness. Der olt vay of madeing mens und vises so veil as der names vat comes down from Adam und Eve, shood bin goot enuff. \ e bin a gread peebles, full mit idees und yust how he iss all earning oud iss a connundrums. Vun ding iss sure. Mit ve Americans idd cood neffer bin said: “He iss a dude aber er dude nix.” HANS HOFFMEIER. 1622 Sout Vest Streed.

ALL FOUR OF JUPITER’S MOONS ARE NOW VISIBLE

By David Dietz SEA. Service Writer mF you own a pair of prism binoculars or a fairly good pair of field glasses, you can make for yourself any night this month or next, the discovery which Galileo first made when he built the original telescope. Galileo's discovery was the fact that four moons revolve about the planet Jupiter. It is particularly easy to see these moons during the next seven or eight weeks, because Jupiter is in such a favorable position for observation. About 9 p. m. It will be found in the Boutheas.ern sky, well up above Tom Sims Says Snake bit an American tourist in Cuba. Could have been worse. Suppose It had bit him in America. Some of us get into trouble because we don't think and get into trouble because we do think. The Chinese used umbrellas 3,000 years ago, so people have been v>orrowlng things 3,ooop’ears. If a woman wears a wedding ring chances are she is married. If a man carries Bad news from Sims France. Snails are eating crops. The crops should try growing a little faster. Keep on chasing women and one will catch you. Every summer resort with a good place to swim has a large floating population. The headline reader sizes up the situation in Spain by calling it a Riff in some one’s loot. The honeymoon ends when washing dishes is no longer romantic. World’s better. Banana shortage two summers ago. Rain shortage late summer. Song shortage. Summer’s nice. But in winter you Can keep your hands in your pockets so you won't lose your money. Once a girl’s greatest thrill was her first proposal. Now it’s the first time she proposes. Friday is considered unlucky because it comes the day before payday when most of us are broke. Women are so foolish. Want men to eat the things they should. A big city is an awful place. Almost as dull as a small town. zCWfydyht, 1925, NEA Service./ Inc.)

the horizon. It Is impossible to miss It because It Is the brightest object in the sky these nights, blazing forth with a beautiful blue-white fire. It is particularly interesting to watch the moons of Jupiter night after night, and to notice how their positions with respect to the planet vary. This Is due to the fact that they are revolving around the planet at different distances and different rates of speed. On Sept 1, two of the moons were to the east of the planet, one being very close to the planet. Similarly two are to the west, with one of these quite close to the planet. Sept. 2, there were still two on either side of Jupiter, but no moon is very close to the planet. On Sept. 3 only one moon was on the east, while three were on the west. The next night the condition is exactly reversed. Occasionally only three moons will be visible. This is because one of the moons will be directly behind the planet, and so hidden from our sight. • • • SHE earth Is 100,000.000 years old. according to an estimate Just made by Professor John Joly, the world-famous geologist of Dublin University. Dr. Joly bases his estimate upon the amount of salt in the ocean. His theory Is that originally the ocean consisted of fresh water and that the salt was washed out of the rocks and Into the ocean by the rivers. Hence the amount of salt Is an Index to the earth’s age. There is enough salt in the ocean to cover all the land to a depth of 400 feet, Dr. Joly says. • • • . LASKA boasts the world’s largest volcanic crater, ac- — cording to a report recently issued by the U. S. Department of the Interior. The crater is known as the Aniakchak crater. It is 30 square miles in area, or about one-half the size of the District of Columbia. It has rock walls rising to a height of 3,000 feet in places. A cinder cone at the center is 2,200 feet high. Fortunately the crater is now extinct. Government scientists believe that the crater must have erupted at least 1C cubic miles of material in the past. A Thought If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat. . . . and the Lord will reward thee.—Prov. 25:21, 22. • • • No tears are shed when an enemy dies —Maxims of Publius Syrus. What books of the Bible did John the Baptist write? John the Baptist, whose enthusiastic preaching moved the masses of Palestine and thus prepared the way for the teachings of Jesus, is not to be confused with the disciple of Jesus, John the son of Zebedee, the traditional author of the Fourth Gospel, three distinct Epistles and the Book of Revelation. N. writings of John the Baptist have come down to as, and It Is doubtful If he wrote anything, as he was a man of the wilderness, and not of the scholarly type.

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

TOO MUCH COAL m.v DIANA’S coal industry is reviving. Within the last few days bituminous mines in Sullivan County have received large contracts and are working full time. Mines elsewhere In the district long closed are being opened. The anthracite country’s coal Nelson mining problem In a nutshell. Ten days ago the Hoosier coal Industry was dead. Now It hums. Simply because mines in at other field have shut down. There Is no increase In the actual demand or consumption of coal throughout the country, no sudden boom In industry or transportation to require more fuel. Normal demands for coal are not sufficient to keep all the mines aad miners in the country employed. Only when production stops in one field, resulting In loss for the operators and hunger for the miners, does another field prosper. Too many mines and too many miners. That’s the trouble. As long as it prevails, conditions in one of the country’s most essential industries will be unsettled and disputes interminable. An Industry that depends on feeding a multitude with live loaves and a few small Ashes can’t permanently succeed. It can’t work miracles. OVER-CROWDED STATE SCHOOLS IARRY G. LESLIE, secretary of the Purdue Alumni Asi___J soclation, predicted at a dinner of Indianapolis alumni Thursday night that Purdue University will have such a large enrollment this year it may be necessary to limit students to those living in Indiana. Well, why not such a limitation? Purdue is a great institution of which Hoosiers are proud. It is generally conceded to be one of the greatest schools of its type in the country. Os course it *s gratifying to state pride that its fame is such that students from far outside the State are attracted to it. But Purdue is a State institution, maintained by Indiana taxpayers primarily for the education of Indiana youth. The nominal tuition charged students from outside the State is but a small fraction of the actual cost of furnishing instruction and educational facilities for such students. Hoosier taxpayers pay the balance. They are paying not only for educating their own youths, but also for youths from States which won't tax themselves sufficiently to maintain schools of Purdue's caliber. Conditions In other famous State Universities In the Middle West are the same. The universities of Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin draw thousands of students from other parts of the country and foreign nations for whose education Michigan. Illinois and Wisconsin taxpayers are assessed. Why shouldn’t a Stats institution be maintained exclusively for education of its own citizens? With the overcrowding of many State universities that question will soon have to be answered.

THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

TO MAKE THEM AMERICANS jEORGE STANCULESCU, editor of the RoumanianAmerican newspaper America, told the journal’s stockholders Thursday at a meeting in Indianapolis in connection with the national convention of Roumanian societies that henceforth the policy of the paper would be ”Americanization.” "If any Roumanian wishes to return to Roumanla let him go immediately,” he said. "But if he plans to stay here, let him become naturalized and Americanized.” For a long time It was supposed that the foreigner who entered this country became a real American as soon as he passed Ellis Island and changed his shirt. But generally he didn’t. Why should we expect him to any more than we would expect an American to become a Chines© after a few evenings of mah-Jongg? Alien tongue and differences In customs and racial heritage make the assimilation of the foreigner a slow process. Dilettante clubwomen and uplifters, with elaborate Americanization programs, accompliuh little. They talk about and to the foreign born—feed him icecream and platitudes but don't get under his skin, where the real transformation must be wrpught. They don’t speak his language. The foreign language newspaper can be a most powerful ApierlcanIzatlon agency. It can bridge the gap between the old world and the new for the alien. Too many such Journals, however, are merely chains endeavoring to bind their readers to old racial prejudices and animosities. They should adopt the straightforward policy of America. HIGH BAIL AND CRIME mUDGE JOHN H. LYLE of Chicago’s municipal court, a native of Gessie (Ind)., / believes he has found one answer to the crime wave. It is high bail for gunmen and professional criminals with long police records. "Such criminals flourish," he points out, "because they can obtain freedom under bond and delays. We need a complete new deal in the custom of admitting certain types to bail. Law is primarily for the protection of the people. The day is coming when no highwayman or robber will be admitted to ball." He puts his principles into practice, fixing bonds of offenders arraigned before him at prohibitive figures—varying from $50,000 to $2,200,000, depending as much on the past record of the defendant as the seriousness of the charge. A festive bandit, worth 90 cents dead at a soap factory, and practically nothing alive, isn’t likely to resume professional activity immediately If held in Jail in default of a $50,000 bond. While the same offender, if freed on a nominal bond. Is encouraged to contlnje supporting himself with his gun, pending trial. Judge Lyle's system might well be tried here. Indianapolis city court has been criticised for Its low bond scale. A man arrested on a SIO,OOO grand larceny charge might be liberated on a $2,000 bond. Not long ago one charged with a serious crime against little girls was released on a $2,000 bond. And Jumped’it. To keep ocent or charged with minor often ees, confined In jail awaiting trial subjects them to unecessary hardship. Provision for reasonable ball in such cases Is proper. However, the first duty of the court is not convenience of the individual but protection of society. Low bonds for professional criminals and serious offenders don't bsneflt society.. Instead of assuring their appearance for trial the systrm Is more apt to assure their disappearance.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 5,1925

News About Local Music

The Irvington School of Music opens its sixth season next Tuesday. All private Instructions will be given that week in Irvington and at Thir-ty-Eighth St. and Collpge Ave. New additions to the faculty Include Eva Hople, H. King. Carol Coapstlck and Thomas Poppani. Vlttoria Montanl will add the teaching of the Irish harp. Miss Helen Clenler has joined the faculty and will teach dramatic, art. • • • Gertrude Conte of the Irvington School of Music Is offering a vocal scholarship consisting of free instruction from Oct. 1 to May 1. The voices are tested privately. • * * The new north building recently purchased by the directors of the Metropolitan School of Music will be ready for occupancy with the opening of the thirty-first season nfvst, Monday M The main activities of the will continue at the central buiw Ing, corner North and Pennsylvania streets, and the new building, corner Thirty-Fourth and Pennsylvania Sts., will be used for the accommodation of students in the vicinity, the faculty dividing time between the two buildings. Four new members have been added to the faculty. Miss Elizabeth Kaltz, teacher of music in Arsenal Technical High School, will become assistant to Ernest. G. Hesser in the public music department. Miss Florence Keepers and Kelton Whetstlne, graduates of the school, will enter the piano department an t Miss Isabel Parry who will have charge of the Dunning Music System of Theory for Children. Through Its afiliatton with Butler University the school offers its students a graduate degree. The same directors will remain in charge of the school, Flora, M. Hunter, head of the piano department: Hugh McGlbeny, head of the violin department; Edward Nell, head of the voice department, and Leslie E. Peck, heal of the department of cornet and trumpet. Faculty members are Arthur G. Monninger, Mrs. Arthur Monnlnger, Earle Howe Jones, Mary E. Willhlte, Tully E. Brown, Grace Hutchings, Helen Louise Qulg, Frieda Beider, Nora M. Beaver, Allie F. Eggleston, Lucille \Vagner, Geraldine Trotter, Leone Kinder, Frances A. Wishard, Laura Doerflin, Harry Otis Pruitt, Franklin N. Taylor, Jgk Bellel Sweenie, Llun Brown, Watson, Henry Marshall, Jones, Adolph Schellschmldt, Arthur Deming, Ernest G. Hesaer, Bernice Van Sickle, Frances Belk, Fay Heller, Helen Sartor, Leontlne Gano and Nan Hunt. • • • Fred Newell Morris, teacher of singing, has been reengaged for the season as bass soloist and director of music at Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. , The new repertoire of the choir will Include Maunder’s "Song of Thanksgiving," and Gounod's "Mes so Solenelle," and a number of new attractive choruses and quartets. Morris returns to Toledo, Ohio, in December for his seventh engagement with the Toledo Choral Society and Cleveland Symphony Orchestra as bass soloist in Handel's siah.” \ The Morris studio at 1808 N. JDelaware St. has been reopened for the season. • • • The Metropolitan School of Music announces the addition to faculty of Isabel Parry, who will teach the Dunning system of theory for children. Miss Parry’s general musicianship and ability as a concert jplanlst Is well known. She has been trained by some of the wprld’s greatest masters, among them being Leschetizky and Frauleln Marie Frentner of Vienna, and in this country' Mme. Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Ruodph Ganz and Palmgren, the modern pianist. For two years she vr& a member of the faculty of the’ Cornish School of Musio in Seatttle, Wash. • 1 i How long ago was Grov® r Cleveland President of tne United States? From 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.