Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 110, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1925 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELiX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bug. Mgr. Member of the Sorlpps-Howard Newspaper Allianre • • • client of the United Presg and the NEA Service • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing’ Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week * • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

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Spending Five Million Dollars T7J.AYOR SHANK proposes that the city IVI shall spend five million dollars next year. A complete budget, revealing the amounts all departments of city government shall spend, was prepared and submitted to city council August 17. It was referred to the finance committee for consideration and a public hearing and final action was set for tonight’s meeting. What happened? The committee was never assembled to view the most vital ordinance before council during the year until today. Asa result council members will face consideration of itlie appropriation measure without adequate advice of members selected to enlighten them on its terms. William Bosson, city attorney, has given the opinion that final action must take place tonight or the 1925 allowances will prevail. State legislators toiled in committee more than three months before the State budget was adopted. Are city councilmen so enlightened that they need not occupy their time with consideration of the- five million dollar expenditure before they authorize it? A corporation spending five million dollars a year would soon pass out of the picture of industrial competition if similar methods were employed in estimating the yearly expenditures. An inspection of the cities where the city manager form of government is in operation will reveal no instances of such complete confidence and indifference. Council members find time to spend many hours in criticising the shortcomings of other branches of the administration. Surely, they could have assigned at least onp meeting to intelligent perusal as a body of the amounts comprising the five million dollars taxpayers will march up to the tax counter and leave. Labor Day EHE man who works with his hands had his day today. Individually and collectively he motored to the State Fairground, enjoyed the fair, heard Labor day speeches and generally took a holiday. Not so many years ago it was customary to speak of the working class and to place the man who worked with his hands in a different social and financial status from those who theoretically worked with their heads. But that day is gone. More often than not the laboring man is now envied his lot in the world by the “white-collar man.” / There are two principal causes for this change of affairs. The first is the fact that the laboring man has joined organizations pledged to look out after his affairs. The other is the tendency of young men generally to accept no job unless it involves selling something or sitting behind a desk. The workingman through his organizations has succeeded not only in obtaining better working conditionsTbut at the same time in obtaining in countless cases more money for his services than his white-collared brother. Through the tendency of young men to look for white-collar jobs, the supply of such men usually exceeds the demand, resulting in low •aiaries. On the other hand, the supply of really good skilled workmen in many lines is diminishing. It would seem that labor has just clause to celebrate. \ Divorce for the Asking \ Y/j HILE most reformers are advocating " making divorces harder to obtain, Clarence Darrow, lawyer, who frequently enjoys being “different,” suggests that divorces should be obtained for the asking. In almost the same breath Darrow says, “Abolish mflrriage and you abolish the home.” He opposes any idea of so-called “free love.” It is hard to reconcile these two state-

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ments. In most States, includnig Indiana, marriage can be had for the asking. In all States it is somewhat harder than this to obtain a divorce. In some it is very difficult and in one impossible. • There has been a great deal of discussion of marriage and divorce reform recently. In fact, an effort is being made to have Congress pass a lav’ on the subject, to take the place of the present confusion of State laws. The tendency has bepn to make marriage somewhat harder and to establish a common middle ground for divorce as compared with the various extremes now in effect among the States. , It has been found that where divorce is forbidden or is particularly hard to obtain immorality has increased. On the other hand, in States where divorce has been possible almost for the asking—and Indiana is one of those States—the divorce privilege has been abused. But if marriage can continue to be possible merely by filling out a rather meaningless form and muttering a few words and divorce can be obtained in the same way, wouldn’t we have the condition of “free love” that Mr. Darrow so much fears? George Remus and the Tar Baby W 7 ELL. well! George Remus is with us ** again. George Remus, king of the bootleggers. the man who bought distdleries by the dozen after prohibition began, and who told the Senate Committee of $250,000 to $300,000 payments to Jess Smith, adjutant of Harry M. Daugherty. George Remus, who when the 1924 campaign got warm provided Harry M. Daugherty with a repudiation of this testimony, saying Senator Wheeler had persuaded him to tell a story that wasn’t true. George Remus, out of prison for awhile, now repudiates his repudiation. All he testified to concerning the money paid Jess Smith for Department of Justice protection is true he says. There was another great story-teller named Remus. His first name was Uncle. One of his most famous stories concerned a Tar Baby. “Didn’t the fox never catch the rabbit, Uncle Remus?” asked the little boy. “He come mighty nigh it, honey, sho’s you born —Brer Fox did. One day atter Brer Rabbit fool ’im wid dat calamus root, Brer Fox went ter wuk en got Tm some tar. en mix it wid some turkentime, en fix up a contrapshun wat he call a Tar Baby, en he tuk dish yer Tar Baby en he sot ’er in de big road, en den he lay off in de bushes fer to see wat de news wuz gwine ter be. En he didn’t hatter wait long, nudder, kase bimeby here come Brer Rabbit pacin’ down de road—lippity-clippitv, clippitv-lippity—dez ez sassy ez a jay-bird. Brer Fox he lay low.” You know the rest of it, how Brer Rabbit got all tangled up in the tar when he tried to treat the Tar Baby with courtesy. Folks who followed the amazing proceedings of the Justice Department, after Senator Wheeler took the lid off, might see a certain parallel to this Uncle Remus story. Brer Fox —that’s Harry Daugherty. Brer Rabbit—that’s Senator Wheeler. The Tar Baby? Perhaps there were two: the magnificent Ga3ton B. Means for one, and Uncle George Remus himself for the other. Each of these born repudiators sought to tar the senator, but each having eventually to repudiate his repudiation, the senator came off with clean hands. Os course, the story isn’t all told yet. “Did the fox eat the rabbit?” asked the little boy. “Dat’s all de fur de tale goes,” replied the old man. “He mout, en den again he moutent. Some say Jedge B’ar come ’long en loosed ’im—some say he didn’t.”

400 and 425 degrees F., the actual point being possibly near 412 degrees F., although it varied somewhat with different kinds of paper. There was considerable browning and embrittlement above 350 degrees F. and some charring between 375 and 400 degrees F.. although no actual ignition took place. For how many years has writ been known? When was it first known among the Hebrews? It has been supposed by scholars that the earliest forms of writing date back to about ten thousand years before Christ. Monuments, letters carved on stone, come down to us from centuries before the time of Solomon. As to when writing began among the Hebrews, there is considerable difference of opinion,

some holding that it began in the times of David and Solomon, others claiming tljat the tradition of the Ten Commandments written on tablets of stone shows that it went back to the time of Moses. What is a good method for killing popular trees? One of the best methods is to ring them by cutting them all around to a depth of about six inches. This should be done in the spring. How many head of cattle and how many pigs are there in the United States? According to the latest census figures available there are 68,760,086 head of cattle in ,the United States and 61,984,798 head of swine.

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A NEW ASTROLOGY IS BEGINNING TO LOOM UP

By David Dietz NBA Service Writer 1-1 NEW astrology—one with I A I the stamp of approval of the w scientists—seems to be looming up on the frontier of science. The astrologer insists that the position of the planets influences the individual destiny of each person. The new astrology won’t go quite that far. But it will admit that the position of the planets in the sky has much to do with the aggregate health, happiness and prosperity of the people on this earth. Ellsworth Huntington, famous explorer. geographer, and research associate of Yale University, proposes the new astrology. Health, happiness and prosperity depend largely upon the weather, he says. Weather changes are the result fundamentally of changes in the amount of light, heat and electrical energy radiated by the sun. And these changes, he says, are due to the positions of the planets. Hence the Influence of the planets upon the human race. The importance of the weather is obvious. It determines whether crops will be good and bad and therefore whether the farmer will be prosperous or not. Hot summers increase infant mon ♦ality. Storms wreck ships. And so on. Most scientists are willing to agree now that changes in the sun's nxiiatlon are the fundamental causes of changes in the weather on earth. Now Huntington advances the proposal that the positions of the

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

NO LABOR DAY PARADE • I IONTRARY to usual custom, If the labor organizations of L. J Indianapolis do not parade today. Instead, their official observance of the holiday will consist of speechr —-smg™ • making, band concert and ex(R, Sv processes at t he State fair ' and ottiers who ' get a thrill out of mar ching, ■JPfK processions yjj&f&i '•*s§ may regret the ab an donmcnt honored Labor NeLson day parade. But probably the passing Is in keeping with the times. The purpose of parades is advertising and propaganda. The victorious Roman general accorded the dignity of a triumpyal procession through the streets of Rome valued it less as an honor than advertising. So the circus parade was instituted to advertise the circus. When the organized labor movement was young and Labor day first became recognized as a holiday, it was natural that the unions should parade to show their strength and advertise the movement. It was avowedly propaganda. Only about forty years ago Labor day was first established. Since then the labor movement has grown up. Unionism is regarded as a matter of course, not a strange beast with horns and breathing fire. Unions no longer have to parade to impress the publie with their Importance and soiidar.ly. The unions now accomplish more by using their heads than by wearing blisters on their feet. SPECIAL COPS AND BRIBERY | IAROLD KNUDSEN. a II J I special police officer In I**l South Bend, lost his badge of authority and faces the grand jury on charges of accepting a bribe. He admitted he accepted SSO to “forget" evidence obtained in a liquor raid. He was a volunteer officer who served without pay. The incident reveals the danger of giving every Tom. Dick and Harry police power to be exercised in spare moments and not as a regular job paid for by the public. It is difficult to keep a regular, professional police force pure and undefiled. Some of the frail humans composing it are likely to succumb to temptation even though their living and vocation depend on faithful performance of duties How much more difficult to keep unpaid officers, who police as a sideline, from developing itching palms. Such officers have every incentive—and no restraint except their own consciences—to turn their badges to personal profit. Indiana is over-run with horsethief detectives and unpaid wielders of police power. The system results not In greater law enforcement, but immeasurably widens the'opportunity for bribery. The State, no more than the Individual, gets something for nothing. It will get no more real law enforcement than It buys and pays for. WAR MEMORIAL INQUIRY ,”T lAWRENCE F. ORR, State ? I examiner, whose recent 1 I charges against the architects of the War Memorial have resulted in an investigation, issued a statement Friday that the Memorial board's action on the charges “will not be considered by those who know the facts

planets with respect to the sun causa/ changes in the s.un’s radiations. Huntington believes that each planet absorbs the electrical radiations from the sun up to a certain pointy and then reflects the remainder lack toward the sun. The distance of each planet from the sun varies as it goes around the sun because of the flattening of the orbit. Furthermore, at times several planets will all be grouped on one side of the sun. Asa result, the amount of reflected energy striking the sun varies in intensity and direction. This, Huntington believes, acts as a trigger to upset the electrical balance in the sun and so vary the amount of energy radiated by the sun. * * * LIVE oil exposed to ultta-vlo-Olet rays can be used as a cure for rickets, according to experiments at the University of Wisconsin. It was recently shown that ultraviolet rays or cod liver oil could be used for a cure and that furthermore the action of the cod liver oil was due to the fact that it gave off ultraviolet rays when it oxidized inside the human system. It is probable that the ultra-violet rays cause a chemical change in the olive oil so that w-hen taken internally It gives off rays just as the cod liver oil does. • * • SHE German navy has dispatched a special ship called the Meteor to the South Sea. The Meteor is to make a scientific study of ocean currents from a point north of the equator to the border of the Antarctic ice fields.

as a satisfactory and final disposition of the case." The board characterized the architects' inclusion in the specifications of patented steel in which they are financially interested as “unethical and unlawful.” It engaged Professor Hatt of Purdue, an acknowledged steel authority, to check the specifications. It withheld further action pending result of its inquiry. To the average man it tvould seem the trustees have taken hold of the matter in a common sense way—in a way to safeguard the interests of the people of Indiana. What more does the State examiner want? Are the members of the Memorial board working for him or for the public? The War Memorial is a magnificent project. Nothing is to be gained by hasty action on unverified accusations that will upset and delay the undertaking. That's one of the surest ways to. discredit the whole enterprise. If the architects are guilty of unethical and unlawful practices the facts will be adduced by the board's Inquiry and the findings of its technical expert. The appropriate action can be taken. Until such time the public, if not the state examiner, is willing to let the matter rest. There will be plenty of time to cry “Wolf! Wolf!" after the lupine creature is actually discovered. DAREDEVIL AERIAL STUNTS ist, to give the county fair l__J crowd at Princeton, Ind., a thrill the other day cut loose from his balloon 2,000 feet in the air and descended by a series of parachutes opening successively. Only the last failed to open and Coover crashed to death. He was performing a daredevil aerial stunt just to make spectators gasp and of no service to the practical advance of aeronautics. His death was a regrettable but useless sacrifice. But no more useless than the recent aerial stunts of Navy airmen undertaken by the Department's orders—the Hawaiian flight and the Shenandoah tour. Fourteen skilled officers and men were killed when the Shenandoah was tom asunder. They risked and lost their lives for what? Even If the projected flight had been completed without mishap it would have served no useful purpose. Merely stretched the necks of fair crowds in the Middle West, adding nothing to the progress of aerial navigation, military effectiveness, or airship design. At best the trip was a publicity stunt, at worst which happened—a needless sacrifice of precious lives. The attempted flight of the PN planes to Honolulu was no better. If successful It would only have proved that under favorable conditions those planes could hop over 2,100 miles of sea. No new knowledge of design, construction of operation of planes would have been gained. The planes were sent off with only sufficient fuel for 2,300 miles, If all went well. All went 111. Under the conditions, as planned and executed, the flight was only a stunt —at most valuable for publicity If It succeeded. The Navy Department might Just as well send Its airmen around to county fairs to make parachute jumps from hot air balloons as to waste them on such stunts. Casualties would be no heavier and it would result in as much progress in aeronautics. A Thought Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine owr eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. —Matt. 7:5. • • • Os all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticsm is the most tormenting.—Laurence Sterne.

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Wild Susan Did Not Want a 1909 Model for a Husband ’Cause She Wanted a Live One

By Walter D. Hickman K r ~~~~ IND of a husband that Susan wanted was not the model that went out with the flood but a modern go-getter, a regular up-to-the-minute cave man. Susan was a wild girl. She thought that traffic signals were made to amuse children.. Susie kept h p r good but ■Wr m wealthy dad in a peck of trouble. He tried to marry her L off to an old-fash-ft* ioned college hoy, lU. the type that Is ■S careful and learned, drove the wildest \ looking black an 1 fl | \ JR yellow taxi. And Bebe Daniels when you learn that the “he" is played by Rod La Rocque and the "she” is Bcbe Daniels, you will agree that there are pleasant chances of having a good time. Am just trying to tell you about a good- natured little comedy, called “Wild. Wild Susan’’ which Is gracing Paramount Week at the Ohio. Bebe as Susan is just as wild and cute as the author of this merry little story intended. When she dons men’s trousers and makes up like Charlie Chaplin would do when he was not serious, you will agree with me that Bebe is too cute and funny for words. When Susan attempts to be a female detective, again you will discover some more fun. The taxi driver makes it possible for Susan not only to get some thrills while detecting and she also gets a husband—said husband being the taxi cab driver and said taxi driver being the son of a. rich man who was taxi ing for thrills. “Wild, Wild Susan" is nifty entertainment. Story moves as rapidly a Bebe does. Rather think you will vote this one mighty smart and entertaining. It s hokum in spots, hut the good brand. Bill includes a comedy. “On The Go," Fox news reel and music. At th© Apollo all week. J. .|. .|. HOT DOG. DICK IS A WOW IN THIS ONE Rather think this is my sentiment of Dick Rarthelmess in “Shc* , e Leave"—Hot dog, Dick is a wow in this one. Meaning in plain English that Barthelmess again comes back with a whizz-bang of a photoplay. In “Shore Leave” Dick is a sailor on a U, S. battleship ‘ who is afflicted Ijr kissed, until this a boat for him to I,T Ml -iMls*-. JlsH 0 f course, had toA Dick Barthlemess gotten about this" . particular kiss but' the girl had not. To get him back again she gives a party for all the Smith’s (being the last name of our hero) and she discovered they were several hundred Smith's in the fleet. For a time the main Smith was missing hut he showed up Just in time to get into a bunch of family trouble. He allows that he will not marry a rich dame and out he goes with the fleet again. Our little heroine. still remembering the first and second kisses, puts her money in trust. She then writes All the Smith’s in the fleet that she is broke and waiting. The one SmPh mostly interested works his way back home and returns to his lady love. Then for about a reel we have some delightful fun. Barthlemess is advancing rapidly In the lines of polite comedy. Everybody will like this Barthlemess movie. His work Is

THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

Movie Verdict Circle—Dick Barthelmess has a humdinger of a comedy by the name of “Shore Leave.’’ On the level, this is a real ode. Colonial —“Seven Days" was an entertaining farce on the stage and remains so on the screen. Apollo—As Susan in “Wild. Wild Susan," Bebe Daniels has n gay tom-boy time of it. Cute little comedy. Ohio—Booth Tarkington has turned out a non-Tarkington story for Tom Meighan by the name of “The Man Who Found Himself."

corking, really. Lot of fun in this one. ' Never seen Dorothy Mackaill appear to better comedy advantage. She puts that heart stuff right along side of the giggles and the laughs' Haven't been wild about this woman but she sure is giving a fine account of herself in this one. “Shore Leave’ ’is a treat for the whole family. Bill includes an orchestra presentation upon the stage, Walter Hiers in “Off His Beat," a comedy, a news reel and other events. At the Circle all week. i TARKIXGTON WRITES ANOTHER MOVIE FOR THOMAS MEIGHAN Booth Tarkington has written another movie for Thomas Meighan. This time it Is called "The Man Who Found Himself." To my way of thinking, based entirely upon the story as filmed, this story is not the regulation Tarkington brand. It, is too melodramatic with prison stuff, emotional escapes of the chief prisoner, a killing and all that sort of stuff which I would never believe was a brain child of Booth Tarkington. unless it had the family name. In the first place, hero who takes Mw&k th* blame for a tfSijsK crime committed ■ 3MRI hy anothPl '- espejgDl dally when the other person. Tom Melghajn If Tarkington put -any original sparkle and novelty Into this story, it certainly was lost before It reached the screen. ,* J Am sure that some jvtll contend that this Is a typical 4re man role for Meighan, and that he does It nicely. Maybe so. I admit that the prison scenes look like the real article, actually taken at Sing Sing. The cast includes Virginia Vallt ns the girl who nearly married a crook before she married our hero. Julia Hoyt, who was here with Stuart gValker several years ago, has a *mall part In some society scenes. Victor Moore, Norman Trevor and Ralph Morgan are in the cast. Be your own judge of “The Man Who Found Himself," but 1 am not “sold" on this picture. Bill includes a Pathe news reel. Carter De Haven In "Hot Sheiks," a musical presentation and orchestra. At the Ohio all week. -I- -I* -ISTAGE FARCE IS NOW A PHOTOPLAY HERE Some seasons ago, don’t quite remember how many, Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, days before “The Bat" was born, wrote a mystery farce. It is easy to decide just who supplied the mystery and just who had the bedroom idea. They tell me that a farce is a mighty difficult form of entertain-

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ment to film because action is demanded. On the stage the action is often increased by rapid conversation. On the screen, this is taken care of by sub-titles and business. “Seven Days” concerns a bunch of people who are quarantined in a house. Somebody is supposed to have smallpox or something along that, line and everybody else is quarantined in this home. But others are caught, besides the guests. One of the invited ones is a*burglar and another is the policeman, who is after the burglar man. Some, or rather most, of the fun is supplied by the officer chasing the burglar. The dumb-waiter is used as an elevator by both the cop and the bandit. Another comedy touch is furnished by a womah who believes [that she is able to talk with the spirits. Sometimes she nearly succeeds, but tho spirits in each appear to be more human than otherwise. There is lot of fun In this farce. Os course there is a love theme s well as a divorce story running through this yarn. You know that Hopwood would get his married folk mixed up a wee bit. And so he does in this one. The cast includes Lillian Rich, Creighton Hale, Hale Cooley, Tom Wilson, Mabel Julian Scott, Lillian Tashman and Charles Clary. Bill Includes Arthur Lako in "The Party, Aesop Fables, American Harmonists in singing and instrumental numbers. Also anew reel. At the Colonial all week. • • • Other theaters today offer Davie Jamieson and his "Revolters" at the Palace; MacDonald's Music Mixers at the Lyric; and burlesque at the Broadway. The Indiana State Fair is on view all week at the fair grounds. The Isis Is presenting Talmadge in "The Isle of Hope.” Tom Sims Says Well, this is the age of speed. But payday is just as slow as ever coming around. Wotildnt’ it he great if payday were like a collector? You could say, “Come back again tomorrow." Impossible for every one to make . ns much money inMMMnna •* they say they rto. If they did .??*> they would say more. KIKSI BOvxjftP Work is about about it hpfore l||raK|H|| you start is the hardest part. mmmm yr I k ?; days doing as Von are told to $ Baßsfe&BL do and you never will he told how to spend them Rims better. Most self-made men who made a success of it did so by selecting a wife who made them work. And there are many clerks who have gotten more out of life than many bank presidents ever will. Making money Isn't very difficult. The really hard thing Is to make more money. The world owes all of us a living. Don’t get mad if you can't collect two or three livings. Time may cure everything, hut it hasn’t cured any whiskers yet. The hardest part about any vaca tJon is lying about what a fine time you had until you believe it. It would be easy to quit smoking If you didn't have to quit again every morning. We would almost rather work for a living than have some Jobs. What could be worse than being in love and your auto In the shop? (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Ino.)