Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 118, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1925 — Page 4

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Telephone Rates rr-jCTION of the public service commission I -A.j in delving into the value of the property of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company almost inevitably will result in an increase in tele)6"hone rates in Indiana. This is the real explanation of the rate increase asked for by the company. Telephone rates have been mounting continually since the consolidation of the old Central Union Telephone Company and the Indianapolis Telephone Company. They reached a new high level about a year ago and mother increase appears to he almost a foregone conclusion. The increase asked for will not be large, but as these comparatively small increases become more frequent they add up into considerable money. The whole affair revolves around the matter of valuation. The commission has been making an elaborate appraisal and valuation of the telephone property. It was thought that the property was worth about $37,000,000. It is reported that the new valuation places the worth of the property, including such more or less artificial factors as going value, at about $48,000,000. Taking advantage of this revealed increase in valuation, the company is asking for higher rates, on the ground that it is r.ot making a fair return on the worth of its property. The commission has jockeyed itself into a position where it will be virtually necessary to admit the necessity for an increase. All of this is some indication of how artificial this thing called value is when it comes to making rates. It merely is an arbitrary figure arrived at by the use of well sharpened lead pencils in the hands of engineers. Its principal significance is that when a utility becomes a trust, as in the case of the telephone system, the public eventually must provide a return on this valuation, whatever it may he.

5-Cent Cigars Coming Back HAT the people of this country really W need is a good five-cent cigar,” the late Vice President Thomas R. Marshall once remarked. Cigar manufacturers are now beginning to see the truth of the witticism, but not until their business had been cut into pretty considerably. They are going to evive the 5-cent cigar. “War-time profits induced them to look upon the old reliable five-cent smoke as an object of charity rather than of business,” the. Wall Street Chronicle observes. “So they discarded it.” When upon sales dropped from 8,000.000,000 a year to 6,750,000,000. That was in 1921. Since then sales have never mounted higher than the 7,000,000,000 mark whereas, in a period when everything else was booming, it should have increased far beyond the pre-war peak. Restoration of the five-center, cigar makers believe, will soon do the work. At least they are in a better position than the beef trust. When the packers demanded such high prices for meats, folks began to eat more and more vegetables—and liked ’em. Now, when the packers would like more trade, these same folks, having discovered vegetables, are inclined to keep on eating them. The lost consumption probably will never be regained. Thus, says the Wall Street paper, “a sound lesson in economics has been learned.” Rather it has been learned again, as it must be every so often. Which is that the goose that lays the golden egg should always be treated with respect if you expect her to keep on laying.

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You can set an answer to any quetlon of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, lesral and marital pdvice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other cuestions will receive a personal renly. Unsigned reauests cannot be answered All letters are confidential.—Editor. By whom was the Death Ray invented? By H. Grindell Matthews of London, England. From what is the new moving picture play “The Golden Princess” adapted? From the story of Bret Harte’s famous “Tennessee’s Partner." What is the value cf a United States silver dollar dited 1800, fillet head, large eagle? $1.35 to $2. Can you name solne cf the most beautiful women who e"er lived? Beauty in women is so much a maLier of personal opinion and taste that it is doubtful if there could be much agreement regarding the most beautiful woman who ever lived. Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Hypatia, The Empress Josephine, and the present Queen of Roumania have all be called the most beautiful of

Nothing ‘Just as Good’ fcviJALTEfe MYERS. Democratic nominee for jW ) • Mayor, evidently realizing to some extent the popular demand for the city manager form of government in Indianapolis, attempted in his keynote speech to promise advocates of the business form something “just as good.” Bike all things that are supposed to be “just as good,” Myers’ plan falls considerably short of the original. Myers promised that if elected he would appoint an advisory committee of disinterested citizens to consult with the administration. He promised to take the police arid fire departments out of politics and to practice economy. All of this is very well, hut Mr. Myers forgets that as mayor he would be the representative of a political organization responsible at least in a measure for his election. Ho forgets that this political organization will make constant’demands on him, demands (hat to save Ins soul he will not be able to overlook. There is only one way to take politics out of the administration of affairs in ludianap-, olis. That way is tc set up u nonpolitical government, a government as nonpolitical as the executives and board of directors of any other business corporation. This never can be done so long as city officials are elected as representatives of party organizations. All the advisory committees and good intentions in the world will not change the situation. So long as Indianapolis retains its present system of government, politics will play a major part in the administration of city affairs. No mayor, no matter how conscientious he may be, will ever he permitted to forget that he has political friends to reward and political enemies to punish.

Farmers Ride Toward Prosperity IVvl RICES of the things farmers have for 11 1 sale are overtaking the things they must buy. For the past five years, and in some cases longer, the farmers have witnessed a widening gap in the prices of the ip products and of their needs. Now the tide has turned, says the Federal Reserve Board. Prices of farm products have increased fully 16 per cent above the peak prices reached during the mild boom of 1923. Dnring the same period the prices of nonagriculturai products have cither declined, remained the same or increased only slightly. The present trend, experts of the Department of Agriculture and of the Federal Reserve Board tell us, will probably continue for many more months. The forecasts are that food prices will continue to mount during the autumn and winter. While no definite expressions are made as to the exact course of nonagricultural products, government officials believe they will not keep pace with the prices of farm products. The price of wheat at above $1.50 a bushel compared with a price of $1.25 at this time last year indicates in a measure the improvements in the price of farm products. Corn is an exception to the general rv.le, and is now selling for less than in September of 1924. The larger crop, following a really poor year, accounts for this condition. The government’s forecast of business conditions does not confine the prospects of good times to farmers. Near ly all lines of business are reported in good condition. Even the three lines of business which have failed to share in the prosperity of the year—the wool trade, the sugar trade and the manufacture of locomotives—are now reported on the up-grade.

women. But there are thousands of others equally as beautiful to their admirers. Who are the Fascists? They are members of the Fascisti, an Italian patriotic organization created, organized and led by Benito Mussolini in 1919. The aims of the organization may be found in the oath of Its members: 'I swear to consecrate myself exclusively and unceasingly for Italy's good." What were the first recorded words spoken by Adam in the Bible? The first recorded words spoken by Adam were when he saw Eve. “a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his wife.” (Genesis 2:35). How long was Noah's ark supposed to be in building? Between the announcement to Noah of the coming flood and the actual fulfillment of the judgment there intervened, according to Genesis. 6:3. a period of 120 years, and during that time the ark was building, and Noah was, by word and act, a preacher of righteousness to his generation.

School Days By Hal Cochran It s just around the corner, from most any place at all, where kiddies, every’ morning, hear the mellow school bell call. • Vacation time Is over with the coming of the fall. The girls have dropped their jumping ropes; the hoys their bat and ball. The youth of all America is p’radin' down the street. From every nook and corner comes the tramp of little feet. Each day. within the schoolroom many little youngsters meet. To see them at their studies, quite in earnest, is a treat. "Good morning, dearest teacher?” is the song they daily sing. An apple or a sweet bouquet is what they often bring. There's husky, grownup Tommy, who must have his cutup fling, and dainty little Mary, who's the dearest little thing. We seldom give a teacher all the credit that is due. Just think, most every day a lot is learnin’ something new. The parents send their kin to school to c'o what they must do. But, always, it's the teacher who has got to bring them through. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MORE THAN 100 SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS ARE IN FIELD

By David Diet* XEA Serctce Writer SHE pioneers on the last fron- j tier, the research workers of, science, carry their searches to the distant stars with their giant telescopes and into the normally invisible world with their high-pow-ered microscopes. But not all the work is carried on in sheltered observatories and laboratories. The four comers of the earth are being searched for the facts upon which the science of history, evolution, archeology, biology and others are based. Buried cities that tell the stories of lost civilizations, fossils of huge monsters that reveal the early days of the world, skulls of prehistoric men that disclose the path of evolution—these are some of the things sought by the scientific explorers. Others are going Into the Interior of Asia and Africa, and to the islands of the Atlantic and the Pacific, to make collections of the fast disappearing wild animal life ao that • when the day arrives that these creatures are extinct, future generations may visit museums and see what they once looked like. The American Museum of Natural History of New York has eight expeditions in the field. The Field Museum of Natural History of Chicago has 14. Other expeditions bring the grand total to more than 100. Though every part of the world Is covered by them, the chief expeditions center around ten important regions.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

TOO MANY FALSE ALARMS five minutes the other night false alarms from northside boxes jerked out Indianapolis fire apparatus screeching into

the stilly eve. Two nights before four false alarms were received from the same section. Sending in a false alarm and then melting into the night before the firemen arrive Is a sidesplitting prank for the “ringers” mischievous lads and youths with a low sense of humor. But not so funny to the fire department.

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Whizzing out Into the* night atop a surging truck, Jpst to give a merry Jester a good laugh, Isn t mirth provoking to a fireman. Fire trucks on runs sometimes skid and smash —and the remains of once gay firemen are removed from the pavement with a hose. Such accidents are as likely to occur In runs to false alarms as conflagrations. Naturally firemen, who are scrambled and mopped up responding to & "box ringer's" prank, fall to see a point to the merry quip. , Nevertheless such false alarms are apparently comical to their perpetrators. Three hundred are sent in a year. As each run cost the city approximately SIOO, the jesters are expensive. The fire department doesn't need such costly dress rehearsals. To abate the nuisance every Joker caught tampering with a. box should be given something more searing than stinging reprimand by the judge. UNIFORM MOTOR LAWS

rpri REDERICK E RCHORTEI I MEIER, secretary of State. I—. .J suggests that plans be formulated at the annual conference of secretaries of State for adoption of uniform motor vehicle laws and traffic regulations by the various State. No doubt something of the sort Is desirable. The automobile is no longer a local phenomenon like a hreachof-promlce suit. It fits from the Jurisdiction of one sovereign State to another with astonishing celerity. In the process It frequently becomes entangled In the diversity of statutes and regulations. Maximum legal speed limit may he twenty miles an hour in one State and the sky in an adjoining commonwealth. Some States require drivers’ licenses and certificates of title, others do not. Tn Oklahoma automobiles must come to a full stop at railroad crossings; Indiana permits a flivver to dash Its brains out against a train without interference. The variety of State regulations makes interstate motoring hazardous. Also it affords opportunity for hick eonstahles to prey on decent. though ignorant visitors. But more distracting to the ordinary motorist than the differences in State motor laws is the endless diversity of local traffic regulations and control. In Indiana cities, through-street-stop signs are of all types, sizes and colors, variously placed. White lines on the pavement means something in one community, nothing in another. Automatic traffic signals bloom overhead, underfoot, at the sides and in the centers of intersections, according to local artistic sense. So with speed limits. A speed that an Indianapolis traffic officer views with approval will give a Carmel marshal apoplexy, “liberal traffic rules," advertises Brazil. “Go fast and see our Jail.” say other Hoosler communities. A good place to start a campaign for uniform motor regulation is right here in Indiana—the cross-roads of the Nation.

mHE first important center is Asia. Three great expedtions are there. The first is the Third Asiatic Expedition under Roy Chapman Andrews, the discoverer of the dinosaur eggs. The second is the Smithsonian Institution expedition, headed by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, world famous authority on evolution. Hrdlicka is seeking the cradle of the human race. The third of the James SimpsonRoosevelt expedition, headed by Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt, seeking big game. mHE next two great centers are the islands of the Atlantic and the Pacific. The islands of the Pacific are be ing explored by the Whitney South Sea expedition. The Blossom ex ; ploring the islands of the Atlantic. Western Africa is the fourth great center. One important expedition sent there by the Field Museum is studying the habit of the gorilla and the chimpanzee In Belgian Congo. Egypt, the site of ancient Carthage upon the northern coast of Africa, and the Near East are the next three centers. Traces of ancient civilizations are being sought in these places. The >-emaining centers are in our own hemisphere. Traces of aneien* Indian civilization are sought in western United States. The ancient Maya civilization is being studied in Central America. More than a half dozen expedi tions are studying the birds and animals of the Andes Mountains of South America.

BRUTAL BANDIT ATTACKS R 1" DARE. 84 years old, of E. Thirty-F <,cond St.. was brutally beaten by a burglar Monday night and robbed of $lB. He is in City Hospital in a serious condition, while police search for his assailant. Two nights before a burglar attacked a young married couple, recently moved into a home in the northeastern part of the city, and beat them into insensibility with a hammer. The young bride, with fractured skull, is not expected to live. There are the fine fruits of the more or less discussed Indianapolis crime wave. Quite properly these outrages have stirred police authorities to unusual activity. A few days ago a high official of the Anti-saloon rather lamented the fact that only 6 per cent of the Indianapolis police force was engaged in prohibition enforcement. He said if the entire force would exert Itself for sixty days on liquor law enforcement, Demon Rum would be chased to the tall timber. Perhape he's right. But if police devoted all their energies to suppression of liquor violations a good many respectable citizens would have their heads mashed in by brutal hammer burglars Which is preferable? The prohibition law, of course, should be strictly enforced—but not at the exj>cnse of other criminal statutes. The great task confronting the police department now is the suppression of brutal crimes and protection of lives, homes and property of citizens. Until it does that the average citizen will he satisfied if not one-halt of one per cent of the force is engaged in the enforcement of a specific law.

TRACTION SPEED AND SAFETY E r——— DGEWOOD citizens, as a result of a mass meeting c—■ J Monday night, will seek to limit the maximum speed of interurban cars between Indianapolis and Southport to twenty-five miles an hour. A trtiction-automohile crash on the line a few- hours previous. costing three lives, prompted the action. 8n the past w-eek two automobiles have been demolished and six persons killed at crossings along this line, while twenty persons have been killed In similar accidents between Indianapolis and Southport in four years. Obviously that particular stretch of lnterurban tracks is exceedingly dangerous. Wherever it Intersects a highway Is a death crossing. Residents along the line claim the high speed of the traction cars is largely responsible for the mortality. Perhaps so. But It is doubtful if limiting their speed to twentyfive miles an hotir would greatly reduce the fatalities. No matter at what speed traction cars or railroad trains are traveling, automobiles can not dispute grade crossings with them without being disheveled. Twentylive miles an hour is just as fatal as sixty to the occupants of the machine struck. In fact, ambling freight trains, making no pretensions to speed, are responsible for a surprisingly large percentage of crossing accidents. On the other hand, no cautious driver who pauses at a crossing and glances up and down the track before venturing across is demolished by a train whether the latter is hustling or loafing. The question of grade crossing safety can be solved as easily by individual motorists as by concerted effort to limit rail speed. A Thought He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.—Psalms 103:10. • • • Few love to hear the sins they leva to act. —Shakespeare.

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Weekly Book Review Making the World Sweet and Good With Bee Honey

By Walter D. Hickman r l ' 1 "I ONEV is sweet, and if it were * L_J| spread ail over the world this I * *| old place would be a mighty sweet place. Bee honey and human honey is spread all over the 515 pages of "The Keeper of the Bees" by the late Gene Stratton-Porter. It seems to me that Mrs. Porter has left such a sweet memorial to her memory by completing this story before her death that the world will be a happier and better place by the virtue reflected in this story. In “The Keeper of the Bees" you will meet several fascinating personalities, as follows: Jamie Lewis Macfarlane, who becomes the keeper of the bees after he learned the lesson of keeping his shell battered body in fine human condition. The story is really Jamie's battle to close up a terrible shell wound on his breast. He resound life by watching and caring for the bees. The Little Scout —You probably will agree that thin exceptionally wonderful child is the master surprise creation In modem fiction. She is the Peter Pan of today's best seller. The nee Master—Here Is a man that was a man. He knew- that the bees were close to God's divine plan. Molly Cameron—The Storm Woman, the germ of mystery which flows through most of the book. Margaret Cameron—A mother who could not become modern and paid the price. And the Bees, millions of them, appear as rulers of their own kingdom along God's plan. A Symphony It seems to me that "The Keeper of the Bees" is ci symphony of sweetness. The sweetness is not the brand that nets all sticky and useless. hut the honey that makes life Fwoeter and worth living a little better. Mrs. Porter In this book might be accused of giving the Little Scout too much Intelligence, but remember Peter Pan was an, - intelligent dreamer of dreams. The Little Scout leads her dreams out into the open because the Bee Master taught her life. And yet, this sweet little scout had to learn -the big lesson about sex from her elders.

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THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

The Little Scout wanted the world to think she was a hoy but—. She had to learn the penalty of unsexing herself. And the Little Scout knew- all about bets. She declares: '*• • * When the worker hee gets the pollen from Mr. Iris all over his hair and then goes on to get the pollen from Miss Iris, the hair is going to scatter the pollen to make the good seed come, ‘cause the bees do the flowers' courting for them. That's a reason besides honey as to why bees are so useful.” And the Gang You might accuse Mrs. Porter of creating her own “Our Gang” to get the element of human comedy Into the story. The Little Scout had a gang, consisting of Fat Ole Bill, Angel Face and the Nice Child. These four youngsters were real

Good Reading A list of sixty-three recent books worth reading, selected by William Lyon Phelps, professor of Contemporary English at Yale, and including novels, biographies, “anesthetic thrillers,” American poetry, plays, and miscellaneous volumes, appears in the current issue of the International Book Review, Professor Phelp's recommendations to the Action-reading public are: “The Constant Nymph.” by Margaret Kennedy: "Arrowsmith," by Sinclair Lewis: "Bread Givers," by Anna Yezierska; "Mockbeggar," by Laurence Meynell; "The Black Cargo," by J. P. Marquand; “The George and the Crown," by Sheila Ivaye-Smlth; "The Old lifldles." by Hugh Walpole; “Points of Honor," 'by Thomas Boyd; "The Great Gatsby,” by Scott Fitzgerald; "The Mother's Recompense." by Edith Wharton; "The Rational Hind," by B. A. Williams; "Franklin Winslow Kane." by Anne Douglas Sedgwick; "The Rector of Maliseet," by Leslie Reid and “One Increasing Purpose,” by A. S. M. Hutchinson.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. IR, 1925

children, and with what wonderfully loving hut human touches does Mrs. Porter paint 'em for you. Here is a book that will bring sweetness Into every home, and if I am not all wrong this book Is going to be in many, many homes. “The Keeper of the Bees" is that sort of a hook that you want to have around, because you may consider it a pal, a human living thing. Am going to recommend this book as one which will turn your think tank into a hee hive. Obtained my copy for review from book shop at L. S! Ayres A Cos. Published by Doubleday, Page A Cos., New York, and sells for $2. From a workmanship standpoint this book Is a beauty. One of the delights of the new season.

Tom Sims Says Bad news from Italy. Winter s coming. Great fuel shortage. Im-C agine trying to^

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lng people. Take one about three teeth old and he is better than any circus. School’s started. The kids' vacation has ended. And mother’s vacation has begun. The nearest approach to perpetual motion is a schoolboy wearing out his shoes. The girls are wearing evening dresses which show the sunburn where their bathing suits stopped. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

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eat cold spaghetti. v France and Germany have agreed about, something. We don't know what. But when they agree on anything, It’s news, Everyone wants to know what will happen in the future. But then the future wouldn't be so bright ns it is now. Babies are amus-

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