Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1925 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bub. Mgr. Member of tie Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published d*ll.v except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * • * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a W<?ek. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • * • PHONE —MA in 3500.

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The Conservation Squabble mHE present conservation department row . is one of long standing in State politics. It is political from beginning to end, efforts to show somebody greatly wronged somebody to the contrary notwithstanding. 1 In 1924 the salary of Richard Lieber, director of the conservation department and the particular friend of one group of politicians who have long practiced the rule or ruin policy in Indiana, was quietlv increased from $4,000 to $6,000 a year. So much under cover was this action that the public did not know about it until days afterward. Recently two of the four members of the conservation commission met and just as quietly voted to reduce his salary to the original figure. Immediately there was a great stir. Lieber was being wronged, we were told. All around, the public was gfiven to understand that the action of the two members was terribly opposed to the public interest. We can see nothing so terrible about putting the salary of Colonel Lieber back where it should have been ail the time. The principal mistake consisted in only two of the four members of the commission taking the action. The controversy has centered about William A. Guthrie, chairman of the commission, who was one of the two members who reduced Herr Lieber’s salary. Guthrie insists that he was acting in good faith and carrying out the wishes of Governor Jackson. Governor Jackson, on the other hand, has insisted on accepting the “verbal resignation” of Guthrie as a member of the commission. Why the Governor should insist on Guthrie resigning if Guthrie had carried out his wishes is not exactly clear. Is it possible that the Governor has been frightened by the terrific noise arising from Washington St.?

The Proper Reply A|N unfortunate incident marred the arrival in this country of the French Minister of Finance, Joseph Caill ux. Among cultured Europeans Americans have the reputation for being a pretty crude, uncouth lot, prone to say and do those things which jar upon souls more sensitively attuned. Smiling, affable, courteous M. Caillaux met the New York reporters who had climbed aboard his ship at Quarantine. Some of their - questions he answered. Some he dodged. But always pleasant. Always polite. Always friendly. Then someone asked him about the wartime treason charges against him—charged which kept him in prihoi for months; charges that almost caused him to be sent before a firing squad; charges that resulted in his exile; charges that came within an ace of wreck:ng his whole life. Be it remembered that those charges no longer hang over this man. The people of France have wiped them from the slate by electing him to their Parliament, by naming i him Minister of Finance and by sending him to America on this most important mission, i His comeback is complete. I Naturally Caillaux resented the question. ■ But he kept his calm, says the United Press, F and merely replied that it was “an old matI ter.” Not to be put off, however, the quesI tioner came right back again, demanding to

Little Theatre Purchases a Site for Its Own Home

The purchase of the property on N. Alabama St., south of Nineteenth Rt., by the Little Theatre Society of ||ndiana is the fulfilment of the cherished dream of the organand one of the most progresever taken by any organ of its, kind in America, arB|P)inis to John B. R- -olds, prcsiV.t, local society is one of the old ost in America, and with the purchase of the property on which it will soon build its own clubhouse and private theater, it becomes unique in the history of the Little Theatre. The purchase was completed several days ago. but the formal announcement of the closing of the deal kwas not made until today. The propIw'ty involved is the second lot from Hie corner on the east side of the kreet, and was purchased by Welker E. Bushong of the Washington feank and Trust Company, acting for Bhe Little Theatre, from the Fletcher ®neriean National Bank, Elner Stout, president, acting for the actual purchase of the propJ£f£v>cnsumed several months owing in the title, which it heto straighten >ut. , was pla< -d in trust in "’/Vc3b'f> question nr - wlietlicr nr simple title was held by , grantors. y - ity'y&P t,,at ,I,(J ,ot wa * then con aln individuals, who ls 1(1 a corpora Imn them. When the rtr. . Involved finan.ia!

know “the exact nature of the charges in those days.” For a moment, we are told, anger flashed in Caillaux’s eyes. The smile left his face. This was a deliberate affront—or was it stupidity—for “tht exact, nature of the charges in those days’ has been printed over and over, a thousand times. “I am France's minister of finance,” he said with dignity, and the incident was over. But was it over? The little things pf life are the big things. First impressions linger longest. In spite of himself Caillaux will never forget that incident. It will color his whe’e stay in America, influence his opinion of Americans as a whole. We all were belittled by it. But that is not the worst of it. All France will hear the story and all France will think the less of “les Americains. ” And all Europe will hear of it and we, as a people, will find it a little harder to undo the impression that we are all-like that, all moneygrubbing mannerless boors. It’s too bad M. Caillaux had to retain his dignity. Poetic justice would have been better served if he could have kicked his interlocutor in the pants and then have forgotten all about it. * You Will Stop This mF you will read on another page of this newspaper today a dispatch from our Washington correspondent concerning the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, you probably will be led to take action. You can write your favorite Congressman or Senator or Cabinet official or Army officer. You can write President Coolidge himself. There is no official in Washington who does not deserve to be sharply reminded of his negligence in this matter, if he is aware of the condition described by the correspondent. There is no official who is not in duty bound to raise his voice in angry protest. Write what you think and mail it. Do not permit this situation to continue a day longer. Nq act of Congress should be necessary to correct it. There appear to be soldiers, sailors and marines available for every decorative purpose that occurs to any governmental dignitary. There should be one instantly available to guard the tomb of the Nation’s most cherished hero against the desecrations described. Radio Age MERSON said that no book was worth reading until it was twenty years old. He meant, of course, no book of imaginative literary art. Scientific hooks are out of date in less than twenty years, even in his time, and now they need supplementing by new discoveries before the printer has finished setting the type. And even literary works need no longer await the slow consensus of the competent. The Nobel prize, and other devices, spread at least some established verdicts around the world in a day. If we were to follow Emerson’s advice, we should be just now beginning to read some idyllic romances of pre-war Germany. i Besides, Emerson did not invent his pre•;eut. He borrowed it from Horace, who got it from Aristotle, who probably learned it in Egypt. It is too slow for the radio age.

ly, a local bank bought it at a receiver's sale. The bank then sold it to the Little Theatre. Society. The acquisition of property on which to build its own theater is one of the greatest developments ever made by any theatrical body outside

TOM SIMS SAYS

The Turk’s Sunday comes on Friday, putting them two days ahead

of us in eating too much. Men might try talking as much as women. Then, maybe, their whiskers would wear off Instead of having to be shaved. We have re-’’ so much about dirigible balloons lately we dreamed last night we were a football. When a fast

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auto driver goes through life without an accident it is just an accident. Thinking rhey were having a free-for-all fight fourteen Chicago men found it cost them SIOO each. A highbroiv is one who thinks he can think lJt’er than others.

of a professional organization, Reynolds declared. Owning its own theater, the Little Theatre will be able to attempt a pretentious program of activity, heretofore limited by producing its plays in public buildings, Reynolds said.

Anew lamp, consuming 94 per cent air, has been invented. This is almost as much an auto salesman. First sign of fall is when you find overcoats are too high. N No matter how much time a judge gives criminals he always has some left for playing golf. Bathing suit censors are broadminded, One is always willing to see the girl’s side. “What music will we have?” was once the dance question. Now It is “What bootlegger will we have?” Finding a horse shoe or doing a little extra work at night are both considered signs of good luck. The best fray to make money out of chickens is by starting a hat shop. Illinois woman judge held court In her home. That’s where they usually lay down the law. Wall Street broker is broke, about a million. Ore who fishes Is liable to lose his bait.

THE INDIANAPOLIS r TMES

Maybe Dings Vill Get Better Qcam ing n jffk

chuck vat made holes in der dead drees und telegraf poles in der summer times und rite avay made in dem holes a acorns udder a chinkapins so he gotten someding to eaten ven der snow und ice haff everyding coffered oafer, iss a vise guy und not such a fool even ven he iss red-headed. Id took der ducks und geeses to giff vamings to der fellers vat don’t gotten in der bins der vood und coal. Yust because der Bresident vore his straw hat four days longer as der edict says, don’t told us someding aboud der vedder. Bitter ve took der varnings us der birts und git under der covers. No vun cood told vat der vedder or der pickles crops iss going to bin, so vy vorry. Say, vat rite haff Shanks Louie und Shoemader to call back rememberings us der past in argumentationings aboud der drinking vat vas? Dey bote bin teetotalers und vood not know der difference between a Vite Mule slug und a Bourbons high balls. Vy kept up such excitements? Vy not rent a hall und giff der broceeds to der telefone company? Vood dey took id? Ask me. One ding iss sure. Ven der telefone rates vent up some more und der Gufferment made reducings in der size us unser paber monies, id sure vill made more peebles feel like going oud und drowing bums, mit a flying machines, abber not on der Riffs. I told you someding shood bin did to stop such. Vy ven der taxes kept venting up und der publics utilities don’t bin giffen a lesson, der taxes payer vill haff to crawl in a holes und took der hole mit him, ven he vants someding left. Mit der automoboobles expensis under der gas venting up und down effery day, und der many drives vat bin pushed on der streeds, id iss a question how long such a conditionings cood bin kept up. Id looks like der only reliefs iss in der slumber bed, ven der mind iss on a vacations. Mit der optomisms vat comes mit der big crops und der safeings der Gufferment has broraised in der taxes vat comes by Vashington, maybe dings bin going to gotten better und der sad dings us der past vill be buried in der flower beds us der future, so vats der use ? HANS lIOFFMEIER, 1622 Sout Vest Streed.

HYDROGEN AND HELIUM PUZZLE TO SCIENTISTS

By David Dietz XEA Service Writer M 1 ANT students of science are wondering: whether a dlscov--I ery just announced by Dr. Otto Struve ofthe Yerkes Observatory may not be the first bit of evidence found In the sky to support the theory that all chemical elements were evolved originally out of hydrogen. This la a theory which many scientists Incline toward because almost all the chemical elements act as if their atoms were composed of combinations of hydrogen and helium atoms. The hydrogen atom is the simplest Etom, consisting of one positive and oae negative electron. According to this theory, a helium atom would be composed of four hydrogen atoms and all the other atoms of combinations of helium and hydrogen atoms. But as 5 - et no scientist has been able to find a place in the universe where the transformation of hydrogen into helium or of the two Into other substances is taking place. Professor A. S. Eddington, the famous British astronomer, says that he believes the transformation might take place In the Interior of the hottest stars. That is why there Is so much Interest In the recent announcement of Dr. Struve. He has been studying the star In the constellation Draco, known as Kappa Draconis,

What’s in Your Name?

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Ai" 1 "| GIRL who Is contemplating matrimony told me not long ago that the only thing she hated about it was giving up her own name. And it was easy to get her point of view, because she has a very beautiful name, while the man whom she is going to marry possesses a very common one. By instinct, you see, sne belongs to the Lucy Stone League, although she is not, in fact, a member. There is no doubt that many girls feel a sort of sorrow at parting with such a personal thing as a name. Blit what’s the odds so long as we’re happy? We women give up everything else when we marry, so why should we rebel at losing our names? If you are proud of and love the inan you are to wed, you will be glad to be called by his name. It puts a definite tag upon you. of course, but if you do not love him enough to wear his label, then you had much better forego marriage. And, while It may mark you as his possession, does it not also mark him as yours? Women give more precious things than names in marriage. They give their lives and their bodies and their minds and their hearts and their time and their labor. If they be good and dutiful mates. What is a poor name compared to these? But for this giving a wife may get many things In return. If her husband becomes famous, she too gets a part of the honor; if he grows rich she gets her share of the money: if he becomes mighty, she gets some of the plaudits, s And with his name she takes a part of everything he has. She become* no more his belonging than he becomes hers.. And if there be possibilities of genius within her. or

Hans Hoffmcier Says: Why Recall Such T hinge as Bourbon Highballs?

for a great many years. In this study he has been using a spectroscope, a derice which analyzes the light of the star and tells Its chemical composition as a result. Dr. Struve finds that at times this star is rich In hydrogen. Then at other times the hydrogen mysteriously disappears. Dr. Struve merely presents his discovery to the astronomical world. He calls It a mystery for which he has no explanation to offer at the present time. ■* It seems within the range of possibility to many students of astronomy, however, that the hydrogen In this star may be undei goin* a transformation into some other substance. Further researches into the problem will he watched with interest by the astronomical world. • • • A r ““ RECENT tabulation of the awards of the Nobel prizes In physics, chemistry and medicine for the past twenty-five years shows that Germany leads with twenty-four prize winner. This prize is regarded as the chief honor to be won in these fields. France Is second with 12 winners and England third with 11. Other nations rank as follows: Holland, fi; Scindlnaria, 6: United States. 4; Switzerland, 2: Austria, 2. Canada. 2: Belgium, 1; Spain, 1; Italy, 1, and Russia, 1.

opportunities for a marvelous career, she may attain these things Just as well with his name as with her own. For names are small matters; it Is what we make of our names that counts, and If you have a great work to Jo in the world you ran do it just as well and as nobly under the name of Mrs. John Smith as you could under any sort of fantastic cognomen. The Lucy Stone Leaguers are many of them brilliant women, but they waste a lot of precious time upon a very paltry matter when they harp on the. indignity of having to take a man’s name. You take his devotion, his attention, his love and the contents of his pocketbook, so why should you balk at possessing yourself of his name? It Is to Laugh By Hal Cochran SHE world knows a wee bit of joke now and then, that rings forth a good round of laugnter. can do heaps of good for the finest of men and furnish a chuckle thereafter. Quite wise is the man whp goes out of his way to keep people happy and cheerful. He spreads hits of humor when folks come his way. They laugh when he gives them an earful. It's always, been easy to find types of folks who shun at the side that's the brighter. They'll tell you tlielr troubles, Instead of good jokes that makes your own troubles seem lighter. The world, after all. Is the way that you make it. You always can frown or just smile. The best side is waiting: let's all laugh and take it. The, effort Is really worth while.

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

FIRES AND FIREBURGS f"IIRE CHIEF O’BRIEN beJ k [ lieves that the two blazes 1 * J which practically destroyed the factory of the Indiana Motor Body Company, as well as Another recent fire, were of incendiary origin. He proposes vigorous measures to apprehend the firebugs. That Is proper. Arson as a profession Isn’t popular In Indianapolis; It Is al-

together destructive not constructive. In and ianapolis .is proud of its fire record. In 1924 the city w a s awardpd the grand prize In the national fire waste contest conducted by the United States Chamber of Commerce. Os the two hundred and sixtyfive cities in that contest Indianapolis had the lowest fire

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loss per capita. Losses so far this year are less than In 1924. For the first eight months of 1925 fire losses In tile city totaled $710,895, while so.- the corresponding period last year theg r amounted to $1,046,878. But even $710,986 Is an inv press!ve sum to go up in smoke. Only an insignificant part of it wfjs supposedly due to incendiarism. Still most of it was preventible. Defective flues, over-excited heating plants, sparks nesting on wooden shingles, clgaret stubs and trash accumulations were responsible for most of the loss. As the summer runs shrieking to its mother down south and frost tingles our civic nose furnaces will awake to life in Indianapolis. Fire will be hugged to the bosom of every family. Now rather than later, after he has leaped into the chilly night clad in gooseflesh and night attire. the householder should remember that the most destructive firebug is carelessness. FOUR BANDITS, SIXTEEN YEARS Ci" "YLINTON SHAW, alias Clint Sims, 23. of Indianapolis, *_J pleaded guilty at Logansport a couple of days ago to participation in the robbery of the Galveston State Bank June 5. He was sentenced to ten to twenty-one years in the State reformatory. Three other members of the bandit gang who pulled that Job are already in prison serving from two to fourteen years each. The aggregate minimum senfences of the four robl>ers total sixteen years. The Galveston bank was robbed of $3,283. Obviously that particular bit of outlawry didn't yield the quartet of bandits a living wage—it only amounted to an average annual income of S2OO each for sixteen years. New York authorities are en gaging in an intensive advertising campaign in that city to check crime. Posters bearing such legends as "you can't win" and depicting the “law" and the gallows grabbing cringing criminals, frown from walls, billboards and street cars. The posters are presumed to scare incipient criminals into lawful and righteous paths. Perhaps the advertising is successful, but the effect is not visible on the New York crime record. The power of suggestion conveyed through posters may sell beans, contented milk and such commodities, but law can more thoroughly "sell" itself to bandits and gunmen through the courts. Ten years' breaking stone for a trifling bank robbery will do more to discourage the business than a boulevard plastered with posters.

TTTF SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

GOOD-BY, MISTER ICEMAN m. E. DAVIDSON, president of the National Electric Light Association, told electrical men, meeting at French Lick the other day, that In a short time the iceman will be as extinct as the dinosaur or celluloid collar. Electric refrigerating machines will supersede him everywhere. That will be bad news to “Red" Grange and other famous wielders of the tongs. But housewives, to whom the heavy-footed iceman Is a grievous cross, will rejoice. The art of refrigeration is of modern birth-hardly a century old. Before that salting, drying nnd smoking were the only methods known for preserving meats and similar perishable foodstuffs. Lord Bacon—who did or didn't write bhakespeare—is reputed to bo the first who conceived the idea of preserving meat by chilling. In stuffing a chicken with snow he contracted a cold and died. Every cold storage egg that fumca and smells to high heaven Is a tribute to Bacon. But, though so young, the art. of refrigeration has made enormous strides. Man has learned to manufacture chunks of cold better than nature and his product has largely supplanted the use of natural ice. A few chunks of the latter are still found in high places —sometimes even in the presldential chaJr—but in few ice wagons. From manufactured Ice to cold delivered through a pipe by turning a switch is only a step. It is not fanciful to expect the Iceman shortly to lose his Job to an electric motor. In a century man has lrarned to control heat and cold at will. T\Lliat will ho do to nature in the course of the next (thousand years? PEOPLE AND LAND IS. DRUSILLA CARR of Gary, by a Jury verdict in v.. La Porte County Circuit Court, has won another round in the nineteen-year fight for possession of a tract of forty-three acres along Lake Michigan near Gary. The lard Is valued at $250,000, A half century ngd she and her husband, a hunter, trapper and fisherman, located in the sand wastes at the head of Lake Michigan, built a dugout and lived there undisturhed. They had no regular title to the land—they were merely squatters—but the land was worthless, no one wanted It or disputed their possession. Now the tract Is worth a quarter of a million and ownership Is fought over In the courts. "Why ' the change In value? The land Is the same x today as fifty or a thousand years ago barren sand incapable of supporting a single blade of grass more than it did when it wasn’t worth a cent. The only difference people and industry have come to the region. The Indians who sold Manhattan Island to the Dutch for a handful of glass beads and a Jug of schnapps have heen rated the prize real estate boobs of history. But probably they made a Shrewd deal, and received as high r. price relatively for their holdin s, as a Florida realtors who sell', a semiliquid lot for SI,OOO a ' rfrnt foot. All of Manhattan Is’and wasn’t worth Intrinsically r ve cents until population came Land values are made by people primarily not >y climate, nature or Inherent qualities of soil. Where peoptp come values of land, whether naked rocks or quaking marsh, Isas. As e world’s population increas * every foot of the earth’s surfact. itomatically Increases in value. >.an is p land animal; he uqust hi -p room'. Every new bahy In New York or an Ir.qu a ( rm mora^AsJ/BHatef

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Ask The Times You can ret an answer to any quo*tlon ol fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1J22 New York Ave.. Washington. T>. 0.. Inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal a.nn inarita! rrtviee cannot be riven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other cuestiona will receive a personal reply Unsigned reauesta cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. Are there more Indians in the United 'States today than there were fifty years ago? How many of the Indian children attend school? The report of the commissioner of Indian affairs for 1875 shows an Indian population of 279,330; the report for 1924 gives a total Indian population of 346,902. The average attendance of Indians in Government, tribal and mission schools during 1924 was 26,495. There were, in addition 34,834 enrolled in publio schools. Four large Indlaui nonreservation schools carry pupils through a four year high school course. What is the value of a United i States half cent piece dated 1928. with 12 stars? With twelve stars it is valued at from five to fifteen cents, and with thirteen stars from five to ten cents, What kind of a word is "Chinchin"? Chin-chin is "pidgin English,” a Jargon of English intermixed with Chinese, Portuguese and Malay words, expressed in Chinese idiom, used in Cina and the Far East in the Intercourse between foreigners and natives. "Chin-chin" usually means "greetings.’’ The English use It as a toast when drinking. What is the percentage of gasoline that can be refined from crude petroleum? The amount varies greatly according tothe quality of the crude oil. It ranges from 5 to 17 per cent. In general it may be said that the higher percentages come from the petroleum of the Pennsylvania fields, tho next higher from the California fields and the lowest from'th® midcontinent fields. What is the population of Armenia, and what percentage of the people are of the Christian faith? The present population Is 1,214,391. In 1017 the population was placed 'at 2,159,000, of whom 1,418,000 were Christiana Most of the others were Mohammedan.

Would a person who had committed a crime in another country be admitted to the United State*? According to Section 3 of the Immigration Act of Feb. 5, 1917, which Is still In force, “persons who hove been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor Involving moral turpitude,” are excluded from admission Into the United States, What were the names of the seven hills on which ancient Room was built? Palatine, Aventine, Capltollne, Haniculum, Qulrlnal, Caelian and Esquiline. Was Gutzon Rorglum allowed to finish the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain? He did not finish the memorial. He had an altercation with the governing board of the Stone Mountain Association over financial matters and refused to go on with the work. Lukeman, a sculptor of Richmond, Va., has been installed in his place. Was there ever a hook called “The History of Joseph the Carpenter” In the Bible? This Is one of the apocryphal books of the New Testament that was omitted by tho early church councils In making up the Scriptures. What Is the longest-lived animal? The turtle. In ihe Galapagos Islands are turtles known to be 400 years old. A Thought For God so loved the world that He gave Ills only begotten Son, that whomsoever helieveth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. —John 3:13. • • • Immortality is the glorous diseov ery of Christianity.—William Ellery Manning.