Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 129, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1925 — Page 6
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The Indianapolis Times EOY W. HOWARD, President. EELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * * Client of the United Press and the NKA Service • * • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Marylar i St., Indianapolis * * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cel • o a Week * • PHONE—MA in 3500.
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Be Careful fTI TIMES reporter has just returned from Florida, where he investigated the boom situation. He tells, in a series of articles now appearing this paper, just what the man from Indiana or elsewhere can expect when he goes to Florida. The keynote of his advice is “be careful.” That is mighty good advice under any circumstances when it comes to making investments. The man of small means can not afford to gamble, ne can afford to invest, for wealth is brought about through investment.^ There is opportunity for investment in Florida. There is a wider opportunity for gambling. Florida has attracted real estate sharks from all over the country, just as it has attracted the legitimate dealer. If you go to Florida go there with your eyes open. Go there determined to distinguish between an investment and a gamble and before you lay down a nickel be sure of what you are doing. Remember, the odds are always against the inexperienced gambler when he sits in a professional game. Discourtesy |\V/1 HAT is it that changes the disposition of 1 W so many people as soon as they sit behind the wheel of an automobile? There are thousands of people who are extremely polite and courteous as long as they are not driving a car. But as soon as they start driving they try to crowd other people off the road, to cut corners on pedestrians, to force other cars to stop so they can turn a corner and do countless other things far more discourteous than they would ever think of doing in their office or their home. Possibly such action is necessary in selfdefense these days when so many auto drivers seem to think rtiey ought to have all the road, but the automobile is certainly making this country forget all about politeness and courtesy.
Plutocrat FjF"| HIS is a billion-dollar country,” said I * I Speaker “Tom” Reed, after the first billiop budget for the biennium. We have long passed the day of such small things. Mere billions no longer stagger us. But it is at least interesting to learn that there will be a billion-dollar increase in building this year over even the five-billion-dollar budget of last year. This is a six-billion-dollar country, in its year’s increase in housing and business structures. That is all money saved, and added to the permanent capital of the people. When we add as much more spent on automobiles, worn out in carrying us about, for business and pleasure, we begin to realize that the greatest plutocrat the world ever knew is the American democracy.
. f Soames Green* Is a Pretty Love Song in a Human Key
By Walter D. Hickman Ln. j NCE in a while a writer reIsl I ally sings a story of life in IT * the form of a novel. Such a writer is Margaret Rivers Larminie, who has just the reading world a. story-novel called “Soanies Green.” It moves along for a time with such gentle naturalness that I had the opinion that I was a member of the household of Peter Celian, which included, besides the head of the ihouse, his two children, Phoebe and [Roger, his wife and his wife’s orphaned niece, Lena, f As the story of this family is unBolded, other characters join the lamily circle. They all bring their ■atural domestic problems. ■ Peter Celian loved his two children ■rtth a great human love and understanding. But Peter failed to give Bhat fatherly love to Lena, the niece Bf his wife, whose mother and father were dead. A The failure to spread his love pbout and to focus some of it on |Lena resulted in a mental debt Ivhich the grand old head of the mouse had not paid when the author Iwrote the final lines. I Such an idea may not appeal to rou just now as a strong enough Background upon which to base a Bpvel of 274 pages. And yet the aulor puts so much natural life blood Igjgtevery character that you feel'you part of the little place, known Green,” a few comfortout of London. fegk Great Beauty wjyagtd:- which is introduced in jSLAry is dint which grows out pjlpl human situations. You SHBathizo with Plio. lv. Cvliun 'Sfisiheart goes out to a mil" sC -no * This man had for his |®an who was a victim of • '''TaWiiTiW ::l I ' l r ’ ‘ 1 1 ‘t nJi*f;i ni. * 11 1 a 1 oni.- a fla t'l.tii; lii'-nac-ajSpPlpltiami hy strong drink. ? '* : mi r;,| ftYnil ni ii *Sn2BjM'.<'rit her sex as **"so*l ” '-hd 1,10 husband.
Not Easy for Sargent mT is an awkward situation that faces John Garibaldi Sargent. He is just abojit to have the role he cut out for himself on the national stage completely altered. Summoned from his pastoral pursuit as lawyer and lobbyist for the Boston & Maine Railway in Coolidge’s home State, to become Attorney General of the United States, he brought with him an effective make-up for the part. A rugged, homely face, gentle, democratic manners, a wrinkled suit of homesoun and his rubbers in a paper bag. Just a shrewd country lawyer who knew the law and was prepared to enforce it regardless. That was the role for Sargent and it seemed to fit him like an old shoe. But look what is coming to pass. The Aluminum Trust is under fire again. A year ago when the Federal trade commission reported, after investigation, that the Aluminum Trust is not a good trust but a bad one and should be prosecuted by the Attorney General, President Coolidge let it be understood that he regarded it as politics on the part of the progressive majority in the trade commission. The Attorney General —Sargent’s predecessor—didn't prosecute. Subsequently President Coolidge took steps to change the character of the Federal trade commission and its majority ceased to be progressive. They do say now that it is right down reactionary. Yet look whit it has handed to Attorney General Sargent: Anew report on the Aluminum Trust which asserts as emphatically as before that it is a bad trust, that it uses illegal and unfair methods which take a lot of money from housewives and other users of aluminum, and that it should be prosecuted by the Attorney General. It would look perfectly simple, if it weren’t for one fact. It would look like a plain country lawyer, if it weren’t for that fact. That fact is that Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, strong man of the Administration and colleague of Sargent in the Cabinet, was, is and apparently proposes to continue to be, the main works in the Aluminum Trust. What will happen? Will John Garibaldi go after Andrew W. like a rural constable after a stray tramp, or will he put on those gum shoes and walk softly, like a rural constable who knows real authority when he sees its Just Wouldn’t Float \xrr E proposed, Colonel Proctor told Colonel * * Satterlee, to sell Leonard Wood to the American people just as he would sell soap. Colonel Proctor manufactures—and sells; he surely does sell it!—a soap that is 99% per cent pure. And—it floats. Now why did he fail to sell General Wood ? Well, maybe the General didn’t have those two qualifications.
While this battle of emotions were going on, Lena enters the game, not for a heart throb, but for natural adventure. Then all mixed t.p with Lena was the juvenile love of Roger• Celian, who mistook passion for love. Then over all of this field is felt tho influence of the master of the Celian household. Peter Celian is not a. character of fiction. He is really too much alive to stay within the covers of tills book as published by Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston and sells for $2 a copy. Poetry in Prose “Soames Green” at times is really poetry in prose. Previously to the reading of this story, I have not encountered Margaret Rivers Larminie. She cleverly draws the curtain of domestic life around the Celian household. She permits you to enter but not to disturb the family circle.
Industrial Helps The Indianapolis Public Library, through its technical department, announces the following three good books on telaphony: “Automatic Telephone Prac-tice,”-by Hershey. Good textbook for students of telephone. Gives working knowledge of automatic tahter thdn a thorough course in circuit design. “Telephony,” by McMeen & stiller. Anew edition of a standard reference book. “Principles and Practices of Telephony,” by Mitchell. Exhaustive work in five volumes, covering principles and apparatus, circuit elements and power plants, toll equipment, traffic and trunking, circuit refinements and mechanical switching and mechanical manual switching.
There are enough characters introduced in p natural way to cause human joy snd suffering. Am sure you can feel the charm and beauty in the desire of Peter Celian to obtain happiness for his son and daughter and you will feel with him when he realizes that he has refused love to Lena. There are numerous pictures of home life which becomes a poem in reading this book. Here is an author who photographs life as it is. There is a gentle sweetness in this book which will* bring Joy to every reader. A book not to be missed. Lookin’ Ahead By Hal Cochran It won't be so long now till summer is done, till nature a full course of beauty has run. The greens will be turning to browns and to red. And, what do you see, if you're lookin' ahead? A blanket of snow that has turned the land white and made things seem brighter and softer at night. A pond that is frozen, where skaters may sway, and folks bundled up in a horse-driven sleigh. A curling of from a chimney near by and a haze of a snowstorm o’er-spreading the sky. A fireplace where logs slowly crackle and snap, and a youngster with ears tucked far under his cap. Coal man who’s walking along by his team and autos half frozen and eluded by steam. A jam in the traffic, a wind-beaten cop, and Bottles with cream freezin' over the top. It won’t be so long now till summer is done, till sly old Jack Frost starts at navin' his fun. Complaining of heat is a story that’s old. Cheer up, you w r ill soon be complaining of cold. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
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BIRDS FLY FROM POLE TO EQUATOR ONCE EACH YEAR
By David Dietz Bv NEA Service \ At N annual flight from the north or south pole to the equator—i— J a distance of more than 6,000 miles—is a mere trifle for many species of birds. This is one of the amazing discoveries made by the Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History. Under the leadership of Rollo 11. Beck, veteran naturalist, an intensive study of the islands of the tropical Pacific is being made. Beck and his associates have found birds in these islands whose nesting places are in the arctic tundras. Yet other birds whose home is in the antarctic region and who fly toward the equator as the long night settles upon the south pole have been discovered in the islands. The expedition seeks to obtain accurate and scientific data concerning the islands and particularly the bird life. So far, many species of birds never before caught or shot, have been collected by the expedition. This is the first time that a comprehensive survey of these islands has ever been undertaken 'from a scientific point of view.. Many scientists feel that the survey was undertaken just in time. For, the arrival of the white man and civilization has upset the delicate balance oi natural life upon these islands. They feel that in another twenty-five years, it may he too late to seek traces of the natural life which had previously endured upon these islands for centuries.
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
A HUNDRED YEARS OF IT EAFAYETTE. Ind., is celebrating its hundredth birthday anniversary this week with a three days’ party. Pageants, parades, speech-making, the return of many of the community's exiled sons and daughters and similar spectacles mark the festivities. Later in the week. Brazil and Clay County will similarly observe the centennial of thaX county's founding. In the past few years an epidemic of centennial celebrations has broken out over Indiana. Hoosierdom is growing up; it is no longer a callow youngster. Time is curing that fault. A hundred years ago Indiana was mostly wilderness —a few straggling backwoods settlements entirely surrounded by chills and fever. Here and there a few hardy pigneers with much sweat and toil were trying to hack a living out of $1 25-an acre land. Wild turkeys and mosquitoes equally large darkened the sky. Roads, bandits, tho Charleston and other appurtences of modern civilization were unknown. To the present prosperous, populous Indiana those days seem inconceivably remote. If a presentday Hoosier could be dropped Into the Indiana of a hundred years ego, he would feel as strange and out of place as he would in the Englan 1 of the time of the Norman conquest. But ni the life of a city one hundred years is not so long. Only in America does a hundredth civic birthday anniversary attract notice. In Europe such centennials are merely incidents. London and Paris have existed for fifteen centuries. And Rome jias observed twenty-seven hundred anniversaries of its founding. When Lafayette, Brazil and other cities now celebrating their hundredth birthday anniversaries reach the respectable maturity of Rome, or even of London and Paris, w'hat sort of places will they be? What will be the living conditions, customs, work and pleasures of their inhabitants?
WHEN ARE WE ALIVE OR DEAD? mHREE hours after it came into ihe w r 6rld apparently dead an Anderson (Ind.) baby was brought to life by use of a pulmotor borrowed from a fire station. An hour's application was required to fan the tiny spark of life to a glow. When are we dead? Man used to think he could answer that question easily by saying persons are dead when they cease breathing -or their hearts stop beating. However, the anstver isn’t so simple. In recent years science has discovered that the line between life and death isn't so sharp, and w'ell defined. Pulmotors and artificial respiration have restored to life persons who have been drowned and who ceased to breathe for many minutes. Asew r months ago the heart of a patient on the operating table in Detroit stopped. By massaging the organ the surgeon set it going again and the patient lives. When the body is dismembered and the fragments buried hither and yon the result is generally considered fatal. HAwever, a piece of a chicken’s heart has been kept a’ive and growing at the Rockefeller Institute for a number of years. Long since the fowl from which the living tissue, came passed through the gravy stage and is now roosting in the chicken paradise. That chicken, one would say, is dead. But not entirely so. The boy w'ho firmly believes that when he kills the head end of a snake the tail will remain alive and wiggling until sundown perhaps isn't so far WYong. Life neither comes nor goes like a flash of lightning. The process is more like the winding up running down off', clock. We eventually die all Over but not >at the same instant.
p OME of the islands are only jS jutting rocks rising out of . .77 the depths of the ocean. Others are low-lying atolls. Still others, like Tahiti, are great volcanic peaks, lofty and forest-clad, surrounded by sandy beaches and coral reefs. But all have the fascination so well expressed by Robert Lodls Stevenson. ‘•Few men tvho come to the islands leave them,” he wrote. “They grow gray where they alighted. The palm shades and the trade-winds fan them till they die.” But the islands have suffered ’front freebooters, slavers, whalemen and beach combers. Crowding of pearl fishers and copra gatherers upon small islands has completely changed the original plant and animal life of many of them. Whole tribes of natives have disappeared from the face of the earth. • * • | r-pi I HAT is why /Scientists regard | I the Whitney expedition as 1 J being so important. The survey of the islands had to be made at once or it would have been impossible forever. Among the unusual birds gathered by the expedition is the fairy tern. It is probably 'he most delicate and ethereal of all sea birds. It is pure white with unusually large eyes. The bones are only thinly covered and when seen against the tropical sun, the bird looks as though it were being X-rayed, for the bones of the wings become visible through the plummage.
MORE HOUSES AND MORE FAMILIES nryiEW HOMES, sufficient to I I aouse 2.425 families, were 1 J built in Indianapolis during the first' six months of this year, according to figures compiled by the Federal Government. During the corresponding half year in 1924 only 1,819 new homes were erected in the city. Yet apparently there is no surplus of dwellings. If there is the
landlords have not heard about It; rents disdainfully soar aloft as usual. So undoubtedly more new homes in the city means more new families—an increase in population. I lidianapolls isn’t being bulged all out of shape by a sadden influx of newcomers like some southern towns, born yesterday, on the
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front page today, and tomorrow— Yet new homes built here in the past six months would accomodate more families than live in any of f*s per cent of the Hoosier towns and cities. Erected on fifty-foot lots on both sides of a single street the new dwellings would extend a distance of eleven miles. Compared with last year there are in Indianapolis more homes, more families, more money in the hanks, more factories, more work, more automobiles, more everything—even more taxes. Indianapolis isn't the Garden of Eden without the serpent or the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It- hasn’t all the advantages and none of the disadvantages of Paradise. But it’s the solidest fact in Indiana. Its present and future are solid enough to bet on. HE MISSED~ CHURCH I BRINE HOGAN, a young man of St. Louis Crossing, Bartholomew County, failed to attend church. In consequence he will have to spend the next two years in the State Reformatory. He was convicted on a burglary charge some time ago, but the judge suspended sentence during good behavior and on condition that the culprit regularly attend church. However, even that simple penance wasn't performed. There is a direct connection between churcn attendance and crime. Those who habitually indulge m one seldom do the other. Only four out of every 4,000 young people before a New York court for delinquency had attended Sunday school, according to a recent re port. Many soft-hearted judges, though, mistake the relationship between church and crime. They think compelling an offender to attend divine service will work miracles and regild badly tarnished human nature. They err. To be efficacious in molding moral character, compulsory church or Sunday school attendance must precede, not follow, crime. It is a preventive, not a cure. Nevertheless, judges continue to impose such sentences under the delusion that they can thus make a refractory chunk of human clay sprout wing3. As far as the moral effect on the culprit, he might as well be sentenced to stand on one foot on a prominent corner once a week and wiggle his ears. Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Time* Washington Burea. l;i - 42 New York Ave.. Washintgon, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extendea vsearch be undertaken. All other quest'ons will receive a personal reply. C..signed requests cannot bo answered. All letters are confidential —Editor. Can a second son properly be palled £. “junior?” . The sacond son is a junior if given his fr. iter's full name or the full name of his grandfather, provided there is no other member of the family having the same name.
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Dave Apollon Does a Bunch of Wild Things on Mandoline and on His Feet
By Walter D. Hickman SHERE are wild goings on at Keith’s this week and one of the wildest contributors is Dave Apollon. This man goes “wild” while playing a mandiline at the same time while playing a piano. He goes wild
again while doing the wildest sort of a Russian dance. This dance is so successful that he was forced to give a curtain talk. Now I am not for curtain talks on variety stage, but Apollon was en■titled to the honor. He has surrounded himself with two women dancers and a singer, L. Kaeroff, who sings the prologue from “Pagliacel.” The mandoline is first introduced as a solo instrument, and then Apollon accompanies himself on the piano
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with one hand and plays the mandoline with the other. Quite a stunt, especially so when he maintains an even melody. In speaking of Apollon first I in no tvay discredit Nan Halperin. She is at her best while doing her “hungry, angry and mad” child impersonation. Sie stands a* the head of the ladder in this line of w'ork. Her wedding number is not different from other jazz wedding numbers. Her “poison women” number has good lyrics, but lacks general appeal. 1 Chic Yorke and Rose King are artists with individual material, presenting "The Old Family Tintype,” a burlesque op long married life In which the man calls his better half everything from “the old hen” to the “old bird.” This act is full of fun. The old-time song number of Miss King is a classic. The Briants are well-known for their acrobatic impressions, called “The Dream of a Moving Act." Still furnishes many laughs. A mighty good act. Pearson Brothers wdth their eccentric dancing and acrobatic dancing, with the assistance of Cleo Newport, actually stopped the show when reviewed. Had to give a curtain talk because they were out of “wind” and couldn't dance any more. Here Is some real hoofing. A sure winner. Mel Klee, blackface comedian, is working faster and that helps. He should completely change his material each season. I know that is hard to do in his line of entertainment. Margie Clifton and partner do some posing (can't see that it is classical) and some fine balancing stunts with the woman carrying off the honors. The movie is Charlie Murray and Lucien Littlefield in “Somewhere in Somewhere.” At Keith’s all week. + + + SOME RAPID STEPPING HOLDS FORTH AT LYRIC With flashing colors and some rapid stepping the “Whirlwind Revue” at the Lyric this week lives up to its name with verity. Opening with an ensemble of the whole company the act quickly to a series of specialties, all of which are done in a w r ay to please. One of the specialties, being slightly out of the ordinary is deserving of a little extra attention. Am speaking of the Mandarin number done by one of tliss men. Dressed in a costume of old china, of the days when China’s power was felt throughout the known world, the man gives an exceedingly interesting characterization. Liked hts number best of the act. The female impersonator of this act is very clever on his feet and keeps the audience fooled for quite a little while. For an act concerned with the humorous side of domestic ♦. roubles, “Morgan and Grey” ha’ r e seme stuff that is highly entertaining. “Sa*tucci,’ as he is billeed, doesn’t really stay long enough \o get acquainted. From the two numbers he
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played on an accordion I w'Ould have liked to have heard more, but Mr. “Santucci” refused to accept an encore. Gifford and Holmes have a fast and peppy line of chatter, which, interspersed with some dancing by the man and some xylophone solos by the woman, is of a high order.
Tom Sims Says In Newark, N. J., bandits got $lO,000 worth of lamb skins, so now they
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been found in Asia. In a few r years you may find horses with bumpers here. Six Cleveland men w r ho raised glasses and said, “Here's looking at you,” never wdil look again. A dancer called "Yellow Charleston” was executed at Sing Sing, but not for dancing the Charleston. Isn’t It strange that a jumpy dance like the Charleston should come from a section famous for good roads? In New York a Jeweler attacked three bandits with a feather duster, but couldn't brush them off. Tom Edison, an inventor, seems to want Coolidge's job. Ho made a speech of only one w'ord over the radio. Great Britain has a coal crisis. If she wants another we*'ran let her have ours until next spring. You might say one who feeds hubby eggs every morning is just egging him on to something desperate. Perhaps this W'orid catastrophe which Doyle says draws near is only the end of the bathing girl season. The nice thing about not getting what you want is you still think you want it. (Copyright, 1025, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought * The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.— James 5:16. • • • Mr-“] ORE things are wrought hy prayer than this world dreams of.—Tennyson.
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Novak and Benson offer some good harmony and a clever imitation of the Hawaiian guitar. Murdell and McNally open the bill with Juggling and slapstick. The Royal Moorish Troupe closes the show with several difficult feats of posing, and tumbling. At the Lyric all week. —(By the Observer.) i -IGOOD UNIT SHOW ON VIEW AT PALACE The second of the unit shows to play the Palace is on view the first half of the week. This is a much better organization than the first unit and presents a real snappy show. There are several reasons for this. Each act holds up its own share of
can make themselves some diplomas. The more you live as if you were the only person in the world the more you are out of it. This is a great country. It has old men who never have seen trains and children who never have seen cows. A fossil horse with claws has
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afterpiece. La Pan and Bastedo are the funmakers. La Pan has about everything a comedian needs, funny lines, funny delivery, funny makeup and funny clothes. He gets the laughs easily. Bicknell opens the show with a neat novelty. Bicknell appears as & Stage Verdict/ Palace —Second unit vaudeville show is much better than the first presented here. A real snappy show. Lyric—Fast stepping and good melody on this bill. Keith’s—Good music and eccentric dancing stop this show. baker and uses his dough to model heads of famous men and grotesque figures. The Southern Harmony Four, a male quartet, otfers a pleasing routine of popular songs. The movie feature is “The Redeeming Sin,” a melodrama of the Apache life of Paris. Nazlmova is starred and does her usual effective work. Lou Tellegen heads the supporting cast. At the Palace todAy and Wednesday.—(By Observer.) -I* *l* -IOther theaters today offer "The Golden Princess” at the Ohio, "California Straight Ahead” at the Colonial, “The Freshman” at the Apollo. “Spook Ranch” at the Isis, “The Live Wire" at the Circle, and “Circus Week" at the CapltoL
the program; a real comedian is present and Instead of a chorus of mediocre dancing girls this show has the services of Elsie Myergon and her all-girl band. Miss Myerson and her girls dispense jazz music of both the hot sort and the quiet soothing kind and do them both well. They are seen in a routine of their own and in the