Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 130, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1925 — Page 6

| The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. ■LIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. ■obm of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • * Client of the United Press and the NBA Service • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Hbllsbod dally 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 • • • ■one—MA In 3500. Ho law shall be passed restraining 1 the free interchange of thought and opinion, or reBing the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of

School Board Slates ■HE law provides that school hoard elecI tions shall be non-partisan. Let’s keep H. that way. a partisan system is discussed most •people think simply of the Democratic party or the Republican party. But the word partisan, especially when applied to a local election, may have other meanings. There really is no reason for a Democratic party or a Republican party in Indianapolis politics. Neither party lias a fixed or permanent policy. The Democrats simply are a group playing the game of politics to put their ticket over. The Republicans comprise a similar group working to the same end. Then, is not a group, organized for the purpose of putting over a ticket of school board candidates, partisan in the same sense ? It is hard to see the difference, except that party labels are missing and the groups are not divided along customary party lines. It would be unfortunate indeed if any group of citizens, organized for any purpose, should be given control of the school board in the coming election. The school board should be elected to serve all the city. There should be no “slates” of any description insuch a non-partisan election. Unfortunately, however, a number of “slates” backed by vari-ous-groups with various ideas are in the field. The voter can serve his community best by ignoring all such “slates” and by voting for the man or woman on the grounds of ability, integrity and capacity to serve the community to the best interests of every one. And You Can’t Laugh It Off! rr-|L SMITH, New York’s Governor, attendJ/\J ed a Democratic picnic in Chicago the other day and made an excellent speech. Jfcwspapers quite generally declared it was announcement that he was willing to be Spied President in 1928, for he discussed naKonal issues. Smith’s candidacy will lend interest to the Democratic contest, even if it doesn’t lend hope. It will mean war, probably a repetition of the war with McAdoo, which made the sixteen days of the 1921 convention so terrible. If Smith doesn’t go after the Ku-Klux Klan, the Ku-Klux Klan will go after him. It is unfortunate, but it is inevitable. It is unfortunate because Smith’s record in public office has on the whole been admirable; he has filled what is probably the most difficult governorship in any State with conspicuous success. Nothing was said by the New York Governor in his Chicago picnic speech to arouse the Klan, however. Those who expected him to Bain his guns in that direction were disapButed. Instead, he talked about economy in Htional affairs. ITe endeavored to shoot a few Hies in the idea that Calvin e is givHg the country an economical administration. Ho far as his immediate, sympathetic audience Has concerned, he doubtless succeeded, for Kmith's grasp of public affairs is real. But there again Smith is up against a prejudice that he will find hard to overcome. People believe Coolidge represents economy.* Ask any one, banker or bricklayer, in just what respect Coolidge has saved money for the country and you are likely to find none able to answer you. You may appreciate the fact that the reduction in the Government’s i expenses are chiefly due to the fact that the war is over, but that doesn’t prevent a lot of

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

You can got an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Burea, 1822 New York Ave., Washintgon, D. 0., inclosing 2 cents in ■tamps lor reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other Questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters axe confidential —Editor. How many United States troops are stationed In Alaska? There are 353 members o£ the United States Army In the territory, including officers, Infantrymen, signal oorps and auxiliary branches of the service. How is malt sugar or maltose made? It is formed by the action of malt on starch. It can be made by boilin* two pounds of brown sugar and .two pounds of sugar bouse molasses Kor half an hour and adding one and ■hree-quarters ounces of malt exRmct and sixty drops of vanilla tlnc■e. Boil up again, add a small of oil of almonds and pour Ho a marble slab to cool. any of the mounted regrtHits of the United States Army callled dragoons? some of the mounted of • the United' Stages *B.were known as dragoons, but jfe- no longer used. The cavthe duties of tho

others from thinking Coolidge somehow had something to do with it. The trouble is, Al, that Coolidge looks so darned economical! Bill Puts a Poser c ENATOR BORAH, the G. O. P.’s bucking broncho from Idaho, has asked Secretaries Mellon and Hoover a somewhat embarrassing question. Bill wants to know what foreign nations got the billion dollars in loans made this year by American bankers and what other nations are now negotiating for the second billion as reported by the papers. The irrepressible Idahoan was no doubt prompted to put his poser at this time because, one after another, the debtor nations of the old world are coming to Washington to ask, on pleas of poverty, that their debts be canceled or materially scaled down. And then, as soon as we take pity on their misery and write off large lumps, they hasten to New York, where—poverty-striken no longer—Wall Street eagerly extends them new loans at three times the rate of interest they grumblingly pay us. So it is all very difficult for the man in the street to understand. It is hard for him to see why Europe howls in anguish when she has to pay him even 3 per cent interest, yet pays the big New York bankers 6, 7 and 8 per cent, plus a big bonus for floating the new loans. One simple explanation, of course, is that most European nations are really near bankruptcy. And if they cannot further credits they may actually go to the wall. In that case we would get nothing. It may be better for us, therefore, to let them borrow more capital —as we did Germany—so that, as going concerns, they can pay us something—even if it is only 50 or 75 cents on the dollar. Be that as it may, it is well that public men like Senator Borah keep tab on these deals. The big banker notoriously clamors loudest for a general debt cancellation, the reason being obvious: In exact ratio to the amounts that we write off these debts, the capacity of the debtor nations to borrow increases. Total cancellation of the $11,000,000,000 Europe owes us would mean literally hundreds of millions of dollars in the big bankers’ pockets. Now the people of this country, to whom all this money is owed, have no intention of being hard on Europe. Equally, they have no intention of being taken for boobs. Somewhere or other, between the roles of Shylock and sucker, there must be an honorable part for us to play. Perhaps the Senator from Idaho can help us find it.

BE sure you are registered. * * • THE navy at least can’t object that it isn’t getting publicity. • • • CAPT. JOHN ZENER, the policeman who does everything but work as a policeman, has resigned again. It is getting to be a habit. • • THE Democrats are discussing organization work. About the time they begin to get organized the election will be over. • • • ONE of the best things that can be done by our civic organizations who are boosting Indianapolis would be to insist that the proposed air mail route to Birmingham come through Indianapolis. Cleveland is on the job trying to take it away from us.

dragoons with those of the cavalry proper, in so far as fighting on foot is concerned, but there are no reguiar dragoon regiments in the service, and have not been since the Civil War. The first regiment of dragoons was organized in 1833. The oattle of Bull Bun caused the reorganization of all mounted regiments into one arm called the cavalry. Under the reorganization the first and second dragoons became the first and second cavalry. Os what nationality is 'the name Chandler? The name is of Norman origin. It means literally "sandlo maker;" also a trader, dealer or retailer of common groceries. How many times has the Pittsburgh baseball team won the National League championship? Four times, in 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1909. / Who commanded the Titanic on the voyage on which she was sunk? Capt. E. J. Smith. He went down with his ship. Do officers of the Air Service of the Army and Navy receive any additional allowance for flying? They receive an additional flying allowance .of 50 per cent of their base pay. *

What Is the “Danzig Corridor?" It is a strip of land that was given to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles, that lies between Germany proper and East Prussia. This corridor was provided to give Poland an outlet over its own territory to the port of Danzig, which is a Free City, under control of the League of Nations through a commission. It is Poland’s only outlet to the sea. Who is the president of the League of Nations'? 1 The newly elected president of the League of Nations is Senator Raoul Dandurand of Canada. What Is meant by the "Malthusian Theory”? The theory that population tends to increase in geometrical progression, and that the supply of food and other necessaries of life can only be increased In an arithmetical progression. Expounded, the theory further asserts that population, when unchecked, goes on increasing in a higher ratio than the means of subsistence can, under the most favorable circumstances, be made to increase, that the great natural checks to excessive Increases of population are rice, misery, and moral restraint; and that the great business of the enlightened legislator is to diminish the first two and give every encouragementlto the last.

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SCIENCE IS SEEKING TO CUT TOLL OF DUST EXPLOSIONS

By David Dietz 1 vuti pTI DUST explosion laboratory is I Ljk I one of the newer ventures of In I the United States Bureau of Chemistry. The importance of investigation in this field is pointed out by Dr. Hylton R. Brown of the bureau, who calls attention to the fact that forty-five Uves were lost, twentyeight people injured and $3,000,000 worth of property destroyed In the United tSates last year by dust explosions. The dust explosion hazard exists in 22,000 plants in the United States, he says. , These are plants manufacturing dusty products, such as starch, sugar, spices, cocoa and plants where dust is produced during the manufacture of wooden ware, aluminum ware, corks and other products. The hazard is also high in grain elevators. Dr. Brown says that investigations of the bureau show that all combustible dusts and some not generally regarded as combustible will explode, when mixed with the proper amount of air, ns the result of a spark. Such sparks may be caused In plants by the breaking of an electric light bulb or by an overheated machine bearing. Sparks of static

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

■By GAYLORD NELSON

MONEY FROM COLLEGES r~X“ITUDENTS from outside the j > I city, attending local colI I leges and professional schools of collegiate rank, spend more than $1,000,000 annually in Indianapolis, results of a recent survey indicate. It is estimated • here are 2,325 such students attending local institutions. None of the Indianapolis colleges are large. Butler, which

heads the list with 1,400 students, has a attendance than scores of other universities in the country. But it would take a rather imposing m anufacturing enterprise to bring and spend in the city a million dollars a year. To dad college may be a debilitating experience —a cross between a

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grindstone and a nightmare. To the community in which it is located, however, a college means more than wide pants, football dope, and futuristically painted flivvers. It means doUars and cents. It Is a profitable local industry. New Haven has become the largest city in Connecticut not because of superior natural advantages or transportation facilities. It owes much of its pe-eminence to the location there of Yale—a stable Institution uninfluenced by economic flurries or industrial depression. Other towns, likewise, owe much of their growth and prosperity to educational institutions in their midst. Without Indiana University, Bloomington, quite likely, would never have attained sufficient size to worry about its water supply. In expanding Indianapolis Industrially, support and promotion of its higher educational institutions shouldn’t be overlooked. They are fully as important factors in the community’s prosperity as a doughnut mill or a cheese factory. TO ATTRACT ATTENTION .i.iM ■si'T’TER she had been rushed I A I from school to city hospital I** I Monday, suffering from poison self-administered, a 14-year-old Indianapolis girl asked if there would be anything about her in the papers. Her mo'-her told police she could assign no motive for the act of her daughter—except that the girl always craved excitement and adventure and is of romantlo temperament. Apparently she wanted to attract attention. “Isn’t that just like a woman?’’ exclaim the hardened bachelors. Subdued married men keep discreetly silent. But undoubtedly some of the erroneously styled gentler sex will do most anything to attract notice or edge into the corner of the public eye. Still taking poison to win publicity must have drawbacks. One who is the centerpiece of a funeral can’t really appreciate the publicity attending the event. It is more satisfactory and ladylike to mako the front page by shooting or poisoning a husband—either the lady’s own or another’s mate. Still that's merely a matter of taste. The feature of the episode that should trouble society is the ease with which children can procure and swallow poison tablets. Here In Indiana we officially chase a halfpint of liquor until It sweats at every pore. Yet we leave poisons around on shelves within reach of any child. And any child can walk into a drugstore and purchase, without formality or embarrassing questions, enough poison tablets to slay a hundred families. BOOSTINGTHE CITY mME Indianapolis Polio* and Firemen’s Band, fifty strong, as well as other heavy dignitaries and lesser fray of the police and fire departments, have invaded Louisville, Ky., this week. They seek to land the 1926 convention of the Internationa#

electricity, such as sometime take place In moving machinery or belts, may also cause such an explosion. The dust explosion laboratory will work to provide practical means to prevent both the formation of dust clouds of an explosive nature and the occurrence of sparks which might set off such clouds In an explosion. • • • Al~ "I MONUMENT to Robert Pulton, the American steamboat inventor, is to be erected by Prance in the little town of Ptombiers. This town is on the Augronne River. Pulton conducted some of his earliest tests with a miniature steamer on that river in 1802. • • • ARVARD UNIVERSITY may establish a graduate school of agriculture for special research In agricultural problems if the trustees act upon th 6 report made to it by a special committee. This committee recommends such a school with an endowment of $12,000,000. This endowment would provide $150,000 yearly for the maintenance of fifteen professorships. It would provide another $150,000 for the upkeep of laboratories and $24,000 a year for providing fellowships. The committee estimates that such a school would have an enrollment of about 400 graduate students.

Association of Fire Chiefs for Indianapolis. That is a commendable undertaking. Even if the delegation falls to attain its objective the expedition, sowing adjectives and musical notes over the landscape, will advertise and boost the Hoosier metropolis. Besides the week’s Jaunt will be a pleasant outing for the cops and firefighters participating in it. Perhaps also peasant for stay-at-home bandits and pyromaniacs. Both police and fire departments are inadequately manned, declare their officials from time to time. Both departments fall weeping on the neck of the city budget and plead for greater appropriations. Many sections of the city never see a patrolman making his rounds. Because of lack s>f men on the force, patrolmen—the foundation of a real police force—are necessarily spread out so thin that they are practically transparent and insisible. Meanwhile hold-ups and robberies occur with distressing regularity to the pecuniary inconvenience of respectable citizens. Under the circumstances it would seem that every member of the police and fire departments might most profitably be employed at home in his regular duties. Os course Indianapolis wouldn't be absolutely defenseless against lawlessness if all her policemen and firemen, instead of sixty or seventy, went to Kentucky. She would still have her horse thief detectives. But policemen and firemen can do more to boost the city by protecting the lives and property of peaceful citizens right here In Indianapolis than by tooting our civic horn in Louisville. UNIFORM MOTOR REGULATIONS UXDREDS of Louisville (Ky.) automobile owners are threatened with arrest. They have been operating their cars with Indiana licenses, purrhased in Jeffersonville and other Hoosier border cities, because Indiana licenses ere cheaper than Kentucky. Representatives of the Kentucky tax commission, who investigates the situation, estimate 1.500 Bluegrass motorists have posed as Hoosiers in buying license plates. On the other hand, enterprising Hoosiers living near the Illinois and Michigan lines are slipping over into those States to buy motor fuel where, because of Indiana’s gas tax, gasoline Is cheaper.

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Filling stations along the line advertise that fact in five-foot letters. Untaxed Illinois gas wears out Indiana roads as much as the heavily taxed local product. High licensed Kentucky cars are no more dangerous on the streets of Louisville than cars bearing the cheaper Indiana plates. The diversity of motor regulations existing in the various States encourage such evasions of the spirit, if not the letter, of the laws. Gas taxes vary all the way from nothing in Illinois to 4 cents a gallon In Arkansas. License fees range from nominal sums to heavytaxation. There are forty-eight varieties of State motor acts. The automobile is no longer a local affair. Except after a gradecrossing altercation, blowout, or similar unfortunate circumstance, it is an active riece of property. It can—and does—flat across a half dozen State lines before breakfast. Unless the States voluntarily reduce their conflicting and confusing motor regulations to uniformity, they will probably awake some day to find that the Federal Government —which is always hanging around looking for new sources of revenue and power—has taken over the licensing and regulating of motor vehicles on the theory of controlling interstate commerce. Now By Hal Cochran * Whatever your task, it is fair that I ask, just how do yoti handle it daily? Does toil appear tough? Is the working road rough, and do you, or don’t you, work gaily? The easiest job can quite easily rob a person of spirit that’s proper. The habit of shirk with the every day work can make a small task seem a whopper. When work, piled up high, meet the average man’s eye, whenever he can he’ll postpone it. His thought that tomorrow will cut down the sorrow is wrong, and he well might have known It. You know you must toll and, “according to Hoyle,’’ the best plan Is merely to do it. When you’ve drifted behind, you can make up your mind to settle right down and go tb It. Tomorrow is wrong ’cause it’s too far along. Today is the when and the how. That worry will leave you if you’ll Just believe you can do what you ought to do now! (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

What an Auto Does to Us

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson SHE American Medical Association, after making a careful survey of automobile accidents caused by our seventeen million cars, has decided that drivers must, among other qualities, possess adequate mentality. But even this plan may not work, for a great many persons with adequate mentality for other enterprises seem to become perfect morons the minute they get behind the steering wheel. The primary cause of our automobile accident rato is the desire to show off which seems one of our supreme passions. Sane and sensible men and women who behave themselves in a normal fashion generally, seem to be unable to resist putting on a little show for the benefit of their passengers or the onlookers when they are driving. Why does a man Insist upon stepping on the gas when ho takes his friends out for a little spin? Why does a woman driving her limousine scornfully bump aside a smaller car for no apparent, reason? Because, whether they realizo it or not, they long to show off. Why do Jelly Beans and Flappers go wildly by, breaking all traffic rules? Because It is nature of youth to try to call attention to itself in some spectacular way. Why does the Ford driver in his Insolent coupe dart into places where angels would fear to tread? Because he wants everybody to know that big cars can’t stop him, and that ho is just as good as anybody. He, too, is merely showing off. People who can make no impressions in the world In any other way can drive a car at top speed. They may never have done one single thing in life that would set them a notch above their fellows, but their vanity prompts them to call attention to themselves m some way, and the automobile offers such a splendid opportunity. These people are filled with the perfectly human long to have others notice them. Like small boys, they want to be looked at and admired, and the pity of it is that often the

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TF YOU SPEND ALL THAT YOU 1 EARN THE OTHER FELLOW IS BANKING YOUR MONEY. In twenty-five of thirty years from now the other fellow will be spending his old age in comfort on the income from your Money. The other fellow is wise—he is looking ahead into the Future. NOW while his earning power is the greatest—he is laying away a part of each week’s pay in a Savings Account. "Wliy not beat the other fellow at his own game. Save a part of your Income each week and make Certain of Peace and Comfort when you are old. 111 NORTH PENNSYLVANIA INDIANAPOLIS J^% —f -P ,/ ?1 paidom LtJLJ ft SAVINSS

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only stir or noise we can mriXe among our fellows Is with an automobile horn. Borne folk seem to believe that by driving very fast with the muffler open, the spectators will be deceived into thinking that a. prince or potentate passes. Into such straits does our vanity lead ns Tho automobile provides humanity with the mituis of making people stare, and sometimes the faster we drive the more powerful we believe, ourselves. It Is this great national show-off which costs us so dearly tn blood and tears. Tom Sims Says. Even after baseball is over, potr ticians will continue to be scored. Storm blew a Hammonton (X----girl out of bed. Many mothers enjoy such a storm every mot. ';r££ Isn’t it a wonder reformers doi^H get disgusted tnd lot the world j where they think it will? JB Hurrying through life takes uH entirely too much time. They fried eggs on ice at the radio world's fair. We Impatiently await the day they will broadcast fried chicken. Environment isn’t everything. Lots of people who take a hath, every Saturday night can't swim. Output of crude oil has fallen off a little, while the Intake of crude movies is increasing. Tinsmith fell two floors In fit.' Louis. Was fixing the gutter on a. house. Might call him an eaves-* dropper. (Copyright, 1925, XEA Service, Inc.) A Thought The effectual fervent prayer a righteous man avaiieth much'-/—-, James 5:15. • • • SFFLICTION teaches ft wicked man to pray; prosperity never.—Ben Johnson.