Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 132, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1925 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * • Client of the United Press and the NRA Service • * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week * * • THONE—MAin 3500.

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Worse Than Carelessness TJjOTHING could more effectively bring out IN the carelessness that accompanies the practice of raiding private homes in Indianapolis than the present mixup over the search warrant that is causing so much commotion in Criminal Court. Wednesday Justice of the Peace Spiher was called into Criminal Court because he had been unable to find a search warrant supposed to have been issued by him. He evidently thought he had issued the warrant. At least he didn’t deny it. The police thought they had obtained the warrant from him. ' Thursday it was discovered that the warrant had not been issued by Spiher, but by Justice of the Peace Isidor Wulfson. There are few things so important as the protection of the home. Yet neither police nor a justice of the peace knew the circumstances surrounding the issuance of a warrant for the invasion of i, home. Under "such a system no citizen has any assurance of the protection of the law.

Art EONDON papers comment bitterly on recent art sales which threaten to make .New York an art center, by sheer force of money, as against the ancient centers of culture. What right has mere money, gained by the luck of war, to shift the center of gravity of art and culture also? It is a common complaint, but a forgetful one. The galleries and even the great homes of Eagland, are full of masterpieces of Italian, Spanish and Flemish art. How did they get them? By money, and the fortunes of war, in former generations. The foundation of every aristocracy, of every art movement or collection, of all the things which afterward look down on “mere money” has always been wealth. The only time wealth is “vulgar” is when it is new. If we do to England by wealth a small part of what England did to Spain by wealth, our descendants may be the ones to despise the vulgarity of some later people rich enough to do the same thing to us. INDICATIONS are the final situation is a factor in both the Duvall and Myers camps. • • • IF 50-cent bread persists in Florida, there’s apt to be a vogue of palm leaf eating. * * * BOARD OF WORKS members and county officials are playing a bridge game. • • • IS it possible that the sterling liquor law enforcing State policemen take a drink? # • • THAT colored man who lost his liberty to save thirty cents may think present day liberty is worth about that figure. * * LEMONS jumped sky high after what Colonel Mitchell handed the Army-Navy regulars. # e • EVIDENTLY the bandits of the barbecue joints have come to the other side of the counter. m * m COUNTING how short you are of the $3,068 every Hoosier is supposed to possess is a hew sport introduced after Dr. Lionel G. Edie of Indiana University made his report on the State’s wealth.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

■ Yon can pet an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Burea. 1322 New York Ave., WashlntgOn. D. C., Inclosing 1 2 cents in stamps for 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 are confidential—Editor. Is an author properly referred to as an “artist?’’ An author may be properly called an artist, using the word to mean one who does work according to the constructive principles of art. How long has it been since the manufacture of pewter household Cooking utensils was discontinued? Their manufacture was discontinued about the year 1840. When were trousers first made common article of clothing for men? Trousers are a very ancient garment, not in the least confined to male persons. The trouser Is a rfietamorphosed breech-clout, just as the skirt is an adaptation of the l6ln cloth. Generally speaking, trousers were first adopted by people living in Arctic climates, and were {.he universal form .of dress for mules and females, just as skirts became the costume of men and wom-

How the Great War Came frpIHE world must either profit by the terri--1 * | ble lesson of the great war or be plunged into another and a worse one. Boiled down, such is the essence of Lord Grey’s, or the Viscount of Fallodon’s, memoirs, “Twenty-Five Years—lß92-1916,” fresh from the press. Many Germans say Lord Grey—Sir Edward he was then —brought on the war. On the allied side most folks say Prussia did it, or the Kaiser. But. Lord Grey differs from all these. He frankly admits no one nation nor any one man started the war, but just a general state of mind and of affairs. And he ought to k .ow. He was either Undersecretary or British Minister of Foreign Affairs for most of the “Twenty-Five Years” he talks about. During that time he not only watched the war a-making but took a leading, if not the leading, part in the great tragedy. For decades, he tells us, Britain, Germany, France, Austria, Russia, Turkey and the rest of Europe regarded each other with the baleful eye of suspicion. Every move was suspect. Every innocent gesture loomed as a threat against the interests of this or that nervously watching nation. Intrigue was rampant and armaments grew and grew, each power feeling bound at least to keep up with its rival. “In looking back through old papers,” says Lord Grey, “it is depressing to read of the distrust and suspicion with which governments regarded each other in these years. The impression given is of an atmosphere so miserable and unwholesome that nothing healthy could live in it.” A Out of this “miserable and unwholesome” atmosphere ca/ne the war. And Lord Grey is not so sure that we are not destined io see another. In fact, it was with the object of helping prevent such a war that, though all but blind, he drove himself to complete these two volumes of memoirs. “It is of vital importance to the world,” he says in his introduction, “that there should be a true account of the events that led up to the Great War; without this there can be no right understanding of the causes of the war; and without such understanding nations will not perceive how to atoid the recurrence of another and greater disaster.” Lord Grey’s narrative is easily the most important contribution of its kind since the armistice. No one can read it without being struck by the author’s earnest, almost religious, endeavor to state things as they actually were and not as he, or Britain, or the allies, would have them appear. New light is thrown on President Wilson’s attitude toward the war and his belief that America could not forever be kept out of it. And there are numerous hitherto unpublished letters from the late Theodore Roosevelt who tells Lord Grey ouite plainly that Lad he been President, instead of Wilson, he would have thrown America in on the allied side the moment Germany crossed the Belgian frontier. Dollar diplomacy, the kind that puts money above morals, and the dangers of allowing ill feeling to persist between nations, are brought out as inevitable war breeders. And just as clearly he shows the vital necessity for some means whereby in future nations can live together in peace on a sheer basis of common honesty and decency. The memoirs should be translated into every tongue. Every American, certainly, should study them. Particularly do we recommend them to our State Department, our members of Congress and other Government officials in high places. For they point the way out of war.

en in the tropics. In the middle areas it became an almost universal custom for men to wear the trousers and women tho skirts. In one of Cicfero’s essays he calls the Transalpine people the “panted people” because of their garments, which seemed queer to the Romans, whose civilians wore togas and whose soldiers wore short skirts. How many national flags are there in the world?’’ Excluding island possessions, colonies and dependencies, etc., there are 63 national flags of the various independent countries of the world. Waat per cent of the total number of men in the United States Military Academy at West Point are appointed from the enlisted personnel of the Army and what per cent of the officers now in the Army were graduates of West Point? There are 153 cadets now at West Point who were appointed from the enlisted men of the Regular Army and the National Guard. The total enrollment at the military academy is 1,100; therefore the enrollment of the enlisted men amounts to 14 per Cept of the total student body. On June 30, 1925, there were 11,880 officers in the United States Army;

of this number 3,262 were West Point graduates. Is there any scheduled civil service examination for Immigration inspector? - The last examination for immigration inspector was held on Nov. 19, 1924. About 800 are still on the reg.ster eligible for appointment. The register is active, but not exceedingly so. Eligibility is usually for one year. No examination for this position is now pending. Where is "Tahiti?” This is one of the Society islands. In what is known as the Windward group, that, roughly measured, lies midway between the equator and Australia. The climate is mild and equable, ranging from 60 to 90 degrees F, put the rainfall Is extbemely heavy. It Is under French rule, and French Is the official language, although the traders speak mostly English and the natives speak their own Polynesian language. Is the officer personnel of the Veterans Bureau Hospital at Tuskogee. .Ala., all negro? The entire personnel, including •physicians, nurses and ether at* tendants are all negroes. Only! negroes are treated at the hospital.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

CHACHALACA IS NEWEST UNITED STATES ARRIVAL

By David Dietz HE A Service Writer ~ 'Jj EET the chachalaca. He's the VA newest United States citizen. “ He was hrought into the United States from Mexico. The Bureau of Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture brought him into the country. The chachalaca is a game bird, a near relative of the pheasants. Two years ago the bureau introduced a number of the birds into Sapeloe Island. Georgia. Recent investigation shows that the birds are thriving. Several dozen nested on the island this year, and a colony has spread to the neighboring Blackbeard Island. The chachalaca is a si nder-bodied gam bird, olive brown in color. They w r eigh about as much as a ruffed grouse. The flesh of the bird is said to he delicious and officials of the B:logical Survey expect that in time the chachalaca will make a valuable addition to the game bird list of the .wooded sections of the southeastern part of the United States. The bird nests in trees and spends much time there, although he feeds upon the ground. He has a loud, rattling call which can he heard over a great distance and which Is easily remembered once heard.

RIGHT HERE

IN INDIANA

-By GAYLORD NELSON

COST OF CARELESSNESS r- -IERGT. MARY MOORE, of ■ I the police accident prevenI | tion bureau, has appealed to Indianapolis school principals to instruct children to exercise more precaution while crossing streets. Four children, homeward bound from school, injured in traffic accidents the previous day’prompted the action. Doubtless teaching children not to take chances with traffic is

necessary. Otherwire the child’s physiology', geography and other intellectual acquisitions may be strewn all over the pavements, together with fragments of the child. Education run over by a five-ton truck has no salvage value. In New York la3t winter, 1,500,000 school children were induced to sign pledges not to

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cross streets or play In heavy traffic. As.a result traffic fatalities in that city were reduced from 100 In December to 62 In February. The outstanding fact In every Investigation of motor accidents Is that most of them are avoidable. Worry and ill health are the chief causes of accidents in factories, according to speakers at the National Safety Council, meeting In Cleveland, recently. The real cause of traffic accidents, they asserted, is carelessness. Speed per se or per mile is very seldom primarily responsible for the motor casualties. White crosses. 352 of them, are being placed on the streets and highways of Marion County. Each marks the spot of a fatal automobile accident In the last four years. Each marks the spot where someone. either motorist or pedestrian, neglected to exercise just ordinary reasonable prudence. Each cross represents a cos.ly sacrifice to carelessness. Docs It pay? perennialV JAIL PROBES npVIEDERAL authortles will lnI► I vestigate conditions at the Li I Vigo CoUnty jail. Terre Haute, it Is announced. Prisoners there, it is alleged, have been permitted too much liberty. The United States courts and marshals are getting very touchy on the subject of county jails slnco Druggan and Lake —eminent beer barons became paying guests at the Cook County Jail, Chicago, and enjoyed all the liberty and conveniences of a hotel. They don’t want a repetition of that unsavory affair. But probing jails is a perennial pastime of Federal Courts. Last winter it was the Marlon County prison that was subjected to inquiry. In that instance it was not charged that the inmates, Federal or otherwise, were pampered. Quite the reverse. Poor food, overcrowding, mistreatment, and the use of disinfectants with predatory scent formed the burden of the complaints. A jail is not intended to he a luxuriously appointed apartment house, furnishing elegant bachelor quarters rent free. Neither in this enlightened age is it intended to he a foul medieval torture chamber in which malefactors are thrown to rot. Too frequently these necessary lockups go to one extreme or the other. A jail that would be just a jail —nothing more nor less—where prisoners would receive plain food and plain treatment would be welcomed by society in these piping times of peace, prohibition and brigandage. BUILT IN A DAY IEVENTV men—members of the cqngregation of the i__J Broad Ripple Christian Church —by their voluntary toll Wednesday erected a tabernacle, with a seating capacity of 1,000, for evangelistic services. The building was started and completed in one day. The edifice Is not distinguished for majesty of mass or dellcaoy of line. Architecturally it rivals neither the Taj Mahal nor the Tribune tower. Even those who planned

Ms - —! ORE than 22,000 women are now practicing as pharmai—_ . cists in the United States, according to F. R. Peterson, president of the National Association of Retail Druggists. Twenty-five years ago, he says, there were less than fifty women pharmacists in the United States. Peterson says that the science of pharmacy will gain much from the entry of women into it since there are many phases of it which can be studied best from a woman’s point of view. *. * S SHE Barnard gold medal, one of the most important American scientific awards, has been given to Dr. Niels Bohr of Copenhagen, the propounder of the so-callled Bohr theory of the atom. This is the theory that the atom consists of a nucleus with electrons revolving ahout it in elliptical orbits. The Barnard medal is awarded by Columbia University upon the recomendation of the National Academy of Science. John D. Prince. American ambassador to Denmark, presented the medal to Dr. Bohr.

and constructed it must confess that it belongs to the shack schopl of ecclesiastical and secular Architecture.

Nevertheless, in its way it is an impressive monument. It is concrete evidence of the strength of man’s religious faith—and proof that man will toil and perspire at unaccustomed tasks, pound nails and thumbs impartially, for something besides the day’s pay. They are actuated by ideals. Since Solomon built his temple, the architectural triumphs, the artistic aspirations, faith and hope of men have found expression in their religious edifices. Time, effort and treasure have been poured into them. Forty-six years were spent in constructing the last cemple at Jerusaem. Six hundred years the great and beautiful gothic cathedral at Cologne was in building. Years of toil and sacrifice by the devout went into the erection of Rheims and other Medieval churches. A rough board tabernacle slapped together by volunteer workers In a day can’t be compared with a Gothic cathedral. But hack of it is the same idea. Tho medieval age is past, but a good deal of the spirit of the gothic cathedral still exists. WEALTH OF~~ INDIANA |R. LIONEL O. EDIE. director of the bureau of L_J research at Indiana University, In a report Thursday to the State Chamber of Commerce, puts Indiana’s total wealth at .$0,485,000,000. Among the States of the Union It ranks as the twelfth richest. As thirty-five of the State have a greater area than Indiana and a .dozen are more populous, the Hoosier common-wealth possesses about its proportionate share of the country’s riches. It Is not disgustingly rich in fact like New York or in paper profits l‘ke Florida. According to Dr. Edie the per capita wealth of the State Is $3,068 —a slight falling off in the past decade, due to more rapid in* creases in population than riches Some of us discover after thumbing our personal check books wo don’t know this fellow Per Capita. We’ll speak to Dr. Edie about it. Interesting as the figures of total and per capita wealth are. they mean little. It Is the total or the mythical average, but the actual distribution of wealth among the people of the State that is important. There Indiana is fortunate. It has few outrageously wealthy citizens and little stark poverty. In many of its prosperous counties, with fat farms and hustling industries, there are no residents popularly reputed to be millionaires. In Indiana the great majority of the people are just folks, with sufficient financial resources to eat and regret three meals a day, maintain automobiles, permanent waves, radio sets, pay alimony and enjoy all the other newer comforts of civilization. As long as that condition exists let other States boast, if they like, of their heaped up wealth and per capita riches—we’re content to be Hoosiers.

Every Mornin’ By Hal Cochran On each and every morning, makes no diff’rence where you roam, the story’s just the same, when there are youngsters In the home. All mothers have to bear It, ’cause there's nothin’ else to do. It's simply part of kid life, and they have to live It through. It~ starts out In the morning, very shortly after dawn. The thing that I refer to is accompnied by a yawn. A youngster’s called for breakfast, but he doesn’t even peep. He really thinks It’s mean that they should wake him from his sleep. He’s called a dozen times or more. Much patience It must take. He gets his feet upon the floor and shakes himself awake. And there he sits, still drowsy, tryin’ to dress himself and then he falls back on the pillow and he’s sound asleep again. He’s simply lost In dreamland Mother helps him as a rule, for now It’s hustle, bustle so he won’t be late for school. All youngsters have their habits, but, when all is done and said the worst Is. very Mkely, that they like to lie in bed. (Copyright, 1925, NEA i’ervlce, Inc.)

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Women, Pure and Impure

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson “T“1 CITY attorney in Texas has some wonderful ideas about i Mr. reformation of fallen women, a couple of which are the setting up of public stocks and old-fash-ioned whippings. Fine! Let’s have the stocks and the heavy fines and the shippings, but for the sake of common justice and democracy, let’s expose and lick the men right along with the women. Why punish the women and let the business men and politicians go? The attitude of this Texas attorney shows very forcibly one of the queerest quirks of the masculine mind. The men can’t orate enough about “pure womanhood,’’ and they can’t do enough to drag Impure women further down. Sometimes one wonders just what they mean when they talk agout “protecting pure womanhood.’’ In the accepted sense we know of course, that they refer to innocent girls, respectable married women, decent spinsters. But why should men swear protection to these alone? Why draw such drastic lines between goodness and badness in our sex and make such slight marks of distinction between the two where men are concerned? Our Lord in His ministry on earth said very little about good women, but He did talk a great deal to the men about those women who were not called good. It is the duty of manhood to pro-

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tect all womanhood, and no man is fit to set himself up as a judge between those of us who are bad and those who are good. In a certain South American city there has been erected a statue for a woman who was at one time a famous courtesan, but who, when the yellow fever swooped down upon the land, did not flee with the crowds but went about nursing the sick and burying the dead until she, too, finally succumbed to the disease. Out of the entire population she was one of the three persons who remained to serve in danger. Was she a good or a had woman? To protect pure womanhood is not enough. Twentieth century chivalry means more than that, if it means anything at all. The prostitiute, who has come -to her sad state because of men, merits, as well its the purest maiden, the protection and help of decent manhood. For It was of her kind that Jesus spoke when ho said, “Let him who is without sin oast the first stone at her.” A Thought A horse Is a vain tiling for safety; nrfther sliall he deliver any by liis great strength.—l’s. 33.17. • • • It is no time to swap horses when you are crossing the stream. —Abraham Lincoln.

FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 1925

Tom Sims Says This country could be worse. In Siberia the soil freezes 65 feet deep. Imagine digging 66 feet for fishing worms. The Dead Sea is fishless. In this way It is similar to all other bodies

of water. Unless fish wear muzzles. TJie lengths of a mile vary In different countries, and also In different means of transportation. In Chicago a man named Mr. Half got married. Which is one time you can say he and his wife are one. The idea of visiting cards

originated in China. And, from the looks of signatures, so did the habit of signing letters. We doubt if even a gTeat and famous orator could explain to a barber exactly how he wanted his hair cut. Grand opera Is very hard to sing. But not so hard as singing “Home, Sweet Home’* while reading a coal bill. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)