Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 133, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1925 — Page 4

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Football mTE football season really opens today. A few games already have been played, but most of the schools have not until today really plunged into their schedules. With the opening of the football season we hear the old, familiar arguments about too much athletics in our high schools and colleges. Os course, there is such a thing as too much athletics, hut too much athletics would be better than no athletics at all. Just what does a college student learn ■ that is useful to him in his later life? Putting Ithe question another way, just what is necesI sary in the way of education in order that the ■ individual may be happy in living and at least ■ moderately successful? * The essential qualities, we believe, include I intelligence, loyalty and a fighting spirit. Intelligence to a large extent can not be acIquired. One either has it or he doesn’t have it, ■ Intelligence can be developed through study. I That is the principal purpose of classroom and [laboratory work. \ But one may have a half dozen degrees I and still be a failure because he may lack the I essential elements of loyalty and a fighting ■spirit. There is no such thing as winning anyIthing without a struggle. There is no royal road to success. Where can loyalty and the fighting spirit be better developed during college years than on the football field? It may be argued that only a limited number of students benefit because only a limited number can participate in the games. This may be true to some extent, but the spirit of the football field, the will to win and to win fairly, is bound to permeate the entire student body. We do not contend that only tl rough athletics can the qualities under discussion be developed, but we do contend that athletics are useful in this direction. Therein lies the value of college football and of other college and high school sports. The mere physical development of a few players is of comparatively small importance and alone would not be worth the struggle. The Sailor Twins TyTIITH all hope gone for the survival of any W of the crew of the ill fated S-51, Indianapolis sorrows with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Teschemacher, 4071 College Ave., over the loss of their two sons. The boys were twins, only 17 years old. They gave their lives in the service of their country. They were cut down just as they were approaching manhood. They were just (starting life, with all the possibilities open to active and intelligent, young Americans. Indianapolis have sent a floral tribute to the family of the boys. We can not repay their parents for their loss. We can only express our gratitude and our sorrow. SPEED in catching up with ambulances will not be one of the qualifications for admission to the bar recommended by the Indianapolis Bar Association.

Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Burea, 1322 New York Ave.. Washintgon, D. C., Inclosing 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 —Kditor. Can you mention some of the achievements of Luther Burbank along agricultural and horticultural lines? Improved wheat; reduced the size of the pit of the plum; produced a flaxseed that furnishes a pure white oil, and increased the oil content 20 per cent; Increased the size of mulberry leaves three times to furnish food for silk worms and brought the trees to development in two years instead of seven or eight; made sunflowers grow close to the ground and increosed their seed content by producing blossoms nearly two feet in diameter; produced from American peas the small ‘‘petit pois” that formerly was found only in France; developed a black walnut that matures in tec to twenty years; made chives bear a sweet scented flower; created the blue petunia; produced artichokes fourteen inches in diameter; produced an everblooming sweet-pea, a perennial poppy, a sweet-scented verbena, a primrose five inches in diameter and the Shasta daisy. How is the magnifying power of a telescope determined? It is found by dividing the focal length of the objective by the focal length of the eye-piece. Therefore an eye-piece of one-inch equivalent focal length would give a magnifying power of 30 for the objective of 30 inches focal length and a power of 45 -for the object glass which has a fccl length of 45 inches. What is the Jewish population * the world? 'teen id one-ha'lf million.

Airplane Possibilities SHROUGH the visit of the airplanes Friday in the commercial air reliability tour, Indianapolis has had an opportunity to glimpse the possibility of air transportation. These planes, equipped to carry passengers and freight, are making a test tour. The tour is being conducted with the idea of promoting air navigation. America is far behind Europe in air transportation. To make a trip from London to Paris or from Paris to Berlin is all in the day’s work over there. Regular air lines run continuously- In America, a trip by airplane still is something of an event. There are immense possibilities in the carrying of passengers and freight between American cities. We look upon ourselves as congenital time-save.’s. We talk about the fast movement and the rush of America. Yet we have neglected one of the most obvious ways to reduce time and distance. It seems unfortunate that in the country where the airplane was invented and developed and where there is so much need for rapid transportation because of great distances, the commercial use of the airplane has not made more progress. Automobiles at College ABASH students are up in arms over the ** ruling of the faculty that they shall not be permitted to drive automobiles between Monday and Friday. The automobile has become a real problem in colleges and universities. The faculty contention is that the motor car hus a tendency to take the student’s mind away from his studies and to create social distinctions between students who own automobiles and those who do not. The contentions bear considerable weight. Wabash students argue that inasmuch as the college ts not a co-educational institution there should be no objection to automobiles. Why should the boys want to drive automobiles under these circumstances? MAYBE the average voter doesn’t register because he believes it’s immaterial who’s elected under the present form of municipal government • • • MARK TWAIN’S comment concerning every one’s condemnation of the weather, and no one doing anything about it, might be applied to numerous testimonials of the espionage system bootleggers -maintain at the police station. • • • MAKING liquor law searches while you’re drunk is the height of versatility, or something or other. * * • CITY hall politicians have asked Musician Duvall to play that ballad, “I Hear You Calling Me.” • • • THAT councilmanic investigation of the hoard of works apparently is as toothless as a municipal campaign keynote speech.

Sing a Song By Hal Cochran When that feeling seizes you and you’re feelin’ kinda blue, I can tell you how to turn your frown to smile. Hold your head up ra her high. Let your voice reach to the sky. Try and sing a little song a little while. There is always heaps of cheer if you'll only bring it here. What’s the use to ever worry, fuss and fret? You will feel much more in step, if you’ll just, adjust your pep. Think of all the fun and pleasure you can get. No one likes a wrinkled face, when the wrinkles are a trace of the frowning you have done from day to day. 'Course you may have lines upturned that through smile*; and cheer were earned, and it's different when their story’s told that w*;y. This is just a friendly earful—aw, come on, let’s all be cheerful, and we'll bring the proper spirit into style. Let the world know you are happy. Let your voice ring out real snappy, as you sing a little song a little while. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought Let us love one another; for love is of God.—First John 4:7. • * * Live- is Incompatible with fear. —Syrus. Whal; books have received the Pulitzer awards in the tteld of fiction since 1918? 1918, “His Family,” by Ernest Poole; 1919, ‘‘The Magnificent Ambersons,” by Booth Tarkington; 1920, no award; 1921, “The Age of Innocence,” by Edith Wharton; 1922, "Alice Adams,” by Booth Tarkington; 1923, ‘One of Ours,” by Wllla Cather; 1924, “So Big,” by Edna Ferber

Tom Sims Says When a stranger promises to let you in on something it is time to get out. mistaken for Sims pearls. You can have a good time being foolish if you act sensibly about it. Talk is cheap unless you are doing the talking. Bad luck is usually cussed for bad lurk while good luck is usually taken tor granted. Faint complexion never won fair lady a husband. Days are getting shorter, but paydays still are just ae far apart. In detouring, ore bad turn deserves another. The way of the expresser is hard with trunks. The easiest way to miss your calling is by calling a man a liar. And then, another way to ir'ss your calling, is by having the telephone taken out. That north pole must be a barber’s pole. Every explorer who goes near it has a close shave. A rolling stone gathers no Income tax. (Copyright. 1925. NEA Service. Inc.)

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li-aFollett in Visconsin, to said nutting aboud der local conditionings, id looks like der politickers huff der spot lites mooting arount, Jim Yatson, who iss der vipp by der Congress, said dot young LaFolletts iss from der Republican bartv bounced, und it looks allso like ven Mitchell gotten done talking, some udder fellers had better look a leedle oud. Ach, such iss life, vy vurrv. Ye did der same ding here. Look vuncc. Mit Collins, Wulfsom und Cliff Richter looking for lost varrants; Guthrie madeing bluffs at der Guffner; der Citizens Committee (who effer dey bin) madeing selectings us der school boarts candidates; Bill Busson fiteing good mats; und der bleasure us smoking cigerettes tooken avay from der teachers; der fiteing us der streed car und bus lines in additions to der city campains, I vant to told you ve got blendy didding rite here. Such shood not bin. Vy yust look vunce vat a bleasant feelings ve gotten ven in der pabers you read about, a mens vat raoofs mit his family by unser city to liff und rite avay he commences boosting der good dings vat ve got here. Such mens don’t know der iss such a voort like IF. He looks by der nice sign boart pictures vere der Masonies Tremble- der high school und der Commercial Klup made new houses und rite avay be made in der new home der new future, full mit sunshine und roses. Der drubbles der peebles gotten vat lifts by der State Fair grounts, near, fiteing der millions und millions flies und bugs lat vood not raoof oud mit der udder exhibits, don’t kept him from boosting. Vat ve need to make dings vent along booming iss der combined pushing us der Bankers, Jobbers, Contractors und Manufacturers, all to made pullings togedder in a bunch. Mit all such, der iss no good reason vy effervbotty shood not vent by der Makado, next veek. Ain’t id? ILiNS lIOFFMEIER, 1622 Sout Vest Streed.

HOW SCIENCE MADE THE AIR AN ASSET TO THE FARMERS

By David IMeti XEI SenHcti Writer EHE scientist is coming to the aid of the fanner by doing a Job for him that was formerly done only by certain kind of bacteria. The job is to tAke the nitrogen out of the air and turn it into a nitrogen compound which can be used as a fertilizer. The farmer can appreciate the lament of the mariner at sea who said. “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.” For the earth’s atmosphere Is four-fifths nitrogen and yet one of the farmer’s chief expenses Is fertilizer containing nitrogen. Plants can not grow without nitrogen. But plants are totally unable to use free nitrogen from the air. They can only absorb nitrogen which has been combined with other elements to form salts or compounds and mixed with the soil. The normal nitrogen content of the soil is the result of the activity of certain bacteria in the soil which have the power of absorbing the nitrogen of the air and “fixing” it, as the expression goes, in compounds which the plants can use. In the past when the nitrogen content of a field ran lotv, the farmer had to depend upon fertilizers consisting of animal or vegetable waste or upon nitrogen compounds mined from a few existing nitrate fields in the world. But the scientist is now making nitrates for the farmer direct from the nitrogen of the air. • • • mHIS year, Dr. F. O. Cottrell of the United States fixed nitre gen research laboratory i.at Washington estimates 44 per cent

Greatest Fun in the World

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson mUSED to know and count as friend a college professor, who loved nothing so much as sitting amid his books. I was young and eager then and some times when seUtng forth upon some juvenile frolic, I voiced my commiseration for the dull life he seemed to lead. And then he would answer me, “Oh, I shall be in far more interesting places tonight than v ou can see. I shall go with Samuel Pepys to the coronation of King Charles II of England. Or perhaps I shall be traveling for a while with Marco Polo in ancient China, or maybe, if I feel a bit wild, I shall follow my old friend Jack Falstaflf into the tavern, there to quaff a mug of ale with him.” That picture of him utterly content among his volumes has never left me. What a pity that more of us have not learned to know and love Looks! For the marvelous blessing which we now possess and which we do not half appreciate, is that we may all have them, as many as we wish. We may go wandering over the sun-baked sands of Egypt, o- Into the wastes of the frozen norlhland, through their pages. We ma;' walk and talk with long-dead Roman matrons. or sit under the wisteria blossoms of seductive Japan. We may linger amid the ju,ngle ruins of that ancient city of forgotten Angkor, or tread the brick paths over which the chariots of the men of Pompeii once thundered. We may haunt the coral isles of southern seas, or go searching for greater secrets in human heai^s. .There are books today for every

Hans Hoffmeier Says: Everybody Should Pull Together in a Bunch to Boost the City

of the n trogen compounds used in the world will be manufactured direct from the nitrogen of the air. The story of how scientists learned to use the nitrogen of the air is a highly interesting one. It began when scientists discovered that lightning flashes caused some of the nitrogen of the air to combine with the oxygen, the resulting compound being washed down with the rain to form nitric acid. Two American chemists, Bredley and Lovejoy, succeeded in repeating this process with the aid of an electric arc in 1902. But so much electricity was consumed that the cost was prohibitive. • • • 1 CHEAPER process was disA covered during the World ——J War. This was known as the cyanimid process. In this process, calcium carbide was first manufactured by melting coke and lime in an electric furnace. This was then treated while at a red heat with nitrogen. Asa result, a compound known as calcium cyanimid was formed. But the process chiefly used now is one which was developed in Germany. In this process, which is far cheaper than any other, nitrogen and hydrogen are mixed under high pressure and passed at a dull red heat through a granular mass consisting chiefly of specially prepared iron. Asa result the nitrogen and hydrogen combine to form ordinary ammonia. Dr. Cottrell estimates that 70 per cent of the nitrogen compounds manufactured this year will be by this German piocess.

man and his need. Books to satisfy every longing; books to open wide the doors of knowledge; books to breathe dreams into our withered hearts, books to lead us adventuring, books to-ease our pain. And blessed indeed is that man w’ho loves reading, for unto him Is vouchsafed a joy more lasting than his days, a surcease for his woes, forgetfulness for all his tribulations. He is greater than kings and more fortunate than princes. He is happier than victorious warriors returning from conquest, more content than the monk in his cloister and more rich than potentates. Life in its fullness may have passed him by, but he can always watch its pomp and glory and know their futility. He can see mankind grotesque, brutal, unreasoning, pathetic, and yet semehow ever beautiful, ever kind, ever heroic, ever a bit divine. He who has books for his friends will never be deserted or alone, never wholly unhappy. Are pure bred Arab stallions and mares raised in the United States? While there are a few pure bred Arab stallions and mares in the United States, It has been found by experience that horses of that breed do not keep their vigor in the climate of North America and therefore qo attempt has been made to import them in large numbers, or to build up a pure breed of them here. Mostly they are used for getting a strain of Arab into American stock Bnd In this way a good many race horses Have a strain of Arab in them

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

GAS TAX RECEIPTS ——IRCHIE N. BOBBITT. State A, gasoline tax collector, reports that Indiana gas tax receipts for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. 1925, totaled $6,802,481.72, a $2,000,000 Increase over the previous year. Part of the gain was due to the 1-cent per gallon boost in the tax last spring, but gfor the year endcrease in gasoline 1924 fiscal year to eling at a legal Nelson speed wmuld have to run continuously twenty-four hours a day for 15,000 years to use as much gas as was taxed in Indiana last year. Despite this enormous and universal consumption of motor fuel throughout the Slate and the high rate of the tax on it, no other levy is collected with so little fuss or causes so litle. grumbling among the payers. People w'ho would choke with indignation over having their general property taxes increased a nickel greeted the increased gas tax with a smile and pay it without a murmur. Yet sage economists declare the gas tax wrong in principle. They point out that it is a sales tax such as experience has shown to be always unsatisfactory and usuallly a costly failure. In theory the gas tax is a failure, in practice it is a brilliant success. The reason for this apparent anomaly is that the money thus collected is spent where people can see it, and not obviously squandered. Even the galled taxpayer doesn’t mind contributing a dollar to the public treasury if it yields a dollars' worth of public benefit. BOND ISSUES” OPPOSED C*“"""|LARKSVILLE (Tnd.l, a small town near Jeffersonville. is without water supply or fire protection, and a bond issue of $20,000 to install a water system is proposed. Protests against the proposal have been filed so State authorities will have to adjudicate the dispute. The protestants against the bond issue declare it is unwise and a water system unnecessary. Perhaps it is a needless luxury. But several months ago the Clarksvillel school was destroyed by fire with a loss of $30,00. When that conflagration broke out, assistance of the Jeffersonville fire department was sought unavailingly. Clarksville citizens were indignant and said harsh things about their neighbor city and its fire department. Why should the Jeffersonville fire department—maintained by the taxpayers of that city for their own protection—gallop out to fight a blaze in a town which won’t provide its own protection because of the expense? Waterworks and other public improvements are costly, but most communities find it more costly to do without them. The property owners of a town can’t eat their cake and have it too. They can oppose every public expenditure, fight every bond issue, and keep the tax rate low. But they have no reason to complain, when, as a result of their shortsightedness, calamity overtakes thoir community and" their own property goes up in smoke.

THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBUHT

EXAMINATIONS FOR THE BAR _ J ARION County Judges have m approved recommendations c'u of the Indianapolis Bar Association for stricter requirements for admission of prospective lawyers to practice. Hereafter candidates for the bar will have to pass examinations in law subjects. Probably the reform is needed. To the simple layman it would seem that a lawyer should be compelled to evidence some knowledge of law before being allowed to hang out his shingle. Dentists, plumbers, barbers, and members of other professions must pass examinations before being licensed. Why not lawyers? Indiana’s requirements fer admission to the bar have been weak. The State Constitution only demands that those admitted to practice law shall be of “good moral character.” Otherwise they may be as unequipped for the legal profession as a justice of the peace. That lax provision probably has admitted to the profession many ignorant, incompetent, poorly trained lawyers. Even the one requirement “good moral character” has been stretched all out of shape In many instances. However, there is no evidence that the public has greatly suffered from the 'axity. Admission to the bar is one thing, getting clients another. In practice the law-, yer who knows naught of the law is soon weeded out by starvation. The adoption locally of requirements more strict than set forth in the Constitution might seem more beneficial to the lawyers already admitted to the bar than to the public. Making it more defficult for applicants to get in will restrict competition and those that are in will have larger pieces of pie. To avoid the charge of trying to make the Marlon County Bar a closed corporation, the lawyers now admitted should themselves pass the examinations they propose for future candidates. AUTOMOBILES OR STRIKE Vy t] ABASH College students yy threaten to strike and i I leave education flat on its back unless college authorities rescind their recent action banishing student-owned automobiles from Crawfordsville. No doubt the edict will subject the car-owning students to horrible hardships, suffering and torture—they will have to walk to and from classes. Won't that be awful * Still other educational institutions—notably De Pauw and Purdue —have ruled out student autos without physical or mental ill-effects to their student bodies. Probably enforcement of a similar ban at Wabash won’t stunt the growth of the youths attending that institution. One would think from occasional actions of some college and high school students that they feel they confer honor on the educational institutions they attend. They think they, not the school boards or faculties, should run the institutions, and pass on matters of .conduct and discipline. Last winter high school pupils in Lafayette struck, because of the discharge of an athletic coach, and paraded the streets with inflammatory banners. Schools and colleges are maintained at public expense and private munificence to put the benefits and blessings of ducation within reach of youth. They are run for, not by, the students, and if the latter refuse to attend, because of some fancied grievance, the students not college are the losers. The only thing sillier than a student strike is another student strike. A moment’s cool reflection and such strikers would be their own strikebreakers.

SATURDAY, OCT. 3, 1925

Musical Notes for the Week

A r—i NNOUNCEMENT was made today of the winners of the scholarships awarded by the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts of this city. In the Piano Department, Bomar Cramer's scholarship was awarded to Mr. Cole Watkins. Judges for piano were Bomar Cramer, head of the piano department of the college, Miss Elennora Beauchamp, also of the piano department of the school, and Mrs. S. E. Kiser, of the Matinee Musicale. In the voice department, Glenn Friermood’s scholarship was awarded to Miss Ocic Higgins. Judges for voice were Glenn Friermood, head of the voice department of the college, Fred Jeffry also of the voice department; Elmer E. Steffen. director of the Mendelsohnn Choir of this city, also Mrs. Myra Cllppinger, organist of the Meridian Street Church. In the Dramatic Art Department, Ruth Todd's scholarship was awarded to Miss Dorothy Walsh. Clarence Weesner's scholarship was awarded to Miss Beatrice Stultz. Judges for Dramatic Art were Ruth Todd of the Dramatic Art Department of the College, also Clarence Weesner of the Dramatic Art Department, Mrs. Henry Schurmanr< of the advisory board of the College and Mrs. Elizabeth Wasson Hughes, president of the Drama League. Both Miss Higgins and Mr. Watkins are students at Butler College. •!• T I- [" | N next Tuesday, f> ct. 6, 1:15 If J P- m., Clayton Hamilton will Rive a lecture on “Richard Brinsley Sheridan, His Plays and Place in the Theater" at the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. The lecture is given in connection with the return to Indianapolis of The Rivals’’ with an all-star cast headed by Minnie Maddern Flske. This talk will be given in the college auditorium and will be open to the public. - -I- ■!■ CHARLES F. HANSEN, organist of the Second Presbyterian Church, will lecture on the opera, “Parsifal,” before the Woman’s Club of Thorntown, Ind„ on Wednesday evening, Oct. 7. He will use the new organ of the First Presbyterian Church of Thorntown to illustrate his talk. I ’l' I* j |T a business session of the A Mendelssohn Choir held this I 1 week at Hollenbeck Hall, where the choir holds its weekly rehearsals, a campaign to obtain 500 new associate members was inaugurated. Associate members will be sought by the present active memhors of the choir. Two divisions of sixty each have been formed from the active membership. Harry Calland and Miss Gladys Alwes were named captains of each division. In inaugurating the campaign to obtain associate members Arthur I. Franklin, president of the choir, said: “The policy of admitting associate members to the Mendelssohn Choir was adopted last year in order to insure greater permanency to the educational and artistic work of our organization. “The Mendelssohn Choir Is not organized for profit, but to promote fine choral singing and a deeper interest in coval music. The cultural and educational value of an organization like ours is a distinct asset to the city of Indianapolis, and last year over 200 of the city’s most representative citizens became associate members in the choir. “Every’ associate member receives two tickets to each of the choir con. certs which are given in the fall and spring of every year.” Business headquarters for the choir have been established at the Fuller-Ryde Music Company, 27 E. Ohio St. Fred P. Jefry, secretarytreasurer of the choir, is in charge of the campaign for associate members. The choir’s annual fall conceit will be given Monday evening, Nov. 23, at Caleb Mills Hall, under the direction of Elmer Andrew Steffen, choir conductor. Lambert Murphy, one of America’s greatest lyric tenors, will be assisting artist at the concert. i