Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 135, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1925 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY V. HOWARD. President. FELIX F. ERUXER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * * Client of the United Press and the JJEA 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 • • * I’HO.NE-MA in 3500.

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Work for Yewkantists mF the Horse Thief Detective patrols are i to persist, we suggest that pursuit of bank bandits be added to their repertoire. T ow juidnight investigation of spooning parties on lonely roads requires intrepid spirit, especially when you're carrying a few guns and the spooners are unarmed. Informing county officials where they may find a few drops of illicit liquor also calls for the best a man has in himself. Having passed the test for valor on these counts, why not expand activities? Surely, marksmanship on automobile tires could be developed into sure shooting in the direction of fleeing bandits. Os course, hold-ups and assaults are minor offenses in comparison to the menace threatening the community when a man and a maid, or perchance a man and his family, halt their automobiles for a rest from driving, but the horse thief detective might find, variety in other forms of “law enforcement.” & The president of that organization mourns the hardships of fighting mosquitoes and maintaining long vigils through the night,* Perchance the action would be swifter and faster if the warfare were turned against bandits and hold-up men. If winter comes, the volunteer policemen, must have some target for their law enforcement complexes. If f hey just must carry guns and be cops, why not help the police in a game where help is needed? Another suggestion. If chasing real criminals seems a bit too realistic, why not apply for search warrants from friendly justices of the peace to search private homes for Spooners? Now there’s the Constitution and the bill of rights, of course. But what are those old documents to compare with the doctrines of Yew k ant ? College Education Often Worthless SHE other day a group of the country's biggest business men got together. They fell to talking about boys—young men who come asking for jobs. . What they said was riot very flattering. Though our colleges and universities are pouring out ever increasing streams of graduates, they agreed, business houses are finding it harder and harder to get the kind of youngsters they want to fill jobs. • Why? It’s quite simple, they said. The boys all want to start at the top. Few seem willing to begin at the bottom and work up—as necessary today, despite universal education; as it ever was. They concluded that there is something the matter either with the modern boy or our system of education. While mulling this over in a depressed sort of way our eye fell upon a headline in the paper lying on our knee: “BOYS, BROKE, WALK 175 MILES TO ATTEND COLLEGE.” That headline, it seemed to us, answered the whole question. In the old days boys, as a rule, had to dig for their education. Like the young men mentioned above—the boys who walked from the Florida State line to Birmingham doing odd jobs on the way to earn iheir food, and who are now working their way through Howard College—they wanted an education so badly they were willing to fight for it. N Today the ambition is mostly on the parents’ side. They want their son to be “edu-

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®T You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington .Burea, 1U22 New York Ave.. Wash- • intgon u. C., inclosing 2 cents in lor reply. Medical, legal and •t+iudital advice cannot be given, nor ,/ifil extended research be undertaken. -All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot lie, answered. All letters are confidential—Editor. military training very popular in .schools and colleges? • There are 111,558 students in the cduntiy who are training in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps units of the colleges. Os these only 12,000 are it essentially military schools or The majority are participating voluntarily ir instlutions Where military training is not comlSulsory. '!i —— 5.’-Is it true that the color of a ‘cibg’s eyes has some relation to the length of his life? There is not truth in tne superstition. is the meaning of the “Elmhurst?” word “hurst’’ means grove or N The word "Elmhurst” then a grove or woods of elms. many pounds of butter a gallon of milk or cream of butterfat in milk SEMjmNwn varies from 3 per cent cent 11 billon of ti per cent • weighing 5.r.7 poinds

cated.” So they “send” him off, whether or no. Too many fathers today are working their sons’ way through college and not enough sons are working their own. Isn’t this the answer to the business men’s lament ? At the Rainbow’s End mN this country we pride ourselves upon being hard-boiled and practical. Especially our statesmen at Washington. Thus it was that up to the very moment of the arrival of Joseph Caillaux over hero to settle the French debt, Administration spokesmen insisted France would have to settle with us on terms no less gentle than were granted to Great Britain. Over and over again this newspaper sounded the warning that they were chasing a rainbow; that no such settlement could be expected; that any adjustment would have to take into consideration France’s capacity to pay and that this would depend largely upon, what Germany pays to France. Today Caillaux is on his way hack to} Baris. The Administration now officially a*L mits that all this is true. Its plans have b'sen sunk without trace. Sadder, but wiser, it is now hoping against hope that France will agree to pay us some $40,000,000 a year: for the next five years and that at the end of; that time she will come back for another conference and settle on a basis of her “capacity to pay.” And this $40,000,000 which Secretary of the Treasury Mellon hopes to collect from France represents not the 3 to 3*4 per cent interest on $4,220,000,000 —which rata Britain pays—but $2,200,000 less than an even 1 per cent. So much for the “practical” plans of our hard-boiled debt collectors. The episode is typical of the way we conduct all our foreign affairs. We bluff and bluster amd pound the table, grind our teeth and growl; then, after havi.ig thoroughly convinced the world that we are a mean and heartless lot, we gently and quietly outdo everybody else in making sacrifices. Bank on this: Five years from now, or whenever the second French debt parley takes place, the Lnited -States will be glad to accept the proposal Caillaux just made. The chances are we will jet even less real money, not more. Meantime, thanks to all this sally blustering, the people of this country are acquiring a reputation abroad which they do not deserve. For above any other race on earth, ours is the most generous and sentimental. FLORIDA publicity managers deny they financed that Los Angeles earthquake. * • # LET’S hope the thousands of unofficial police don’t learn how to shoot straight along with the city officers. * # * IT takes a wild flight of imagination to picture a precinct committeeman telling the voters of* his neighborhood he’s glad they kicked him out. # # * EVIDENTLY the Indianapolis fire was put out before the international fire chiefs got into action. * # # THE plans drafted by the park board for a bridle path evidently revealed to Councilman Ray why so much time elapses before south side parks obtain improvements needed.

would produce .514 pounds of butter or approximately half a pound. A gallon of 40 per cent cream weighing 8.28 pounds would produce 3.31 pounds of butter. What kind of wood is ironwood? The name ironwood has been applied to a great number of trees of differing species, but all are noted for having extremely hard -wood. Perhaps the most common is the southern buckthorn. Other varieties are the buckwheat tree, _ the inkwood, and the blue beech." What is the headquarters of the American Birth Control League and what is the official organ of the league? The American Birth Control League has its headquarters at 104 Fifth Ave., New York City. The Official Organ is the Birth Control Review edited by Margaret Sanger. The magazine is published monthly and has a circulation of 8,000. Are the number of deaths through automobile accidents increasing or decreasing? The number of deaths by auto accidents in fifty-eight of the principal cities of the United States for 1924 was 5,030. F"rom Jan. 1 to May 23, 192 E, for fifty-two of the leading cities with a population of 25,000,000, the number of deaths was 1,681 as contrasted with 1,564 such deaths during the corresponding period oj? last year.

Tom Sims Says Our prediction of the coldest winter ever is based on the fact that all winters are that cold. It takes a pair of dreamy eyes to keep a man Some men tell K9g&&9ii their wives | everything that | happens. and | some things that son who gets mad when the Nuns Perhaps a third of our cuss words were invented by men while wishing it was payday. If you only knew it, the man at the bottom of a lot of things spends most of his life up a tree. All you need to know to make a success is all you don’t know. If you have dollars the world thinks you have sense. Even American divorces are being made in Paris now, but they don’t seem a bit more beautiful. Time must wear rubber heels. It slips upon us so quietly. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

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ULTRA-MICROSCOPE DETECTS THE GERMS OF CANCER

By David Dieti XEA Service Writer rr-1 S U P E R-ULTR A-MICRO-I A I SCOPE is being y lanned by IIJ.I Dr. J. E. Barnard, a colleague of Dr. Gye of London. TI ie two were in Ihe limelight recentl; r when they showed that a certain ti irm of cancer known as the Rous arcoma was caused 1 y a germ. This germ, too srnaJ 1 to bo seen in an ordinary microf/c/ >pe, was made visible by Dr. Barnard’s ultramicroscope. Thxj microscope used ultra-violet light. instead of ordinary light. Ultra-violet 11 ghr t Is made up of waves which are shorter than ordinary light wa ms. Therefore it woul . nrako vi/tible objects which were too small, to be visiblo In ordinary light. Since ultraviolet light will not pass through, ordinary glass. Dr. Barnard usr/d a microscope with a special quat.-tz lensi Photographs of the cancer germs were obtained by using plat which were sensitive to ultra-vi.oxet light. But Dj;„ Barnard is not content with his present achievement. He thinks tjfeiat it is possible to make visible -objects even smaller than the caijcier germs. Hence, his plans for a f pjper-ultra-mlcroscopo. • • • | |"v I R- BARNARD’S super-ultra-IU 4 microscope will make use of I—. i the so-called Schuman rays whiij h are the shortest radiations

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

NEW TRACTION EQUIPMENT [rpl HE Union Traction Comj f I pany, it is announced, will “*■■ J soon put in service on its through trains between Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne new steel equipment. Fifteen ests have bewailed the inNetoon roads made on their business by motorbus competition. They fought the busses tooth and toe nail before the public service commission and the courts. Figuratively they have, in their frenzy, torn out handfuls of their own hair and rent their garments. Still the blisses continued to lure away their customers. Now most of the interurban lines In the State are In bankruptcy or are slipping Into that financial slough of despondency. It is significant that in this general traction gloom a few lines enjoy conspicuous prosperity and heavy patronage. And they are lines that operate on the fastest schedules with the most modern and luxurious equipment. Speed and comfort are what the passengers want whether they travel by railroad, interurban, bus or in a hearse. Friendly regulations can t win back vanished traction customers. Traction lines will have to win them back by their own efforts. They can do it b> selling the customers something besides miles—by offering faster schedules, better service, newer coaches, dining cars, parlor cars and other greater creature comforts. CHURCH AND STATE Dr— JANIEL V. SKILES, a farmer near Frankfort, .i Ind., was fined $25 and qpsts recently for refusal to send his 15-year-old daughter to high school. His non-compliance with the school law was in obedience to the tenets of his church, he declared. If the laws of Indiana overrule the Dunkard church I’m through,” he asserted In court. Just how and with what he was through wasn’t specified. Os course. If he wishes, he can highhat the State of Indiana but he can’t obliterate It. Right or wrong Indiana has adopted—by law and majority sanction —the policy of compulsory school attendance for the youth of the State. It is not a matter of State interference with church, or of abridgement of religious liberties, but of public welfare to which the individual must yield. TVe talk glibly of the Individual’s Inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Since the first tribal government was formed, life, liberty and pursuit -of happiness have had their corners knocked off by law and custom. In an autocracy or democracy the Individual Is told how much freedom he may enjoy, either by royal edict or popular vote. But many people still believe they can do as they please. They believe firmly In’ law.)—for the other fellow—but regard any legal restriction on their own actions unwarranted. 4 That’s the attitude that breeds disrespect for laws —whether they be truancy acts or murder statutes —and keeps law enforcement agencies running around-in circles. DEAD MEN’S 7 TALES N r ~‘ INE skeletons, one encased in armor, have been un- *-■' - - J earthed from an old mound north of Walkerton, St. Joseph County. 'When found the skeletons were arranged like the

known to science. Sin te these rays are so much shorter thin the ultraviolet rays, Dr. Barnard believes he will see objects much smaller than the cancer germ. The Schuman rays will not even pass through quartz, and so Dr. Barnard will have to use lenses made of fluorite. Since air also has an effect upon these rays, Dr. Barnard will operate the super-ultra-microscope inside of seeing some of the starch molecules, the largest of the molecules with this new apparatus. He estimated that the starch molecule is about one-hun-dredth the size of the cancer germ. • • • mF Dr. Barnard succeeds In making even the largest molecules visible, he will have accomplished a feat which few scientists thought would over be possible. Most scientists believed that such Indirect methods as the behavior of gases and the so-called Brownian movements would always be the only proof of the existence of molecules. The Brownian movements are the movements visible under an ordinary microscope of tiny particles of matter placed in a liquid. This movement can only be explained as a result of collisions of the molecules of the liquid with the particles.

spokes of a wheel with the heads toward the center. As the meund in which they were buried is estimated to be 500 years old. the bones evidently belonged to early Hoosiers, not to iecent traffic victims. The find will be interesting to archeologists and such. Who. what, when were the men thus interred? What were they doing in Indiana? From whence came they and whither were they going? Neither historic Indians nor prehistroic mound-builders who occupied thi3 region laid out their dead in pin-wheel pattern. Indians didn’t wear metal armor. When they went off to war they daubed paint on their bodies and slung a few blood-curdling war cries around their necks by way of armor. And so far as known no white men visited Indiana 500 years ago. Couldn’t those nine dead men, if they could speak, tell some tales of the early days in the State that would make the pioneer and historical societies 'sit on the edge of their chairs pop-eyed e think of Indiana as a comparatively iecent invention, born in our great-grandfathers’ and grandfathers’ time. But for uncounted thousands of years it has lain out of doors. It lias been trodden by the feet of men—perhaps by races long extinct—as the centuries have come and gone. 'I housands of years hence, probably, men of races yet unborn will inhabit the Hoosier State. What will they think of us and our present Hoosier civilization when they dig our bones and our rusting flivvers out of graveyards and city dumps? CAN THEY MAKE SCIENCE BEHAVE? OLUTION continues to be denounced by those who ■ 1 hold that this particular biological doctrine destroys the people’s religious faith. The latest denunciation was by resolution of the Marion County Klan, made the other day. Maybe that ought to make the evolutionary theory curl up and quit. But probably it won’t. Scientific doctrines are stubborn critters not greatly Influenced by denunciatory resolutions. Quite likely the doctrine of evolution, In its present or modified form, will be sticking around generally accepted in scientific circles long after its aggressive opponents of today are gone. They will neither crush nor hinder it. It would be nice if problems in mathematics, biology, chemistry, geology, astronomy and other sciences could be settled by popular referendum or ringing resolutions. Scientists would be spared much laborious investigation thereby, and education would be simplified. Every schoolboy, who has studied geometery, has thought that something ought to be done to make the circumference of a circle equal in length to three times its diameter instead of 3.1416. Legislation has failed tr> achieve that result. Perhaps resolutions adopted at a public mass meeting could make the circle behave. About the only thing settled by the long and embittered controversy over evolution Is the fact that of those participating in it know nothing about the subject. They argue not from their knowledge or study but from their prejudices. They have no ideas on the subject, only feelings. Evolution may be a true or false doctrine. In any event, its effect on the average man is zero. At best it only really concerns the biologist studying the mysteries of life. At worst it is only a poor guess. It may safely be left in the hands of scientists to prove or disprjve, while we laymen worry about the price of coal and more pressing matters. Is there any simple method of removing water from oil? There are several methods, but none of them are simple. One is to treat the mixture with superheated steam in a specially designed receptacle, until samples show that the oil has been cleared. Another process is to heat the mixture and stir carefully, then filter through fine cloth Into a woden receptacle having two spigots, one about an inch from the bottom to draw off the water, and another four or ft'' e inches from the top to draw off the oil.

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By Mrs. Walter Ferguson mT is a fine thing to learn that two fifths of the women in the United States live on farms. One would never know this by looking at the movies or reading some of the latest literary drivel. Most of the references to modern woman, practically all the preachings about modern woman, and a large part of the criticism of modern woman, infers that we all reside in luxurious apartments, carry poodle dogs and have love affairs. A foreigner come to gather information about our sex could seldom learn from pulpit or press that any of us lived outside the glare of the white lights; that we ever ate any food except that prepared at a delicatessen or served in a restaurant; that we ever assumed any more ' responsibility than to see that our marcel was always In. It might be well for all those who are in the habit of keeping tab upon the shortcomings of the twentieth century women to retain that rural

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feminine population well In mind. Doing so might alleviate their wrath at our carelessness and laziness and crime. There are, it is true, a great many women who exist like parasites, who do nothing except look after their own beaut}', who are selfish and vain and Idle. But there are still women who lead active, normal lives and who fulfil their duties as citizens and as wives and mothers. With two-fifths of American womanhood on the farms and with a large number of other women who live busily in small towns, and with that greater number who reside In cities and who keep their babies clean and well fed and their homes trim and neat, it is easy to see that the women folk of the nation are not In such a bad way after all. So much of the talk about the delinquencies of the modern woman, like newspaper stories of crime, are merely evidences that we write and talk about the bad things of the world so much that we do not take the time to look about us at the

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good things nor to notice the good people. Modern women are generally pictured as dancing and flirting and drinking until many of us have almost forgotten that this sort of femininity is, after all, but a very small part of an enormous and much cleaner whole, and that we are surrounded by women from all walks of life who do none of these things and whose ideals are as high and whose purposes as pure as those of the long-dead heroines whom we so ardently admire. A Thought Let us not therefore judge one another any more; but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.—-Rom. 14:13. * • * OORBEAR to judge for we are sinners all.—Shakespeare. Is Harry Earles, the diminutive I star who plays in “The Unholy Three,’’ a real midget? Yds.