Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1925 — Page 10

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD. President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. . WM. A. MAYBORN. Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Pmbliahed 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 • * • PHONE —MA in 3500.

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Paying Other People’s Taxes SO meet the expenses of government you pay taxes. You always pay more than you should because a certain percentage of citizens manage, in one way or another, to escape paying their share. Just how much this costs you is impossible to determine, but now and then a little light is obtainable. A man in New York—nobody you ever heard of; he doesn’t rate as one of the country’s really wealthy men —pleaded guilty to income tax fraud a few days ago. He had cheated the Government out of $232,990.60 in 1921 and 1922, he confessed. He was fined $1,500 by the Federal court. That doesn’t sound like a severe penalty, considering the size of the man’s offense. In fact, he seems to have gotten off pretty easily. The judge explained this. As quoted by the New York World, he said he had made the fine light against his will, but because of promises made by the Government officials in Washington he had no other recourse. Having helped to pay the taxes which this man escaped paying, you may feel that the Government officials in Washington were a little too considerate of him and not quite sufficiently considerate of you. And if this obscure millionaire—his name is Jacob Busch—dodged $232,000 of taxes, you may wonder what the total dodging amounts to. And, finally, just how large a part of your tax bill goes tb make up the payments that other men should make.

Why Did Russia Lift Booze Ban? lifting of the prohibition law by 1 1 | the Soviet government will spell Russia’s present-day salvation. Its future salvation rests securely upon the Christian church.” Rev. Ivan S. Prokhanoff, president of the All-Russian Union of Evangelical churches, made this statement before the Disciples of Christ convention at Oklahoma City, press dis- .. patches tell us. Scenting the surprise his remarks might cause, he went on to explain. “You may think this a peculiar statement for a minister of the gospel to make,” he said, “but it is wholly true. “Before prohibition was tried, there was a drunkard here and there. Under prohibition every house became a distillery and a saloon. Men and women made vodka and even served it to their children.” , The result was that there was probably more liquor in Russia than in the days before prohibition, said he. “This surely was an immoral situation,” he continued. “It was producing for Russia a rising generation of drinkers and lawbreakers. Children lost respect for the law when they saw their mothers and fathers producing liquor as they did bread.” Whatever you may think of prohibition, here is food for thought. Russia had prohibition several years before ive had it in this country. It was introduced under the Czar and enforced all the more rigidly by the almost fanatical communists afterward. Apparently the present government considers the experiment a failure. And we find high representatives of the Russian Church supporting this view. Temperance, Dr. Prolchanoff believes, is not to be brought about by law, but by gradual education. Telling people it is'a crime to indulge in liquor does not seem to have much effect on drinking. Teaching them the harmful effects of overindulgence—in other words, Christian training—the pastor holds to be the only solution. It gives us something to think about, anyway.

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You can set on answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indiannnolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical. legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research bo undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot bo answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How many policemen are there in the United States? According to the 1920 census there were 82,120. Where are the largest oil fields in the world? In California and the mid-conti-nent fields in the United States and the fields In Mexico and Russia. Is there any estimate as to the number of persons in tho United States who are always out bf work or unemployed in gainful occupations? The Russell Sage Foundation of New York -City declared after a five year survey extending into thirtyone cities in this country and Canada, that averaging good and bad years, 10 to 12 per cent of all workers —1,000,000 to (j.ooo,ooo—are

Times Radio Programs I np’IHE radio has become an integral part of I I the equipment of the modern home, just as the phonograph took its place in the home several years ago. Radio provides entertainment for the masses. It brings good music to the ears of many who seldom, if ever, have an opportunity to attend concerts or the opera. At the same time it brings its leven of lighter entertainment. The Indianapolis Times> believing that radio is very much worth while, is broadcasting popular concerts every Friday evening, beginning at 9 o’clock. The second concert was broadcast from The Times studio at the Hotel Severin Friday night. Our first was broadcast last Friday. Programs will continue weekly through the winter. We wish to take this opportunity of thanking the many listeners for their expressions of appreciation and good will. The Times will continue to endeavor to give the very best possible programs, including light entertainment features as well as the better music. We shall always try to keep these programs on a high plane. Listeners are invited to express themselves as to what they want to hear. Just drop a letter or card to the editor of The Times.

ST has been a hectic week Mayor Shank says that with 41)0,000 people in Indianapolis a policeman who shoots in a crowd ought to bo able to hit somebody. So he ordered the installation of a pistol range. Women cops as well as men will practice. We always thought women shot instinctively. But perhaps this is only when they shoot at their husbands... .D. C. Stephenson was indicted again. This time on a charge of plotting to burn his own home. It’s getting to be a habit with im. His trial next week should be a relief, not only to Steve but to the public Mrs. Clara Carl, sentenced for the mere matter of killing a couple of men, calmly walked out of the woman’s-prison. Prison authorities refer to the institution as a “home.” It seems to be easy for women to leave home... .President Coolidge took a terrible slam at the apostles of hate. The President is absolutely rightbut it is too bad lie didn’t have nerve enough to say his say about a year ago... .The world series started with the usual press agent stuff. Baseball gets more publicity than any other line of business. But then the folks seem to want it and, bless ’em, we’ll give them what they want Walter Johnson pitched a great game for an old man. Where do they get this “old” stuff, anyway? Any place else he would be referred to as a young man. He is not a lot older than young Bob LaFollette, who is the boy Senator... .The boys and girls paid their annual tribute to James Whitcomb Riley. The good poet’s life and work were a wholesome influence. He will be remembered after our fashionable neurotic writers are forgotten ... .Federal booze agents have been busy over the State. They have to show that the reorganization amounts to something. We wonder how long this burst of speed will last Col. Billy Mitehell still knows how to achieve the front page. He figuratively thumbed his nose at the naval investigating board. Now they are wondering what to do about it State incomfe tax figures show there are 42,Q00 financially eligible bachelors in Indiana. What do they mean by financially ablej All bachelors who earned more than SI,OOO last year had to pay income taxes. How many girls would marry a sl,ooo-R-£ear bachelor? Don’t all speak at once Cold weather hit us and there was a big rush for more coal and last year’s red flannel underwear. Soon automobile radiators will be filled with alcohol and a flock of 61d soaks will be walking around the streets sniffing disconsolately.

out of work all the time, and widespread unemployment is always px-esent with far reaching economic, social, psychological, and moral bearing. When was Dorothy Arnold kidnapped? December 13, 1910. What is the pay of a chief petty officer in the Navy? They receive a base pay of $126 per month, with a 10 per cent increase after the first four years of service, and a 5 per cent increase for each four years thereafter until 25 per cent is reached. The maximum pay is $157.50 per month. Acting chief petty officers receive $99.00 per month base pay. A Thought A child left to himself bringeth liis mother to shame.—l’rov. 29:15. As each one wishes his children to be, so theymm-e.—Terence.

The Passing Week

The Overcoat By Hal Cochran r—F COURSE the kidlets need Ifjj new clothes, and shoes, and I I things like that. And then the missus wants a dress and, like as not, a hat. The change from summertime to fall, with threats of frost and snow, convinces I must heed their call, and spend a heap of dough. It makes a lot of difference when there’s dullness in the air. You can’t go round with lightweight things you used for summer wear. It hurts to see the kidlets kinda shivver in the breeze. I gotta buy ’em coats and things that reach below the knees. I know the wife would gladly make last year’s apparel do, but secretly, her heart would ache, if shy on garments new. I’m gonna do the best I can, and do it with a smile. I’m gonna be a proud-like man and keep her up in style. Then, after all the family’s set, with worries on the shelf. I’ll hie up to the attic and I’ll rightly tog myself. Os winter frost and winter cold, I'really have no fear. I’ll wear (although it may look old) the coat 'I wore last year.

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Old Home Iss Not Der Same Editor Times: young [L Amen- } IfiSkS e*n pecblei bin der pabers told

us vere a young doctor bin oafer in Africa killing Riffs. Vat vood America denk ven ve gotten a vars, to had a bunch foreners came oafer here to shoot us full mit holes? Maybe id iss better ve kept dot young doctor avay und so safe der lifes us his clientels here, aber such iss not der question. Yen dey must fly ve needs em here und maybe Henry Forts giffs dem a jops. Uncle Sam shood tooken dera young fellers by der coats collars und brought dem back home. France und Spain don’t called for help alter dem BUM drowers yust butted in so dev gotten a trills. A checks shood bin made mit der young mens us today. Dey bin venting too fast. Der Brofessors for unser colleges seen id, und now a strike iss der latest curricklum in der higher educationings. Der young mens mit a automobeeles ijnd a bootlegger iss not hurting der older peebles aber vat he iss didding to der younger generations iss sure a blendy. Loaded mit a cap, a cigerettes, a swettcr und a drink or two, dey knows not der ent us der beginning. Der olt vay us raising der young feller mit milk und honey iss pass-say und ousgaspeeled und gasoline und oil half tooken dem hlaees. Der olt home iss not vat he used to bin und der logs burning in der big fire blace iss oud und iss in der fnemory written only. A ride, a dinner und a jazzes dance half subblanted der old family circle. Der pace bin gitting faster und faster und der Fadder und Mudder bin in der grant standt dum und vundering ven und vere he-vill ent. Don’t someding cood bin did? HANS lIOFFMEIER, 3622 Sout Vest St reed.

CHEMISTS TO SAVE MILLIONS BY UTILIZING OF WASTE

By David Diclz VEX Service Writer in the age of chemistry. Hut _L__J the wonders accomplished in the past decade are only a prelude to the wonders which the chemist expects to perform in the future. This is the prediction of Dr. Arthur D. Little, in charge of the Exposition of Chemical Industries held recently in New Y'ork. The exposition shows the present accomplishments of chemistry. Dr. Little, who is past president of the American Chemical Society, and famous the world over for his chemical researches, tells what the chemist hopes to accomplish in days to com®. The popular Impression of a chemist is a man in a laboratory mixing minute quantities of liquids and powders in little glass test tubes. But the chemical exposition brought home the fact that the laboratory is only the starting plac® of the chemist’s job. Changing his title to that of chemical engineer, he steps Into the manufacturing plant and deals with material in 1,000-ton lots. Exhibits at the exposition included gigantic machines of all sorts. There were, for example, gigantic mechanical mixers the size of an ordinary small room. Special types of steel, rubber products, special glass which stands excesslvo heat and strong acids, dyestuffs, much-deeded drugs, special glass for optical instruments, are only a few of the things for which the world owes thanks to the chemist, as the exposition showed. The chemist, in working for the fut ire, is conducting his research along three important lines, Dr. Little said.

Synthetic Products One is the development of simpler and less expensive methods of producing important industrial products. This in many cases means the synthetic or laboratory manufacture of a product now found in nature. The second is the development of means of utilizing to a greater extent the chemical elements which are most abundant and least expensive to obtain. The third is the utilization of waste products in industry. the first type of work. Dr. Little calls attention to the work that is being dpne by so-called catalytic processes Involving the treatment of gases at high temperature and pressure. Catalysts are very much mysteries at the present time. They are substances which while apparently playing no part in a chemical reaction nevertheless make it possible.

Making Ammonia One of the most imiwrtant catalytic processes at the present time is the manufacture of ammonia. Ammonia is a nitrogen compound. Now while such compounds are very scarce, nitrogen is very abundant, the atmosphere being fourfifth nitrogen. The difficulty is to make nitrogen enter Into cojnbination with other elements. Chemists have found, however, that if nitrogen and hydrogen are mixed under high pressure and the resulting mixture passed over a mesh of certain iron Comitounds. these compounds act as a catalyst, causing the nitrogen and hydrogen to combine to form ammonia. Dr. Little says that he expects many processes of this sort to be worked out in the future. Using Wastes “There is a thoro-going study under way at the present time looking toward the utilization of such abundant metals as calcium, beryllium and magnesium in special alloys.” Dr. Little says. “Successful completion of thii work should prove

Hans Hoffmeier Says: The Young' Man With an Auto and a , Bootlegger Hurts Himself

of the utmost value ti the industrial and business world. ' "There are the greatest possibilities ftlso in the utilization of industrial wastes. 1- or example, take cereal straw. This ought to be converted into a highly nutritious carbohydrate cattle food. "Similarly many other wastes ought to be utilized. As chemists work out means for doing this, industry and agriculture will ho saved millions of dollars.’’ —T Tom Sims Says Make a wish when you see the first star and it will come true, if you wish it hard enough. All wishes do that. , They say it took millions of years to make us what we are, and still the job is only started. Somebody robbed a loan office in

St. Louis instead of p. loan office tn St. Louis robbing somebody. Texas editor refused to pay a SSO fine. Mighty bard, but he could make it back in ten or twenty years. Even knockknees are better than none. Couldn't get your shoes off If you didn't havo any at all.

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Most foreign countries are famous for various articles, most of which are made in America. Wouldn’t it be fun if we planned for the future just as seriously as we regret the past? It takes a beautiful moon just about three seconds to prove there are no germs in kisses. If you knock at a friend’s door nnd he lets you in, then It is timo to quit your knocking. The old saying may be true, hut must birds in the hush appear to be worth more than two in the hand. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

Plays Wagner

Walter Dainrosrh kl When <Pna B. Talbot opens her orchestral series at the Murat on Monday sight, Oct. 19, Walter Dairtrosch will be seen conducting the New York Symphony through an entire Wagner program.

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW SIE National Dairy Show !><‘ns :U the Indiana State fuirground today. Twelve hun.uc.l ui the moat aristocratic cows in the country, a million dollars’ worth of dairy machinery and numerous other Interesting creatures aro Included In the features. It may seem odd that cows should bo in a dairy show, unless

to add atmosphere. There is widespread popular belief that the cow has nothing to do with the dairy business, that we get butter from cottonseed, milk from the trusty pump, and cheese from the moon. At least some cheese smells as If it had traveled long and far and aged terribly on the way. However, de-

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spite Henry Ford and others, the patient bossy is still the mainstay of the dairy business. And dairy products are indispensable of food. Some, food authorities claim the human raco cannot survive without the products of the dairy cow. But that’s excess enthusiasm. Eskimos and South Sea Islanders never saw a cow, yet survive. Nevertheless the sverngo housekeeper would find it difficult to get along without milk and Its derivatives. The yearly consumption of milk in this country is fifty-three gallons per capita. And in many European nations, notably Denmark. Holland and Switzerland, tjie per capita consumption is much greater. Gonsequontly from the standpoint of the ultimate consumer, the dairy industry is Important. And from the standpoint of many farmers a life saver. A good mannered. productive cow with her mind on her business is a fourlegged gold mine of sorts. So every one will find something of interest at the Dairy Show.

SUSPENDED FOR MISCONDUCT jHIEF RIKHOFF Thursday rebuked and suspended a—an Indianapolis policeman caught in a booze raid. The patrolman, one of five persons found in a house along with a gallon of mule and eighty-seven quarts of beer, will face charges before tho board of safety. Perhaps the officer was innocent of wrongdoing and his close proximity to a blind tiger while he was off dtlty not intentional, but purely accidental, as he claims. Still the Chief’s action was proper. An officer sworn to enforce the law must like Caesar's wife be above suspicion. There is altogether too much flouting of the law by those charged with enforcement. Not long ago a prominent Federal narcotic sleuth was found to be a drug peddler. Doubtless that was a pz-ofltable arrangement. He boosted his own private business every timo .he, in his official capacity, laid a competitor by the heels. A few weeks ago an Indianapolis policeman lost his badge and job for being intoxicated on a street car in full view of thirsty private citizens. And this week the sheriff of Brown County was arrested charged with intoxication and driving a car while under the influence of liquor. „ Police and sheriffs are, of course, only human—some of them disgustingly so—and have all human frailties. It is no more surprising that some of them kick a criminal

THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

statute into a cocked hat than that occasionally a Sunday school superintendent elopes with tho choir leader and his bank's assets. But when a policeman does collide with the law ho should be dealt with more swiftly and sternly than a private citizen in like circumstances. Only thus can law enforcement expect to gain public respect. REFORM AGAIN SLIPS DCI U S WEST, colored ! } I youth, and a friend were I I paroled from the Ohio State prison Oct. 1. They had been model prisoners and good behavior made them eligible for release under the indeterminate sentence law. They came immediately to Indianapolis. On Oct. 4 the pair successfully held up a taxicab driver. On Oct. 7 they tried to rob an Indiana Ave. pawnshop. The proprietor, instead of submitting gracefully, as holdup %dctims are supposed to do, gave battle. Asa result West Is in jail and his pal In the morgue, killed by the courageous pawnbroker. All this occurred within a week after they had been turned loose, presumably model citizens, having served two years of fifteen-year sentences. They were reformed, so the soft-hearted parole - system believed. Seldom has the theory of the indeterminate sentence more promptly and spectacularly slipped and landed on Its face than in this instance. The idea of gentle correction and persuasion instead of harsh punishment is an obsession of our modern penology. In some few instances it is successful and those released after short confinement thereafter follow paths of rectitude. They go straight, as the saying is. But usually the recipient of leniency grows nary a wing. Generally the only effect of parole is to permit the paroled to resume criminal activity sooner. There was a lot of sound sense In the old MbsaJc Idea of an eye for an eye and a. tooth for a tooth. It was cruel, but it deterred crime more effectively than the present parole system that fondly believes it can make nurse maids out of bandits by a few months’ gentle confinement. Society has tried everything else to quell the crime wave. Why not try long sentences completely served?

BACHELORS AND INCOMES SNDIANA has 42,420 bachelors wtio pay income taxes, according to Internal Revenue Bureau reports. That news ought to Interest angling marpmas with unattached daughters ready sos the market. But prolxibly the bachelors won’t be hunted more relentlessly than usual as u result of the disclosure. The average not income of the Hoosier men, whose necks are not galled by the matrimonial yoke, was only $1,780 last year. Unmarried women in the State made a better showing than that as income-tax payers. Their average net Income last year was $1,840. Os course, the bachelor Is an envied mortal. Every man sooner or later—generally too late—longs to be one. His wife won’t let him. But though the bachelor enjoys many retains his independence and remains captain of his own soul and all that sort of thinfe-, he has lost his economic preeminence. Dull, tired married men, who have listened to the voice of domestic authority until their ears ache and who reek with martyrdom, outstrip the bachelors in Income tax returns. Even Hoosier maids are their economic equals. More than anything else the income tax reports reveal that

SATURDAY, OCT. 10,1923

equality of tho sexes Is more than a figure of speech or slogan for club women. In times past about the only way a womnn could get an income was to marry it. Now she can enter any profession, trade or industry. She is economically as independent as tho lordly male.

Among the New Musical Events KRYL, noted cor--1 LJ I netlst conduct his band I——l in two concerts at Cadle Tabernacle on Saturday, Oct. 17, with a matinee and night performance. Kryl's artistic talents first found expression in the field of sculpture. It was while engaged In the modeling of a statute of General Lew Wallace, at Cmwfordsville, Ind., that )ie met John phllllp Sousa. He was persuaded by Sousa to go ' nfor a musical career and today his fame as a cornet ist nnd band leader la world, wide. During the war Mr. Kryl had charge of the training of the bonds in the various military camps of this country. * Kryl and his band have played-in all of the larger cities of the Unftd?! States. • • • ml HE Indiana College of Mi&ic and lrine Arts will present the following pupils In a recital on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 17, 2:30 p. m., in the college audltorltfjn: Helen Thomas, Barney Christensen. Jeanette Solotken, Gladys Whitfield, Rosalie Swift, Frederick Johnson, Dorothy Caudell, Irma Flutro, l-cna Lieberman, Helen Bonnell, 1 lelrn Schulmeyer, Erma Mae Steele, Marthabel Gelsler, Beatrice Stultz, Esther Shupinsky and F’Sye Berry. e The above are pupils of Mr. Wecaner, Miss Hoffman, Miss Roes, Mr. Georgieff and Miss Beauchamp, ftiiss Colvin will l>e in charge of the Te'•it:il and the public is invited.fjESfffl <i • | m| HE Indianapolis Matinee Musical® will open its season | at the Herron Art Institute by observing President’s Day on Friday afternoon, Oct. 16, beginning ■it 3 o’clock. Mme. Clara Bloomfield, Interpreter of folk songs of all nations will give ibe following program: I. Old English: ' c jHjg Tt-,- lv v of Canterbury. I- -ii I Itrnrlal. mi Oh No John. * 6 Wr.Ktslc, Tatrvle. Gypsies, Obi " IL Old French: <'orl in Marion 1 ‘ be Roi a fait battro tambour. 4 11 ent nourt ant temps. . American: I ’nimble (Cheyenne Indians). * la tliar va-an (Pawnee Indians), let i-r Go Ring Dem Bella jlfegro sniritual). Didn't it Rain! (Negro Spiritual). Slavic: l\ imistka —Russia. '.fif'd*? ei Mazdalin*! (Poland). i hm-ser .(Poland). ei old wlsznoju (Ukraine). I’iezlft maty (Uknuhe). TSS ADELAIDE of tho Irvington School of Music is offering free scholarships in voice and In piano to the one in competitive examination is declared to posses the greatest gift for t lie subject applied for. The "-liners will be entitled to free in’ion from Oct. 19, tft June 1. It is oi>en to all. The preliminary - x.iniinatlon will 'take place at 7 p. m. on Friday, Oct. If. • • • OUTIETII anniversary concert of the Indianapolis Saengerbund, assisted by the Saengerbund Symphony Orchestra, will be given at the Masonic Temple on Saturday night, Oct. 24. The chorus has forty voices and there are thirty-five musicians Ini the orchestra. Mrs. Lillian Flicklnger is the soloist and Karl Theodore Frommhe’rz Is conductor. • • • fT"| ONN WATSON, teacher of |J I violin In -the Metropolitan School of Music, and Mrs. Watson will motor to Cincinnati Sunday. Watson has enrolled In the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music for a courso of advanced study under Robert I’erutz, Polish concert violinist, who is In charge of tho artists’, course in the Cincinnati school. }Jerutz was six years a student under Carl Fleseh, teacher of violin. Watson will make a weekly trip to Cincinnati during the season.