Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 142, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 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 Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St., Inolanapollu • * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—M Ain S&'O. /
No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subjeot whatever. —Constitution of Indiana. ...
Sifting the Sense From the Nonsense ppIHE President’s aircraft inquiry is getting I along fine. A Plenty of witnesses and just as many Opinions on how to run the national defense. What one says the next one denies. But don’t be discouraged. All this is per* fectly natural. Ask 100 railway men how to run a railroad, or 100 women how to bake a cake, and you will get, in either case, just about 100 different answers. The fundamentals of railroading or cakebaking, however, are well known, bo are the fundamentals of national defense. Thus when it-comes to listening to the various schemes for practicing any of these arts, plain common sense must rule. A few years ago, with the gyroscope, a man came forward with a mono-rail railway which, it was claimed, would completely revolutionize railroading and reduce transportation costs to a minimum. But our hard-headed ■railway magnates did not scrap their two-rail -lines because of the discovery. Common sense told them to wait until the one-rale idea had become dependable before they threw away something already proved. Similarly you would not use all flour to make a cake. Nor all eggs. Nor all sugar. Tou might try a now combination of these and other ingredients, using more of some than of Others, but you would stick to the generally Accepted idea, at least, of cake baking. We must stick to the fundamentals of nationdl defense in just the same way. Today we are hearing a lot about floating navies being obsolete. Some so-called experts are advocating scrapping ours, despite the fact that not one great power on earth has done anything of the kind with theirs, nor have we heard of any such country contemplating such a move. U The President’s special air board seems to have plenty of common sense. They are going to need it before they are through sifting the Sense from the nonsense. t z Still and all there is really nothing diffi- • cult about determining the kind of national defense we need. It must, of course, be well balanced and capable of functioning on land or sea, or in the air or under the water anywhere at any time regardless of wind or weather. Which means that we need aircraft and plenty of the best, a bang-up army capable of rapid expansion and a navy of the kind approved by the best minds of the most powerful seafaring nations the world over. EVIDENTLY Houdini, who is exposing fake spiritualists, believes with the poet that things are not what they seem. '* * * GO TO the dairy show and learn something about the history of milk before it appears in the front steps in bottles. # # * . WHAT are they going to do when they have questioned all the eligible citizens of Hamilton County in attempting to obtain a Jury to try Stephenson? # * * JACKSON Expects Tax Reduction Next Year—Headline. They also say that there is a pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow.
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Raising Babies By Book Q OLOMON was a failure as a parent. He spanked his kids and laid down the rule for future fathers: “Spare the rod and spoil the child.’’ But Mrs. Sidonie Mastner Gruenberg, of the Child Study Association, spanking a child is “confessing your failure as a parent.” Mrs. Gruenberg makes allowance for Solomon, however. He had so many wives and so many kids around the place that it “would be too much to expect such a father to use persuasion instead of the rod.” Solomon, Mrs. Gruenberg thinks, didn’t know the names of half his children and possibly didn’t know which were his and which were the neighbors. If Solomon, Jr., broke some of the royal dishes, he shouldn’t have been spanked, Mrs. Gruenberg argues. He should have been supplied with something he could break. Doubtless Mrs. Gruenberg and the other modem parents are right. But there are mighty darn few of the present generation who haven’t been turned upside down and soundly warmed—and it didn’t seem to hurt them very much. At least it didn’t hurt them so much that it has become necessary to carry on a national propaganda and have a national conference to end speaking. Selfishness mT is heartening to observe that the American Federation of Labor is keeping the eradication of child labor at the top of the list of things it is seeking to accomplish. Organized labor has a selfish reason for fighting the system that exploits children—but it is enlightened selfishness. Organized labor naturally does not desire to compete with the children of the poor. It knows the effect of such competition on wages. But it is only asking, on its own behalf, for the privileges of doing this work for the children, the privilege of supporting its own children, of saving for them the playtime of life and of giving them an education that will help them to make the most of their adult years. That may be selfishness, but it is the kind that is needed in this peculi* arly mercenary moment in ohr national history. Mussolini mHE daring Mussolini has cast to the winds another cardinal principal of democratic government. Local councils in all towns under 5,000 will be replaced with a commissioner appointed by royal decree—which in Italy means Mussolini’s decree. Mussolini’s aim seems to be build up a strong centralized government, which will supervise even the police powers in the smaller towns. Early in the history of this republic, Thomas Jefferson fought with all his power against such an idea. Later history has proved that in general he was right. It is doubtful is Mussolini can yet prove Jefferson was wrong. IF YOU are looking for a thrill get yourself kidnaped by a bandit.
tional field of the earth. The present efforts, however, are merely to perfect a small rocket which may be uTred to explore the upuer atmosphere of the earth and it will be many years probably before any effort is made to construct a rocket capable -of being shot outside the gravitational field of the earth and into the moon. Professor Goddard has never had any idea of this rocket carrying a man, but a number of adventurous persons have written him from time to time offering to ride in the rocket, if and when it is constructed. Is there anything that can be put in plaster of paris to keep It from setting too fast? Try adding a small amount of glue to the water used in mixing the plaster of Paris. A few trial mixes may have to- be made to determine just what proportion of glue and water are best suited for the purpose for which it is to be used. What cities have been used as the capital of th< United tates? Before the Constitution made provision for a capital, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lancaster, York, Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton and New York were meeting places of Congress. In ITS3 a site was selected noar falls of the Delaware, but the plan was not carried out. Washington became the capital m 1800. Did Lao-tze, the famous Chinese sage live about the same time as Confucius and were they friends? Lao-tze was contemporary with Confucius: both flourished about 350 B. C. Confucius is said to have* visited Lao-tze about 517 B. C. ant’ learned from him a lesson of humility. Little is know of the life of Lao-tze that is absolutely trustworthy.
Tom Sims Says You needn’t blow up just because your auto tire does. The opinions
of those with you are much harder to change. Some people marry for better or worse while others marry so they can get some sleep. Winter is coming. Don’t buy a car that’s hard to start unless you live on top of a hill. You can always get a few more
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miles out of last winter’s clothes. Don’t be impolite, but wait for some people to finish what they are saying and you will die of old age. Be honest with your wife and it follows as the day follows the night that you can’t be so awfully terrible. It Isn’t hard to make a boy go to bed. Just tell him to study his lessons. Ev*n if a loaded truck hasn’t the right of way never knock it o ft the road with a light car. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) A Thought I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them.—Hob. 10:16, * * * Arms and laws do not flourish together.—Caesar.
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TAKES EGG FROM SHELL TO WATCH IT HATCHING
By David Dietz NEA Service Writer f lOLOGISTS look forward to 113 I a P rocess developed at the I- I University of Leyden, Holland, to throw much light upon our knowledge of the growth of living creatures. For the first time In history, the development of an embryo of a warm blooded animal can be watched and studied continuously. Dr. J. P. M. Vogellar and Dr. J. B. Van den Boogert of the University of Leyden have worked out a method by which the shell can be removed from the egg of a chicken and the egg kept developing in an incubator. Up until the present, biologists have been forced to place a large number of eggs In an incubator and then open them one at a timo at intervals. While this enabled the biologist to obtain embryos at all stages of development, it made it impossible to compare different stages in the same ! embryo. This new method makes such a comparison possible. • • * M r ”““ ETHODS for detecting school children who are emotionally unstable and for giving special training to such children, are among the greatest needs of our school systems today, according to
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
COST OF SCHOOLS TANARUS" ■ J ARION County school, outside the city of Indianapolis, cost the taxpayers $1,059,813.51 last year—according to the State department of public
instruction. On the basis of at-' tendance that figures out an annual cost of $162.62 per pupil. For the saint year the expenditures of the Indianapolis city school system only amounted to a p p roximately $l2O per pupil, and even in 1926. with a much fattened school tax that was subjected to intensive scrutiny and pruning, the per
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pupil cost of the schools will only be about $l4O. Apparently .he public schools of the city are not conducted with unnecessary extravagance. Throughout the State the average cost per pupil of maintaining city school systems is less than the average cost per pupil In the rural schools. Perhaps the rural children get more and better education for the money expended on them than their city contemporaries. However that is open to question. A lot of the alleged superiority of the little red schoolhouse and its lineal descendant over the more elaborate city schoool plants is mostly sentiment mellowed by years. Basketball and football scores reveal no such superiority. Probably now country and city children enjoy about the * same educational advantages, yet each city child has less spent on his education. There is something for the Indianapolis citizen to remember when he shies and tears off across lots at sight of high and higher school levies.
KINDLING KITCHEN FIRES . .. HTTIRS. OTTO MARTIN oi Bed|yj ford, Ind., and her 4-year-L. old son were burned to death Monday morning, when she tried to kindle the kitchen fire with kerosene. The oil can exploded. Her husband is in the hospital in a critical condition and the house went up in smoke. A couple of days before a Gary ■woman attempted to coax a recalcitrant blaze in her cook-stove with gasoline. She succeeded, only she .was propelled hence completely and suddenly leaving a husband and five small children to mourn. The domestic oil can cut a couple of jnore notches in its handle and a waite leather foolhardy victim. Kindling fires in obdurate cookstoves while time flies and matutinal hunger gnaws in the bosom of the family is a nerve-rackiiig task. Sodden wood and crackling temper do not form a sufficiently combustible combination to fry bacon. Something is needed to expedite matters. So the ready oil can becomes the handmaid of harassed housewives. And domestic explosions and cremations multiply. Familiarity with the battered can leads the users to take unwarranted liberties with It. Kerosene and all petroleum products are not only combustible but as explosive as dynamite, ar.d more unreliable. They may placidly start a cheerful blaze or if used incautiously may erupt like an untamed volcano and blow a neighborhood to splinters. Yet morning after morning they are used in many households to start fires. As long as the oil can is thus used there is the everpresent possibility that some morning tle kitchen fire will be kindled with the whole family tree. NO PLACE FOR BEGGARS I - 7~ - IEGGARS and panhandlers RI will find Indianapolis inU I hospitable If the police can make it so. Street mendicants have become so numerous as to be a public nuisance, asserts Chief RikhofT, and he had ordered a police drive against them. Perhaptßlndianapolis tffis no mpr@ professional wheedlers of
Professor Cyril Burt, British psychologist and educational expert. Dr. Burt says that about one-tenth of all school children are emotionally unstable and that 1 per cent are so extremely unstable as to constitute potentlonal menaces to themselves and society. Every person, to some extent, says Dr. Burt, has within him the potentialities of criminals. It is only habits formed through education that keep these in check, says Dr. Burt. • • • | § LTRA-VIOLET ray, obtained | Tj from sunlight and from ultraL I violet lamps, are now well known as a treatment for rickets. Recent work by Dr. G. Murray Levick, British physician, seems to indicate that it may also prove the best method of treating infantile paralysis. Dr. Levick says he has found the best treatment consisted of a combination of both ultra-violet and Infra-red says. Both types are contained In sunlight, the infra-red rays being longer than the waves of visible light and the ultra-violet rays shorter. Dr. Levick has been using a special arc lamp of hls own construction. He says that he can better regulate treatment with this lamp than when he depends upon the sun for the rays used In the treatment.
compassionate dimes working its streets than any city of similar size. But it has enough, and can get along nicely If the crop is thinned'out. Shooing them away, though, will be difficult. A month or more ago the Council of Social Agencies invited street beggars, crippled vendors of shoestrings and lead pencils and blind musicians who work the downtown streets to apply to the Family Welfare Society for help. The response to this offering of help was trifling. Neither organized charities nor police can dissuade professional mendicants from plying their trade It’s too profitable. Many Indianapolis beggars make as much as $25 a day. It is said. The benevolent individual who drops a few pennies in a blind man's cup, buys a useless lead pencil from a vendor with well displayed physical shortcomings, feels a warm glow of satisfaction for his virtuous deed. But he merely encourages beggary instead of relieving grim want. ' Beggars and panhandlers can be run out of town. However, to do the job the public must cooperate with the police. Cold looks instead of coins bestowed on street mendicants will quickly drive them hencce. Tn any event they won’t starve. Well-financed welfare organizations are at hand to handle adequately cases of actual need. CRITICISM OF~ NAVY IRE DERICK TESCHEMACHER. whose twin sons ■ i went down with the submarine S-51, has returned to Indianapolis after a heart-breaking vigil at the scene of the disaster. He has only high praise for the unsuccessful attempts by naval authorities to rescue the victims of the sunken craft. “I have no criticism of the Navy.” he.said. ‘Tn this disaster, as in others, the Navy has been handicapped. One has only to be in close touch with the Navy—as we have been—to realize that the officers and men did their best with the rescue facilities.” No criticism, though the Navy took hls two sons and drowned them—unavoidably or negligently —like rats In a trap. Some of our loudest amateur denouncers of alleged mismanagement of the sea arm of our national defense might profit by his example. Panning the Navy has been a widespread pastime since the Shenandoah horror, the attempted Hawaii flight, and the S-61 tragedy. To a plain citizen, whose only acquaintance with the sea is through opening a can of salmon, it would seem that all Is not well with the Navy Department. A single disaster may be an act of God. But a succession of disasters point to incompetence'' and mismanagement. And the United States Navy has lost more ships and men In the past four years of peace than In the World War. That record is disturbing. If it is the result of land-lubberly direction of naval affairs or incipient demoralization of Navy personnel the situation should be remedied. The problem, though, is distinctly up to the Administration and the experts qualified by experience and knowledge of naval affairs. Editorial thunderbolts forged a thousand miles inland and loose criticism by citizens who have never even paddled a canoe are valueless.
Careless By Hall Cochran Whatever you’re doing: whate’er you’re about, you’ll find that it pays you to always look out. To sluff through the things that you tackle each day is Wrong, though of course, it’s the easiest way. The little word, careless, means more than you think. To hardfelt disaster it’s often the link. You pay pretty dearly to things that are wrong. And things go that way when you blunder along. There ne’er was a man who could really find fun in calling tasks finished when only half done. And e’en though your carelessness rides without blame, the fact that you sluff’s on your mind, just the same. You may get away with it day after day, but add it all up and you'll find it won’t pay. A check on yourself, by yourself, should be kep’. Shun carelessness always! Keep watching your step. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
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They Are All Crying for the Old Time Tunes and Here Are Some Recorded Ones
By Walter D. Hickman mHE Charleston may be a mad rage these days and it is argued by those who know that being “crazy” will not hinder one doing this dance. But the wiggly stuff comes and goes, but the good old-fashioned tunes seem to go on forever. Give us a list of old-fashioned tunes on tho phonograph. I have received from Okeh anew list of October releases of such old tunes. Am going to give you this list in full because you have asked it. Even on the radio Times listeners have requested the old-time tunes from the Victor Herbert Ensemble. So h'ere is the Okeh list of oldtime tunes as follows: “Lira Jane." "The Story by the Moonlight." Both selections suns: with harmonica and ruitar accompaniment by Henry Winner. "I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again.” “Tlie Butcher Boy.” Both selections sune with harmonica and guitar accompaniment by Henry Whitter. “Single Life” (Roba Stanley). Sung by Roba Stanley, with harmonica and guitar accompaniment by Henry Whitter. "Little Frankie." Harmonica-guitar duet by Roba Stan-ley-Btll Patterson. Singing chorus by Roba Stanley. “A Dream of Home” (Rev. T. J. fiwanzev). "The Little Newsboy" I Andrew Jenkins) . Both selections sun* with guitar by Blind ‘ Andy.'' “Little Mary Phagan” (Rosa Lee Carson). Singing with guitar. Rosa Leo Carson. Frank Du Free” (Andrew Jenkins). ••T^WerTfc Bllnd “ A,ldy ” "The Lone Child.” r fiddling accompaniment by Fiddlin' John Carßon. Both selections sung with guitar accompaniment by Rosa Lee Car;S?nw Al°nr Home With Lindy.” To Welcome tU© Traveler® Homo.”
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Both selections sung and fiddled by Fiddlin’ John Carson, with guitar accompaminent by Rosa Leo Carson. "The Boston Burglar." “Sally Ann." . .... . . Both selections sung and fiddled by Fiddlin’ John Carson, with guitar accompaniment by Rosa Lee Carson. "Bully of the Town” (John Carson). Instrumental. . . _ "Tho Hawk and the Buzzard’ (John Carson). Instrumental. ~ _ , Both selections by Fiddlln John Carson and his Virginia Heelers. "Silver Bell." Fox trot. "Sweet Bunch of Daisies." Waltz. Both selections by McMichen’a Home Town Band. "She Doodlo Dooed” (C. A. Bouchlllon). Instrumental. _ Singing chorus by Chris Bouchlllon. The Bouchillon Trio. "K. C. Railroad" (George Walbura). Instrumental, „ . George W alburn-Emmett Hethcor. "Ida Rear "Little Birdie.” Both selections sung with banjo accompaniment by Land Noms. "Dogwood Mountain." “Red Creek." , , . , ) Both selections sung with banjo accompaniment by Land Norris. “Dixie Parody." “Uncle Sam and (he Raiser.” Both selections sung with autoharp and harmonica accompaniment by Ernest V. Stoneman. “Blue Ridge Mountain Blues.’ Autoharp accompaniment. "All I've Got’s Gone." Autoharp and harmonica accompaniment Both selections sung by F.me*t V. Stoneman. , . „ "There's a Mother Always Waiting You at Home Sweet Home.” “Little Joe '' Both selections sunr with guitar accompaniment by Charles Nabell. “The Fate of the Shenandoah “The Picture Turned to the Wall.” Both selections sung with guitar and fiddle accompaniment nv Tobe Little. ‘The Rescue of the PN-ft." ‘The Wreck of the Shenandoah." Both selections sung with guitar and fiddle accompaniment bv Tobe Little. "Fate of Santa Barbara." “Sherman Valley. Both selections sung with banjo and fiddle accompaniment by Baacom Lunar Lunsford-Blackwell Lunsford. “The Wreck on the Southern Old 7 " "Blue Eyed Ella." Harmonica and guitar accompaniment by Henry Whitter. Both selections sung by Kelly Harrell.
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Some of the titles may seem modern but the tunes and method of presentation la strictly old-fash-ioned. Some Real Playing: Those who go In for operatlo orchestral music will be delighted with the Metropolitan Opera House orchestra ploying “ Cavallerla Rusticana,” as an Intermezzo, and aa a prelude on a Brunswick record. Gennaro Papl Is tho conductor of thla orchestra. There la much tonal beauty both In recording and In the orchestra Itself In this record. This record la a gem and belongs In every home that boasts of having a real recorded library. Have been unable to hear Virginia Rea sing “Coq D’Or" and “Romeo and Juliet,” Jullet'a Waits Song, on a Brunswick. Knowing the quality of this woman’s wort on the Brunswick and the beauty of "Coq D’Or," “Hymn to the Sun,” I am sure that we have a treat wailing for us. On View Today Indianapolis theaters today off#: Mrs. Fiske in “Tho Rivals" at English's: Sylvia Clark at Keith’s; "In Hawaii” at the Palace; burlesque at tho Broadway; Houdini at the Murasf; "Classified” at the Circle: “TQo Coast of Folly” at the Apolkn “Zander The Great” at the Ohio. "The Iron Horse” at the Colonial and “Ridtn’ The Wind” at the Isis. "The Show-Off.” a comedy success, will open a three-day engagement at English’s on Thursday night.
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