Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 145, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1925 — Page 4

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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 NBA Service • * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Co'.. 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indianapolis • * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week * • • PHONE—MA in 3500. ,41

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 subject whatever. —Constitution of Indiana.

Is Sargent Big Enough to Say It? TIOW much courage has John Garibaldi H Sargent, present United States Attorney General? Has he courage enough to say: “The Department of Justice, of which I am now the head, has done a grievous injustice to the young Senator from Montana. Proceedings were brought against him under one of my predecessors without justitication were continued by another predecessor of mine without justification, under my own administration — without justification. I am ending this injustice. The case against Senator A\ heeler will be dropped. It should never have been begun.” It takes courage to admit you are wrong, the kind of courage that only a few politicians possess. It will be the harder for Attorney General Sargent to make this admission now that he has allowed his assistants to carry the proceeding against Wheeler as far as they have. It would have been easy for him if he had acted when he first took office. The proceedings were started maliciously by Attorney General Daugherty and were allowed to continue by Attorney General Stone during his brief administration. By the time Sargent took the office the fact that the Government had no basis for its prosecution was perfectly clear. Then is when Sargent should have acted. Instead, thus far, he has elected to close his eyes against the strange maneuvers of his assistants and has thereby lent his indorsement to a brutal . persecution that is unique in American history. Sargent can still withdraw his indorsement. That, of course, would be equal to saying his department has been wrong all the way. But, if he has not the courage to say this, then it must be said for him by the Federal court in Washington, just as it already has been said by the United States Senate and the Federal Court in Montana. Fixing Tax Rates SNEW angle on the power to fix tax rates is brought out by the opinion of Attorney General Gilliom concerning the rate for the sanitary district of Indianapolis. A rate of 5.5 cents was fixed after a public hearing and was published in the budget. Then the city council increasecl the rate to 6 cents. Gilliom said in his opinion: “It is my opinion that the tax rate fixed in a published budget operates as a limitation on the power of the common council so that it can not fix a higher rate than that published after a hearing has been had on such published rate pursuant to the notice given to taxpayers. The published rate likewise operates as a limitation on the power of your board (the tax board) to fix a rate.” Perhaps the people of Indianapolis have something to say about their own tax rates, after all. GEORGE COFFIN is to pick the Republican election inspectors. Undoubtedly they will be carefully picked. THE public service commission is now being asked to regulate traffic in the town! of Beech Grove. Is there no limit to the possibility of State regulation?

RUSSIA TO HAVE BIGGEST OF REFRACTING TELESCOPES

By David Dietz NEA Service Writer Russia is to have the largest refracting telescope in the world. This news will come as a surprise to many peoplo, especially to members of the scientific world who are familiar with the exodus of scientific workers which took place from Russia to France, England and America shortly after the Bolshevist revolution. The new Russian telescope is being built in England. The lens is to be forty-one Inches in diameter. At the present time the largest refracting telescope is at the Yerkes Observataory in this country. Its lens is forty Inches in diameter. The refracting telescope is the type which most people are familiar with. It has a small eye-piece at the end near_ the observer and a large lens at the far end. Larger telescopes of a different sort are already in existence. • * * The largest telescopes in the world are the reflecting type, 'these do not employ a lens at all but a large concave mirror instead. The mirror is placed at the lower end of the tube and the observer looks through an eye-piece which is inserted at the side of the tube. An arrangement of small prisms or mirrors enables the observer to see the image on the big mirror. The largest telescope of this type is the 100-inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory. By 100-inch, it it meant that the telescope has a mirror 100 inches in diameter. Mount Wilson also has a 60-inch rerte,ctor. The Dominion AstrophysLal Observatory of Canada has a -ofieetor. £■

Pushing Home Products mOIIN E. FREDERICK, president of the State Chamber of Commerce, at a recent meeting in Indianapolis to discuss plans for advertising Indiana to the world at large, pointed out the need of pushing sale of lloosier products in Indiana. He cited a case where Indiana firms imported a certain product from Massachusetts, while Massachusetts firms imported the identical article from an Indiana factory. Such absurdities can be cured by proper State advertising, he believes. f Such instances of sending half way across 1 the continent, and piling up freight charges, for goods that could be obtained next door are not unusual. They are typical of our interstate commerce. Indiana uses only 47 per cent of the coal produced within its borders. Yet it imports a vast tonnage from Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania and pays high freight charges. The bulk of its own coal is shipped to the Northwest, whose residents in turn pay high freight charges on their fuel. Wheat and flour are imported into the State and home-grown wheat of eqilal quality shipped out of the State. And somebody pays unnecessary freight charges. Such examples might be multiplied indefinitely in every State. ' The most useless burden of American business is our uneconomic and wasteful system of distribution of our commodities. Like Sisyphus in the old Greek fable our distribution system is forever pushing a stone up hill daytimes only to have it fall back nights. And the ultimate consumer pays the freight. Ministers Id1 RESBY TERTAN ministers are to get re--11 1 tiring allowances, after they reach the age of 65, ranging from S6OO to $2,000 a year. Which is a lot better than nothing. But if the churches are to continue their spiritual leadership, they must solve their business problem, also. That problem is to have only as many churches and ministers as are required to serve the people, and to support those churches adequately. The movement for church unions, which is timidly beginning, is based in part on the tolerance of the age. It has become absurd for likethinking persons to maintain separate churches whose grounds of difference long since ceased to exist. But it is based even more imperatively on business grounds. Preachers must eat, like other people. If a village can support one minister, or starve five, sooner or later “economic determinism” is going to teach that village toifcrance. ANOTHER illusion shattered! Leather manufacturers say that footballs are made from cowhide. What are the sports writers going to do for a synonym for “pigskin game?” WHO in blazes was it that referred to October’s bright blue weather? We call it a dull gray. WITH the world series over, the yell leader comes into his own.

Periodically announcement conies from France that plans are being made there to build a reflector with a mirror 108 Inches in diameter. But this report has been heard so many times with so little action following it, that American astronomers have become frankly suspicious of it. • * * Big telescopes are so important today because astronomy has reached a point where future discoveries can be made only with the aid of giant telescopes and expensive supplementary apparatus. Astronomers feel that the day Is past when the amateur using a little telescope can hope to make a discovery of major importance. ■ Tho group of American astonomers in California at the Mount Wilson and Mount Hamilton observatories have come to be almost a supreme court in astronomy. Thifc is because they have the finest apparatus in the world and can therefore subject new theories and discoveries to tests which cannot be duplicated elsewhere in the world. A Thought Thou hypocrite, first cast the beam out of thine own eye; and then slialt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of they brother’s eye.— Matt. 7:5. • • • There is some virtue in almost every vice except hypocrisy.—Hazlitt) Women who marry to become pets may be considered catty, but they Mw dog's life.

Tom Sims Says Dishwater will take the nicotine off a woman’3 fingers. Most of us worry so much about the cost of living we forget what It is worth. A little argument need not part friends. As long as neither side wins, ’ IMIiBSPIIIII it may result in a tives when you are IlliKjS usual crop of hard winter predictions ters are hard. It is '3 easy to find ikult, yet ■ \ Sims every one keeps looking for It. Being hard-boiled is much better than being half-baked. Those who want but little here below have it above their ears. “So long, old top,” is the proper way to address your summer hat as you put It away for the winter. Beauty is only skin deep and some are skinned trying to get it. Wouldn’t It be great if people talked as well as they do loud? Only low rents In this town are the rents in stockings. With all the good lies In the world there is no excuse for a poor excuse. (Copright, 1925, Service, jlr.c.)

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reads here, vill vent back to der/time ven a vippings nut a trees branches vas a sure ding ven you bin fount oud in der hays loft udder vood sheds reading dot book vat Jules Vernes wridden ahoud der boats vat vent der vater under and buggies und vagons mit oud dem horses. Unser parents denk der young mind vas full mit foolishes made und such a book vas der saidings us a crazy men. Vat you denk some us dem olt peebles vood said now, mit all der imbossible dings liabbeng all oafer der voorlt? Id looks like vat ve gotten now iss yust der beginning only. Efferyding iss yust like he said. Vun ding iss not yet came to pass und such iss der trip to der moon to found oud vat dey gotten up here. Vy not? Ven dem big opservatories told uns der bin two dwin suns und dey bin fifteen dousand times brighter alls der vun ve bin working under now, und dot dey bin only fifty-two quadrillions miles avay, id looks like mit a hop, skip und a jump vee cood made a visits to der moon und found oud vat kind cheese he iss ma<je us. Vat Jules predictioned ve cood seen, aber Mars, der Moon und dem two dwin suns iss too fur avay to permission der personal observatings like der automobeeles und such. Ve hope dot der dwins stay vere dey bin pecause der vun ve bin voorking under iss blendy goot enuff. Van dem mooting pictures mens co’od bring back Moses mit der Ten Commandments und show vere dey put harnesses on der Niagara Falls, maybe dey show uns how long iss fiftytwo quadrillions miles. Der moral iss, I told you bout Before vas neffer known, Don’t try to found oud too much dings Vat vasn’t us your own. HANS HOFFMEIER, 1622 Sout Vest Streed.

Many Events on Musical Menu

mWO concerts will be given today, matinee and night, by Bohumlr Kryl and his band at Cadle Tabernacle. A young lad of tremendous talent and personality climbed the ladder of fame with an ambition and perserverance combined with genuine hard work and energy which today has made him one of the great handmasters and musicians In tho musical history of the world. This lad was Bohumlr Kryl, who In his early youth attained recognition as a sculptor of no little repute and who has left his Imprint as such on the famous Soldiers Monument in Indianapolis and the church at the Convent of St. Mary’s of the Woods In Terre Haute. Ind.. and the statue of Gen. Lew Wallace. Today he Is rated as the world's greatest cornetlst and his many Victor records give true evidence of hlB great art as master of this technically difficult Instrument. When not on tour this great man devotes his time as president of a beautiful and prosperous bank in Berwyn, 111., which unfolds another phase of his accomplishments. -I- -I- -INNOUNCEMENT was mado i\J today that Rudolph Reuter, pianist, of Chicago, will conduct a master class, beginning next Monday afternoon at 4:30, In the Metropolitan School of Music. Asa teacher, Reuter has been head of the piano department of one of the largest musical colleges In Chicago, and has taught In European centers and In Japan where he hail charge of the Imperial Academy of Music in Toklo. His master class will be open to teachers and advanced students who will have opportunity to play for criticism. The class will also bp open to auditors. It w r ill be given fortnightly throughout the season. •I- I- ImO find Paul Whiteman’s counterpart In the world of poetry one thinks immediately of Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg. If ever these were three men fitting Into a cycle of progressive thought, these are the three. Walt Whitman says: “Solitary, singring in the West, I strike up for anew world.” Sandburg’s pet verse for the new American art Is: “Go to It, trombones,” and Whiteman “goes to It” at a rehearsal with "Come on, hoys, step on It.” This country is creating anew musical art. It is coming as certain as the sunrise, whether over the ramparts of the Rockies or the battlements of New York. It cannot be given a name now, as it has not yet reached the high point of its evolution. It is a sprouting art with so many shoots to it that one may not say now whether it is going to be a ragweed or a redwood. Whiteman will bring his orchestra to this city fort one concert only on Sunday evening, Nov. 22, in the Murat under the direction of the Ona B. Talbot Fine Arts Enterprises. His program will include new works by Deems Taylor. George Gershwin, Ferdie Grofe and others. •I- -I- I—TS R. AND MRS. GLENN FRIJV4 ERMOOD will entertain Sunils day afternoon. Oct. 19, 3:30 to 5:30 p. m., with a musical tea at the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. Faculty, students and friends are invited. Clarence M. Weesner, pianist and reader, Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts, will be the soloist at the tea grlven by the Ransford Chapter of the Eastern Star. Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 21, at FortySecond St and College Ave. Bomar Cramer, artist , piano teacher, Indiana College of Music and. Fine Arts, will give a full program on Sunday afternoon. Oct. 25,

Hans Hoffmeier Says: It Ought to Be Easy to Find What Kind of Cheese the Moon Is Made Os.

4 p. m. at the John Herron Art Institute. This will be open to the public. - I- -IMRS. ARTHUR G. MONNINGER, pianist, of the faculty J of the Metropolitan School of Music, will give a recital on next Wednesday for President’s day, the opening event of the Muncie Matinee Musical’s season. - -IELSTE CULLEN HUNT has been added to the violin fae- ■ ulty of the Metropolitan School of Music and will begin her classes there next week. She has been on the faculty of the Conservatory of Music of Montreal, Canada, as well as having taught privately. She has played extensively in New and other cities of this country. having toured Keith’s circuit in a concert company and as a soloist. -|. .|. -|. Several pupils of the Irvington School of Music will give a recital on Thursday night, Oct. 22, at the Irvington Masonic Temple. Miss Vittoria Montani, assisting artist, will play selections on the harp and Irish harp. Dance numbers will be given by the pupils of Miss Ruth Below. The Toll By Hal Cochran Listen here, man, are you of the clan that speeds in an automobile? How do you drive? With nerves all alive, whenever you sit at the wheel? Where Is your mind, left far behind because you’re a victim of speed? Why take a chance? Snap out of the trance. Judgment’s the thing that you need. Think it all o'er. What’s it all for? How much real time do you gain? When a man drives, endangering lives, he’s right on the verge of Insane. Automobiles, most everyone feels, are worth while, whate'er the expense. Agreeing that’s true, the thing we should do. is drive them with good common sense. The toll, up to date, is startlingly great, with recklessness mostly to blame. The thing that we need Is to cut down our speed, and drive in a way safe and sane. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Honored

Walter Damrosch The greatest audience ever assembled at the Murat for an o • chestral concert will greet Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony at the Murat Monday night when an enth-6 program of Wagner will be given. An Ona B. Talbot attraction.

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NEI,SON

ONLY THE BEST LAWS [TATE Senator Holmes of Gary. In a recent speech to t___j the Federated clubwomen oi Indiana, urged them to confine their legislatve activity to backing only the best laws—the really important measures not to women but to the public at large. The advice is sound but It has a knothole. What are the best laws? Each proposed law dumped Into a legislative hopper in believed by Its parent or

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of public affairs, and statesmen deplore multiplica-

tion of useless laws—with every legislative session our statute books become fatter, flabbier and more bedridden. Even Senator Holmes himself fathered about as many bills In the last Indiana General Assembly as any of his colleagues—few outranked him In that respect. Possibly those he introduced were vitally important they were at least numerous. And that Is the chief affliction of our statute books. Whether good, bad or Indifferent we have too many laws, we can’t sneeze without fracturing some legislative enactment. The evil won’t he remedied by lobbying only for the best laws. F*uture legislatures can make themselves famous not by the laws they pass but by the laws they kill. SHACKLED TO THE WHEEL TOYBOY SEELEY. yclept “Wild Bill,” started from nonstop auto run to New York and Miami. Fla., approximately 3,000 miles, securely shackled to his steering wheel. Without stopping for food or sleep, he expects to negotiate the distance in six days and observe all traffic regulations. Doubtless, if accomplished, it will be a noteworthy feat, and the driver’s name will be inscribed in the hall of fame and hecome a household word, like that of the fellow who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel—what was his name? Maybe such a freak driving stunt will have an important bearing on automotive development. Certainly the expenditure of so much energy ought to prove something, either the dependability of the car, the stamina of the driver, or the leniency of the foolklller. It is generally conceded that the automobile is an efficient mechanism. No demonstration is necessary to convince the average man that it is equally dependable in a tour from coast to coast as in short spurts from home to office. Yet the freak driving stunts still follow each other in rapid succession. as if the automobile was a new Invention striving desperately for public notice. A couple of high motor clu?) officials dash across the continent In four days, leaving a mangled wreckage of State speed laws behind them. - A daredevil pilot drives from Cincinnati to Indianapolis, over country roaßs, at an average speed of fifty-five miles an hour. Wild Bill undertakes to drive 3,000 miles without rest or sleep. All thrilling performances —but of what use? * There is enough freak driving

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done by ordinary amateurs, who achievs a sort of fame in the obituary columns, without professional daredevils cluttering up the highways with their stunts to the hazard of other traffic. JUDGMENT OF ~ SOLOMON SHE State board of registration for engineers and land surveyors Thursday revoked the Indiana license of Harry Weeks of the firm of Walker & Weeks, Cleveland. Ohio, architects in charge of tho Indiana War Memorial project. Misconduct in specifying patented steel lu which the firm is financially interested caused the action. F. R. Walker, the other member of the architectural firm, was exonerated and retains his license to practice in the State. Perhaps the decisions strictly accord with justice and the facts. But if one partner was guilty of unethical practice it was as much for the profit of the other partner as himself. Tn criminal law the leceiver of stolen goods stands on about the same plane as the thief. Just where does the action of the board leave the firm of Walker & Weeks? And where does it leave the War Memorial project? Onehalf of the firm can continue to supervise the construction of the memorial building, while the other half of the partnership can’t enter the State in his professional capacity. while the architectural fees go to the firm. Avery pretty puzzle for memorial trustees and the courts to unravel. Some of the board members must have read Chapter 3 of the First Book of Kings, in which Solomon adjudicated the dispute between the two women over possession of a. child. "And the king said. Divide the living child In two and give half to one and half to the other.” Perhaps that would have been equitable, though the child would have been of little use if the Judgment had been carried out. Likewise, the judgment in the cose of Walker & Weeks isn’t very beneficial to the memorial project. Instead of being clarified in consequence, the controversy is scrambled. Theatre Guild The Indianapolis Theatre Guild opened its season at the Masonic Temple Friday night by presenting “Merely Mary Ann.” The opening play was a comedy in four acts, adapted by Israel Zangwlll from the story of the same name. The play Is interesting because it was revived in London under the dlrection of the author this season. Bert F. Merling is the director of this new organization. The entire performance was marked by smoothness and showed what may be expected as the season continues. The settings were ade- 1 quate. The Harrison Trio rendered musical numbers between acts, and this feature was highly enjoyable. The cast for “Merely Mary Ann” is as follows: Lancelot (a composer) ... Bert F. Merlin* Peter (in business) James Morgan Herr lir.ihm.ion I a music publisher) Joe Ht-nnlger Rev. Samuel Smedge (a eounty vicar) Maurice Brown O’Gorman (a journalist) . .Samuel Volstead Jam Blaydes (a medical student)... _ Dona'd King Lord Valentine (of the Automobile Club! Joseph GremmcNparker Howard (a butler) Robert Arnold Mary Ann (Merely) Jean Selkirk Mrs. Leadbatter (a lodging house keener) .Mrs. James L. Kalleen Rosie (her daughter) Betty Sacrc The Sisters Trippet— Kitty Violet Herlitr. Polly Mattie Sue Stinnet Lady Chelmer (a poor peeress) _ Mrs. R. C. Fielding Caroline. Countess of Foxwell Mrs. A. R. Dewey The Hon. Mr. Fitssreorge Mrs. F. H. Winrlate Lad.v Glynn Beulah Held Lady Gladys Valentine Anita Wandell Rowena Fltnreorre Virginia Hinton Dick (a canary) By Himself The cast possessed much strength giving the whole an enjoyable effect. (Observer.)

SATURDAY, OCT. 17, 1925

Ask The Times Yon can get sn answer to nnv e-e. lion of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C.. Inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal anil marital advice cannot bo given nor can extended research be uinn i ,ak, ... All other oucstions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All lettors are confidential.—Rdltor. Is the heart In the center of the body or is it on the left side? The heart is located between the lungs, with a broad end, called the base, turned upward and backwards and rather to the right side| and a pointed end called the apex, turned downward and forward and rather to the left side so as to lie opposite the Interval between the fifth and sixth ribs. Therefore the heart, In the main, may be said to he central rather than to one side. What is the value of a United States quarter dollar dated 1876? From 26 to 30 cents. Is there such a verse In the Bible as the following: “The fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children's teeth are set on edge.” This Is found In two place in th Old Testament, Jeremiah 31:29 and Ezekiel 18:2. What are the largest ports In the United States? According to their commerce th seaports are in the order of theif rank: N(% York, Philadelphia, Sun Francisco, Norfolk and Boston. From what Is the quotation in Shakespeare which begins "that’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance” taken? The quotation Is from Act 4, Scene 5, line 176-176 in Hamlet. En> tire It reads: “That's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray, love remember; and there Is pansies, that’s forethoughts.” From what and how are bavberry candles made? They are made from the berries of the bayberry plant that grows In New England States and southwa id along the Atlantic coast. The wag forms a coating on the berries which is removed easily by placing them In water kept hot until the wax rises to the top. When cold the wax should form a solid cake that can be removed from water and dried. Suitable wicks are repeatedly dipped into the melted wax until the candles are built to the desired thickness. A simple frame of wood, from which several wicks are hung, makes tho manufacture of them simple. Between dippings the candles should be allowed to cool and the wax should be at a temperature slightly above its melting point. What is the real name and the address of the movie actress, Marjorie Daw? Her real name Is Marguerl’o House. Her home address is 6737 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. Is it true that the White House is kept white with whitewash? No. It .is painted with while paint. For how long does the copyright on a photograph run? For twenty-eight years. Tn a trolley system how Is the current returned to the power house? Where a car system Is operated with one overhead trolley wire, the current Is returned to the power house through the rails. In the underground system, and In systems with two trolley wires, no current passes through the rails to the powerhouse. Ts it. true that brightly polished objects have a special attraction for lightning? No. They have no special attraction for lighting. The idea that they do seems to arise from the fact that they reflect the light from the flash What is the present capital of Soviet Russia? Moscow. Petrograd, new Leningrad, was formerly the capital. ' What is meant by the phrase “drawing so many feet of water” when referring to a vessel? A vessel is said to draw sixty feet of water, for instance, when it sinks to a depth of sixty feet In the water, especially when loaded.