Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 151, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1925 — Page 4
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The Passing Week
ST has been demonstrated this week that Indiana citizens are readers of newspapers. Os course, no one ever doubted it, except the attorneys in the Stephenson trial. All prospective jurymen have admitted that they have read about the case and most of them, being intelligent human beings, have formed an opinion. At the present rate of speed, the boys in the Stephenson ease should be out of the trenches by the Fourth of July The first snow of the season fell this week. What has become of the much-heralded Indian sunimer? We can’t expect to stem the Florida tide with this kind of climate The week started with a tremendous demand for Beveridge for the United States Senate, but nobody except Beveridge’s press agents ever heard of the demand... .Governor Jackson appointed his good friend, Arthur R. Robinson, to succeed Sam Ralston. The Governor believes in taking care of his friends—and those of George V. Coffin The city council made a lot more charges against city officials, but nobody offered to prove anything. It strikes us that Otto Ray used fighting words and that he should be able to back them up.... Another row started in the Balkans, giving all the correspondents an opportunity to refer again to the “powder keg of Europe.’’ The League of Nations stepped in and is attempting to quiet them. If the league can keep Greeks from shooting Bulgar.s and Bulgars from shooting Greeks, it should be put to work immediately at the job of stopping Chicago gang wars Fourteen thousand school teachers visited Indianapolis and fought out their customary political battles with the usual result. That is, some of them fought out the battles. The others went shopping and to the movies. We’ll welcome ’em all back next year.
A Decision Needed IEFUSAL of the United States Supreme Court to review the case of Charlotte Anita Whitney is a severe blow to those who hope freedom of speech may become a reality in the United States instead of a mere constitutional guarantee. Miss Whitney, graduate of Wellesley, a niece of former Justice Stephen J. Field of the United States Supreme Court, a former vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, of the College Suffrage League, the California Civic League, and the State branch of Collegiate Alumnae, must go to jail in California for from one to fourteen years. She goes to jail, not because she committed any illegal act, but because she was convicted of belonging to a political party which the courts found to be illegal. Evidence showed that Miss Whitney had vigorously opposed the statement of principle which made her organization a communistic party. She took no part in the organization after it had adopted this principle. Her case raised squarely the issue of
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whether mere membership in an organization constitutes a crime. Criminal syndicalism laws in thirty-five States depend upon this assumption. A decision on this issue was important not merely because the freedom of one educated and wealthy woman was at stake; but because the freedom of hundreds of other men and women, poor and unknown, of the present and of the future, was involved.
All We Can Give Is Advice I .1 LOT of politicians in this country are |/\| making faces like our crab apples because the League of Nations is preparing to call a second arms conference. Administration followers naturally want the President to take the initiative. They realize political capital is to be made. To take the parley away from Geneva would be another back-hand slap at the league, while to bring it to Washington would make it possible to “point with pride” all the more vociferously in 1928. These people, however, do not seem to be aware that reduction of armaments is of the league’s very essence. It was written into the covenant years before the Washington conference of 1921. Which is no doubt one reason Avhy league members unanimously supported President Harding’s parley at that time. For let us not forget that the United States was the only non-member present. Today the league stands sponsor for the new security pact, hailed everywhere as the biggest step toward peace since the war. And, having long since announced it would call another conference as soon as European peace were made a little bit more secure, it is now preparing to make good its promise. True, the President some time ago let it be known that he contemplated taking just such a step himself as soon as a favorable moment was presented. In which he reminds us of the little boy who sat on the farmer’s fence looking at the apple tree. As soon as an apple fell on the ground, he said to himself, he would jump down and grab it. Presently came a favorable wind. And down came the pippins. But also came the farmer who picked them up and walked away with them in his basket,. The boy’s disappointment was natural enough; but somehow or other the farmer’s behavior was comprehensible also. Anyway, what have we to offer the other powers at such a conference? Our army is already about the size of London’s police force; our navy is well under the 5-5-3 ratio set up at the first Washington conference, and our air force seems to be virtually non-existent. Not having openers, therefore, it would seem distinctly the other fellow’s time to bid —as we did in 1921 when our navy was by way of becoming the most powerful afloat. Thus if the league calls the proposed conference, why let’s have the good grace to go, by all means, and give it the benefit of the only thing we have left to give: The influence of our presence and our very best advice.
of the North and was held by the northern forces. What is the meaning and derivation of the name Robinson? Robinson in Its English form means “son of Robert.” Robert in turn comes from the Old High German and means "bright in fame.” What makes varnished surfaces turn white? Alligatoring or turning white of varnish is due to a lack of oil and inferior grade of gum or ordinary rosin in its composition, especially when exposed to strong sunlight or moisture. What is the fastest of the wild ducks? How does its speed compare with that of the carrier pigeon? The blue-winged Teal is the fastest. The speed Is about 88 miles per hour. Tho carrier pigeon makes a speed of from 30 to 40 miles per hour. They have been known to make as much as 60 miles per hour. Says Mother By Hal Cochran I sometimes kinda wonder what they mean by sayln’ “rest." It simply doesn’t seem to he a thing with which I’m blest. My work starts in the morning, just as soon as I am dressed. I never have a moment’s peace, although I try my best. The morning meal is started, and the coffee’s put to boil. The house Is paper-littered, and it shows the need of toil. There always Is a bit of rush and scrimmage, as a rule, to feed and dress the youngsters so’s to get them off to school. I wait upon my husband, and I put his laundry out. He’s late in getting started, and he keeps me rushing ’bout. My nerves are rather ruffled bv the vacuum cleaner’s
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diaries Dornberger
At the Circle next week as a novelty attraction will be Charles Dornberger and his recording orchestra. This director has a national reputation In the music world.
hum. At noon l turn to luncheon, when I hear the kiddles come. Toward afternoon the kitchen calls. Potatoes I must peel. I work around the oven as I plan the evening meal. The children and their daddy never know a mother’s test. I sometimes kinda wonder what they mean by saying “rest.” (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Look a Liddle I f Hans vJ U CL • Hoffmeier Editor Times: jfpßSfy* Asks' JY dertime h h&M What Will von der j Happen if haff got to look fi i 'j Women a liddle oud f? Demand gedder- in a JgWJ fW' M ° re and bunch und der VJ jpfl JM More de^mens 8 nly Rights? Yen dey stard- 1 L * —' ed der vimmins ub der ladder us fame by giffing dem der rite to vote, id sure made some red hot bolitishuns under results iss dot. in many blaces der olt home iss not vat he used to vas. Look here vunce. Vy vun wimmins haff already predictioned dot soon der husbands vill der house voork did und bin der housekeeber mechanic. Vat vill all der kids did ven der luff madeings und courting und broposals iss to der females transferred? Us course such maybe vill not habben by America. She allso vants to knock unser marriage vows in a cocked hats und allso made id a impossibilities for der mens to gotten a divorces. Huh. Vy such diddings, vood made Shermans saiding aboud var a piker. I don’t know, aber I bet you dot vomman iss not married und der idee iss der befuddled brain storms us a vood bin trubble mader und she liffs oafer der ocean. Dey bin not up to date m many dings oafer dere. Vy in Afrika dey yust found oud vat iss a bath tnp und in vun of dem hi-toned resturants in Paris vas allmost a riots made ven some feller commenced eating corn on der kob. Now vat you denk? Mit such conditionings, vy vurry vedde-r you gotten der dishes to vash? I understand dey bin going to stard brohibition in Ingland und he looks now like dey bin going to let George did id. \ ell, mit millions und millions dollars spended effery year here, vere ve got blendy money, vat vill habben to der country vat stards such a death dealings blows to der slow going peoples of Europe? George knows der American Gufferment, don’t cood enforce der law, vedder he iss rite udder wrong. Ven he iss looking fur voork, he sure haff picked oud a job vick knows not der ending und ven he kept such going, he owes us more money as now. HANS HOFFMEIER, 1622 Sout Vest Streed.
A Sermon for Today
Text: "I saw anew heaven and anew earth the holy city.... coming down from God.” Rev. 21:1-2. [Tpr] HE world Is greatly indebted II 1.0 its far-seeing men like John I L I who had the vision to see In the distant future anew earth and a holy city. Glance back through the centuries and you will find that ali .he world’s great torch bearers, leaders and benefactors were such men. They were men inspired by motives drawn front a far-off future. The presence of such men In the world has kept human society bouyant and hopeful. With so much war and. carnage and death and destruction going on. with so much turmoil and strlf. with so many turbulent voices speaking different things, with clashing interests and conflicting amitions playing havoc everywhere, it would seem that this is a hopeless world. Hut thank God for a faith which refuses to accept this apparently hopeless situation, for a faith which is able to .construct out of the present disorder anew world wherein right-
Plenty of Good Music Is Planned for This City
mHE fall concert of the Mendelssohn Choir to be given at Caleb Mills Hall -Monday evening, Nov. 23, will be the most ambitious musical undertaken yet given in the history of the choir. T 1 e compositions to he presented have been judiciously selected from the most difficult choral works of the great modern composers. The personnel of the choir has been greatly strengthened this season by the addition of many new voices selected from the best musical talent and church singers of the city The choir is rehearsing weekly under the baton of Elmer Andrew Steffen. Lambert Murphy, America's great lyric tenor, will be the assisting artist of the evening. The choral program will include excerpts from grand opera and oratorio works, sacred motets and modern secular part songs. The modern romantic school will be represented by the rendition of “Tu Est Petrus," from Lizzt’s oratorio, “Christus." A real hit of grand opera will be heard the "Bell Chorus from "I Pagiiacci,” by Leonoeavallo. This will be sung in the Italian vernacular. The sacred compositions Will include Schubert’s "Omnipotence,” an eight part chorale of great majesty In which the incidental solos will be taken by Lambert Murphy. The male section of the choir will sing Pietro Yon's "Jerusalem Surge,” anew four-part sacred motet., and “The Victory Riders," by Philip James. The women’s chorus of seventyfive voices will Ring the “Avo Maria,” in Italian from Verdi opera "Othello," a four-part arrangement by Victor Harris. The closing number of the concert will he “Music's Glory," from the famous prize cantata of Henry Hadley entitled "Music's Praise. •I- -I- -I- , . T r ~~ ““I HE first students recital of the season will be given at the Metropolitan School of Music next Saturday afternoon, Oct. 31, at 3 o’clock. The public is Invited. The program will be made up of piano and violin solos, musical monologues and readings and will be given by Dolores Hoefling, Thelma Joyce, Lucy Link, Betty Martlndale Margaret Jane Hirschman, Janet Meditch, Marjorie Wise, Dorothy
By Rev. John R. Gunn
eousness shall reign and all mankind shall know the blessedness of peace and good will. In point of time we may yet lie further away from paradise restored than from paradise lost, but through the vision of faith the distant ideal comes enchantingly and hopefully near. It Is true, there are many so lacking in faith that they have never caught the glorious vision. Groveling in the dust of despair, they shake their heads doubtfully and say, “It it all too vague;" while they of a cynical spirit, protest against disturbing things as they are, saying, "What’s the uuse? If men want to do wrong and women don’t want to do right, It can’t be helped: society must have Its redeeming vices: all things are subject to compromise: we can never have a perfect social order." Hut In the presence of such pessimism the man of true faith In the great realities of divine truth is enabled to keep his eye fixed on the morning star of hope as he presses "On to the boundless waste On to the city of God.” (Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn.)
Baldwin, Clifford Emhardt, Blanche Wilson, Alfred Granneman, Martha Grace Williams, Carl Joyce, Ruth frail, Mary Elizabeth Neal, Kathryn Harrod, Mary Katherine Kerr, Robert Russell, Richard Birely. Louise Cavelage, Robert Gaston Deupree Virginia Stout, Mildred Harrell Kathryn Walker and Elizabeth Smith. These students are pupils of Laura Doerflln, Helen Sartor, Otis Pruitt, Faye Heller, Frieda Helder, Donn Watson, Lucille Wagner, Frances Beik, Leone Kinder, and Earle Howe Jones. -I- -I- -IS | UND AY afternoon activities have again commenced at the k——l John Herron Art Institute and from now until April 1 there will something every Sunday afternoon at the museum, usually at 4 o’clock unless some special announcement is made to the contrary. Many of these events will be In the nature of Sunday afternoon music and those who ha*e been attending these programs-.-On October 25, at 4 o’clock, the probrain will be given by Bomar Cramer, young pianist, who came to Indianapolis last year to join the faculty of tho Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts. Cramer was for three years the most prilllant player In the artist class of Josef Lhevinno in New York, and is one of the more efficient exponents of that technique. Cramer gave a very delightful Sunday afternoon program at the Art Institute last year and has also appeared at other places In the city, so that he needs no Introduction to the Indianapolis musical public. He Is organist and choirmaster of Christ Church on the Circle. Last spring during the week of May 10, he appeared with the Circle Orchestra in the first movement of Rubinstein’s Concerto In D minor. A Thought Charge them that are rich hi this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain Holies, but iu the living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.—l Tim. 6:17. • • • When wealthy, show thy wisdom not to wealth a servant, but to serve thee. —Sir J. Den h am
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Tom Sims Says Isn't It a pity you can’t trade in your old summer suit on anew winter suit? The man with a pile Is the man who can smile when bills come along all along. Lives of great men oft remind us that our lot is more Bubllme. Thanksgiving is more than 300 years old. Which Is how long people have eaten too much on Thanksgiving. Now and then you see a salad sitting on the table looking almost good enough to eat. Nothing's free in this world, even though you may not reallzo Just how you pay. , Cussing the weather never does any good, but we do wish winter would come during the cheap season for overcoats. Eat, drink and be merry and tomorrow you will have to go on a diet and count your calories. It seems harder to leave footprints on the sands of time In a limousine. There Is no such thing as the silent drama. Either the actors talk or the audience reads subtitles. Keeping a daughter at home Is all right, but she is liable to set a bad example for the old folks. Hugging and dancing are just as different as a couple of peas just alike. He quiet. Then you will know what others think of you. And they won’t know what you think of them. More happiness is found accidentally than on purpose. (Copyright. 1925, NEA Service. Inc.)
I " 1 NLY one of the founders will 11) be present tonight at Masonic I Temple, when a concert commemorating tha fortieth anniversary of the Indianapolis Sacngerbund will be given. Os the ten members whose names appear on the first roster of the society, but two are living today; Gottlieb Leuckhardt and Carl Ilaupt, the latter, however, too feeble to attend. Leuckhardt relates some interesting history of the early days of the society as follows; “Our organ- , lzatlon meeting whs held on S. Missouri St., In the home of John Bahl, and our rehearsals were likewise held there. We lived In different sections of the city, some quite far away from the Bahl home, but our meetings were always fully attended, rain or shine. Our director was Henry Karoh, and wo learned our songs as he played them to us on his violin, the only Instrument we could afford." “Later, as our membership in* creased tho kitchen In the homo of Bahl became too small and wo rented a small room In tho former German-American Training School on Maryland St., east of Delaware, known as the G. A. R. Hall, where w remained for several years. Later we obtained more spacious quarters and lastly rented the present hall, S. Delaware St. The society, since the early day3 of which Leuckhardt speaks, has developed into a formidable organization; forty active singers, thirtyfive trained musicians, who will participate In the concert to be given, besides hundreds of passive members. Lillian A. Flicklnger, well known in musical circles as a concert soprano, will be tho soloist; Miss Paulina Kipp at the piano. Henri Jonas Is the piano soloist and Karl Theodore Frommherz Is the conductor. On Monday evening, Oct. 26, 8:15 o’clock, a program will he given at the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts by Miss Marthabel Gelsler, pianist, pupil of Pauiine Roes, and Miss Irma Flutro Reader, pupil of Clarence M. Weesne” assisted by the boys’ quartet of Technical High School. The members of the quartet are Charles Bolte, first tenor; Thomas Rhoades, second tenor. Joseph Foy, first bass, and Paul Boots, second bass.
THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By T ALBERT
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA
TOO MANY SUBJECTS j jVANS WOOLLEN. IndianI p J apolis banker, addressing 1 *"“* I tha classical section of the Indiana Teachers’ Association, Thursday, said that tho need of the day is education to help young people to become tolerant and thoughtful rather than education for profitable employment. He believes too many subjects are Included in school curricula —and pupils get a smattering of many things instead of thorough grounding In broad fundamentals. Probably he Is right. It Is said that public school children are studying twice as many subjects as they did fifteen years ago without any increase In school hours. Unless (hey are twice as smart they can't cover each subject as thoroughly as their predecessors. Tho growing omplexity of education merely n. lecta the complexity of modern life. Human activities have become specialized. The families of the pioneers who sot led Indiana were self-contained economic units. They built their own homes, raised their own food, made their own clothes, cobbled their own shoes and gathered their own medicinal herbs. Their descendants are specialists—doctors, lawyers, corn kings and beekeepers whose health aid happiness depend on the unhampered output of other specialists. The fleM of human knowledge has undergone the same expansion and specifications. Arlstole wroto all that was known In his day of the natural sciences In a few books. Now a scientists devotes his whole life to the study of tho bee's knees or some similar specialty. The purpose of tho public schools Is to teach the children how to think, not to prepare them for specialized vocations In a specialized world. Public schools that attempt to usurp the functions of professional, business and trade schools, miss the whole point of education. STIIOY thf " MonFRN GIRL S*~ TITDY of the modem girl was recommended by E. H. ■J Llndley, quondam Iloosier, now president of Kansas University, in an address before a section of the Indiana State Teachers' Association. She Is far different from the girl of a quarter of a century ago, he said, largely because of the rapid changes In environment, together with most unusual progress In methods of living. Such urging is unnecessary. The modern girl will be studied just as Intensively as were her sisters in bygone years clear back to Eve. Every man between the ages of 10 and 100 devotes considerable attention to the study of girls. And the only solid fact the average man has gleaned from this unremitting study is that all girls are alike only different. That’s what makes the study of individual specimens so fascinating and devastatlng. Just now there is a common notion that the girls of today are strange, new creatures, In no way related to their mothers or grandmothers. They are wild, bold, free and not ladylike, it is charged. They nre naked, painted daubs that will wreck the race in another generation, assert the stodgy pessimists who love to hug dyspepsia to their twsoms. A lot of the discussion about the modern girl and whither she la going Is piffle. Physically she is an improvement over the swooning, mid-Vic-toria heroines. She frankly admits she has limbs and doesn't roll around on casters. She runs more to biceps and lungs than to simpers and tear ducts. She la stronger and healthier, with a broader intellectual outlook, than any girls who have preceded
SATURDAY, OCT. 24, 1925
By GAYLORD NELSON
her. She has whatever qualities of head and heart her mother had. Why view her with alarm? She is quite essential to the future of the race. TRAFFIC SIGNALS THAT DON’T GO S WO automobiles crashed at the intersection of Meridian and Michigan Sts. Thursday. One was traveling north and the other east. Both drivers declared that at the time the automatic traillc signal at the Intersection gave them the right-of-way. The signal was out of order, showing "go" on all four sides. Several times during the past week—once during the evening rush hour —all the automatic cops on Meridian St. from Ohio to St. Clair have ceased to function and havo stalled on "change." Other automatic signals throughout the city also occasionally suffer similar mental lapses. The automatic signals greatly simplify the regulation of traffic. In general they are efficient, and they release llesh-and-blood policemen for more important duties, such as leading parades and playing in the band. But the automatics are not Infallible. There Is nothing more dangerous to traffic than automatic stop-and-go signals that don't go. They lull drivers to a feeling o." security that doesn’t exist. It Is too much to hope that automatic signals will be perfected that will never get out of order. Such Is no more likely than that all human traffic cops will become soft-voiced angels. The motorist’s only absolute as surance of safety at an Intersection guarded by either human or mechanical cops Is his own alertness and prudence. BARRING OUTFOREIGNERS mAMES P. GOODRICH, former Indiana Governor, who has spent some months In Russia, is bringing back to his Hoosier home a 22-year-old Russian countess to whom he and Mrs. Goodrich have become attached. He had difficulty In persuading tho State Department to admit tho young lady to this land of the free, etc. That’s characteristic of the State Department. It shudders whenever a foreign visitor who has been in proximity to bolshevism or radicalism approaches our shores. Last year It wouldn't admit Count Karolyl, Hungarian revolutionist, until ho promised not to make a speech while here. In Montreal he made the speech our State Department so much feared. The speech was less radical than the Ten Commandments and no more inflammatory than a howl of bread and mlik. Then a month ago the timid spinsters in the State Department refused to let Sakiatvala, a member of the British parliament, visit this country because he 1b a professed communist. The British Empire has withstood without blinking the fulminatlons of this Hindu radical, hut apparently our public guardians think America is of softer iiber and more easily led into a red wilderness. Now the State Department has just denied Countess Karolyl permission to enter the United Statue ns the guest of a prominent Penn* ■ylvi.nla citizen. She holds revolutionary views similar to her husband and might air them while here. Restriction of Immigration is proper. The melting pot melts too slowly to let all aliens who would swarm In. But barring out a few conspicuous foreign visitors because of their political views is silly. If such visitors by their speeches can make 110.000,000 poo pie see red and blow American institutions to pieces, the United States had better hide under the bed—lt’s too weak and fragile to face the world.