Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 159, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 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 Scrippa-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„ Indianapolis • * • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

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.

Now for a City Manager mOHN L. DUVALL has been elected mayor of Indianapolis. With him has been elected a city council that represents his own political group. This group also apparently controls a majority of the school board. Control of the State, county and city has been unified under one political organization. Command of the whole situation has been placed in the hands of Boss Coffin. There may be an effort now that he has served his purpose in engineering a successful election, to shake Coffin loose, but, as we have said repeatedly, Duvall, if he succeeds in doing this, will have accomplished more than any other mayor has succeeded in accomplishing. The result was not unexpected. The only surprising element is the size of Duvall’s plurality. If the election had been held a month ago his plurality doubtless would have been overwhelming. As it was, his margin was safe. As between the two candidates, the public chose Duvall. A post mortem is unnecessary. The result of the election will make little difference to the vast majority of citizens. It means a perpetuation of political control, just as the election of Myers would have meant the perpetuation of political control. Duvall will appoint his political friends to office, just as Myers would have appointed his political friends. The system demands it. There can be no alternative. Ability and qualifications will have little to do with the personnel of the npxt city administration. The outcome of the election has no bearing whatever on this situation. The result is inevitable. We sincerely hope that John L. Duvall will be the last mayor Indianapolis will ever have. The fact that only a comparatively few of the electorate cast their ballots is an indication of the disgust which the community feels toward all political organizations in city affairs, whether they be labeled Democratic or Republican. The people of Indianapolis want the business of Indianapolis conducted on a business basis It can not be so conducted under the present system. The only solution is to change the system. The system will be changed eventually. That is as certain as the rising of the sun tomorrow morning. Indianapolis will join the long list (if progressive cities to adopt the sensible and business-like city manager form of government. The list of cities adopting this form is growing larger daily. It rapidly is becoming the accepted American form of city government. Our neighboring Tuesday held its first election under a city manager charter. The city manager system calls for the election of a board of directors, or council, which will have charge of the appointment of a business man as manager of the affairs of the city. This business manager will not be responsible to parties or to bosses. He will not be influenced by every political breeze that blows. There is every indication that the voters of Indianapolis will be given an opportunity before many months of choosing between the business system of government and the political system. There is and should be little doubt of the outcome. Meanwhile, in the interest of Indianapolis, we sincerely hope for the success of the Duvall administration, so far as any political administration can be successful. The voters could choose only between two politicians to head their city government. They have chosen.

Did You Vote? I iID you vote yesterday, or were you dis\U I franchised by some pollbook holder, who insisted you had not been registered? There is no way of telling how many Indianapolis voters were unable to exercise their l ights as citizens Tuesday, because of the joke registration law under which we were forced to operate. Many of them complained to the election board and spent hours trying to obtain the right to vote. Many more who had jobs to look after did not vote. Under the law the voter was supposed to be registered if he voted in the primary. If he did not vote in the primary he had the privilege of laying off half a day and going down

to the city clerk’s office and registering, or of giving his registration to to some political heeler with the hope that it would be recorded. But even if a voter did cast his ballot in the primary he had no way of knowing whether he would be permitted to vote. One citizen, for instance, who lives in the ThirtyNinth precinct of the Fourth ward, went to the voting place at 6:10 a. m., serenely thinking that he had the right to cast his ballot as an American citizen. He had voted in the primary and he naturally supposed he would be permitted to vote in the election. But he was wrong. He was told upon his arrival at the voting place that he was not registered, that he had not voted in the primary and that he had no right to vote. He was told these things repeatedly and forcibly. This particular citizen is willing to make as many affidavits as necessary to the effect that he did vote in the primary in that particular precinct and that he had been voting in that precinct for six years. This is just one instance of many similar occurences all over the city, Tuesday. The constitution of Indiana gives citizens of Indiana the right to vote, and a joke registration law or the carelessness of election officials, or both, deprive them of this right.

Illogical Kellogg ; Y t]E very much fear our self-designated St. W Peter-of-the-Gate, Secretary Kellogg, is a bit weak in his logic. He bars all the unsuccessful revolutionists and lets in those who are there with the punch. Just a bit ago he threw a duck-fit when an obscure and would-be revolutionist known as Shapurji Saklatvala, a British member of Parliament, wanted to visit Washington. Shapurji was stopped before he got started. ' Yet a group of militant revolutionists, men who believe in the overthrow of government by violence and who have participated in such an overthrow, is right now being welcomed and entertained by Secretary Kellogg, and other high officials, in the grand style. We refer to Count Guiseppe di Volpi Misurata, Italian Minister of Finance, and his debtfunding delegation. (And just to keep the records straight let us hasten to add that this paper joins in the welcome to the distinguished Italian and his fellow countrymen. May their stay among us be most pleasant and profitable, to us and to them.) But let’s have a look at whom, and what, they represent. The Italian delegation represents the government of Benito Mussolini, who made himself dictator in Italy as a result of a revolution. At least one high official has since been murdered because he opposed these revolutionists, and another-, a former premier of Italy, was mobbed because he made a speech against the Mussolini creed. The press of the country has been muzzled and some of the newspapers have been wrecked—sabotaged—for publishing their opinions. “There is no such thing as liberty,” Mussolini recently declared boldly in a speech while dedicating a commemorative tablet to himself on the house where he was born. “Where liberals call out for liberty,” said he, “they display ignorance of the rudiments of the mechanism of government. Julius Caesar is my ideal, my master, the greatest man who ever lived.” Violence is all right, Mussolini told the trade unionists of Italy, providing it is to uphold Fascism. And it “should be timely and chivalrous. But when the revolutionary party holds the reins of government, then violence should be exclusively in behalf of the State. Private, individual and sporadic violence is harmful to Fascism.” Had King Victor Emmanuel been strong enough to put down the Mussolini revolution and were Mussolini today advocating such violence from soap boxes on the street corners of Rome, would he or his followers be allowed to pass Ellis Island? Hardly. Would he be allowed to pass now? He would. Is his theory of suppression of all liberty and is his advocacy of violence and sabotage any the less dangerous because he succeeded instead of failed? They are not. They are, of course, far more dangerous ; he has proved they will work—providing, of course, you hit hard enough and use enough violence. All of which shows the utter absurdity of St. Peter Kellogg’s formula of letting in the successful Evolutionists and barring the failures. In fact it shows the absurdity of barring any alien visitors—we are not discussing immigration now—whoever or whatever they may be.

A Sermon for Today

Text: “I will walk in thy truth.” —Ps. 86. 11. mO walk in the truth is to obey the law of truth. Obeying the law of truth, man has all those fine qualities of character which count for strength and durability. One is strong and endures only as he lives Ifi obedience to truth. This \yas the great principle discovered by Ruskin in his study of architecture. He visited St. Mark’s Cathdral in Venice. As he looked upon that magnificent structure he was so Impressed that he lingered there to study the laws by which It was constructed with such enduring strength and perfection. In this volume he sets forth seven laws as essential in building. Among these he sets forth the law of truth as the most essential and fundamental. During his stay in Italy Ruskin found that some of the old cathedrals were still standing In all the strength and beauty of their former days, while others had fallen away until they were only shells of thir former loveliness. "Why this difference? What had wrought such ruin upon some of these temples, while others remained untouched by any destroying hand? It has not been done by vassals nor by fire. It was

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON.

BEGGARS ON WHEELS E r ~ 1 VERY day or two Indianapolis Salvation Army headL___| quarters Is visited by an automobile tramp begging food or gasoline to carry him on his way to Florida, California or other distant paradises. The beggar on wheels has become a nuisance here or elsewhere. The old-fashioned hobo, with his soul full of cinders and his ear full of right of way, who used to ride the rods of ambling freight trains has disappeared. The automobile age got him. Now the ne’er-do-wells, who have the itch to travel, rescue fragments of flivvers from junk yards and city dumps tie them together with string and wire, load in wives and children and are off north, east, south or west. They beg food and gas as they go. infest free tourist camps, and generally live off the country. It’s a carefree life but It is souring the dispositions of legitimate motor tourists and hospitable communities. Already such tramps so swarm along the Pacific Coast that the cities are taking concerted action to run ’em out of the country. A tramp is a tramp whether rattling from town to town in a boxcar or a decrepit flivver. The only way to curb him is callous indifference to his pleas. The bandits and beggars on wheels that clutter up Indiana highways have about destroyed the generous camaradertt> of the open road. Motorists now step on the gas when passing a stalled machine instead of stopping and offering help.

PARDON BOARD DOCKET r-T -|XH HUNDRED AND FOR|fj| TY-EIGHT prisoners in InI diana penal and corrective institutions have filed petitions for clemency with the State board of pardons for consideration this month. This Is one of the largest dockets In the history of the pardon board. Apparently there is an almost unanimous desire on the part of incarcerated law-breakers to regain their liberty. The average minimum sentence of the petition—ers is three years and eight months. The average time they have served before pleading for release is one year and three months. Os course, the hard-hearted board will not act favorably on all these applications. But why shouldn’t the poor dears behind the bars expect release after serving half of their sentences? An ex-mayor of Gary was paroled from s he Federal penitentiary at Atlanta the other day after serving less than half of an eighteen months’ sentence for conspiracy. A Terre Haute banker who only embezzled SBO,OO0 —was freed from a Federal penitentiary recently after less chan a year’s time on a five-year sentence. If clemency Is justified in such cases, It is equally Justified in most of the cases now pending before the State pardon board. The ordinary garden variety of thug and bandit is no more menacing to society than a law-break-ing mayor or a defaulting bank official. The soft-hearted vagaries of the parole system makes much of the so-called criminal justice in this country a farce. It takes twelve good men to put a criminal In prison; it ought to take more than one complaisant executive to get him out.

LOSS BY FIRE SHE children's school building at the State sanitarium for tuberculosis at Rockville (Ind.), was destroyed by fire he other night. The building was erected less than a year ago at a "ost of $47,000. No insurance. Forty-seven thousand dollars is qu '.e a sum to toss Into a bonfire —-e ’en for the solvent taxpayers of Indiana. But such losses of public property are common. During the past year a half dozen costly school structures In Indi na have burned. In practically every case there was either no insurance or very inadequate Insui nee. The taxpayers tgere goug Li! spring a garage, in yhich were ored automobiles belonging to Ma. on County, burned. County cars \ ere damaged to the (extent

B.v Rev. John R. Gunn

simply the fate of untruth. One had fallen because lying stones were used in building the foundation. Another had been deserted because time had exposed its lying columns, made of plaster *nd painted to look like marble. In another buckets had been placed to catch the dripping rain, because of lying tiles upon the roof. If untruth is fatal to permanency of buildings, how much more is it fatal to excellency in character and life. Untruth Is Inferiority and weakness, which sooner or later will be exposed. Be sure your lie will find yoii out. The builder’s lying stones will find him out. The merchant's lying cloth will find him out. The farmer’s lying seeds will find him out. The hypocrite’s pretenses will find him out. A man with a hidden falsehood in his life never feels safe and secure. That falsehood haunts him in his dreams and disturbs him in his waking thoughts. ‘‘Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” The truth frees you from the fear of some utruth or hidden weakness being brought to light which would expose you to shame and ruin. Truth is the first law of character and all real happiness. (Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn.)

of SI,BOO. No Insurance. The previous month a brand new car purchased by the county was stolen. No Insurance. Os course. Insurance against the hazards of fire and theft cost money. If It didn’t it wouldn’t be worth having. And private business men feel that they cannot afford to risk the loss of their property without such protection. Why Isn’t it equally good business for public officials to insure public property? It Is true the Federal Government doesn’t carry Insurance on Federal buildings. It can afford to carry its own risk. But school districts, cities, counties and State Institutions are not as big as the United States —though they may feel just as big. Failure of such smaller governmental units to carry fire insurance on their buildings just to save the expense of premiums is false economy. Too often it is merely saving at the spigot while knocking the hoops off the public barrel. MODERN ROBIN HOODS JEORGE (DUTCH) ANDERSON, escaped convict, much __ wanted at MUQCie,lnd., for the brutal murder of a Muncie couple, Is reported slain at Muskegon, Mich., by a detective of that city. After mortally wounding the detective, the latter wrested the desperado’s gun from his hand and killed him with it. Dutch and his pal, Gerald Chapman—now under sentence of death In .Connecticut for killing a policeman—were called super-criminals. They have been pictured as romantic characters—courtly, cultured men of the world. Anderson was reputed to be master of several languages. Sort of modern Robin Hoods. Here are some of the incidents of Anderson's super-criminal career: First arrested when fie was 19 In St. Louis for petty thievery. Served in the Missouri and Illinois penitentiaries for forgery and robbery. Sentenced to the Auburn (N. Y.) penitentiary in 1916 for forgery. Helped pull a big mall robbery and was sentenced to Atlanta. Escaped a year later. Next In the limelight for the Muncie murder last summer. He shot down in cold blood unarmed Ben Hance and his wife as they peacefully drove along a country road. A gallant affair for a courtly, courageous super-criminal. About as heroic an exploit as killing tame rabbits. For a season, following that crime, he disappeared while the country was combed for him. Then he bobs up in Muskegon and Is caught passing a bogus S2O bill at a humble confectionery. And is pistoled to death with his own gun as he tries to escape from an officer. There is a mighty scrawny skeleton of facts to carry a very fast pading of romance. Stripped of adjectives the careers of our socalled super-criminals are about as glamorous as garbage cans or slaughter houses. The modern Robin Hood Is a pretty tawdry being.

Tom Sims Says About the first real sign of winter Is when you start wondering why in the world you cussed summer. The black sheep of the family Is usually made the goat for everything. Women have more troubles than men. 'A man’s friends never criticise him for growing old. Another advantage a man has Is when he goes visiting he usually hopes they are at home. Trouble with mixing business and pleasure is you are so liable to ruin both of them. Arguing with a policeman Is about as useless as turning on an plectric light in the day time. The nice thing about being hardheaded is the world finds It much harder to knock you silly. Keep looking down and you find the world is the limit. Look up and you find the sky is the limit. Most weather beaten man on earth is the weather man. If at first you do succeed, look out next time. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

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‘Freshie’ Is Forced to Bea Meek Lamb in Songland Just as He Is on Campus

By Walter D. Hickman SHE freshman at college has always been an Institution In real life and now he has lunutd in the best song sellers. “Collegiate” started the college rage and now Victor has released the Waring Pennsylvanians playing “Freshie.” The “Sophs” lay down the law to the Freshie In this song, telling him to take the smile off his face or they would turn his pants wrong side out and make him wear ’em just that way. They inform the Freshie that he is just applesauce anyway at the college banquet. And so the merry words and the jolly tunc of “Freshie” as played by the Pennsylvanians, makes this tune the twin sister of success of “Collegiate.” On the other side you will discover "Might Blue,” another one of those numbers which has caught on. Waring’s orchestra knows how to ooze out the blues and the syncopated stuff. Here is a record for any home where there is youth and life. “Freshie” Is a corking dance number and the refrain fits the melody. Here Is a popular number that has everything in it that makes a i>opular success. The New Victor This week alt over the country, the Victor people are Introducing a new machine, called the Orthophonic Victrola. Here is a machine that puts personality into any recorded music and this is increased when ihe new Victor process record is used. The Orthophonic Victrola brings out the piano, the bass, drums and the human voice so much better than any other machine that the Victor people have ever placed on the market. This Orthophonic Victrola not only has more volume, but gives the hearer the impression that the artist is actually in the room. The Victor Company announces: "Avery remarkable result of the 'matched impedance* telephonic principle underlying the joint operation of the sound box and amplifier is that the instrument’s performance will satisfactorily fill with volume of music a chamber as large as the Louis XVI room at the Hotel Sherman, yet in a much smaller room such as may be found in the average apartment or home the volume and clarity will be found to be of no more than adequate and satisfactory proportions, without any change or adjustment to the playing mechanism. "This phenomenon is explained by the engineers in charge as being a result of the careful matching of tone-carrier and tone-reproductive functions in the instrument. Many Improvements “The improvement in technical performance of the Orthophonic Instrument as against the old type Is measured in the new instrument’s range of from 113 to 12,000 tone frequencies, as against 300 to 3.600 frequencies attainable in The old.

“The Baldwin is incomparable. / £ find the mechanism far more perfect A A a A A than any of the others ! have played rail ■ ft W H W on and the tone qualities delightful." 99 \ ■ dTn S fa H 0 S P B PIANO CO. " ' On the Circle - Two Doors West of Circle Theater

THE SPIIDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT

"The range of vibrations set up In musical Instruments varies greatly, from 435, ’A’ international pitch, downward to 50 for bass Instruments such as tympani and tubas and upward to 12,000 for the treble notes of the piano, celeste, violin and brasses. "The Orthophonic Victrola accurately reproduces such hitherto unrecorded features of musical performance as the after-clang of the bells or triangle in an orchestra, the rythmic boom of bass or kettle drums and the rhythmic effect of brass and reed instruments either in solo or In concert. “For vocal recording the effects attained are equally pronounced. Large choruses are stated to be so faithfully recorded, due to the use of microphones at the 1 proper acoustic points before the singers instead of the old method of catching as much us possible of the performance through a recording horn, that the listener to the Orthophonic Victrola actually hears tonal sea-

You can pet an answer to any queation of fact or informaUon by writing to The Indiauanolis Tlmea 7f ae’nlnaton Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in itamns for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be xlvon nor can extended research bo undertaken. All other qucst.ons will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What is the meaning of the word Oklahoma? It is Ch|>ctaw Indian meaning “red people.” What is the members hip of the Industrial Workers of the World? The latest available figures show a membership of 30,000. What is the maximum height reached by waves? Storm waves in the open sea frequently attain a height of from twenty to thirty feet from trough to crest. In the north Atlantic ocean during severe storms, waves have

Lady Bouquet By Hal Cochran Oh, I know not your name, maiden fair. But I know that your sweetness is rare. You're a dear little elf. I can name you myself. Would there be any harm? Would you care? With the rose, meaning love, you compare. There's the goldenrod’s gold In your hair. Asa lily is pure; so are you, I am sure. Like the daisy, there’s Innocence there. You're the type of which man often dreams. You belong in a garden, it seems. I would pick you, my own, if you grew there alone. Your face, like the pretty flowers, beams. Through the dewdrops your cheer is at play. Just a violet, modest and gay. Though your name be unknown, like a flower you have grown. You are sweet little lady bouquet. (Copyright, 1925. NEA Service. Inc.)

Choose Your Piano as does—for its enduring purity and resonance, for its perfect concord of tone and action. The Baldwin is the choice of exacting musicians the world over—on the concert stage and for the home. In any Baldwin you will find anew revelation of your musical dreams*

tures that might be lost to many hearers in a crowded and noisy auditorium at the concert itself. “The piano and pipe organ, notoriously diltlcult instruments to record in the past, have been brought to astonishing reproduction now, the over-tones that impart much of tho beauty to skilled performance upon them being retained In the discs and their performance.” -I -I- -I* Indianapolis theaters today offer: Blossom Heath entertainers at the Palace; Anna Codee, at Keith’s, "Tho Gold Rush,” at the Circle; "Kiss Me Again,” at the Zaring; "He's a Prince,” at tho Apollo. "Peacock Feathers,” at tho Colonial; Gellman’s Band Box Revue, fit. the Lyric; bur- | lesque, at the Broadway; “The Tower of Lies," ut the Ohio; Carson Over the Great Dlvide(Hit the Isis and the Ijnwrence Players w.t tho Capitol. Tho Duncan Sisters open a threeday engagement In “Topsy and Eva” at English’s, Thursday night.

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been observed having a height of forty-three feet and It Is probable that on rare occasions they are some feet higher. Is the flesh of wood chucks good to eat? It Is sometimes eaten although most people find It too strong and highly flavored to be pleasant. Who Is the Lord of Misrule? A mock dignitary who presided over the Christmas revels of the Middle Ages. He was assisted by a staiT of from 20 to 60 officials and furnished with musicians, dragons, hobbyhorses and other paraphernalia of fun. In Scotland the Lord of Misrule was sometimes known as the Abbot of Unreason and In France as I'Abbe de Liesse.

A Thought For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are divers vanities; lint bear thou |HI. —Foci. 5; 7. • • • \v~i E* are auoh stuff as dreams are yy made on, and our little life Is —w rounded with a sleep.—Shakespeare.

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