Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 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 Seripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * • Member of the Audit Bureau or 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 3000.

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Promotion mF you have something to sell, proper promotion will sell it. That is an old truism of business. Indianapolis has something to sell. Let’s be honest with ourselves and admit that we are not doing as good a job of selling our city as we would like. Perhaps it is because we lack proper promotion and the things that make such promotion possible. Florida is being sold by promoters. We believe it is being considerably over-sold and that not all the claims made for the future possibilities of that State are justifiable. We don’t believe in misrepresenting our goods and would not suggest for a mbment that Indianapolis be sold through misrepresentation. That is not what we mean by promotion. There may be significance in the fact that two of the principal promoters of the Florida boom are Indianapolis men. We‘refer to Carl G. Fisher and Joseph Young. These men, Mr. Fisher, especially, did much for Indianapolis. But they did not take up the promotion of this city on a large scale. We certainly are not willing to admit that it was because Indianapolis does not possess salable advantages. Can it have been, then, because the population of Indianapolis itself offered too much resistance? We don’t know, but it is worth thinking about. Recently we had a greater Indianapolis movement. We had a parade and street dancing and an all around “big time The movement accomplished exactly nothing for the betterment of Indianapolis. Accomplishment may end with a celebration. It avails nothing to start that way. Indianapolis is a city of luncheon clubs and civic bodies of various kinds. Every day 'there is a meeting of one or more organizations. They are worth while social gatherings, but are they doing their utmost for the promotion of the city of Indianapolis? It is doubtful We are purposely being brutally frank. It is not our purpose to he offensive or to hurt anybody’s feelings. We are simply trying to think this thing out —in print- I —and at the same time attempt to suggest things that will start others thinking^ The thing'we most need in Indianapolis is that quality without which no enterprise can he successful —confidence. What we need in this town is more pulling together. It should mqke no difference who makes a suggestion for the good of Indianapolis. If it is a good suggestion, it shoul he acted on. It should not be a matter of who gets the credit. It should be a matter of the good of the city, which must necessarily mean the good of the citizens. With a lot of confidence and some really active promotion we should be sitting on top of the world. Indianapolis is a good town, but it can he made a bigger and better one. A Raal Challenge - to Labor mND.USTRY in the United States is going south. It is on its way now, hut present development—striking as it is—is only the beginning. The movement will only be checked when the wages of industrial laborers in the South rise to the level of ithose workers in other sections ofiithe country. There are over a million and a half tenant armers in the thirteen cotton-producing states t ! the South. More than one-half of them are white. They represent a tremendous potential supply of cheap labor. Landless, largely illiterate, unorganized, bound hv a tobacco and cotton cash eroy system, and exploited by~what may well be the most vicious system of mercantile credit yet devised by man, these tenant farmers who are easily trained as machine workers offer an irresistible inducement to industry. And industry similarly offers an acceptable inducement to the tenant farmer. There’s no question of resistance. The tenant farmers, as an economic group, have none. To be freed from the hopeless and bitter drudgery of slaving all year for the cnance to do the same thing over again the next, the tenant farmers cheerfully accept industrial employment at low wages. For ten hours of.labor a day they get enough to keep nourished, decently clothed, and even to see a movie or a horse race now and then. For them industrialism is a boon. They do not chafe particularly under the system of paternalism which is one of the cornerstones of the factory systerii in the South. They do riot resent particularly .that they have no chance to own their homes. They never have ouned a home. Company stores, company recreation grounds, company entertainments, and company thinking for the workers do not worry them. These things are all in the nature of luxury anyway. But what of the workers in the rest of the country? For them this southern industrial development constitutes a real threat. It is not merely a question of paternalism vs. a system of cheap labor. The lower wages which the southenlj industrial workers receive—J-about

one-half to two-thirds as much as those received for comparable work in northern centers ■—are also rooted in the fact that money will go further than in other parts of the country because of lower living costs. The threat of the South to organized labor cannot be dispelled by legislation. Tariffs to equalize*production costs are out of the question. A tightening of.child labor laws in certain Southern States might relieve the pressure a little, but child labor accounts for only a small part of the present industrial expansion in the South. Customary methods of labor organizatfon cannot be counted upon to relieve workers in other parts of the country from severe southern competition. The field, composed largely of liberated field hands, is far from fertile for that type of procedure. And yet, if the development of industrialism in the South is allowed so proceed unguided and unchecked, workers in all parts of the United States will feel the pressure of its competition. What is to be done? In that question organized labor in the United State.*} receives one of the most formidable challenges which it ever has faced. Two Governors SIIREE thousand miles and" several ages of human progress separate the Governors of California and New York. Governor Richardson of California declines to pardon Charlotte Anita Whitney, who was sentenced to jail because of her political belief, and says: , “While I had no part in the passage of this law, still I have takers an oath to support the Constitution and the laws of the State. The law penalizing criminal syndicalism is just as solemn and binding as are laws against murder, robbery^treason, arson and other crimes.” Governor Smith of New York pardoned Jim Larkin, convicted of a similar offense and doing so said: “Political progress results from the clash of conflicting opinions. The public assertion of an erroneous doctrine is perhaps the surest way to disclose the error and make it evident to the electorate. And it is a distinct disservice to the State to impose for the utterance of a misguided opinion, such extreme punishment as may tend to deter, in proper cases, that full and free discussion of political issues which is a fundamental of democracy.” The first Governor talks of the Constitution. The second understands its spirit and obeys. f The Middle Ground r . *■ J By Mrs. Walter Ferguson mUDGE GARY, well-known and oft-quoted steel magnate, says that never before has there been so much room at the top of the ladder of success. And we suspect that there is equally as much space; in the middle. One unfortunate thing for the country these days is that everybody thinks he belongs on top. Few are content to remain in the middle and do their work well, which is perhaps one reason why such a small number ever got much higher. There may not he so much clamor about you, and your name may not he found in the headlines very often, hut after all there are some mighty good things about sticking to the middle ground. Jitst doing the job that is yours, and not cultivating any superiority complexes, and realizing quite honestly your limitations, will develop you into a mighty good citizen and bring you much quiet content and a comfortable income-. It is always easier to stick to the middle of the ladder than it is to hang on at the top. You may not get the thrills hut you also miss the kicks and cuffs and heartaches. And you erin be reasonably*sure that.by getting so high you can stay there, and the fellow on top nearly always has to come down sooi*r or later, which is much harder on his spirit than getting up. The world is not helped half so much by the men on top as it is by the millions who stick in the middle and do their work well. Somebody has got be at the top, of course, but it is the acme of foolishness to- envy them too much. No army can fight its battles withou ta general to direct it; but no general can win victories without soldiers to go forth and die at his command. . It is well that we have ambitions. No man or woman is ever quite so fine without them. But it is equally as fine and just as much a mark of real greatness to be able to say to yourself, “I can do this, but I cannot do that; I know mv abilities and my limitations.” If more of us \tould commune thus with our own souls and strive for joy in the work we love best to dp, no matter, how humble it may be, the wqrld would be a better place and ours a happier race. <* I .

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON—*

WHY NOT A SHOTGUN SQUAD? B’—jANDITH called at a chain grocery store —Wright and t- Buchanan Sts., late Monday afternoon. From the till and the company collector, who appeared on the scene inopportunely, they secured nehrly f 1,000 —ant. escaped. Quite an ordinary affair. •Thanks to the hold r up gentry a job in an Indianapolis grocery store is about as thrilling as going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Stores of this same company have been robbed several times in recent months. And a year ago cne of its collectors was held up Uwice In rapid succession. East June a couple of branch banks in the city were robbed. The mayor and municipal authorities practically had convulsions In consequence. There was hysterical talk of calling out the militia to guard financial Institutions. A policeman with a shotgun was detailed to every bark in the city as a special guard with orders to “shoot ’em down without words." The police department was galvanized Into hectic activity. Crooks were rounded up, rooming houses, Joints, and hangouts were scoured and suspicious characters yanked to the bastlle. Bank banditry immediately ceased to be a principal phase of Indianapolis business life. Why not a shotgun squad to guard grocery stores? And all of the rest of tl*a paraphernalia of an Intensive cleanup campaign? It is really not the occasional spectacular bank robbery that is debilitating to decent citizens and local legitimate business. A bank is sufficiently affluent to provide in a measure its own protection. The dally and nightly hold-ups of, small retail establishments and Individuals' Is more disturbing to society. If the police department would do a little intensive cleaning up day by day instead of In sudden outbursts, plain bandits might be squelched as effectively as bank robbers. DECADENCE” OF TEETH "ryiEARLY half of the 1,648 l children In township schools that were examined during October by nurses of the Marlon County board of helati. had bad teeth. A similar survey last year covering 6,988 puplL showed only 236 not in need of dental work. Soft, refined, rich foods are playing hob with teeth, dental experts declare. Unless we revert to the imple diet and rough fodder of the day when the race was young, teeth are doomed, they say. The results of dental survey of Marion County school children seem to bear them out. But cavernous and aching teeth are not or'in ly a modern Invention. True Adam aparently never had a cringing excitable molar annoy him. However, mummies of long defunct citizens of Egypt and Peru have been found with defective and nnd sometimes gold filled teeth. The original owners of those human husks never ate Ice cream, candy or any of our alleged teeth detroyers In their lives. Toothache has accompanied man throughout the ages, though present dietary habit may make it more prevalent. Still people don’t eat to gratify their teeth. And there Is no pleasure In eating grass and rough fodder just to keep a few temperamental molars In the family cii-cle. Nebuchadnezzar ate grass and look what happened to him. Man would hate to lose his teeth entirely. With them he has carved out a conspicuous place in the sun for himself and eaten his way around the world. But If they can’t stand the strain of modern life they will have to go. Only we hope they will pass out quietly—without jumping. COST OF~ LIVING SHE cost Os living in Indianapolis is below the average for cities in the United States, reports the national industrial conference board which has investigated the subject. Food costs here only advanced 1 per cent during the month ending Oct. 16, while in Chicago the increase was 2 per cent. And in only two other cities in the country are food prices higher above the 1913 level than in Chicago. That seems strange. One can understand how, in the Windy City, where life is short, violent and full of bullet holes, the price of caskets might be higher than elsewhere. But why food? Doubtless the comparative cheapness of living in Indianapolis is w-orthy of notice if not a sufficient excuse for a civic parade or Mardi Gras. However, the figures will excite statisticians more than housewives or pay envelopes. Compilations of living costs are only mournful autopsies to the average man. It makes no difference to him whether food, flivvers, rents .and other necessities that go to make up the cost of living advance or decline. To maintain himself and his family he has to shoot his whole wad, regardless of what the statisticians say. His chief problem is to make living worth the cost. ATTIRE AND” MORALS REV. J. W. M’FAI? j | LAND, evangelist at Li’ Wheeler Mission, N. Dela vtare St., scored present style in feminine attire the other night Flimsy dresses with low necks exposed knee caps, bobbed hair etc., were blamed for loose ■morals He ran true to form. Mos evangelists and guardians of publi morals thunder against the scanty drosses and sort of apparel nov worn by women. They voclfer-

ously fear that such clothing will seduce beholders and civilization will go to smash. Bu the thunderers see such styles without their own ■ morals being corrupted apparently. Is It likely that the morals of other people are more susceptible to the Influence of clothing or lack of clothing? Attire has nothing to do with morals. Eve wasn’t more moral after she donned her fig leaf than before.* If the classical Greeks dressed like their statues they donned little but a facial expression when they -stepped out. Yet neither they nor their contemporaries considered them immodest. Greek athletes wore only a film of olive oil. ,We..still praise the virtues and high private morals of the ancient Greeks. Probubly the most debauched society of any age was the French court in the days of Du Barry and Mme. De Pompadour. /Yet then women were upholstered and befrilled from chin to heel. Perhaps the tight lacing and bustles that made hips stand out like mantelpieces, affected by mldVictorian ladies, were Inherently more -conducive to high morality than the present mode which puts hips In the background and silk clad ankles In th£ foreground. But It is doubtful. Modesty and morality depend on the upholstering of the mind, not the upholstering of the body. What is the width of the Mississippi River? Is It the widest river In the United States? The Mississippi is the widest river in the United States. It is about 1.000 feet wide at Cairo, Illinois. Below Cairo the project width is 3,000 feet, the natural low water width is 1,000 to 7,500 feet, and tlie bank-full width is 2,000 to 10,500 feet. From here on to the delta, a thousand miles below, the river widens to about ten miles across.

Building Complaint Made

Let Mr. Fixlt solve your troubles at the city hall. .Ho is The Times representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. The city building inspector is investigating whether proper safety precautions are being taken at a hotel under construction on Capitol Ave. at the request of a correspondent of Mr. Fixit. DEAR MR. FIXIT: There Is a hotel being constructed on Capitol Ave. On one side there is no provision for people to walk with safety. They are compelled to walk in the street to get by the building, the contractors having taken all space to the curb and part of the street at times. R. E. S. You may rest assured If a violation of a city ordinance has taken place, it will be rectified. DEAR MR. FIXIT: We complained once before that we needed gravel or cinders on Walnut St. just west of Somerset Ave. At that time they made a mistake and put cinders on Livingston Ave. Please try to bring us relief before cold weather. CITIZEN. Frank Reid will head his flivver for an inspection of this complaint oh his round ns inspector of the street commissioner’s department.

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CLOSING PLEAS ARE BEGUN IN WOLFE S TRIAL Tilts Between Attorneys Mark Defense Testimony Tuesday. Bu Vnltrt l Pro* MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 18.—Closing arguments were begun today In the trial of Charles (One Arm) Wolfe, alleged pal of the late “Dutch’’ Anderson, charged with the “yevenge” murder of Ben and Mary Hance. betrayers of Gerald Chapman, bandit prince, last summer. The defense rested suddenly this morning after Tuesday was spent in an effort to establish an alibi for Wolfe. Tilts between Prosecutor Van L. Ogle and John O’Neill, chief defense counsel, featured: Bunch on Stand The first came when Dr. Rollin Bunch, former mayor of Munrle. testified that Wolfe was in his office about 4:45 on the afternoon of the murder. The State on cross-examin-ation asked Dr. Bunch whether he had been sentenced to Federal prison and whether Wolfe had be come his patient after Dr. Harry Spickermon had been sent to the Federal Prison for violating the narcotics laws. The defense then brought out that Dr, Splckerman was a brother-in-law of the State’s attorney. Ogle shouted, “I didn’t marry the whole family.” Another fight took place when an auto salesman testified that ho had made the trip over the route which the State claims Wolfe traveled, once in one of his cars and again in the Marmon auto owned by Mr. O'Neill of the defense. Calls Him “Cur” “Isn’t the Marmon car now owned by Mr. O’Neill the same one that ,Geraid Chapman formerly owned?” the State asked. “That Is cowardly and only a cur would ask such a question," O’Neill shouted back. “Usten here, brother, I make my money as honestly as you do and probably more so.”

Mr. Fixit has many alley complaints on hand. But they must wait. Due to Insufficient funds, the street commissioner’s department must concentrate on streets, according to Thomas Newsom, .assistant commissioner. The complaints are: Times Reader, between Finley Ave. and Bradbury St., west of Bloyd Are.; Taxpayer, between TwentyFifth and Twenty-Sixth Sts., Adams and La Salle Sts.; C. W. S., back of 768 Belle Vieu PI.; William McCutcheon, 2730 Manker Ave., alley hack of house; Leon Thomas, 2925 Caroline St., between Hillside Ave. and Caroline St., and Twenty-Ninth and Thirtieth Sts.; Resident of Pruitt and Harding Sts., alley west of Harding St. and north of Twenty-First St.; C. L. Brown, 1335 Raymond St., back of the 1300 block on E. Raymond St.; \ Reader, in the 1000 block, between S. Capitol Ave. and Church St.

Do You Know? Practically all street cleaning operations have been halted because city council Is delaying passage of an appropriation ordinance.

BULLET WOUND FATAL Woman Who Shot Self Monday Dios at St. Vincent's Hospital. Mrs. Marie Fry, 29, of 3110 N. Illinois St., died at 2:40 a. m. today at St. Vincent's Hospital as the result of a bullet wound self-inflicted Monday at her home. Grief over the death of her husband a few months ago Is thought to have been the cause of Mrs. Pry's action. She shot herself with the revolver of her step-father-in-law li irry Wenz, city patrolman. CRUSES MAKE PEACE Overture Predicated on Removal of French Rulers. Crwurl /ht. 101 Z. bu United Pet BERLIN, Nov. 18.—Druse tribesmen of Syria now rebelling against the French, want the foreign yoke shaken from their necks and have made unofficial peace overtures to the French looking toward France's relinquishment of her mandate In Syria. This was revealed to United Press today by Emir Cheklb Arslan, delegate of the Druses to the League of Nations. REBELS VICTORIOUS Continued Fighting Under Turk Officer Is Reported, Bu United Pree.t LONDON, Nov. 18.—An Evening News Beirut dispatch reported today that Zeid El Atrash's rebel forces have now occupied all villages between Hassay and the Leontes River. They were reported to be under former Turkish officer trained In the military school at Beirut, recognized as the chief of staff of the Druse sultan. Continued fighting was reported.

Status of Filipinos

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information hv wrlt'nx to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, New York Av'* lngton, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamp’s for reply Medical, lesral and martin! advice cannot be given nor can extended research be' undertaken. All other quest'n’is will rce-lveU a tier sonal reply. Unsljjn'*! requests cannot Iv answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. How many public school children In this country reach high school nnd how many graduate from high school? How many go only as far as the eighth grade? Statistics furnished by the Bureau of Education show that out of every 1,000 children 634, or 63.4 per cent, reach the eighth grade, 342, or 34.2 per cent, go to high school and 139, or 13.9 per cent, graduate from high school. © Are the’ Filipino citizens or subjects of the United States? Have they a voice in the government of the Philippines? Filipinos are neither citizens nor subjects of the United States. They

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cmmsEL TO WATCH GAR mi vimm * 4 Duvall Appointment Tang!® May Hamper City’s ; Fight on Boost. 4 The city will flirh* the proponed* ■i transfer Increase nsked by the In-* dlanaiiolls Street Railway Company" If an Investigation shows the one-j cent boost unnecessary, City* Corporation Counsel James M. J Ogdon announced today. If shown to be needed there will he no argu-J ment. he said. ‘ In either case my office will bej represented at the .hearing,” Ogden-. said. “I expect to confer with Mayor* Shank about It.” Alvah J. Rucker, head of the* Duvall speaker's bureau during the. las* campaign and reputed to lie * next city corporation counsel, said* he had no interest in uny action the* street Railway Company may take* in nsklng increased fares. “lain not corporation counsel for-* Mr. Duvall’s administration,” said , Alvah. “I saw by the paper, where > I had been appointed, but that Is ’ all I know, and I do not place much credence In the report. Therefor© Ij am not Interested In fighting the pro- ' posed Increase In behalf of the city.” * NATURAL DEATH VERDICJ Coroner Examines Man Found Demi in Room. Natural death was the verdict of Coroner Paul F. Robinson, after he had examined the body of Georg© Anterelli, 66, found dead In his room, at 60814 E. Washington Bt. Antrelll was found by Hyn.an Cohen, 1207 Ashland Ave., and Pete Opplssl, 223 McKlm St., friends who became alarmed over his absence.

are citizens of the Philippine Islands, owing allegiance to the Unites> States. Although not citizens of the United States, they possess Amefl-* can nationality, a status, which, tyy* virtue of the sovereignty the Un!foi|; States exercises over the Philippine* Islands, makes the natives of thoaaj Islands entitled to all rights of pro* tectlon as citizens of the United. States while residing In, or, travers*' Ing, foreign countries. They American nationals. They havo nu** tonomous government; that Is. they' are governing themselves. Their hi--enmeral legislature Is composed of native Filipinos elected by broad manhood suffrage. All elective of- - flees In the Philippines ore filled byFilipinos. The governor general' (Gen. Leonard Wood) Is the chief exocutlvo of the Philippines, and the only connecting link between t|| governments of the United States and the Philippines. He represents the sovereignty of the United States over the Islands.