Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1925 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times EOT W. HOWAKD, President FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WSL A. MATBORN. Bus. Mgr. Member of the Serlppe-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service • • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indlannpolis 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. •

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.

Dodging the _ Stockholders C'"' AN you imagine the newly elected head of a $600,000,000 corporation running away from town and hiding from the stockholders of the -corporation immediately after b.is election because he does not dare be present when he names the principal employes who are to servo the corporation? Such a move certainly would not inspire confidence on the part of the ■tockholders in their new executive. It would be more likely to inspire receivership action. Yet that is exactly what the head of the $600,000,000 corporation known as the juty of Indianapolis has done. John L. Duvall is dodging around in Illinois because he does not care to faoe the men who elected him mayor of Indianapolis. This is not so much an indication of weakness on the part of Duvall as it is an indication of the deplorable state of affairs into which Indianapolis has been allowed to drift. Party politics has failed as a means of insuring competent city government. The system has been given a fair trial and it does not work. No man can be a good mayor if he has hanging around his neck a millstone of campaign promise and obligations. He can not be his own master. Indianapolis deserves more than it is getting in the way of city government. It deserves to have its municipal affairs conducted under the direction of the best available man, unencumbered by political obligations, and free to use his own best judgment in the administration of affairs which should be surely business. Other cities are pulling themselves out of the political mud by means of the city manager form of government. This form has been tried long enough that we KNOW it works. The political form has been tried long enough that we KNOW it DOESN’T work. Indianapolis has the same opportunity and the same ability as other cities to right the wrongs that exist in its government. We hear much about boosting Indianapolis. The biggest boost that copld be given the city would be a sound and sensible city government.

Will Submarines Be Outlawed? EOLLOWING the tragedy of the M-l, lost off the English coast with all on board, the British are again agitating for the abolition of subs. Now if you didn’t know the British you might be inclined to call them quitters. But you know better. They are not quitters. They are not afraid to die. Then why the move to outlaw submarines on the ground that they are dangerous? , The answer is very simple. Britain has never got over the scare the German U-boats gave her during the World War. She came within an ace of being starved into submission. It was a mighty close shavo and the ever-present thought that the next time the enemy might turn the trick is a constant nightmare to her. .Britain today fears two weapons of war: the submarine and the airplane. Her “splendid isolation” has gone forever, thanks to aircraft, while a powerful enemy with enough subs could quickly bring her to her knees by starvation. She would joyously see both these instruments of war outlawed, and admits it. But will*they bo? Hardly. Aircraft is destined to serve in the future as peacetime common carriers—instruments of commerce. They will not be outlawed any more than automobiles. Yet overnight these commercial ships of the air can be turned into devastating engines of war. While as to submarines there are certain countries to which they offer very positive advantages. France, Italy, Germany, Russia and Japan, for example. Japan, though an island like England, considers the submarine one of her most effec-

Don’t Bea Dumbbell

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Mr "'“I HOPE she Is a beautiful | j‘ dumbbell,” anew mother I * I Is alleged to have said When she found that her baby was a daughter. One gets the Inference, of course. Beautiful and dumb. They tell us that girls. In order to be happy, should always come that way. But how untrue that Is. Out of the whole world of women there are, after all, only a very small number of beauties. The vast majority of us are only passably good looking. It Is Indeed wonderful to be given the high gift of beauty, but In spite of everything said upon the subject, beautiful dumbbells are seldom happy. The dumbbells weep oftenest and most loudly; the dumbbells are forever asking for something thiy

tive arms. England is close to the European continent and could be quickly encircled by these invisible boats. But Japan is too far from any great sea power greatly to fear subs while, for offensive-defensive purposes, she could have no better weapon than these, especially when used in conjunction with aircraft. No, the British have not suddenly contracted a case of cold feet because some sixty lives were lost in the M-l. They have always been willing to risk their necks for anything they deemed worth while. It’s the other fellow’s submarine that frightens them, not their own.

Kellogg Clears Up Mystery! TjlOW we know why of State Kellogg barred Countess Karolyi from the United States! A Washington dispatch the other day said the exclusion of the countess was a “closed incident,” and that Secretary Kellogg refused to give her attorney any information as to the whys and wherefores. The news proved premature else the Secretary of State has relented, for now her attorney, James Freeman Curtis of New York, has been told. And here’s the secret: She was excluded from the United States under “the act of May 22, 1918, as extended by the act of March 2, 1921, and the act of October 16, 1918, as amended by the act of June 5, 1920.” Yes, sir, that is what W. R. Castle Jr., chief of the western European division of the State Department, says about it. lie is handling the case for Secretary Kellogg and he ought 4o know. The first act provides for the exclusion of dangerous radicals Countess Karolyi is not one of these—her attorney says, her friends say and she says. And all the evidence supports their statement. The second act is a wartime measure which gives the President sweeping power to exclude undesirable aliens. It is held to be discretionary and to permit the President pretty wide latitude. Now you know all about the dangerous countess and why she was barred! No? Well, you haven’t got anything on her attorney. He doesn’t know, either. “We are as much in the dark as ever,” he said in a statement given out in New York. “We are without any information as to whether Countess Karolyi is being excluded because it is being claimed she is an anarchist or communist, or because of some other mysterious, but undisclosed reason. “The department is still evading the issue. Its position is that the countess is barred under some law or (ther, but it refuses to say what, which or why.”

The Royal Hunt rTTIING GEORGE and group of the nobility, U>l the cable inform us, killed 4,000 pheasants and partridges in the first day of a three-day hunt on the game preserves of Lord Iveagh. The preserves of his lordship, we are further told, comprise thousands of acres of land. News of this slaughter 1 will anger true sportsmen. It will outrage persons who love wild life. , But the most significant thing in the story is the statement that Iveagh’s preserves include “thousands of acres of land.” Y hiie the King and his nobles amuse themseh es with slaughter, unemployment, misery, poverty and hunger are creating for England one of the most -serious problems with which that country has been confronted in centuries. The slums of London are crowded with idle poor, who are able to keep soul and body together only through the pittance doled out to them by the government. It would be much better if King George and his lordship amused .themselves by playing tiddle-de-winks, and put some of their hungry subjects to raising food on those thousands of acres of land.

can not have and whining because they are denied. It Is the dumbbells who get married and divorced most regularly. It Is the dumbbells who go up and down the earth making grief for themselves and others. Brains are as great an asset for women as for men. Only people of Intelligence get any true happiness out of life. For unto them Is given a. vision that the dumbells nsser glimpse. And while women of force and personality may not often grab the millionaires, still in the last analysis they get more richness out of life than dollars can ever give. We praise too highly the physical loveliness which fades and think too seldom of the mental and spiritual charm which vanlsheth pot. We women have come to believe that our chief aim In life Is to get

a man—and perhaps It Is—but we should at least make It our ambition to get one who Is worth the getting and certairfly he who would marry us for our face alone is not that sort. And the dumbbell who never gets her man—sometimes that too happens—ls the most miserable of human beings, while there are plenty of women with brains who can and do live very comfortably and happily without men. Do not wish ever that your daughter be beautiful and dumb. Os that combination hays come some of the worst fizzles of human existence, of such a partnership is crime often born. Wish for beauty if you will for your girl, but pray God that He temper It with some brains! When will the “Student Prince” be played here? Week of Nov. 16, at English’s.

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Tattered Flag at School

Lot Mr. Fbrtt •olvo ycror trouble* with city official*. He 1* The Times representative at the city halL Write him at The Time*. Another Instance of & tattered American flag: on display was reported tc Mr. Flxlt today. . DEAR MR. FIXIT: I am a sttß dent of the Arsenal Technical High School and respect, Old Glory. On the flagpole of a school at Market St. and Arsenal Ave. winds an old, tattered American flag that la In reality 6nly. a number of red, white and blue threads. It is torn to shreds and so dirty its colors are hardly conceivable. I would like to know to whom I should apply for a removal of the object and the replacing of an American flag, one not a disgrace but an honor. MIDGE. Mr. Flxlt Is sure a few words by you to the pastor of the church that operates the school would result In action. Try it. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Please ask the street commissioner If he hasn’t a

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

-By GAYLORD NELSON

TWO CENTS FOR TRANSFERS iHE Indianapolis Street I* I " I Railway Company Is petlI * I tloning the public service commission for authority to increase Its transfer charges from 1 to 2 cents. Failure to earn expenses and fixed charges under existing rates is the company’s plea. Over a year ago the company, facing a mounting deficit, was granted a fare increase. The rate schedule then adopted was expected to fatten revenues $500,000 annually. It didn’t. The higher fare only produced an Increase of SIOO,OOO In yearly revenue. Income still fails to catch up with outgo—for the first nine months of 1925 street car operations ’ resulted In a deficit of $7,235.46 company officials say. Hence the , proposed doubling of transfer rate. It Is estimated that increase will boost receipts SIOO,000 annually and will lead the harried trolley system out of its fiscal wilderness. But will it? Experience haA shown that an Increase In fares is offset by a decrease In customers. A sort of Bquirrcl ln-the*cage performance that gets nowhere. The plight of the street car line doubtless should arouse sympathy. Indianapolis can’t dispense with electric transportation. It would he disastrous to have the system starve to death on Its hands. And since 1919 the company has not paid a dividend on common stock and has passed seven quarterly dividends on preferred. That road Inevitably leads to the junk pile. The fundamental trouble Is not inadequate rates but too few passengers. Henry Ford has demonstrated that the way to Increase profits Is to lower prices and widen the market. So while the Street Railway Company might secure temporary relief by doubling price of transfers there is little assurance that relief would be permanent. Its real problem is to woo back lost patrons. That can’t be done hy sandbagging present customers.

TtfE TAXPAYER TO SUE HIMSELF BOSSON. city atyy torney, will institute manLi J damus proceedings, it is announced, to compel Marion County to pay its share, according to city officials, of the cost of the Kentucky, Ave. and Oliver Ave. bridges over White River. These are joint Indianapolis and Marlon County enterprises. "You’ll have to mandate us," retort authorities defiantly. So legal warfare impends, after months of more or less frightful combat, to determine the proper apportionment of the cost of these public improvements. Both parties to the dispute purport to be interested in protecting the sacred rights of their respective taxpayers. Where does the Indianapolis taxpayer get off when the wrangle is settled? In the end he pays no matter whether the county or city is victorious. Marion County and the City of Indianapolis are not separate geographical entities; they are pretty much off the same piece. Six-sevenths of the tax tile values In Marion County are in Indianapolis fend the city has a larger proportion of the county’s population. The taxpayers of both city and county are practically Identical. The resident of Indianapolis is the fiddler for both governments. So when city and county carry their bridge dispute to the courts the Indianapolis taxpayer sues himself to settle the vital question whether he should pay for the bridge out of his right hand pocket or his left. And ipays the cost of prosecuting and defending the suit. He doubles in brass and meets himself coming and going. Could anything be more absurd than the continuance of the archaic city-county governmental systems that Imposes on the citizens of Indianapolis two overlapping local governments? GIRLS AND BRAINS R* -- AYMOND SANDERS, county attendance officer, ■■■ ■ ■ says that in Marion County schools outside of Indianapolis girls make higher grades than boys. And more girls than boys are enrolled in the township high schools while the reverse Is true in grade schools. He has made no real discovery. It has been quite generally suspected In late years that girls have brains and assimilate educa-

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few bricks he could put In the holes at Sanders and S. East Sts. Those poor holes went through one winter and the past summer and I feel sorry for them. Os course you know I am speaking two words for the holes and one for my car. HOOSIER TRAVELING MAN. Your letLers always are welcome, Mr. Traveler. Harry Stevens of tbe Improved streets deportment promised an early Investigation. DEAR MR. FIXIT: How do I Join the Legion here? What post do I look for?' OVERSEA 8 VETERAN. See Frank H. Henley, Indiana department adjutant. He will accept your dues and assign you a post.

Do You Know? The city will pay $4,200 tii publish one ordinance, the new building code.

tion as readily as the self-styled lhasterful sex. • Pious Bishop Denny, In North Carolina, who the other day advised men to wear mustaches as their badge of masculinity knew what he was talking abouL Growing whiskers Is about the only way men have left of asserting their superiority over women. For some thousands of years women were successfully held in subjection. Some races even barred them from their heaven and hope of future bliss. A girl \fos just an overgrown rib—useful but not worth educating. That attitude has died, but not all over—its tall still wiggles. Now women vote, manage businesses, shine athletically, attain eminence Ip professions, smoke clgarets, and encroach more and more on masculine preserves. Despite croaking of pessimists the world hasn’t gone to smash as a result. Which proves that girls are human beings equipped with brains and usual human abilities and blemishes. FOR STRICT* ENFORCEMENT OBERT T. HUMES, chief of the State motor police, an__l nounced Monday that minor infractions of the Indiana motor vehicle laws are to be watched more carefully by State policemen. Second offenders are to be arrested, Is the order. Sure, got after the vlolatofs. That’s proper. The law is the law and should be observed In the matter of dimmers and dirty license plates as in its more vital provisions. • However, the fact that special and sporadic campaigns must be Instituted to enforce many of the motor vehicle regulations and traffic rules reveals the chief ailment of automobile and traffic law. Regulations are so numerous that even officers don’t pretend to enforce them all. Aside from the more serious offenses they concentrate on such minor lnfrations as are the subject of specific orders from time to time. Soon those are neglected and others are pursued. The conscientious motorist would get no place but over the hills to play with the daffodils in company with other demented If he tried to observe all the State and local automobile regulations. He falls an easy victim to every hick constable and officer who has a sudden rush to the head of minor infractions. For instance, Indianapolis has an ordinance prohibiting more than three persons In the driver's seat. How much is that ordinance enforced? Perhaps some day a crusade will be ordered against that particular sin—and the carnage will be awful. Normally the ordinance slumbers amid the cobwebs. along with a lot* of other forgotten traffic rules. Fewer Irritating, Inconsequential rules would simplify the problem of automobile regulation from the standpoint of enforcement and the motorist would have greater respect for the law.

Quiet Zone By Hal Cocliran Two little youngsters stand out on the street, an’ they’re askin’ folks please to be still. Just like an officer, walkin’ his beat, "cause their buddy's inside—and he's 111. They’re watchin’ and waitin' an’ talkin’ real low, an’ they peek In the house now and then. They feel that his gettln’ well's draggin’ on slow, an’ they want him back with them again. The doctor approaches and greets both the boys, and he tells them there’s really no fear. “You fellows are helpin' by fctoppin’ all noise, and I’ll sure tell your buddy you're here.” “Say, Doc,” comes reply, “do the best ya know how, ta help get our pal back In trim. Our football team’s waitin’ ta play, an’ somehow, we can’t get along without him.” Just two little youngsters stand out there alone, and watch, 'stead of havjln’ their play. The home of their buddy’s a strict quiet zone, ’cause tha youngsters have made it that way. • • • If I were the youngster there, sick' In his bed, I feel that I'd find It quite hard, to find better friends, when It’s all done and said, than the two little pals, standin’ guard. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Is Walter Johnson, the Washington baseball team pitcher, of Norwegian or Swedish descent? Ho was bom Nov. 6. 1887, at Humboldt, Kan. Some of his ancestors were Scotch. What was the relationship between Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward BeecherThey were sister and brother.

T. R., Jr. News Item—Theodore and Hermit Roosevelt, following In the footsteps of the mighty hunter, who was their father, have found the ancestor of the sheep, known "as the ovti-poll, and are looking for an armored rhinoceros with one horn. (With apologies to ‘’Jaberwockie.’') Beware the armored rhino, son, With jaws that bite and horn that blows; Look out for ovls-poll, shun The ferocious battered nose. He took his heavy grip In hand. Long time the curious foe he sought; He rested by the tum-tum tree And stood awhile In thought. And as In oilish thought he stood, The rhlnocero, with eyes of flame. Came whiffling through the dusky wood And burbled as he came. One-two, one-two, and through and through, He shot the rhino In the back; He left It dead and with Its head He went galumphing back.

Speed of a Baseball

You can gvt an dinner to any quetloo o( fact or Information by wruinif to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave, Washington, D. C.. inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and martial advice ,-annul be riven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other quest'ona will received a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letter* are confidential. —Editor. Can the speed of a thrown baseball be determined accurately? The only method known Is by a specially constructed motion picture machine that takes 96 pictures a second. According to tests made by this method an expert pitcher throws a baseball 210.07 feet a second or 2 2-6 miles a minute. How wide Is the Strait of Gibralter at the narrowest part? It la B*£ miles wide at a point near the Pillars of Hercules. What was the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi? One of the most renowned of the Greek oracles. From a deep fissure in the rocks, stupefying vapors arose that were believed to be the expiring breath of Apollo. Over this spot a temple was erected in honor of the “Revealor.” Communications were generally received by a Pythia or priestess, seated upon a tripod placed over the orifice. As she became overpowered by the vapors, she uttered messages of the gods. The mutterings of Pythia were taken down hy attendant priests. Later they were interpreted and written In hexameter verse. Some of the responses of the oracle contained plain and wholesome advice; but very many of them, particularly those that Implied, a knowledge of the future, were obscure and in geniously ambiguous, so that they

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The Mistakes of Kellogg

By William Philip Simms ASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—About the head of Secretary f , State FYank B. Kellogg a storm Is brewing which, scheduled to break about the time Congress convenes next month, may blow him out of the Cabinet. * In office a bare eight months, Secretary Kellogg has been the center of four international incidents which brought down upon this country m.ich criticism and ridicule. Which constitutes nearly, If not quite, a record: One major blunder for every sixty days. Incident No. 1 was the gagging of Count Michael Karolyi, former president of the Hungarian Republic, whose published program and whose struggle to free his people from the Hapsburg yoke entitle him to called the George Washington of his country-. First applied by Secretary of State Hughes, the muzzle was kept In place by Secretary. Kellogg In the face of nation-wide pro tests. The Mexico Affair Incident No. 2 was Kellog’s threat to Mexico. This gesture Interpreted by the Mexicans as “a thinly veiled

might correspond with the event, whatever the out-come might be. According to the new immigration act how many aliens can be admitted to the United States from each country within a single year? The immigration act of 1924 provided that the number of aliens of any nationality who may be admitted into the United States in any fiscal year shall be limited to 2 per cent of the number of foreign born perjsons of such nationality resident in the United States as shown by the census of 1890; and not more than 20 per cent of the annual quota of any nationality may be" admitted In any month. What part did Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders play ien th the charge of San Juan hill In the Spanlsh-Amerlcan war? Carroll’s brigade took the lead in the charge and the Rough Riders supported him on the right, headed by their CoL Theodore Rosevelt. What Is the best method of romoving clear glass letters that have been affixed to plate glass windows? Clear glass letters are affixed to plate glass with a roslnous cement, applied hot. They can be removed if they are first warmed, but there Is great danger of breaking the letters and the plate glass. Slowly wedging them off with a knife or razor blade Is about the safest way to remove them, as far as, the plate glass Is concerned, but the letters are almost sure to be broken.

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threat to let revolutionists work their will on the Cullee government unless It treats Americans us Washington wishes,” aroused the animosity and suspicion of ull Latln-Amer-lean from the IUo Grande to Cape Horn. Incident No. 3 was Kellogg's ban on bhapurjl Baklutvala, British Member of Parliament, Just two days liefore he was to have soiled for Washington to be present at the Interparliamentary Union conference to which ho was a bona fide delegate. All his arrangements had been made, Including* the American visa' to his passport, when Secretary Kellogg suddenly ordered the visa canceled presumably on the ground that he Is a communist. Incident No. 4 was Kellog's refusal to allow the wife of Count Karolyi to oorne to tills country, even as the private guest of Mrs. Ralph Strassburger, wife of a Pennsylvania millionaire and as regular a Republican os there Is In that entire State of rock-ribbed Republicans. Why the countess was barred remains a mystery, but it is assumed she entertains Ideas similar to those of her husband. What Does CooUdgs Think? Exactly what President Coolldge thinks of all this Is not known. Apparently his attitude Is that as long us Kellogg Is Secretary of State, Kellogg must be given his head. He, the Presldont, will i not Interfere. That seems to lie the substance of what Ralph Strassburger learned when he called at the White House personally to appeal the Kellogg ban on Countess Karolyi. Nevertheless Secretary Kellogg’s arbitrary slamming of the door In the face of foreign visitors falls utterly to Jibe with President Coolldge’s public utterances. “Toleration *ln- the broadest and most Inclusive sense, a liberality of mind, which gives to the opinions and Judgment of others the same generous consideration that it asks for Its own," the President said nt Omaha less than a month ago, is an ideal which ,’may not be given to finite beings to attain, but It is none the less one toward which we should strive.” Conflict In Idea* Many members of Congress view the gagging of Karolyi, the big stick method with Mexico, the barring of Saklatvala and the exclusion of Countess Karolyi as being in direct conflict with Coolldge Ideals and out of all harmony with the President's convictions expressed In the Omaha speech which the whole nation warmly applauded. Tt Is understood that Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, 'will push for the repeal of the immigration law which gives one man, or a handful of men, the power arbitrarily to exclude foreign visitors mere, ly because It may be that they don’t think as we <?o. Tt Is not a question of sympathy for communistic, no dallstlc or any other shade of political opinion, but of the right of free speech and tolerance which many feel endangered.