Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1925 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BHUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • * * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally 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.

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Concerning 213 Taxpayers O you understand just what this 40 per cent surtax is that Secretary Mellon is so anxious to have cut in two ? Probably you do, but there is no harm in taking a fresh look at it. The 40 per cent surtax is assessed against incomes in excess of $500,000 a year. That is to say any man, like Mr. Mellon, for instance, whose wages or other earnings or profits oxceed a half million dollars each year, pays this 40 per cent surtax. But he doesn’t pay it on the $500,000; ho pays it on all of his ineome above that figure. That is to say, if he earns $550,000 a year, ho pays that surtax on $50,, 000 of it. If he earns $600,000 a year, he pays it on SIOO,OOO and so on, When this fact is kept In mind, the 40 cent surtax doesn’t seem so serious, does it? You probably would be willing to pay it yourself on all you earned above ( a half mil, iion a year. Asa matter of record only 219 persons In the United States are so fortunate as to be able to pay the 40 per cent tax, The reason offered for urging that it be cut in two is that it would stimulate business, In other words it would stimulate these 213 citizens to even further efforts in the way of making money, And that, those of the Mellon sehoel argue, Avould increase the prosperity of all es us, Maybe so, Think it ever seme mere, The bill isn’t through Congress yet and won’t be for several months.

Pershing, the Peacemaker ENERAL PERSHING found the going U easy at St: Mihfel, It’s different in South America, where he is trying to keep Peru and Chile from going to war over the rich nitrate beds of Taona and Arlea, The chief trouble is with Chile, Her delegates walked out on the conference because Pershing wanted to deal the cards, Chile, who had carefully concealed all four aees, not to mention a couple of wild eleueeH, up her sleeve, wants to deal herself, In plain English, Chile Heked Peru in 1883 and took from her large sllees of territory. By the terms of the treaty whleh ended the war, however, Chile did agree,that at the ex-y juration of ten years a vote should bo taken in the border provinces of Taena and Ariea to see whether they would go to Chile or Peru, Came 1893, as they say In the movies. But no plebiscite. Chile said she had agreed to a vote “after” and not “at” the expiration of ten years. And sho made it stick beeanse she was bigger and more powerful than Peru, Meantime a sort of reign of terror was going on in Taena and Ariea, Peruvians claimed they were so harshly treated by Chile’s forces of occupation that it was impossible to remain there. They left the country and, after some forty years of that sort of thing, the disputed territory, not unnaturally, Avas pretty thoroughly Chlleanlzed, Then Chile became very magnanimous, .She agreed to Peru’s demand for a settlement, They Would let President Harding be arbiter, President Coolidge, heir to the arbiter job, decided there must be a plebiscite, Chile sent up three lusty cheers. It was precisely what she wanted. It looked like a eineh for her. The cards had been In her hands for forty long years and she had seen to it that they were properly stacked, But thero was a joker in the hand Cooiidge held. He said “reasonable regulations” might be made “with regard to the Peruvians .of the provinces who may have been wrongfully expelled.” And General Pershing, ap-

Laws Broken By Motorists

Automobile drivers are breaking a flock of laws these days, In the opinion of The Iloosler Traveling Man, one of Mr. Fixit's faithful correspondents. DEAR MR. FJXTT! You see a lot of bunk In the papers corning from officials of an automobile club, but you. can stand right at the office wipdow and see plenty of laws broken by auto drivers. This morning f have seen over a dozen violations of the law, and was sitting at my desk in the office when I saw them. Why should the mall wagons go twenty-five miles an hour across stop streets? Thanks about the brick at Sanders and S. East Sts. HOOSIER* TRAVELING MAN. Tt’s h'flT'd to live a normal life and avoid breaking some mysterious statute these days, and Mr. Fixit is of the opinion motorists are about normal- Mr. Fixit shares your aversion to dodging recklessly driven mall trucks, but they say they have to bring us our expense accounts on time. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Before we were taken Into the city, Cornell ‘Ave., had some lights. Now they are all on St. and we

By Mr. Flxlt

have none at all between Rivera Dr. and Sixty-First St. It is so dark. ANXIOUS NO. 2. O. Henry, on his deathbed, said he was afraid to go home in the dark, as he asked the nurse for Illumination, Mr. Fixit re-read last night. When Mr. Fixit receives a light complaint, he shudders, for the policy of the board of works is rather vague on that subject, the constant answer being "no money." But he’ll try again. DEAR MR. FIXJT: The city ash wagons meet on -Thirty-First St., between College Ave. and Broadway weekly. Os course It is necessary for them to meet somewhere to transfer the loads from horse to motive power. I would kindly suggest, however, that the ashes that have fallen should be cleaned up by them after making the transfer. This morning even the sidewalks were littered with trash. TIMES READER. Truley Nolen, garbage and ashes superintendent, agrees with you and will take steps to end the nuisance.

pointed to supervise the vote, made his “regulations” accordingly. Loud wails from Chile. Os course after forty-odd years of Chilean terror in Taena and Ariea no plebiscite could really he fair to Peru, no matter what Pershing does. But Chile, poor sport that she is, won’t play, even now, unless on a head.s-I-win-tails-you-lose basis. It looks to us like a hopeless mess. Even if things are patched up now, Chile and Peru ultimately will probably fight it out. Blessed be the peacemaker.

Thanksgiving

By N. D. Cochran xy HILE we trace our Thanksgiving celebraW lion hack to the Puritans, who thanked God, then feasted, because of bountiful crops, victories over the Indians or something else that made them feel good, practically the same thing could be traced hack to classical days when the Greeks and Romans honored their pagan gods of grain with feasts and merry-making. This American holiday of prayerful thanksgiving and feasting which had its start in New England gradually spread until it became a national holiday, officially designated by presidents and governors; and we still go to church for prayer in the morning, thence home for feasting and after that such enjoyment as we please. But whether crops are bountiful or not. always we can find something for which we may be thankful, either as individuals or as a people; and we find it possible to be both religious and happy. Measured in material wealth and comfort the American people can easily find much for which to give thanks this year. We have more gold than any other nation We have more railroad mileage, more millionaires, taller skyscrapers, greater national wealth, less unemployment and poverty, more prosperity and bigger big business than any other country on earth. But somehow or other, to get down on our knees and thank God for being better off materially than any other people seems like bragging. Os course,'we wouldn’t go to church on Thanksgiving n|orning and devoutly thank God because the people of other nations have to pay higher taxes than we* do, or because they have more unemployment, more poverty and greater burdens to bear, or because they owe us money. That would seem selfish. But if we’re all God’s children—all the people everywhere on earth—we won’t find much grace in the judgment of God for sending up thanks because we get the best of it in the distribution of material blessings. We know where we stand materially. So does the whole world.• But where do we stand spiritually ? How are we going to use our superior strength and power? For the benefit of humanity or to get more strength and power? It’s all bight to thank God if you do it intelligently. A prayer of thanksgiving for Avealth, prosperity, strength and power would probably be more impressive if accompanied by a fervent prayer for the wisdom to use these things for the good of humanity and the glory of God. If we actually believe in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man we would be happier with our wealth, prosperity, strength ind power if we knew how to use them so that the rest of mankind would thank God that we have them. God will like the prayer better, and He won’t mind the feasting, when the thanksgiving prayer that goes up from the earth is Universal.

Hey, Kids! By Hal Cochran Hey, all you kidlets, the winter's a cornin' and soon we'll be havin’ some snow. 'Twon’t be so long till we’ll all hear the hummin’ of chilliest breezes that blow. Better get busy find dig up the sled that you hid in the cellar last year. Then you’ll be ready to start raisin' ned, when the cold days for coasting are here. 'Member the pond where you had lots of fun when the surface was frozen up thick? ’Member the snowman that died in the sun, and you laughed when he looked kinda sick? Better get set ’cause it’s all cornin’ back. Sharpen your skates till they shine. Pleasure a plenty’s in store, fer a fac' and I’ve already sharpened up mine. Hail old King Winter, and cunning Jack Frost. Bring on your chilliest touch. Soon all the kids will be totally lost in their sWatin’ and such. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

Do You Know? Indianapolis faces a war against pigeons promenading downtown.

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A Sermon for Today

Text: ‘‘Bless the I/Ord, O my soul, and forget not all Ills benefits.”— Ps. 103:2. • SHE story is told of an aged mother who worked hard to educate her children. Not until she was on her dying bed did they come to realize what sacrifice she had made for them. Then, with tearful eyes, they gathered about her bedside, and one after another, said, ‘‘You have been a good mother to us.” Imagine how they must have reproached themselves as she looked up at them with sad eyes and replied, “My children, why have you never said it before.” Lest we forget. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Heavenly Father.” How often the feelings of our Heavenly Father must he akin to thosw of King Lear, when he said, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is it to have a thankless child.” Lest we forget. That is why this day has been set aside as Thanksgiving day. It is not very complimentary to us that we need to have such a day pet aside, for our normal attitude should he every day a definite personal thanksgiving unto God for the riches of His grace manifested toward us in material and spiritual blessing. Lest we' forget. Ofter we acknowledge GfXl’s loving kindness ns expressed in spiritual good, but fail to think Him for our common every day blessings in material things. "He maketh His sun to shine on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.” “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they toil not. neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

-By GAYLORD NELSON

BRING ON THE TURKEY f—““! NOTH Eli Thanksgiving Day I hits us square on the palate. L£__J And Indianapolis unbuttons its vest, pins back its ears and expresses its gratitude for blessings received and blessings hoped for with its teeth in the customary manner. It is almost ninety years since Thanksgiving was first officially On Nov. 4. 1839, Governor David Wallace issued a proclamation designating Nov. 2$ for such observance. He stated that he did so at the request of religious organizations. Hoosiertlnm has traveled far and seen much since then. It has more to be thankful so though a Hoogier must now float a bond issue to get a turkey Instead of knocking the Thanksgiving dinner out of a tree with a rifle as was the pioneer \ ractice. . Hoosierdoin today has wealth, material prosperity and comforts undreamed ninety yeaj'S ago. But jour manner of celebrating Thanksgiving has not changed materially. The only contemporary newspaper comment Governor Wallace’s Thanksgiving proclamation elicited was in the Vincennes Sun—a reqipe for pumpkin /•pie. We are true children of our forefathers. Perha)>s pious dyspeptic pessimists bemoan the fact that the day originally set aside by the Pilgrims for giving thanks for relief from famine and deliverance from perils lias apparently degenerated into a gastronomic spree. Let them take a sip of water and another pill. The way to a man's soul is through his stomach. Joy, happiness and gratitude have always found expression in public feasts. So the spirit of the first Thanksgiving is here today though obscured by a mist of gravy and cranberry sauce. Bring on>the turkey. Tomorrow our gastric juices may be wan, flat, sluggish arid careworn. But today we eat—it is Thanksgiving. THE FRUITS OF SAVING mNDIANAPOLIS banks are preparing to pay to members of theic Christinas savings clubs $858,750. The amount is 20 per cent larger and there are 1,000 more club members this year than last. ’ 1 All of which means that to thousands of men, women and children the adjuration, “shop early,” will have no terrors. They are prepared and can view the approach of Santa Claus with equanimity. He can't leap on them and break their financiel backs ag he is wont to do with more improvident folks. The success Os the Christmas clubs, and their increasing popularity year by year are proof of the power of small, regular savings. Perhaps $858,750 isn’t an imposing sum in this day when conversationally anything less than a million is rated chicken feed. Still, translated into French francs, it would make a figure of astronomical proportions. The remarkable feature of the accumulations of the Christmas' club is not the total of nearly a million, but the way it grew. Regular weekly driblets of small amounts from a few cents to a dollar built it up; money that otherwise would have been spent for the veriest trifles without a twinge, and without purchasing either jiecessities or coihforts. Yet these inconsequential sums laid away week by week at the end of a year acquire sufficient strength to throw Santa Claus on his back or chase the wolf around the block until he burets an artery. Saving is tiresome and monotonous. Many see nothing in cultivating it. But the fruits of savings are obvious and luscious.

FARMING THE WATER Gs— I EORGE N. MANNFELD, of the fish and game division v_J of the State conservation department, reports that the de-

-By Rev. John R. Gunn-

grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast ltito the oven, shall He not much more clothe you?” “Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into bams; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them.” Thus Jesus saw the love of the Father in the sun, the rain, the flowers, the grass, and in the birds of the air. And how thankful we ought to be for that divine love as expressed through nature to the children of men. “Back of the bread is the flour, Back of tfhe flour is the mill, And back of the mill is the growing grnin, And the rain, and the Mastert’s will.” Indeed, back of alj the good we have, back of every common blessing of life, is the good-will and loving kindnsss of our Heavenly Father. Surely, if we have any feeling of gratitude in our hearts, we should not’ forget to thank him. Lest we forget. This is particularly ft day of national thanksgiving. As we look back through our history we cannot fali to see how wonderfully God has favored us as a Nation. From the landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock down to the present hour, His favor has continued with us. Surely today we can raise an Ebenezer altar to the God who reigns and rules over the nations and kingdoms of this world, and, with hearts full of gratitude, say. “Hitherto the Lord hath helped us.” “God of our fathers known of old. Lord of our far-flung battle line. Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine: Lord God of hosts, be with us yet, 1/est we forget, lest we forget.” tCopyright, 1925, by John It. Gunn.)

partment this season broke its previous record in the number of fish planted in Indiana streams and lakes. In all 1,978,753 baby bass, bluegills and other edible species, raised in State hatcheries were planted In public waters. If you doubt Mr. Mannfeld's muster roll, count ’em yourself. That’s a lot of fish to propagate for no economic reason, but just to furnish sport for Hoosier Waltons. * But it indicates the possibilities of fish culture on a la*-ge scale. Some economists believe that the human nice is within hailing distance of famine. Rapid increase in world population without any | increase in world area, they say, j will inevitably result in insufficient food supplies and cause a j fierce struggle for existence. They are unduly alarmed. Threefourths of the earth’s surface Is covered with water with food producing resources scarcely touched. Fish hatcheries have been estab. lished for propagating game fish for sportsmen. A few governments also operate hatcheries in a small way to replenish commercial ! fisheries. Oysters are being cultivated scientifically. But these are just the beginning. When man learns to farm the waters of the earth as intensively and intelligently as he now farms the land he will add enough to the world's food supply to put off centuries the evil day of famine _for the so-called human race. commercial landing field S VNDERBILT A.RPORTO, a commercial aviation enterprise headed by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., will establish a landing field in Indianapolis, it is reported. This city is selected for one of a chain of such airports planned between Detroit and Atlanta, Ga., by this company. That’s gratifying. Thero has been some talk for months by local interests of an airport in Indianapolis. Rut nothing has been done. Indianapolis has a premonition that it will in the near future be a center for commercial air lines radiating to other important cities. It has the logic of topography to give substances to the dream. However, though the day of commercial flying—planes carrying mail, express, freight, and passengers on regular schedules—is almost here, Indianapolis is making no special effort to put itself on the air map. Detroit is rapidly becoming the commercial aviation center of the Nation. Not only because of the Ford activities in the flying field, but because Detroit business men are alfve to the possibilities of the air industry. They are going out after it Just as they went after the automobile industry and secured it for Detroit in the early experimental days of the business. It will take something more than premonition and the logic of location to make Indianapolis a commercial flying center. It will have to take active steps to provide landing fields, attract lines and promote aerial development Instead of merely accepting such as voluntarily appear. . %

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The Countess Who Scared Kellogg The other day a hanusome, Titian haaied lady walked into the omce of the American Con-sul-General at Paris. “I wish to have the visa for my issport,” she said. “I wish to go to the' L’nlted States.” "Name, please?” said a clerk in his routine voice. “Countess Karolyi,” the lady replied simply. The clerk started —at least we can imagine him starting—an dthen replied, in effect. “Sorry, Countess, but we can’t give you the vise. You cannot go to the United States. Orders from Washington.” So begun anoiner auventure in the dramatic life of a woman who used to be one of the richest in Europe, but who is n/Sw poor; who once shone in the society of royal Hungary, but who gave it ail up because she believed in Abe Lincoln’s idea of democracy.' Why did Secretary of State Kellogg bar her? Was it because she intended to lecture and he did not want Americans to hear what she has to say? Was it because he was afraid her democratic ideas might prove catching in this country? Curious to know the answers to these questions, the ScrippsHoward newspapers cabled the Countess and invited her to write her story for our readers. We asked her to tell you what she wouk have said to you had Secretary Kellogg allowed her to come to this country. Her intensely interesting revelations begin tomorrow in Tin Indianapolis Times. Watch for Countess Karolyl's own story,

Midget Jazz Band Here

The only midget jazz band in vaudeville comes to the Palace theater today for the last half of this week with Dolly Kramer and ! j billed as the “Tiny R.vncoputors.” These -little entertainers play on regulation size instruments and offer popular melodies. As midgets are not to be found in this country this act was secured recently from Europe. Every member of the orchestra is under three feet in height and aids in presenting a novelty along the musical acts. "Personalities” is reported to be an “as'you like it” revue which may be compared to those musical comedy revues seen In the best "dine and dance” pTaces of New York city. Helen Staples, singer; Amelia Gene and the Dawn sisters, dancers; and Edith England, violinist are the coworkers with Reeves and Leu, comic | entertainers. Masters and Grayce go on "A Picnic for Two,” but when their j good times are over, they have pro- | vided a picnic for all. Songs and i dances fill their humor schedule. "A Cross Roads Flirtation” takes | place between Keene and Williams, dealers In song and patter. A series of comic bits embracing acrobatic feats and dancing are contributed by Dobbs, Clarke, and Ray. Alice Joyca has the leading role supported by Walter Long and I Kenneth Harlan in the film “White | Man." Pathe News, a comedy, and ] topics of the day are the short reels. I -||. -!- Other theaters' today offer: Harry ! Snodgrass, at Keith’s; "The Spirit , of Vaudeville,” at the Lyric: "Clothes j Make the Pirate,” at the Circle; “The | King on Main St„” at the j Ohio: "Stage Struck,” at the Apollo: "Winds of Chance,” at the Circle; "Where Was I?" at the Colonial; j burlesque, at the Broadway; war movies, at the' Capitol, and anew show at the Isis, and "White Cargo,” at ’English’s, with a matinee and night performance. The Indiana .indorsers of photoplays recommend for adults the features at th£ Ohio and Colonial; family, at the Circle and Apollo. They also recommend "The Pdny Express," opening Sunday at the Zarlng, and “Simon, the Jester," at the Palace.

THE SPUDZ FAMILY-By TALBURT

The Mistakes of Kellogg

The Barring of Countess Karolyi By William Philip Simms YyW ASHINOTON, Nov. 26.—Two | W weeks after President Coolidge made his powerful plea at Omaha for tolerance and understanding, his Secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg, slammed America’s door in the face of Countess Karolyi, refusing to allow her to enter this country. The Countess is the wife of Count Michael Karolyi, former president of the Hungarian Republic and daughter of Count Julfcis Andrassy, Austro-Hungary's last Minister of Foreign Affairs. Her husband's ideas of government are copied from the United States, and the Countess, who had to choose between the politics of a Royalist father and a republican husband, chose the latter brand. Countess Karolyi a few days ago went to the American Consul General in Paris to obtain the necessary visa of her passport permitting her |to land at New York. To her I amazement it was refused, on' 1 orders from Washington. She asked why, but was given no answer. Information Lacking Ralph Strassburger, a rock-ribbed Pennsylvania Republican whose wife Countess Karolyi was to have visited, personally hastened to the •State Department to find out why the Countess had been banned. Apparently he got scant satisfaction 'rent Kellogg, for later he appealed o the’ President himself. At the White House he was told the matter , >v;;s in the hands of the State Deartment, but whether this was betuse the President was in agreement with -his Secretary of State Is, or the present, doubtful. Time will | ’most certainly clarify this point. The ban on the Countess was all ! be more amazing because she not ; only visited this country last winter, i but did some lecturing here. And I just before she returned to Europe ! she had taken tlie pains to call at ! the State (Department, where she was told the Department saw nothing in ! her lectures to which is could object. She had called thero not because she doubted her welcome in this country, but to correct certain reports which her husband’s enemies had circulated about him and which in could not deny personally because muzzled by Secretary Kellogg. (Readers will recall that Karolyi was gagged by the State

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Department before he was allowed to land in New York where his wife lay ill, ift a hospital.) Calls Off I/ectures Thinking it i>ssiblt that the State Department had changed its mind | relative to her lectures, which she I had-intended to repeat, the Countess i called these off, and again applied j for the visa—this time for the pur- ■ pose of paying a purely social visit jto America. Tito ban, however, Was ; not lifted. Secretary Kellogg would I not let her In. ! What kind of people, ordinarily, can be barred from this country? Tn the immigration law there Is a secI tion—now under fire and which , probably will bo repealed, <fr altered, [during the coming session of Con- | gress—that makes It possible for the I Secretary of State to play St. Poter- ! ut-the-Gnte to any foreigner who asks to be let in. What I .aw Says But even this law specifies the i categories of aliens who are to be | barred. It Is designed to stop, as I the law itself phrases it: ’’Aliens who advise, advocate, or teach the overthrew by force or vlo- ■ lence of the Government of the I United States or of all forms of law, i or the duty or propriety of assault- [ ing or killing officers of the Government of the United States, or of ' any other organized government, or the unlawful destruction of property, or sabotage; or aliens who write, publish, or cause to be written or published, or who are members of or affiliated with any organization or group that advocates or teaches opposition to aJI organized government.” But Countess Karolyi belongs to none of these categories. Then why wus she barred? To pletuie AdmiralIlorthy, regent of the Hungarian monarchy and enemy of the republican Knrolyis? Was Secretary Kellogg afraid she might overthrew the United State Government hy expressing her Llncolnesque ideas on democracy? On this Kellogg is silent, but Congress may smoke him out. Meantime, Countess Karolyi herself has written for the readers of this newspaper what she had intended to say in the lectures which Kellogg would not let her deliver. The first chapter of the ocountess' own story begins in The Indlanapo lis Times tomorrow.

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