Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1925 — Page 6

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The Shortridge Controversy T is almost inconceivable that any citizens 1 of Indianapolis would deliberately at;empt to block improvement of school condi;ions that are admittedly bad. But for a >eriod of years everything possible has been mt in the way of school building progress, lecessitating the housing of children in buildngs of a type that would not be tolerated in ;ome of the poorest townships in the State. v The latest movement evidently is designed to delay the erection of anew Shortridge High School. A remonstrance against the bond issue for the school is to be referred to the State tax board, unless some agreement can be eached within the next few days. At times the tax board has been exceedingly unfriendly to any plan to improve school conditions. The blocking of plans to erect anew Shortridge will also block plans to build, four more grade school buildings which were to be laid for in part from proceeds of the sale of the present Shortridge plant. Charles and counter-charges of “doublecrossing” are being made in connection with this latest remonstrance. School officials insist that they had an agreement with Taxpayers’ Association that the association would not remonstrate. They contend that the bond issue proposed is $50,000 less than that proposed by the association. Harry Miesse, secretary of the association, contends there was no such agreement. The question of whether or not there was an agreement is not material. The question involved is the necessity for anew Shortridge High School. This necessity is imperative. We are actually reaching the point in Indianapolis where it may become necessary to deny grade school graduates the privilege of attending high school. Such a situation is unthinkable. Indianapolis must have anew high school and its erection must be forced by the people of Indianapolis who believe that the welfare of the youth of the city is more important than their purses.

Indianapolis Real Estate OENLEY T. HOTTEL, secretary of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, says that property values in this city are continually increasing. Land which could be purchased for a song a few years ago, now commands a substantial price. Facts confirm him. For instance a residential lot at the corner of Meridian and Forty-Seventh Sts. sold the other day for $25,000. In 1898 the same lot was purchased for $2,000. An increase in value of 1200 per cent in twenty-seven years. Os course that doesn’t seem much to a Florida realtor who talks glibly of millions. He can tell of men, although he didn’t know them personally, who bought semi-liquid Florida lots for 7 cents after breakfast and sold them before dinner for $7,000,000. Only the Indianapolis transaction cited involved cash money and yielded bankable profits. Which distinguishes it from ordinary real estate boom deals. From time to time Hoosiers are beguiled with wondrous tales of the astounding profits to be made by investing in distant real estate ventures. Such stories may be literally true. But most of those who chase the distant rainbows get nothing but the exercise. ‘ About the best thing any man can do for himself and his family is to get hold of a chunk of Indianapolis and hold on to it. Time and the steady, unspectacular growth of the city will do the rest. 4 4 DON’T bring us posies, when it’s hosies fckat we kneed, ’ ’ is the plea of I. U. co-eds. • * • THEY say a moral wave is sweeping this country. Sometimes we get mad and think it needs sweeping. • • • FARMERS are not the only ones who make their living from the soil. Consider the laundry: • • • JUST because you were married in- a church is no reason for staying away from the place now.

Board of Works to Help

Let Mr Fixit solve your troubles with eit yofficlals. He is The Times' representative at the city hall.. Write him at The Times. The board of works has hearkened to a plea from Mr. Fixit and Will expedite improvements requested by two correspondents. DEAR MR. FIXIT: A deplorable condition exist* in that part of the city between Tibbs Ave. and Eagle ('reek, and from Vermont St. to the C. I. & W, tracks, where we have no sewers of any description. The water stands in pools along Michigan St. and all side streets after a rain. The water has been known to stand for weeks beconfing

By Mr. Fixit

stagnant and as you know detrimental to good health. ROY H. DOOLITTLE, 536 Rochester Ave. DEAR MR. FIXIT: I would like to know why they haven’t built the sidewalk on Harding St., between Thirtieth and Thirty-Second Sts., and put in street lights at Harding Strand Congress Ave. and ThirtySecond St. Does it take a strong political pull or a donation to put things over? I have lived in this dark mudhole’ three years and in that time I have never seen a policeman out here. Do

Critics one in America wins unpopularity more quickly than the critic. Wc are proud of our country, with good reason, and we don’t like to hear anyone cry out about its defects. Our critics always over emphasize these defects. Nothing is quite as bad as they paint it. But Jiey’re useful and we ought to tolerate them. For we can’t progress unless we rectify our faults. And if the critics weren’t so noisy we might get too complacent and selfsatisfied. And complacency is the worst of all faults. Licenses SHE majority of States have as yet failed to enact automobile drivers’ license laws. Properly administered, these laws are highly beneficial. They provide the only means yet devised to keep careless or incompetent drivers off the streets. And they do not bother any legitimate motorist. Eventually every State will have one. Let us hope it is soon.

Debt to the Children

“ |\Y/i E RE going back to the children,” said W a woman who has just remarried her husband after a period of divorce. The couple were the parents of six. Could they have done anything more sensible? I think not. And the chances are that they will be just as happy,. And it may be, as the years go by and their children grow to manhood and womanhood, that there will come to them a measure of content and even a semblance of felicity after the storm and stress of a turbulent early married life. At any rate, men and women who have brought children into the world owe them the duty of making a supreme effort to live together in outward harmony. They owe their children a home with two parents in it. And in this day when the doctrine,of personal happiness and self is preached so persistently and practiced so harmfully, it is necessary that we give some thought to the effect of divorce upon the children. Is personal joy not purchased at too dear a price if it deprives your son of a father? Will life with the other woman offer you any more actual content if, by possessing her, you'are losing to your daughters their mother, or giving them up yourself? These are important questions for parents to ask themselves before they rush to the divorce court. Most people argue that it is quite as bad to bring youngsters up in a home where wrangling and bitterness reign as it is to turn them adrift to shift for themselves. But this is a childish answer. Intelligent men and women, even though they be mismated, should be able so to arrange their lives that their children need not see them always scrapping. Only the most unstable and weak beings allow themselves to resort to childish quarrels before their little ones. But why is it, do you ask, that we have so many fathers and mothers who are juvenile in their behavior and who can put no upon their anger? Simply because we have had so many homes where divorce has stepped in and where children, who are today fathers and mothers, have been deprived of one or both parents when they needed them most. People who rush from one matrimonial alliance into another because of dissatisfaction or anger or money or any other thing, cannot be expected to instill into their offspring very much sturdiness of character. If we can’t stand up ourselves to the knocks of fortune with fortitude, how can we expect to teach our children to do so? A RICH man’s son has a hard time—Has to get his marriages annulled in the newspapers. • • • ALL along we have had the high cost of living and now we face the high cost of giving- .

we have police protection or not? PAUL L. KELLEY, 3145 N. Harding 8L William H. Freeman and Dr. M. J. Spencer, board of works members, assured Mr. Fixit the Improvements will be pushed to completion. City council has refused to add policemen, but there is. an officer in your neighborhood. However, he is assigned to a large district. DEAR MR. FIXIT—I wish you would see about an interurban signal on Twenty-First St. It is a very dangerous crossing as the motorist who goes west on (Twenty-First bt. has to look back to see if there is a car coming. TIMES READER. The board of safety will investigate this condition.

THJS INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

A Sermon for Today By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: -"Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness.”— Ps. 112:4. mREAD recently of how a certain godly widow consecrated, In his infancy, her only son to the Christian ministry: and as she trudged along in her deep poverty, beautiful Interpositions of Providence sprang up In her path like rays of light bursting from the ground. The education of that son for the sacred ministry was a constant struggle and venture of faith. Her Bible was full of pencil marks beside passages from which she evidently received great comfort and encouragement. Among them was the text: “Unto the upright there ariseth light In the darkness.” ‘‘Light in the darkness.” This does not mean the darkness of sin, but the perplexities and difficulties which often shadow the path of duty. The light promised is the light of the Divine countenance. “There be many that say, Who will show us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy couhtenanee upon us.” “Blssed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.” It is the light which reveals a Divine Providence In all the experiences of life. The man upon whose pathway this light shines does not look upon life as an end-

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

■By GAYLORD NELSON-

CHILDREN AND THE STREETS -r-jIOTOR POLICEMEN' arrestyl ed an Indianapolis woman __ J Wednesday on a charge of child neglect because she refused to warn her young son not to play in the street and hop rides on passing wagons. She told the officers her child "has as much right in the street as any one else.” Sure. So has a flivver as much right on a railroad crossing as the Twentieth Century Limited. But it doesn’t do the flivver any good to assert its right at the Instant the train comes along. The most It can hope for In such a dispute Is a broken back and a moral victoryLikewise, parents who Insist on permitting their offspring to play in the streets may be well within their rights. However, those who maintain that attitude. If they have large families, had better hire an undertaker by the year instead of by the Job. Indianapolis is well on the way toward another auto death record this year. A considerable number of the victims of fatal street accidents have been children run down and dismembered. It Is customary to blame fatal accidents on the motorist involved. Perhaps they are largely responsible. Speeding, recklessness, and utter disregard of precautions by drivers take fearful toll. But daywalkers who saunter unconcernedly in the face of traffic and parents who allow their chll dren to play in the streets contribute largely to the casualty list. They can reduce accidents by observing traffic regulations and exercising as much prudence as they expect other street users to show. IF THEY MUST SMOKE, LET ’EM ISS EVELYN BUTLER, dean of women at Butler i___l University, says if college girls are determined to smoke, let ’em. But she adds Butler co-eds are not that type of girls so the smoking question doesn’t Interest authorities of the Indianapolis Institution. The weed, however, Is causing discussion In the large Eastern girls' colleges, precipitated by.the action of Bryn Mawr, In setting aside a smoking room for the students In each dormitoryVassar, Wellesley, Radcllffe, and other colleges frown on smoking, but a large percentage of their students admittedly indulge in surreptitious whiffs. The increasing use of cigarets by the poetically styled gentler sex Is arousing a storm of opposition, dismay and vocal eruption among righteous puritans. They point to it as further proof that the younger generation Is going to perdition. Tobacco may be injurious, but it is not immoral, A girl may smoke, dip snuff, or chew plug tobacco, and retain her ideals the same as her brother. In fact many a pioneer mother solaced herself with a steadily simmering' corncob pipe ' and raised sturdy. God-fearing sons and daughters—many of whom now think it is awful for a girl to smoke. There is no reason why the smoking of girl students should greatly agitate college authorities pro and con. After all whether a girl smokes or not is matter of individual taste like Charlestonlng or wearing red flannel underwear.

NEW TYPE ROADS OA. HUEBOTTER of the Purdue University engineering experiment station, told Indianapolis engineers the other night that "the next twenty-five years will see a complete recasting of thoroughfares, both urban and interurban.” According to him, highway engineers can look forward to a registration of 40,000,000 cars and trucks in this country in the next fifty years Instead of the 17,00,000 now in use. That may be a vision or a nightmare but automobile production facts bear him out. In October, 440,000 automobiles were built and production increases steadily., > v j What 40,600,600 cars will do to otir present road and street system m can be pictured without

less maze. He sees God In It all, and that clears away the confusion. Seeing God In the midst of the vicissitudes and changing circumstances of life, he is able to look upon It as an ordered whole. He sees "all things working for his good,” and knows, whatever may be the perplexities of the present moment, all will end well. It is the light of a Divine hope. "Weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh In the morning.” The man in whose heart burns the light of this hope, Is able to see beyond the dark hours of life’s night seasons to the brighter hours of the coming morning. * But It is only ‘‘unto the \ipright” that such light ariseth in the darkness. Such illumination breaks out only along the pathway of the righteous. No lighgt ariseth in the ways of revolt and transgression: and he who walks In these ways will find himself groping In an everdeepening darkness as the night shadows of life begin to fall upon his pathway. It is not so "unto the upright.” As the Psalmist elsewhere expresses |t, “Light Is sown for the righteous.” He represents the brave doing of our duty by the simile of plowing a- field. We drive the plow, and as we tread along In the path of duty, light is hidden In the furrows, and breaks forth. (Copyright, 1925. by John R. Gunn)

straining the imagination. Already traffic congestion is plaguing the cities and is evident on several lntorurban highways. In a number of places super-high-ways are being constructed to meet the situation—pavements 100 and 200 feet wide. Such a road has been constructed in Mlevhlgan from Detroit to Pontiac. Connecticut is planning a super-highway out of New York along the old Boston Post Road—four paved highways side by side, two for high speed traffic, t\t-o for commercial trucks and slow vehicles. Indiana has an excellent State road system—only a small fraction of which is paved. Scarcely any of the pavement so far laid is over thirty feet wide. In twentyfive years, before the system is completed. It will he inadequate for the Increasing traffic. Where 30foot roadways now exist, 60-foot will he required. There will be no vacations for the taxpayers. Indiana will be spending millions annually for roads for the next couple of centuries. Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writ in* to The Indianapolis Times Waehlngtoo Bureau 1322 New York Ave.. Washington. D C.. iDdoulnr 2 cent* in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and martial ad vies cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will received a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How is Palestine governed today’ After Its eonquets in 1917-1918 by the British forces, Palestine remained under British military administration until July 1, 1920, when a civil administration was set up. The country is at present administered by Great Britain under a mandate, issued by the Council of the TiCftgue of Nations. Juy 24, 1922, that came Into force officially September 29, 1923.

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Countess Karolyi’s Own Story

I.— my VISIT TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT Editors Note: When a lone woman can scare' the Secretary ol State of the most powerful nation on earth because of something she has to , say naturally one wonders what sort of verbal dynamite she packs. Countess Karolyi. wife of the Former president of Hungary, wished to come to America to lecture. Secretary Kedogg banned her. Why! That s the mjstery. But The Indianapolis Times and other Scrippe-Howard newspapers cabled the Countess, asking her to write what she had to say so our readers might see for themselves whether the bail was Justified. The first Installment of the Countess' own story follows: By Countess Karoo 1 (Copyright, 1925 by the ScrlppsHoward Newspapers.) EARIS, Nov. 27 (By Cable).— In the spring of this year I sat on the steamer Montclair which was to take me away from the shores of America to England. I felt Joy that I was returning to my children from whom I had been separated for six long and eventful months, but the same time I was filled with sorrow in leaving the country whose people had so endeared themselves to me. And I lived through again all of the events of those months spent in the new world. America seemed to me In a way my second cradle, where I had been re-born spiritually and physically: spiritually by finding sympathy and friends, whose hospitality and kindness made me forget the six bitter years of exile and persecution; physically, as I had been rescued by the diligent care of the nursing staff of the Postgraduate Hospital, and by the skilful hands of Doctors Spaulding and Erdmann, who had literally saved my life. Owed America Much I owed much to America. Its youthful spirit, courage and vigor was a real revelation to me, and I dijew from it new hope and strength

The Mistakes of Kellogg

Vl—Kellogg vs. Coolidge By William Philip Stmnis 0 RESIDENT COOLIDGE and his Secretary of State, by their public utterances and their acts, appear unmistakably at odds. President Coolidge, at Omaha, gave the country one of the most Inspired messages of his career, deliberately denouncing everything that smacks of bigotry, arrogance or Intolerance. Two wefeks later Secretary Kellogg used his official power to slam America’s door In the face of a woman, the Countess Karolyi, brilliant wife of a nobleman turned democrat and acclaimed president of the Hungarian republic. Neither a red, nor an anarchist, nor a communist, nor the wife of one, the ban on this woman, who admits that America has been her Inspiration, seems to us the limit of official bigotry, arrogance and in : tolerance and precisely the sort of thing the President so soundly denounced. What About President? What can the President think of his secretary of State? What does he thinks of the muzzling of Count Karolyi, whq claims his Ideals are American ideals? W'hat does he think of the barring of Saklatvala, a communist whom even the conservative British let sit In their House of Commons? And what does he think of the ban on Countess Karolyi. upon whose utterances the State Department only a few months ago is said to have very graciously put Its o. k.? While we cannot answer these questions with absolute certainty, we can cite words of the President which would seem to fit the case to a T. "Progress.” he said at Omaha, "depends very largely upon the encouragement of variety. Whatever tends to standardize the community,

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to live up to the Ideals for which I am called upon to suffer so much. Not for a moment did I dream that after these experiences those gates which are guarded %y the statue of liberty would be ruthlessly closed to me. My last action before I left the United States was to call upon Secretary Kellogg at the State Department. My object was not to intervene in the matter of lifting the gag which had been placed upon my husband, as we had our tickets and were booked to leave the United States on the same night. But I felt that as the State Department seemed to have been misled by reports emanating from Hungarian officials as part of their propaganda, I ought to inform the department of miy version of the events to which it had taken exception, and thus disperse the existing misapprehensions. Unfortunately Mr. Kellogg could not see me, and I was interviewed by William B. Castle, chief of the European section of the State Department. Had Not Spoken To make him realize how conscientiously my husband had kept the pledge which had been forced from him in an emergency, I emphasized the point that although I myself was not held back by any pledge, I had abstained from political writing or speaking while my husband was In America so that he could not be accused of using me as his mouthpiece. It was hard to keep silent when my husband was attacked by certain Hungarian newspapers In the United States which were well known to be In the service of the reactionary monarchlstio government of

to establish fixed and rigid modes of thought, tends to fossilize society. "If we all believed In the same thing and thought the same thoughts and applied the same valuations to all the occurrences about us, we should reach a state of equilibrium closely akin to an Intellectual and spiritual paralysis. “It is the ferment of ideas, the clash of disagreeing judgments, the privilege of the individual to develop hts own thoughts and shape his own character, that makes progress possible. "It Is not possible to learn much from those who uniformly agree with us. But many useful things are learned from those who disagree with us; and even when we gain nothing our differences are likely to do us no harm.” Opposing Views {Secretary Kellogg could have no more powerful arraignment than Is contained In these words from the lips of his own chief. Shutting out those whose thoughts differ from ours, which is the Kellogg way, makes impossible “the ferment of Ideas, the clash of disagreeing Judgments, the privilege of the Individual to develop his own thoughts and shape his own character, that makes progress possible.” The President himself has said It and he is right. No matter how we look at It, we cannot see how the President can be In harmony with his Secretary of State. And until he tells us he Is, we prefer to think that he Is not. The whole country rose to him at Omaha and applauded his stand, and we refuse to believe he was voicing a philosophy In which he does not believe or that his words were only as the tinkling cymbal and sounding brass. That would Indeed be a pity. His words deserve to be posted under the glass top oh the desk of the Secretary of State and kept there where he, and all hia successors, can learn to say them by heart.

FRIDAY, NOV. 27, 1925

Hungary, and who, knowing my husband was gagged, hurled at him abuse in the form of calumnious questions which he could not answer on account of the promise which ho had given. In spite of all this, we had both maintained silence. Mr. Castle asked me if I had any Intention of returning to the United State to continue my lecture tour, to which I replied In the affirmative, adding that I hoped there would be no difficulties. No Objections His answer that he saw no reason why I should have difficulties reassured me, and when he asked me about what I would lecture, I told him the topics of my second tour would be the same as my first. As I was sure ho was acquainted with my views and ideas, I asked him If he disapprovad of them, to which he replied that there was nothing that he or the State Department could object to. \Vhen I left the State Department building I felt that the difficulties with which we had been beset in America had been surmounted, and that we had acquitted ourselves triumphantly In the face of trying circumstances in which we had been placed. And now I felt that I would be Justified, and would be running no risk’s In'negotiating with my agent, William B. Feaklna, for my seend lecture tour. I asked for my visa on Oct, 16 of this year at the American consulate In Paris, and was amazed to hear that they had been informed from Washington that they must await instructions before granting my request. I could only believe that they was some misunderstanding,, and that I would have to wait only a day or two for everything to be favorably settled. Request Refused Unfortunately, my optimism was not Justified, and I got a note from the American consul saying that my request for a visa had been refused. Why? For what reason? I cannot say, for when I asked the reasons, they refused to disclose them to me. Does the State Department not give me credit for my ultra-fair attitude during the last season? If I have committed sins against the interests of the Amdrican republic, why cannot the American people be told what these crimes are? Perhaps nowhere In the world Is the desire to give everybody a chance so strong as it is in America: Why cannot this this principle be applied to me? I am not conceited enough to believe that Mr. Kellogg thinks that my presence in the United States—even my lectures—could have constituted a danger to the most powerful country In the world. It can only be the social Influence of courtesy toward the present rulers of Hungary that Is hampering Mr. Kellogg. Why Is It that In the country of Washington, Lafayette and Lincoln those who believe in republicanism and democracy are prevented from expressing their views, while monarchlstlc propaganda of all kinds can be carried on without restriction? / I may he hurt by the attitude of the American State Department toward me, but there will be no bitterness to envenom my strong feelings of gratitude toward America and the American people. TOMORROW: “My Life in Hungary Before the War.” Can you suggest a cheap but effective furniture cleanser and polish? A mixture of two tablespoons of olive oil, one tablespoon of strong vlnegaJ- and one-half tablespoon of spirits of turpentine will be found effective. Applied with a soft cloth. It will remove any spots of dirt If rubbed afterward with a dry cloth a good polish will result.

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