Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1925 — Page 6

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I The Indianapolis Times I ROT W. HOWARD, President. ■fEUX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MATBOHN. 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 dailv 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. . and

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Razzing the Plan Commission EVERAL members of the Indianapolis city council, at that body’s meeting the ither night, vigorously attacked the plan comnission during discussion of an amendment to the zoning ordinance. The razzing was quite in accordance with he usual eouncilmanic custom. Usually when there is a lull in proceedings at a council session some incandescent councilman sets fire to the city plan commission. It’s a habit. Zoning regulations are necessary for tlie Logical growth of the city—to prevent glue factories, churches, filling stations, dwellings and ill sorts of structures being jumbled together haphazardly in all sections of town. But apparently that isn’t the chief purpose of the Indianapolis zoning ordinance. It seems to exist primarily as an excuse for amendments. It is pushed hither and yon bythe plan commission to permit a filling station on this residential corner and refuse one on that. A big building project is allowed to creep several feet over the established building line. Permission to complete a twenty-four-foot home started on a 30-foot lot is denied. If the zoning idea is to bear any fruit, and the plan commission is to justify its existence, regulations onoe adopted must be enforced impartially and not pulled and hauled to fit individual cases. Between the vagaries of the plan commission and the fulminations of city councilmen Indianapolis zoning plans don’t know whether they are coming or going. Governor Lowden Steps in TT OST political observers felt that President *** Coolidge reduced his prestige in the middle and northwestern farming States by his recent speech in Chicago. His pleasant picture of the independent farmer didn’t go down so well in the bank-busting belt. Nor did his idea that the farmer is one citizen who cannot be aided by the Government. The organization which he traveled to Chicago to address waited only until he had taken his train and then adopted resolutions directly contrary to his suggestions. The first politician of importance to step I into the wide opening made by the President is former Governor Frank 0. Lowden of Illinois, who came so near being nominated for the presidency in 1920 and who is suspected of still cherishing high, ambitions. Lowden, who is a business farmer on a big scale and a successful one, has been studying the agricultural problem to the exclusion of most every other question the past several years. He has been speaking to farmers’ organizations in all corners of the country and it has become hard for anyone with ideas on the subject to pass through Chicago without engaging in conversation with him. Interviewed a few days ago, he said: “I do not yield to the view that this re public, through failure to 1 reach a sound agrarian policy, has begun to decay, and must gd dowr} as other republics have gone down. ; “We are beginning to question the orthodox views ol the so-called law of supply <] demand. We must listen to the newer economists, take the findings of scientists and use them.” Then he proceeded to declare that he didn’t believe the farmers could ever go back to their'independence as units in civilization, that they will be able to solve their prob-

The Road to a Man’s Heart

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson •*jr-pt ! HE way to a man’s heart Is through his stomach." I" Have you ever heard that oblc sentiment? What a sweet, "miliar sound it lias in feminine i;ars, and how long and well it has : jrved gluttonous mankind. • The conversations we women have listened to about husbands who had to have their pie three times a week; the doughnuts whose fryings we l.iave heard about; the boastings of wives whose spouses could devour verity-seven pancakes at a sitting! The mental pictures we have cari ied about of men leaning perpetuity over groaning tallies eating food I wing perpetually prepared for them l*,v dutiful wives. And, remembering these things, • icalling all those broken down women whom I knew in my childhood, i hose tired souls Who stood; over coal ranges and baked pies and cakes and custards, and put up Jani3 and jellies, and roasted hams and fried sausages, I somehow can’t seem to get -into much of a stew about these poor modern men who are compelled to get the most of their food from lire delicatessen store. Why, in order to evep things up, the men ought to have to exist on

lem for themselves. That much for Mr. Coolidge’s position. As for constructive measures, he suggested: “I suggest a Federal farm board. Suppose that board found the producers of any farm commodity were sufficiently to be really representative of all the producers of that commodity. Suppose it should authorize such producers to form a corporation to take care of the surplus, either storing it to meet a possible future domestic need, or exporting it upon the best terms available, the expenses and losses incurred to be borne proportionately by all the producers of that commodity. “Such a board could function successfully only if it operated through co-operative commodity associations. It is vital to any plan that it should be so framed that it strengthen and not weaken the co-operative movement, for in that movement lies the best hope for the future of American agriculture.” The White House, not aware of the activities of this outstanding and ambitious Republican, probably is pondering his words and watching to observe their effect.

Sheer Buncombe! fyy7| ASIHNGTON seems to be having a ter--IW| rible time deciding what to do Avith the League of Nations’ invitation to help prepare program for another arms conference. Confabs at the White House are followed by whisperings at the Capitol* Senator Borah confers with Secretary Kellogg and Colonel House is closeted with President* Coolidge. Then they all change partners and swing round again. Why all this to-do? A Washington observer lets us in on the big secret. “The invitation really presents a knotty problem,” he says. “The United States is bent upon remaining free from entanglements abroad!” The old, familiar chestnut. The answer, of course, is pish, tush and piffle; likewise pure and unadulterated buncombe! President Coolidge has been telling the country, ever since he entered the White House, that he favors another arms conference. In fact he has intimated he would call one himself as soon as Europe showed signs of burying the hatchet. And now that she has done so—at Locarno—the world, including Mr. Coolidge, has admitted that the moment for the parley seems at hand. But Washington, oddly enough, is now stalling. It talks of “entanglements” despite the fact that the league’s invitation is not to an arms conference at all, but merely to arrange for one. There can be no more question of “foreign entanglements” in accepting such a bid than you entangled the United Avith China the last time you ate chop suey. The truth is some of the politicians are terribly afraid the league may gain a little glory. You heard no talk of “entanglements” back in 1921 when this country called the conference. Yet America was running quite obvious to risks. She was bound, in advance, to stick to the conference, win or lose, It Avas her conference and failure meant a big bloAv to her prestige. Should she attend a similar conference, held elsewhere, she would patently be perfectly free, at any time, to AvithdraAV and return home the moment things took a turn contrary to her policies. President Coolidge has let it be known that he is for the parley. But he can not depend upon his oAvn party to back him up. He must go outside for support. What America needs most right now is more statesmen and fewer Her popularity outside the country is at low ebb and here you have one of the reasons why.

I shredded wheat biscuit for a hun- | dred years, and then they will not i have expatiated the sins of their i fathers. And imagine the manly heart that loved a woman merely for the food she cooked for him? Think of those poor dead and gone sisters who clutched to their hungry souls the affection which glowed for them only after a hearty meal? Os course, everybody must eat, but according to the records, that’s about all that husbands have been doing for the past thousand years or so, so let them take up fasting for a lime, It can’t possibly hurt them, and it may do them some i good, ’ The men put out ull this stuff about being grouchy and in a bad humor until they are fed, as If, forsooth, they were lions in a zoo. Wliat’s to prevent them from using the same poise we practice and keep their tempers until breakfast is ready | or dinner is served? They make an awful howl about our mercenary ways. But if the way to a man’s heart Is through his stomach, than why should they complain I if the to our hearts is by way of their vocketboolts?

Santa Claus Busy in Hoosierdom

f j-v J RIGHTLY decorated Christie) I mas trees BXO serving the ' 1 double purpose of decorations and traffic policemen at Orawfordsville. At the suggestion of Police Chief Shields the trees were installed again this year after a similar Plan,, last year met with instant success. The Ledger-Tribune at Attica is going to play Santa Claus so the kiddies may enjoy Christmas this year. The newspaper is receiving contributions which will go into a goodfellows’ fund to purchase toys and candies for the youngsters. Rushvillc’s municipal Christmas tree is blazing forth in all its glory of electric lights these nights. The tree was donated by Horrie Brooks, who resides near the city. Santa Claus is having a busy time at the various parties and festivals given for the kiddies in Richmond. It hrs been estimated that already (he patron Saint of the youngsters has answered more than a million questions.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

A Sermon for Today —————By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: "And she brought forth her first-born son and wrapped him '.ii swaddling clothes and laid him n a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.”— Luke 2:7. , T | DECREE had gone out from j Caesar Augustus that all the --—I Avorld should be taxed. And ail went to be taxed, everyone to his OAvn city. It avus this- that brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem. It brought hundreds of others and the little village was crowded to the limit. Joseph and Mary applied at the inn for a place to lodge, but there was no room and they were sent to the stable for lodgings. That night Jesus was born and cradled in a manger. Many times as we have read this story we have grown indignant. We have felt that the Savior was treated very rudely. How unkind, we say, how cruel, that Joseph and his expectant spouse should be crowded out of tire inn and forced to lodge in a stable! How unfortunate that the Savior of the world should be accorded such treatment at his birth!

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

NOT SO PROSPEROUS PPOI NT M E-NT of u receiver recently on petition of ■ creditors of the Indiana Red Ball Lines, Inc., and the Union Bus Station Company, reveals that the operators of Intercity motor busses are not finding the business all ambrosia and nectar. At least, the Indiana Red Ball Lines, Inc., one of the largest operators of lines out of Indianapolis, is not so prosperous. The receiver says the financial difficulties of the company are not due to lack of patronage by the traveling public, but to inadequate rates. The company has not been able to earn operating expenses and return on the investment. He will ask the public service commission for a fare increase. Ikfet week another large bus operator was granted a rate increase by the commission on the same plea. These incidents should hearten other transportation agencies that have shuddered over the specter of bus competition, fearing that they would be wiped out of existence, No doubt motor busses will occupy an important place In the transit field—but to find their proper place and fit them to it ■will take time, grief and experiment.

SCHOOLS HIT ANOTHER SNAG mUDGE GIVAN, in Superior Court, Monday, temporarily enjoined the Indianapolis school board from executing contracts Avith architects for constructing six new grade schools. The action was on petition of a local taxpayer. So the school bhilding program hits another snag. That’s one of the best things it does. For the past month or two the expiring school board has been feverishly active over the building program, after a couple of years’ discussion of the necessity for increasing school contructlon. But because of objections, procrastinations and legal hurdles, probably nothing more will be done until the present board dies and the new school commissioners take office. Whether the old hoard or the new should let contracts and proceed with the details of providing new school facilities doesn’t greatly interest the average citizen. All he wants is decent school facilities for his children as soon as possible —the doing away of present congested and unsatisfactory school rooms. He doesn’t care who supervises the construction of the new buildings; he wants the buildings. No one seriously denies the need of the new buildings proposed. But unless the building program shows more speed than it has in the last two months the new buildings won’t be completed in time to benefit this generation of school children. Schools can’t be built on paper or in court.

MR. FIXIT Sherman and Washington Crossing Too Rough, 4s Report.

Bet Mr. Fixit solve yonr problems with city officials. He to The Times representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. Sheridan Ave. and E. Washington St., is a rough and rocky crossing, a correspondent informed Mr. Fixit today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: The bumps and holes at E. Washington St. and Sheridan Ave., nearly drive me wild. Can't something be done? BUSINESS WOMAN. W. P. Hargon, clerk of the street commission’s office, is eager to help and will do so if funds last. DEAR MR. FIXIT: I wrote you some time ago about bicycles not having lights, especially on the rear. Nothing has been done. Last week one night I counted seventy-nine bicycles and none had a light- One day this week I counted ninety-two bicycles without licenses. I. WHATNOT. Police are instructed to arrest violators you mention, along with the speeders they're looking far. TO HAINES AYES. PROPERTY OWNERS: Ton must petition the board of works for grading *nd graveling the street.

But how about the treatment we give Him today? If we feel indignant at the treatment. He received at the time of His birth, what about our treatment of Hirn? If we think the-innkeeper was unkind and inhospitable when he shut him out of the inn and sent Him to the stable, how unkind and inhospitable are we today when we shut Him out of our homes, our he4rts and lives. The innkeeper did not know and we can excuse him. But we cannot excuse. ourselves on this ground. We know about Him, and in a thousand ways we have been the recipient# of His kindness and love. And yet, many of us are still crowding Him out. We have no foom for Him. Let us at this Christmas season ponder this matter. If we have been shutting Him out of our homes, if we have been shutting Him out of our hearts, if we have been crowding Him out of our lives, let us make a place for Him. How His presence hallowed that stable in Be-thlehem! And what a hallowing influence His presence will—bring to our homes and into our lives! (Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn.)

STILLS HIDE EVERYWHERE \Y J HEN Sheriff Saunders of Boone County, reached the ——— scene of an automobile collision near Lebanon, Monday, he found hi the back seat of oqo of the wrecked machines a still bubbling merrily. It was doing its stuff despite the collision. The discovery was not so amazing. In these desiccated days illicit moonshine stills hide everywhere. They are found in kitchens, under beds, in parlors garages, barns, outhouses, henhouses, cellars and demounted and burled In rubbish. To find one simmering contentedly in the back seat of a flivver is not strangti. The dlstilatlon of potable liquor Is an intricate process, requiring scrupulously clean apparatus, expert supervision, and sanitary surroundings. Even then the product must be aged before It is fit to drink. What sort of output can be expectod from the average makeshift still confiscated in Indiana? Embalming fluid would be a safer, tastier beverage. The boys who are addicted td the moonshine manufactured in back seats of fllAwers, and other unconventional places, won't trouble prohibition authorities long. Soon they won’t have to be Avatched; they’ll have to be burled. Ask The Times A'<xt can rat an anaw&r to an* question of fact or information by wrlt'nr to The Indianapolis Time* Wanhliirton Bureau. 1332 New Turk Are.. Washington. p. C.. luclosimr 5 esnta In stamp* for reply. Medical, legsi and martial advice cannot be riven nor can extended rc#aj-i')i h uiid~r taken. AH other queat’ona will received a personal reply. Unsigned request* cajinot he answered. AH letter* are confidential.—Editor. What is the "Federal board for vocational education?” An independent Government board created in 1917 to administer the funds appropriated by the Federal Government for education in agriculture and various trades. Allotments to the States from this fund are conditioned upon the payment of equal amour t by the State or local authorities having the training in charge. The Federal vocational rehabilitation act, approved Juno 27, 1918, and the amendment of July 11, 1919, charged the board with the duty of furnishing vocational rehabilitation to every member of the military or naval forces of tlio United States discharged with a disability of service origin, who needed vocational rehabilitation to overcome the handicap of such dlsablltly. The civilian rehabilitation not of June 3, 1920, constituted the board an administrative agency for the Federal Government to cooperate with the States In rehabilitating and restoring to remunerati\ r e occupations any persons disabled in Industry or otherwise.

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Let Santa Claus Come Out of Phonograph Before the Tree on Christmas Morning

He Whispers

Art Gillhaiu

Rather think that Art Gillham will soon be known as "The Nick Lucas of the Piano.’’ Art whispers his songs and gats -chummy, mighty chummy, with you. His new Columbia releases are real delights.

The SAFETY VALVE It Blow* When the Pressure 1* Too Great. By The Stoker

The man who pays SIOO for a memorial half-dollar in the campaign to raise money for something and is photographed in the act for the Sunday supplements gets about $99 the best of the bargain in free advertising. * • * Os course it is too late now, but if they had asked this repository of wisdom, we could have told them something bet.ter to do with those thirty-one wooden ships which were v/astefully burned “for the junk.” Any one who has read his Dickens know3 what a wonderful house was that of Peggotty and Ham In the old stranded boat. Or the boats might ha\*e been towed to bathing beaches and used for bath houses; or taken to Florida to relieve the acute housing famine; or given to the movies to be blown up as pirate ships; or reduced to fireplace wood; or sold to “inferior nations” for a navy. Just to burn them seems to us lacking in imagination. • • • We hear now that Florida realtors have taken to wearing white plusfours, so that they may recognize one another and save their energies for genuine prospects. • • • CUM ATI'! FATAL TO HUSBANDS California claims more widows according to her population than any other State. About 13 per cent of the women over 15 are widows, according to the census bureau. • * • HURDI.ES IN THE PATH OF PROGRESS The first bath tub In the United States was installed by Adam Thompson, a wealthy grain and cotton dealer, of Cincinnati, in 1842. lie had lately returned from London, where he had heard that the prime minister had such a device. On Dec. 20, 1842, he had a party of gentlemen to dinner, all of whom tried out the new invention. The following day the story was in the papers and Thompson was attacked both by doctors and politicians. We do not find that Thompson was required to pay a fine, but the discussion in connection with the bathtub resulted In A-a-rious measures for the restriction of their use. The common council of Philadelphia considered an ordinance to prevent any such bathing between the months of November and March. Virginia laid a tax of S3O per year on all bath tubs and extra heavy water rates. In Boston there was an ordinance forbidding their use except on medical advice. —J. Gruber’s Town and Country Almanack.

By Walter D. Hickman j o you know that the children Jj I may hear the voice of Santa l 1 * Claus himself on Christmas morning. Because he is hiding in your phonograph if you make the necessary arrangements. The voice of Santa, talking to the children from the phonograph on Christmas morning Avill be most delightful. It can be done with the greatest ease. Just get hold of the Brunswick comedy record, ‘ Santa Claus Hides in the Phonograph,” by Santa Claus Himself (Ernest Hare). In the most kindly voice Santa Claus greets the children from the phonograph. He tells them that tye doesn't look so Avell on Christmas morning, because he has been going down chimneys all night and that his beautiful red coat all trimmed in white fur is covered Avith black soot. But Santa Claus is happy, because millions of little boys and girls all over the land have been visited by him. He bids the children to beat their drums, the girls to play with their dolls and then he sings a little song, slips away from the phonograph to remain for a whole year in his toy shop at the North Pole or where his home happens to be. Try this Brunswick record on Christmas morning. Let the voice of Santa awaken the children even if it is 5 a. m. It will increase the spirit of Christmas among the children a thousand per cent. Let there be music in the home on Christmas Day. I suggest that you buy records especially for this occasion. I have received many such records for review from Brunswick, Odeon, Okeh, Columbia and other makes. I suggest this following Ideal Christmas day program In your own homo upon your own phonograph : Emmy Bettendorf, soprano with pipe organ, singing "Silent Night. Holy Night.” One other side. "O Sanctissima,” as played by Fritz Ohrmann, pipe and Julius Berger, cello. It Is an Odeon recorded In Europe. "Choral Phantasy Praise the Lord,” played by Paul Mania at the pipe organ. A marvelous number and it brings the right mental attitude on Christmas. On other side: “Choral Prelude,” played by Kurt Grosse at the organ. An Odeon record. k "Silent Night,” a Christmas hymn played by the Fredrlo Fradkin Trio.

Lady Asquith Likes Hugging—Shank OADY ASQUITH, wife of Former Premier Asquith of Great Britain, liked American hugging. That’s the story Mayor Shank told the board of safety. He said Mayor Kiel of St. Louis, was his Informant. Kiel and Lady Asquith were riding in an automobile when she came to St. Louis recently. "Do you mind if I put my arm on the back of the seat to fix this?” Kiel asked her, Shank said Kiel told him. "Why I wouldn't mind if you put it around me,” Lady , Asquith is said to have roguishly replied. "And I did,” Kiel told Shank. "She wrote me a letter referring humorously to the incident and praising* American hugging.”

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23,1923

With Faversham

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Edith Campbell

In the support of William Faversham and Sarah Truax, opening Thursday night at English’s for three days Including a Friday matinee, will be Edith Campbell. The play is "Foot-Loose,” by Zoe Akins. Other side, “Holy Night,” by same organization. The wonderous beauty of these Avonderful melodies are fully developed upon the Brunswick record. “Kinky Kids’ Paradise,” one of those light joyful things which will make the kiddies march. On other side, “Charlestonette.” Both played on a Brunswick by Bennie Krueger’s orchestra. Okeh also hits “Kinky Kids’ Paradise," which sounds a good deal like "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers,” played by Vincent Lopez and his Hotel Pennsylvania orchestra. “LoAing Just You,” written by Art Gillham and Olsen, played and sung by Gillham in that chummy and intimate way. It is sentimental and gets right into thf* heart. On other | side, “Are You Sorry?,” just the thing If you are sorry and still in love. You will find Gillham, known as “The Whispering Pianist," on a Columbia record only. Then you will get Gillham again on a Columbia. singing "I Had Someone Else Before I Had You” and “You May Be Lonesome." Splendid. I “Gultarre” and “Nobody Knows De Trouble I’ve Seen.” a negro spiritual, both played in all of their haunting beauty by Albert Spalding, violinist. Pianoforte by Andre Bernolst. A fine Brunswick purchase. | “Merry Christmas,” a descriptive medley, filled with Christmas spirit played by Bejos Bela and his foreign orchestra on a two-par Odeon record. | I have played all of these records : and many others of the new Christj mas releases and I recommend this list without any fear. • * • Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Bungle Love" at the Palace: Stella Mayhew at Keith’s: "Dancing Pirates” at the Lyric: burlesque at the Broadway; "The Scarlet West” and Rose’s Midgets at the Circle; “A Woman of the World” at the Apollo; "Mannequin” at the Ohio: “When the Door Opened” at the Colonial, and "The Desert’s Price” at the Isis. William Fave’-sham opens Thursday night at English's in “FootLoose.”