Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1926 — Page 4

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The. Booze Squad Controversy mUE new city administration has abolished the booze squad. It isn’t a bad idea—unless the police department is to be divided into separate squads throughout, with a homicide squad, a hold-up squad, a burglary squad, an auto theft squad, and so on. Perhaps with the abolishment of the booze squad the entire police force will take an interest in enforcement of the prohibition law. The only way to bring about law enforcement is to charge every man on the force with responsibility for enforcing all the laws and to see that he lives up to that responsibility. Letting every man understand that he is equally responsible with every other man for the performance of his duty does away with the “let-George-do-it” attitiude. If Chief Johnson goes through with his law enforcement promises it is safe to say that better liquor law enforcement will result than could ever be obtained through the maintenance of a booze squad. , Real Boosting B r "““ OTH Marmon and Stutz, the leading Indi__J anapolis automobile manufacturing concerns, have been taking active steps to increase their business —and, incidentally, to boom Indianapolis. This is the kind of city boosting that pays. It is the kind that gives men and women employment and thus adds to the permanent prosperity of the city. One factory working full time or overtime is of more benefit to the city than all the parardes, red fire and oratory that ever were let loose on a community. The way to boost the community is to get busy and work at producing prosperity. Actual work-goes much farther than talk. More power to Marmon and Stutz.

Doiyt Get the Cart Before the Horse "xTOW that President Coolidge has signified I M his intention to have the United States represented at the Geneva arms conference, it is important that we should not lose sight of what it signifies. Reduction of armament is an effect, not a* cause. Big armies and navies are the result of menacing international situations rather than the cause of tjiem. Kaiser Wilhelm 11 created a big army and a'big navy because his ambitions were so vast he knew he. would rwp imminent risk of war in realizing them.' Prance’s big army was the result of her fear of Germany. Britain’s stupendous navy was the inevitable result of her far-flung empire vfrhich, at ajiy time, she might have to defend against rival empires. And so the World War was pot the result of big armies and big navies, but because of clashing international policies and fears. The United ‘States Army today is the smallest army of any great power on earth. Why? It is quite simple. We have no neighbors that can invade us, and we have no intention of invading any of our neighbors. ’ the United States Navy is as powerful as any on earth. Why? Again the answer is obvious. We have interests to protect overseas and our own extensive shores to defend. Measuring the menace as carefully as we can,

MR. FIXIT

Reader Complains That Dogs Have Ruined Yard This Winter.

Let Mr. Ftacit solvr your ttvurfea with city officials. He is The Times’ • representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. One would say hogs, not dogs, were promenading on a certain lawn on Bancroft according to a letter received by-Mr. Fixit today/ DEAR MR. FIXIT: What can be done to rid our neighborhood of a nuisance in the form of a dog? The man who owns it has ruined his Own yard as well as mine. I have spent time and money to get my yard in conditiqn and now from haviift: six to eight dogs in it daily all wTftter, it looks like I had kept hogs In it this winter. All the neighbors as well as myself will have our spring flowers broken down after spending money and time in buying flowering bulbs. TAXPAYER. Go to the police station and swear out a warrant against the owner of the dog, If he refuses to pen him up. You have that legal right. ' | 4 DEAR MR. I wrote you some time ago about a light at Church and McCarty Sts., but you failed even to put it in the paper. I just ot homo when I glanced

we rightly insist upon having a navy as'powerful as any that could possibly attack us. And so it goes. In 1922 we agreed partially to limit the size of our Navy. But, mark you, the five-power navaPpact did not come until after a dangerous situation in the Pacific had been thoroughly discussed and cleared up by a number of international agreements. So be assured of this: Whatever of arms reduction or limitation riiay be arrived at at the next conference, it will be an exact measure of the world’s sense of security against another war. Disarmament is not, and cannot be, ‘the mother of peace. It is peace that is the mother of disarmament. If we have disarmament of the mind, disarmament of the hands will follow for the world, including the United States, to work together toward international understanding. What Children Are Learning ✓ n EADING, writing and arithmetic. They are on the wane in modern American schoolroms, those three R’s of yesterday. Back in 1888, when youngsters were still taught to the tune of a hickory stick, school teachers devoted an average of 902 minutes a week to penmanship. Today the average time has been reduced to 567 minutes', according to an investigation throughout the country just completed by the National Education Association. Arithmetic instruction during the • last thirty-seven years has been reduced from 1,671 to 1,451 minutes a week; reading instruction, from 2,332 to 2,003 minutes; spelling instruction, from 832 to 598 minutes. • The time saved is being devoted to additional instruction in language, history, civics, geography, music and physical exercise, the investigators discovered, instruction in social studies, including civics and history, has increased from 901 tq 1,409 minutes. Physical training now gets 873 minutes as compared with 373 minutes a week in 1888. The survey indicated that spelling bees Would never again return to favor. Instead of requiring children to learn to spell such words as “chirbgraphy ” and “nemonics,” the modern school centers its spelling drills on the 3,000 or 4,000 most common words in the language, such words as “t 00,.” “believe” and “separate. ” In geography the modern teacher never asks a student to answer such a question as “What peninsula is south of Siam?” A typical modern question is: “Geography of Baltimore; discuss advantages of location, industrial importance, commercial advantages ami living conditions. ” The National Education Association contends the modern system fits a child more efficiently for life as a useful and active-minded citizen. V TIIE President might solve the BrysonUpdike controversy by breakinig his silence and saying “No” to Ralph. * # * CONGRESSMAN UPDIKE persists in seeing President Coolidge. Knowing both of them, tve ’ll wager Updike does most of the talking. * • • ISN’T it strange that in view of all these salary injunctions no State employe has enjoined the budget commissioned f/om increasing his salary?

A Sermon for Today By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: “Now while Paul visited at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to Idolatry."—Acts 11:16. I- | WELL-KNOWN poet, a prolyl fessor of Northwestern Uni1— I versity, flees tragic life of city, goes to- the forests of northern Wisconsin to seek the unspoiled society and surroundings of the woods. So ran a front-page announcement in a recent issue of'The Times. The modern city, “with its emotional stress. Its social complexity, its hothouse coddling, its jazzy life, destroys happiness and manhood,” de-1 clared the runaway poet. “I want to get away from it all," he said, “away from the shrieking taxicabs, the jazz bands, the jammed street cars, the mad hurlyburly, the stench and the smoke." ♦ I have no wafd of censure for this poet. Let us hope that he /nay send across the street and saw a man crawl big on all fours up the hill which* is in the alley between •Capitol Ave. and Church St. So yow see the danger which exists. MJSS INDIGNANT READER Roy C. Shaneberger, board of works president, told Mr. Fixit the board would be plcx-sed to consider a petition signed by you and your neighbors, You may obtain a blank form for tl)e petition at the board cf works pffice in the city hall. Get as miny signatures as possible. \

back to us from his place of seclusion many poems that will reveal to us new visions of life and its spiritual beauty. V et, aa I read the account of his aotoin, I could not but recall one’ ot George MacDonald's ■ poems, which, in part, is as follows: V said. “Let me walk in the fields.’ He said No, walk ill the town." I Mid, 'There are no fiowerg there." He said, “No flowers, Jbut a crown.” I mJ<l, “But the skies are black; There Is nothin? but noise and din-" He wept as He sent me back: There is more.” He said. “There Is sin. ' I said, “But the air is thick Arid fogw are veiling- the sun.” .He answered, "Yet sou's are siok And souls in the dark undone." The author is evidently speaking of his own experience. He halts between the lure of the fields and the call of the city. As the poem goes on, he finally represents himself as casting one last look at the field and then setting his face to the town, leaving the flowers for the crown. And as he goes about the city, ministering to its need, he finds himself walking with light divine the path he had feared to see. Os Paul it was said, “His spirit was stirred in Ijim, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.” He saw in “the tragic life of the city,” not something to flee from, but sorhething that stirred his soul with comjxission' and called him to its relief. And to this call he at once responded As between Paul and our fleeing poet, who will question that the great Apostle chose the better way. (Copyright, 1926 hv .Tnh r tlmrl )

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■RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

A SACRIFICE ... TO THE LORD KS. MARGARET HOUSE. a middle-aged wife and i___J mother of Shelbyville, Ind., crawled, under intense religious excitation, into the furnace at her home, Tuesday, and was burned to death. She had previously announced she ' would offer herself as “a living sacrifice to the Lord.” Os course she was temporarily deranged. But It seems incredible that such an act of voluntary immolation in the name of religion ould occur in Indiana In 1926. However, strange things are still done in the name of Christianity. Recently an gged French priest was seized, stripped and scourged with knotted cords by members of a fanatical order, including several elderly women, to expel from his body the “evil spirits which possessed it.” They believed they were thus glorifying God and exorcising the devil. An echo of the superstition of the Middle Ages. The priest is In the hospital and jail. "God is Love.” wrote inspired evangelist. And>that Is the central theme *of all the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Yet nineteen hundred years later we find so-called Christians believing in a God of vengeance who must be propitiated by burnt offerings, physical torture, and pagan rites like Moloch. It will take a long time for Christianity to soak in, AN UN-AMERICAN BUSINESS C 1 IHATO.ES M. FILI.MORE of Indianapolis, secretary t*f —— the No-Tohaeco League of America, has huiled a challenge to the Tobacco Salesmen’s Association to debate whether-or not promiscuous smoking and'chewing of tobacco is an abuse of personal liberty* AIL because the weed vendors condemned the recent letters of the Xo-Tobars to President Coolidge and Vice President Dawes—asking thoge officials to swear off smoking—as an Invasion of personal liberty. In reply, the No-Tobac orflanization says “the tobacco business is one of the, most un-American Institutions in our country.” The charge has a familiar ring. “Un-American'* is the favorite epithet organized uplifters and crusaders apply to those who do not see eye to eye with them and don't joyfully join with them to regulate everything. The tobacco habit may be filthy, wicked and devastating, but the tobacco business in the most American thing In America. It's a native. The weed was cultivated and used here before the ancestors of the No-Tobac gentlemen ever set foot on this continent. Intolerance and the efforts of rabid crusaders to thrust reforms on an unwilling people, to regulate personal habits and dragoon private consciences, are the most un-American manifestations of the times.

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran

The Fireside N m’M not askip’ much of this world where man lives, 'cause I feel that I've had a good share. But, one little thing, that I’m glad that it gives, is a fireplace and comfortable chair. I want to sit back, when my day's work is done, and gaze in ttye embers that glow. That's something, to me, that’s a whole lot of fun. I’ve tried it, an' I ought td know. The peace and the quiet, of logs burnin’ bright, put worries and frettings to rout. For they, like the smoke and the fumes, rise at night, and did ft till they’ve all faded out. At ease! That's the thing a man needs now and then, to clear up a mind that is qching. A loaf by a fireside's a good thing for men, and women, and well worth the t^ung. So let the logs crackle, and pull up your chair. With spirit of loafing be blest. Then gather around you, a_/amlly affair, and give all their minds a good rest. • • * Judge: Wliat became of that last case? I hill if: Tliat’s already been tried, yer honor, an’ it’s full of empty bottles. ' * • • If you took all the steps that father uses in walking the baby to sleep, and put them in a haphazard line, who cares Jjow far they would reach? , * * * * It’s the popularity of a piece of new music that makes radio broadcasters use it until it loses its popularity. • • • NOW, HONESTLY So you’re broke, huh? Well, \vhat are you doing about it borrowing? Why, you’ve o"hly got to pay back what someone else loans you. The better way out is to plug that much harder and bring in more finances. And then, when you get more, pay a bit of attention to the expression, “lay something-aside for a rainy day.” Be careful it doesn’t rain I. O. V'b. * • • "I miss my husband,” said friend wife. Now, .isn't that a shame? For she had spent ’bout half her life, At taking proper aim. * • • When a fellow proposes these days he can’t get down on his knees, mainly because the girl is usually ,t rtng on them,.

DIVORCE COURT VICTIM ■priRANCIS MURRAY, 16-year-H old boy, who recently lost ——J his hands in an explosion in Houston, Tex., is coming to Indianapolis as soon as he can leave the hospital, to his mother frorr whom he has x been separated fifteen years. When a baby his parents were divorced and his mother, unable to keep him, placed him in an orphan asylum. She lost track of him and he became a homeless waif, shifting for himself, growing up with- ' out parental love or guidance. He 'did not know who or where his parents were—Whether they were alive or dead. He might thus have continued to the end if sympathetic persons following his accident had not interested themselves in him and attempted to locate his family. “If mother is coming, it’s worth losing two hands for,” he exclaimed joyfully when told that she had been located and was coming to take him home. One can't expect husband and wife to continue In hateful wedlock. They have their own feelings to consider, their own lives to* live. Divorce solves many domestic problems. It’s a great Institution —for the crew oi the matrimonial bark that goes on the rocks. Bpt the divorce court is rough on' the babies—the innocent victims of marital shipwreck. A SUBSTITUTE IN PRISON HASE OSBORN, 'former Governor of Michigan and •J Hoosler born, in a letter to President Coolidge offers to take the place of Warren T. McCray In Federal prison .and serve the balance of his sentence if the President will release the former Indiana Governor. It's a generous offer, a touching exhibition of friendship, regular Damon and Pythias stuff. But of course the gentleman from Michigan knows it is unacceptable. It’s only a gesture. Several centuries ago he might have been taken seHously. It was quite all right then for a con-., victed person to hire a substitute to serve his sentence. According to our modern ideas a prisoner Is expected to serve his sentence in person. Probably, without Impugning his good faith, no one would be more horrified than Chase Osborn If he should be dragged to Atlanta to serve the remainder of McCray's teg-year term. He only intends his letter to influence the President to. extend clemency* to the former Hoosier chief executive. ( Perhaps McCray should he 'paroled. His healtji is said to be failing and he recently gave up some of his prison activities, because of his physical condition. And he may have suffered sufficient punishment to satisfy the demands of Justice. Further confinement might he just useless cruelty. However the question of his release should be determined by the actual facts and merits of the case —coldly and dlspaslonately studied. Importunities of friends and former Governors of Michigan and elsewhere have no bearing. It is a' matter only of McCray and justice.

Twould be a good idea if a lot of people who can carry a tune, would carry it way out of hearing. * • * Listen my children and you shall hear—a lot of things your parents wouldn t have said if they'd known you were awake. • • • FABLES IN FACT She was a poor girl wjio cooked pancakes in her own foam comvpu on a little gns stove comma because the landlady didn’t know she was doing it period one night the gas was so low comma as usual comma that it took each flapjack comma which is the same as a pancake comma a half hour to cook on one side comma so she lay down on her cot and rested while they were cooking period and what do you suppose she did when the pancake was cooked on 6re side questlo/i mark why comma she got up and turned over and lay down fagaiu comma while the pancake cooked on therafher side period. (Copyright. 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

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A Woman’s Viewpoint

A Husband’s Appetite By Mrs. Whiter Ferguson A'"“* GASTRONOMIC expert says that divorce will be knocked v___J sky west when all women learn to cook and take pains to give their husbands the food they most need. This good man theorizes well. But knowing how to cook and feeding your husband the things he should have are two entirely different things. Thousands of girls are now taking domestic science. They are learning all about values .about calories and proteins and vitamlnes. Most of them will probably become expert cooks, but will that keep their husbands from having dyspepsia? It will not. For, when cooking and food values are you just must allow for the husband concerned and take Into consideration the sort of temper he has. In bygone days, that woman was called a good wife who prepared all those favorite dishes that her husband craved: she piled him with fried potatoes land thick steaks and heavy pies and waffles swimming In thick syrup. The woman who does that today is as likely as not to be sent to the penitentiary for manslaughterT what with the numerous and erratic laws we possess. For we must remember one thing: The things that are good for a husband are never the things he fikes to eat. And so the duties of a twentieth century wife are doubled. Somehow she has got to keep heu husband pleased and well filled, and her conscience will not allow her to give him food that is not good for him. It is at this point that divorce generally stalks In. # If you married to a fat man, he will be certain to insist on having fried eggs and rich gravies and creamy deserts and cake; if you are tied up to an anemic soul, he will probably want head lettuce and string beans and asparagus and weak tea and cabbage salad bathed In vinegar. It is easy to talk about giving these men the food their systems reqgire, but making them eat that food is a horse of another color. For husbands resent more than anything else the preaching / of wives about what they should and should not at. A man may realize that his wife knows what she Is talking about, he may comprehend the dangers which lie in improper edibles, but he goes merrily on his way unheeding the Importunities of a loving spouse and happily eating those things which he should not eat until there is no health in him. And so here's another lovely theory knocked Into a cocked hat by a wife who knows through bitter experience.

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Jane and Katherine Lee Will Top New Bill Today at Palace"

SANE and Katherine Lee, the young film and vaudeville favorites, appear in person at the Palace Theater In their comedy sketch, “At the Studio,’’’ the last half oi this week, opening today-. \ This Is one of their last appearances on the speaking stage, as they have a contract to make several pictures this season-. In the past the Lee children have been starred in mostly comedy roles, but In the future their producers are planning to feature them in more serious parts. In their present skit they deal with comedy and with a little of the dramatic. Bebe Mofflc and her company of a pianist, singer and violinist, are co-headllned on the novelty bill. Miss Mofflc 1* styled as the most sensational dancer in the world, and her efforts are said to produce a symphony of color, motion and sound. Arthur Jarrett and company have a variation in the line of domestic acts. “Cupid:* Close-Ups” Is the title of the nove^r. Blackface funsters, Jones and Jones, have a character classic of tho southern Negro which they develop with comedy and drama. Ponzlni's monkeys are featured In a comedy and aerial act. “Parisian Love" Is the photoplay,

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Rudolph Valentino A big week is expected next week at the Ohio when Valentino will bo sen in his new photoplay, “The Eagle." And it is said that the sheik of the movies looks more like a heart breaker than ever before.

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THURSDAY, J AN. 7, 1926

with Clara Bow and Lou Twllegen, Pathe News, h corriody-, and topics of the day are the short reels, .j. -|. fn LEADING LADY W TAIjKS OF O'NEILL PLAT w ■* “T suppose It is a reflection of the too Important part that sex. In it* most alluring form Is shown on thl modem stage,” says Mary Morris, leading lady of “Desire Under thl Elma," to be seen at English's thl week, beginning Monday, Jan-, lli with popular matinees Wednesday and Saturday, "that passion 1s gen* orally spoken about as an attraction on the physical plane. But a stud# of ajiy group in life would show that there are a number of dlsHm-t imnsions quite as strong as the Idvl of man and woman, which enter Inti the emotions of ,the lndividuok “In 'Desire Under the Elms' ther* is In the first place the passion\ol the old farmer for his farm, which he has worked and put body bone into Until the originally barnetl aerfla have become a thing of fertik ity, “With the new young wife brings homo there is the possesslvl (Mission. Working for others and having been a slave all of her Jlfl she longs for a home of her own and the freedom that would go with It, “Tho two older sons long for it release from the grinding lalior ol the farm, and the monotony of thU days. At the first opportunity, the# break loose like wild animals and start for the fabled gold fields - ©4California. "Young Eben Cabot stays He la filled with the passion of vonge. Believing as he does that the farm has been taken away from liH dead mother he thinks that It belongs rightfully to him. He Is filled wtih a hitter hatred that turns t< a sullen loro of his new stepmothoty “These are only a few of the passions and desires depicted In this play. Os course there Is the IdVfl motif, as wild and tragio as mny be, but many are the desires that work toward utterance under thl brooding elms.” -|- -|- -[- Other theaters today offer: "Rose< Marie” at English’s, with a special matlpee Friday to accommodate thd overflow audiences; Ethel Davis nt Keith's, “Hollywood Scandals” at the Broadway. “Black Cyclone" A? the Zaring, "The Vanishing Amerl< cans” at the Apollo, Franklin Vincent at the Lyric, "Madam Be have” at the Colonial, “Bluebeard’rf Seven Wives” nt the Circle, “LlttU Annie Rooney” at the Ohio, and'dt complete new movie bill at ttiar Isis.

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