Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1926 — Page 6

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The Traction Merger "qIROPOSED merger of the Terre Haute, * ] Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company with the Insull interests marks another step in the centralization of utility control in Indiana. The latest merger is particularly interesting to Indianapolis because the T. H., I. & E. owns the common stock of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. Under ordinary circumstances, this would also moan control of the local street car company by the Insull people, but because the local company has passed preferred stock dividends the control of the corporation is in the hands of preferred stockholders. It is not unreasonable to suggest, however, that the present merger will mean eventual control of the local company by Insull. • Insull interests have been making rapid inroads into central Indiana utility affairs with the result that the concern is by far the biggest utility operator in the State. This giant concern first took over the Interstate Public Service Company, which operates an interurban line between Indianapolis and Louisville. Then it took over the Brewer power interests, controlling a super-power system supplying more than 130 Indiana cities, including the power furnished to Indianapolis by the Merchants Heat and Light Company. This includes Indianapolis street lighting. Through the T. H., I. & E. merger the Insull interests will control a great part of the interurban business in and out of Indianapolis. It is reported that Insull also is interested in obtaining control of the Union Traction Company- If this happens, he will operate nearly all the interurban lines in central Indiana. In his statement announcing the proposed merger, Samuel Insull called attention to the. benefits to the public from operation on a large scale. Undoubtedly, large scale operation can be carried on more cheaply than small operation. On the other hand, it eliminates competition. Viewing the situation from all angles, however, the Insull merger may be the means of putting badly needed new energy in the traction business. The salvation of the interurban business is increased service to the public, something that traction operators in the past have been inclined to overlook.

Definition of ‘Volt’

You can pet an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1332 New York Are.. Washington, I). C. inclosing 3 cents In •tamps for reply. Medical, tegal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. What is a volt? The unit of electromotive force and the electrical pressure required to send a current of 1 ampere through a resistance of 1 ohm. How much does it cost to feed an enlisted man in the United States Army? General William H. Hart, quartermaster General, reports that the average cost of an army ration per day for enlisted men during 1925 was 30.94 cents, the official ration comprises three complete meals. What is the ftfeme address of Tom Mix? Beverly Hills, California. ,How did the bridal shower originate? There Is a story told of the origin

MR. FIXIT Open Gates Block Alley, Writes Correspondent Cinders Also Desired.

Let Mr. Fixlt solve your troubles with city officials. He is The Times' representative at the city hall. Write him at The Time* The rural custom of allowing the gate to remain open and block the lane exists also in Indianapolis, according to a correspondent of Mr. Fixit. DEAR MR. FIXIT: A crossing of two alleys between Lee and Shepaj and Sts., just south of Lambert St., is muddy and needs cinders. There also are two gates opening into the alley which stand open all the time, blocking the alley. E. H. RADER, 1318 Lee St. W. P. Hargon,, street superintendent’s clerk, 1 will investigate the muddy alley. But, if no grade has been established, you must petition the board of works. The next time the gates are left open phone police headquarters, Lincoln 4565, as the practice is against the law. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Who takes the mayor’s place if he resigns from office? Who Is city treasurer? INQUISITIVE. The city controller succeeds to the mayor’s office, If there Is a vacancy. The county treasurer Is ex-offl ,'io city treasurer.

Norris Tells Another Story IEORGE W. NORRIS in the United States ___| Senate Saturday told another story—or, at least, another chapter of the story he had told a week earlier. L related the process by which • William S. Culbertson became our minister to Roumania. It was not entirely new to the other members of the Senate, but was interesting because Norris had the documentary evidence to support an opinion that was current in Washington about the time Culbertson was packing his trunk for Bucharest. President Coolidge sent Culbertson to Roumania in order to protect the big sugar concerns. Culbertson was on the United States tariff commission and was helpinig prepare a report that would show how an unduly high tariff enabled the sugar combine to rob the American people of millions of dollars. Mostevery member of the Senate understood this. Norris’ story simply made plain the unusual methods used by the President. Here is one incident: Culbertson was called to the White House and told by the President’s private secretary that a charge had been filed against him. The charge was that he was violating the law which prohibits a tariff commissioner from accepting outside employment. The outside employment was the delivery of a lecture before a university! Better see the Department of Justice, said Secretary Slemp. Culbertson saw the assistant to the Attorney General. He was told the department construed the statute literally, and that it was not thought the charges amounted to anything. But Attorney General Stone immediately thereafter filed an adverse report against Culbertson in the matter. Two of Culbertson’s colleagues asked time in which to file a written statement along with this report, but the Attorney General said-he couldn’t wait for that, that the White House wanted his report on Culbertson at once. “President Coolidge sent for Culbertson,” said Norris, “and talked with him about the charges. As Culbertson was about to leave—and with the adverse report lying on the desk —the President again asked Culbertson if he could not delay the sugar report!” A devious intrigue to save the sugar profits, isn’t it? And not a very pretty picture of our President.

of the bridal shower that serves as well as any to give the custom a history. A certain Dutch girl was forbidden by her father to marry the man of her choice on account of his poverty. In order to prevent the marriage the father refused her a dowry. The friends of the girl considered it a shame for the girl to be forced into a marriage against her will, so each one contributed some gift to the young couple and went in a gay procession to the bride’s home and showered her with such a wealth of presents that she found herself in possession of a lnuch finer dowry than her father could have given. And so they were married and lived happily ever afterwards and the precedent of the bridal shower was established. What are the qualifications for a court stenographer? Court stenographers must have great speed and accuracy. Their work consists of taking testimony of witnesses in trials and making records that are absolutely accurate. These positions are more often held by men than by women on account of the strain entailed in the work.

A Woman's Viewpoint

Caged Animals By Mrs. Walter Ferguson SHE burning o# several jungle beasts at a metropolitan zoo has in it the essence of all human tragedy. , In one sense it seems even more terrible than the destruction of men and women, because they would never have been locked in, and are generally able to help themselves to a certain extent. Some day, perhaps, the race will attain enough Christian feeling to deem it little less than a crime to confine wild animals in such a fashion, merely for the sordid thrill we derive from looking at them in captivity. Few things are so at variance with our reputation for kindliness, fq,w things speak so badly for our imagination as our treatment of jungle beasts. The broken .heart of the great ape in New York some time ago has in it an echo from the broken heart of Jesus, for wh(eh man was also responsible. > . ; There are some creatures, such as the buffalo deer and even the bears, who are semi-tame and native to this country. They may feel the captivity as irksome, even though the climate and conditions are more familiar to them, but lion and leopard, elephant and giraffe, whose natural home is the jungle and whose every

Hoosier Briefs

D WARD RUWE of .Seymour caught two gray i____ foxes alive. He trapped the animals in a hollow log. Mrs. William Boehning of Warsaw was burned about tie right arm when she touched a disconnected radio wire which had started a fire in her home. Mrs. Jap Hover of Pierceton has announced her candidacy for county recorder of Kosciusko County, subject to the Republican primary in May. mAY County checkers players are staging a county tournament at Portland. The five winners will be matched with teams from Bluffton and Muncle In a district checker meet. Tipton is preparing to eat pancakes and some more pancakes. Ladies Aid of the Christian Church will give a pancake supper. Mrs. N. G. Owens, champion pancake maker, Is in charge. Kenneth Ratliff was the whole midyear graduating class of the Bluffton High School. He will enter Indiaha University.

instinct clamors for the wild, must suffer untold agonies in their small circus cages and their limited zoological quarters. And we should not teach our children to think that these poor, mangy, slinking beasts at which they stare are the real animals as nature meant them to be, so superb, so untrammeled, so beautiful in their native wilderness. All their agility, all their wonderful grace of movement, all the rippling beauty of their'muscles, all their magnificent self-confidence and daring, all the soul of them, have been wrested from their appearance by men who fail to realize that God may look at us from the lion’s yearning eyes. To watch tiny ch'ldren cower before the fallen greatness of these captured beasts, makes the heart ache. Why should we take our little ones, whom we would shelter from the slightest pain, to look upon such majesty brought low, such wild loveliness captured and caged? These animals are done to death more cruelly by us than if we had slaughtered them outright. Let us hope that a kindly and compassionate Being who takes thought of all created things has transported their spirits to some jungle, where no man can ever intrude to take from them their birthright of freedom.

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Ted Lewis Puts the Moonlight Sob Stuff in Song Called ‘Just Around the Corner’

By Walter 1). Hickman SHE sob song with lot of groans and plenty of sentimental rhoonlight is the latest fad in songland. Famous orchestras and noted directors are now trying to put as , much instrumental moonlight as possible in their programs. Now Ted Lewis comes along with their warm pi-vying organization of his lifts one of these songs to the very sky. Am trying to tell you about “Just Around the Corner," as played on a Columbia record by Ted Lewis. knows how to put the moans into this type qf a song. Lewis is known as the high hat comedian of song. He has always been dramatic on the stage and he carries that same spirit onto the record. “Just Around the Corner,” is optimistic is theme although It makes one want to search for sympathy and understanding. The theme as sung by Lewis as a sort of an incidental Chorus tells the story that just around the corner the sun is shining, the skies are blue and that a little bluebird is singing on a rainbow. Rather extravagant lyrics, but it contains a promise of at least a little sunshine. And we are all trying to find the sunshine. And Lewis has developed the melody into one of those haunting things which will make It one of the best sellers that Columbia has. On the other side of this Columbia Lewis record you will find a dreamy waltz, "While We Dance Until Dawn.” Again Lewis struts his dramatic and sentimental self all over the record. Lewis has done a real something in both of these numbers. Must tell you about the Okeh record having that popular hit, “That Certain Party.” From a popularity standpoint this number seems to the twin of “Sleepy Time Gal.” This song has clever lyrics and a tune which one may whistle with ease. The Goofus Five plays “That Certain Party” with a lot of syncopated speed. Billy Jones comes in on the chorus. On the other side you will find the Red Hotters playing “Then I’ll Be Happy.” I- -I- IIndianapolis theaters today offer: "Greenwich Village Follies” at English’s: Mme. Doree’s Operalogue,” at the Lyric; "Carnival of Venice," at the Palace; “Just Suppose,” at the Circle; “The Only Thing,” at the Apollo; "The Fighting Heart,” at the Colonial: all comedy star show at Keith’s; “Sally of the Sawdust,” at the Ohio; “The Demon,” at the Isis, and burlesque at the Broadway,

A Sermon for Today "" ’ 1 ■■ " By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: “Love thlnketh no evil." — 1 Cor. 13:5. EOVE Is not suspicious. It is slow to think evil of anybody. It puts t he best possible construction on a bad appearance. I have little patience with suspicious people. They constitute one of the most dangerous elements in society. Francis Bacon said “Suspicious amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.” In other words, suspicion always passes Itself around under cover, It does not come out in the open. It is a companion of the sneak. It hides like a “snake in the grass.” It blinds the eyes, it displaces all real evidence, and gobbles up every little scrap of hearsay and al] the floating rumors. It plays into the hands of prejudice,. envy and hate. It feeds as with a sweet morsel the vulgar mind. It nerves the arm of cruelty and tyranny. It sometimes drives one to commit the most distardly deeds. We stand on one of the street of the village of Bethlehem. What is all this we hear? Cries of distress, terrible shrieks of agony, are heard from one end of the little village to the other. Into every home the cruel swordsmen of Herod have gone, hundreds of innocent babes have been ruthlessly snatched from the loving arms of their mothers, and their bodies cut in twain and left lying on the floor in pools of blood. What cruel passion could have driven Herod to such wholesale murder of these innocent babes? Read the record and you will find that it was nothing but suspicion that ‘ drove him to commit this horrible crime. Out from the dark chambers of suspicion have come the foulest murders the world has ever known and all manner of the

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THE VERY IDEA!

Turn, Te, Turn, Turn m HERE'S one old-fashioned habit that, it seems, we’ll always keep. It’s rocking little babies till they drop away to sleep. It furnishes a treat for any parent, any night, to take a little youngster and to cuddle it up tight. It’s always been a rule that you must hum a little tune. There’s something rather soothing when you hear a person croon. A tiny tot will snuggle when you take it on your knees, and humming seems to make a baby feel at ease. I’ve known a lot of fathers who could never sing a note. It wasn’t meant that music e’er should travel from their throat. And yet. they’ll sit and try it; watch the satisfaction come from a sleepy little infant, as they turn, te turn. turn turn. Oh, I know just how it happens. I’ve a baby of my own. I rock, and sing, and thrill her with a draggy monotone. To anybody else ’twould be a turn, te. turn, turn, turn, but

vilest deeds which besmirch the pages of human history-. Oh, this mean thing suspicion! llow can we be delivered from it? Paul says, “Love is not suspicion where true love reigns. Where there is true love between man and man. between neighbor and neighbor, between husband and wife, no cloud of suspicion can come between them. Love believes . thq bept about those upon whom it bestows itself. It will not believe any evil thing übout them until forced to do so by indisputable facts, much less pass it around among others. If we would exercise a little more of this forbearance of love, we would soon find ourselves less and less inclined to be suspicious of anybody. (Copyright, 1926. by John R. Gunn.) CORN CROWN NOT EASY “King” Says it Took Him Nineteen Years to Win Honor. Bu TJnitrd Prrxx COLUMBUS, Ind„ JHn. 27.—Bartholomew County farmers who have their eyes on a national corn king’s title today are faced with the knowledge that years of preparation are required to win-. • • Marshall Vogler, reigning king, told members of the Kiwanis Club here that it took him just nineteen years to prepare himself for the honor. For five years prior to winning the crown Vogler won second place in the national show. 200 ATTEND UNION MEETING Approximately 200 persons attended the Presbyterian Union meeting held in Irivington Masonic Temple Tuesday- night. Frank A. Symmes was in charge. Dr. W. P. Dearing, Oakland City College president, spoke cn “At Our Best.’’

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By Hal Cochran’

shucks to her they're wonderful—the crazy tunes I hum. • • * People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones when they-’re in a position to “say it with flowers.” * • # Tsn’t It odd the queer little things a wife can think of to say, to cheer her hubby? F’rinstance, “the furnace is out.” * • * NOW. HONESTLY— Maybe you really beiieve that revenge is sweet. And that's an admission that you haven't taken a second thought. For, after all, no one gets a kick out of ‘’getting even’’ with someone else. Chan res are, you worry more about it than the person you “get even” with. If someone does you a bit of wrong—make the best of it. Most humans feel worse about it, afterwards, if you just let it slide. At least, you don’t lower yourself to wljatever level the wrong-doer is on. • • • If it weren't for Us bloomin’ body bein’ so far from Us head, the ostrich wouldn’t have such a long neck. • • • A man can easily drive his argument home’ by letting his wife sit in the back seat. * • • Fight Fan: Wasn’t that a wonderful hand the fighter got when he entered the ring? Anothor'n: Yeah, but did you see the one he got Just before he left? * * • They tell me there are only seven original jokes—and I've never heard any of them. ,• * * F ABLES IN FACT THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A DOG SEWr-COLON ANY OLD DOG PERIOJ MAYBE JT’S A POODLE COMMA OR A COLLIE COMMA OR JUST A PLAIN SCROOT PERIOD WHY WORRY QUESTION MARK ANYWAY COMMA THE FAMILY THAT OWNED THE HOUND COULDN’T DECIDE WHAT TO CALL HIM PERIOD THEY ARGUED MUCH PERIOD ONE WEEK HE WAS FETE COMMA THE NEXT WEEK TRTXY AND THE NEXT WEEK CI.TTEY PERIOD WHICH JUST GOES TO SHOW HOW LITTLE USE THERE IS TO FRET COMMA BECAUSE THE BLAMED DOG DIDN'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THEM COMMA NO MATTER WHAT THEY CALLED HIM PERIOD . (Copyright. 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

•By GAYLORD NELSON

THINGS IN THE AIR mNDIANAPOLLS radio fans the first two nights of this international radio test week didn’t do so well in listening in on Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and wny stations. They twisted their dials and ears without bringing in a single foreignbred ether vibration. But down near Columbus, Ind., one Hoosier listener reported hearing seven foreign broadcasting stations in Germany, Czecko-Slovakia, Austria, France, Spain and South America, lie heard orchestras and bands playing everything from national anthems to jazz. So there's lots of radio and such things in the air, all right. We’ll say there is. j There are 500 licensed lmoudeasting. stations 'in the United States now and 250 more applications. There aren't enough wave lengths to go around. And Herb Hoover, the traffic cop of the air, says chaos is before us unless the Federal Government adopts drastic radio regulations. It’s worse than chaos now. Every time we inhale a chunk of atmosphere we take into our systems fragments of jazz, high C’s, a sprinkling of weather reports, basketball scores and whatnot, along with our regular dose of soot and smog. Think of lotting a few b&rs of “Rfed Hot Mamma” struck crossways in your craw every time you open your mouth. That’s what radio has done —and it’s only five years old. If it continues to grow, soon the air won't be fit to use for breathing purposes. We’ll have to keep our windows shut tight nights.

THE‘RED’ PERIL C CHICAGO “red” leaders claim 2,000 converts in Indiana in the last six months, Frank C. Cross, national director of the American Legion Americanism commission, told an Indianapolis audience recently. He believes the claim is ridiculous—but suppose it is true, what of it? Two thousand converted to the doctrine of destruction of our exexisting institutions and social order may seem an alarming number. * However, the danger is slight. At that rate of conversion it will require a couple of centuries of missionary effort to bring enough Hoosiers into the "red” fold to menace the State’s stability. Many passionate patriots are Vociferously excited over the socalled red peril. They dream of bombs and communists. They spend their days Paul Revere-lng up and down the land trying to arouse lethargic citizens to repel the Lenine-Trotzky brand of anarchy. The dreaded “red" missionary, with whom they frighten us, l is mostly a bogey man. Tlis converts aren’t likely to overwhelm this nation before the end of the week at least. We Hoosiers hope they witl put off their revolution until the close of the basketball season. CLEMENCY IS ‘AWFUL 5 rTTTIALTER PAYNE. Negro, sen- \*/ tenced in Marion County Criminal Court Monday under (he habitual criminal statute, is a beautiful blossom of our modern system of penology—indeterminate sentences} and easy paroles. He is alleged to have attacked eight Indianapolis white women in recent months. Three of the victims positively identified him as their assailant. In 1921 he was convicted of robbery in Ohio, and sentenced to one to fifteen years' imprisonment, the

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judge recommended that he ten years. Despite that recommendation, he was paroled in 1923. Three months later he was found guilty of grand larceny by an Indianapolis jury. This time he was sentenced to one to fourteen years in State prison. After fourteen months’ Imprisonment he whs again paroled. And immediately began the series of outrages that have put him back in prison under a life sentence. Easy paroles were pretty nice for him. Not so nice for the eight women he attacked. Had he been compelled to serve a lnajoi' fraction of either of the sentences iml>osed at his previous convictions he wouldn't have been able to bother them. They are victims of the mushy parole systems that turned him loose. Rev. George S. Hennlnger, new president of the State pardon board, speaking to an assemblage of Indianapolis ministers, denounced the promiscuous signing of clemency petitions by county officials and prominent citizens, and characterized indiscriminate clemency as “awful." You said it all, Brother Henninger. A RED-INK BUSINESS SHE Indiana Red Ball operating many bus routes radiating from Indianapolis, has sustained an average monthly loss since inception of $16,000 —a loss of 5 cents for every mile traversed by its busses —{be public service commission was told at the company's rate increase hearing Monday. Increase of fares to a basic 3-cents-a-milo rate probably would do no more than permit the company to meet operating expenses, the receiver testiyed. Recent fare increases granted other bus lines in the State, and sale and consolidation of linos with traction interests, eliminating competition—which has been the noticeable tendency of the bus business In the past few months—indicate that bus operators are not finding bus running a gold mine. Up to date In this State it has been a red-ink business. Asa short cut to fortune the business leadH past the poorhouse. The tribulations of the motor bus carriers should hearten tbo older transportation agencies—railroads and tractions —that have been scared stiff by the inspecter of bus coni|>etltion. The long established transportation medium* tvon’t be junked in the twinkling of an eye, nor will traction owners have to spend their declining years on street corners with hand organs and suggestive tin cups. Undoubtedly motor busses njflfl destined to play an important in transportation. They have some real advantages over existing carriers that destine them to supplement if not supersede present agencies. But it wilt,take money, time and distressing experiment to find their proper place in the field and fit them to it. Is the Baltimore Oriole also found in Cincinnati? Yes, it reaches Cincinnati in its migrations. How much did the war with Mexico cost the United States? llow many wore killed? The Mexican War cost the United States $173,298,000. The total American losses were 2,703 killed, immiding 383 officers. Are the Rover boys In Arthur M. Winfield's book real characters? No, they are fiction characters, created out of the Imagination of the author, Edward Stratemeyer/ who wrote under the pen name 'of Arthur M. Winfield.