Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 239, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the feezipps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • * Client of the United Press and the NEA Service * * * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland St., Indiana! alls • * * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA in 3500.

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Mules Again IVCINCE again the city mule contract is agiI tating the city hall. This has been a pet subject there for years. It has not been so many years ago that we heard'and read repeated references to “poor old Bill Kissell, who obtained the city mule contract without 'competitive bids.” That was during the Bell administration. Then Charlie Jewett came along and said there would be no mule contract —but there was. And now it’s Brother Jim Armitage who is on the pan. It is said by none other than Alvah J.. Rucker, city corporation counsel, that Brother Jim obtained the city mule contract without competitive bids. But Rucker does not call Jim poor. In fact, he says that Bill’s brother made $17,547 on an investment of $2,500 by renting mules to the city. At the same time, according to Rucker, the mules were stabled, fed and doctored at the expense of the city. Not a bad deal, even for an ArmitagC. The Armitage boys are not exactly popular at city hall now, so a way is being sought to do away with the contract which Advah calls “unconscionable.” We can’t help wondering who will get the contract when it is taken away from Brother Jim.

Stopping Smoke P'““l ERHAPS an appeal to the pocketbooks of coal users would be effective in stopping the smoke nuisance in Indianapolis. Protests of citizens with blackened collars and blacker lungs have had little effect. 11. F. Templeton, city smoke inspector* points out that the Indianapolis school city saved $30,000 of its fuel bill after installing smoke consumers. He estimated that 25 per cent could be saved through the burning of smoke. Financial appeals of this kind frequently are more effective than appeals based on public health and welfare. Save The Redwoods! oldest living creatures on earth. American nature lovers, headed by Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Foundation at Washington, are moving to save a fragment of one of America’s most priceless heritages—the California Redwoods. “Sequoia Sempervirens,” which were saplings 1,000 years before the birth of Christ, and Avhich stood serenely through the tumultuous history of the middle ages, are now being cut down for timber at the rate of 10,000 a year. Some of these trees are '3,000 years old. While younger than their cousins of the high Sierras, the Sequoia Gigantea, many of which are 5,000 years old, belong to a race of trees that survive from a former geological epoch. Scientists now are convinced that these giant evergreens covered the entire northern hemisphere in the Jurassio period, but were swept southward in the glacial epoch to perish from

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran 1

Where? S' AY, when it comes to losin’ things, my kid’s a master U—J mind. You ought to hear the song he sings of things he cannot find. From early in the morning, just like every other child, his mother hears his warning, and it drives her nearly wild. "Hey, mommy, where’s my coat and hat? I threw ’em on the floor, just so I’d know where they were at. They’re not there any more. I took my soakin’ mittens off and hung ’em by the grate. Aw, shucks, come help me find ’em, ’er the kids outside won’t wait. "Who took that icy snowball that wuz on the pantry shelf? I ’member where it wuz because I put it there myself. An’ where’d ya hide that piece of rope? Aw, mommy, that was mine. It fit my sled exactly, so I cut it off yer line.” It’s ‘‘where’s ray waist?’’ and “where’s ray other shoe?” There’s not a day that passes by that all this is riot rug. I guess all kids must have their turn, and sing that little song, until they’re old enough to learn —put things where they belong. ** . People get daughters off their hands so they can keep sons-in-law on their feet. .♦ • ABSENT-MINDED PEOPLE: The fella who threw his wife In off the front porch and kissed the morning paper goodby. * * • NOW, HONESTLY—"WeII what are you crying about now?” Bet you’ve snapped that at your youngster. It is kinda irritating when a child comes into the house all tears — But, maybe that tot has fallen down; maybe some little thing has gone wrong; perhaps it doesn’t amount to much— And yet the right touch of sympathy will heal whatever is wrong. It’s a lot more fun soothing away tears, than it is trying to frighten them dry.

the heat. Today there remains in the entire world only a small strip of Sempervirens, twenty miles wide, (reaching from San Francisco bay northward to the Oregon line, a distance of 240 miles. Eight years ago the groves were all privately qwned by a half dozen big companies, whose loggers were slashing through the ancient forests. A group of scientists, encouraged by the example of William Kent who bought Muir Woods and presented it to the Federal Government as a park, formed a “Save the Redwoods League.” Their race with the greedy saw mills lfas been a losing one. Out of an original area of 1,406,393 acres, the saw mills have devoured all but 881,393 acres. And out of the acres still holding the original timber the league has rescued a few gropes along the highway, totaling 13,432 acres. With an increased membership of more than 5,500 prominent Americans the league is beginning 1926 with an aggressive and ambitious program. They will demand of Congress a national park of primeval Redwoods, setting aside some 20,000 acres. And they are negotiating for the sale by one of the big lumber companies of two of the most beautiful basins in the Redwood belt The program calls for spending upward of $1,000,000, of which $750,000 is already collected, from public-spirited citizens.

Great Project Seems Assured ONSTRUCTION of the huge reclamation, —J irrigation and power project at Bbulder Dam has ceased to be a far-off dream. It has become a definite and immediate possibility. A year ago the administration was opposed to the project. Within the last two months this attitude has appeared tp change. The' SwingJohnson bill has been approved with certain changes, by Secretary of the Interior Work and Secretary of Commerce Hoover. Representatives of States in the upper basin of the Colorado River are helping to frame anew provision of the bill which will give absolute protection to their water rights, and when this is done satisfactorily their opposition' will be withdrawn. Arizona is still refusing to sign the Colorado River compact, but negotiations are now in progres among envoy. 4of California, Nevada and zona for division of the Colorado’s waters in lower basin, and if these are successful there will probably be little opposition from that source. -k An attempt will be mddOy private interests to remove from the bill .the clauses giving eitiys and towns a preference in leasing power privileges at the dam. The bill would be changed to provide that power shall be leased to the “highest and best bidder.” This modification will be vigorously opposed by friends of the Swing-Johnson bill, who are anxious to assure the city and rural districts of the Southwest low power and light rates.

The life insurance risk on a man of 90 ought to be a good bet. Few men die after that age. • * * “Would you'care if I should leave you?” Said the man, with tender touch. And then, quite absentmindedly, His sweetie said, “How much?” • * * The cost of a marriage license is so much down—and Vhatcvcr you’re getting a week, for the balance of your life. /* * * It’s a wise kernel of corn that knows its own pop. • * Try this on your piano—Furniture polish. • * • A fellow often refuses to put money into anew business because he doesn't know anything about it. And that’s the very reason he is solicited. ... TAKEIT—How come your Scotch friend has such a good sense of humor? LEA VElT—lt’s a gift. • * • Annie—Clara celebrated her birthday yesterday by taking a day off. Laurie—Get out, she took a couple of years off—at least. • * * A cottontail bunny crawled Into a new oil pipe line out In Colorado, and the blamed thing missed working by a hare. * * • FABLES IN FACT YOU NEVER MET SUCH A THOUGHTFUL AND POLITE LADY OF THE HOUSE IN YOUR LIFE PERIOD WHY COMMA WHEN THE INSTALLMENT MAN CALLED COMMA SHE IMMEDIATELY INVITED HIM TO TAKE A CHAIR PERIOD AND DID HE APPRECIATE HER KINDNESS QUESTIQN MARK SO MUCH SO THAT HE NOT ONLY TOOK A CHAIR COMMA BUT THE PIANO ALSO PERIOD (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

MR. FIXIT * Year-Round Mudhole Reported by Resident on Sheffield Ave. Let Mr. Fixit present your problems to elty officials. He Is The Times’ representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. The sad tale of all year around adventures of a peaceful mud hole from 648 to 656 Sheffield Ave., is recounted in a letter Mr. Fixit received today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Practically all last, summer and all this winter we have had a, mud hole from 648 to 666 Sheffield Ave., except of late. It was frozen over; all last summer the mosquitos swarmei and this winter the children have skated. This has been reported to the street commissioners but failed to get results. We hope it may be taken care of before time for mosquitos again. A RESIDENT. W. P. Hargon, clerk of the street superintendent's department, promised an early investigation. Hargon will investigate complaints received from Mrs. M. J. Brady, 2247 Linden St.; A Taxpayer of Adams St.; Jesse Preston, 339 S. Dearborn St.; Mrs. Perkins, 1148 Ketcham St., and W. H. Schlosser, 1510 Bright wood Ave. How long does a goldfish usually live? A gold fish lias been known t. -> live as long tus nine years and there is even a case on record -of one which lived for fifteen years. Do men ever have more or less than twelve ribs on each side of the body? The last of the normal twelve ribs is occasionally reduced to an insignificant rudiment and sometimes a thirteenth rib is present, but these are exceptions.

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No Monkey Business in This Act

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I>r. H. P. Werkman, Joe Mend i, and Miss Gertrude Bauman.

Anyway, while this picture was taken at a * clinic held at the Indiana University School of Dentistry, there was no monkey business. Joe Mendi, educated chimpanzee, wrecked one picture by throwing •an operating apron over his head the second that a Rash light warned him that ho was about to be snapped. The Times cameraman waited

•RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

GASOLINE GOES UP mNDIANA filling stations hiked the price of gasoline 1-cent. a gallon Thursday. Standard Oil (Indiana) made the increase in the eleven States in which it operates. And. as usual, the other companies in . the territory fell in line without a struggle. Spring can't be far behind—no matter what the ground hog said. For a boost in gas price is to the motorist an unfailing harbinger of spring. The advance, say the oil men, is due to declining output of—and higher prices paid for—crude oil. Th£ inexorable working of the law of supply and demandThe wicked oil trust was hacked to pieces years ago by the Supreme Court. But apparently the fragments of the critter and their competitors don’t know the blooming thing is dead. Its soul goes marching on setting prices and nu'.king more profit than ever. The same day Standard Oil (Indiana) boosted gasoline prices -it also announced an extra cash dividend of 25 cents in addition to the regular quarterly 62 V 4 cents per share to stockholders, payable March 15. That may be mere coincidence or cause apd effect marching abreast. If, in the face of growing scarcity of crude oil, one fragment can increase dividends, one shudders to think of the profits the dismembered creature would make if the crude petroleum vanished altogether.

GLAD HE DIDN’T ROB BANK £T“*TK RRI T T LONGBRAKE, ! M formerly of Ft. Wayne, arl—L_J rested in Cleveland when police found a shotgun, revolver, shells and rope in his automobile, told detectives he had planned to rob a bank at Ligonler, Ind. The arrest balked the scheme. And he thanks fate, “I tun glad my plans were frustrated,” be says. "Somebody might have been killed. And I have a wife and four children to look after.” There’s the cue to pass him a large helping qf syrupy sympathy, for a few glycerine tears., dimmed ljghts and slow music. The poor man with a wife and four children Was barely rescued from bank robbery. But If that was the way he felt about the affair, why did he spend time planning the enterprise, enrolling accomplices, and arranging details? The project was born in his own mind; he wasn’t forced Into it unwillingly. An£ until his arrest he didn’t worry about the possible effects of the robbery on his wife and four children. It seems to be the fashion with our modern criminals to feel that they are not really to blame for their misdeeds, that they mean well and are simply the victims of circumstances beyond their control. The old hard-boiled crook who was a, crook because he wanted to be was at least refreshing In his candor. Now the bandit adopts the attitude, "I have got to rob a hank, and, gosh, how I hate to do it.” IT ISN’T ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER lAIN, snow, cold, steet, flannel underwear and coal bills make our Indiana winters uncomfortable. Most Hoosiers long, at this season, to be in the sunny Southland, basking under the palms, shaking hands with the Gulf Stream, where the climate is ideal and every prospect pleases, according to booster literature. But it isn’t always fair weather, even In the highly-touted winter resorts. . 'Dispatches yesterday recorded a. hurricane near Palm Beach, Fla.

until Joe and Dr. Werkman, who conducted the clinic for scientific purposes, became friendly. This time Joe was snapped properly as this picture shows. ♦ Joe was taken to the clinic, not as a press story, but for scientific purposes, by Miss Gertrude Bauman, his trainer, and Roltare Eggleston, manager of B. E. Keith's, where,Joe Is appearing this week.

One pei-son was killed, a score injured, 300 were i-andered homeless, and a million dollars’ tfofth of property destroyed. Not to be outdone, California reported a terrific storm raging,all along the Pacific coast. Wind, rain and snow from Seattle to San Difgo.- Property was damaged, shipping menaced, 100 movie actors on a storm lashed vessel had a narrow escape from death. All very thrilling, of course, but that’s no way for our winter paradises to behave. It shakes our faith in the writers of the glorious, balmy advertising copy of winter resorts. Then, to add to our discontent, we learn that tennis tournaments on the French Riviera have been postponed because of rain and cold. Cold, (jrizzling rains at Monte Carlo, and adjacent region, in winter! • Another illusion blows up. Despite realtors, novelists and society photographers, apparently every place this side of Heaven, has spells of bad weather. And yet there is no concerted rush to go to the' place with the perfect climate. Heaven needs tC chamber of commerce to exploit Us climatic advantages.

LOOK HER OVER rpr-IIEV. EDWARD H. KISTIP j LEK, Indianapolis preachI* I er, speaking at the Y. M. C. A. the other evening, advised young men about to commit matrimony to study carefully the health, mentality and personality of their prospective wives. “Pay her a- visit when she isn’t expecting you,” he counselled. “See how she looks and acta. Open your ears to what her little' brother says. They have a line on the girl tlvat you can’t have during the *lays of- courtship.” Sound advice. But what young man with, reason dethroned ny what he calls love is in condition to Investigate and analyze the maiden of his choice with cool logic? What has logic to do with marrying anyway? If a young man is expected to he so discreet and inquiring before paying the first Installment on a wedding ring there is equal reason for the girls to be cautious and Inquisitive about the young man. She should look him up to see whether he Is solid gold ojust cheap plate. Is he housebroken? Can lie nurse a furnace, earn a living and wash dishes? According to reports from seventy-five out of rtinty-two Hoosier counties four tiiues as many wives were granted divorces last year as husbands. So appar- * ently more husbands prove unsatisfactory than wives. Which argues that girls should make careful investigation before she begins to hum “Here come the bride.” - Jgt But if they really start this mutual Investigation habit, Cupid will be frozen in his tracks. Marriages will become eminently sane, proper—and scarce. For it’s a rare youth or maid who doesn’t conceal a few knobby faults. The surprising thing is that so many marry, without rhyme or reason and on rose tinted trust, and live happily ever after. It isn’t logical. Can you name the railroads In the United States having more than 8,000 miles of track? New York Central System, Southern Pacific System, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, Pennsylvania System, Union Pacific System, Burlington System, Sante Fe System, Chicago & Northwestern, Southern Railway System, Great Northern Railway and the Rock Island System From what poem is the following taken: “Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norpoan blood"? From Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Lady Clara Vere do Vere.”

Eddie Cantor, Comedian, Talks on Stage; Reasons for Success of ‘The First Year’

f -~1 HR stage is one of the greatest II educational factors in the I I country today, is the belief of Eddie Cantor, star of Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Kid Boots,’’ at English, s next week. “The stage is than a show window," states Mr. Cantor, "It Is a reflection of life itself. The plots, the characters, the scenes—all combine to portray life and various features of life that are unfamiliar and unknown to the vast majority of persons. “A certain scene may depict a doctor’s office. How many people are familiar with the interior and with the working utensils of a physician’s office? Certainly, not everyone. Again, it may be the study room of a lawyer, or the Interior of a baker/ or a stock broker’s retreat. All widely divergent, .of course, but all necessary to a thorough understanding and knowledge of life. "In the matter of scenic detail, Mr. Ziegfeld is very insistent upon thoroughness and accuracy as well as upon artistry and beauty. In addition to styles, modes and fashions, the stage teaches the more prosaic and commonplace things, and, best of,all, it gives the theatergoers an opportunity to witness in the land of make-believe, the beauties and delights of countries and places other than their own. “In conclusion, I might say that it is my belief that the stage offers more educational opportunities than books or reading, and certainly more than are found anywhere else outside of universities and colleges.” ( REASONS FOR SUCCESS OF "THE FIRST YEAR" There are at least four very goojl reasons why “The First Year," the Fox Films production coming to the Colonial Sunday, should be one of the best comedy dramas of the year. To begin with, IN is adapted from one of the best-known of John Golden’s Broadway successes by Frances Marion, who has long sinco established an enviable reputation for herself in the scenario field. Secondly Matt Moore heads ap allstar cast in one of the best charaei ter portrayals of his career. . Then, because of the fact that Frank Cravens wrote the play and made the part of the bashful Tommy Tucker a sort of shining example for young husbands with his performance. And last but by no means least because it is directed by none other than Frank Borzage, who established his reputation through his handling of “Humoresque," and who has continued to add to his success with -every picture. Dainty Kathryn Perry plays opposite Mr. Moore' in the leading feminine role. Others in the cast are J. Farrell MacDonald, Margaret Livingston, Frank Currier, Frank Cooley, John Patrick. Virginia Madison and Carolynne Snowden. -I- -I- -ILOOKING OVER NEW SHOW AT THE PALACE’ Bobby his revue at the Palace today and tomorrow are a fine combination of lively dancing and comedy. Leaving the dancing entirely to the Six girls and, one young man, “Bobhy” devotes his time to making wise cracks and thinking up humorous# things to please. He succeeds easily. The girls of the act stand out for their “Charleston” dancing more than anything else. They’re good little steppers. Dora Early as an eccentric songstress is very mtch of a hit. You cannot expect the usual thing from Dora. Her songs and her way of singing them are of a refreshing

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A Sermon for Today By Rev. John R. Gunn ’ “

Text: "Who will stand up for me?"—l’s. 94:16. mHE man who wifi stand up for me when others speak evil of me. The man who will stand by me when other forsake me. The man who- will be true to me In every circumstance and situation. The man who will be true to any person or persons to wfiom he owes fidelity. The man who will be unswerving In his allegiance to any cause or principle to which he owes support. The loyal man. That is the man I am looking for. That Is the man the world is looking for. Nobody is looking for the disloyal man. Nobody wants him. Rather everybody despises and shuns him. Hfe is a dangerous person to have in any circle —social, religious, commercial or political. Os ail the mean traits, disloyalty is one of the meanest. On the other hand, of all the noble traits, loyalty Is one of the noblest. It is'a big asset In all human relationships. Y6u can’t have a successful government without loyalty. Many of the strongest governments have been undermined and destroyed by treason and treachery. You can’t have an army without loyalty. Mutiny has been responsible for the defeat of many an army. You can’t carry on a business without loyalty. The lack of fidelity has brought disaster to many a business concern. You can’t have a home without loyalty. Many a home has been broken down by domestic Infidelity. You can’t have a church without loyalty. Many a church has gone to pieces or shamefully failed in its high pur-

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see the opening act filled os the “Three and One-Half Arleys.” Bill Includes photoplay "Girl ItWi Montmartre" with Lewis Stone and Barbara Lamar. At the Palace today and tomorrow, (By the Observer.) -I- ’l' -IOther theaters today offer: "Artists and Models" at English’s: Jerome and Gray at the Lyric: burlesque at tho Broadway; "The Wanderer” at the Ohio: "The Unchastened Woman" at tho Isis; “Three Fofces East" at. the' Colonial; “Too Much Money” at the Circle, and “Don’t" at The Apollo.

pose because of treasjn and disloyalty among its members. Loyalty is a virtue much to bo prized and much 'to be praised. It wins anfl holds the respect and confidence of the people with whom you associate. It makes you a desirable man, in the community, in business, in the church, and in all other circles. If you become known for your loyalty, you will come to be desired and sought after. If our companionship will bo wanted - in society, and your services will be wanted in business. You will be pointed out as a man who trusted and counted on. Os y will be said, “That man 1 as tmo as steel’; he will never go back on you; through thick and thin he will stand up for you; he never fprgets a friend.” I can think of nothing finer in life than to receive and deserve such a compliment. (Copyright, 1525, by John R. Gunn) Ask The Times Ypu can set an .answer to any question of fact or information by writing to Tho Indianapolis Times Washington Buzeau, 1338, New York Ave., Wash-Ins-ton. D. 0.. inclosing 2 cents in •lamps for reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot he given nor can i extended research be undertaken. All other questions will raceive a personal reply. Unsimied requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential, i—Editor. What la the freezing point of alcohol? Alcohol freezes at 150 degrees tfolow zero Fahrenh-it. How old Is Colleen Moore and what is her address? She is 23 years of age. Her home address 1b Beverly Hills, California.