Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1926 — Page 4

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The Indianapolis Times BOX W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. ■■ ■■■ / WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • * Client of :he United Press and the NEA Service * * • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. f Published daily except Sunday by Indlanapdlls Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland 8t„ Indianapolis • • * Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • I'HONB—MA in 3500.

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The Million Population Idea jyr.OMER M’KEE, in suggesting his plan for |H| a movement for a greater Indianapolis, talked frankly. He said that Indianapolis is in the position of an industry operating on half production and that the city’s problem is to get back to full production. He showed an inclination to face the issue v squarely and then suggested in a general way a plan of bringing about the desired result. * McKee suggested the organization of a club with the slogan “Make Indianapolis a City of a Million People.” Os course, the idea is to make Indianapolis a prosperous city. The million population suggested is not nearly so desirable as industrial and economical wellbeing. Mere numbers are not so essential. But we understand what McKee is driving at. He evidently feels the real necessity for setting up something concrete, a goal toward which the city can work. Hence the million population idea. * * * SHE suggestion made by McKee calls for the formation of a club with a membership of between 8,000 and 15,000, out of which would be formed a finance committee and a sales committee for the purpose of selling Indianapolis, of bringing new industries here and Os promoting the general prosperity of the city. The executive head of the organization would be a well-qualified industrial sales manager. The idea, basically, is not at all new. Plans of this kind have been advanced repeatedly, hut thus far none of them has been carried through. There is a reason why none of these plans has been successful. In stating this reason we are going to be just as frank as McKee was in setting out the need for some such organization as he suggests. The reason why Indianapolis has never carried out a program of the kind suggested by McKee lies in lack of confidence ‘and unwillingness to cooperate. The Chamber of Commerce has been attempting to start a promotion campaign, but it never has got very far. The bald, unpleasant fact is that the community has not had full confidence in the Chamber of Commerce. Others besides the Chamber of Commerce have attempted at times to launch promotion campaigns and t.hey.have failed because of laok of confidence. * * • OMER M’KEE’S plan can succeed if THE __ WHOLE COMMUNITY, everyone, inside and outside the Chamber of Commerce, every interest in the community, is sold on the idea. It can succeed if every one has confidence in its leaders, if every one is willing to cooperate to push it through. But if rivalry and jealousy are allowed to interfere it is doomed to failure just as similar movements in the past have failed. The McKee plan must be carried through with the idea that in no sense is any

United States Capitals

You can ret an answer to any question of tact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times tvaahiugton Bureau. 133;’ New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 3 cents in elamps for reply Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken All o'Ti'r qi'es'inns will receive n personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be e-.o .ered ao letters are coolldentiai. —Editor. Was Annapolis, Maryland ever the capital o£ the United States? The United States has only had three capitals, New York, Philadel-. phla and Washington. Annapolis was a capital in colonial days before the United States was fdrjned. Other capitals of colonial days were Philadelphia, Pa.; Baltimore, Md,; Lancaster, Pa.; York, Pa.; Princeton, N. J.; /Trenton, N. J., and New York. Does an American woman who acquires German citizenship by marriage automatically become an American citizen again upon the death of her husband? If married prior to Sept. 22, 1922, the death of her husband does not automatically restore her to American citizenship. The law permitting women to retain American citizenship when marrying aliens is not retroactive. Why do people eat goose on Michaelmas Day? The custom appears to have originated in a practice among the rural tenantry of England of bringing a good stubble goose at Michaelmas to the landlord, when paying their rent, with a view to making him lenient. It is easy to see how a general custom of having a goose for dinner on Michaelmas Day might arise from the multitude of these presents, as landlords would In most cases have some to spare for their friends. It seems at length to have become a superstition that eating of goose at Michaelmas insured easy circumstances for the ensuing year. Have May apples any commercial value? Not very much. The fruit is not edible. Some parts of the plant are emfetic and poisonous and podophyl-. lum, a drug, is extracted from thepi. v ’ ______ 1 • ’ la tt true that the government gets hi VC of the gold mined in the United States and that hidden

individual or organization seeking to capitalize it for his or its own benefit, but that the sole purpose of every one involved is that of benefiting the community as a whole. McKee says his proposed slogan for Indianapolis can be reduced to one word* “industrialism.” Industry is the life blood of a city. No city can be groat and prosperous merely as a market place. The population can not exist when everybody is engaged merely in trying to sell something to everybody else. The city must produce. * • • frp | HERE is no reason why Indianapolis, con- | 1 1 sidered as an industry, should be operating on half production. There are many reasons why this city, of all cities, should grow as an industrial center. Indianapolis is situated in the very heart of America. The great bulk of the population of the United States is more easily accessible to Indianapolis than to almost any other city. The location is right, rail facilities are here; fuel is more cheaply and more easily accessible to Indianapolis thau to almost any city. All the elements necessary to bring Indianapolis up to full production are present. McKee’s plan already is meeting with an enthusiastic response. Confidence and the will to succeed will bring the desired results. If the British Can Do It— SHE slow-going British government is about to do what our own is unwilling to do—give the people cheap electricity. Prime Minister Baldwin originated the bill now pending in Parliament. lie proposes appointment of a governmental board to unify and operate the entire electric power system of Great Britain. The board will operate fifty large distributing stations, and all smaller supply stations will be gradually absorbed. By doing this, according to the British officials, the Government will reduce the-cost of electricity to British consumers about 90 per cent. Electricity can be sold through the Government company, it is estimated, at about onetenth the cost under present private operation. In other words, private companies in Great Britain are charging about nine times too much for electricity. The highly interesting thing is that here is neither the Liberal party nor the Labor party coming before the British public with this remedy, but the*King’s own conservative party. Asa matter of fact, the Liberal and Labor leaders are voicing the only protests to be heard against the plan. They are protesting because Baldwin has stolen their thunder, because he is about to do what they wish to do.l Would British people ever think of giving away Muscle Shoals to private power interests? Well, the people of Ontario province, Canada, answered that question fourteen years ago when they took control of their own watgr resources and started generating the world’s cheapest electricity.

treasures when found belong to the government? The government does not get half the gold mined in the United States. Formerly there was a statute providing that hidden treasure belonged to the Government and persons who wished to search for it were obliged to get Government permits. Part of the treasure found went to the Government and a part to the

The SAFETY VALVE It Blows When the Pressure Is Too Great

“George Washington was a profane, irreligious, pleasure- loving man.’’—Rupert Hughes. N It is only necessary to dip into the Washington diaries, just published in four volumes by the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association, to discover that Washington was a most energetic, work-loving men. Listen to these excerpts: January, 3760—“ Visited my Plantations and received an Instance of Mr. French's great love of Money in disappointing me of some Pork, because the price had risen to 22.6 after he had engaged to let me have it at 20. “Calld at Mr. Possey’s in my way home and desird him to engage me 100 Bar'ls of Corn upon the best terms he could in Maryland. “And found Mrs. Washington upon my arrival broke out with the Meazles." ****** y . “Mrs. Barnes who came to visit Mrs. Washington yesterday returned home in my Chariot the weather being too bad to travel in an opep Carriage, which, together With Mrs. Washington’s Indisposition, confined me to the House and gave me an opportunity of Posting my Books and putting them in good order. “Fearing a disappointment elsewhere in Pork I was fein to take Mr. French's upon his own terms and engaged them to be deliv'd at my House on Monday next.” • •••*• March, 1760 —“Grafted 40 Cherrys —viz: 32 Bullock Hearts (a large black Mrv Cherry J; 18 very line

finder. That statute is no longer in effect and the Government does not issue search warrants now or take part in the recovery of lost treasure. What is meant in politics by a “dark horse”? One who is nominated unej|pectedly for an important office, after the leading candidates have failed. The first dark horse in a national convention was James K. Polk, 1844. Later presidential “dark horses” were Pierce, Garfield and Harding.

By the Stoker

early May Cherry; 10 Carnation Cherry. And planted them as fojloweth: the Bullock Hearts in the first Row next the Quarter beginning at the furthest part thereof and ending at a stick. The early May next to them in the same Row and ending at another Stick. The Carnation finishing the said Row. “Grafted 12 Magnum Bonum Plums beginning at the farther part of the Second Row., “Planted Nuts of the Mediterranean Pine in the Pen whefie the Chestnut grows—sticks by each. “Note the Cherrys and Plums came from Collom Mason's. Nuts from Mr. Or(eon’s).” ****** . “Williamsburg, Virginia, November 37, 1769—Dined at Mrs. Campbell’s after 4 and spent the evening there without supping. Having- one Bowl of P and Toddy." • ••••• “Wednesday. 9th April, 1760—Dr. Laurie came here. I may add drunk. Observed the trefoil which I sowed on the 3d inst to be coming up, but in a scattering manner. The Lucerne which was.sowed at the same time and in the same manner appeared much better and forwarder.” • *•••• It has been said that Washington was “irreligious.” How can a man be regarded as irteligious when he was a vestryman of the Pohick Church and attended services—see all four volumes of his diaries—almost as regularly as Sunday came around? Neither Roosevelt nor Coolidge was a more scrupulous observer us Umruti hqi?it.i.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

A First Year Hubby Is a Strange Creature Who Just Does Not Understand His Wife

By Walter D. Hickman rri FIRST-YEAR hubby is a I I strange individual because he WLmI seems to be in the clouds most of the time. Meaning that he just can not understand hia wife when there is < otnpany about. her. Tommy Tuck-<-r discovered that ■k Wl that first year of Jjfji married life is the Bh tou K >ie - st - And Grace Tucker has the same opinion. 0U meet 1 % Wj&lr £} m Tommy Tucker /J. a -ind his wife, Grace, in “The r First Year,'' a n,ov lc version of ' >*' the stage play of the same name at Kathryn Perry the Colonial this wek. Frank Craven made a big sized hit of Tommy Tucker in the stage version and now Matt Moore shines forth as the misunderstood first-year hubby In the screen version. Kathryn Perry IS Grace. Both play the roles in a and honest way. These two do not impress one as acting but rather as living characters. They just seem to be two people experimenting in the first year of married life. There Is a sort of delightful Main Street flavor found in the scenes devoted to the parlor courtship of Tdmmy and Grace. Os course there

Famous Composers Johann Strauss (The Younger) SHE younger Strauss \Vas born in Vienna in 1825, the son of Johann Strauss, who was also a great composer. Strauss died in 1899. His father was averse to his adopting the profession of music, but, aided by his mother, he was enabled to obtain instruction on the violin and in composition, and at 19 years of age he severed his home connections and secured an engagement as conductor of an orchestra in a popular restaurant in Ilietzing. He used this opportunity to play his own waltz compositions and soon became widely popular. After his father’s death he united his own orchestra with that of his father and began a concert tour through many European countries. From 1855 to 1865 l e was the conductor of the Petropaulovski Park summer concerts in St. Petersburg, and from 1863 to 1875 lie was also conductor of the Cburt balls. He composed nearly 500 dance pieces. Among the best known is “The Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz.” Note—Facts about a famous composer whose work is being studied in the schools will be printed in The Times each day. It is suggested that these articles be preserved by pupils for their music scrap books.

THE VERY IDEA!

Lead Soldiers mHEY’RE lined up on the front room floor* an' all their plans are made. You wonder they’re waitin' for. They’ll soon be on parade. A tiny hand will start them off, and move them on their way. Just' Mttle leaden soldiers and a youngster at his play. They only stand two inches high, with guns that cannot shoot. But anyone can tell you why the picture looks so cute. "Attention,” says a squeaky void', and as the shout is heard, the yermgster thinks the soldiers pay attention to his word. The chubfly little fingers move the man on horseback first. And then they swing the army ’round until they’re all reversed. Again a sudden wee command, as sonny says, “left face.” It isn’t long until there’s not a soldier left in place. They’re scattered every which way, and they’re sprawling upon the floor. The youngster’s tired, and doesn’t care to march them any more. Os course he’s glad to get them out, when on parade they’re led, mother has to pick them up, when sonny’s gone to bed. • * • A school teacher In Sebring, Ohio, used a rubber hose on a pupil and got soaked herself. Five and costs. • * * Lucky the bowler who gets all strikes ’cause he hasn’t any time to spare. • • • Some Place Else is the spot where we all desire, to be—until we get there. And then we want to be some place else. • * * He slipped upon the sidewalk and Although he took a spill. It didn’t hurt because lie only Fell against his will.

A Sermon for Today

Text: “Daniel purposed in his heart not to defile himself.”—Daniel 1:8. GIVING in the midst of the debilitating and ruining influences of the court of Babylon, Daniel purposed not to defile himself. He determined to live a clean life. Asa result he soon outstripped his self-indulgent companions in the King’s palace. He forged ahead until finally the king “made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief of all the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.” His greatest achievement, however, was not the position he at* tained, but his attainment of moral strength and spiritual power. It was this attainment, more than anything else,.which distinguished him above his fellows and marked him for a place among the great characters of the Bible. The secret of it all goes back to that hour when he purposed in his heart to live a c'.ea u life. Efery man who would attain to high moral and spiritual character must keep nimself pure and clean. jnirtyFV- thoughts fill the

Movie Verdict APOLLO —“Sally, Irene and Mary." Is a lavish and entertaining production of the stage play of the same name. CIRCLE “The Reckless Lady," is very theatrical and overdrawn. not convince although Lois Moran does wonders to improve it. . COLONIAL “The First Year,’’ Is all family entertainment. Excellent fun. OHIO—“The Wanderer,” is In Its second week here.

is a rival in the person es Dick Loring. Dick ts one of those smart guys, class and fine clothes who knows how to spread the applesauce. Tommy was just the opposite, one of those fellows who was bashful and had an awful dose of what is called Inferior complex or something like that. But Tommy pulls the cave-man stuff and wins over Dick Lorlng. Then the first year troubles begin. Much of the comedy happens when Tommy and Grace give their first dinner party and the colored cook becomes too familiar with gin and cannoj show up. Her daughter appears carrying a bottle of gin, and before the dinner is served Tommy is ginned up and declaring loudly that the reason he is not a success in business is because he hasn’t been drinking and talking enough. Grace is not present to hear the speech because she has gone home

’By Hal Cochran

NOW. HONESTLY Betcha my last year’s auto license plates that you tell all your friends all about your kiddies. Even when a maq’s memory is terrible, he can remember all the cute things his children say. And HOW some people are bored by such chatter. Maybe you ought to be more considerate— And perhaps I ought to suggest that you let up a bit. But, shucks, I do it myself—and I’m gonna keep qn doing It. Stick with me! • * • When people go round looking for trouble about the only thing they find is fault. • • • The girl who stopped in the barber shop was in a hurry to get home so she took a short cut. • • • It won’t be long before men will be looking through vacation resort folders in order to find out where NOT to go. • * • Some radio singers are lucky they’re heard and not seen. • * • FABLES IN FACT HE DROVE HIS CAR RIGHT UP TO THE GAS STATION AND BOUGHT FIVE GALLONS OF GASOLINE PERIOD THEN HE GOT A COUPLE QUARTS OF OIL’ COMMA AND ENOUGH WATER TO FILL HIS RADIATOR PERIOD ! JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO GO COMMA THE STATION MAN SAID COMMA QUOTATION MARK MAYBE YOU’D LIKE TO HAVE A LITTLE ALCOHOL QUOTATIONMARK PERIOD AND COMMA ON THE STRENGTH OF HIS FIRST THOUGHT COMMA THE CUSTOMER FAINTED PERIOD. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

’By Rev. John R. Gunn

mind an.l the life Is swayed by.'evil passions, there can be no development of soul strength. Impurity Impoverishes the body, the mind and the soul. It robs one of all those finer elements which make for strength of character.. Sin In any form means weakness. Sin paralyzes every high purpose and every noble ambition. Net only that, it weakens and destroys one’H courage. With sin rankling in the conscience, one cannot face the world in the full glory of a strong and courageons manhood. If you want to be and do your best in this world, see to It that & fixed purpose is registered in your heurt to keep yourself clean from the defilement of sin. Keep a close watch on yourself, ftln has a way of flipping up on us. We need often to pray as the Psalmist prayed: "Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts, ! and see If there be any wicked way In me." And If any wickedness is discovered lurking in the heart, we must fly to Him, who is able “to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (Copyright, 1926. by John R. Gunn)

to mamma. Os course, there is a happy ending. There must be to every first year. “The First Year” is a corking good comedy, human and honest. It is clean and delightful entertainment. The whole family will enjoy this one. Well directed.. Follows the stage version closely. Bill Includes a news reel, “The Big City,” Aesop’s Fables and music by the American Harmonists. At the Colonial all week. -I- -I- -ICONSIDERING LOIS MC RAN AS A FIND It has been announced that Lois Moran is one of the real movie finds of the season. Am sure of that after seeing her lift one ordinary scene after another in "The Reckless Lady” to a position that the story appeared more reasonable than it really is. Lois Moran has the healthy something about her —youth I guess they call it. She has not injured |H9DPHMBO9 that ciutility by |jffigpP r making it theatrioal. Although mEP the theme of K , 4 , "T h e Reckless I& Lady” is extreme- 9 ly theatrical and B yyMzkjk unconvincing as •' jB a picture, Miss sgj| Moran brings K||l sweet realism to B|||ra* many a scene. gShe Is cast as the I sweet daughter of a reckless V* mother, a wife IHHHk I? who loved a man j she was not mar- Lois Moran I ried to while being married to another man. Her husband orders her from his English | home and the wife escapes to j France with her daughter. Instead of taking in washings and doing the dishes, the reckless lady becomes a gambler for money. While j she is gambling under an assumed I name her husband is prancing all over Europe looking for his wife and daughter. Os course he finds ’em and then discovers that the man who originally caused all the trouble was hanging, about again, his attentions this time being directed against the daughter. Os course, the husband finally decides to kill the rotter, but the wife takes time to explain that their daughter should not have a murderer for a father. That turns the trick, and the vallain is not murdered. Belle Bennett is cast as Mrs. Flemln, the reckless lady: James Kirkwood is the husband of the reckless lady; Lowell Sherman is the dress suit villain and Ben Lyon Is the Main St. lover. The bill includes an overture, ‘‘The j Mikado”; Dessa Bryd playing ‘‘Just Around the Corner;” a stage presentation, a comedy and a new* reel. At the Circle all week. •I- -I- -I----MI SICAL COMEDY MOVIE HAS LAVISH PRODUCTION Sally, Irene and Mary, at the Apollo this week is a very lavish photoplay productioh of the famous stage play with all the attending things the screen can add to a play that has already made itself famous behind the footlights. Sally, Irene and Mary are a trio expressing the feeling and temperament of that EWorld of bright light ia\ which their lives are spent. There is Sally, she has made herself one of the sights of the town by her beauty in a Broadway show. She Is kept by one of her admirers. And Irene, she is the dreamer of the three. Being Introduced Into the circle of which Sally holds the Sally O’Neil reins of pleasure Bhe Immediately falls violently in love with an artist whom everyone warn her against. Mary is the type that we all know and love, a girl so honest and true that her whole being Is wrapped in the care of others. With these three characters the picture moves along at a very swift and enthralling pace. The ascent of Mary from east side obscurity and her climb to a featured part In a smart Broadway show are portrayed along with the anger and sullenness of her sweetheart who disapproves of the show.

There are many scenes of tense interest in the picture, but there is one that will take you backstage with those beautiful girls and let you live their life for a moment or so. It Is just after the girls have heard that Irene has been killed in an accident as she was riding to her own wedding. The show must go on, although the very hearts of the girls are torn with sadness and the love of the one who Is missing. It is In the midst of the opening number of the show and the girls are nil doing the Charleston out front. Os a sudden one of them pereamn and points to the place that had been Irene’s. A phantom figure Is dancing there. It is very weird and beautiful. Sally O’Neill is in. the cast. The bill includes a comedy and harmony by Henderson and Weber. Also Emil Seidel and his orchestra. At the Apollo all week. (By the Observer.) •I- -I- -ISECONIf WEEK FOR •THE WANDERER*- HERE “The Wanderer.” an attempt to “glorify” an ancient story by applying revue methods, is now*in Its second week at the Ohio. It is doing good business, lias a big cast and cost lots of money to produce. The orchestral score used is beautiful. Ab the Ohio all week. Reviewed last week in this department. -I- -I- IOther theaters today offer: Eddie Can: or in “I-Cid Boots,” at English's; ‘iOld Cronies,” at thg Lyric; “Seven Collegians,” at the Palace; Charles Withers & Cos. at Keith’s; burlesque at the Broadway, and “The Cowboy and the Countess," at the Isis.

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA

By GAYLORD NELSON

BACK TO THE BEGINNING SHE Indianapolis school board has decided to seek a site for the new Shortridge High School than the tract at Thirty-Fourth St. an-i Meridian heretofore chosen for the location of the new building. So the Shortridge project instead of progressing gdes back to the beginning. Perhaps the Thirty-Fourth St. site is small and more land could be utilized advantageously. Certainly it doesn’t spread over all outdoors like the Arsenal Tech, grounds. Still it comprises five and one-half acres, room enough for a mlllion-dollar building that will accommodate 3,000 students. Isn’t that large enough for one high school? When the Thirty-Fourth St. tract was bought several years ago for the new high school site It deemed ample for the purpose. And the matter of location was considered definitely settled until a couple of months ago when the old school board discussed the matter of securing a larger site. That board Investigated the subject, studied other proposed sites, and decided in favor of the previously accepted site at Thir-ty-Fourth St. Now comes the new school board and resurrects the question. If the members of the new board are going to ignore all the plans developed by their predecessors, rejecting their conclusions and going over the skme ground, school building projects won’t progress •much. They will merely hop up and down In the same spot. Undoing the work of the previous board may keep the present board busy but such activity doesn’t build schools. And schools are what Indianapolis needs. WINNING THeT WAR AGAINST T. B. mUBERCULOSIS coused 2,498 deaths in Indiana last year, according to figures recently made public by the State board of health. The death rate from this disease was 82.2 per 100,000 population. In 1913 the death rate in Indiana from tuberculosis was 147.7 .per 100,000. That year 4,100 Hoosiers were victims of the dread white plague. Every year since then ihere have been fewer and fewer victims and a steady decline in the death rate. Not many years ago, when persons were afflicted with T. B. they immediately put their earthly affairs in order, hermetically sealed their windows, betook themselves to carefully darkened bedrooms, and with fortitude and grace as they possesed awaited the lneivtable end. There was no hope, no staying the ravages of the dread scourge. How different now Is the treatment. And how different the results. No medicine has yet been found that will cure the disease. But establishment of clinics by which the malady Is recognized in its early and curable stages, sunlight, fresh air. Improved sanitation, and the work of such institutions as Sunnyside have reduced the T. B. death rate in Indiana almost onehalf in a dozen years. And one afflicted with the disease can now hope. > The progress already made In winning the stubborn war against tuberculosis Is one of the greatest triumphs of preventive medicine.

A Woman’s Viewpoint

Hindoo Analyzes Our Crime Wave By Mrs. Walter Ferguson IVE heed to the words of Swami Yogonanda, India’s i ...iJ foremost educator, who says America’s crime wave is largely due to the fact that we have taught our boys and girls to strive for Rolls Royces rather than for a balanced

MR. FIXIT Resident Protests Abuse of Garbage Cans and Barrels.

Let Mr. Fixlt present your case to city officials. He is The Times’ representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. They’ve got to quit kicking my ash barrels and garbage cans around. Is the word to Mr. Flxit from a N. Gladstone Ave. reader. DEAR MR. FIXIT: What can be done to stop the rough handling of my ash barrels and garbage cans? I have always used cans and barrels that were easy for the collector, but It sure Is costing me. They either take them away or break them up and drive over them. I set a vinegar barrel In the rear of my yard Monday morning and that barrel looks as though it had gone over the top In France. N. GLADSTONE AVE. READER. Truly Nolen, garbage and ashes collection superintendent, will Investigate. You must petition for improvements paid foi by property owner^. That is the message to those who live between Thirty-Second and Thirty-Sixth on N. Harding St. DEAR MR. FIXIT: For goodness sake see if you can get something done to N. Harding St. from Thirty-Second to Thirty-Sixth Sts. Cars get stuck In the mud and there are no sidewalks. If you venture out you get into the mud over your shoes. Even a cinder walk would help. ! R. K. F. Present a petition signed by property owners to the board of works, first floor, city hall.

FEB. 8,192 G

WITH A PARDON IN HIS POCKET EWO weeks ago a gang of bandts attempted an unsuccessful attack on the bank at Lanesville, Ind. They were driven off and Inter engaged in a running gun fight with Floyd County officers, who tried to Intercept them as they passed through New Albany. A deputy sheriff w’as killed In the, battle. A couple of days ago the body of a man, with a bullet holo in the chest, was found stuffed in a culvert r.ear Rising Sun, Ind. The body has been positively identified as one of the Lanesville desperadoes. Evidently the man hud been mortally wounded in the battle with New Albany officers. In searching the corpse for letters, cards or some other means of identification, officers found in his pocket a pardon issued to the man—who had served a sentence in the Kentucky State prison—by the Governor of Kentucky, Dec. ID. The dead gunman, within a month after being turned loose by a lenient Governor from prison, which ho wus committed for nßi bery, was killed while attempting another robbery. He died with the pardon for the previous Crime In his pocket. Do soft-hearted paroles and easily won pardons reform criminals?

LONG HAIR AND SALVATION mOSEPH JARVIS, 16-year-old youth of Seymour, Ind., with long curls falling below his shoulders, can’t have a haircut, contrary to his father's wishes according to decision of juvenile court recently. So ho won’t go to school, because, of taunts of his schoolmates. The father, with long hair reaching to his waist, is opposed to shorn locks for himself and son on biblical grounds. He believes long hair is necessary to salvation. If he is right, it is going to bo hard for most men—especially for us whose hair is all on the brush nnd not on the head—to get into Heaven. But is he right? Maybe there is biblical authority against haircuts and in favor of letting one's hair grow'all over the neighborhood. Surely Samson had bad luck after his first tonsorlal experience. But there is also biblical authority sustaining the righteousness of the barber trade. St. Paul wrote: "Doth not even nature itself teach you, if a man have long hair, It shame unto him?” St. Paul probably knew as much about the road to salvation as any modern man. Anyway most men today are stringing with St. Paul on the question of long hair. Quite likely coiffure styles have little to do with salvation. One's righteousness is determined by what goes on Inside the head not what grows on top of It. To make a boy ridiculous by Insisting that he wear long hair when other boys wear theirs short won’t increase his moral stature. The Lord Fauntloroy ringlets, Imposed on little boys a generation ago by sapheaded mammas, did more to head then toward perdition than barber shears.

and harmonious life of body and spirit. Everybody knows this Is true. If is the chlgf thing wrong with our homes, the chief thing wrong with our schools and the prime evil of our national existence. Fathers and mothers are forever trying to keep up with the neighbors; teacbers are stressing vocational rather cultural training; powerful men are rated, not by their minds, bus by their purses. Our national symbol t$ oof soaring eagle who scales the lielgjHF above sordidness, but the silver dlol. lar that gleams in the mud of thsk earth and appears so resplendent by contrast. llow many of us teach, or oven try) to teach our children that the lov of good books, of fine music, of beauty in any form, is a more valuable possession than wealth or social standing? How many of our teachers instruct their pupils that a fine llfa of the soul and the spirit Is the only true existence and is to bo sought before riches? So strong has become ear rage for gold that all of the ramifications of our national being, our business, ,our social life and * even our religious are poisoned with this- insidious evil. Great corporations, combined money ’ powers, crowd out the individual; efflcency and speed rather than honesty-' and carefulness is preached to workers. We labor these days, not because of a love for our craft, but for the dollars it will bring to us. Strenuous economic pressure has forced all men Into this cul de sac—they must put dollars and cents above knowledge leisure and culture and beauty, because success Is gauged not by what a nmn gets from life, but by what he can from the United States mint. Why do we treasure so highly those rare old pieces of furniture, those masterpieces of painting, those frail laces and fragile china? Certainly not for their actulu worth, but because we know that some man or woman has spent months and years of loving care In their making. In them, we possess not mere objects, but the soul of the worker who produced them. All the beautiful treasure* of earth were created because of love and inspiration ofaplrtt, and-not foq *Old . ; >