Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1926 — Page 6

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An Appeal to the Selfish Instinct EWO hard-headed business men spoke at a meeting at the Claypool Thursday night. Following the meeting another hardheaded business man who had sat at the speakers’ table made a public statement. They were talking about a greater Indianapolis. They were talking about dollars and cents. They were talking with a selfish motive, if you please. These men are not Pollyannas. They didn’t orate much about the glories and splendors of Indianapolis. They did not talk about their home town being the greatest of all possible cities in this greatest of all possible worlds. ' They talked about ways and means of improving Indianapolis and about the dollars and cents return that is bound to follow such improvement. They faced facts. One of them said that the people of Indianapolis have been sleeping, that they have not been awake to their opportunities. He pointed out that Indianapolis during the last fifteen years has lost thirty industries because the city was asleep at the switch when the express train of progress whizzed by. They admitted that they were talking with selfish motives and they appealed frankly to the selfish instinct of every citizen of Indianapolis—to YOUR selfish instinct. They talked about a movement for a greater Indianapolis, for more population. They didn’t talk altruism. They talked dollars and cents in their own pockets and in YOUR pocket. If you are a red L blooded, normal human being you want to make more money, to better your scale of living, to provide better for yourself and for your family. You want to educate your children. You want to give them every possible opportunity in the world. And right here is where YOU come in on this bigger Indianapolis movement. This means YOU, whether you are the president of the biggest bank in town, whether you earn your living by the labor of your hands, whether you get up at 2 o’clock in the morning to drive a' milk wagon. If you haven’t already done it, read the statement on another page of The Times by George J. Marott. He is the man referred to above who made the public statement. Marott declares that an increase of even 100,000 in 'the population of Indianapolis will mean an incneased pay roll of $150,000,000 a year. This is an amount inconceivable to the average person. You are bound to benefit from this enormously increased pay roll. If you don’t receive a part of this money by being’ directly employed in anew industry, you will receive a part of it indirectly, for this additional population must be fed and housed and clothed. If you haven’t a job already, a prosperous, growing city means a job for you. If you already have a job, prosperity and growth means a better job and more money. That is inevitable if you are a person of any value at all to the community. That is why the movement for a greater Indianapolis is a selfish movement. But it is not a selfish movement in that increased prosperity means increased wealth to a few. It means increased prosperity and increased op-

Our Vanishing Gasoline

Editor's Note —Menaced by a serious shortage of petroleum, on which twenty million American automobiles, billions of dollars' worth of industries and our natioi al defense all depend, the Government called a conference of experts to help find a way out. Among the foremost of these was Henry I. Doherty, big- oil man, banker, public utilities director, scientist and engineer, a nationally-recognized authority. What he told the officials at Washington. he now tells you. at the request of The Times, because this Nation-wide problem touches you where you live. This is the fourth story of the series. By Henry L. Doherty VvTl lms happened to our yy wild birds and wild animals ie rapidly happening to our petroleum. Petroleum, by our present laws, belongs to the one who can capture it. The laws provide that you can rob your neighbor. What can you expect when the law licenses and legilizes robbery? The petroleum business has many evils —more than any other business I am familiar with —but I know of no evil about which the industry, the public or the Federal and State government have a right to complain that does not spring from the bud practices that are forced upon us by irrational laws that are different from other property laws and In violent conflict with natural economic and physical laws. All of these evils can be corrected by merely changing the laws under ■which we operate so they will be in conformity with the spirit and purpose of other laws relating to property. A petroleum pool is by nature incapable of being divided up and operated according to the surface divisions that have been arbitrarily ereatad. It must he developed as a unit to prevent both the waste of petroleum and gas and economic waste as well. If 100 people own property on an oil structure and ninety-nine wdntod to defer the time when the oil should be nroduced.

portunity for EVERYBODY, tlt is a movement about which you can well afford to feel selfish. But, and this is important, this movement can not succeed, you can not gain, unless YOU help. Don’t look back over your shoulder. This message is for YOU who are reading this, whoever you may be. Remember, you never gained anything by letting George do it, or by letting Homer do it, or by letting Dick do it, or by letting the Chamber of Commerce do it, or by letting any other individual or organization do it. The movement can be successful only in so far as the whole community gets behind it. There is no physical reason why Indianapolis should not be a city of a million population. We are right in the center of the population of the United States. We are right in the center of a cobweb of railroads. We have an almost unlimited supply of coal right in our back yards. The future of Indianapolis depends entirely on the attitude of its citizens. Wc have got to coal the locomotive of progress, we have got to guide it our way, and above all, we have got to be awake to turn the switch and direct it into our particular siding when it comes whizzing along. Two Arguments “I t 1 T’S against every tradition of the I * j country.” There you have the commonest argument of those,who oppose public operation of the $150,000,000 power project built by the people at Muscle Shoals. Never was an argument more false. For half a century American people, through their constituted governments, have been manufacturing and distributing their own electricity. The electrfc industry began in 1880. The first municipally operated electric light system was started one year later, in 1881. There are now, according to the last Federal census, 2,581 cities and towns in which the people manufacture or distribute their own electricity. There are only 3,774 privately operated electric light and power systems in the country. From 1917 to 1922 the public systems increased 263 in number; the private systems'decreased 450. Public systems have been operated for years in such cities as. Cleveland, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Tacoma, Pasadena, Kansas City, Kan., and Springfield, 111. At which point in the argument, the opponents of public operation usually change their attack. “Os course,” they cry, “the people have a right to operate Muscle Shoals through their National Government, if they wish to, but they can never do it as efficiently and economically as private power interests.” That argument is equally false. The city of Los Angeles last year sold electricity to the people for 5.6 cents a kilowatt hour, 3.4 cents less than the formerly prevailing private company price, and the city earned $2,554,865 surplus profit. The city of Tacoma is selling the people electricity at even lower rates and last year it earned more than $1,000,000 surplus profit. Is the Federal Government unable to do what many city governments already are doing?

single owner can either rob them of their oil or force them to drill at his will and can carry out his operations in a manner that will sacrifice the greatest part of the value of the deposit. In my opinion we leave more than four barrels of oil in the ground for every barrel we now recover by flowing and pumping. There is no certainty of recovering a substantial amount of oil from our abandoned fields or of recovering It exsept at very slow rate of production. f By the unit operation of pools, we caivrecover at least double as much oil as we get under our present system, and It Is highly probable that we can recover 85 to 90 per cent of all the oil the pool contains. We now waste enormous quantities of natural gas. It is said that we have wasted many times as much natural gas as we have ever used. All of this gas can he conserved if we operate our pools as units. This is the only country in the world tha.t is known to have helium gas in coimercial quantities. We arc burning, or wasting, every day natural gas containing hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of helium gas. If we should find a remarkably rich deposit of helium gas in association wtih an oil deposit, it would be impossible to conserve it under our present system. No machinery could bo put in motion in time to save it. Under the unit operation of pools, it would all be conserved and each oil and gas pool, when emptied of its original content, would make a tight reservoir for either natural gas from other pools or a place to store gasses highly concentrated ir,hetyum. J Tommorrow — Oil and the National Defence. :

THE VERY IDEA! ~By Hal Cochran

NOW, HONESTLY— How often have you met a friend and said — “What’s the matter —have you been sick? You look all fagged out.” That’s a poor habit—that has a bad effect. • • • Try this on your tin whistle: There wasn’t a magazine in the house, but she didn’t mind ’cause could read her husband like a book. * • • Mrs. So-and-So: I understand you got your umbrella back. AVhere did you find it? , Mrs. Whozis: Borrowed one from a neighbor. * * • Once upon attimere —er maybe several times—there was a brand new bride who served her husband a fine roast, and' then apologized ’cause she forgot to -order any gravy. •* * - Like an actor, a billiard player doesn’t start until he gets his cue. * * * NEW, HONESTLY— No kiddin, now—l’ll bet you go round the house from room to room, leaving the lights burning. It’s an expensive habit, and a foolish one. ’Course it's always nice to see the bright side of things, but not to the extent of leaving father in the dark when the electric bill comes. Maybe you think it’s only juice you ate burning up. How about dad? If the lights aren’t put out —the one who pays the bill is.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Fred and Dorothy Stone Play to Capacity House at English’s

By John T. Hawkins If medals are ever to be given out In the realm of the theater it is my own personal opinion that Fred Stone should have one of the largest, shiniest and most brilliant of them all. And then for his asasistant medal wearer would nominate daughter Dorothy. For, as Mr. Stone so aptly puts it, he has “a show that the children of today can with safety bring their parents.” In the modern musical show the three things the public asks for are music, humor and dancing. With some types of shows it is a little different of course. "Stepping Stones” has this desired trio. The music is original and as fresh as the first day it was played. The comedy as injected by Fred Stone is of the kind that ruins the seats in the theatre and the dancing, that is where this show' steps right out and takes second place to none other. Dorothy Stone Is carrying on: that is, carrying on the family tradition. To see her and “Dad” out front alone going through one of those dances that only Fred Stone could devise is a treat for dance hungry eyes. Those nimble limbs flashing through the steps with the grace and skill that she possesses is but aT tribute to the father for his excellent tutorship and a mark of distinction for the exquisite poise of the daughter. In her line she is the best little dancer we have seen. In “Stepping Stones" you will see what Is probably one of the cleanest and cleveflest and most humorous shows of them all. In a short curtain talk Mr. Stone let us In on a little secret. He has

Famous Composers Stephens Collins Foster was an American composer, born in Law|Jr* j renceville, Pa., in 1826. Ilis musical gifts seem to have been natural, as he taught himself the flageolet when he was 7 years old. Many of his songs, the first of which, “Open the Lattice, Love,” was published in 1842, have become so popular that they may be regarded as veritable folk songs. Although simple in technical treatment, they are, as a rule, refined and graceful in their melody. “Louisiana Belle,” “Old I ncle Ned, ’ “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Massa’s in the Cold, Cold Ground,” “Ellen Boyne,” the famous “Old Folks at Home” (“Down on the Suwance River”), and “Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming,’* are some of the most popular of Foster’s 175 published selections, nis last song was “Beautiful Dreamer.” Foster was improvident, and notwithstanding the enormous sale of his songs, was frequently harassed for want of money, and obliged to sell his manuscripts out- • right for pitiably small prices. He died in New York.

Ask the Times ..j'vs-.'t ■SrSSHArwss S’ b .Ss! marital a-Dice cannot Sns-S-erfd. Alt letters are, confidential. —Editor. Where are the United States Navy Yards located? Portsmouth. N. H.; Boston, Mass.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; Philadelphia, Penn., Washington. D. C.; Norfolk. Va.; Charleston, S. C.; Mare Island, Cal.; Bremerton, AVash., and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Can stamps printed on Government stamped envelopes he cut from. the envelope and used as postage? Stamps, even though unused, that are cut from Government stomped envelopes cannot be used for postage. They are not good unless they are on the envelope on which they were originally printed. What will remove Ink stains from wood? Try putting a few drops of spirits of niter (nltrl acid) In a teaspoonful of water, touch the spot with a feather dipped in the mixture and when the ink disappears rub immediately with a rag, wet with cold water.

If most children •were half as good as parents want people to think, they’d be twice as good as they ace. You figure it out—l can’t. • • • First Skater —How does it feel to slip on the Ice? Second Skater—Oh, It upsets you, terribly. • * • The careless pedestrian and the careless autolst would think the same thing of each other—if either one of them ever stopped to think. • • • What you know about driving an auto may fill a book —but what you don’t know can still fill a hospital. * * • College professor found some pearls near Canon City, Colo., estimated to he 20,000,000 years old. Oil, well, cliances are the persons who hst them has forgotten about them by this time. • • • FABLES IN FACT IF THIS WERE THE MIDDLE OF THE SUMMER COMMA IT WOULD BE A FINE TIME TO SPRING THIS PARTICULAR FABLE COMMA SO I’LL TELL IT COMMA ANYHOW PERIOD .TIMMY SNEAKED OFF TO THE SWIMMING HOLE SO’S TO GET SUNBURNED COMMA AND COMMA CAN YOU BEAT IT DASH DASH THE SUN DIDN’T COME OUT AT ALL PERIOD YOU’LL HAVE TO ADMIT THAT IT WAS TOUGH LUCK COMMA ’CAUSE COMMA DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE WAITED ALL AFTERNOON COMMA HE DIDN’T GET TANNED DASH DASH TILL HE GOT HOME PERIOD. (Copyright. 1926, NEA Service, .?nc.)

an Indianapolis girl with him and frankly admits that she hasn’t a chance to really display her ability in the show as she should have. Iler name is Marietta Sullivan. We can sincerely say that she is in good company. The Tiller Sunshine Girls are a group that one wouldn't dare pass up. Now adays when one sees the stamp “Tiller” on a dancing ensemble -they expect the l>est. And In this show they get it. These girls go through formation dances of all kinds with such a precision aJid finish of movement that they fairly set standards for those to come. Roy Hoyer carries the principal male singing role and all credit Is due him as he seems to be a victim of the prevailing colds that are with us. MV-s. Stone completes the family group of the show and although she carries no big part she makes a fine background for her talented daughter. As an example o 2 i >ublic appreciation of a thoroughly clean and at the same time smart and clever show would like to mention that "Stepping Stones” Is practically sold out. If you have the slightest chance would advise you to let the dishes, the dinner and all else go and then try to get seats at English's. It lsn t a show, it’s an English’s today and tomorrow. looking Over the Falser Show Two highly entertaining acts are to be seen at the Palace for today and tomorrow. They are Frank Sinel,air and company in an amusing sketch of two former convicts ana

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON— 1

BREWING A MINE WAR IOATj mining seems to he ono war after another. The six months’ strike in the anthracite field has just been settled. Now trouble has broken out around the nonunion bituminous mines in the Evunsville (Ind.) district. All the ingredients necessary for brewing a sanguinary and bitter mine war are on the groun<l“-non-union miners at work and patlsfled and union miners out of work, dissatisfied and In the mood for trouble, threatening to march on the mines and unionize them by force. Already several men have been injured in clashes. With the memory of the Herrin massacre and tlv- pitched battles around the nonunion mines in West Virginia fresh In mind, civil authorities are taking precautions to prevent a serious outbreak in Vanderburg and War- - rick Counties. The nonunion mines are being heavily guarded by police and deputy sheriffs equipped with tear bombs to dis--1 courage rioting. What the, coal Industry needs more than anything else Is peace and stability. Perhaps It will reach that delectable state when all miners belong to the union and nonunion mines are nonexistent. Anyway It is percetly proper for union men to try to persuade nonunion men to come Into the fold, fiut we don't want In Indiana any of the sort of “persuasion” applied In Herrin or in West Virginia. The coal Industry will never reach peace and stability by such methods. BREAD LIKE MOTHER’S r=7‘IGHTY-Fn r E per cent of I M* j the bread used In Indian--1 1 1 apolls—and almost as large a percentage of the bread used In the State —Is made In commercial bakeries, according to speakers at the Indiana Bakers’ Association convention here this week. Home-baked bread, the bread like mother used to make, Is becoming a mighty scarce article. Most people buy the so-called staff of life at the corner grocery. And yeast Is sold at cafeterias and soda fountains for indigestion. A cake of yeast In the home Is more likely to signify a homebrewer than a home-baker. Perhaps the change Is regretable. There’s a lot of sentiment though unsubstantiated by cold facts, mixed up In the memories of old-fashioned home-made bread. In some kitchens the ovens

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turned out a product that was food for geds. In others the product was in every way Inferior to tho bread of commercial bakeries —a tough, soggy mass, as best food for nightmares. In every neighborhood a woman with the reputation of a skilled broadmaker Was accorded reapeotful homage. Turning the bread making Job over to machinery, science and organized Industry relieved the women of Incalculable drudgery and has resulted In a more uniformly high quality product. Factory preparation of food products 1 more and more superseding the kitchen. The latter has shrunk to a kitchenette. Probably the change is for tho best. But many a modern family would starve If It lostjts can opener and telephone. NOT ALL JAZZ AND PETTING '““'OMESTIC science Is the most popular branch of science In Indiana high schools, the annual report of Dr. H. N. Sherwood, State superintendent of public Instruction, discloses. Four hundred and seventy one schools of the State courses In domestic science only 450 teach physios, formerly the most popular scientific course. That ought to cheer up the pes Mmlsts —the male and female Jeremiahs—who rail at the girls of today and call them frivolous pleas ure-seekers going to the devil as fast as possible. But the number of Hoosler maids studying domestic arts shows that their Ideals are not all Jazz and petting. Their Idea of home is more than merely some thing to walk back to when the automobile party gets rough. They are really Interested In domesticity and are fitting themselves for the business of home-making Which indicates that the mod ern girl may not be so lurid as she Is painted. Perhaps her critics have gathered their Information about her too much from the head lines. She may have chapped knees, bobbed hair and wield a lipstick and powder puff unabashed In a crowded street car. But feminine Ideals have survived tho extinction of the bustle. At least W Indiana. A lot of Hoosler girls are too busy learning to cook and manage a home efficiently to murder their mothers, run away with a married parson, or Indulge In some of the other diversions that get a girl's picture In the paper and her name on page one.

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