Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 257, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1926 — Page 6

PAGE 6

The Indianapolis Times BOY W. HOWARD, President. FELIX F. BRUNER, Editor. MAYBOBN, Bus. Mgr. Member of the Scrlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Press and the NEA Service • * .* Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Publisher! dallr except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos., 214-220 W. Maryland Bt, Indianapolis • £1 •*S U bSc!sption Batoa: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere-Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE —MA in SSOO.

No law shall be passed restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely, on any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana.

Federalize the Schools? No! SHE Tiroes is in complete sympathy with all efforts of organized educators to improve the public school system, but it believes they are making a serious mistake in demanding that Congress set up a Federal department of education. There is no public demand for creation of this new agency of government, but educators themselves are exhibiting a remarkable unanimity in lobbying for it. Ten thousand school executives, superintendents and such, gathered in Washington, indorsed the proposal, and agreed to back a bill before Congress. It was an impressive demonstration. The Curtis-Reed bill, which the superintendents approved, is justified by these supporters on the ground that valuable research work” would be done. It appropriates only $1,500,000 and would not federalize the public schools. However, no one familiar with the development of bureaucracies will doubt that this is simply the entering wedge. An indication of the real desires of advocates of the measure is given by their original—and unsuccessful—demand for $100,000,000, to bo used as subsidies for the States. Bureaus hunger for power, and ?ot money. They continually seek to expand, to find new work to do, and to broaden their authority. Inevitably a Federal department of education would grow, and would require larger and larger appropriations. Grants to the States would be voted, and these would reqniro conformance by the schools to certain prescribed regulations. Public schools would become standardized, and the authority of the communities and States weakened as that of the Federal Government increased. The historical American practice of leaving control of public schools to the communities in which they exist would be abandoned. Individuality would be submerged, and schools would turn out thoroughly standardized products. An already unwieldly Federal Government would have one more branch, eating taxes and creating new armies of Federal officers. Teaching would follow a Federal formula, with faddists, specialists, agents of the big foundations, reformers and organizations besieging Congress for the adoption of their own particular theories. There would bo Federal inspection, Federal pensions and grants of money. Communities, in a vital and intimate phase of their community activity, would try to lean on a remote bureau. The control of public schools should remain where it now is. Research does not require anew department. Thero is no way the central Government can do what citizens—the voters and taxpayers—cannot themselves do. Public schools today spend twice as much as they did five years ago. Five years ago they doubled what they spent in 1915. If the system is still defective, the remedy is not to be found in the Federal treasury. Good Business? SHE KB is a ship canal up on Cape Cod which serves a very useful purpose. Financially it is a failure. Its owners, therefore, ask the Government to buy it—at a very good price. President Coolidge favors the purchase. There is a great power project at Muscle Shoals. Financially it is qertain to be a success. Private interests therefore are seeking possession of it—at the lowest price possible. President Coolidge favors letting them have it.

THE VERY IDEA! By Hal Cochran ■■■'—-

First Ones \ mT happens just once In a lifetime, of course, but It gives kids a thrill in full measure. The first pair of long pants is always the source of real manly feeling, and pleasure. I guess it’s Just part of a boy’s life to start and dream, from the day he is born, of growin’ up big to the time when he’ll part with the short ones—then long ones are worn. Most any good mother is dreadin’ the day when her son will grow out of his teens. But fathers, of course, never take it that way, for they’ve grown up and know what It means. To step out where all of the takes its slants! Imagine the thrill, if you can. To youngsters, the first pair of grown-up long pants, is the jump between boyhood and man. • • • No question a youngster asks is rflly—unless the parents can’t answer It. • • • foday is the time you forget a lot of things you learned yesterday, and tomorrow is too late for It to dawn on you. • • A It m. -i a nice looking picture when a lather Is snapped with his hand on his son’s shoulder—but would be more natural If the son had his hand in his dad’s pocket.

Another Eden f B nevcr h ave the sons of Adam forgotten 1P 1 Eden. Down the centuries, amid their sweat, they have dreamed of a time when the command would be softened. Today that time seems near upon the world. For in electric power mankind has found a giant able to do the work of numberless men, a giant that will race across mountains, lakes and deserts to bring energy for mighty factories, warmth and light for humble j homes. Let those who doubt ponder what already has happened in California, where nearly onefifth of the Nation’s total water power is now generated. This has happened: In 1919, 243,692 workers were able* to produce $1,981,204,701 in useful goods. In 1923, by calling upon the giant for 20 per cent more energy, 246,154 workers were able to produce $2,215,281,350 in goods. California factories used 765,168 horse-power In 1919 and 971,315 horsepower in 1923. And 2,362 additional toilers were able to produce goods of $234,076,659 ad- i ditional value. That is what the giant means to men. Ho j means less hewing of wood and drawing of I water and digging of coal among men. And yet there are those, remembering not Eden, who would bind the giant in fine chains of gold that he might work not freely for all men, but for the selfish and greedy alone. And alas, there are representatives of the people, sitting in Congress, who would allow this to be. Let Us All Be the Judges “IpIUS” SCHLITZ, whose brewery made 1 Milwaukee famous, in a telegram to an anti-Volstead-law Congressman, asked if he could ship a case of his pro-prohibition beer to every member of Congress so they could judge for themselves if the product is Intoxicating. If that proposal is aeqepted and carried out, a lot of Hoosiers, heretofore without political aspirations, will lick their lips and run for The perquisites of the office will be nlore attractive than the salary. The wets and the drys now making the well-known Congressional welkin ring with their furious debates on prohibition, both utter much nonsense. Nothing more so than in debating the question whether beer is or is not intoxicating within the meaning of tfce Eighteenth Amendment. Teetotal drys declare beer and whisky are equally devastating and sinful. The only difference between the brewed beverage and hard liquor is in degree. Eventually the beer and whisky drinkers reach the same goal. Light wine and beer enthusiasts, on the other hand, argue that in intoxicating properties beer ranks somewhere between plain water and oambric tea. One would think to hoar them debate the question that beer is a strange new beverage of unoertain effect. Whereas people have been acquainted with it for some thousands of years. And thero are plenty of men now living who can testify from personal experience as to its properties. However, if it is advisable to determine its status as an intoxicating beverage by practical experiment, why confine the experiment to Congressmen? Send a case to every voter. Let all of us be the judges. Just drop us a card, Gus, when you are sending us the material for our personal tost. In the interest of science we 11 do the rest.

If you doubt that this is the land of the bravo—looklt the marriage rate. • • • He had Ills fam’ly tree looked up. It nearly caused a riot. And then it cost him twice as much To keep the dem tiling quiet. * • NOW, HONESTLY— Saw a crippled fellow, today, hobbling along on a pair of crutches—smiling; And an elderly lady trudging down the street with a basket of stale bread on her arm—cheerful; And a wreck of humanity sitting in a park bench—Just gazing into space. Three examples of the dark side of things. You and I and the other fellow, who have wealth, a Job, and enough to eat, have a lot of nerve kicking about our lot, haven’t we? Before you feel sorry for yourself, think of the other fellow. • • • FABLES IN FACT COOK HAD BEEN ORDERED TO MAKE A CAKE FOR THE CARD PARTY PERIOD AND SHE WAS ALSO TOLD TO PUT GROUND NUTMEATS OVER THE TOP OF IT PERIOD ANYHOW THE CAKE WAS BAKED AND SET TO COOL COMMA ANJ^SHE

TURNED TO THE TASK OF CRACKING NUTS PERIOD SO FAR SO GOOD COMMA BUT WHEN SHE PUT ONLY A FEW NUTS ON THE TOP COMMA THE HOUSEWIFE COMPLAINED PERIOD QUOTATION MARK I’M SORRY COMMA QUOTATION MARK EXPLAINED THE COOK COMMA QUOTATION MARK BUT I SIMPLY CAN’T CRACK ANY MORE PERIOD MY JAW HURTS QUOTATION MARK PERIOD * • * There are 65,000 garages in these United States, and the open spaces in between them are where people have blowouts. • • • TRY THIS ON YOUR HARP: A gust of wind blew her cook book shut and she didn't know what she was oooking. • • • Once upon a time there was a girl who was perfectly willing to Join the missionary movement—until she found It wasn’t a dance step. • • • When a man says hs doesn’t smoke, drink, gamble or swear, you could say he was perfect—if he wasn’t such a liar. * • • Try this on y->ur oboe; “He Took a Handful of Peanuts From a Popcorn Stand, and Was Arrested for Impersonating an Officer. • * • No, we're gonna play minstrel show. You say to me, “Who was that I saw ya out with last night?” And I won’t reply ’cause ya can’t trust anybody these days.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Pretty Peggy . Peggy Hopkins Joyce ' The Ohio announces that the screen debut In Indiana of Peggy Hopkins Joyce, the muchly married and divorced star, •will take place at that theater on next Sunday afternoon. “Pretty’’ Peggy will be seen In "The Skyrocket.”

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

THE MAYOR’S VETO TAYOR DUVALT < Wednesday vetoed the ordinance i- . J recently passed by the Indianapolis city council, providing for the appointment of a council attorney at a salary of $1,600 a year. The Job create! by the ordinance is unnecessary and is inconsistent with administration’s program, accoiding to the Mayor. Perhaps the '©to will cause heartburning among the councilmen who have pressed the schema of a special lawyer for the city’s lawmaking body. They feel the councilinanio lambs would be safer among the wolves in city hall if they have their own legal guardian angel. But to .ho Innocent bystander the Mayor’s veto seems sensible. There Is no need visible to the naked eye of the dispassionate citizen for attaching more legal talent to the city pay roll. The municipal pay roll already teems with attorneys. There Is the regular legal department, comprising corporation attorney, city attorney and assistants, presum ably maintained for the purpose of furnishing legal advice to any and all branches of the city government. In addition several of the departments ar.d commissions have their own special attorneys. Under the circumstances the council no more needs a special lawyer regularly maintained at public expense than it needs a special chaplain on the pay roll. Not as much. The municipal government Is already over-run with legal advice but not wdth prayer. A SENATOR’S WIDOW |RS. JENNIE O. RALSTON, widow of the late Hoosler Senator, Samuel M. Ralston, will receive SIO,OOO from the Federal Government under terms of the deficiency bill. Just passed - by the Senate. The widows of Senators la Follette of Wisconsin, Spencer of Missouri, Ladd of North Dakota and McCormick of Illinois—other Senators who have died In office during the past year, will receive similar remembrances from the United States treasury. It Is the custom when a Benator dies for Congress to make soma slight provision for his widow by granting her a sum equivalent to one year’s salary of her husband. That of course is eminently proper, a kindly act. It proves that the Republlo is grateful. But there la no provision, by custom or law, for the widow of a President or Vice President. Whatever her financial distress, after husband’s death, the Government will pay her either a lump sum or a pension only after a special act of Congress. If Congress gets absenkmlned she may be reduced to penury or dependence on relatives. And the widow of a mall cantier, or similar humble civil employe of the Government, who has worn himself out in the service, can take in washings after her husband’s death as far as the Government is concerned. No pension Is provided for her. For a rich, generous nation the United States lias some surpislng attacks of niggardliness. RECREATION AND PIETY -j CLYDE MARTIN of Pal \/L myra, Ind., former school L. .J principal and an enthuslajßtio promoter of athletic sports and recreation among the young people of hla community, is to be tried for heresy by his church, because of his "ungodly” activities In sponsoring sports. At college he was a star athlete. When he returned to Palmyra as school principal he knocked out a partition in the school house to make a gymnasium, and organized athletics. That shocked the straight-laced members of Ills church. They opposed such scandalous "doings” and secured his dismissal. Then with his own money he built a community recreation hall in the town. There the young people could gather for Innocent sport, games and recreation. Dancing and card playing were not permitted. More shocks for the pious

MR. FIXIT Street Railway Plans to Pave Between Tracks.

Let Mr. Flxlt piwnt your ca*n to city officials. He la The Tlmee’ representative at tha city hall. Write him at The Times. The Indlanapolla Street Railway Company plana to pave between its tracks on English Av., between Shelby and Pine Sts., as soon aa better weather arrives, Mr. Flxlt learned today. The Information was gained In presenting a letter from J. Ed Burk of the Southeastern Clvio Improvement Club. Howover, the company considers no obligation to place paving In English Ave., from Rural St. to Brookville Rd. Officials say citizens took their own risk by allowing space for extension of lines, that move never having been promised. The district now Is served by a bus line, they say. The following complainants must petition the board of works to establish a grade before repairs may be made: Graceland Ave. residents, and south side residents. State Ave., from Glmber St. north.

and narrow minded elders of his sect. Bo he will be churched. He 1s deeply religious and sound theologically, his accusers admit. But he promotes athletics and amusements which are works of the devil, they say. Perhaps they are right. Innocent recreation and Indulgence In athletic games and sports may be damaging to piety. A youth who nets a basketball or who exercises In a gymnasium to develop his body may be slipping over the brink into the pit of eternal damnation. However the same Creator who fasliloned man’s soul also supplied him with hts human body. Why then is clean healthy sport for the young people, tending to develop clean, healthy bodies, Impious and ungodly? Looking Over I New Palace Bill • _ By John T. Hawking Two acta on the Palace bill for today and tomorrow vie for first honors and so w® have to mention them together. They are Billy Batchelor and Company In a comedy sketch and Verna Hayworth and Company In a small dance revue. In the Batchelor act the whole offering Is comedy aboard a railroad train and in the station. The conductor and the cook on the train prove to be a couple of very easy "marks" for a rather hard young lady who /is aboard. I wouldn’t doubt that if the men had worn overcoats she would have taken ’em away from them. Verna Hayworfh and her three young men have an net that Is full of variety, considering the number of people present. Os course we have Miss Hayworth In several fine dancee. among the best of which was a toe dance at the close of the act. The rest of the time Is taken up by a man pianist who plays two good solos and the dancing of two boys, who are adept at splitting and kicking. Liked them very much. The Four Klmlwas open the bill with some balancing tricks and a rathw spectacular slide down a rope by one of them. The spectacular part of it was that the rope was suspended over the heads of the audience. Trout and Heflf are two men in black face, who specialize In oomedy songs that are a little more than ’’wise cracks” set to music. In Welmsley and Keating the act depends entirely upon the efforts of the man whose line la eccentric comedy and foolish remarks, he gets many laughs. Bill Includes movie with Elaine Hammersteln. Pathe News and a comedy. At the Palace today and tomorrow. -I- I- -ILTTTI.E THEATRE The last performances of "Treasure Island” will bo given Saturday Feb. 27 at 2:30 o’clock and Saturday evening at 8 15 in the new playhouse of the Little Theatre at Alabama and Nlnteenth Sts. Tickets may be secured at ICautz 116 N. Pennsylvania, and nt the Playhouse. Other Indianapolis theaters today ">r: Ziegfeld Follies at English’s; Edith Clnsper at Keiths. "Dance Ballet Russe” at the Lyric: "Lazy Bones.” at the Colonial; "The En chanted Hill” at the Ohio: "His Secretary” at the Apollo; “Irene” at the Circle; a complete new movie show at the Isis and burlesque at the Broadway.

John Smith, You Are Licked BV Tnited Pr*tt ST. PAUL, Minm, Feb. 26 "Peterson" called the deputy clerk In Circuit Court here facing a petit Jury panel. Thirtytwo prospective Jurors arose. "Carl Peteit>on," amended the clerk. Seven men marched forward. "Carl E. Peterson.’* Two responded. "The tall one,” mumbled the clerk.

Ask The Times Ton oan ret an answer to any qtieetlon of fact or Information by writing to The indlanaoolU Time* Washington Bureau, TB2S New Tori* Ave.. Wfiahliirton, p. 0., lndoebir 2 oemte In stamps for reply. Medical, legal ana marital advice cannot be riven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other quest! via will receive a peraonal reply. Unsigned request* cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. How many telephones are In use In this country and at what ratio do they Increase com pored with population? Telephones Increase In the United States must faster than population. Statistics show that during the last five years to Sept. 1, 1925, the population of the country increased 7.2 per cent and the number of telephones Increased 26 per cent. There were 13,151,000 telephones In use In this country on Sept. 1, 1920, and on Sept. 1, 1925, there were 18,566,000, an Increase of 3,415,000 for the five-year period. Can you tell me something of the diamond polishing and cutting Industry of the city of Amsterdam, Holland? Most of the diamonds In the world pass through Amsterdam. The city has been famous for diamond polishing and cutting since the sixteenth century, when the art was introduced by Portuguese Jews after the sack of Antwerp. At present there are nearly a hundred mills employing several thousand persons. Most of the raw diamonds come from South Africa, although Brazil and the Far East are other sources of supply. Is the Quebec Bridge that spans the St. Lawrence River near the city of Quebec a special type or Is It an ordinary cantilever bridge? Quebec bridge Is of the cantilever type. It Is notable not only for having the longest span of any bridge yet built —1,800 feet—but also because It is the first Important structure to use the ”K'' system of web bracing, which Is believed to have many advantages over the Pratt and Warren web system generally used in cantilevers. It carries a double track railway and accommodations for foot traffic but no highway. The total cost was $22,662,000. How are bristles set In the better grade of artists’ brushes? The roots are forced Into a quill which has been soaked previously and which, on drying, holds them fast. nothAer method of setting the bristles In high grade brushes Is to tie the tufts In the middle with wire or thread, which is drawn up through a hole piercing the wooden back and they ore then secured by interweaving at the back. A veneer Is glued or cemented on the back to cover the wires. The hest brushes are trepanned—that Is, the holes are driven longitudinally or transversely through the back, and other holes sunk to meet them on the face of the brush. The tufts are then tied in the middle with strong threads, which are drawn through the holes piercing the brush, after which the holes running transversely or longitudinally through the brush are plugged. How many newspapers are printed In the United States? There are 2,235 dally newspaper* In continental United States.

$5 Delivers This Fine “Leonard ” GAS RANGE J V Exactly as Pictured l Set Up In Your Home Complete Make & Save Your Exactly Selection IS Regular Now! Price Just Imagine! —$S Delivers It! Four-hole burners, 16-inch oven ? white door fronts and enameled splashes—hack and sides. Positively the city’s greatest Kange value!

This Standard Vacuum i “^Q C

<£\ rOThifr./^ furniture CO. 343t0349 W. WASHINGTON ST.'

Famous Composers Henry Louis Reginald De Kovon KOYEN, an American composer, was born in MidD die town, Conn., in 1859. When eleven years old he was taken to Europe, where he roceived his education. Ho wiy* graduated from St. John’s College, Oxford, in 1879. After being instructed in the usual musical grounding branches in Germany, ho went to Italy, where he studied vocalization and light opera composition. On his return from Europe in 1882, De Koven took up his residence in Chicago, but subsequently moved to New York and afterward to Washington, llis scores are melodlous and show refinement in instrumental coloring and mony. His greatest success was “Robin Hood," produced in 1890. Besides his light operas, he composed numerous songs, many of which have bocomo popular.

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

Text: “So God created man In his own Image. In the Image of God created he him-” —Gem 1:27. Sr— OMB time ago a professor a scientists, lecturing on evo__J lutlon, expressed scorn for mere religionists who dare to entertain an Idea concerning the origin of man without having "first-hand Information of morphology, physiology. embryology, ecology, paleontology and genetics." If the professor started out to Intimidate us with a parade of his ologles, he has succeeded so far as most ol us are concerned. In his lecture this professor declared that man differ# from the brute creation only In degree. Arrogantly be brushed aside as impossible of acceptance by any man of science the Idea conveyed by the Book of Genesis that man differ* from the animal In kind. And yet cepted by many able scientists. Among them the following: Mendel, the formulator of the law of heredity; Linnaeus, the father of modem botany; Versallus. the father of modem antomy; Wasmon, the great authority on Insects; Muller, the father of modem physiology: Malpighi, the founder of the science of pathology: Pasteur, the greatest of the world’s bacteriologists: Mm#. Curie, the discoverer of radium. The majority of evolutionists, white holding the theory that man’s present physical form was reached through a long process of evolution, accept the Bible Idea that he became a rational, spiritual being by a distinct act of divine creation. So far as evolution Is concerned. It can never be anything more than a theory. The simple language of the Bible concerning the origin of man Is. "And the Herd formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed Into his nostrils the breath of life: and he became a living soul.” This simple account of man’s origin can never be Improved upon by science. It does not tell us the method by which he was formed, or the

FEB. 26, 1926

time It required; and science can never tell us anything definite and certain da to either of these thing*. Our learned professor may hoot at the Bible Idea that man Is a distinct creation, different from the animal In kind, and yet no other Idea Is worthy of a being of such moral and spiritual dignity m that which man possesses. (Copyright. 1926, by John R. Gunn) Education Was i Cheap Those Days p=Tl ATHER9 who send weekly I M I checks to sons sporting I * J limousines In college, hearken to a tale of the low cost of living In Harvard University In the year 1811. William Boa son, former city attorney, has a receipted bIU of the late Charles T. Bosson, his uncle, showing quarterly expenses of (52.83. The commencement dinner, plus a catalog, totals only 44 cent*. The wood he burned amounted to 65 cents. The rent of his study and cellar nicked him for $2, while the books of that age cost $4,05. Sweepers and sand was a puzzling Item to Bosson, but It Is checked off at cents. Sizings was a mystery to Bosson until he learned Webster defined It as "food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.” This Item ran up to sl.ll, hardly more than an I. U. student spends at the Book Nook In a day, Including refreshments for hla special co-ed. Evidently the sl-11 was substantiated by heavier refreshments, for the bill for steward and coma mens amounted to $19.06. ™