Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 320, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ROY W. HOWARD, President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr. Member of tho Sorlpps-Howard Newspaper Alliance • • • Client of the United Tress and the NEA Service * • * Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published dally except Sunday by Indianapolis Times Tubllshlng Cos., 214-220 \V. Maryland St., Indianapolis * • Subscription Rates: Indlauapolls—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere —Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA in 15000.

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KNOW YOUR OWN STATE Indiana produces 54 per cent of tho national output of kitchen cabinets, or a total value iu excess of $15,000,000 per annum.

IT COULDN’T HAPPEN The members of the city council who tried to put a grave yard as a harrier to development in the northern part of tho city have yielded to pressure of some sort and are now happy to escape further .censure. They explain that they called a special meeting to help out this project which would have destroyed proporty values, served no useful purpose or need and permitted, so they say, largo profits from stock sales, because they were told that unless they acted quickly the scheme could not be carried cut. i, in other words, their plea Is that they acted hastily upon misinformation. They played the part of boobs, if their own explanation is taken at face value. They have a better explanation, if they would give it to the people. It is in the form of city government of which they are a part. With a political and partisan control and factional squabbles, counciimen and mayors will keep on being misled and misinformed and hauled about by those with votes to deliver and favors to seek. This threat to very many thousands of dollars of invested capital could not have been made In Cleveland or In Cincinnati or any city which has a manager whose business it is to KNOW. This sort of a deal could not be consummated in a city operated on a business, not a political, basis. As long as we make city government a matter of partisan and factional politics, citizens may expect to pay the price In real money. It is always paid in the form of high taxes. And then occasionally it Is paid In huge chunks when misinformed politicians do something that destroys values of real estate. Very happily the education of these counciimen on the cemetery scheme came In time to prevent actual loss. But the best protection for the future is as rapid a change from the present charter to a city manager form. It is time to cut out the cost of politics and start to go after that million population. A REMARKABLE EDITORIAL Collier’s Weekly campaigned for prohibition many years before the Eighteenth amendment was adopted. After six years of prohibition, the following editorial appears in the issue of Collier’s on the news stands today: “The impossibility of enforcing Federal prohibition was amply demonstrated by the testimony of witnesses before the Senate committee in Washington. “Federal prohibition cannot be enforced without the employment of vast numbers of national police. Before obedience to the national dry law could he exacted it would he necessary to establish hundreds of new courts and to create an entirely new judicial system. Not even a Congress predominantly dry is willing to spend the millions necessary to support such a national vice squad. / “The law enforcement officials admit the bankruptcy of the dry act. They have not been able to administer the law. They have no expectation of being able to administer the law. The commanding generals admit defeat, and by their very admission make future victory impossible; for nothing could have dealt a more serious blow to the morale of the Federal agents than the confession by their superiors that they were engaged in a hopeless enterprise. "In such circumstances it is the duty of all honest men to oonsider the future without prejudice. What is the prospect? The return of the saloon is impqssible. It brought evils to this country which will never again be tolerated. That chapter is closed. “On the other hand, the experience of the last five years shows that In certain sections the American people are unwilling to abandon the use of alcoholic beverages. If liquor cannot be got honestly, it will be obtained corruptly. If clean alcohol cannot be bought, the bootlegger's poison will he drunk. There is no limit to the ingenuity which men and women exercise to obtain forbidden drink. The Federal law changed neither habit nor custom nor desire. “The practical question is now to provide honestly for tho legal distribution of liquor in tho areas in which the majority of the people are wet. Each State Should Decide for Itself “The Eighteenth amendment must he repealed. Alcoholic beverages cannot be legally distributed anywhere in the United States, regardless of local sentiment, so long as the Eighteenth amendment is in force. We cannot afford to nullify another section of the United States Constitution and alcoholic beverages cannot be dispensed unless the Eighteenth amendment is either repealed or nullified. Since it is not and cannot be enforced, it must he rewritten. There is no alternative. We must not continue to dlshondr the Constitution. “Once tho Eighteenth amendment is repealed, a constructive program is possible. “The most practicable proposal calls for the establishment of publicly owned dispensaries. The experiments made in Canada and Scandinavian countries prove that tills is a sane and workable solution. Distributing centers should be established in those States and communities whlefc are wet by majority vote, “The people of every State should decide the question for themselves. In dry States no dispensaries would be established. /Even in wet States dry communities could exclude dispensaries by the exercise of local option, “In the distributing stations hard liquor as well as beer and wine would he sold but with a difference. Wines and beer should be priced cheaply. Hard liquor should be distributed only at high prices, as high as the rates now levied by bootleggers, "Excessively high prices would tend to persuade the rich as well as the poor to choose wine and beer rather than gin or whisky. Government certification 1 of purity and quality at the same time would turn

buyers from bootleggers to the public dispensaries. “To many good citizens tho establishment of a dispensary system will seem to bo an acknowledgment of defeat. It is. The truth, however, is that alroady prohibition has been defeated and tho law brought into disrepute over a large part of the country. It is hypocrisy and fanaticism to ignore the facts. • Alcohol Is Still a Dangerous Drink “Prohibition was lost when the dry advocates stopped preaching ‘You ought not’ and began saying ‘You must not.’ People can be persuaded but not driven. As soon as 'Thou shall not drink alcohol’ was made the law, revolt appeared. It was inevitable. . “Drinking alcohol is still dangerous. The teetotaler still ha3 a far better chance at health and long life than the drinking man or woman. Temperance, if not abstinence, is still a virtue to be inculcated and to be practiced. ‘“The Anti-Saloon League, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and similar agencies still have a great work to do. “But neither prohibition nor temperance is the immediate issue. Right now we must find an escape from an intolerable morass of bribery, corruption, contempt for law, and official weakness which make possible an enormous amount of illegal drinking. “The question is not ‘to drink or not to drink.’ People are now buying alcohol to the tune of three and a half billions a year, accordiing to official estimates. The actual issue is whether this liquor is to be sold legally or illegally. No sane person doubts that it is being sold and that It will continue to ho sold. “Incidentally, the prodigious profits now made by lawbreakers would go to the support of the Government tinder a dispensary system. These revenues would make possible drastic tax reductions. "The public dispensary m the wet States is the practicable way out. This involves fundamental adjustments. Surface remedies will not eliminate the unendurable evils which hare folldwed in the wake of national prohibition. “The first necessary step is the repeal of tho Eighteenth amendment.” THE CHAMBER VIEW Speaking today in Washington before the annual meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce, of which he Is president, John W. O’Leary discussed the question of relief for the farmers. After paying a graceful tribute to agriculture as the basis on which all business rests, he warned against any legislation that would include Government aid for the farmer. “During the past year,” he said, “the Chamber of Commerce has held foiv regional agricultural conferences. A total of twenty States has been represented. Farmers, bankers, merchants, manufacturers have participated and have developed a sympathetic understanding. There has resulted an education of business men in the real problem of the farmer.” Then he proceeded to enumerate the things that have been done for the farmer: Credit to help over the worst of the deflation period. Invention of new machinery to lessen cost or production. More orderly distribution by tha railroads to avoid overloading the market. New uses developed for farm products. As an example of the last he mentioned the mak’ng of poker chips from skimmed milk. Concluding, Mr. O’Leary said: “Our confidence in the future Is not dispelled by the efforts to depict the farmer s future by a picture of pauperism or the object of charity. Your organization will continue to lend its best thoughts to this important phase of the work.” It would appear from this speech that the best thought, of tho Chamber of Commerce was not equal to dealing with two phases of the agriculture question that probably have more to do with the farmers’ present plight than any othersOne is the protective tariff. It may be that the chamber shares President Coolidge’s view, expressed in Chicago, that the tariff on everything he buys doesn’t hurt the farmer. Or it may be that tho chamber membership includes too many beneficiaries of the tariff to permit the chamber to go into that subject. The other Is the question of middlemen. The iarmor gets too little out of a product for which the public pa>s too much. Someone in between gets the difference. Nearly every one seems to know this, but no one has yet found a way to eliminate this man in between. Are there also too many of him in the chamber to permit the chamber to go into that subject? THE AYAY DOCTORS TALK By Mrs. Waller Ferguson -1 The American Medical Association, which met some weeks ago at Dallas, Texas, planned some needed reforms. The one, however, which a long suffering public lias wished for ardently, was not even mentioned. We refer to the doctors' pet habit of ignoring the use of Anglo-Saxon words. I'or hiding behind a lot of Latin, no one, not even a lawyer, can excel a physician. This is not to be criticised when they are launched upon a learned debate with men of their own profession, but when they get patient down, they should exercise some mercy. Nothing can give you such a feeling of utter helplessness and abysmal ignorance as having to listen to a couple of specialists discuss your symptoms. Right before you, and while your pleading eye implore them to give yuo some information, they will exchange their majestic Greek and their sonorous Latin with a cruel indifference to your sufferings. Indeed, there is about all the professional eon\ersation of medical men something of sinister mystery, an awe-inspiring gabble of language that can scare the ordinary citizen almost to death. Let us suppose, for instance, that you are harassed with a plain case of the itch. Your skin specailist—pardon me, your dermatologist—will tell you that you have aggravated symptoms of psoriasis. Wouldn't that make you give up hope? The good doctors apparently go upon the theory that the less they tell the more they’ll know. 1 low ever, the most of us feel that the medical profession might gain a lot of needed confidence if the doctots would confine their.jaw-breaking words to each other and not inflict them upon their patients. They have so far kept us so filled with,awe and fear by their nonchalant use of doleful and horrible sounding words that we have been sufficiently subdued for their merciless castigations. We admire them now', but oh. how we could love these doctors if they would only discuss our ailments with us in terms we could understand. A *

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You Do Not Have to Pack Your Trunk to Go to London, Gay Paris and Berlin

By Walter D. Hickman 1 Really, these days are getting more wonderful every hour with the aid of the radio and the phonograph. I have just returned from London, Paris and Berlin, and I did not have to leave my easiest chair in my own flat to mako the journey. Didn’t have to pack a trunk or buy a lot of clothes to even get Into the King's palace In Ixmdon or to see the wonderful gardens in Paris or witness tho past beauty of Berlin. All 1 had to do to take this wonderful trip was to obtain the Brunswick recorded edition of Newman's Traveltalks. After putting on the record marked Ix>ndon on the phonograph, I then seated myself in a comfortable chair opened the Illustrated booklet which goes with each travel record. • As Newman delivered his lecture on I.ondon I turned the pages of tho illustrated booklet and saw Trafalgar Square, tho Strand, Bush House, Grave of Oliver Goldsmith, St. Paul's Cathedral, Royal Exchange and tho Bank of England* London Bridge, tho Tower of London, Petticoat Lane, Westminister Abbey, House of Parliament. Grave of tho Unknown Soldier, the National Gallery, the o'.d Curiosity Shop, Regent, Queen Victoria, Memorial, Kensington Museum, Entrance to Hampton Court, the Thames embankment, Law Courts, the Traitor's Gate, Picadilly from St. James Place, ’Rite Gallery, Tower Bridge and other sights. Knowing how busy and noisy London Is just at this minute with its strike, it is nice to visit London at a time when it Is so peaceful. There Is lot of value to these travel talks. One can look at the pictures as Newman tells of tho various places visited and obtain a spljndiil impression. When I wanted to go to Paris, all I had to do was to place the Brunswick edition of Newman's talk on this city and I was in Paris. With tho greatest ease and the ; least possiblo expense I visited while sitting in my chair such wonderful places as tho Tuileries Gardens, Place Du Carrousel, the Louvre, Tomb of Napoleon, Notra Dame, Book Stalls along the Seine, Palace of tho Luxembourgh and tho gardens, the Opera House, Placo Do La Republique, Montmarte, Rue Royal, Champ Elysee, Eiffel Tower, and many other places. The second that I finished visiting Paris, I put record on my machine ;ind did some more traveling. Brunswick has done a wonderfully charitable thing In releasing these Newman talks. This statement may seem rather overdrawn, hut I am going to say it. Every home should have these Brunswi< k-Newman travel records and pictures. Brunswick has done a noble service In making these little Journeys possible in homo that has a phonograph. *!• -I- -IIndianapolin theaters today offer: "Dancing Mothers" at English’s: "Candida” at Keith’s; Bobby Jackson Revue at the Palace; Follies De Sylvia at the Lyric; “Shufflin’ Sam frfom Alaham” at tho Broadway; "Tho Bat” at the Cflrele; "Havoc” at the Colonial; “Moana” at the Apollo; "That's My Baby” at the Ohio and "A Man Four Square,” at the Isis. ” THE VERY IDEA! ' By Hal Cochran Tiff. FARMER My hands are rugged, calloused, worn; my muscles hard and labor torn. It seems that I was one man bora to plant of oats and wheat and corn. My face Is reddened by the sun. At dawn, each day, my toil’s begun, j I have my daily row to run, and grimly Is my living won. I pit my strength against the soil. It's hard and bitter, tedious toll. The sweat of brow is muscle oil. that flows, forbidding crops to spoil. By turn of mind, and turn of hand, T am the one who feeds the land. My "gold,” though not the kind that’s panned. Is, by a world of hungry, scanned. There’s little else of life I see. than Just the land that looks to me, to raise things as they ought to be. A slave —and yet, a slavo that’s free. * * * Every housewife has a calling—that’s what gets the kids to come in the house when supper Is on the table. • • • The bill collector rang the bell. There isn't any doubt, Tlie wife was sorry she was !n For shortly she was out. * * • The father who washed the alarm clock’s face and put the baby out, didn’t realize he was absent-mind-ed until he tried to set the cat uj 13 minutes. • • • Rolled stockings make an Impression—especially Just below the knee. • • • TThen a conscientious man owes money, his mind can't settle down until he lias settled up. • • • Right after you have calling cards printed, it’s just yous lack to find people at home. • • • FABLES in fact JUST TO GIVE ME A CHANCF TO FULL THIS ONE COMMA A COUPLE EVENT OUT AUTOING PERIOD BANG EXCLAMATION MARK ’TEVAB A BLOWOUT PERIOD THE GIRL SUGGESTED HE HIRE A GARAGE MAN TO FIX IT PERIOD HE REPLIED COMMA QUOTATION MARK I HAVEN'T ANY JACK QUOTATION- MARK PERIOD THEN SHE SUGGESTED THAT HE FIX IT HIMSELF COMMA .AND HE REPLIED COMMA QUOTATION MARK I HAVEN'T ANY JACK PERIOD QUOTATION MARK (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)

Prettiest of Michigan's Seniors

Miss Mary Haskell of Ludington, Mich., is the prettiest senior in the University of Michigan. At least, her classmates so voted at the annual "mock election” last week.

Questions and Answers

You can get an anawer to any question of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1.(22 Now York Are,. Washington P C inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply Medical, legal and marital advice > annot be given nor can extended research he undertaken All other questions will receive a personal reply Unsigned requests cannot be answered All letters are confidential —Editor. If a man and one-half cams one dollar and a half in a day and a half Iww much would seven men earn in six days? If a man and a half earns a dollar anti a half in a day and a half, this then Is at the rate of a dollar a day. But since this dollar a day was earned by a man and a half, each man is earning at tho rate of two-thirds of a dollar a day. Seven men would then cam two-tlilrds times 7 times sf>, or S2B In six days. What is the political meaning of “Caucus”? A primary assembly for the purpose of nominating candidates for local offices In Iwiroughs, towns, cities, wards precincts or districts. It often elects delegates to a convention of a larger division. The use of the term In this sense is confined to a few western states, .in other parts of the country it is called a mass convention or a primary. Caucus may also mean an assembly of party members of a legislative body to decide upon united party action. Do fish ever sleep? How can one tell when they are asleep? Yes. fish sleep. It is almost Impossible to tell when a fish is asleep because they are so sensitive that tho slightest movement of the water or change of condition makes them instantly alert.

Cossack Prince

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Prince Vrulronlkoff

Although Russian Princes of a kind are not so rare In New York, there are none in America of the rank of this one—Prince Arthecal Andronikoff, heir of the mighty House of Georgia, related to the Czar s Romanoff family. Prince Andronikoff was formerly tho fourth richest man in Russia and, though he is now heading, with General Savitsky, the Russian Cossack circus of the 101 Ranch Real Wild West and Great Far East, coming to Eighteenth and Sugar Groves, Indianapolis. Friday. He is happy, for the Cossacks are soldiers with whom he fought in Pomerania. Many of them are survivors of the famous Cossack charge at Tanr.enburg, when 2,000 Cossacks, with lances .and sabres, charged the German big guns and silenced them. Onjy 200 rode back. HOME NAMES OFFICERS Indianapolis Orphans Homo reelected Mrs. Charles A. Gerrard president at monthly directors meeting Tuesday. Other offioers: Mrs. Edgar H. Evans, Mrs. Ernest Wales and Mrs. A. G. Ruddell, vice president: Miss Flora McD. Ketcham, secretary: Miss Gertrude Taggart, treasurer and Mrs. Cary H. Clifford, corresponding secretary.

Where were tlio United States subtreasuries located? Have they ail been abolished? They were branches of the Treasury Department and have all been abolished. They were located at Baltimore. Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans, New York, San FranI cisco, Philadelphia and St. Louis. Where is Sing Sing prison? Please (ell me something about it? It is a New' York State prison located at Ossining (formerly Sing I Sing), a village in Westchester Counjty on the Hudson River about thirty miles north of New York City. The ! prison is situated just outsido the | city limits. It is a large whito bulld- | ing constructed of dolomite, a coarse ■ marble quarried near by. It was authorized by law in 1823 and founded in 1525 when Capt. Elam Lynda brought 100 convicts from the State prison at Auburn and put them to I work to wall themselves in. Only i men are confined there. Its capacity is about 1.700 inmates and the value of the plant is about $1,000.000. The grounds and Institution cover about seventy acres. How many men are receiving compensation through the Veterans Bureau, and how many of them are tube ’cular? .counting to the latest available statistics 222.124 men are receiving compensation from tho Veterans Bureau. Those receiving compensation for tubercular diseases number 47.423. Who played the part- of the blind father in "The Eire Patrol.?” Npottiswoode Aitkon. Is it possible to produce a silvery white color upon copper? Yes. Apply a solution containing [silver cyanide dissolved in sodium I cyanide. IN hat was flic name of the powerI ful motor nr used iu the moving picture, ’'California Straight Ahead?” It was a Fageol, a six-cylinder car of 140 horsepower.

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IMPROVEMENTS SOUGHT Seven University Height* Citizens Named on Committee. Election of seven University Heights citizens to a citizens' committee to sponsor improvement projects for the section was announced today. The committee: R. J. Dearborn, chairman; I. J. Good, D. Quakenbush, Willis Hollman, Russell Elder, H. W. Marshall and Carl Berdel. NVith Are and police protection and mail delivery, and with city water coming in, the committee hopes to promote soon gas, sewer and (street lighting Improvements for the section.

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BARKER NAMED JUDGE Secretary of Agriculture Board to Pass on Berkshires. Elbert J. Barker, secretary-treas-urer of the State board of agicul- . ture, received notice today of his j appointment as judge of Berkshire j hogs at tha Philadelphia Sesqui- j Centennial Exposition this fall. The Philadelphia stock show will be heldJ the week following the Indiana Fair. Barker, whose home is at j Thorntown, is a nationally known j breeder of fine Berkshires. l A frame house In Atlantio City Is j put together with wooden screws In- I stead of nails.