Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1926 — Page 6

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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. . .

KNOW YOUR OWN STATE Indiana 1b fortunate In the practically equal division of Its three principal sources of wealth, each totaling less than 30 per cent of the whole. This serves to relievo dependence upon any one major source. *

the rapid conversion On the surface the United States Senate c Incredibly swift adoption of the Reed resolution to Investigate campaign expenditures In Pennsylvania and elsewhere Is little short of amazing. Even today, forty-eight hours after It is all over, a good many people are still wondering how it happened. The Washington Post, Administration organ, tries to explain it by saying "Republican ranks, temporarily demoralized by Pepper's defeat’’ in the Pennsylvania primaries, "were taken by surpriseWhich Is the truth, as far as it goes. Certain It Is thought Senator Reed of Missouri, single-handed and alone, toyed with them and bantered them like a champion, heavyweight badgers a groggy opponent Just before he uncorks the wallop that precedes the count of ten. Just 7% minutes passed between the time the motion to consider Reed’s discussion won by a vote of 45 to 34, and the adoption of the resolution itself by a vote of 59 to 13. “In that interval of time,” Senator Reed taunted, "twenty-one Senators changed their minds. If we and had three or four minutes more the other thirteen might have changed theirs, too.” This change of votes on this question, the Senator was significant. And it was. No temporary demoralization by Pepper’s defeat could explain it. The thing that happened in that 7% minutes was that the memory of every Senator present became a screen across which flashed in review the whole Newberry scandal, the subsequent investigation and what happened afterward, to election time"To gain the boon of liberty for us,” as Senator Harrison told them Wednesday, "men have laid behind prison walls until brown locks turned to gray and rotted on their temples. “Through the miasma of swamps, through forest depths, beneath the burning Bun, amidst the winter’s snow, in starvation and In despair, our fathers fought on and on until at last they established the ♦right to self-government. "And that right is all concentrated in the simple right to cast a free man’s vote.” Voters are not yet all-wise, but they are learning. At least the day is gone when fortunes may be spent In discriminately trying to get into office without anybody rising to Inquire as to how and why Voters know that self-government 13 dead and that a vote becomes a joke If office can he bought. And rest assured that since the Newberry episode every Senator knows that the voters know. Thus it does not require any 7% minutes for the average politician to make up his mind what to do when an Investigation is demanded to safeguard what hath arisen so aptly called the free man’s simplest right. But Watson, with Robinson tagging, was not converted. He simply ran away, refused to vote, avoided his duty. Indiana was silent in a vote on honesty.

LONGINGS Henry Ford, one of the world’s richest men, finds his greatest joy in a simple little old inn, gray with age, mossy with time, in. the hills of Massachusetts. Few pictures of the maker of pigmy car3 have been taken in late months that did not find him in the inn. Sitting in an ingle nook surrounded by warming pans, blowers and all the insignia of a fireside’s past, walking over silent paths about the inn, or eating simple fare from a check-clothed table. Henry Ford’s return to the life simple is no strange thing. Listen to the talk of any group of rich men lunching at their club on guinea breast and mushrooms, smoking dollar cigars—“l’ve got my eye on a simple little place in the country,” says one. “I'm trying to buy back the old farm, swimming hole ’n’ everything,” says another. "What do we get out of thi3 sort of life, anyway?” says the third. "Did you ever wade a creek when you were a kid and pick apples in an orchard?” Now that spring is here, Sunday after Sunday a steady pilgrimage of cars, rich, glistening, highpowered, flying cars glide on to the common Mecca — the country. Rich man, potentate, Mogul, fly on in an aura of dust and gasoline to find that symbol of happiness —the country, the simple life, a world where apple blossoms fall like coral from fresh-leaved trees, where sun and moon and stars shine cleaner, where —just on into the land where things seem not what they are. The farmer laughs. What do these folk know of his life—of its gruelling toil, its risings, groggy with sleep, into dark morning, its days a round of toil and more toil to wrest a living from the soil, little time, little thought for blossom and bird, sun and moon. Just the old story of the quest eternal for happiness in the lot we do not own. Just the old story of regret for the thing that was, the realization when the old swimming hole days are over, that after all they were the only days. Then they were days of longing for the big city and the “world outside.” But now —the President of the United States and his wife will summer in a tiny, little simple cottage hugging the slopes of the Adirondacks above Lake Placid. That is the summum bonum of the greatest man in the land —the straying from the white portals of the most famous house In tho land into a simple little cob And the dwellers of the mountain and lake look with envy upon a man who comes from a great white house in a great city. UNDESIRABLE i The ship bore Johannes Tielle back to Holland as an undesirable alien. He was like any other of the crowd that America rejects daily. But Johannes Tielle had the last laugh. Just as the boat was leaving a demented woman iplunged overboard. The current carried her swift-

ly away. Bravely a coast guardsman from a customs boat near by leaped In to try to save her, but the current mastered him, too. Johannes Tiello, in the full strength of his twen-ty-eight years of Dutch manhood, poised but a moment and ho was with them. First the woman, then a return trip into the grip of that sweeping current for the man. He took them both back to land and safety. The law called Johannes Tielle "undesirable.” Johannes Tielle has the laugh on us for that. THE FINAL WORD “The prohibition question will never be settled until Its solution is based on a real expression of the will of the people.” This is from a very significant interview with Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania. If you are interested in the prohibition question the interview may give you a jolt. It may set you thinking. Senator Reed is a young man. He is classed as a dry. He is a regular Republican. He Is a stanch supporter of President Coolidge and the Administration policies. You may like his politics or you may not You may not- He can tell which way the wind is blowing when the straws are in the air. THE GREAT LEADER Now all you folks who smiled when the Motto Magnificent machine called Senator Jim Watson a "great leader,” get down on your marrow bones and apologize. I-et no one ever say again that Watson does not lead. If you want the proof, look at what happened in the Senate when that body was faced with the duty of voting to probe corruption of elections. The resolution affected the greatest right you have—the right to vote. For, most patently, if your vote is nullified by crookedness and corruption and purchase, you have no vote. If money debauches the election machinery then your boasted right to a ballot becomes a farce and a joke. No, wo didn’t mean that Watson led the fight to expose and Investigate corruption. The resolution came from a Senator of a rather different record, one Jim Reed of Missouri, who had denounced any assault upon your rights as a voter and who demanded that the Senate protect and defend that right. Did Watson hesitate in such a crisis? He did not. He proved himself the leader that he is. Watson, so Bay the dispatches, led the rush to the cloakroom, where he would not be compelled to vote either for or against a probe of this corruption. He was the first to lead in the retreat, the rush to cover, the stampede for safety. True, not many followed him. There was Robinson from this State. There were five others who followed Watson in his great exodus. But Watson led. There may be some who lament the fact that Indiana has no Senators who vote on questions which involve honesty of elections and the sacredness of ,the ballot But they should have learned by this time thet that is too much to expect as long as Watsonism reigns in this State. They may take solace from the fact that when It comes to dodging and retreat, Indiana furnishes the leader. Perhaps it is better to lead the cowardly and the timid than not to lead at all. Fifty years ago a man in knickers would have felt just as silly as one does now. These are the days we will wish for in a few months. A man in Chicago bit a policeman on the nose, but we all can’t live in Chicago. People who live in spring suits should not eat ice cream cones. Working’s so much trouble- Wish the boss would hurry up and go away for our vacation. Next thing to money the hardest thing to keep Is a secret. If you knew the facts you could convict almost anyone of being crazy. TOO MUCH FOR A NICKEL! ~By Mrs. Waller Ferguson- - ■ We have one thing in this’ country that's too cheap—the Saturday Evening post. We get too much for a nickel In this excellent and prolific magazine, and I, for one, would be glad to, give Mr. Lorlmer a dime a ■week to get him to remove some of the contents. 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Chicago is planning io build 25 more miles of Ibis dish-shaped pavement. J. Sloan, inset, is its advocate. The diagrams show the difference in construction between the old-style "Crown” pavement and the new.

Bv NL'A Service , CHICAGO. May 2 1. —Because a youth was roiled by the sight of young mothers trying to jostlo their haby buggies over high curbings and determined that some day he would remedy the situation, Chicago Is to adopt anew type of concave thoroughfare. John J. Sloan, president of the board of local improvements, is chief advocate of the plan and. Incidentally, Is the same young man of years ago. Sloan’s streets will be dish-shaped. That Is, both sides will slope toward the center and there will be no curbings. Instead of gutters and catch basins along either side as Is the common practice, there will be a common gutter directly In the middle. This new manner of construction.

New Events on the Stage

Bits and Hits of Broadway at the Palaoe today and tomorrow, Is an act that In every way lives up to Its name. It is a series of numbers that are exact replicas of the kind one sees In the modem musical show. Featured are song and dance specialties. A novel Idea In costumes Is worked out In having all the different parts of the costumes made so they can be taken off separately. The girls come out In some very good looking gowns and as the act gets started the costumes start to fall. The oustanding numbers of the act were the specialty dancing of one of the men, especially the tap dancing, and some specialty numbers by several of the girls. The five women do not dance very' well In ensemble, butane quite all right In solo numbers of their own. Saxe and In. Pierre are a man and woman of the type that after you see them you will not remember quite so clearly what they did but will have a positive recollection that you liked them. Such Is the pleasant effect of personalities. The man lg at his beet In several songs and the woman Is charming whether she Is doing a song or a dance. Joseph Regan and Alberta Curllss confine their efforts to song and are pleasing entertainers. The man has an excellent tenor and the woman a fine contralto voice. Featured are songß liked by the ballad singers of today and of several years ago. The voices of these two blend In a perfect manner when singing a number together. Gordon and Day are a man and woman who contribute most of the fun to the bill. The man assumes an old slapstick character and for many minutes gets much humor out of a bicycle. The woman Is a good dancer when it comes to high kicking. They have a rather clever hit In the act In which the two do a ballet number, the man burlesquing a ballet dancer. Jimmy Russell and Company are two men and a woman who bring out the comedy possibilities of !>ashful youth out on a country road In an automobile. The car used and Mr. Russell furnish most |pf the comedy points. Bill includes a photoplay, "Early to Wed” with Matt Moore and a news reel. At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) •I- -I- -IOther theaters today offer: “Seventh Heaven,” at Keith’s; "Spring Fever,” at English’s; “The Devil’s Circus,” at the Apollo- “Mile. Modiste,” at the Circle; “Wild Oats lAne,” at the Uolnnial; "A Social Celebrity,” at the Ohio; the Giersdorff Sisters at the Lyric and George Walsh In "The Count of Luxembourg,” at the Isis. FINDS GOLD IN TURKEYS 5104 Found In Craws of Slaughtered Fowls. Bv United Frets OROVILLE, Cal., May 21.—Honors for laying a golden egg may go to a goose, but turkeys on a ranch near here enriched their master with $lO4 In gold nuggets. Otto Eule, Raekerby rancher and one-time miner, was -preparing fourteen turkeys for market when he decided to examine their craws. There he found the gold pellets, one weighing an ounce.

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according to engineers, will save Chicago millions of dollars every year. ing the gutter In the center draining both sides from an almost Imperceptible grade, the city can cut Its approximate $5,000,000 cleaning bill In two. By this new principle, originally advocated In les complete form by Benjamin Franklin more than 100 years ago, the city street cleaning department will have half as much work to do. Pedestrians will have dry footing ajl the way across for the reason that the drainage will be constant and more frequent. Also, the new plan will cut down enormously the special asssesment taxes of abutting property owners In districts where streets are to be laid, widened or Improved.

ROUTE GIVEN FOR TRIP TO TURKEY RUN Week-End Jaunt Can Be Taken to Park Near Shades of Death. The Hoosler Motor Club today suggested a trip to Turkey Run and the Shades for motorists desiring a week-end outing. At this time of year these two parks are at their best and it Is an easy run from Indianapolis. The route: leaving Indianapolis, go west cm Washington St. to the forks in tnc road three miles west; angle right on Rd. 31 and follow It through Danville, Bainbridge, Bellmore to Rockville; from Rockville go north on State Rd. 9 to two and one half miles beyond Marshall, then left (west) to entrance of Turkey Run. The dis-

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Sloan estimates the new typo of construction is almost 15 per cent cheaper than the old type and that the saving in taxes to the assessed property owners will amount to from S3O to S4O a front foot. In addition, Sloan says, such a street presents a uniform and attractive appearance. The central gutter, formed by what amounts to a three-inch drop In a thirty-foot street, serves as a line of demarcation for opposite bound traffic, thus eliminating accidents. , The plan Is not easily applicable to streets having car lines and has been tried out in Chicago In an experimental manner with such great success In a crowded market center that now twenty-five miles of the new type construction is being contemplated.

tance is seventy-two miles. The road is only paved td the county line, after which you will encounter graveled surface with two short deviations from the highway at four miles west of Bainbridge, on account of bridge construction. Asa return trip follow a county road marked "The Shades” to the Shades of Death —a distance of thirteen miles. This marker may also be followed from the Shades through Ladoga to Jamestown; then take the Dixie Highway to Indianapolis. This road Is principally gravel, there being Just ten miles of pavement between Clermont and Indianapolis. ENTERS CLERK RACE Christian Em hard t Seek Nomination for Court Post. Christian J. Emhardt, an attorney. 305 Kresge Bldg., today announced his candidacy ofr the Democratic nomination for clerk of the State Supreme and Appellate Court. Emhardt has been engaged In law practice for twenty years. He Is being opposed by Zacharlah T. Dungan, present clerk, who Is a candidate for renomlnatlon by the Democrats.

THE VERY IDEA! By Ha! Cochran You all hav© heard that wee white lie that everybody's told. It has to do with water that is very, very* cold. Along the bank of any stream where bathing folk run loose, the first one in shouts, “Gee, it's fine.’’ He’s fibbin' like the deuce. A bathing party gathers and they rush down to the sand. The girls are kinda backward, so the fellas take their band. "Come on,” they shout out loudly, “Let’s be hoppin’ in, pell mell. Aw, golly, whatcha 'fraid of, girls? the water's really swell.” And then some fella dips a toe, quite bravely, In the lake. Most anyone would surely know 'twas cold ta see him shake. Goose pimples show quite plainly, and quivers at the knee, and yet lie'll tell the rest of them, "it’s warm as It can be.” No wonder people h< ■ itate before they go gel-plunk They know, when someone says It's warm, it’s just a lot of bunk. The first real shock is what’s so hard, and makes a person stall. But, after you’ve been In a while, it Isn’t bad, at all. • * • A mother and a child give an example of how one thing brings up another. • • • A fellow gets along better If he uses his own head —unless he's a hairdresser. • • • Where there's a will there's a way —for instance the young fellow who craved society and became a dentist so he could attend a lot of swell gatherings. • * • Said lie, "You’re good enough to eat.” My, what a clever line. But, shucks, the girl was clever, too. Said she, "All right, let’s dine.” * • • Ya have to wait until the patent medicine people get through dickering with them before some old people will tell you to what they attribute their old age. • • • Try and borrow money from someone you think is a close friend, and you’ll often find out. he is. • * * Any time you want to see a rising generation, start singing the national anthem. • • • FABLES IN FACT OF COURSE I AM WAY OUT OF SEASON COMMA BUT COMMA ANYWAY HE PROPOSED TO HER ON CHRISTMAS EYE PERIOD AND AFTER SHE SAID SHE WOULD COMMA IIE WHISPERED COMMA QUOTATION MARK OH COMMA YOU MAKE ME So HAPPY PERIOD ALL I CAN THINK OF IS THE FUTURE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE PERIOD QUOTATION MARK AND SHE REPLIED COMMA QUOTATION MARK AND ALL T CAN THINK OF IS THE PRESENT T AM GOING TO GET PERIOD QUOTATION MARK (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) LENDERS GROUP ELECTS Slielbyvillp Man Chosen President of Indiana Association. F. L. Thompson of Shelhyville was I elected president of the Indiana Inj dusirial Lenders’ Association at the I closing session of the eleventh annual convention Thursday. Other officers are: John Mac Gregor, Madison, first rice president: W. G. Chandler, Indianapolis, second rice president; W, R. Hancock, Indianapolis, secretary, and R. C. Aufderheide and T. M. Kaufman of Indianapolis, A. C. Broughman, Marion; 11. H. Burrell. South Bend; B. Blumberg, Terre Haute, and C. 11. Wilcoxen, Ft. Wayne, directors.

MAY 21, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can cet, an armwer to %n.v question ot tact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Tlme9 Washington Bureau, 1,132 New Ybrk Ave . Washington. D C.. Inclosing 3 cents lu stamps for reply Medical legal and manta! advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken All other questions will receive a peraonal reply. Unsigned requests cannot bo answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Are any parts of a railway car made of paper? For a while some passenger cars were equipped with Allen compressed paper-cored wheels which made them ride easier. The use of those wheels has practically been abandoned on account of increasing, ly heavy equipment and improvements In Iron and steel wheel3. Who discovered the principle of electric magnetic induction on which the operation of the electric dynamo is based? The principle was discovered by Michael Faraday In 1831. The first machine to give a continuous current was constructed by Sir Charles Wheatstone, an Englishman, in 1841. The use of electromagnets instead of permanent magnets for the field was patented by Wheatstone and Code in 1845. A drumwound armature in which the conductors are wound on the outside of an iron cylinder or drum was Introduced by Werner Siemens in ! about the middle of the last century- ; About the same time or a little later ! a type of armature constructed in an ; entirely different fashion was ini treduced by Gramme. Since 1880 | the greatest development has been j in the direction of improving details jof design and of mechanical con- | struction. Who coined the phrase "Don't give up (lie ship,” so often used in the Navy? Capt. James Lawrence said "Don't ! give up the ship” when he was in command of the “Chesapeake" in Boston Harbor. On June 1, 1813 he attacked the British frigate "Shannon” about thirty miles off Boston. Tho "Chesapeake” was captured and Lawrence was mortally wounded. While being carried below, bo uttered the famous words, which have become a motto In our Navy. Is it correct to say "I will go so soon jts I can?” The expression "so soon as” is colloquial, but not accurate. The correct expression is “as soon as.” What is the value of a Confederate dollar bill of the issue of 1861? Between 25 and 40 cents, as a curio merely. From whom can one obtain inforfation on employment at the Federal lA* per station at Carrvllle, Louisiana. From the surgeon general, United States Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. How did the State of Rhode Island get its name? From a fancied resemblance In contour to the Island of Rhodes, in the Mediterranean. What are Benedictines? An orfier of monks following the ! rules of St. Benedict. What is the population of Cuba? What is the; proportion between j white and colored? The population of Cuba is 3,368,923. There are 68.1 per cent white and 24.66 per cent colored. There are also a number of the people who aro of mixed blood. Do snails leave their shells? Snails never leave their shells en tirely until they die. Their bodies are attached to the shells and they only come part way out of them. When they die they dissolve or dry up in their shells.