Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 62, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1926 — Page 6

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The Indianapolis Times ItOY W. HOWARD. President. BOYD GURLEY, Editor. | WM. A. MAYBORN, Bus. Mgr.^ Member of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance * • • Client of the United Precs and the NEA Service • • • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Published daily except Sunday by Indianapolis Times 'Publishing Cos.. 214-220 W. Maryland St, Indianapolis • • • Subscription Rates: Indianapolis—Ten Cents a Week. Elsewhere—Twelve Cents a Week • • • PHONE—MA In 3500.

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 STATE INDIANA is paying approximately $25,000,000 in income tax for 1926. The Federal treasury reports this total, which is an increase of more than $1,000,000 over last year’s figures, indicating a prosperous condition within Indiana. * •

THE OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT The annual report of the Federal prosecutor from his district points to the Squibb whisky prosecutions as one of the outstanding victories for law and order. It is with pride that he points the convictions of the men who conspired to turn loose the stock of a distillery upon the bootleg market. There is the proud boast that these men were sent to prison for violating the prohibition laws. It is unfortunate that the record stops there, for that would have been a real accomplishment* and achievement. It is always a triumph when law conquers and the criminal is brought to justicesBut the people will remember what happened after the Squibb distillery was seized andsttae whisky taken by the Government officials. They will remember, with not so mudh pride, the fact that out of that stock of whisky approximately SBO,OOO worth of It was taken from the Federal Building in this city and turned back into bootleg or other channels. They will remember that this part of the history of that case was exposed upon the floor of Congress by a Socialist from New York, not by any member of the Indiana by a Senator from Indiana. They will remember that the United States marshal, in whose custody the whisky was placed, first denied that any whisky was missing, then declared it impossible to tell whether any was gone. They will remember that upon confessions, three Negro janitors or watchmen of the Federal Building were given sentences of four months in jail, six months in jail and one year in prison, for stealing this whisky. That, of course, is an outstanding achievement of which the Federal prosecutor may be proud. That is the deterrent to crime which will put fear in the hearts of ahy one who may have the opportunity and the inclination to steal SBO,OOO worth of whisky from the Government. It i3 unfortunate that the Government can not boast that it has such efficient and honest servants of all sorts that no whisky taken .from crimianls again gets back into beverage circles.

SENATOR REED’S SUGGESTION There is food for thought in what Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania says. He advocates in effect a six months* boycott of France by American tourists if the French continue "unwarranted and unjust outbursts’’ against Americans. Absence of American visitors who spend millions of dollars in France every summer, Senator Reed says, “would show the French what folly it is to behave so outrageously toward a Nation that feels for them nothing but friendship and good will.” French politicians and editors have badly advised the people of France. But American tourists, also, have an unfortunate habit of leaving their manners at home when they go abroad. In France they apparently are at their worst and do much that is calculated to irritate their host. s Absence of American dollars would prove harmful to French finances, but might not be nearly so harmful as a series of outbreaks against American tourists which might lead to a strained diplomatic situation. Cordiality prevails between the governments of France and the United States. Americans as well as French should strive to continue this relationship and improve it, if they can. MORE THAN MERE ARMY * One hundred and twenty-five thousand young men come marching. They are the army of the Citizens’ Military Training Camps, the number that Uncle S(tm has trained in the six years of such camps’ existence. They are an efficient army that can build bridges, knock over tomato cans witn rifles or big guns, hilije for hours under sun or through rain. They are engineers and boxers and have built their boflies through a highly concentrated program of athletics. They know drill and teamwork and many of them are fine horsemen. They can construct a telephone, telegraph or radio outfit. But they are more than just an arny. The drill field and the bridge have given theft something above military knowledge. A fine sense of law has been ground into these young men, a sense of law and Justice that will make them better citizens. And not only better citizens (for such is the fruit of teamwork), but better friends, better companions, better menIT’S FAST COMPANY Jack Delaney, who recently won the light heavyweight championship from Paul Berlenbach, probably knows that he’s in fast company. The activities of the light-heavy division in the last few years' have completely overshadowed the doings of the heavyweights and established a pame tor fighting that Delaney must hump to keep up. Berlenbach, as the titleholder, fought any one who looked sideways at him, and we hope Delaney will do the same. Pugilists afe given to the world for that purpose. There was a day when heavyweights fought also, and that hasn’t been 1,000 years ago, either. The ringsiders want fights, and latelf the heavyweight division has come to mean but one thing —"heavy gate” or no fight. The heavies have themselves to blame for the shift in popularity to lighthea fies. Pretty soon, except for press reports about signing of terms, arguing about shares, being pinelied for speeding and having one’s nose modeled after the vogue bf Apollo, we’ll have forgotten that there ever was a Wavy weight boxing division. > m

THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF Farm leaders who say that the farmers get none of the tariff pie which is passed around so freely to great industrial Interests find their arguments backed up from an unexpected source. ' The Institute of Economics of Washington, notbd for its studies in the finances of European countries, has just published a book entitled "The Cattle Industry and the Tariff.” After a searching study, the author, L. R. Edmlnster, concludes that duties now imposed upon cattle and beef are ineffective to help the cattlemen themselves, and that any increase in duties would impose upon the cattlemen and the consumers alike, burdens that would more than offset all possible gains. This is more evidence that the corn belt committee which fought for farm relief in Washington last winter, and has just met at Des Moines, is now on a warm trail when it says the farmer gets little from the tarlfT. The committee went ahead to say in effect that the farmer soon must get more benefits or he would see that others get less. The corn belt’s committee’s action was in contrast to that of the lowa Republicans, who also have just met. They passed resolutions saying hopefully that they are still looking for the Republicans to do right by the farmer,- and sadly but tenderly reproaching President Coolldge, whom they painted as "deceived by hiß chief advisers on farm aid, Secretaries Mellon and Jardine.” And Senator Fess of Ohio, leaving the Presidfent at White Pine Lake, says that Congress and the country will have another chance at "sound” farm relief measures—meaning those approved by Coolldge, Mellon, Fess, etc., at the next session. He characterizes the farm revolt as a passing thing like the Greenback and Populist movements of the last century. That’s the farm situation. It is mixed as hash, with the most important feature the growing realization by the farmers that they are beipg swindled -by excessively high tariff rates. If they keep that realization and act upon it farm relief may result. ADVICE TO POLITICIANS Former Governor W. P. Harding of lowa spoke frankly to the Republican leaders of that State at the lowa convention Wednesday. “When my father, who was a horse trader, had a horse to sell, he always concealed the ringbones and spavins until the was sold," he said, advising them to do the same with their party. That is the Republican way. They do their quarreling after the election; the Democrats before it. That has been an important difference between the two parties for two campaigns—one reason, perhaps, why both those campaigns resulted in Republican victories. Harding’s advice is cynical and not pretty, but It seems to work.

. RETURN ON INVESTMENT It costs $7,238 to raise a child to the age of 18. THat’s what the Department of Labor estimates, any way. But the department gives no flguret of the return on the investment. That return is naturally impossible to get, because the mutual affection between Dad and mother and the boys and girls, In a happy home, and their happiness, canst be figured In dollars and cents. It is safe to say, however, that no Dad and Mother who have spent their allotted $7,000 apiece to raise a child would trade the experience for anything less than a good big sum—say about seven trillion dollars, more or less. One good friend Is worth about a hundred fairly good ones. It's lucky that there are enough faces to go round. -., Ford's bee'll made an honorary doctor of engineering. That’s fine. Perhaps he’ll doctor some sick flivvers. Congress hopes to adjourn July 1. We’ll do all we can to help it. We’ll hope It does, too. White House roof needs repairing, which corned from raising it so often. Be careful what you are busy about. The bee is congratulated. The mosquitoes are swatted. OCEAN ADVENTURE BY PROXY “Bf MRS. WALTER FERGUSON If you can’t go adventuring upon the high seas, the next best thing Is to read about somebody who can. Some time ago, William Beebe, world famous explorer and naturalist, accompanied by a number of scientists, started out upon the ship Arcturus to visit the strange Sargasso Sea and to find out about the wondrous things which lie in the squthern ocean. The report of this voyage is now to be had in book form, and makes thrilling reading, galling over the very same spots where once traveled Columbus upon that voyage which was to end with the sight of the sipall light which proved a beacon to guide civilization to anew world, Beebe transmits to you a senseof the vastness *and the eternal sameness of the ocean, which harbors life so similar and yet so different from our own, that sea which is everlastingly the same and yet everlastingly changing. The ocean is the great mother of all living. From her depths the first protoplasmic existence emerged. Ocean enfolds secrets which perhaps no man will ever penetrate, although he is making brave voyages into her fathomless depths and finding out things about the life that flourishes in her dark caverns which seem almost beyond the grasp of the imagination. These men on the Arcturus put on helmets and walked upon the ocean bed. They found many peculiar fishee never before seen by human eyes. They invaded a small island, the nesting place of the great albatrosses who spend nearly all their lives hovering between the blue ocean and the blue sky. To thp most of us these birds only exist in fiction and poetry. They are the most wonderful flyers of their kind and can keep up with the fastest ocean steamer. They sometimes have wing measurements of twelve feet. They are awkward -on land, but in the air they sail through thousands of miles of limitless space. Thanks to modern science, this expedition returned with many specimens and with 11,000 feet of films. And so those of us who will never be able to go into the strange places which the scientist penetrates may see upon the screen motion pictures of those wonderful fishes at home and view the great albatross as he wings his magnificent way from the endless miles of water to the small coral island which his hotne.

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Tracy England’s Ability to Pay Will Determine How Much We Get Back,

By M. E. Tracy There may be a great issue in this dispute as to how, when and for what England spent the money, but I cannot see it. The more of our money she used for bread, the more of- her own she had left for bullets. Perhaps, It was not a war loan, as some of our economists contend, but would England have needed to borrow if it had not been for war? When we are all through arguing, moreover, won’t it be England’s ability to pay, not how the money was spent, that will determine how much we shall get back? •I- -I- -I- r Gravity After being knocked down twice, drinking a gallon of ice water, more or less, getting very red in the face, making six unsuccessful ..tries and having the altitude reduced from 1,000 to 250 feet, Babe Ruth caught that ball from an airplane. Those who saw the performance are satisfied that they got their money’s worth. It was a convincing demonstration that, wonderful as the Babe may be, he is no match for the law of gravitation. The boys just don’t know what speed is until, they see something drop. Frank Gabby caught a ball dropped from the top of Washington's monument, which is only 555 feet high, but he didn’t show any ambition to surpass the feat. -I- -I- 'l' 1 The Superior Touch The builder of B ro °klyri bridge is dead —an'event hardly worth notice, perhaps, considering how members of the Y. M. C. A. rate greatness. There are those, however, who persist in believing that this' man left a monument not only to his own genius, but for the benefit of mankind. I Greater bridges have been constructed since, but none has created such a deep, or abiding an impression on human fancy. This is probably due to the fact that Colonel Roebling combined artistry with engineering skill. Brooklyn bridge is not only huge, but graceful In its proportions. You can not look at it without realizing what infinite pains the designer must have taken to obtain the pleasing flow of line and when you learn that he was a lover of flowers, you sense the refining instinct that gives his work a superior touch. I + Jr Too Many Playthings Lots of talk about the American home, especially in tune with the idea that it has well nigh collapsed. Why the pessimism, folks? Motner love survives, even if the old brick oven has given placfe to a three-burner, gas range, while babies are lulled to sleep by the roar of electric trains instead of cackling fowls. You know how children act on Christmas morning when they wake up to find more toys than they can play with all at once. We are in somewhat the same frauM of mind.* Science has simply deluged us with so many playthings that we don’t know which way to turn. But cheer up. The excitement will wear off presently and we will get back to a more sensible distribution of our time and energy. •i- -r- -iFruitless Tears Herriot wept, they say. when he resigned and as a mob of 5.000 yelled for his expulsion, if not his death. It was poetic justice for the man, who had so nonchalantly kicked the props from under Aristide Briand only four days before, but beyond that it did no good. Neither the tears of a disappointed politician, nor the jeers of an angry crowd cun solve France's problem. She has had top much of that kind of ■'emotionalism and she will remain in trouble so long as she mistakes it for the real remedy. •!• -I- -INobility Once in a blue moon something painfully beautiful happens, that restores your faith in humanity and makes you beliwee in an irrepressible element of goodness. Just now it is the story of those fifteen Canadian lads, who clung to their capsized canoe through a chilling night and until only four were left. No fighting for the right to live among them, no kicking of the little fellows aside, no appeal to the law of self-defense and survival of the fittest. , The stronger, larger boys swam calmly away into the dark when they found the water-logged craft would not bear the weight of all. Such things go far to compensate us for the mean streaks men fre.quently display, for the din that selfishness is always raising and for the chronic whine that we are inherently bad. The tragedy leaves heartbroken parents, of course, but through the tears, their eyes cannot help shining with pride, in one of those rare exhibitions of courage which not only does honor to the boys who died, hut sets an example that is bound to make other boys nobler. I- -I- -iPussyfooting 1 The lowa convention praised Coolldge and Brookhart stood for it rather than stage a fight, all of which is causing Republican leaders great joy. Without wishing to put a damper on any one's joy. I am still of the opinion that the vote polled in the primary represents'' the feeling of lowa Republicans much more correctly than does the pussyfooting of this convention. Extending from Namonde to Nikko, two Japanese towns fifty miles apart, there is a wonderful avenue of trees. They are perfectly straight, 130 to 160 feet high and 12 to 15 feet in circumference.

Stuart Walker Announces Last Three Weeks of Stock This Summer at Keith’s

Information that will be of inter-* est to local theater goers is the announcement coming from the press department of the Stuart Walker Company that Mr. Walker not only plans to return to Keith's, this city, early next spring, but that next summer he also hopes to have other companies in various Keith houses throughout the country. The present season, which has been the most successful Mr. Walker has Wer had in Indianapolis or any other city, will come to an end on Sunday night, Aug. 15, and the following day a of workmen will begin an extensive re-decoration of the hoqse ip preparation for the coming autumn and winter vaudeville season. Mr. Walker's contract with the Keith office stipulated that his season in this city would be of ten week’s duration, with the provision that he could renew his lease In the event the theater would not be redecorated this year. At the expiration of the ten weeks, Mr. Walker applied for and received an additional two week's time. A short time later he requested and received a three week’s renewal — this last renewal bringing his closing date up to Aug. 15. Two days a&o the Keith New York office advised that it would be impossible to allow him more time, as it would take four weeks or longer to make the alterations and improvements that the contractors have outlined for the local house. The three productions that Mr. Walker has announced for the balance of the season are “The Outsider,” with McKay Morris and Ann Davis, for one week, starting next Monday night; “The Swan,” 'with McKay Morris, George Gaul, Ann Davis and Aldrich Bowker, which will be the attraction jthe week of Aug. 2, and "Icebound,” the play that will bring the season to a close on Aug. 15. The Cincinnati season of the Stuart Walker Company will not close until tho middle of September, as the Grand. Opera House, where the company Is playing, will be available until that time. So successful has Mr. Walker been with his Indianapolis, Dayton and Cincinnati companies that two prominent New X°rk theatrical managers who control theaters in all parts of the country have made offers to turn certain of their houses over to him for winter engagements in three important middle western cities. I- -I- ■!■ BILLY HOUSE HAS NEW BILL AT PALACE With the same style of humor as he displayed duripg the first half of the week, Billy House at the Palace for today and tomorrow Is more than successful In bringing out the laughs. The show they are now playing is "Telephone Scandals," a series of witty and pointed little sketches woven around telephone conversations. Os course we have musical numbers in plenty throughout the show and think they are a bit better than those of the show done before. Everything is new, or has that appearance, wheih adds more charm to the bill. * During the first part of the show House is down in the audience and by means of the advice he is continually giving to the company on the stage is able to have quite a bit of fun of an intimate kind. The musical and dance numbers are excellently handled by the chorus and leads and as usual there are one or two that stand out a bit from the rest. In one of the numbers the tenor “sings "Just a Cottage Small.” in a manner that pleases. He also makes a fine showing in what is the prettiest number of the show, New Year's number. This last is a very fine thing and is of the type that only the largest revues attempt. Mr. House has a couple of blues songs which he seems to like doing, the soprano carries several numbers and we have a well done number by the dancing team. Included on the bill is a photoplay "Shamrock Handicap.” At the Palace today and tomorrow. (By the Observer.) -I- -I- -IOther theaters today offer: Indoor Circus at the Lyric; "Ladies of the Evening." at English’s; "Magnolia." at Keith's: "The Boob." at the Ohio; "The Wise Gus\” at the Circle; "Padlocked," at the Apollo; "At the Fall of Alamo,” at the Isis; "The Love Gamble,” at the Isis, and "Sporting Life,” at the Uptown.

MR: FIXIT Noisy Manhole Lids Will Be Silenced,

Let Mr. Fixit present your case to city officials. He is The Times’ representative at the city hall. Write him at The Time*. ' The staccato rattle of the manhole lids in the dead of night finds little favor with the residents of Wlnthrop Ave., Mr. Fixit is hereby advised. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Residents near the 4500 on Winthrop Ave. will greatly appreciate your efforts to have two loose manhole covers tightened in this block. The noise made by automobiles passing over these covers is very annoying and especially so during the night hours. HOWARD F. SARBER, 4454 Winthrop Ave. The clamor shall be stilled at once is the advice from the streets department. Mr. Fixit has g’oomy news for a large number of persons who have written requesting oil fOr their streets. George Woodward, streeta superintendent, told him today that there would be no more oil spread this year. ' The small appropriation of $10,090 has been exhausted. DEAR MR. FIXIT: On E. Tenth St. and Bancroft St. there is a growth of high weeds that surely need removing. HORACE MONTGOMERY. The board of health will order weeds cut.

'Gobble-Cackle* Fowl in City

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“There ain’t no such animal!” Isolks say this when gazing upon a “turken,” a turkey chicken which belongs to T. F. Turpin, 1944 W. Vermont St. Its paternal parent: was a white turkey which was sent to Turpin from California and its mother vwas an Indiana Rhode Island Red hen. From the turkey side of its fnmily, this fowl inherits wattles, a kinfl of “beard,” and an extra long neck. Otherwise, he looks just like a large barnyard rooster. His Rhode Island Inheritance is shown in a deep gold cast of wings. The rest

YO UTHS ’ SALVA TION RESTS IN PARENTS I Judge Collins Declares Parents Must Solve Juvenile Problem —Conviction Figures Given.

By Arthur Norris More boys and girls have been brought into court in the last few months than ever before, Prosecutor William H. Remy asserted today, on' receiving a report that between Jan. 1 and (July 17. a total of 550 persons were convicted in Criminal Court. "I’ll wager that if complete records were available it would be found that 90 per cent of those convicted of felonies would be found to be minqrs,” the prosecutor said. "In all my experiences I have never seen so many boys and girls under age haled into court as have been in the last few months.” Sixty Minors But records dispute the prosecutor’s figures. During tjie period, only sixty minors have been committed to she Indiana State Farm or the reformatory. The total number of convictions was 590, some persons having been convicted on more than one charge. Liquor law violations lead all the rest. Eighty persons were convicted of blind tiger charges during the first half of the year, seventy-nine on various liquor-law charges and sixty-two on drunkenness charges. Efforts of Judge James A. Collins are said to be largely responsible for

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of his feathers are white, like his turkey father. "He’s hardier than the ordinary chicken,” remarked his owner. “He’s three years old and has been cooped up in close quarters during that time. A common chicken wouldn’t have thrived.” In Russia, Turpin says the turken is quite common, people breeding them because the meat is of somewhat richer quality than that of the chicken. "Folks regard them as a monstrosity here though,” says Turpin,” and a lot wouldn't like to eat them.”

the small number of minors committed. Judge Collins recently said "it Is as much the business of the court to save minors from institutions as 4t is to send them there.” Great Change Speaking further, Judge Collins said: “The ever increasing population of our reformatories with boys between 16 and 21 years of age is evidence that we have not reached a solution of our juvenile problem. A quarter of a century has witnessed a tremendous change in the home life of America. These changes have been established In almost the twinkling of an eye. Among these influences have been the flat, the adtomobile, the moving picture and the divorce evil. No juvenile court or social agency is going to solve the problem. Its solution mus# rest with the fathers and the mothers.” Both Prosecutor Remy and Judge Collins agree that the fundamental fault lies In the home, and that parents should keep a closer watch on their children. Among other convictions, during the last six months were: Carrying concealed weapons, 13; speeding, 11; assault and battery, 29; issuing fraudulent checks, 22, and manslaughter, 4.

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Questions and Ahswers

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to Tho Indianapoli.-t Times Washington Bureau. 1323 New York Ave... Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamp* for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. AH letters are confidential.- -Editor. Is there a man eating tree? An interesting myth has long been circulated concerning the existence of a man eating tree. It is supposed to be a sacrificial tree in Madagascar, into which the most beautiful maiden of the tribe, selected every year, must climb, and be embraced by the pointed thorns and her blood mingled with the syrup of the tree, must be drunk by the warriors of the tribe as a sacrifice to their gods. There is no truth in the story. There are small plants, however, which catch insects. Is a spider technically an insect? An insect Is a small Invertebrate animal having its body Into three sections (hence the derivation of the word insect) head, thorax and abdomen with six legs attached to the thorax and usually two or four wings or two wings and two wing cases. A spider has eight legs and no wings’; belongs to the ordod ara-, neida, class Arachnida, and therefore is not an insect. How Is "chow moin” made? Mix 1 cup chopped veal, lVh cupsy of celery, M cup.of water chestnu| Vi cup mushrooms and Vt cup baiMl boo tips. Chop these ingredients all | together into very fine pieces. Cook | over slow fire, stirring until meat is done and vegetables, are tender. Steam 3 cups of noodles until they become soft and fry ln ( deep fat until light brown. Smother with first mixture and serve. What Is the legend concerning the origin of tflio snowdrup blossom? j When the first winter lay white | upon the earth. Eve sorely missed j the beautiful things of the fields, | says this legend. An angel, pitying | her, took a flake of the driven snow j and, breathing upon it, bade it live j for tho delight of Eve. It fell to | earth a flower, which Eve caught | to her breast with gladness, for it | not only broke the spell of winter) but carried the assurance of divine ( mercy. , Should a young lady traveling' alone to Europo wait for a formal Introduction to the other people' aboard ship or is it proper for her to' speak without an introduction? The only place where formal in* troductlons are not necessary Is at 1 sea. Life on board ship is more or less free from conventions. It is per-' missible for fellow travelers to converse without being introduced. A young lady traveling alone should he 1 careful not to pick up haphazard acquaintances, however, and should 1 not make tofidants of casual steamer ■ friends. How much cork should be In a life preserver? _ At least six pounds of good cor|^| When and by whom were the cher- • ry blossom trees in Washington presented? They were presented to Washing- 1 ton as a gift in 1912 during Presi-l dent Taft’s Administration, by the city of Toklo. What does “epact” mean? The age of the moon at the commencement of the year, thus indicating the difference between the solar and lunar cycles.

One Wheel Next season, for tho k first titne in twenty-five years, there will be but one burlesque "wheel.” It will be operated by the Mutual Burlesque Association, with thirty-six companies, playing a circuit of forty-four theaters, located in the principal cities of the United States and Canada.