Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1926 — Page 6

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

WATCH INSTILL Each day brings a little more evidence of the broadmindedness of Samuel Insull, who owns and controls many public utilities in Indiana, and is said to be reaching out for more In the Illinois primaries, a State in which lie also has many utility companies, he contributed to every one who ran for the office of Senator. He paid the expenses of the Democrat who had no opposition .and he paid a lot of money to the backers of both the Republican candidates. No one suspects Insull of having invented anew game of political solitaire in which he throws his money around for the sake of seeing a fight. Iha contribution to the Democrat who had no opposition indicates that he had no such purpose. Thepe is a suspicion that he expects to have a very good friend in the United States Senate no matter which one of the men wins. That same broadmindedness which made his disregard of party lines in Illinois is quite likely to make him disregard State lines in the November felectlon. . He can be expected to take an interest in Senators in every State where he has utilities. Indiana is one of his big fields of adventure and ft will be well to waleh his agents and lawyers and representatives this fall Whatever money he spends on elections Is later paid by people who buy gas or electricity or ride on street cars. Investments In Senators by a utility magnate is the same as an investment in anew power site or more miles of track. * Money spent by these' utility corporations in politics means that these companies expect to use the Government not for legitimate purposes, but for special favors if they are ever in need. / The effect of such* contributions on administrations and on officers of the law is easily detected. The corporations which pay liberally in city Campaigns can generally command police forces and other officials when they need them. Insull will take an Interest, without doubt, in our Hoosier senatorial fight. It will not be hard to guess what candidates he will back here. He will probably become more partisan in his nature when he gets across the State line. And the candidates he backs are pretty safe men to vote against, #inless you like the idea of i hat ing your public officials under special obligation 1 to your utility barons. • £.l _ w. THE OTHER SIDE Cables have been clogged with the grandiloquent speeches of Mussolini on the economic regeneration of Italy, and stories of the measures he is employing to increase production. Not so much has been heard, however, of what the Italian people—the peasant in the field and the laborer in the factory, think about it all. The people have been gagged. They dare not oppose the dictator. Their preSs has been silenced. The Fascists paint a picture of a united and militant Italy, with the masses joyfully rushing to carry out the edicts of Benito The correspondent of Labor, organ of the Railway Brotherhoods, finds a flaw in the picture, however. He writes from Rome: “The big business. men, who own the Fascist party, are out for getting rich profits; so having destroyed unions, outlawed strikes, and forced wages to the lowest level, under $1 a day, they are getting down to the brass tacks of lengthening hours. “Also In the report of the Chamber of Comiperce, are buried the figures showing the rising, rising cost of living: An index figure of 151 this month as compared with 141 last year and 100 for 1920. “Also it is shown that bread is a cent a pound costlier, and sugar 20 cents a pound dearer, than 1 lafrt year, since the taxes put on last autumn. “It is a continual astonishment to an American how groat a proportion of taxation is laid directly on necessities, especially foodstuffs. Salt, sugar, coffee, bread —the dictatorship decrees another penny on each, after each new announcement of increased military expenditure.' ‘for the glory of the new Italy.’ “Last autumn’s increases in grain and sugar taxes alone mean an added burden of lire on each worker’s family of four persons. • “A noted economist. Professor Mortara, recently dared to give the figures showing how the work-j ers’ housing conditions had deteriorated; their eating of cereqJs had diminished; their meat worsened in quality (today’s paper reports four persons poisoned by bad horse meat) and consumption of clothing materials heavily fallen, as a result of forced low level wages.” A revival of ancient Roman greatness and'the •spectacular leadership of their hero, may appeal ;to the fancy of patriotic Italians, but empty stomachs are something else again, that might make serious trouble for even the mighty Mussolini, and his hordes of blackshirts. HISTORY REPEATS ' i While it all looks new to us in this generation, history actually is repeating today In Mexico. It is the old, old battle between church and state. ' Back in 1857 Bonito Juarez was the Calles of his day. Church estates were seized. A decree suppressing priests was issued. Public sale of church lands was ordered. In retaliation, church officials excommunicated governmental leaders. Then came nationalization of ‘ all church property and suppression of religious communities. * The fight that is on in Mexico today finds the •same elements arrayed against each other. On the one side is the government, charging attempts by the Catholic church to control the political life of the nation. On the other side, the church, charging the civil government with suppression of freedom to worship, freedom of speech, freedom of the press. Two principles, fundamental In the United States, have never been settled in Mexico. They are, first, separation of church and state, and, second, freedom to worship as one pleases. Until both these principles* are aocepted in Mexico, th# war between church and state will go

on as it has been going on since Bonito Juarez, born in a peon's hut in a little mountain village, rose to the presidency of that country where warring never cefises. • ' Each new flare-up in Mexico is the signal for interventionists on this side of the Rio Grande to come forth. It should be borne in mind that where there Is talk of intervention there is oil. It should further be borne in mind that the issues at stake today are not new; that nationalization Ot church property has been % bone of contention for sixty years; that real peace can come to Mexico only when these two great principles—separation of church and state and freedom to worship—have been accepted by the Mexican people themselves.

' BELGIUM NEVER CRIED Belgium was the war’s doormat. We heard of atrocities there in number, but no whimper. The war is over now, and the powers of Europe have arisen one by one to wail over the fiddler’s fees. We have not yet heard from “the bravest of these, the Belgae.” Belgium ow&s the United States $417,780,000, and that is no small amount for a country of that size to be paying. In sixty-two years, with the interest and all, Belgium will have paid $727,830,500 for the honor of having the enemy tear up her cathe-* drals, wreck her homes and demolish her business sections. But King Albert has found a way. The stateowned railroad system haa been turned over to private capital. The company has agreed to exchange stock In the roads for short-term government obligations. Interest on the railroad securities, that is dividends, still is guaranteed by the government, giving investors confidence. In this way Albert calculates to return to the gold standard not later than Jan. 1. Belgium is trying to fight, not cry. her way out of it ' . WHY THE FEAR ? Just why, aside from the expense, there should be any fear ont the part of “Republican leaders" of calling together the Legislature to amend the registration laws is difficult to understand. Through some boneheadedness on the part of the members of that body and the Governor, a law which intended to relieve voters with permanent residences from the job of registering at each election Is unconstitutional. At least the political chairmen of both parties believe that tie law is no good and that if they act under it, the door will be left open for contests of all sorts and kinds after electionThe simple way, of course, would be to call the Legislature into session for a couple of and amend the bill. If it is important. ) (j But the spokesmen for the party in power say that the leader! are afraid to have a special session because the Governor can not Btop these law-makers from enacting other laws if he gets them together. The party dominates the Legislature, as at present constituted, by a very large majority Most of the members are candidates for re-elec-tion. They are again asking for votes. The ordinary citizen might be pardoned a little curiosity as to what laws the Governor fears these lawmakers might,pass if they had the chance. What does he believe, or the Republican chairman believe, these partisans of theirs would do that would Injure the State or bring their party into disrepute? If they are not to be trusted to together for a week, how can they be trusted to meet next winter for a few months? Perhaps the answer to such a fear is to vote for anew member wherever there is a chance. There are honest men in this world. In Middletown, N. Y., a prohibition agent went bankrupt. ✓ _ Count your toes after swimming in a strange swimming hole. v The bee is awfully busy. People admire him. Yet very few people care to associate with the bee. Coolidge is going fishing. He's so quiet. Bet he catches a million. CHILDREN RICHLY WORTH WHILE By MBS. WALTER FERGUSON A woman writes to say that she does not believe children are'worth all that parents- must sacrifice in money,‘leisure and worry. / She Is.wrong. This sort of an argument generally obtrudes itself into the mind of a person who has no children. The real parent never thinks of it. No baby’s worth can be measured in dollars and cents. The mother quickly forgets the pain she endured in the joy of her baby’s sweet companionship. The father. never recalls with regret the money he has spent for his child's welfare. Our children ma|fc cause our chief anxiety and sorrow in life. Sometimes they do, but even this does not alter the fact that they also bring us something great and spiritual which we can obtain from no other source. They are our links with eternity. Even though we may bear them only to give tiiem back to God, the shadow of their souls somehow. makes us nobler beings. Through- them we become a part of life that goes on forever through the ages. ' Nothing so argues the material Ideals of this age as the reluctance of so many men to raise a family. Upon Investigation one finds that In many where a couple are childless, It is the man vvhq, has hesiat the added responsibility. Having ' in most cases to bear the economic burden, many busy men 1 do not realize the danger of delay In having their children. When you are young and gifdy and gay, you do not miss your babies greatly, but as the years creep onward, some day there your life a great emptiness. Your days are suddenly filled with a terrible ennui. You are bored with living. Everything becomes tiresome. You realize at last that you are through with living. When this time comes, as it does sooneAor later to every children are your salvation. In them you live again. Through their eyes this world appears green and /ovely. The drabness of Middle age is made beautiful all*because you somehow forget yourself and are born fgal? in your love for your boys and girls. ' Children often are expensive luxuries, but they bring yotf the biggest return for your money.

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Tracy Mexico's Religious Struggle Is Likely to Last for Years,

By M. E. Tracy The Mexican situation furnishes the most important news for today, and seems likely to do so/for several days to come. Os more significance s£ill, it is the kind of a situation that does not fade with the headlines* While there is Mttle prospect of armed clashes, or widespeard violence i’i the immediate future, no one wl o knows Mexico can doubt that a fitter struggle is in the making, a struggle that may last for years and that is almost sure to grow bitterer the longer it last?. •I- -I- IAn Interesting Crime There never was a crime that interested the country more generally than the Hall-Mills murder, which occurred four years ago. The prominence of the parties, the obvious deliberation with which they were slain and the manifest conspiracy of silence that protected the perpetrator served to create one of those sensations which happen but once in a lifetime. As is usual under such circum stances, a mere trifle leads to the reopening of the cash. A m?n married a former maid of the Hall household, filed suit for annulment, and In his petition made charges against her which gave the officers anew clew. Now Mrs. Hall is In Jail end several persons are held ns materiarwitnesses. * “We're going through with it. this time,” says Governor Moore of New Jersey. How Popular |s Cai? According to Richard Washburn Child, President Coolidge will run again. The people want him, cViild de clnres, believing that he is respon siblo for all the economy and taxes cuts and they will brush aside the third term tradition. * If they do. they will show Coplidge greater favor than they did Grant, and If he lets them, he will less concern over limiting the number of years a President should hold office than did Washington. •I* •!• Senatorial Power • Thomas L. Cunningham, treasurer of the Pennsylvania Republican State committee, has flatly refused to answer questions put to him by the Reed Investigating committee, and will be summoned to the bar of the Senate charged with contempt. Whether the Senate can compel a witness to testify before one of its commission or to punish him if he refuses is a question now before the Supreme Court. Harry Slnclai- refused to testify when palled In the famous oil probe, but though that was quite a while ago, the courts haven’t gotten around to deciding what can bo (Jone about it.

Durant Comes Back General Motors went to sl9l yesterday, and William C. Durant made $1,600,000. Since he was wiped out twice for his faith in this stock, you can't begrudge him the winning. •I* -I- -ILet Aimee -Alone I stfppose it is essential to find out whether Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson. the I*>s Angeles evangelist, was kidnaped, or whether somebody has beep lying, but for the life of me, I can't see the point. Whatever kind of scrape she was in. she seems to have gotten out of it, all right, so why not let the incident end rlghtothere? Creating Sympathy. If the Passaic police keep on. they will create sympathy for the textile strike, no matter how much Communism there is back of it. Last Tuesday night they arrested Albert Weisbord, the strike leader, on a manifestly trumped-up charge. He was coming home from a mass meeting in his car when his chauffeur was stopped and accused of obstructing traffic. Weisbord protested and was taken to the police station, where search revealed him to be in possession of a common jackknife. He was booked for carrying concealed weapons, and was bound over the next day in the sum of S2OO. You will go far to beat that. Why We Talk of Weather It is commonly supposed that we talk about the weather when there Is nothing else to talk about, bgt that Is hardly true. The weather Is a very important subject. Tt makes you notice it. no matter how many othet things may interest you. Take this storm In the Bahamas, for instance. Millions are forced to give it more than a passing thought. The weather Is not a of mere convenience. It has been common in our talk, because it is common to our everyday needs, or our everyday difficulties, to our everyday experiences. - There’ is scarcely a venture or a profession that does not depend upon the weather for its success, scarcely an enterprise but that can be broken by the weather. SUBWAY ~STRIKE ENDS $ Prevents Any Possibility of General Walkout. Bv Vn<tfd Prrts NEW YORK, July 30. —The subway strike has ended by official agreement between Edward F. Lavtn, strike leader, and George Keegan, assistant to President ’Frank Hedley of the Tnterborough Rapid Transit Company. It ends any possibility of the "general strike" which iJhvin and his associates had threatened to start Saturday morning. The understating will permit tlse men to return to work at their former rate of but with possible forfeiture-of seniority rights. i

The Observer Looks Over New Events at the Palace Theater This Week End

A colorful music and dance offering Is present today arid tomorrow at the Palace In the act of Margo and Beth. It numbers three women. Arline, a violinist and Frances Ardelle, pianist, and Betty Eldridge, soprano, besides Henri Margo and Helene Booth, the dancing team. In two scenes, the second o 4 which Is the best -from the point of color and atmosphere, the act consists of numbers by the two women on the piano and violin ard several soprano solos by Miss Uldridge. The dancing team has about four numl>ers that are of about the usual kind. The features of the act are the music and songs. Joan Jahn and the Baldwin Sisters are a trio that would be rather hard to beat when it comes to music. Miss Jahn possesses a good voice, and when accompanied in a song by the sisters, playing two grand pianos, it produces a very pleasant effect. Although I liked Miss Jahn very much I think the Misses Baldwin, on account of the rarity of | good piano duets, made the most impression on me. The act is well mounted ancl the material has been well chosen. Jack Lanier and his trapeze are a combination which added together produce a lot of fun. Mr. Lanier mimics the serious trapeze performers and then to show that it Is not all comedy does a very difficult little trick of his own. “Two Blossoms’’ is two girls, who have worked several sister songs, some dances and some fun into a pleasing act. They are at their best, in the writer's opinion, in their dancing numbers. Perry and Wagner are two men who start off very good with some harmony and eccentric songs and then slow it up with a lot of “monkey business’’ about chickens. Bill Includes a photoplay, “The Storm Breaker," with House Peters. At the Palace today and tomorrow. ißy the Observer). •I* -I- -IIndianapolis theaters today offer. “The Outsider’’ at Keith's; “My Son" at English's; Dainty Marie at the Lyric; “Why Girls Go Back Home" at the Ohio; “Paris" at the Apollo; "Fight to the Finish" at the Isis; “The Brown Derby” at the Circle ‘Rainbow Riley’’ at the Uptown. JUDGE JOINS COUPLE Negro, Released After “Laying Out" Fine Is Bridegroom. Judge Thomas E. Garvin of Municipal Court Two, Thursday afternoon officiated at the nuptials of Richard Huron Swan, 21, Negro, 606> 2 Fayette St., and Daisy L. Taylor, 24, Negro. This was the first marriage ceremony Judge Garvin has Performed since his appointment as judge. Two days ago. Swan was released from the county jail after "laying out" a $25 and costs fine assessed him by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter for living with the Taylor woman. Tuesday he sought Deputy Sheriff John Sands and asked a “permit” to live with the woman. Sands took the couple to Judge Garvin. CHICAGO WARDEN QUITS Rv l nttr<i Free* CHICAGO, July 30.—George H. Weilding, warden of the scandal Infested Cook County jail, has resigned, effective today, following the the issuance of art' order by Judge’ John J. McGOorty that all jail employes take an examination as to their fitness to retain their positions.

STOR Y IS TOLD B Y FE VER FIGHT HERO Hoosier, Who Let Himself Be Bitten by Mosquitoes, Consents at Last to Tel I His Part in Battle.

By Roscoe B. Fleming, j Times Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, July 30.—Clyde L. West has consented to talk at.last of his part in the battle against yellow fever under Dr. Walter Reed in / Cuba, twenty-five years ago. West, whose home is near Marion, Ind., was recently granted a pension of SIOO a month for life by Congress. Upon the War Department’s announcement today, West told his story. He wouldn’t talk before. West consented to be bitten by mosquitoes suspected of carrying yellow fever, while a private in the Eighth United States Infantry. He took the fever, and the resulting illness sapped his strength so that he had to leave the Army and later his profession as a veterinarian. He did not ask for a pension, however,

Will Preach Like His Dad

Barite* y IF H / tnHCo9U|

Hillyer Hawthorne Straton, son of Dr." John Roach Straton, fundamentalist leader of New York Baptists, Is to be a preacher, too. He is 21, recently delivered his first sermon from his father’s pulpit in Calvary Baptist Church, and will be ordained shortly. “Sbu can bet your iife I was not raised on Mencken and bridge parties,” he says.

• To Be In Cast of ‘The Swan’

When Stuart Walker presents "The Swan” at Keith's next week, with McKay Morris, Ann Davis

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LILLIAN DEMONSTRATES THE OVERHAND STROKE.

By Lillian Cannon From the side overhand stroke it should be simple to develop the overhand stroke. In this stroke the left hand goes through the" same movements as the right, with the body roiling a little farther to > the right when the arm goes over and into the air. A feature of this stroke is that the hand pushes the water back for

until he could no longer make his own Rving, last winter. “It was at retreat one evening at’ Columbia Hospital, near Havana, Cuba, in 1900, when we were asked If any one would let the mosquito bite him for experiments by the medical men,” he said. “We were told that the bite meant almost certain death from yellow fever. About eight of us stepped to the front and had our names takenj down. “Later Dr. James Carroll took rfte over to a hut. He had mosquitoes In large candy Jars, covered with sieve wire. He told me to put my arm into a jar with seven piosqui-

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and George Gaul, the cast will include Aldrich Bowker. Mr. Bowker is also in the cast of “The Outsider” at Keith's this week.

the full extent of the stroke and there is a minimum ol lost motion. Care should be taken to avoid too vertical a movement while the arm is out of the water, the idea being merely to clear the arm up to tfie shoulder. The rolling motion makes this possible without tbringing the arm too high up over the shoulder. Copyright. 1926. .VE A Service

toes that had been without food for twelve days. “They all bit me, and Dr. Carroll let me look at them sucking my blood through a magnifying glass. They pumped themselves completely full and then dropped off one by one. “I was removed to an observation camp, where four days later I was taken by a terrible ague. I knew that the fever had got me. The last I remember, as I was being taken to the hospital, was that a Buddy of mine, who was riding the ambulance with me, said: ‘You took it, didn’t you? Don’t be a baby.’ “ ‘Aw, hell,’ I replied, ‘I ain’t going to die.’ “The fever ran its course in four days, and I was well again, but so weak I fiad to stay in bed for weeks.” AMATEUR RADIO RECORD An excellent record for consistent operations of a radio amateur station lis held by Eppa W. Dame of Washington, D. C. His shortwave station, 3BWT, has been on the air every night for five yeard:

JULY 30, 1926

Questions and Answers

You can ret an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, 1322 .New York Ave.. Washington, D. C.. inclosing 2 rents In stamps 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. Ail letters an\ confidential. —Editor. How revolutions per minute docs an airplane propeller make? The approximate rate is 1,400 to 2,200. It depends so much on the design and service that it is impossible to give exact figures. When was Innocent TV Pope of Rome? What was Ids real name? Innocent IV was pope from 12431254. His real name was Sinibaldo de Fieschi, Count of Lavagna. Were'the three assassins of Presidents of the United States hung? John Wilkes Booth, who shot Abraham Lincoln, was himself shot while attempting to escape, April 26, 1865. Charles Jules Guiteau, who shot Garfield, was hung June 30, 1882, and Leon F. Czolgosz, who shot William McKinley, was electrocuted Oct. 20, 1901. Which fruits are the best for jelly making? Apples are excellent, certain kinds of crabapples being especially good* for the purpose. Tart apples are the best. Green or partly ripe fruit makes the best kind of Jelly. Grapes that are partly ripe make jelly of a better texture than fully ripe grapes, partly ripe fruits usually make more jelly per pound than fruits that are entirely ripe. Sour gooseberries and the more acide varieties of plums, sour quinces, re<# currants and hard, firm berries make good jelly. Quinces that are not sour make good jelly if tart apple Ib cooked with them. This is true of fruits such as pears, peaches and the sweeter fruits that contain little or no pectin, if apple is added while cooking. Is It proper to take chicken or rhop bones in the fingers Generally It Is not, although chicken fnay be taken in the fingers at very informal gatherings or picnics. Otherwise, it is best to forego the pleasure of the last bit of meat. Chops should never be eaten in the fingers.

MR. FIXIT Street Damaged by Tractor to Be Repaired,

Let Mr. Fixit present your case to city officials. He is The Times representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. The ravages of the tractor that, damaged the paving of Koehne St. will be corrected,ywas the word Mr. Fixit received today from the city engineer's office. DEAR MR. FIXIT: About two years ago the city forced street improvement on us property owners between N. Harding St. and E. Riverside Dr., at a cost to us of over $16,000 for the two blocks alone. Last week the city street department came out and scraped Koehne St. and that big round intersection which cost over $1,500 alone. They ran all over It with a big tractor with deep cleats on it and disfigured and cut that new asphalt all up and ruined the surface. Should not the city heat and roll the surface again so It would look like anew surface again and is it not a dirty shame for the city to charge such a price for improvement and then come right out and cut up what the property owners must pay for. JOHN OLSEN, I 1428 Roache St. The city will order repairs within a short time. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Will you please see if the honorable mayor is going to pave Charles St. north of Morris St? A RENTER. The date of hearing on this improvement before the board ofl works 1l Aug. 11. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Will you please help us out on children, all the way from fifteen years old down to babies, coasting on the side walks? They play fire department and such with coasters and wagons from 7 a. m. until 10 a. m. It is impossible to step out on the street. Two small children were hurt last night. Machines can- hardly run, because of the children across’ alleys and streets. TIMES READER. Report the district to the police accident prevention division at police headquarters. Officers of the department will warn the parents of the children.