Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1926 — Page 4

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ONLY ONE BY-PRODUCT The advice of national officers and of the local executive committee to union street car workers to abandon their strike means that the strike is over. Even though the men refuse to admit defeat, as is conceded by the national officers of the union, no real friend of those who made their protest would advise the continuance of a struggle which is so unequal and admittedly hopeless. To be effective, ( any protest against low wages cr hard working conditions must have behind it. the support of public ofVinion. That protest must also be so general as to include a very large percentage of those affected. A strike of less than half of those employed leaves so doubt in the public mind as to the justice of the demands or the necessity of protest Public interest usually only follows a personal interest and the fact that the cars did not stop, but were operated on a basis that gave some service, went far to prevent any discussion of the merits or lack of merit of the protest made by these np^i. The one victory gained was the fact that a committee of publiospirited citizens did take an ac- ■ tive interest in the demands made by the men and suggest that the substantial justice of their claims be determined by an unbiased and unprejudiced body. That suggests that the time may come when all controveries of a similar nature may be settled by reason instead of the drastic war between the emt ployer and the employed. jf; That the Governor refused to take notice and that the mayor ran away -from any participation is meaningless. There may come a day when public officials will be less timid and more advanced in their ideas. Otherwise the strike has been costly and useless, and now admitted by national officers of the uniop to have been ill advised and hopeless from the start. The men who protested that the wage is too low have lost in wages. The company has lost in cash and the public has, to some extent, been discommoded. If there is to be anything gained, it might be the inclusion in the law controlling public utilities a mandate to the State commission to investigate wages and working conditions on all public utilities with the same care and constant supervision which is given to rolling stock and profits. A GREAT MAN DIES In the passing of Senator Cummins of lowa the Nation loses a man who did much to impress himself, his ideas, his courage and his vision, upon its destinies. For more than two decades he has been in public life as a leader. It was he who startled the conservatives of a quarter of a century ago with what was then termed the "lowa idea,” which was only a demand for a little more of human right and a little more of equality of opportunity. , He was then looked upon a radical of radicals, and his doctrines so revolutionary as to menace all property and all progress. But that lowa idea spread and has long since become an accepted pillar of conservatism. Even Cummins, once looked upon as so radical, had become known as most conservative. Just as he, in his youth, had challenged the principles of age, so he was faced by new demands by younger mep, who in their turn were striving to change thte old order and to bring to hurpun beings more of hope, more of justice, more of opportunity, more of progress. Youth always hurls its challenge to things as they are and translates its hopes and aspirations into new demands. Cautious age always protests that the temple is being destroyed and is surprised to find that the new ways bring no disaster and no chaos. And then the victorious youth-grows old with its program and meets anew challenger and anew era. The Nation needs both its youthful challenger and Its cautious age. Cummins served well as both. The ideals of the youth led to changes in laws and viewpoint that brought permitted progress. And in his age he put the conservative strength of experience to check too hasty a plunge into the untried.

THERE ARE LIMITS . Anew invention, declares a United Press report from Paris, will soon enable a telephoner to see the telephonee as they talk together over- the wire. This' is a terrible prospect, and is causing consternation among: 1. Husbands telephoning that they’re sitting up with sick friends and 'won’t get home until morning. 2. Girls, not yet dressed, powdered and curled to go out with their steadies, and who must answer the telephone when it rings or miss out on a good time, and, 3. Any number of social white liars, who, telephoning from the country club, just can’t come to their friends’ bridge or other parties, because rela* tives from out of town are arriving—“You know how It is.” Let’s keep our telephones just as they are now. Inventive genius can go too far. ONE MORE MYSTERY Too much gambling in the city, say some members of the Merchants’ Association. - They have discovered that an illegitimate industry la interfering with legitimate commerce. The selling of baseball pools, so called, is so widespread that every one, apparently, except the police heads and the board of safety are buying them. It is anew form of the meanest form of gambling, because there is so little chance to win and the profits to the promoters are large. All that is required is a bunch of tickets, a few lively agents and blindness on the part of the police. Out of every dollar taken in, at least a third goes to the promoters of these enterprises. The tickets are sold to those who can least afford to lose money. i The total, It is asserted, runa into thousands of dolors a day. " The old hope of soltnething for nothing is held out to those who can ill afford to lose the little they have.’ And as a result there are unpaid grocery bills,

rent bills and too much temptation for those intrusted with money. Why is it necessary for legitimate business to protest to the authorities? Presumably police forces are hired by taxpayers to p#vent just such widespread crimes and violations of the lawTheoretically, the officers of the law are on the job to protect the gullible from such swindles. Was it by accident that every detective and every member of the police force overlooked these open violations of the law? Just how did these agpnts overlook the police in their sales of tickets? They found, apparently, practically evfery one else. After the thing is stopped, the merchants might be interested in discovering why they had to act as informers and sleuths in order to get action. Who is the man or men behind that gets the big profits? Why, oh why, was it neefbsary to call the at- , tention of the police to so open and flagrant crime? PULPIT COWARDICE In this day of enlightened Justice and multitudinous law, it seems that a man still can go about perforating other men’s lett ventricles in order to preserve the sanctity of his home. Well and good. But when a woman indulges In a little face-slapping in remonstrance against a slur upon her honor, the chances are that she will go to jail. ' Martha Bates of Millstone, Ky., Is a good girl and always went to church. A few weeks ago, listening to the ministerial meanderings of one Arlie Brown, Baptist preacher, Martha was astonished by his statement that no virtuous woman would bob her hair. Now Martha's hair and that of several other women in the church was bobbed. But none of the others seemed to have the courage or decency to do anything about it when the Reverend Brown made his denouncemeent. So Martha rose, walked quietly down the aisle and slapped the parson’s face. For assault and battery, disturbing the peace, breaking up a religious service, or some sort of charge, they arrested Martha, had her sentenced to forty days in jail. Seventeen days later, the pardon commissioner, a woman who also has bobbed hair, waa asked for a report on the case by Governor William J. Fields. Simultaneously, the Governor released Martha and some caustic remarks about “pulpit cowardice” being among the meanest of sins. Governor 'Fields said further that he approved Highly of what Martha did. So do we all.

THE DEBT PROBLEM SOLVED! President Ctfolidge the other day warned Americans agalnst.being too “bumptious” in their dealings with Europeans. Americans, he surmised, by their ostentation, might be partly to blame for anti-Ameri-can outbursts in France and England. The President, no doubt, is right. Unfortunately, he didn’t warn against bumptiousness on this side of the water. Had he done so, we, perhaps, would not have been treated to the remarkable spectacle of a large reform society gravely Issuing a public ukase informing the Europeans that all they need to do to pay their debts to us is to give up drinking. Seven nations of Europe spend $4,000,000,000 a year for potent beverages, the statement points out. •Let them stop and their debts to us would be paid in short time. Not content with regulating the personal habits and morals of Americans, our self-constituted guardlaris are taking it upon themself to regulate the world. ; Can you imagine what your Frenchman or Briton will say when he reads this bit of gratuitous advice? Its effrontery ie sublime. * —i Young people are so silly, unless you are one of them. •—■ i m A harpooned whale may fight two days, but a husband may kick against anew hat for a week. Senator plans new fight for rivers bill. More waterpower to him. , Rice cooks more quickly if put on ten minutes earlier. , A well-known slogan seems to be changed to "Say it with cigarets.”

OVER-SOLICITOUS MOTHERS

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON Some women possess the souls of tyrants. Their chief aim in existence is to make over their men. In many outwardly happy homes the ■wife and mother, even though she be a devoted and loving one, sits as a spy over her entire family. She pries into their hearts and tries to worm out their dearest secrets. She wants to know what they are doing every waking moment. She can’t sleep until she sees them all safely slumbering. She Is not happy unless she is camping on their trail. She is eaten with a morbid curiosity about their every action. Generally such a woman is called a slave to her home. She Is praised from one end of the country to the other because of this constant attendance upon her family. JIVe always speak of her as a martyr to those she loves. If the truth were known, however, It Is the husband and children of such a person who are the real sufferers. It is horrible to have somebody not only dogging your footjteps but your thoughts. No' child wants his mother to be always at his heels. He does not like anybody to peep into the secret places of his being and wrench out his poor little dreams. No husband lives but prefers to be left alone most of the time. He loathes being eternally looked after. Husbands and children are individuals, first of all. They should be responsible for their actions. They have got to think and act for themselves. You mky love them devotedly but you am not hope to be the sentinel of their souls. 9 A great many marriages are ruined by this feminine passion for making over families. Boys and girls are made miserable because their mothers can not resist the desire to run their movements and their minds. Such wives are mental corkscrews when it comes to probing Into the inner nature of their husbands. It is a most- excellent thing to remember that no matter how dearly you may love a man, his individuality is distinct from yours and his soul a thing apart. Even thoughyou may have given them life, your children are masters of their destiny.

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Tracy Mexico’s Church Fight Is Unique on Western . Hemisphere.

By M! E. Tracy The struggle is on in Mexico, a “finish fight,” according to President Calles. There never was anything like it in the western hemisphere, yet it is but the latest and inevitable phase of a controversy that has smouldered for sixty-nine years. The Mexican constitution of 1857 provided that churdhes could not own propertyf, which was vague, like our own eighteenth amendment, and needed laws to make it effective. Laws were passed from time to time, but for the most part remained unenforced. Porforlo Diaz, who ruled Mexico for thirty-five years, was content to let the religious issue alone. After him carrie a decade of revolution and a vastly more radical attitude. In - 1917, the constitution was amended and more drastic laws pased. and these are what President Calles Is undertaking to put in operation. -I- -I- -IOppression Among others, the following regulations may be cited: “To exercise the ministry of any cult it is necessary to be a Mexican by birth.” “The instruction given shall be non-sectarian in the public schools and in the primary, second and higher grades of all private educational establishments." “All monastic orders and convents shall be dissolved after identifying and talllqg descriptions of the excloistered persons.’’ "Ministers of religion shall never be permitted to criticise the fundamental laws of the country, nor the authorities of the Government, either in particular, or in general." ___ “Ministers of religion may never associate themselves for political purpose.” “Religious publications, or those ■ simply of a marked tendency In favor of a determined religious belief, whether hy their program or ! title, shall not be permitted to com- [ ment on national political subjects, 1 nor to publish information regarding acts of the authorities of the country or of individuals who may have a direct relation to the functioning of public instructions.” •I* -I- * * Calles' Contention President Calles and his supporters. declare that such regulations are necessary for the progress of Mexico. “The hour is approaching for a final fight,” he says, “and we are going to see whether revolution has triumphed over reaction, or whether. the triumph of the revolution has been merely ephemeral.” •I* -I- -ICatholics the Target Since Mexico is practically- of one religion, these laws are construed by both sides as directed against the Roman Catholic church. The Mexican government contends that the hierarchy of this church has meddled with politics, and that the only way to tetop it is through drastic and severe regulation. Spokesmen of the church reply that the Xjws go too far, that they interfere with religious liberty and that they prevent priests from exercising legitimate rights. "Laws are secondary- Yo human rights,” the archbishops declared in their letter of last Sunday, and Bishop Diaz added on Wednesday, “Above the constitution are the rights of God and the will of the people.” •I* -I- -IThe Challenge Meanwhile, and after two such hectic weeks of baptizing, marrying and confirming as Mexico never beheliL 25,000 priests have withdrawn froi* 25,000 churches, leaving the country without organized religion for the first time in four centuries. Had the priests stayed at their altars, the government would have permitted them to remain in control of the churches, though asserting its ownership. It regards their withdrawal not only as a challenge, but as abandonment of the property, and will take actual possession. -I- -I- +

Mailed Fist Troops are ready to back up the government should this program meet with resistance, orders have been issued to disarm Catholics; Calles is reported to have asked the United States to lift the arms embargo so that he can buy guns and ammunition if the need arises, and the labor federation has Cbme out with a strong: manifesto in his support. f By way of reply, the League in Defense of Religious liberty, a prochurch organization, has threatened to start a boycott against the buying of luxuries, and it ia possible that Rome may authorize an “interdict.” •I- -I* -IAwait a [reader Thus we behold the lines shaping themselves. In a most spectacular way, with decrees, challenges, proclamations and pronouncements flying thick and fast, but with most everybody ignoring whom and what will decide the Issue. Back of this controversy, and without understanding its finer points "too well; shocked Into neutrality for the moment; lacking leadership and organization, are ten or twelve million people, one-third of them pure blooded Indian and twothirds o’s them illiterate. What *ill their reaction be when their emftlons and sentiments have had time to crystallize, but especially If some bold spirit stalks across the stage to give their dazed ideas forceful expression?

Alvin Roper to Give a Sacred Recital .' at the First United Brethren Church

IRRANGEMENTS have been I completed by which the pasL£_~ tor of the First United Brethren Church of Indianapolis, the Rev. B. S. MciJeely, and the membership of the church take pleasure in announcing that on Sunday evening, Aug. 1, at 7:45 o’clock, in the auditorium of the church, at'the corner of Park Ave. and Walnut St., Roper of Winona Lake, famous all over the United States and Eastern Canada, and known in several countries \abroad, has been engaged to give one of his unique sacred recitals to which the public Is cordially invited. These Sunday evening programs are a series that Mr. Roper is giving in city churches of all denominations all over the country,' and almost every Sunday evening, when he is not Otherwise engaged, finds him filling a date of this sort. Mr. Roper has been in professional work for nearly twentjpfive years. His playing has included recitals and -concerts; pastoral and tabernacle evangelistic campaigns; hundreds of city, State, national and world's conventions of various religious and reform organizations; summer chautauquas and Bible conferences, such as Winona Lake, where be was official piano and organ soloist for ten successive seasons; and his public career has been extensive in all these fields. His travels h?ve taken him Into every State in i\re Union, every province of Canada east of Detroit, and into Hawaii, Japan, China, Korea, Siberia, Russia, Poland and Germany; and he has covered over three hundred and sixty thousand miles of travel, and has been heard by millions of people in combined audiences on conservative estimates he has kept. Before he commenced his professional work he spent over twelve years in study of piano and pipe organ and kindred theoretical subjects. His training was both extensive and intensive and was taken from first class private American teachers, and his post-graduate work was under a former teacher from the Oscar Relf school of Berlin. He took an extensive course in repertoire and is thoroughly familiar with the best works of both the classical and*tho modern secular composers. He also devoted considerable time to the study of composition and has written some very interesting numbers for both piano and voice.

His improvisational playing of church hymns is known from one country to the other, as he has specialized In this in connection with the many conventions he has served as pianist. The program follows: ‘‘Pilgrims Chorus" and "To the Sweet Evening Star" (Tannhauser)... Wagner .Slumber Song .. . Schumann ,tc > * Evening Song) .Schumann JprUlen (Whims) Schumann *.dude in D flat (Raindrop) . . .Chomu Funeral March in B Hat minor . Chopin Romance Rubinstein u™' tu UL B flKt Chopin Hymn Improvisation: "Saviour, Like a Shepherd. Lead Us . . Melody bv Bradbury To a Mater Lily" (Woodland Sketches) • •• • • • McDowell Jo Spring" Grieg ..? Bre,l , a,a . Moszkowskl Voeglein (Birdllng) Grieg Souvenir" Drdla “Cavatina” Rail Hymn Improvisation: "Jesus. Keep Me Near the Cross".. • • v • • •• Melody by Doane . Minuet in G Beethoven ..Minuet a l'Antique" Paderewski Erl King Schubert-I.iszt Prelude in C sharp minor". Rachmaninoff "Moonlight Sonata' Beethoven Finale from “Symphonic Studies".... Schumann The public is cordially invited to hear this program. Come and hear one of the outstanding pianists of the country, the pastor states. • • • SHE amusement season fs now at its heighth at the Cincinnati (Ohio) Zoo, the attendance increasing daily. There hatfe been more out of town parties this year than ever before. Free parking space is provided inside the grounds for all automobiles and trained traffic men are on duty all times makiqg Entrance and exit an easy matter, despite the large number of machines parked. The animal collection Is now more complete than ever, and includes hundreds of young deer, peacocks, pheasants, dwarf donkeys and others. For the children there are the pony track, merry-go-round, fun house and new electrical kiddies playground. Free punch and judy shows are 'given at frequent Intervals daily arnd attract hundreds of groM-nups as well as children. Free popular concerts are given every afternoon throughout the season and these are always well attended. The opera repertoire for the week beginning Sunday, Aug. 1, is: Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, “Falstaff” (in English) and Monday, Wednesday and Friday “Aida.” Saturday evening there will be a premie*r production at the Zoo of “The Nuremberg Doll,” sung In German. There will also be a grand ballet and divertisements.

Pasquale Montanl, ‘instrument teacher of the Indiana College of harp soloist, for the week of Aug. 8, Music and Fine Arts, is engaged as at the Apollo Theater. ASSESSMENTS NOT CUT Board of Works Refuses Property Owners Request on Sewer Costs. Reduction of assessments for several hundred property owners on the Raymond St.-Le Grande Ave. sewer, which will serve southeastern Indianapolis, was refused by the board of works Friday. Tffe board, on receiving an opinion faotn John K. Ruckelshaus, city attorney, that the property owners had failed to take advantage of their right of remonstrance at the proper time, decided to hold the entire assessments valid. The case wil\ be carried to the courts, it was Indicated. / RAT HUNT FATAL , Bv United Press ANDERSON, Ind., July 31.—A verdict of accidental death was expected to be filed by Coronel Sells today In the death of Douglas Montgomery, 67, near Orestes. Montgomery 1 had gone lo shoot rats at his barn and wastfound with a bullet hole through his head.

Great Artist Booked By Talbot

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How to Swim —No. 12

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How the Han ds Are Cupped

By Lillian Cannon In perfecting the overhand stroke, one’s aim should be to make as little splashing as possible and to swim with as little effort as possible. The hands should be very slightly cupped so that each strikes the Water Mlth an appreciable “plop” and without splashing. If this is attained, the arm will make no splash. The best idea is to think of the stroke as “shoving” the arm and hand into the M r ater, rather than striking the M r ater with the open hand. The scissors kick in this stroke should be synchronized with the| movements of the hands just as in the dog-paddle. The breathing should also be in the same co-ordination as in the dog-

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paddle. This is not a standaWKzed stroke, but one very generally used M'hen not trying for speed. Coaches call it Incorrect, but it is much used. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) STEP~FOR Commission Approves Street IlaiiM'ay Issue of Notes. The Indianapolis Street Railway Company has been granted permits sion by the public service commission to issue notes for $351,000 which, with $202,000 held by the trustees of the company, will be used for the erection of six power substations in the city. These substations are to be erected, company Officials said, to increase the operating efficiency of cars.

JULY 31, 1926

MR: FIXIT -- Sewer Lid to Be Fixed and Weeds Cut.

Let Mr. Fixit present your case to city officials. He is The Times representalive ta the city hall. Mrtte him at The Times. The complaint of the loose sewerl lid is most welcome to Mr. Fixiti because It’s so easily and quickly adjusted. DEAR MR. FIXIT: If you are not exhausted by the time this let- 1 teiNreaehes you, you will try to have 1 a loose sewer lid fixed in the 1900 ! block on Cottage Ave. When traffic is heavy it sounds like the Fourth ofj July. Also the weeds are so high onJ the corrier lot in the 14000 block on Villa Ave., they almost hide the Hillerest Baptist Church. MRS. W. E. MURRAY, 1429 S. Randolph St. | You’ll get prompt service on ; the loose lid and the board of health will try to unveil the church kom the jungle. DEAR MR; FIXIT: A few weeka 1 ugo I wrote 1 you about the alley south of 117 Bradley Ave. Nothing! has ever been done about it. This! place is in a deplorable condition.; Hope something can be done before' falf and winter, as It is impassable during winter months. Fifteen cars l were 1 stranded" here last winter. Alii the rest of the alley except this! small stretch is cindered. TIMES READER, Mr. Fixit hN,s the promise of streets superintendent’s department that they will care for your complaint soon. The board of health pow is investigating" the weeds oh the vacant lot at 1910 E. Washington St., and at Lambert St. and Belmont ,Ave. - . ■

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