Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1926 — Page 4

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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, cn any subject whatever.—Constitution of Indiana. #

KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA seeks to safeguard the health of the. ever-increasing number of automobile tourists by proper and reasonable safeguards. W Ith the cooperation of local officials, the State board of health has enforced regulations covering the disposal of sewage and waste, water supply, and other sanitary arrangements, in the numerous tourist camps established by enterprising and hospitable Hooslers.

INDIANAPOLIS FIJIST Every man and woman in this city can enlist under the banner of Indianapolis First as raised by the Chamber of Commerce. If it were impressed deeply into the hearts and minds of every boy and girl who a decade hence will be the active workers in commerce and industry, there will be no need of any future revivals for civic consciousness. Cities, feeing merely aggregations of human beings, are very human. ' t They have character and moods and, ambitions and hopes and alms and courage or the lack of these latter virtues. And what they are is but the reflection of the spirit and the attitude of the men and women who live in them. If the majority of the people are pessimistic, you may expect a city of knockers. If the majority are hopeful, contented, satisfied and purposeful, you will find the hustling, energetic and growing city. The man who has no faith in himself never accomplishes anything and goes backward in the race of life. You find him apologizing for himself instead of endeavoring to exercise his talents. The city composed of those who have no faith in it is quite likely to take on the same general inferiority complex that makes men either failures in life or so diffident that they do not progress. It is not suggested that Indianapolis has any inferior complex. But there is room for more faith in its future, more pride in its present, more confidence in its greatness. The Spirit which makes cities not only large but prosperous is that of pride and confidence. There come times when it is valuable to take stock of ourselves. There is a need, now and • thm, to look about ourselves and find out exactly what we posses and what we may need. There is a real value in cities taking stock pf themselves.rand their assets and their resources and reminding all who live in them of these things. A city composed of men who believe that it is the best city and the one with the largest opportunities is bound to become Just that through the very infection of optimism and faith. There is need, of course, for cooperation of effort in public enterprises and the massing of civic spirit into a force which can express it The chamber, so understand, proposes to do Just this thing. s It is calling to the spirit of optimism and intends to base that appeal on a firm foundation of teete to prove that this is the First city. It is calling, most of all, to the men and women who live here to remember the reasons why they prefer it to other cities and to revive their faith in its future. It will call, we trust, for a general and universal expression of good will and good cheetC It may call for united action on projects which will keep Indianapolis First, not only in material growth and expansion, but in the hearts of every one who dwells within itJ

LINCOLN’S LETTERS Abraham Lincoln died on ApriJ 16, X 865. Robert Lincoln, his son and the last surviving descendant of the family, died on July 26, 1926. A few years before his death Robert Lincoln presented the Government with his father’s collection of about 10,000 letters. * This collection includes letters written and received during the Civil War period. The most important are those from Lincoln's chiefs—Stanton, Seward, Chase, etc. —which have never been published. . , In presenting the letters to the Government, Robert Lincoln stipulated that they Bhould not be made public until twenty-one years after his deah. Asa result of this arrangement, letters addressed to the Civil War President, many of them holding keys to tremendously significant events, will be opened to the public view for the first time in 1947. At that time no person will be alive who was old enough to have any appreciation of the events discussed and described when the letters were written. Historians will take the letters, and try to reconstruct pictures of Civil War happenings. They will, of course, have only partial success. There is nothing unusual in the arrangement to keep the Lincoln letters from the public view for so many years. It is a general custom followed by the literary executors of great men. It is a custom, however, that is aristocratic in origin. Aside from the question of offending the feelings of living men, the principal reason for it is that it is not counted wise to allow the masses to have a too Intimate picture of affairs of state. A )p‘se of fifty or a hundred years overcomes that 'difficulty. Even the most precious of state secrets are of little importance when all of the actors are dead It seems a little unfortunate that the letters of Lincoln, the great protagonist of democracy, should be handled in the same old aristocratic way. Thff disposition of the letters, of course, was not made by the Civil, War President, and what he w ( ould have chosen to do with them no one knows. A full faith in democracy, however, and perhaps an. essential element In its 'successful working, involves a willingness to let the great mass of people know the affairs of state before they are ancient history. . YELLOW GOLD AND WHITE Sacramento, California’s capital, whose prosperity was built on yellow gold in the sixties, is about To -become a metropolis by means of white gold, as water power is sometimes called. A city of no more than 100,000, lt'.haa*Toted itself.into, a public, utility

district ten miles square, filed on abundant water and power sixty miles distant and is getting ready to Join the sisterhood of Pacific coast cities that have declared themselves free of private water and power interests. The district has rights to power enough to supply a city of 400,000 and water enough for a million. The Silver Creek project is surveyed and ready for action, but apparently Sacramento is in for tho same sort of a row that has torn San Francisco. A certain element wants to wholesale the power to one of three private power companies now in the field, while another wants the city to follow the brilliant example of Los Angeles, Seattle, Tacoma and other cities that have proved that the big money in the hydro business is in the retailing end. A board of consulting engineers has been appointed, of which two are said to be public ownership men and two are for the wholesale plpn- When the report of the engineers and the offers from the private companies come in the fight will start. The city’s water and power rights, worth way up in the millions, were bought from a Placerville engineer for only SIO,OOO. GOOD FOR GERTRUDE There is a glow of national pride in the accomplishment of Gerfrude Ederle, courageous American girl, in swimming the English channel. It is something to be first in anything. It is fine to be a champion. Swimming the English channel has always been a challenge to the impossible and the imagination. Only five men in all history have been able to accomplish it. No other woman, although many have tried, had ever succeeded in conquering its tides and vr&vef and storms and rough currents. It was to be expected, of course, that when an American girl did finally prove that there is no field of endeavor in which women can not compete with men, she would do the job right by cutting down the time record. Girls who may envy her fame and fortune which will come from her accomplishment, might take a lesson from Gertrude in other things than swimming. She did not win because she happened to be born with a healthy, vigorous, muscular body. She did not win by any fortunate or lucky chance. She first had the ambition to swim that channel. And then she trained for it. She sacrificed for it. She denied herself present pleasures. She thought •of the had chosen Those who win the big prizes in life know where they want to go, whether it is swimming a channel or gaining a million dollars, or writing a poem or a play. And when they know, they do not permit petty things to stand in their way. Gertrude, brave girl and today’s outstanding American heroine, points the way to other things besides athletic conquests.

ELECTRIC ICE BOXES Fine it is these, sweltering days to have one of those electric refrigerators working for you in the pantry. Always plenty of ice, in nice little cubes, convenient for use. The United States Department of Commerce thinks it won’t be long until we all have them. They look to see electrical refrigeration sweep the coun try in the same way the radio has. A few years it was almost unknown. Today something like 150,000 American homes have this hot weather blessing. The cost of operation of one of these boxes is said to be little if any more than the cost of Ice. But the service would be brought within the reach of vastly greater numbers if the price of electric current were as cheap in all cities as it is in some. Those cities dependent entirely on private concerns for their electricity are paying from 7 to 11 cents per kilowatt hour. Those cities having municipal plants are paying as low £b 2 cents, the same as is paid by twenty-seven cities and towns in Ontario. As the electrification of our living proceeds, it may be that we finally will see that handing over our power resources to private exploiters doesn't reveal a great deal of cpfhmon sense on our part. WOMEN WANT WORK, NOT CAREERS By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON The term career-hunters, applied to that ever increasing number of married women who are making efforts to work qutside the home, is vfery much misused. These women are - not necessarily panting for careers. That, is, they do not expect to break into the art salons with their pictures, or to ennoble literature with their pens, or to startle financial circles with their business acumen. This indeed Is far from their imaginations. What they want is interesting work. And surely that is not an exorbitant or an unreasonable demand. There is a certain type of woman to whom the incessant round of household duties is maddeningly monotonous. Contrary wise, others love taking care of their simple homes. They are artists when It comes to cooking. They are happy when they are tryiing new recipes In their kitchens. For, essentiallly, women are as varied in their natures as men. They have just as many different likes and dislikes, Just as many dissimilar habits and tastes. It is nonsense to suppose that every woman is born with a passion for housekeeping, just as it would be nonsense to say that every man naturally likes engineering. It is true that any work is likely to become tiresome or monotonous now and then. However, that does not alter the fact that each man on earth Is at liberty to choose the sort of work he most likes to do. When he marries he is not obliged to stick to clerking in a shoe store if he prefers something else. Having a home and family does not hinder him from pursuing the trade in which he is interested. Is it unreasonable to assert that the way should be made clear for women to do the work for which they are best fitted by nature? Should the pursuit of this work keep them from having a home and babies, which all except the most abnormal of women desire? There shouild be no question of choice in such a matter. No woman should be made to feel that she is foregoing the blessing of a home and babies just because she happens to be more interested in the making of hats. And the time is fast approaching when it will be ridiculous to say that the woman who works sacrifices her family upon the altar of her ambitions. We shall not be truly civilized until that time is here.

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Tracy Gertrude Wins Fame and Fortune —Her Honor Will Endure,

By M. E. Tracy Gertrude Ederle not only swam "the channel,’’ but beat Captain Webb's record by seven hours and a quarter. It means fame and fortune to her, though not too much of the latter, perhaps. The world will never forget the first woman to have performed such a feat, no matter how many duplicate It. -I- -I- -IClarabelle's Heartbreak Clarabelle Barrett may swim the channel yet, but she never can be first and in that lies the hurt. She had the grit and the skill, but lacked the accessories—a first class tug with a first-class captain; a fathe • ami friends to Joke with her through all the-weary hours, and somebody to draw funny pictures on a blackboard. Clarabelle went over with the idea that there was just much water to cross and that she could swim. •I- 4 -I* Lillian Delayed So, too, Lillian Cannon may swim the channel, but only to win second, or third place. “Wait a week.” advised her trainer, and now the coveted honor of being first has gone forever. Her trainer was probably assuming that nobody, but his protege could win. Lots of people do that. !*it when you are up against world competition, it is well not to underestimate your opponents. -M- -iKeeping Up We have been able to keep up with "the channel’’ events, and especially with .every detail of Gertrude Ederle’s successful attempt to swim It, largely through the splendid work done by the United Press. Scientific methods, plus good horse sense, enabled this, news gathering organization to match her feat with a coverage that was every bit as Inspiring. It was only a matter of minutes after Miss Ederle had landed at Kingsdown before the New York papers were out with four-inch head-lines, while the great trunk wires running to Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dallas, had already carried the message to hundreds of editorial rooms. I Was in the main office of the United Press when the cable began to speak in the language of the lightning. Typewriter keys clicked almost in tune with the "dot and clash.’’ President Bickel, who stood right back of the operator's chair, clapped his hands as the words took form, while Mr. Ber.der shouted them so that all the writers and other telegraphers could hear. That is system, science nnd*organization—the kind of thing that makes it more and more worth while to win. -I- -I- -!- The notion prevails that cooperation discourages Individual effort, hut don't you suppose that Gertrude Ederle tried all the harder because she knew that 100.000,000 home folk would be told of her success within the space of minutes? It is a fact that every world record has been smashed slnco the telegraph and telephone were invented. Take swimming for example, and the one-mile time has been reduced by more than five minutes within the last fifty years, while 'he 100yard time has been reduced by more than twenty seconds. -|. .|. -|. The Audience Counts Publicity, quick and efficient, is doing a lot to make us stronger. We have faster runners than we ever had. higher Jumpers and better shot putters. Nothing stimulates and improves a performer, whether in the theater, on the track, or leading an army, like the size and responsiveness of his audience. "All the world's a stage.” said Shakespeare, and publicity proves it. •I- -I- -IStimulating If the flaming reports of evil bring out the worst there is In us, as uplifters sometimes complain, equally flaming reports of good bring out the best. You can’t turn on a bright light without exposing dirt as well as beauty, but who wants to live in the dark merely to hide the dirt. Newspapers and news services have brought to us poor humans an inspiration we never knew before—an inspiration to Invent, discover and achieve, to surpass each other not only in sport, but in more serious activities. If a brain-sick few are persuaded to follow crooked paths, the normal majority is stimulated to climb stralghter and higher.

No Goose Step Here The idea that we are growing inferior through organization and machine Is all rot. So, too, is the idea that we are losing the benefit of individual ambition and genius. There is danger in too much of the goose step, naturally, just as there is danger in too much of anything, but, taken man for man, the modern world is the strongest, brightest and most decent world that ever existed, and publicity was made' possible by cable, telegraph, linotype, high power press, and men on their toes have done a great deal to make it so. HE USES THREE HATS Raymond Griffith uses about three high hats & week. They receive rough usage.

Two Concerts Will Be Given Sunday. in the City Parks By Military Band

mWO concerts will be given ins the city parks Sunday by the Indianapolis Military Band, under the direction of W. S. Mitchell, The afternoon concert will be given at Garfield Park and the night concert at the Fall Creek playground. , The programs are as follows; Garfield Park. 3:30 P. SL March—•lmperial Council” ..Jewell Selection from \ erdi s Opera l*Don _ Carlo*” . . Arr. Claus Euphonium Solo Selected Mr. Howard. Scenes from Musical Comedy “Princess Pst ’ Herbert Dasiee from Floral Suite Bendix Overture—" Feat in C” (Tourandot) . . _ ••• •• • Lachner Group of Songs Mlsa Case. Moonlight Sonata’ (Music memory contest number) Beethoven Musical Comedy selection. “Madam Sherry i'oschna Star-Spangled Banner." Fall Creek Playground, 7:4S P. M. (Fall Creek Boulevard, between Central „ and College) - March—"Glppeland" Lithgow Selection from "Faust'' Gounod Euphonium Solo Selected . Mr. Howard 'Moonlight Sonata" (Music Memory contest number) Beethoven Scenes from Ponchiellls Opera. "Gioconda ' Arr. Moses-Tobani Overture—" Light Cavalry” Suppe Group of Songs. Miss Case. "Entr'acte et Valse Copena Drtlbe Selection from "Rose Marie” Friml “Star Spangled Banner Musical compositions that have been selected by the State music memory contest committee will be included in these programs during the remainder of the concert season. * * * ,1 HE program for Lester Huff's 1 I organ recital at the Apollo L* J today, starting at 12:30 o*elock will be as follows: March—"Camavalesque” Friml Festival Dance and Valse of the Hours from "Coppelia” Delibes Serenade Schubert Harp Solo Selected Pasquale L. Montani. Overture to "Orpheus” Offenbach • • • SHE Zoo at Cincinnati, Ohio, now has a pair of Santa Barbara sea lions on exhibition. These mammals are becoming exceedingly scarce, due to a campaign to exterminate them, as they eat most of the fish In California Bay. The specimens at the Zoo belong to the "hair” Variety, to distinguish them from the “fur” variety, which come from Alaska. An added attraction at the Ice shows In addition to Margot, Howard Nicholson, Cathleen Pope, Willie Frick and Bill Small, regarded as the five greatest skaters in the world, is Jim Jam Jems “Gym Cracks in Clownland,” three of the finest gymnastic artists in the world. They appear at all three shows daily at 3, 7:30 and 9 p. m. Free parking space for automobiles Is provided inside the Zoo grounds, and trained traffic men make entrance and exit an easy matter at all times. For the children there are the pony track, merry-go-round, fun house and the new electrical kiddies i playground. Free Punch and Judy ! shows, are given at frequent inter-

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You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indlananolis Times Washington Bureau, 132- New York Ave.. Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Msdii-il legal and marital advice cannot be given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. L naimed requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. How many war risk insurance policies were in force at the close of the World War and how many have been converted into the present Government insurance? There were 4,162,787 insurance policies in force at the close of the the Wprld War. Os these 652,352 have been converted into the present form of Government insurance. The others havo either matured, been allowed to lapse or have not been converted. What is the latitude of the city of Washington, D. t'.? Thirty-eight degrees, 53 minutes, 17 seconds. Tan persons bom in the United States of Japanese parents be naturalized? They are already citizens of the United States by reason of their birth and do not have to be naturalized. What is "white coal?" A name for water power. What is Portland cement made of? A combination principally of silicates and aluminates of lime. Does a life sentence actually result In imprisonment for life? A life sentence carries with it incarceration in jail for the term of the convict’s natural life; either hard labor or such Drison work as may be assigned to the convict; civil death in the eyes of the law (that is cessation of the convict’s civil rights and liberties so far as his relation to society is concerned). Upon proper exercise of executive clemency, the term of life imprisonment may be commuted to a certain number of years, in accordance with statutory provisions that vary in different States. Did Rudolph Valentino make his initial appearance on the screen In “The Sheik?” His first picture was "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," released in the spring of 1921. "The Sheik” did not appear until the following fall. What was the place and date of birth of Kathleen Norris, the author? What was her maiden name? She was born in San Francisco, Cal., July 16, 1880, and is the daughter of James Alden and Josephine (Moroney) Thompson. iShe married Charles Gilman Norris of San Francisco, April 30, 1609. How many kinds of teeth do humans have and what is each used for? A full set consists of twelve enameled chisel teeth, eight sharp tools with two points apiece, and twelve solid molars 4 for grinding purposes. The "chisels" are the “incisops” and the "canine," or "cuspid teeth"; and the double-pointed tools are called ‘bl-cuspids’’; and the grinders are the "molars” in the back of the mouth. We cut our food with the incisors, canines and bi-cusoids. The tongue carries it back 19 -Che mouth' where it ia % finaUy ground to bits by the molars. Zr

Noted Harpist at the Apollo

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Considered one of the foremost harpists in the United States, Pasquale L. Montani has been engaged by Manager James D. Kennedy as a special feature at the Apollo next week. Mr. Montani

vals throughout the day. Free popular concerts are given every afternoon. Only one more week of the opera season remains. The repertoire for the final week, starting Sunday, Aug. 8, will be Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, i’ll Trovatore,” and Monday, Wednesday a'nd Friday, “Martha.” Saturday evening there will be a grand ballet, divertisements and grand opera soloists. -I- -I- -1“j EWS comes from Paris that Alexander Russell, concert director of the Wanamaker auditorium, has made definite arrangements to bring to America during the coming season M. Louise Vierne, famous French composer and for many years titular organist of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. M. Vierne’s first American tour will be limited to two months only—February and March, 192"—his American debut to take place in the New York Wanamaker auditorium In a Vierne Festival consisting of three recitals early In February. For several years, ever since M. Vierne returned to hia post at Notre Dame after a long Illness, rumors have been abroad in America concerning his projected tour, but it remained for the auditorium concert director to translate these expectations into concrete facts. M, Vierne thus follows in the path of Courboin, Dupre, Boss!, Hollins and other famous organists introduced through the Wanamaker organization. The compositions of Louise Vierne particularly in the field or organ music have long ago won him a position of international fame. His five organ symphonies, works of great breadth of superb construction and brilliant coloring, are in the repertoire of every organist who makes any claim to distinction. These symphonies, modeled upon the

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Pasquale L. Montani.

is an Indianapolis man, but has been living In Florida for some time. He holds the post of musical director at the Coral Gables Military Academy, and is an instructor at the Miami Conservatory of Music.

line* so wonderfully developed by Widor, are a step further along the path of organ-composition, and It will be a rare privilege for organist, students and lovers of organ music generally to have the opportunity of hearing them played by the composer himself upon an American organ, where their orchestral possibilities may be disclosed to their fullest extent. Trained In the severe school of French musicians, pupil of Franck, Widor and other notable composers, Vierne won the first prize In organ in 1894 at the age of 24. Two years previously he had been appointed Widor’s assistant at St. Sulpice and became iGullmant’s assistant at the conservatory until the death of the master in 1911. Among his own pupils Vierne has numbered many of the foremost interpreters not only of France but America and England. The names of the great Dupre, of Bonnet, Jacob, Barie and Boulanger alone are sufficient commentary on this fact. Always noted for his gift of improvisation M. Vierne has served to develop this gift among many of hia pupils. Asa performer he has been noted for the clarity and purity of his style, mellowed by years of experience. It is said that M. Vierne is preparing to special arrangement for orchestra and organ of certain movements from his symphonies grouped together under the title of "Pieces Symphoniques,” which he will play for the first time during his forthcoming-American tour. The management of the tour, as in the case of Courbin, Dupre, Hollins and Christian, will lie divided between Alexander Russell, director of the Wanamaker Auditorium, for concerts in the Eeast, and Bogue Laberge Concert Bureau of New York for concerts in the West and Canada.

AUG. 7, 1926

Times Readers j Voice Views Q Editor of The Times: • Permit me to congratulate you upon your editorial “The Silent Insull.” It was worth while and timely^" There is room for more and most striking feature was the fact that neither the News or Star carried any mention of the news that Indiana was under consideration at the investigation at Chicago. Today’s news item of a $5,000,000 bond issue of the Midland Utilities Company is significant. Tho Insull interests in Indiana are not only intrastate, but interstate. The public securities commission should be able to tell the extent of the Insull holdings and their power in Indiana politically as well as financially. With Indiana the very heart of the Insull interests It would almost follow that we are little different from Illinois and Pennsylvania; however, there is always that possibility that we may have escaped. The opportunity Is here for you to do a great service and obtain the glory and I commend the start aa do many others. Yours truly. , OTHNIEL HITCH Editor of The Times: Sometimes a youngster, who d®. sires to keep a reputation for civility, nearly boils over with the desire to make some tart remarks about these old ladles who snicker and goeyA about the modern girls who their babies “according to schedule.” From all the older generation says about the morals of us younger folks they must have made a devil of a mess of bringing us up. Now why* in tarnation can’t they sit back and at least grant'us the right to a fair chance to try out another system? They score our young wives roundly because they read books on baby care and feeding, because they take the child to the doctor for advice at regular intervals, because they refuse to pick the child up or shove ,a bottle between its lips every time it cries. They say we’re Inhuman, because we believe the modern doctors Who say that babies have to cry some—> that’s the way they get exercise. They razz us unmercifully, and to our faces, because we insist that every gushing old person who comes along shall not pick the child up and jab an unwashed finger in its mouth. They insist that the whole crowd of us, babies and all, will come to some terrible end—at least that these heartless young mothers who leave baby with a nurse once, or twice or even three times-a week to get relaxation upon which to build strength to better manage a household, and perhaps have some more babies, never will get to Heavep. I’m just mad enough about the verbal spankings my wife and I have received throughout the period we have been rearing our two children to remark that if the old busybodies had had the job and had the way they did twenty-five ago they’d have killed off half the future generation. Our mothers were not faced with half the child problems our softer civilization has created. “ The best answer to the young mother’s tormentors lies in the death rate. A baby has about twice as much chance to live to childhood now as it did a couple of decades or so ago. Do the doctors get all the credit for that? Not by a gilded safety pin. If the young mothers were not smart enough to apply the modern rules to the exigencies of their particular children the doctors would not have gotten to first base. Come on, grandma. You had your chance on us. Now take a well deserved rest and let us alone. AN OUTRAGED YOUNG PAPA. Is there any way to remove scorch from a woolen dress? Scorch upon cotton and linen sometimes can be removed. If the fibers are not aotually burned. Wool and silk are disintegrated at a lower temperature than cotton and linen', and cannot be restored to their original condition after bfeing scorched. Will vinegar dissolve pearls? No, the story of Cleopatra and” Antony notwithstanding.