Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 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. , '

THE CHASM WIDENS The speech of Senator Watson, delivered today in Illinois, takes away the last pretense that there is any cfose harmony between the senior Senator and tfle President. His address to the farmers can be interpreted only as an attack on the policies of the White House insofar as they relate to the farmer and the farm problem. It may be significant that Watson found it necessary to assure the Nation that he is not a candidate for thq presidency in 1928The people of this State hardly needed that assurance. Those who have watched the record of Watson for his thirty years of public office holding are not under any illusions that the country has yet reached the stage where a Watson could be chosen as its executive or has dropped to that sub-basement of viewpoint where it could place him in a place held by a Lincoln, a Roosevelt,'a Wilson-or even a Coolidge. That this ybt member of the old guard should have such aspirations is thoroughly understandable. But the day in which that old guard ruled and reigned is gone, and with it any dangers of a Watson reaching the presidency. What is significant is the fact that Watson, fighting as he has never had to fight before to retain his place and power, should openly criticise the President’s policy. In the past Watson has always found it convenient to take shelter in the plea that he wa3 needed there to aid and assist the head of his party in carrying out the national policies of his party. Always in the past he has raised the cry of “stand by the President.” Always he has had a cloak for his own short comings and has been able to hide his own record in the greater one of his party. It means something when he tells the people that Secretary Mellon, from whom the President never differs, is mistaken and misled and unwise. • It means something when lie levels his attack on objectors to the McNary bill, the grea*est of objectors being one Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States. That leaves the issue in Indiana quite slmplo It brings it down to a close scrutiny of the r'ecord of Watson, his activities in the years he- has been in Congress, his record as a lobbyist, his associates in this State, the men he has named to office, the politicians he has dealt with, the forces with which he has made his deals and his bargains. That leaves the people with the opportunity to look at what part Watson has played in shaping affairs in this State, what evils he has countenanced and fostered, what alliances he has made with those who have brought bad government and ment. In view of the speech made by N Watson, will Chairman Walb now dare to repeat that invitation to Secretary Mellon and Secretary Hoover, to come to Indiana and take part in this campaign? Has Indiana’s member of the President’s Cabinet been asked tp come back and speak this fall? If not, why?

THEY’LL GO ELSEWHERE TO DIE Florida's deliberately designed and widely advertised plan to attract aged millionaires by eliminating Inheritance taxes has hit a snag. The snag was placed by the Federal Government i% the inheritance tax law enacted by the last Congress. It provides for rebates of Federal Inheritance taxes when similar taxes are collected by the States. As much as 80 per cent of the Federal tax can be refunded In this way. Os course, a State that has no inheritance tax can’t comfc in for the rebates. Its citizens must pay the full Federal tax. / * Under such an arrangement there isn’t much to be gained by dying in a jState that has no inheritance tax law. What’s gained by the absence of Stato is lost by the higher Federal tax. Florida is appealing to the United States Supreme Court to declare the present Federal law unconstitutional/ The principal argument is that it results in discriminatory taxation. The Federal tax is higher for people in some parts of the country "than for others. There .seems- to be little doubt that Congress passed the present law with the idea of holding a whip hand over the various States. Have an inheritance tax law, says the new statute, or pay more Federal taxes. Such a Federal invasion of the field of State taxation certainly can’t be regarded as van unmixed blessing. On the other hand it seems to be the only possible device to prevent an era of cut-throat competition among the States in the matter'of inheritance taxes. A State trying to administer such a tax next door to one loudly proclaiming the absence of it is at a marked disadvantage. \ The tax itself is as simple, painless and equitable as any yet devised. To make it work, however, it seems necessary to have the 1 Federal Government interfere wi{h the affairs of the States. Is the successful maintenance of the tax wprth the interference? It’s a tough question that Florida has propounded, but the odds, on the basis of previous court decisions, are that the present Federal lw will be sustained. THE RULES ARE CLEAR The recent senatorial njush fund investigation in Illinois raises a question which should not be a question at all, that is: Has the United States Senate the right to compel witnesses to answpr its questions? The Senate rules ara clear. They say that when the Senate delegates a committee to find out something that it wants to know, witnesses must answer all questions asked, under penalty of a SIOO (o SI,OOO fine and from one to twelve months in jail. However, there has always been, the question It has come up again and again since congressional investigating committees were first appointed. Somehow it never has been passed on by the courts. Either the balky witness has lost his nerve and finally answered, or committee has weakened and let him go, without his answer. We have prospects now of a first-class, definite test of the Senate’s right to probe. When Congress metfts next winter, Senator Jim Reed will have a little story to tell about Sam Insull, the Chicago trac-

tion baron, refusing to answer one of Mr. Reed’s very pertinent questions. Jim says that question is going to be answered or somebody’s golfcg to jail. He doesn’t say Sam; that’s left for you* to infer. If Reed has his way, not only Insull but his attorney, Daniel J. Schuyler; Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, and perhaps even State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe of Chicago, whose testimony didn’t send Reed precisely into ecstacies, may look out from behind the perpendicular gratings. The Senate rules are clear. They say “fine and jail,” not “fine or Jail.” And so It should be. If the Senate can’t get an answer on a matter that is of the utmost importance to the electorate, then who can? It is plainly the Senate’s prerogative to investigate. Insull, of course, would be a hard person to place in jail. There would be all sorts of appeals, and if Reed calls for a showdown on the matter, as he vows he will, the Federal Supreme Court may, have the last word In the matter. But the rules are clear, and if the Senate, the supreme lawmaking body in the land, hasn’t the au tliqrity to carry out its own laws, then what? THE DIFFERENCE Economy is a word with many definitions. In the mind of President Coolidge it means saving money by reducing expenses. At the State House, it means raising taxes and then boasting of wiping out debts. Inasmuch as Chairman Walb and Governor Jackson have announced that State finances will be the chief topic of discussion by which they hope to reelect Senators Watson and Robinson, the people will have a chance to compare the methods of Coolidge and Jackson, The Governor says he can cut the tax levy next year. That is because he has secured enough special taxes to enable him to keep on spending several times what government cost under Tom Marshall. When President Coolidge cut the cost of Federal operations a hundred millions of dollars for next year, he actually reduced the cost of government. But so far the Governor has not pointed to a single dollar saved to the people. He can point to the millions raised by the gasoline and inheritance taxes for good roads, a project formerly supported by direct taxation. lie can point to the many millions which the people have been forced to pay. But that dollar saved has yet to be located. NEW YORK SEES THE LIGHT Justice for the maligned metropolis. Year in and year out New York has been branded as an entirely wicked place. To prohibitionists it has seemed even worse than that. But comes the Federal Government now with a report indicating that in 1925 .New York was almost 300 per cent more religious than In 1921. The town consumed 1.776,136 gallons of sacramental wine last year &s against only 597.645 gallons in 1921! Dog days are here. Hide hubby's teeth when he gets mad. Trying to stop betting at Coney Island. Bet they don’t. Hot weather isn’t so bad if you undress properly for It. Week-ends are like Christmas. They come around again before you can pay the bills far the last one. The worst thing about a bad tooth Is it Is liable to stop hurting before you go to a dentist. Is it cats that have nine lives? Or is it flies? King George says he doesn't like short skirts. He had better keep quiet. They are short enough now. So much money in New York a cop stole SI,OOO from a beggar. If we ever get shipwrecked alone on a desert island we’ll take advantage of the opportunity to learn to sing. Life’s a lot of trouble. But then you only have to live It one second at a time. Army worms are damaging the corn crop in Illinois. Army worms are not second lieutenants. Kangaroos are decreasing in Australia. Pedestrians decrease here.

HOW MANY CLOTHES SHOULD A MAN WEAR? With folks all over town dropping dead from the heat, Cleveland (Ohio) councilmen were taken aback, If not actually appalled, at the spectacle of their chairman presiding in his shirt sleeves. All of which goes to show that men are slaves to convention to a far greater extent than we are. And it may even prove that the yokels and hill billies, although they may not have any great amount of gray matter, have at least acquired independence in the matter of comfortable dress, which the town guy has never mustered up the courage to get for himself. The sight of men going about in coats when the mercury is ready to Jump over the top of the thermometer, quite ridiculous, although the gentlemen do not all seem to see it that wayi They still cling to that hoary convention which makes it an insult to the nuder sex for a man to appear before them without a coat. That may have been all very well when we dolled ourselves tip in Crinolined skirts and stock collars, and wore rats in our hair and •balloon sleeves, blit now when we appear in y practically nothing upon all occasions it seems the essence of the ridiculo’us. How on earth could it insult a woman who wears only three sheer garments for a man to accost her completely clothed in B. V. D. s, shirt, trousers, collar and tie? Why add ‘a coat to the general ensemble in order to put over the idea that you believe her to be a lady? Now we women have acquired a sensible arrangement for all seasons. We have taken off nearly everything and let me assure you that we are far more comfortable and the doctors tell us far more healthy than ever before. Do I hear a masculine chorus exclaiming that we are also far more beautiful? It takes something enormous and awe-inspiring to dislodge a pet idea from the mind of a man. He shrinks like a modest violet from doing anything that is different from his fellows. He puts on and takes off his straw hat only In concert. He will papt and swelter and agonize In a tight, hot coat because everybody he knows has not doffed that garment. And still he calls himself' Intelligent and progressive. .

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Tracy Latest Primary Results Are of No Great Consequence,

By M. E. Tracy Ohio, Alabama, Arkansas and Nebraska held primaries on Tuesday, with issues badly mixed and results of no great consequence frbm a national standpoint. Pomerene won the Democratic senatorial nomination in Ohio, which means something only if he can beat Willis next November. New York will have it that A1 Smith was the outstanding figure in Alabama and that the Democratic voters of that State went to the polls with no other question in mind than whether candidates were favlorable to his presidential boom. As was to have been expected Senator Caraway was renominated in Arkansas, while the Bryan crowd controls the Democratic situation in Nebraska. •I- + -IStill a Tangle Liberal minded voters prevented the liquor question from cutting a clean swath anywhere, as was particularly noticeable in Ohio. Pomerene, commonly regarded as a wet, won out amid tvhat was otherwise a pretty clean sweep for the drys. The fact that his opponent was a woman may have helped and I say this without intending any disparagment of Miss Allen, who is one of the ablest of her sex in public life. + + -IWoman’s Handicap The American people, though having granted women the ballot, are still hesitant about electing them to office, especially high office. The time may come when they will feel differently. At present, however, a woman labors under obvious disadvantages as a candidate, and they Invariably help the man who opposes her. -I- -I- I "Ma" an Accident The peculiar combination of circumstances which made a woman Governor of Texas has not helped the cause. Ma Ferguson will always be regarded as something of an aooident. This is so much her fault, perhaps, as that of the husband whose place she was almost compelled to take. Still, she has made mistakes on her own account, and Is making one right now in forcing the Democrats of Texas to hold a second primary, when she must realize that she has not the slightest chance to win. + I’ I Revolution? Women in politics, women in business, women in sports, women in short skirts—what a change has come over life during the last fifty years. Feminists rise up to tell us that It Is the beglnping of a revolution, that the better half is about to assert herself, that free love is on the way, that the increase of divorce is a good sign, that the old fashioned home is obsolete, that men will be relegated to the kitchen and forced to rock the cradle in these good days that are to be. We laugh at this radical froth, as we call it, and strive to view all the changes and Innovations as perfectly natural, but are they? Each generation, we say. whines about the customs of its youth and complains of the customs that supplant them, but was there ever a generation that saw such wrenching alterations as the last two? Our explantlen for that is that this is an age of speed, that we go faster and consequently grow faster than ever before. go all right, but do we grow?

Infatuation Fatal I am no pessimist. I think the processes of evolution are constructive in the long run. But history seems to suggest that people can stand In their own light at times, can become so infatuated with their achievements and institutions as to assume that they have arrived at a point where life will take care of Itself. Are We Indifferent? I am not so sure but America is approaching that mood. /There appears to be a quite universal indifferenec to vital things. Most of our movement, reforms and uplift schemes, when you come to think of it, center around superficial habit. The idea of common honesty and common sense, as the basic f ctor of commerce, morals and social life, has pone out of date. We now look to style and statute for the solution of many problems. •I- -I- •!• Political Drivel All of which may seem far removed from the primaries, but what did they illustrate more vividly than the drivel to which our politics has degenerated? Where was the issue of any im portance, the problem of any constructive value, the policy that visualized anything big? Suppose you were to put the stump speeches of the present year beside those ‘of Jefferson, Adams Webster, Clay, or a hundred others, what would they show by comparison? This country,, we say, has fallen into the role of world leadership—the great banking. Industrial and commercial machine of the twentieth century. Are we thinking about a foreign policy to fit the game, or an attitude of mind that will do honor to the part? Are we studying this world we are supposed to lead, or taking any pains to find out of what the job consists? No, Indeed. Our profoundest thought just now Is hew to censor the movies, or contrive parking regulations that will please merchants and Joyriders at the same tlnje.

WEE TOURISTS STAY AWAY FROM LONDONEXHIBIT Americans More Interested in Royal Family and Sports. Bu Timet Special i LONDON, Aug. 12. —Guides at Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, the tower of London and other places of interest usually in the beaten path of the American tourists, are not expecting to pay so large an income tax this year on their tips from American visitors to London. The first vanguard of American visitors in London, which topped the 5,000 mark, has proved that it is not interested in the stock exhibit, which have for years been the haunts pf visitors from the United States. Apparently the only institution in which all visitors are interested is the Royal family. An official of a large tourist agency here declared that visitors from the United States this year appeared to be more interested in the sports and social season than in points of historic interest. “If they hoar the king and queen are going somewhere,” he said, they will move heaven and earth to go to the same place. Ascot was the most popular function of the season among American women, chiefly because the king and queen were there in state and also because o's the dresses: \ “The parks, polo at Ranelagh or Hurlingham, Buckingham Palacq, the Derby. Windsor Castle and the night life of Picadilly interest the visitor far more than the stock pieces of former days such as the National Gallery or the British Museum. “Visitors spend less time on London and are making dally excursions Into the country. Many Americans bring their 1 cars with them and seem merely to use London as the center for dally runs into the country.”

New York-to-Paris Plane Nearly Ready

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The S-3.1, giant Sikorsky biplane in which (’apt. Rene Fonck, French ace, will attempt to fly from New York to Paris. Notice its great wing-span and three motors. \

Looking Over New Events Upon the Local Stage

“Hello, Mama," considered the best of the musical comedies that Nat C. Haines, rotund funster, has ever revealed, will be the chief source of merriment on ttye Palace Theater bill the last half of this week. This high powered comedy is told with many songs, dances an<l comedy chatter. Sadie Duff is the mother; Haines, the father; Bernle Gay, the demure daughter; Freddie FMynn, the amusing bell boy; Ben Wells, the clerk, and Madelon La Verne, the vamp who wears a great number of gowns. "Honey Bunch" and “Martha and Me” are two of the refrains that carry the burden of the score. The Three White Kuehns are presenting "Songs as They Should Be Sung." Three men furnish a program of banjo selections and Minnette, the young woman with the ccflnpany, sings and offers several novelties. Alphonso is called one of the

Work, Yes! Play—Surely

Work as well as play is part of the daily program of Girl Scouts at Camp Dell Wood, Girl Scout Camp near the Indiana Girl’s School, west of the city. Above: Dorothy Jane Huff (left), 3108 Northwestern Ave., and Wanda Ixmise Rodgers, 773 N. Emerson Ave.. are shown helping in the cor-1 field. Below:: Marjorie MacDonald (left) t 633 N. Riley Ave., and Klary Isabelle McNerny, 5118 E. Michigan St., are refreshing them- , selves after a day of work and play.

How to Swim —No. 22

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The Overarm B ack Stroke

By Lillian Cannon When trying for speed in back stroke swimming it is best to use the overarm stroke. This ‘s accomplished by movements just the reverse of the crawl stroke when swimming face* forward. The arms are brought upward from the aide as far forward as possible and the stroke is made down the side and as deeply as is natural. At first the arms will reach out almost at right angle with the body, but with practice more power can be developed by striking them deeper into the water. The body is given a slight roll to-

foremost manipulators of marionetttes and has for his part in the program “A Novelty in Figures." He puts his lolls through an entire vaudeville show. Marvin and Davis are a man and woman team which deals with song and steps In "Oh, Boy, What a Girl.” The Cycling Brunettes are daredevils on wheels. They are known internationally and come here with a routine of comedy stunts and straight work on their vehicles. "The Combat" is the film with House Peters and Wanda Hawley. Pathe News, a comedy and Topics of the Day are the short reels. -|- -|, -|. Indianapolis theaters today offer: "The Mountain Man," at Keith’s; “The Bridal Suite,” at English’s; “Hello Mama," at the Palace; Bailey and Barnum, at the Lyric; "Oh, ■What A Nurse," at the Uptown; "The Duches of Buffalo," at the

ward each stroke, but the face is out of the water at all times, and the breathing is the same as for all | strokes. j (Copyright, 1926. NEA Service, Inc.) SIT DOWN, SIR EDWARD LONDON—When Sir Edward El- | gar, the noted British composer, rej cently hand an Inspiration as he j was riding atop a London bus, he began humming the tune, hut was interrupted by an old lady who offered him her seat, saying: “You i feel 111, don’t you?”

Circle; "The Handsome Brute,” at the Isis; "Aloma of the South Seas," at the Ohio; "A Hero of the Big Snows,” at the Colonial, and "Bigger Than Barnums," at the Apollo.

Questions and Answers You can get an answer to any questlonof fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1323 New York Ave., Washington. D. C.. inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advioe cannot he given nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a persona) reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Who were the “Nemetes?” Nemetes or Nemeth is tk > name of a 'German tribe first mentioned by Julius Caesar as being in the army of Ariovistus. They were located at the left side of the middle Rhine, east of the Vosges, in the region about Spires, where they still remained after the defeat of Ariovistus (B. C. Probably they were merged ultimately with the Alamanni. The word is of Gallic origin. Green the same horse power, which has the greater lifting power, a steam engine or an electric motor? There is no difference. Can you give mo a good recipe for making root beer? There are commercial preparations on the market which are always accompanied by printed directions for making. Root beer can be made at home by adding 5 gallons of boiling water to 1% gallons of molasses. Allow it to stand for 3 hours, then add % pound each of bruised sassafras bark, wintergreen bark and sarsaparilla root. Add la pint .fresh yeast and water enough to make fifteen gallons. After the mixture has fermented for twelve houre it can be drawn off and bottled. Why is the Pope of Rome called “the prisoner of the Vatican?” In 1871 the Italian government took over certain of the papal states in Italy, allotting the Pope certain annual money indemnities to pay for the property. The Popes of the Roman Catholic Church since then have stayed in the Vatican rather than set foot on secular territory, as a protest to this act,. and have become voluntary prisoners within the Vatican enclosure. *• What system of weights and measures Is used in the Netherlands? The metric system of weights and measures, and, with trifling ohanges, the metric denominations have been adopted. . Is there any way to prevent hair from getting gray? Use hygiene means to keep the scalp loose and clean from dandruff, and the hair in good condition. Massage, properly administered, will do much to give life and natural color to the hair. Gray hair, however, is nature’s way of protecting beauty and softening the face that is beginning to snow age. It.should be welcomed rather than dreaded. What nationality is Renee Adoree, the movie actress? She was born in Lille, France, of Spanish and.French paentags.

ATTG. 12, 1926

LOW RATES FOR ELECTRICITY IN 1 CANADA REVEALED Operated by Public, That’s Reason —Rate Down to 2.1 c Per Kilowat. Timet Washington Bureau, 1822 New York Avenue WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—The cost of electricity in more than 240 Canadian towns and cities is down to 2.1 cents average per kilowatt hour. This is shown in the 1925 report of the publicly operated Ontario Power system, just received here. The power system, distributing electricity throughout the province of Ontario, earned a profit surplus of $1,080,277 during 1925. This including an adequate depreciation charge. 39 Cities Benefit There are now thirty-nine larger Ontario cities getting electricity for 2 ednts or less and ten getting it for IV4 cents or less. In 1924 only twenty-seven cities had a rate under 2 cents. Ottawa, capital at Canada, still has the lowest rate on the continent, 1.1 cents. r’j Officials of the Ontario compare in thejr report these prevailing low rates with rates charged by privately operated power companies in the United States, declaring: “According to a recent statement by an accredited authority in the United States, the Eleotrical AA r orld, the average price of electricity to the domestic consumer there in 1925 was 7.5 cents." , • IJrices Before Rates in the Ontario cities before the public system was put in operation in 1912 ranged from 8 to 12 cents. The Ontario system has effected a steady reduction in rates every year. Its results will he cited in Congress this cjoming winter, by government operation advocates fighting the pro posed lease of Muscle Shoals to private power companies.

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$2.75 EXCURSION LOUISVILLE AND RETURN Sunday, Aug. 15, 1926 Leave Station 7:00 A. M. Interstate Public Service Company

INDIANAPOLIS AND CINCINNATI TRACTION CO. 1 Charles L. Henry, Receiver REDUCED FARES Dollar Excursion ! Every Sunday Round Trip Tickets two and one half cents per mile; 30-day return limit. Information, Phone MA in 4500-4501

EXCURSION TO Cincinnati <£P Round f U Tr iP Shelbyville ... .$ .65 Greensburg ... 1.10 Batesville 1.50 Sunday, August iM Special train of all-steel equipment will leave Indianapolis 7 a. m.; returning leave Cincinnati 7 p. m. Central Time (8 p. m. city time), same date. BASEBALL Cincinnati Vs. Philadelphia For tickets and full particulars rail at City Ticket Office, 112 Monument Circle, phono Main 6330, or Union Station. BIG FOUR ROUTE

$2.75 MICHIGAN CITY $2.75 WALKERTON $2.40 ROCHESTER Round Trip NEXT SUNDAY Train leaves Indianapotfa Union Station 7:00 a. m., Mass. Ave. Station 7:08 a. m. VIA NICKEL PLATE ROAD Also low fares dally and week end, with liberal limit* to these and other resort points. For complete Information ohone R. C. Fiscus, A. G. P. A, MA In 3777; Union Station, MA In 4567; Mass. Ave. Station, MA In 2120.