Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 115, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1926 — Page 4

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KNOW YOUR STATE INDIANA produced bituminous coal during 1925 valued at forty-five and a half millions of dollars. This was on a program of curtailed production. With normal conditions restored in the industry, it is expected this figure will show a gain of more than 15 per cent.

THE REAL TROUBLE Whether the Attorney General names special prosecutors who draw rather sizeable fees oi the county hires a few more lawyers tq send bootleggers to jail Is not a matter of much importance. Under the State dry law, convicted bootleggers convicted by special prosecutors pay a special fee for each case, which goes to the lawyer thus engaged. . .. The whole theory of that law was to make it profitable for lawyers to prosecute the liquor -violator. Under one of its sections one of the attorneys for the State Anti-Saloon League makes his salary by putting padlocks on property after the police and sheriffs have confessed that repeated arrests do not stop the sale of booze. The matter is not important because the truth is that tne whole prosecution of this law has been a failure and will always be a failure. If the regular prosecutor sends a bootlegger to' jail, there is another to catch tomorrow, perhaps two more to take his place. If these specia’ assistants of the Attorney General of the State on a fee basis gouge more deeply into the profits of the bootlegger and hijacker, it simply means that the stuff they sell will be a little more poisonous or a trifle higher priced. Here is one crime which can not be curbed by making it costly. The experience of this and every other city has been that piling fines has no effect nor has the terror of jail frightened any one. The truth is that the law has not taken away the desire for booze on the part of a large porticn of the community, but the very fact that it is difficult to get makes it more desirable and more fashionable in the view of many who never drank before it was a crime to look upon red liquor. The profits are too big in that business. The trouble lies deeper than law. The truth is that the bootleggers are in the business of selling their stuff because very many people want it and are willing to pay any price to get it That is why there has been and is bribery on an unprecedented scale. It is because the profits are so big that no matter how big the fines, others will embark on the business. So why worry whether the county pays a few more prosecutors to send men to jail or the specials get their big fees from the bootlegger. The only possible effect can be in the price of booze, not in respect for law or in sobriety. OIL AND THE STOCK MARKET The Wall Street Journal reports to its customers that there will be nothing in the coming report of the Federal oil conservation board “to affect the stock market.” That’s probably another way of saying that there won't be anything in the report. Otherwise it wouldn't be safe to predict that our sensitive and temperamental stock market won’t be affected. If true, it’s too bad. Not that anybody wants to see Secretaries Work, Hoover, Davis and Wilbur —members of the oil conservation board —deliberately upset the stock market. It certainly is to be hoped, however, that they will have some potent remarks to make about the production of oil in this country. . It is the estimate of one nationally known oil geologist that 80 per cent of the oil that’s discovered is left right in the pools where it is found. Allow him a wide margin of error, and it's still true that most of the oil that is located never gets out of the ground. One of the reasons, at any rate, is perfectly clear. By permitting free-for-all drilling, instead of developing oil pools as a unit, most of the oil is wasted. Gas pockets, available for use in forcing oil cut of the ground if pools Vere scientifically exploited, are now frequently tapped, and the gas is allowed to escape. Competitors, all trying to get oil from the same pool, vie with each other in putting down wells. That reduces pressure. The result is oil left in the ground which would otherwise be recovered. With our oil reserve going down at an alarming rate, it’s time to put an end to the primitive methods we’ve been using in oil mining. Such a move might affect adversely the interests some oil companies. It might conceivably "affect the stock market.” The assurance that brokers need not be concerned about the report suggests that it may be going to sidestep the oil drilling problem on grounds of a possible conflict with the anti-trust laws, or the provisions of the Constitution protecting private pronerty. If that be the cause It will be unfortunate. It’s time to take vigorous steps to check the needless dissipation of oil resources even, if peed he, at the expense of a flurry on th.e stock market. SAY, MA, YOU'RE A CARD! We don’t want to be mean to a lady. Indeed, we want to give the ladles, every chance in the world to get along. So we have adopted anew rule for the boys and girls. Hereafter, in order to win a bet from any lady, you have to beat her twice. Isn’t that fair enough? Just before the recent first primary in Texas, we remember vaguely,- something about .Governor “Ma” Ferguson saying that if Dan Moody should lead her by a single vote she wouldn’t dare to show her faco in the second, or consolation primary which Texas accords its candidates just to make sure. We recall also that Ma said something about if she led Mr. Moody by 25,000 votes, he should be expected to erase himself from the second primary, too. But Ma hadn’t had a minute to think things over

when she made her wager, it seems she had entirely overlooked the fact that if she were beaten Texas’ million school children would be forever deprived of the benefits of education. Her heart went out to the poor things, so it did, and .you couldn't expect Mr. Moody to ask a lady to live up to such an agreement. He would have been a mean old Simon Le gree if he had. Now, if Ma had beaten Moody by 100,000 instead of Moody beating her by that number, would she expect Mr. Moody to live up to his part of the wager and resign? Os course she wouldn’t. Now you just ask her. Why, she wouldn’t take advantage of a fellow like that! So, after this, remember, everybody, we’re playing under the new rules. Marquis of Queensbury or Hoyle doesn’t go any more, dears. We shall play the game strictly according to the Ferguson amendment You have to beat a lady twice now in order to win a bet. HELP TILTS FUND Let. It bo hoped that there will be a very gen erous attendance at the Field Day of the police and fire departments at the State Fair grounds tomorrow and Saturday. The receipts will go to swell the pension fund. That will care for the widows of those killed on duty, for the children of those who lose their lives guarding life and property, for the aid of those whb are disabled while giving themselves to the public service. Both of these services invite danger. There is a growing menace in these days ‘when crime is on the increase and the modern gunman tl inks nothing of taking a life to keep his liberty. The number of officers killed has grown rapidly under Volsteadism. Whatever criticism may be passed upon the policies and control of these departments should not be visited upon the men. The men who form the departments and whorisk their lives are not responsible. They are eager and willing to give service, to risk their lives if necessary in behalf of the public welfare. Mere purchase of tickets is not the whole answer. Your presence at their annual outing will give an inspiration for better service that could not be had In any other way. G<J out and show your interest and your appreciation. HERE’S REAL PROGRESS Since Herbert B. Hoover became chief of the Department of Commerce he has standardized hundreds of things that we use in our daily lives. Kitchenware is now made only in specified sizes. Bed blankets come in certain lengths and widths, from which no manufacturer deviates. Even beds and bedsteads are cut out to meet patterns which Hoover has decided are the ones and only ones which should be used. All this standardization is said to make for greater efficiency in our big quantity production. The commerce department believes it is well to have such minor matters decided once and for all time, like the calendar, the clock and the church ritual. Standardization is said to boa policy which Hoover has followed in his own personal life. Long ago, it is said, he decided on certain patterns of business suits, clothes, shirts, collars and tie3 and so now he never has to waste any time picking out the new things in a haberdashery. Today the news broke that a schedule for tipping in the United States has been made oui and guaranteed as correct. The intricacies of the tipping problem in this country range all the way from “Shall I or shan't I tip?” to “Is It better to tip too much and be rated a fool, or to tip too /low and be rated a tight-wad?” • It has now been decided'that a tip for a 25-cent shave should be 10 cents, or nothing at all if your barber talks too much. A haircut deserves a tip of 20 or 25 cents for both ladies and gentlemen. Waiters can reasonably expect to get one dollar on any check between seven and eleven dollars, but their general rake-off is to 15 per cent on checks under two dollars, and 10 per cent when the check Is more than that amount. We’re mighty glad it has all been decided for us, and while no one has definitely stated that Mr. Hoover’s department of simplified trade practices is responsible for the schedule, who else would have had the courage?

LET’S HAVE A WAR! -By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A man who has the progress of the world at heart takes exception to the things he finds in this column. He charges that nothing save harsh criticism of the men is tp be read here, and then tosses a compliment by saying that this baleful influence may precipitate a sex war. Well, what’s the harm in a little sex war? The men have Indulged In every other kind of a fray, from fighting over the tomb of the Man of Peace to killing each other off so that the country might be made safe for the Anti-Saloon League. It looks like a battle between the sexes not to worry them much. Maybe a real sex war, with a lot of violent feeling on both sides and a few broken heads, might be a pretty good thing for all of us. It would probably clear up the Present fog that seems to obstruct the clear vision of either side when it looks upon the other. It would undoubtedly furnish us with a lot of excitement and' take our mjnds off the primaries and the debacle of prohibition Enforcement. And it would be far less expensive than either. It might make wives scurry home and stay there, and knock some sense Into the heads of a lot of men. And let us suppose for the fun of the thing that the women would win. What an excellent thing for the morals and souls,of the men to be placed in exactly the same predicament out of which we have only so recently emerged. They might be taught humility and submission by having the vote taken away from them for a couple of decades. They might be forced to stay at home and satisfy their longing for work by housekeeping. They might be compelled to listen to lectures upon purity and modesty and admonished that their reckless behavior was bringing about the downfall of the race. They might be subjected to the bitter ignominy of* economic slavery and have wise women gather together and decide that they did not have souls and that God was not concerned in their-' welfare. And, in case such an event ever took place, without a doubt the first Person we would shoot at sunrise be that man who is always raving about the way we behave and yet who can not take a joke directed at male idiosyncrasies.

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Tracy X White House Spokesman Smothers Flare for Farm Relief.

The great new light with regard to farm relief did not dawn for President Coolidge after all. It flared, for a moment, but only to have the White House spokesman hide it under a bushel of higher priced wheat. „ The President, according to this will o’ the wisp mouthpiece, knows nothing about a scheme to have big business help the farmer. That settles the matter, of course, as long as the grain market remains bullish. Meanwhile, the four-day background Is worth recording. Sunday papers seemed quite sure that, though the administration was still opposed to direct Government aid, It would look favorably, if not enthusiastically on the i/ormation of a $100,000,000 pool by private interests for agricultural relief. Monday papers hinted that big business was not altogether pleased with the task cut out for it. Tuesday papers found treasury officials cautious in Secretary Mellon’s absence, but willing to recall that a $25,000,000 pool of similar design and object did good work several years ago. Wednesday papers found the White House spokesman insinuating that the President had no idea what the commotion was all about. * * * Disarmament A lot of very eminent statesmen are worrying themselves and the rest of us needlessly over disarmament. So far as existing engines and instruments go. inventiveness is scraprirg them faster than international cor ferences possibly could. Disarmament, to be genuine, involves the suppression of new devices much more definitely than old ones.

The world could sink every battleship now afloat and still have the ways well greased for a deadlier war than ever occurred. Guns to squirt acid a mile; gases to poison everything wt*h which they come in contact and keep it poison for months, radio-guided airplanes to rain “a ghastly dew"; disease germs to infect whole cities—these and other devilish contrivances like them will dominate the next war. Statecraft must look ahead, not backward, or even at existing conditions, if it would accomplish anything by way of genuine disarmament. Water Bill Refused American consuls can have their uniforms laundered at Government expense, but they can not buy special drinking water. Keyne V. Granum, vice consul at Rangoon, included an Item of $11.20 In his expense acccount for special drinking water. By way of explanation, he submitted a report of the city health officer which stated that the municipal water contained too many microorganisms. The report did not state that the micro-organisms were noxious, so the comptroller general ruled that Mr. Graum’s expenditure was not allowable on the ground that his purchase of special drinking water was based on mere apprehension of cholera, dysentery and other diseases and not on Immediate necessity. In another ruling the comptroller general held that the laundering of uniforms worn by consular and diplomatic representatives was pranerly chargeable to the Governmmt, Such is economy. • • • Civic Pride Here Is a crime wave with which the authorities are finding It hard to cope. Hero is a murder mystery in New Brunswick, N. J., four years old and obviously made more baffling by a conspiracy of silence. Here is an investigation of that murder mystery, ordered by the Governor of the State; a noisy investigation, if you like, and futile, perhaps, but still meant to serve a legitimate purpose. Here Is the New Brunswick Board

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William V. Hull Here Is Bill Hull’s latest picture, just taken by the National Studio. Hull, besides directing “The Love of Su Shong,” at English’s this week, is appearing In the play, of Trade asking the Governor to call It off on the ground that it Is hurting the town, reflecting on the good name of New Jersey, etc. Can you beat that for civic consciousness? * * * Pie Started Him Tom Johnson, confessed murderer and thief, who is held in Minneapolis and who indentifies his victims before they have time to identify him, continues to astonish the police. He recalls and admits no less than 1,700 crimes during the last twenty years, 380 in Omaha; 175 in New York, an equal number in San Francisco; 40 i<n Sioux City; 20 in Butte; 17 in Los Angeles and 15 in Galveston, not to mention a lot of other places. It all began with stealing a pie, he says, for which he was sentenced to a year in jail, but whether it was the theft or the punishment that started him on his downward career he does not explain. And now that he has given the police of a dozen cities such a splendid opportunity to catch him only to be obHged to give himself up in the end, he wants to “get it over with” and spend the rest of his life “peacefully in prison,” which desire the law could hardly refuse.*

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Taking a Breath in the Crawl

Breathing is very important in the crawl. It must be synchronized with tho arm movement so that MOTHER GIVEN PAROLE Leniency Shown Woman to Care for Six Children. To spare her six small children the stigma of institutional life, Mrs. Priscilla Norvath of South Bend, an Inmate of the Indiana Woman’s Prison, has been granted a thirty-day parole by Governor Jackson. Mrs. Norvath was convicted in the St. Joseph Superior Court on June 24, 1926, on charges of transporting liquor and sentenced to a one-year term. Her release was recommended by the trial judge and the Rev. George S. Henninger, pardon board president. The children, ranging in from two and one-half to fifteen years, are at the point of starvation, It la said. Her husband committed suicide in prison some time ago. Her plea for permanent freedom will be heard in September.

The Herron. Art Institute to Continue % Exhibit of Fine Printing Two Weeks*

The two exhibitions of fine printing, “Printing for Commerce,’’ and “Fifty Books of the Year” are to continue at the Herron Art Institute through Sept. 11, instead of Aug. 21 as anonunced, owing to an unexpected cancellation of the exhibition date which was to have followed the Indianapolis period at the art institute. To many people the ihterest In a book or a piece of advertising lies solely in tho text which it presents for their perusal. Its appearance is too often insignificant in their eyes although it must, perforce, exert a psychological influence upon them of which they may, however, be tatally unconscious. But to the one who has learned the joy of pleasure In lines and forms, in colors and textures, and in contrasts, a book or a* piece of advertising or any other printed matter is at once significant not only for its context, but for any visible qualities of attractive “set-up," fine typography, excellent printing, and other manifestations of fine craftsmanship. To such a one the two exhibitions of “Fifty Books of the Year" and “Printing for Commerce," shown in the court through Sept. 11 are full of unexpected “treats.” It is important for Indianapolis to have had the exhibition period extended, as the prescribed period is ordinarily two weeks only. Those who have been interested in the problem of the Nearer East during these weeks of benefiicence on the pant of citizens of Indianapolis and other cities for the belief of people of the Nearer East will be interested in seeing an Important exhibition of the art of these peoples. Pottery of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is shown in cases on the east stair landing. This pottery will be shown at the Institute for a short time only, when it will be sqnt to the museums of Denver, Oms ha, Dayton, Baltimore,' Buffalo. Los Angeles, Rochester and Milwaukee. The color scheme of the colonial exhibition of portraits by Waldo, Sully, Stuart, Neagle, Peale, Inman, West, Harding, Coply, Earl, Field and Trumbull has been changed. It is now a blue and buff colonial scheme, with a Georgian pediment suggested above the exhibition zone, thus making the room a somewhat more consistent environment representative of the period of the paintings. Three .very fine important tables, contemporary with the paintings. are exhibited, and a grandfather’s clock of fine design and work-

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manship is also shown. Three dishes of* English manufacture popular in America at the time of the portraits are exhibited on the tables. The portraoit of Theodore C. Steele, by Simon P. Baus, hanging in gallery 1 is, In our opinion, among the finest portraits of this beloved dean of Indiana artists. Those characteristics which are foremost in tho minds of all the friends of this beloved artist are present, besides its being a thoroughly genuine likeness of the man. -I- -I- -ISEXTET RETURNS TO THE PALACE TODAY The Beaucaire Sextet, which Is making a return engagement to the Palace Theater today for the last half of this week with its wide program of classical ’songs, Is a picturesque organization. All the costumes and settings in the act are modeled after those in style during the lavish days of the old French courts. Three men and three women make up the Sextet. They all have 'come from a foreign land and have portions of famous operas in their repertory. Billy Miller, whose name is synonymous with laughter, stages his famous comedy sketch, , “The Sign Post,” In which he plays the role of the lawyer whose specialty is divorce cases. To his office come the Pecks, a former loving couple, who seem to have come to a misunderstanding. How the warring couple manages to get its affairs straightened out is told with many amusing incidents. Preston and Ysobel have "Nonsense and Music” with which to ’dispense., Preston Is an acrobat who hides his tricks under the camouflage of laughs. His dainty partner plays the violin.

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You can Ret an answer to any question of fact or information by writinß to The Indiananolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave.. Washinßton. D. C.. inclosins 2 cents in s**r.p for reply. Medical lesral and marital advice cannot he riven nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsißned requests cannot uo answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What salaries do commercial commercial companies and the governmeht pay to radio operators? Commercial companies pay S9O to $125 per month to operators stationed on merchant ships, in addition to stateroom and meals. At commercial land stations, operators receive SIOO to S3OO per month. The entrance salary of an operator in the Government ranges from S9OO to $1,400. What is Chlorophyll? The substance that gives the color to green leaves. It occurs in minute green spherical granules, or star or ribbon shaped masses, and is made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and magnesium. Is liurt L. Standish, the author of the Frank Merriwell books living? Gilbert Patten, who writes under the name of Burt L. Standish is still living and writing. A recent hook of his “Lefty Locke’ was published in 1925. . How many Swedes and Norwegians are there in the United States? 625.580 Swedes and 363,822 Norwegians. Is flie pension of a Civil War Veteran transferable to his heirs at his death? No. Pensions are not transferable; they cease at thd-death of the pensioner. What is the nationality and meaning of file name “Odam”? It is Middle English and means "son-in-law." Is there an instrument used by prospectors for locating gold? • Some elaborate electrical methods are now being tried for the location of ore deposits but their true usefulness has not been determined

AUG. 19, 1926

Two merry young men are Fltzgibbon and Mahoney, who are having a good timo with their piano and xylophone numbers and comedy chatter. They say on their billing that they are offering “A Laugh Cocktail with a Dash of Music.” One more act Is on the bill. Anew Cappy Ricks story written by Peter B. Kyne is the theme of the photoplay “More Pay-Less Work” which stars Mary Brian. Pathe News, a comedy, and Topics of the Day are the short reels. -I- I -IOther Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Tho Love of Su Shong," at English’s; Jack Pitzer’s prehestra at the Lyric; “Fascinating. Youth,” at tho Apollo; “Mismates,” at the Circle; “The Savage,” at the Uptown; a rehearsal of bathing beauties in contest at 3 o’clock this afternoon at Broad Ripple which precedes the fashion parade tonight at Broad Ripple; “You Never Know Women,” at- the Ohio; “Eves Leaves,” at the Colonial, and complete new show at the Isis. * * * PARK CONCERT TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT A public concert will be given tonight by the Indianapolis Military Band in Univeisity Park under tho direction of W. S. Mitchell. Mary Case and Frank H. Keeler will Vie the soloists. The pro-ram follows: March. “Illinois American Leßion". .Woods E-vcrrpts From .Musical Comedy, “Babette’ HerbiM Cornet Solo, "Tho Wanderer” .... Mr. Rosier. “Dedication and Renediction," From “Les Huguenots ’ Meyerbeer Caprice. “Dawn of Love" Bendix Overture. “William Tell” (Music Memory Contest Number) Rossini Group of Soiii's. Miss Case. “The Serenade” Herbert "Germans Before Paris" Arr. Trenkler “Star-Spangled Banner."

and they could not be used by an ordinary prospector. What newspaper claims the largest circulations? “News of the World,” which Is issued 'every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 30 Boqverie St., E. C. London, England, and plaims a net sales exceeding three million copies per issue, which is probably tho largest newspaper circulation. What causes the holes in cheese? They are the result of the gas formed by a certain kind of bacteria present In the cheese. LEGION PROBEsTofLEGE Charges Made That Free Love and Sovietism Are Taught. B United Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. ID.— Investigation Into charges that a Mena, Ark., college was champiohing free love, sovietism and “other teachings opposed to American principles,” was under way today by executive committee of the StaM American legion. ™ Introduction of a resolution demanding the college close its doors threw the State convention of the Legion into an kproar here Wednesday night. It was finally decided to refer the resolution to the executive committee for a thorough Inquiry. NEW PENNVILLE BAN K Institution, to Absorb Two Other Companies, Chartered. Charter was granted today to the Pennville State Bank, capitalized at $25,000, by the State banking department. The new hank will take over the People's State Bank and the Pennville bank. Charter of the Cross Plains State Bank, capita! $25,000, was renewed. The board postponed Indefinitely the application of the North Side State Bank of Richmond, capital $25,000, for a charter. Petitions of the Fanners and Merchants State Bank of North Liberty, $25,000, and the Central Trust and Sovings Bank of Gary, $50,000, were deferred.