Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1927 — Page 4

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JCR I HOWARD

Let the People Know The State Board of Charities, fine as is its membership, will not retain any measure of public confidence long if its reports on penal and charitable institutions are suppressed. Tomorrow at Michigan City one of its reports will be made public. That report deals with the charges made by D. C. Stephenson that he had been brutally treated inside the prison and that a conspiracy of politicians and Klan officials existed to forever seal his lips concerning the activities of both. The Board of Charities was the proper body to investigate, and did investigate, upon invitation of the prison trustees, after it was suggested by The Times. It made its inquiry in private. It examined Stephenson alone. What he said or wanted to say, what other witnesses were called, what effort was made to find out all the facts are matters which may or may not be made public. The prison trustees, meeting as a board of pardons, will make the formal report public. It may taken for granted that this report will deny the trutn of the Stephenson charges and be exhibited as an exoneration of the conflict of the prison officials. When that report is made public, the board of trustees should in all fairness to the public, which is entitled to know, make public the report made by the same board of charities on the Trippet case. Trippet was a convict. He was held in the asylum for the insane connected with the prison. His relatives made very grave charges after his body had been returned to them. The State Board of Charities made its investigation but its findings have been kept secret. There seems to be a sort of delicacy about taking the public into its confidence. It interprets its duty as advisory to the Governor and not to the people. Only the prison trustees, who are responsible for conditions, get the report. If the board of charities finds conditions which are abhorrent, that report is of course a criticism of these trustees whose duty it is to watch as a board of directors might watch the conduct of the institution. The trustees now announce that important changes in the direction of the insane hospital have been made. The public is entitled to know why the changes were made and the reasons. What did the State Board of Charities find, for instance, in the Trippet case? What reason is there for suppressing that report? It seems rather difficult to make some officials in this State understand that the continued attitude of secrecy and suppression has convinced the public that something is very, very wrong. Business Administration The board of public works has finally decided to let the lowest bidder have the contract for the construction of the Irvington sewer. It was a serious matter for the board. The low bid was approximately $140,000 lower than the nearest competitor. The people who pay the cost will save that sum. But so serious was this situation that even after the company showed financial ability to the extent of twenty-five millions of dollars, made known the fact that the Rockefeller millions were interested in the company, the board delayed until the members could consult the mayor. True, its own engineer rather tardily said that the bid was all right and the company able to perform its terms. But saving the people $140,000 is too serious a thing to be done hastily and the company had to hire an attorney to force actiop. The people who pay for the cost of public improvements may be interested in a condition where it is possible for an outside contractor to bid $140,000 less than concerns which have hitherto obtained most of such work. The people should be interested in knowing why the estimate of cost fixed by the local officials is so much higher than responsible contractors are willing to take for the work and still make a satisfactory profit. The people, and especially those who will be called upon to pay for public improvements, ought to be interested in this incident of public affairs and business administration. The facts are simple. The engineer made an estimate of cost approved by the board. When bids were opened contractors who are familiar with local political conditions asked for practically the estimated price. An outside concern, whose organization <yntains expert engineers and estimators, saw a profit in a figure $140,000 below the estimate. And the board of public works bad to get the permission of the mayor before permitting this sum to be saved. Just another reason why the Supreme Court should be asked to quickly decide whether the law which permits the present system to last two more years is really valid. Such business administration really needed a special legislative act to protect it from public wrath. A Courageous Governor Governor Puller has taken another proper step in the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Yesterday he granted a stay of execution of thirty days, putting off for that long the death penalty decreed by Judge Thayer. The men had been under'sentence to die during the week of July 10. The country must commend the courage of this executive who has refused to shut his eyes to the glaring weaknesses of the Massachusetts judicial system. The case of these two men, held to be murderers by one section of the State and held to be martyrs by an equally large section, is too important, nationally and internationally, to permit hiding behind technicalities of the State law. A lesser man than the Governor might have been content to take the latter course, however, rather than to make a painstaking investigation of his own, as the Governor is cooing. I Placing college studies on a sport basis would help S youth, says an expert. Yes, but when professors become “coaches” you’ll have to pky them something.

Th'e Two Flights As this is written two outstanding events are taking place in the aviation world. One is the dramatic flight to Hawaii. The other is the cross-country flight of thirteen planes in the Ford reliability tour. The second of these, while less spectacular, is of the more immediate importance to the ordinary citizen. . The Pacific flight, like the Lindbergh and Chamberlin flights, is a splendid demonstration of courage and skill. But, except as it challenges his imagination and attracts his attention to aviation, its relation to the average man is remote. To scientists interested in development of airplane types and aerial navigation instruments, it is of value, but it will be years, possibly decades, before ocean flights become general, and then the planes will be costly air liners, piloted by crews with special training. The reliability tour, however, shows what a lot of us could be doing tomorrow, if we wished, and will most certainly be doing in a year or two. These plana' are of the type that private individuals could buy and maintain for convenience or treasure. Their makers are building them, or hope to build them, for sale to private individuals. This is not a dream. Aviation has been hampered by its own glamour. The average man regards flying as a foolhardy spectacle in which supermen with more nerve than sense do acrobatics or walk the wings at county fairs. He remembers the rigorous tests the Army gives aspiring aviators. He remembers paying $lO for a tenminute hop and believes it too expensive. But the plane that took Lindbergh to Paris used only ten gallons of gas an hour. In that hour it traveled 120 miles. Does your automobile get more than twelve miles to the gallon? The average man does not hear of the hundreds who are flying pleasant or useful miles with the same unconcern with which he drives his automobile. Through the reliability tours he will hear more of these. He will see modern planes with inclosed cockpits, comfortable cabins, and he will learn that straight flying is a sane and pleasant mode of travel. The Army demands much of its fliers in the way of battle maneuvers and formation flying. It also demands much of its cavalrymen. But a man need not be a cavalryman to enjoy a canter in the park and Army flying bears about the same relation to private flying that cavalry tactics bear to the morning gallop. The fact that you or your neighbor could not drive a racing car on a speedway does not mean you can not take your family safely for a ride on the public highway. The fact that you are not a stunt flyer does not mean you could not take this same family for a ride at a cooling altitude away from dust and traffic aggravations. The public is beginning to learn this and the reliability tours are constantly developing types of planes with which this can be done with increasing safety and economy. Public interest is centering more and more on aviation. This makes aviation accidents “better news,” but an analysis of these show they occur under conditions which the ordinary man, flying his own plane for pleasure, would not encounter. Experienced flyers are killed flying in bad weather or testing new types ot planes or motors. Novices are killed doing things they have no Business to do. By the same token grade crossings take a heavy toll every year. There are few reasons why any man who can drive an automobile in traffic can not safely attempt straight flying or land his plane on an ordinary landing field. The planes in the Ford reliability tour are the sort he will be using when he wisely decides to trust his safety to his own hands in the open air rather than risk being rammed by a fool at a blind corner. The progressive man will watch this reliability test flight. Who remembers way back when Chiang and Chang were having a war in China and took most of the first page? George Bernard Shaw has looked up English dialects and says there are 42,767,500 of them. He ought to come over and hear ours! The President used worms on his hook and brought in some nice trout (plural). Mr. Coolidge, there goes your fly-flsherman vote all to pieces! A Dutch professor has set the limit on world population at eight billions. Guess some of us will have to take the air then. Maybe Cal will bag a bobcat or two in the mountains, but if he can bring a G. O. P. maverick in for breakfast that will be real game. We wonder if that crime conference in the east the other day got down to brass knucks. Science has gone far, but the stairs creak under the softest pressure at 2:30 a. m. ,

Law and Justice by Dexter M. Keezer

An employe of a canning company who had previously lost the use of one eye lost the use of the other as a result of an accident in the plant where he was working. He claimed an award for total and permanent disability under a workmen’s compensation statute which provided that such an award should be made if there was “total disability arising out of the injury.” His claim was opposed on tht ground that he should receive an award only for the loss of one eye because his total disability was not due to injury resulting from the accident in the canning plant, but in part to the earlier injury. The employe contended that he had been able to carry on his work at the canning factory satisfactorily with the use of only one eye, and that the loss of that eye totally disabled him. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: A United States Circuit Court of Appeals held that the man was entitled to an award for total and permanent disability on the ground that his sight, adequate for his the canning plant, was totally destroyed by t^Hfejrat.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. TRACY SAYS: The City Without Airports 50 Years Hence Will Be in Just as Bad Shape as the City Without Railroads Is Today.

With Maitland and Hegenberger safe in Hawaii and with Byrd on his way to Europe, aviation once more claims the first page. It is surprising how interested we have suddenly become in this 24-year-old art. One would think that flying machines had made their appearance only yesterday, or the day before, the way they are absorbing public attention. It has taken the world a long time to get worked up over the possibilities of flying, but it is doing a splendid Job now that it has started. Doubting Thomases Doubting Thomases continue to warn us not to regard these transoceanic flights as anything but stunts* that the elaborate preparations necessary to undertake them, the tiresome delays on account of unfavorable weather conditions and the many accidents that have occurred only prove their impracticability. Doubting Thomases regarded the first trans-Atlantic voyage of a steamship in the way and it was nearly twenty years afterward before regular sailings were established. It takes time to adapt any invention to everyday needs, but if it can be made to do a certain thing once more than half the battle has been won. Asa German manufacturer points out, airplanes will have to be greatly improved before they can be employed successfully in trans-oceanic service, but enough has been done to show that the necessary improvements are within reach. The next generation is going to fly from this country to Europe; from the Pacific coast to Asia and from South America to Africa with just as much corfplacency as this generation takes a ship. The city without airports fifty years hence will be in just as bad a shape as the city wtihout railroads is today. We are not going to give up railroads or abandon steamships, but merely add a third kind of transportation. Borodin Knows China Borodin says that communism is impossible in China, and he ought to know if anyone does. Certainly no one has tried so hard to plant It there or started out with what seemed to be such good chances of success. Because of the attitude adopted by the rest of the world, Borodin was able to represent Russia as about the only nation on which the Cantonese could rely for support. He was able to furnish their, arms when they could hardly buy arms from anyone else. He was able to tell them the communist regime sympathized with their cause, while other powers looked upon it with indifference, if not disapproval. Stifling Criticism President Ibanez of Chile has informed certain Congressmen and editors that heroes not like what they say and that they must leave the country. This method of stifling criticism seems to be growing popular. Mussolini makes use of it; Pilsudski makes use of it, and even the Bolshevists make use of it. It interferes with the much lauded right of free speech, naturally, but that does not seem to bother any one. Indeed the amazing part of the situation is that while people are ready to consider substituting one dictator for another, they seldom voice the idea of substituting democracy for dictatorship. This is a curious thing, considering how recently the world was saved for democracy. Machine-Made Food A Belgian announces that he has discovered how to make ine without grapes or fruit juices. His method consists in the use of microbes and his secret is the substance on which they feed. He does not claim the discovery for himself, but says it came to him from a Belgian priest, now dead. He says that he can produce any kind of wine from water and sugar with the help of microbes. He says that the cost will be so reduced as to run the vineyards of the world. Extravagant as such a claim may seem, it is in line with the theory held by many scientists that animals and plants are mere laboratories and that we will one day be able to produce the foods and drinks for which we now depend on them by chemical processes. Henry Ford' believes that ultimately we will be able to get milk without cows and nitrogen without eating beefsteak. It is fascinating to visualize a world bereft of plants and animals, in which coldblooded machinery grinds out the substances that are necessary to sustain life, but it leaves a drab picture. Where was the first electric railroad built in the United States? The first attempt to build an electric railway of which there is any record was made by Thomas Davenport, blacksmith and wheelwright of Brandon, Vt., in 1853. It was not until 1879, however, that hat may be called the first working electric railway was constructed. This was an exhibition line 1,000 feet long, built at the Berlin International Exposition by Siemens and Halske. Are “dendrolites” petrified wood? They are petrified fragmentr of plants that are commonly found hi coal measures. ~ • j- • - * /

The June Bridegroom Returns to Work

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Ted Lewis, Who Plays Blues Until You Are Happy, Is Not Worried Over the Future of Jazz Music

“Are you happy?” That question has made Ted Lewis famous and also happy. Lewis is one jazz band leader, who is not worried over the future of jazz music. He comes to the Circle. Sunday. “I am one of those jazz musicians, who haven’t worried about the future of jazz,” Lewis states. “I do not mean to say that I do not take jazz seriously. “I take it so seriously that I dread the thought of its being sublimated so that it will take on the semblance of classical music. “Yet there is a group of musical academicians, who insist that jazz is only in its infancy and that from its present native form there will develop a higher, nobler rjpd less understandable type of mus.r. This group rises in arms every time someone attacks jazz and immediately answer that jazz is great music. “I. too, believe that jazz is great music—for dancing and entertainment purposes only. The fact that jazz means infinite happiness to a none too happy world seems sufficient justification for it. Naturally every one doesn’t like jazz, particularly a small group of classicists, who analyze it in relation to compositions of the masters. “Now I no more believe that jazz should be compared to classical music than cartoons should be to great paintings. Both serve an entirely different purpose, just as jazz serves a different purpose than does classical music. It now happens that the present popular music is much better than the ragtime of bygone days. Jazz has merly livened this music and added to it anew method of syncopation. “The development of jazz and its future should be circumscribed to this form. As soon as serious thinkers get into the jazz field they treat the simple jazz forms with grandiose ideas which invariably result in a half-classical and half-jazz composition. We then have lost the popular light effect of jazz and have ruined the conventional beauties of the classical manner. “These experiments proved to me that jazzists should remain in their own field and classicists in theirs. We need two forms of music. I certainly believe in encouraging serious and classical composition. My primary interest, naturally, is in jazz. “As one of its first exponents, having introduced it to Broadway in 1917, I seriously object to all efforts to make great music out of it. To my mind it just can’t be done. You can’t blow hot and cold at the same time,” Lewis states. NEW SHOW AT THE PALACE FRIDAY Enjoying a nation-wide reputation, because of their programs broadcast from the Chicago Tribune station WGN the Blue Slickers, a

Brain Teasers

If you are a close student of animal life, you will have no trouble answering the first five of today’s questions, prepared by the American Nature Association. Answers to all the questions will be found on page 16. 1. What member of the animal kingdom never moves about, has no eyes, legs, nose, or sense organs? 2. What makes chameleons change their color? 3. What animal stands up and sits down at the same time? 4. What two animals will eat bees? 5. When skunks battle each other, do they resort to gas attacks? 6. What is the zloty? 7. Name four countries of Europe that have dictators. 8. How many republics are there in Europe? 9. What submarine sank off Block Island, R. I.? 10. What famous pianl; t was once premier of his native country? 11. How many miles otf brick streets in the city? 12. Hoyr many miles oj.' wood block streets^j^^anapolii?

Ted Lewis Again you soon will hear Ted Lewis ask, “Are You Happy?” Lewis brings his orchestra to the Circle Sunday for all next week.

musical aggregation now playing vaudeville, open their engagement at the Palace Theater the last half of this week. In this company are

TT'S playtime now at the Golfmore. ' ■■iff:'. JL Cries of “Fore” ring out on the spacious fairways of a 27-hole course that will rouse |y&':'' ‘ y I blood of every golfer. A fraJ&J' !;1 X g rOU P restive thoroughbreds trot with dignity on the bridle path. A merry party, basking on the beach, venture again and again into the clear, cool waters of Lake J, „ .. v ... Michigan. The merry strains of a superb dance or* chestra fill the vast dining room and out4, door terrace with dancers. ray Playtime at the Golfmore—playtime -.a l§|iL - for you! We cater to gentiles exclu- (., sively. Come now—by motor over ' Dunes Highway M -11—by rail on the Michigan Central Railroad to Grand • a ; * Beach, 5 miles North of Michigan City $7 per day and up—youl Sailroad With Meals. AffmaoMl Round Manager, Golfmore ' e*""* i | J ' Hotel, Grand Beach,

Marie White, singer and dancer; Jack Howe, called the king of the kazoos; Joe Crane, violinist; Fonce Valentine and Roy Cameron, banjoists, who play many syncopated melodies. They also include a Black Bottom finale in the production. From a company of “The Student Prince,” come the Hi-Lo Five, who present a melange of music and songs. Four men sing close harmony selections and give among their numbers a medley of songs intended to stir the memory in which old favorites are included. In this company is Juanita Thomas, who won the title of the prettiest Rirl in lowa. Two more women who do not believe in the phrase “gentlemen prefer blondes" are Mae and Helen Murray, sister singers of syncopation. These girls are blues and jazz songsters. Two more acts are on the bill. The feature photoplay is “Ankles Preferred,” with Madge Bellamy and Lawrence Gray. The plot concerns a girl who is especially attractive to men because of her pretty ankles. How she tries to win her way bybrains instead of ankles is shown. Pathe News, a comedy and topics of the day are the reels. Other theaters today offer: Modena’s Fantastic Revue at the Lyric; ‘Smilin’ Through” at English's, “Icebound” at Keith’s. “The Unknown” at the Apollo, “Rolled Stockings” at the Ohio; “See You In Jail” at the Indiana. Vincent Lopez at the Circle and anew movie bill at the Isis.

JUNE 30, 1927

By Charles Fitzhugh Talman Authority on Meteorology

Why the Weather?

WINDS AND WEATHER FOR PACIFIC FLIGHT Discussions of the flights recently accomplished or projected across the North Atlantic Ocean have rendered newspaper readers familiar with the “prevailing westerly winds” of middle latitudes, which make it easier to fly eastward than westward between the United States and Europe. Doubtless many people have an impression that these same winds are an adverse factor in a flight between San Francisco and the Hawaiian Islands. What are the facts? The winds over the northern part of the North Atlantic, though prevailingly westerly, often blow from other directions. The general drift of the atmosphere in this region 13 likely to be interrupted at any season by the passage of cyclonic disturbances, attended by winds that “box: the compass.” An aviator flying from San Francisco to Honolulu traverses a region In which the are far more dependable, especially in summer. Winds between north and northwest are likely to be encountered at the beginning of the flight, and there is but the barest chance of head winds. Five or six hundred miles from the California coast the flier enters the trade wind belt. Thence- . forth he should have plain sailing. ■ with brisk winds blowing approxi-1 mately toward his goal. Fog is notoriously prevalent the California coast in summer. does not generally extend more than 50 miles to the westward, and its vertical thickness rarolv exceeds 2.000 feet. Visibility is likely to be good over the rest of the route. . (All rights reserved t>v Science Service, ine.V

Mr. Fixit Quick Action for Bell St. Looming

An appeal for assistance in the move to pave Bell St. was received today by Mr. Fixit: Dear Mr. Fixit: Last February the board of works passed a resolution for the improvement of Bell St. Nothing has been done yet and we are wondering if they intend doing it this year, a/J if not, why not? We will appreciate anything you can do for us. RESIDENT PROPERTY OWNER. Bids for the improvement of Bell between Sturm and Michigan St. were received June 20. If the resolution follows the regular form the contract should be let soon. Dear Mr. Fixit: What steps are necessary to obtain a street improvement? Oyr street is in bad condition and we want something, done. WEST SIDE You should present, a bearing majority of resident prop-M erty owners’ signatures, to th*l board of works. 1 What destroyed the British steamer “Alum Chive?” Explosion of a cargo of dynamite at Baltimore, Maryland, March 7, 1913. How should a formal dinner be served? The directions are too long for publication in this column, but are contained in the bulletin on Etiquette for Dinners published by our Washington Bureau, and obtainable for 5 cents in stamps or coin. W’ere Leonard W’ood and Fred- I erick Funston graduates of West | Point Military Academy? NO. .