Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 86, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1927 — Page 4

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The Pacific Flight "Any news of Mildred Doran?” A hundred times the telephone had rung and a Hundredth time a voice had asked the question. For while Honolulu lavishing- well-earned honors upon the two winning teams in the non-stop flights from California to the Hawaiian Islands, the world’s real Interest centered on the fate of “the flying school teacher,” passenger In one of the two lost planes—her and her partners in this amazing adventure. Here was something new. For the first time in history a woman had attempted to cross the ocean in an airplane. Four planes had started. Only two had arrived. The other two, it seemed, were lost somewhere out in the boundless Pacific wastes. Here was a story with every element of a best seller or a movie scenario, thrilling even to a thrill-jaded world. A beautiful girl. A trans-Paciflc air race. Lost at sea. How or where or when nobody could say. Perhaps on a tiny raft—an infinitessimal speck on a mighty ocean, rising and falling upon the lazy swells of a tropical, shark-infested sea. Mystery. Drama. Maybe tragedy. It was a real life story as compelling as anything you can buy at book store or see on the silver screen. Meantime people are asking themselves whether the game is worth the candle. Three people killed in this one race before the getaway and for a time it seems that five more lives would have t'.i be added to the toll. Fives lives lost to make one race for prizes totaling $35,0000. Is that not too much to pay? It would be had that been all there was to it. But that was not all. It is said that $300,000 was spent by the contestants getting ready for the race, or an average of $30,000 by each. And the first prize was only $25,000, the second SIO,OOO. Little chance for easy money there. No, those who set out from the Oakland airport to make Hawaii by plane were spurred on by a finer urge than that. They had the urge that has spurred men and women on to do great things since the beginning oi all time, to adventure grandly at whatever cost to life, at any price to carry civilization’s mark a little further along. When this human urge is dead, when the necessary valor to dare anything, even the impossible, is no longer in us, progress will stop and mankind will begin to backtrack. We are what we are because this urge is in us. The Rest of the World And Us The politician who wants Uncle Sam to crawl Into an isolated hole and pull the hole in after him —the kind who thinks that Americans shoild go their way and let the rest of the world stew in its own Juice —seems to be losing ground. Time and events are wiping out all his arguments as inexorably as the incoming tide might frustrate) an old woman’s efforts to sweep it back with a broom. • • • • Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover’s report shows us our foreign trade last year amounted to nearly slo,ooo,ooo,ooo—ten thousand million dollars—a figure our minds simply can’t grasp. Wipe out that trade and you’d Just about wipe out our country. Furthermore, we are old, Amerloans invested $1,322,000,000 new money in foreign countries last year. That’s an average of sl2 apiece for every one of us, not forgetting even the babies. , Including the war debts, foreigners now owe us In excess of $25,000,000,000, or $225 for each man, woman and child In the country—sl,loo for every head of a family. Each American family, therefore, has more than a thousand-dollar Interest In foreign countries, representing money already actually Invested. And every year we are increasing the amount by more than $1,000,000,000, or between $45 and SSO per family. Our Interest in foreign countries does not stop there, however. Hundreds of thousands of Americans visit other lands annually, not counting Canada and Mexico, spending some $761,000,000 a year while doing so. It’s a great education. “The Nation,” says Mr. Hoover’s report, "seems to have done more traveling and more lending than ever before.” Os course. The World is growing smaller every day. And we are only at the dawn of rapid transit. People now living will think nothing of breakfasting In New York and dining in London. Less and less can we afford to ignore what happens in France or China or Russia or Japan or Britain or the Antipodes, for event there can not fail to have their effect on us here In due proportion. War, famine, pestilence, good times or ba k . whatever happens to our neighbors must react moto or less upon us. Like a group of mountain climbers, all tied together by the same rope, when one moves up ft bit, he helps the rest a little; and when’one Stumbles or falls, all are placed in peril. Just now there is considerable talk about the needs of our national defense, particularly the naval branch of the service. There is much closer connection between this subject and Mr. Hoover’s report than one might think. Wars wipe out debts. And wars kill trade or shift trade centers frorh one country to another. Suppose our diplomacy should allow the present anti-American waves to go on rolling up until one day there should be a great, and perhaps world-wide, coalition •gainst us? Defeat in such a conflict would inevitably spell our ruin, if not our end. The salvation of our country as a great and prosperous Nation lies in the cultivation of the closest possible understanding with the other peoples of the world as a first aid to world peace. And, secondly, In an adequate national defense, including a merchant marine. To become weak would be to invite stronger powers to yield to a colossal temptation to vdpe their debt slates clean by defeating us in war. Noblesse oblige, the adage says. Citizens of. a stupendously rich country, we can not avoid certain stupendous obligations. Llquo. cannot be abolished, says King George’s physician. And here we hadn’t even heard he was in America! In the life of the usual bandit, it is a short stretch from the pay roll to the parole.

J. Ogden Armour Giant-like in. the twilight of the nations as the World War ended loomed the figure of J. Ogden Armour. His stock yards encircled a hemisphere, and the stamp of cattle through his pens was a never-ending sound. His grain elevators were landmarks through the prairies. All the West was his counting room. His banks groaned with the load of his gold. And the future seemed even brighter for him than the past, for Europe was hungry and he possessed, more than any other man on eath, the commodities most needed, meat and wheat. Today Armour lies dead in London and, except for several millions given in trust to his wife and daughter years ago, his vast fortune has vanished. He died Tuesday, but his world came to an end in 1921 when markets for meat and wheat collapsed, sweeping $100,000,000 to $150,000,000 from his hands in four months’ time. Government records tell the story in cold figures. During the war the United States food administration kept the average price of hogs stabilized around $17.50 per 100 pounds. In March, 1919, when all restrictions were removed, speculation began and by July, 1919, a peak was reached of $2340. By end of .the year the price had slumped to sl3. During the first half of 1920 there was a rally, the price hanging around sls. By Jhe end of 1920 the price had fallen to $9. Beef sold at $19.35 per 100 pounds in January, 1920 . By the first week In April the price had slumped to $13.63. Wheat sold at $2.96 a bushel in May, 1920. By November, 1921, the price had slumped to SI.OB. Corn sold for $1.97 a bushel In May, 1920, and for 46 cents a bushel in October, 1921. Armour found his world crashing about him. He tvas heavily interested in the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad. The common stock sold for $92 In 1917 and for $11.25 In 1923. He backed the Sutter basin irrigation project in California, guaranteeing $18,000,000 worth of its bonds. The project was caught in the general agricultural slump. Edward N. Wentworth, official of the present Armour & Cos., gives the following explanation of the crash: "During the war the packing industry felt itself strong enough to bear Its own burdens, without government aid. Had the industry been financed by government, as many other industries were, Mr. Armour would probably have been able to survive the deflation period.” Around the Chicago Board of Trade it has long been rumored, however, that the crash was caused primarily by Armour’s grain speculations. According to this theory, he used solvent packing interests in a vain attempt to save a sinking ship. The truth will probably never be known until some biographer gains access to the private papers of the Armour family. Witch-Burners Os none of her sons has New England been prouder than of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Yet here Is Hawthorne’s view of the state of mind in which New England seems to be proceeding in the Sacco-Van-zetti case: “He was one of the martyrs to that terrible delusion, which should teach us, among its other morals, that the influential classes, and those who taka it upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob. Clergymen, judges, statesmen—wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day—stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the work of blood, latest to confess themselves miserably deceived.” The “martyr” about whom Hawthorne was writing, of course, was not Sacco nor Vanzetti. He was describing the states of mind in which one Matthew Maule was executed earlier in New England’s history, on the charge of witchcraft. Nine young Americans have proposed to Princess Ueana of Rumania and been turned down, but Princess Alexandra Kropotkin declares it has been her life’s ambition to marry an American. Royalty doesn’t seem to be very consistent. The biggest trout ever caught in Connecticut had a waist measure of only twenty-nlns inches. Heavyweights seeking to reduce may wonder Just what these trout eat. Here’s’ one kind of competition that ought to be safe from feminine intrusion: A Connecticut student says he’s the world's champion at holding his breath. New York safety campaigners are jubilant. In the first six months of 1927 only 514 persons were killed by motor cars. Just the same, it was a bumper crop. Another actress reports the theft of valuable pearls. They were worth half a column In all the New York papers. The old-fashioned tom-boy who used to do everything the boys did is now replaced by the flapper who does things no boy would think of doing. The greatest diversification noted on most farms Is in the makes of automobiles. A married man remembers when he used to envy married men.

Law and Justice / By Dexter M. geezer

A man, claiming that he had been addressed in abusive terms, hit another man with lead pipe and fractured his skull. He was convicted of assault and battery and ordered to jail. He appealed the case on the ground that the assault was Justified because the other man had called him vile names and abused him generally. The prosecuting attorney argued that the conviction of the man should stand because the use of abusive language was not a valid ground for assault and battery. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The Supreme Court of Indiana held that the man was convicted properly of assault and battery. The court said, “Abusive language will not of itself, in the absence of a statute, justify assault and battery.” The reason for this ruling, according to the court, is that peace and go*>d order forbid that people light their own wrongs in their own way.

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: M. E. TRACY SAYS: Thousands of Young Men Are Burning With the Desire to Fly and Thousands of Older Ones Are in a Mood to Gamble.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 19.—James Dole of Honolulu, whose, offer of $35,000 in prizes was responsible for the recent Hawaiian flight, and who now offers a reward of $20,000 tor the rescue of the four missing men and one woman, is himself an example of pluck and perseverance. On graduating from Harvard twenty-seven years ago, he left a delightful home, a good social position and what would seem alluring prospects to the average young man, to start a pineapple plantation in Hawaii. It was a big gamble, and the fact that he has made good shows the kind of stuff that was in him. Goebel's Example Arthur Goebel, who won first prize, is 'ven a more striking example. He not only risked his life, but sold about everything he had and borrowed all he could beforehand. He had faith not only in the machine he was to fly. but in himself. Such men often lose, But the other kind never win. Searching Pacific A minor monotone of defeat and disappointment soften the raucods music of triumph. The Pacific is a big, big, sea and five human beings make but little show in it. Besides, hunger and wind are riding the waves. The ships and planes that are scouring the endless Waste of water have more of a problem than merely to find something. Their race is with death, who only needs a few days to complete his work. Aviation in Spotlight Aviation certainly has held the spotlight this summer, with its achievements and disasters. One day it has lifted us to un-heard-of heights and admiration with its expoits, while the next it has sunk us in the depths of depression with its failures. The triumph of some and the unknown fate of others have kept the public on needles and pins, and much of the equally constructive if less spectacular work has gone unnoticed. New Yoikto Frisco Last November the American Railway Express Company inaugurated airplane service between New York and Chicago, and Chicago and Dallas. Some time in September it plans to Inaugurate similar service between New York and San Francisco. The flying time between the two latter points will be thirty-one hours. From seventy-five to 100 planes will be employed in the service. Like Race Tracks Trans-oceanlc flights are den; for the airplane what race tracks once did for the automobile. They are acquainting the public with its powejrs and possibilities. Its value, however, consists of the service it can be made to render in a steady-going routine way. The next thing to look out for is the fly-by-night corporation and the fake stock salesman. Whether through the wilderness or in the field of science the speculator and bunk artist follow the pioneer as naturally as night follows day. Fly and Gamble Lindbergh, Chamberlin and the rest have done nothing so distinctly as to pursuade the public that aviation offers good opportunities for venture and investment. Thousands of young men are burning with the desire to fly, and thousands of older ones are in a mood to gamble. If the stage has been set for honest promotion, it also has been set for crooks. Unless all signs fail, many of those who allow their imagination to run away with their intelligence are due to be trimmed. Big Boys' Game So far as stunts are concerned, aviation is all right for small fry that have the courage and can get the cash. ’ Asa factor of commerce, it Is a game for big boys, requiring organization, equipment and accessories on a big scale. Only those who can risk millions and wait a long while for returns without suffering are in a position to play it. If, and when, the smooth salesman approaches you with rtock at $lO a share, “which is sure to double before you have paid the second installment,” and “which will do for you what Bell Telephone stock did for so-and-so two generations ago,” just tell him to see Ford, Rockefeller or Du Pont. Our New Aristocracy Ford, Rockefeller and Du Pont, together with a dozen or so others of their kind, remind us that anew force has come to shape society. In former ages, birth, war and religion produced aristocracy. Today industry is producing It, though against a republican background. In the mid-Victorian period, when there was no trust company and no Arm of lawyers with forty clerks to husband fortunes of children and grandchildren, we could depend on the theory that It was only three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves. a sound financial system, however, aided and abetted by mobilized legal talent, is causing our industrial wealth to pool, coagulate and crystallize in a social, if not an economic reign of “first families.”

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Staff of the John Herron Art Institute Makes Plans for Fall Study and Exhibitions in City

The Art Association owns over 500 textiles. Although some of them are very small in size compared with the pieces of the largest museums of the country, the examples give the visitor an idea of the design, weaving or embroidery of many countries and different periods. About forty of the smaller mounted textiles have been installed in Gallery I. To many people the Coptic fragments are the most novel. Eight new frgaments have been added to this group, seven of them purchased from the Julius F. Pratt fund, and one, a third century strip, is the gift of Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan. The Copts were famous weavers in the first centuries of the Christian era, and although these early Christians in Egypt were conquered by the Mohammedans in the seventh century, their conquerors copied their methods of working and many of their patterns. Much early ornament in Europe was influenced by them as their own patterns had been influenced by the ancient Egyptians, the Greekt and the Romans. The three bands in which animal and bird motives ure woven show the Rpman influence. Some of the pieces are lmei. thread and some of them are voo:. They are, if course, product of the hand loom and in tapestry weave. That is, the weft thread passes the warp only as far as its color is to show on the right side of the material, and the wefts are pressed so closely together as to completely cover the warp; thus the cloth is exactly alike on both sides. The Gobelin, Beauvais and Aubisson tapestries were woven on the same principle, and it is interesting to compare the four fragments of ancient Peruvian weaving to be seen in another frame. The fragments of Peruvian tapestry were loaned* us long ago by William B. Poland. They are of Vicuna and Alpaca wool. One of them Is a border with yellow raveled fringe and tasssl and conventionalized human figures woven in shades of tan on a red ground. It is a part of a girdle supposed to have been worn by a prominent citizen of the Negka Valley in preInca days, which would antedate the Coptic productions by several hundreds of years, and the other is part of a robe In tan, red and black geometrical patterns much earlier than the other, taken from a mummy’s robe at Lima., The Persians also were a people whose pi H ems have passed down the ages and followed civilization by paths in many directions. We have large pieces in our textile cases, but the smaller samples exhibited show the wealth of fancy of that gifted people. Some of their ideas wsre, of course, inherited frem their ancient ancestors, but they literally "flowered out” in the middle ages. One of those shown is a charming

Brain Teasers

With several mergers of the country’s largest corporations rumored, test your knowledge on big business by the first five of today’s questions. Answers are on page 8: 1. What three manufacturing corporations are • reported to be considering a merger of interests through Pierre S. Du Pont? 2. What products were originally the chief interests of the Du Pont de Nemours company? 3. Who was the late head of the United States Steel Corporation? 4. What ‘mid-western city was built as a production center for United States steel? 5. In the forming of what big corporation did the Durant interests play a prominent part? 6. What is the shortest distance across the United States, from Atlantic to Pacific oceans? 7. What is ethnology? 8. What are the' two common names for the game bird known as the ruffed grouse? 9. How many stars are there in the insignia of a major general? 10. In which of the American colonies did the French Huguenots chiefly settle? *-

That Ought to Wake Him Up

piece of Zilahm, a kind of embroidery very closely resembling the “petit point” of France and entirely covering the linen foundation. It is in thickly flowered diagonal stripes in many colors on a cream ground embroidered ih very fine close stitches. Another in darker coloring and in slightly coarser stitches, also in flowered stripes, but of rich blues, reds and tans. Besides those described there are forty mounts in the frames of many pieces of textiles from many countries, kincobs in gold and colors and bloc.c printed linens from India, Turkish velvet and gold embroidery, Balkan colored embroideries and European brocades, damasks and needlework. All of these will be a help to teachers and pupils of design. The museum is glad to take other groups of textiles lrom the storage and arrange them for visiting classes who wish to study or copy the designs, if the curator is notified in advance. Not only objects in this department, but anything that will be of use to classes in history and geography, as well as art classes, can be put on display for the use of visiting students. The museum staff is busy making plans for the winter season. Im-

Questions and Answers

Who is the author of the book, “Nigger Heaven?” Carl Van Vetchen. In what season of the year are the exports of the United States heaviest? During the fall and early winter months. Have the number of telephones on farms of the United States increased, to any great extent during the last five years? At the beginning of the present year there were approximately 2,800,000 telephones on farms in the United States, or about forty-

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portant loan exhibitions have already beep engaged for six months ahead and rearrangements of museum material made. Dates have been arranged for the circuiting of the exhibition of work of Indiana artists that was shown in six towns and cities to the north of Indianapolis in the spring, for the exhibition of students work circuiated by the art school, and arrangements are being made for exhibiting pictures from the museum collection and work of the art students at the State Fair. The art school will open for registration on Sept. 7, and class work begins on Sept. 13. A staff of fifteen instructors is- engaged, and all are returning from ,heir vacations with enthusiasm for the enlargment of the school interests. The staffs of both museum and school are looking forward to yet closer cooperation. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “Revue D’Art” at the Lyric; “The Wolf” at Keith’s; "Pollyanna” at English’s T\ “The Covered Wagon” at the Ohio; “Twelve Miles Out” at the Apollo; “The Callahans and Murphys” at the Indiana; “Paid to Love” at the Circle and “Birds of Prey” at the Isis.

four farms out of every hundred equipped with telephone service. The census of 1920 shows 2,498,493 farms reporting telephones or a ratio of 38.7 out of every 100 farms in the United States. Between 1920 and 1925 the number of farms in the United States has actually decreased approximately 76,000 while from 1920 to 1925 the number of telephones on farms increased about 300,000. How many men were in the active service of Canada overseas during the WorlS War? About 418,000 officers and men.

'AUG. 19, 1927

miy the Weather?

By Charm Pltzhugb Talmftn Authority Oft Meteo-ology

MEASURING HOT WEATHER A standing grievance that the average citizen has against the weather man Is that the latter insists on measuring temperature in the shade when everybody wants to know how hot the weather is in the sunshine. Two misunderstandings are involved here. In tiie first place when a layman talks about the heat of the “weather” he generally has in mind the sensation of temperature experienced by human beings. So far as controlled by meteoroligical conditions, this depends upon three or four different things: the temperature of the air, the humidity of the air, the amount of air movement, and, if the sun is shining, the intensity of the sunshine. The meteorologist does not attempt to measure this combination of things with his thermometer, but only one of them—the temperature of the air. This is measured with a thermometer exposed freely to the air but carefully sheltered from the rays of the sun and from reflected heat. Its reading shows the temperature of the shaded air adjacent to it, and this differs little, if at all. from the temperature of the air in full sunshine. A thermometer exposed to sunshine, unless strongly ventilated, by whirling or otherwise, shows nothing but the perature acquired by the instrument itself, which gets much hotter under the sun’s rays than the ( air does. It may read as much as 50 degrees Fahrenheit above the true temperature of the air!

Times Readers Voice Views

To the Editor: This proposed tax increase has me worried. I cannot understand why it is that some-few people set a rate and all the rest have to abMe by it. Evidently the citizen group as a whole have nothing whatever to say about it. It is queer that it takes higher taxes in this State than in a large quantity of others. It certainly is a discouraging situation to a young fellow who is trying to buy a home in this town, and to get a start in life, to be eaten up with such unreasonable taxes to pay. In a few years, if they keep up the present pace, it will be $1 tax for every $1 a person possesses. I think a move should be on foot to install competent men at the head of our affairs and to reduce taxes every possible penny, ind to encourage young people to buy property arid own taxable things without being robbed twice a year in paying unjust taxes. A I am willing to do anything in my power to bring about better living conditions and lower taxes in Indianapolis. If I were not buying property here now I certainly would never buy in this city of graft. Let’s get together and get something started that will reduce our taxes to where they should be. The papers were full of bunk about lower taxes, but, if I rememyear for the past four or five years, ber right, they have increased every and now the talk of almost doubling them. Let’s do something. Yours truly, P. L. K.

Do You Know — That the Boy Scouts, a Community Fund agency, believes that the ounce of prevention is well worth the pound of cure and is bending its energies toward developing its 2,805 boy members into dependable, conscientious and resourceful young men who will never need charity?