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CHURCH FACES WARFORUTC Challenge Is Most Sweeping Since Struggle Against Pagans in Rome. FAITH OF MANY REELS Soviet Batters at Bulwark of Religion; Aims for Land Without God. EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a *eries, written especially for The Times and NEA Service by Jerome Davis, a member of the faculty of the Yale University Divinity School, who has spent the summer investigating conditions in Russia. BY JEROME DAVIS Written Especially for The Times and NEA Service Russia is a great laboratory of religious experimentation today. Hvvdreds of religious sects are competing for allegiance of the people and all have to go up against the Lenin cult and the worship of Communism as a religion. „ Never since Christianity first was struggling with the pagan patriotic faith of Rome has it been so challenged as by Bolshevism. Never before in the history of the world has a great government controlling one-sixth of the land surface of the earth proudly proclaimed itself atheistic. Today Russia is attempting to displace religion by science. It is not only a negative but a positive attack. They would not only banish the gods from the skies, but usher in Communism on the earth. Churches Stay Open The Bolsheviks are too wise to close churches. The metropolitan bishop of Leningrad told me that no just criticism could be made against the Bolsheviks for interfering with the worship of God. Indeed, he admitted that the Bolsheviks encouraged the church to do welfare work, some times even giving it financial aid. The various Protestant missionaries accorded high praise to much of the Bolshevik policy. Under the czar they did not have the right or organization. At present they are enjoying full freedom. National religious conventions are regularly held and converts are being numbered by the thousands. There are also religious groups such as Dukhobores, the Evangelical Molokams, and the New Israels who accept Communism while retaining their faith in God.

New Laws Are Inimical The Soviet government aided these people to return from exile in Canada, the United States, and South America. Such friendship by the Soviet for religion seems strange. What have they done which might be considered hostile? They have passed new laws. The church is separated completely from the state and the school from the church. It is forbidden to teach religious doctrines in any educational Institution, public or private. The Greek Orthodox faith, the universal Russian church, has been hit badly. Some say it is dying, others that it is being revolutionized. Everyone knows it is changing. In the cities where the speculators, the new rich, and the former educated classes are beginning “to come back,” the services are crowded. In the villages there has been a notable falling off in attendance. The children as a group have deserted the religious services. The children themselves seemed to think it queer that an intelligent Individual could still believe in God. They said, “If there is a God, show him to us.” “Why do we need a God?” “We can raise wheat without Him better than with Him.” Strict orders have been given that the 86,000 teachers who are nonCommunists shall refrain from using religious propaganda in "le schools. Asa result they sometimes even fear to answer questions estly.In order to find out the government’s attitude toward religion I interviewed the Atheist. He has had a long record of revolutionary activity and now stands very close to the powerful Communist leader, Stalin. Cites Three Factors “In the first place,” he said, “all Ideas of God are pure superstittious myths without a scintilla of evidence behind them. “In the second place, religion has been a kind of political agitator, kitting on the head of everyyCjbp ’essed man with promises ptl future happiness. / “In the third place, religion is always used as to tool by autocratic power, whether czaristic or capitalistic. The priesthood and the ministers always support the dominant crowd. May Be Church Boon In this great clash between what the Bolsheviks believe is scientific truth versus “blind” belief, they are bo confident of the victory as to affirm, “There is no living God, religion is self-delusion; the truth will finally emerge in the fires of Communistic criticism.” Christians will share this optimism about the eventual triumph of truth, but to them God is truth. It is quite possible that the Boleheviks in fighting religion have done the Russian church a greater service in a decade than the czar’s autocracy did in subsidizing it for ten centuries. Under persecution hypocrisy is laid bare and sincere, devoted followers of the Christ are born; TOMORROW: What Americans are doing in Russia.

The JBest Face to Snap, Photo Men Say

A face they love to snap! That’s what photographers of the Pacific Coast have decided, after looking over 1,000 photos of western beauties, at their convention in Los Angeles. Jean Smith, of Venice, Cal., shown here, they decided, was the most photographically beautifid girl of all the contestants. So Jean is smiling her appreciation of the honor, just to show hotv she won the contest.

RADIO FIGHT OF LABORJS WON Chain of Stations Across Nations Now Planned. Bv Times Special LOS ANGELES. Oct. 12—A chain of cooperative farmer-labor owned and operated broadcasting stations across the continent is the plan of the Chicago Federation of Labor, just completing two years of its experiment with WCFL, the only labor-owned station in the world. E. N. Nockels, general manager of WCFL, is seeking to sell the radio idea to the entire American labor movement and is asking State federations to assess themselves $1 a year a member to enter the fir field on a grand scale. WCFL, now called the “voice of labor,” is about to expand and join with the lowa Farmers’ Union in the construction of a great station near Elgin. The WCFL plant on the Chicago municipal pier has cost the Chicago workers a hard fight and $200,000. Overcoming opposition from many sources, they succeeded in securing advantageous wave lengths for short, long, and ship transmission. They now are on the air with entertainment, labor news, and other matter ten hours a day and are reaching 700 American towns and cities. “At first we ran a bootleg station and pirated our wave length,” said Nockels, “It’s been a hard fight, but we’ve won.” URGES sls TAX ON BOBS Filipino Legislator ‘Overcome by Disgust’ at Fad. Bv United Press MANILA, Oct. 12.—The bill Introduced in the Philippine legislature taxing all bobbed heads sls annually has encountered vitriolic denunciation in -hair-cutting circles. Shears are being waved menacingly in the direction of Representative Azanza. Pascual Azana of Sumar Province is author of the measure. He is determined to force an expression of opinion from the Philippine legislature. Interviewed by the local press he said that he was overcome with disgust at the sight of bobbed haid. “Girls are going to far. Bobbed hajr makes them masculine, disgusting and disgraceful, morally and physically.” MONEY FLED; LOVE, TOO Peru Man Says Wife Changed When Finances Suffered. Bn Times Special PERU, Ind., Oct. 12.—When the bank roll dwindled, his wife’s love fled, according to a suit for divorce filed here by Ray S. Figert against Della V. Figert. The husband says they were married in 1908 and lived happily until 1921 when money setbacks were followed with remarks by his wife in the. presence of their friends, reflecting on his business ability. \

THRONG CHEERS DUVALL; THEN DUVALL CHEERS DUVALL; ALL CHEER'DU VALL; ’RAY!

""3 ITH the strains of “Hail, Vv Hail, the Gang’s All Here,” as played by the Police and Firemen’s band, ringing through Tomlinson Hall, Mayor John L. Duvall and his friends Tuesday night defended the city administration. It needed no defense, they declared, but between 3,500 and 4,000 persons, including city hall employes, policemen, firemen and that faction of the. horsethief detectives not led by Oren Davis, county president, who decided to keep his forces away, heard the mayor offer explanations for some of his alleged missteps. Mrs. Duvall, city controller; the mayor’s children, Margaret, 9, and John Leslie, 5, and members of

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HOOKEY’S NOT FUN +< ■■— ■— —-* Truancy Sign of Something Wrong

Kids don’t play hookey for fun! Not any more. When Willie skips school nowadays, blame it on lack of vitamins, holes in his pants or lack of a nickel to buy an eraser; for the trained truancy experts declare hookey is a symptom of “something gone wrong.” Maybe it’s because mother had to go to work when father preferred the blonde, so there’s no one at hand to see that Willie’s ears are washed and that he is sent off to school promptly.

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Possibly there is no inclination around home to coach Willie in his sums; and difficulty with the multiplication table frightens him out of the school room. But one thing’s certain: Willie doesn’t skip for the joy of it. Huck Finn simply didn’t get his milk regularly, or times have changed; one or the other. - “The idea that children play hookey for fun is largely fiction,” said Miss Bertha Leming, assistant supervisor of the social service department of the public schools. “Truancy is not a pleasure, but the result of some wrong condition.” With the disappearance of the truant as a fugitive from justice went the old-time “truant officer,” representing the “long arm of the law.” “Don’t you dare use that term in this office,” said Miss Leming, who Is one of the fifteen attractive young women, all trained social service workers, who have replaced the “truant officer.” These visitors go into the home, not to punish, but to study the conditions.and to offer some solution for problems encountered. These young women said children often were absent from school because they were placed in the wrong grade and consequently did not

do well with their lessons. Sometimes they get “cross wise” with their teachers. Many of these conditions have been remedied by these workers and the youngsters straightened out. “All little boys must have a hero,” said Mis:, Leming, “and if there is no one in the family to fill the bill, the lad sometimes selects some older boy who ‘talks big’ on the corner. If this boy had quit school and gone to work, Johnny thinks it would be great to emulate him.” Evidently, the kindly advice of a pretty young woman is a potent corrective. Johnny usually gives up his hero worship, shoulders his books, and trudges back to school. “I tell you in these days a fellow has to have an education,” was the rather surprising admission one lad made who applied to the social service department for aid. It was not so surprising, however, ta these young women. This attitude is more common among children than indifference to school, they say. Last year 3,500 cases of truancy were Investigated by the public school social service department, workers declared that not one case revealed a joyous young vagabound, but an overburdened or neglected child instead. How bravely Huckleberry bore his grief!

LOOT CACHE SAVINGS SB,OOO Withdrawn From Bank Is Stolen From Hole in Cellar. Bv United Press HICKMAN, Ky.,‘ Oct. 12.—Julius Frenz withdrew SB,OOO from the bank and hid it in a hole under his house because he was afraid of bank robbers. When Frenz went to the cellar to dig it up today he found that the entire amount, representing his life’s savings, had been stolen.

the official family and several friends were on the flag-bedecked platform. A long ovation was given Mrs. Duvall and the children. * * * rrri E are here to tell you W about the city adminisJLU some of the good things tration which apparently are impossible to get to you through the public press,” said Corporation Counsel Schuyler A. Haas, opening the meeting. Haas praised city departments and introduced Ira M. Holmes, attorney, as permanent chairman. “Ladies and gentlemen, broth-ers-in-law and precinct committeemen, you likely have seen this gavel at two political con

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WOMEN MAY RAP MAYOR Demand Ouster in Resolution to Go to Club Members. Resolution calling for the resignation of Mayor John Duvall was to be submitted for adoption of the membership of the Women’s Department Club at its meeting at the clubhouse, 1702 N. Meridian St., this afternoon. The resolution was drawn up by direction qf directors of the club in session Monday.

ventions in this hall,” said Holmes. “I am here tonight as a friend of John L. Duvall, and as far as his administration is concerned I am proud of his friendship. “I came here as a salesman. The situation is at the point where someone must raise the big stick in defense of the Republican party.” Holmes blamed Duvall’s political troubles to the fact that he refused to “let Bill Armitage rob the people.” “If Duvall had permitted Armitage to name two members of the works boaW do you think he would have gone to the grand jury?” asked Holmes. A cry of “No” went up.

FIRE SWEEPS RESORT; LOSS IS 4 urn Area Eight Blocks Square in Ocean City, N. J., Is Heap of Ruins. THREE FIREMEN HURT One Man Killed, Speeding to Home Endangered by Flames. Bv United Press OCEAN CITY, N. J., Oct. 12. An area eight blocks square was a smoldering mass of debris today, after one of the most disastrous fires in local history. Thirty buildings were razed, causing a loss of approximately $4,000,000. Among them were three big frame hotels, shops, business houses, a garage, two motion picture theaters, many board walk concessions and the Hippodrome pier. Three firemen were injured severely by glass and flame, one of them perhaps fatally. Emil Landbach of Ocean City was killed near Mays Landing, N. J., when his automobile skidded and overturned while he was on his way to the fire. He had heard that his home was in danger. The fire started at 7 p. m. and within a short time several frame buildings were ablaze. A shift in the wind at 11 p. m. helped check the blaze. Fireproof buildings along Asbury Ave., the main business section, also aided in checking the flames. At midnight fire fighters from a dozen cities who answered the call for help had the blaze tinder control. Relief measures for the scores dispossessed were under way today. The fact that many lives had not be@n lost in the fire is attributed to the fact most of the cottages, boarding houses and hotels in the path of the flames practically were deserted for the winter. The population of Ocean City has shrunk from 100,000 to but little more than its wintertime 8,000. The fire is believed to have been started by someone who threw a lighted match into a pile of rubbish under the board walk.

ALLEGED WIFE SLAYER FACING SECOND TRIAL Jury Fails to Agree on John Schmidt Case at Rockville. Bv Times Special ROCKVILLE, Ind., Oct. 12.—John Schmidt, Shepardsville, will gcTon trial for his life a second time in the Parke County Circuit Court here in November. The climax of his dirst trial, which started last week, came late Tuesday afternoon, when the jury reported inability to agree after deliberating twentyfour hours. Several months ago Schmidt’s wife, Julia, was shot dead. She had alighted from a buggy in which she was riding with her daughter, Margaret, to pick up a decoy package on a road just north of Syndicate. To conceal from Mrs. Schmidt immoral relations Schmidt is alleged to have had with Margaret and another stepdaughter, was advanced by the State as a motive for the slaying. The defense, however, suggested that a former husband of the woman was guilty. ACTRESS FILES APPEAL Dorothy Mac Kaye Charges Error by Court In Death Trial. Bv United Press LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.—Dorothy Mac Kaye, actress, has filed an appeal from her conviction of concealing information in the death of her husband, Ray Raymond, charging error by the court. Miss Mac Kaye was sentenced to from one to three years in the penitentiary on the charge. Raymond was killed in a fist fight with Paul Kelly, screen juvenile, who was sentenced to from one to ten years in the penitentiary on a charge of manslaughter.

CHICKEN THIEF GETS LIFE ✓ Theft Fourth Felony on Which Man Is Convncted. Bit United Press BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 12.—Because Edward Orchard’s theft of 112 chickens was his fourth felony he must serve the remainder of his life in prison. Orchard, who is 38, hoped to evade the Baumes “Fourth Offense” law by claiming he stole only seventyone chickens, which would have constituted petit larceny.

“There is no place in the Republican party for factionalism. We must get rid of the Coffin, Dodson, Jewett-Lemcke and Duvall factions and preach loyalty to Hoosierdom and Indianapolis.” * * * SS Duvall stepped in front of the microphone a gruff voice in the rear led the yell, “What’s the matter with John? He’s all right.” “Os course, personally, I don’t think the administration needs any support. No one is beyond mistakes—but mistakes are not the reason for this public criticism of the city. It dates farther back. It is the work of the same forces that fought me in the campaign,” Duvall said.

Dust Off Your Monocle, Doc; and Your Ideas, Too

BY GLADYS CRAIG SHE New York doctor who declared that the typical young woman office worker has “a poor carriage, flat chest and prominent abdomen” certainly never made a tour of Indianapolis offices. Over the United Press wire trickled that statement of Dr. Wade Wright, assistant medical director of the Metropolitan Life Association. Right with it came an assertion of F. L. Rowland of Lincoln, Neb., an office manager, that stenographers are hard to discipline after they are married and that the average period of service for young business women is three years, after which they marry. To which dozens of Indianapolis stenographers replied the polite equivalent of “razzberries.” For, you know, most of our young business women model their spoken English after the quiet, forceful style for which the men who dictate to them strive. At least when talking to reporters. And as to that poor carriage stuff—well, Miss Mary E. Homburg, employe in the Brown Efficiency Bureau, is a living'lndianapolis refutation of that. “Girls take their work more seriously after marriage than before,” said Ancil T. Brown of the Brown Efficiency Bureau. “Many times the husband can’t make enough to support the family without his wife’s help.” In regard to the chests, Brown thought that it was an exaggerated medical opinion. Office managers about the city declare that some of their -girls have been with them as long as twelve years, and that their aver"age stay is more nearly seven years than three. Girls work after they are married because they cannot stand the narrow routine of housework. Some take a few years off because they want a family, but just as soon as the babies are old enough to leave they are back in business again. No, sir! That old doctor is a back number! The business girl of today devotes herself to business. Love and marriage are the parentheses in her life. And as for flat chests! Perish the thought! They count the calories and go in for rhythm, and it’s been years since some of them have dared to look a potato in the face.

LABOR FOR BEER; DRAFT IS OPPOSED

Convention Hears Summerall Peace Plea; Dam Issue Up Today. BY DAN CAMPBELL United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12.—Delegates to the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor turned to new business today, after going on record as favoring return of “wholesome beer” and expressing opposition to military conscription. The delegates yesterday passed a resolution favoring modification of the Volstead act. Then they listened to an address by Gen. Charles P. Summerall, chief of staff, who declared that the United States must have peace. “No nation can live without it,’ he said. A few minutes later the delegates passed the resolution opposing conscription. Consideration of the Boulder Dam issue, over which one of the hottest debates of the convention was expected, was scheduled for today. A plea for an independent political party for labor was made by Max S. Hayes, Cleveland. Hayes suggested such a party would “cause the bosses of the old political parties to grant legislative concessions.” The delegates went on record as favoring action designed to limit the injunction power of courts of equity. President William Green asserted every effort would be made to obtain legislation toward this end. Child Dies of Burns Bn Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 12. Elizabeth Howe, 8, is dead today of bums suffered Tuesday night when her clothing became ignited while she stood near a bonfire. She was a twin daughter of Fred Howe, local business man.

“If United States Senator Samuel -Ralston were living today you would receive me as one of the best mayors the city ever had. Because of his death and the political clamor which followed, a ‘certain person’ has been my avowed enemy.” Duvall denounced the halfdozen Republican factions, and declared a “new deal in Republicanism” is needed. The mayor blamed “the “press” for his predicament. “in the year and a half of investigation by the department of justice of Marion County they have not pointed to a solitary act of misappropriation of funds or any criminal act during my administration. The greatest i crime I have been charged with,

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Only a Half \ Bn Times Snecial MUNCIE, Ind., Oct. 12.—Roy Fullhart, proprietor of the Eureka Inn. is free today of a charge of violating the prohibition law because a search warrant for the place read 212 W. Twelfth St., instead of 212% W. Twelfth St. Judge Clarence M. Dearth of the Delaware Circuit Court in dismissing charge against Fullhart, declared: “There is no question of his guilt,” but acted in freeing the defendant under a recent Indiana Supreme Court ruling In the Wallace case requiring stricter wording of liquor search warrants.

250 MEN TO GET JOBS Branch Factory of Ice-making Machinery Plant Here. Employment for 250 men will be provided next fall by the branch factory of the Baker Ice Machinery Company pi Omaha, Neb., being established in the old Schwartz Electric Company plant at speedway City. Installation of machinery has started. Clifford L. Harrod, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce industrial commissioner, said the new plant will manufacture ice-making machinery for butcher shops, groceries and florist shops. Much raw material will be purchased loi&lly. About thirty-five men will be employed for the present. German Plane to Fly to Azores Bit United Press WARNENUNDE, Germany, Oct. 12.—The Heinken biplane D-1220 planned to take off today for the Azores. The plane will carry Hans Menz as pilot, a mechanic and a passenger. The machine is a single motored hydroplane.

in the eyes of the newspapers, is that I am held accountable for too many relatives.” • • • ■=r~| UVALL discredited the \J testimony of witnesses in ■. —I his Criminal Court trial, declaring they were persons he had refused to take in his administration. He said newspapers had “exaggerated” resignation demands. Assistant City Attorney Don T. Roberts, speaking for the official family, declared “we all love Duvall, because he is a fighter. He will stick to the last ditch.” . W. H. (Big Jack) Jackson, Negro politician, spoke with his usual G. O. P. enthusiasm, expressing confidence in Duvall and denouncing factionalism.

STEEL CHIEFS AT GARY FOR CELEBRATION Indiana’s Great Industrial City Reaches TwentyFirst Birthday. PROGRESS IN BUILDING Corner Stone Laid for New $1,000,000 Municipal Structure. Bv United Press GARY, ind., Oct. 12.—Gary, city of steel founded by the late Judge Elbert Gary, president of the United States Steel Corporation, today celebrated reaching its “voting age.” Gary is twenty-one years old and its 112,000 citizens, representing a dozen or more nationalities, joined in a great celebration. Leaders of the steel world, including James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel Corporation, were present. Samuel Insull, utilities magnate, and Governor Ed Jackson were among the speakers. Gary was founded on sand hills left by Lake Michigan when that body of water receded thousands of years ago. When Judge Gary planned the beginnings of the town in 1906, there were only a few farm houses near the site. Now Gary is one of the leading industrial cities of the region, and, enthusiasts predicted at the celebration today that It eventually would outrank Pittsburgh as a steel center. The comer stone of anew million dollar city hall was laid today. A new $50,000 auditorium was dedicated, anew hotel was opened and the Gary Post-Tribune celebrated the occasion by opening its new $500,000 plant. There will be a vacant chair at the banquet table tonight, denoting the absence of the man responsible for the town’s prosperity, who died two months ago. FINCH PARK COMMUNITY HOUSE TO BE DEDICATED Entertainment Features Arranged by Civic Club. A number of entertainment features have been arranged by the Southeastern Civic Improvement Club for the dedication of the Finch Park Community House, Thursday evening. The Newsboys’ Band will play.and there will be a country store with a number of prizes given away to those attending. Michael E. Foley, park board member, will make the dedication speech, and John F. White, club president, will preside. Other e rents on the program: Charleston, William Pete; violin and piano solo, Miss Helen Raftery and Mrs. P. Kestler; song and dance, Baby Doris; special number, Thomas Carey and Arthur Kelly, Jr., and a pie-eating contest for boys.

MUSIC DEALERS ELECT FT. WAYNE MAN CHIEF C. R. Moores Chosen President at Close of Convention Her*. O. R. Moores, Ft. Wayne, was elected president of the Indiana Association of Music Merchants on Tuesday at the close of the two-day convention at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Joel B. Ryde, vice president, and treasurer of the Fuller-Ryde Music Company of Indianapolis, retiring president, was elected a director. Other officers: Frank Wilkins, Indianapolis, first vice president; Albert A. Klamer, Evansville, second vice president; George E. Stewart, Indianapolis, secretary; T. H. McPheeters, Indianapolis, treasurer; directors, Ryde, William Christena, Indianapolis; J. Edwin Butler, Marion; A. T. Rapp, Indianapolis; O. W. Copp, South Bend; M. L. Claypool, Crawfordsville; J. S. Pearson, Indianapolis; W. A. Young, Ft. Wayne, and F. L. Paige, Terre Haute. POINT OUT FIRE TRAPS Inspectors Issue 253 Orders to Eliminate Hazards. Fire Prevention Chief Horace Carey today announced inspectors issued 253 orders to correct fire hazards and inspected 1,743 yards and buildings Monday. Capt. Harry Gould was In charge of inspections. Forty firemen were assigned by Fire Chief Jesse Hutsell to aid in inspections during fire prevention week. Harry Davis, Charles Brooks, B. Lynch, Charles Seekamp George Stapp and Fred Wagner directed the work.

Eggs-Ecuted! Oct. 11.— Pelican Jack and Alex Rlbic, lumberjacks, agreed to have eggs for dinner, but Pelican wanted them friend and when Ribic insisted they be boiled, he was killed with an ax. The story of the killing was brought from the lumber camp Tuesday by Tony Hasperlin, an eye witness. He accused Pelican Jack of hitting Ribic with a double bitted ax, killing him almost instant*,/. Pelican Jack .was arrested.