Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1928 — Page 19
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Ides* snd opinions expressed in this column ere those of one of America’s most interestin* writers and are presented without retard to their a*reement with the editorial attitude of this paper. The Editor.
IT SEEMS TOME tt tt By HEYWOOD BROUN
WHEN a great man dies, it does not seem to me reasonable that no ill should be spoken of him. If he stood for certain principles wheih were evil in the sight of any
opponents, I do not see why the adversary should not carry on the fight even over the open grave. But all this is a roundabout way of saying that I think any dead artist fares badly in the daily newspapers of America. lam thinking of Elinor Wylie. Posterity may preserve her fame as a poet and
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as a novelist. Os course such things are not a matter of certainty, but there can be no quarrel with the assertion that Miss Wylie was a native author of great distinctoin. It is a pity, then, that American papers hounded her so much in life and do so still. I saw no account of the poet’s death which did not give more space to elopement, marriage and divorce than to any critical appraisal of her worth as an artist. MUM Legitimate Curiosity TT is inevitable that the public should have a lovely curiosity as to the personal affairs of any distinguished person. I will admit that I am among those who want to know. Elinor Wylie happened to have social as well as literary prominence. Her elopement, divorce and subsequent remarriage were matters of legitimate news interest and were duly reported when the events were current. Still, there is such a thing as a sense of perspective. Surely the poetry and the novels of Elinor Wylie were vastly more important than the romance of her life. But rewrite men never forget. If Miss Wylie won a literary prize or wrote anew book the announcement of this fact was always supplemented with a brief resume of the adventures of her youth. And when a great poet dies it seems to me that the news lies distinctly in the fact that the great poet is dead. The rest is irrelevant. I wouldn’t print it. tt tt m Spiritual or Material? T PROPOSE to devote myself to extended research in the near future concerning coupled words which are held to be mutually exclusive. The Freudians have conviced many of us that love and hate are no - , precisely split by an unbridged chasm. Doctors grow less glib in speaking of organic and inorganic maladies. It is not easy to draw a sharp, strong line to split up mind and matter. And mostly I am concerned with the familiar antagonism which is supposed to exist between soul and body. It seems to me that these definitions have become horribly confused. A fundamentalist living in daily dread of eternal brimstone and in hope of a gold and jasper haven is said to be spiritually-minded. Why is that? His concept of a future life is rigid and material. When a man bargains with his Creator and offers prayers and good deeds in return for a slightly deferred claim upon harps and milk and honey I fail to find much in his thinking which I should regard as spiritual. Nor do I see why an agnostical mystic, who says, “I don’t know,” should be set down as materialistic. Doubt is not among the meaner capacities of the mind. For instance, science and religion are not necessarily antagonistic The Darwinian who would destroy the authenticity of Adam has no intention of leaving the human race wholly without ancestors. Religion or Negation Atheism itself, i should class as a religion. At least it has its dogma and its heretics. Indeed, I think the followers of this faith would do well to draw up articles of faith and excommunicate backsliders. There is a fearful amount of schism among agnostics. Many subconscious mind seems wedded to a belief in survival after death. The intellect cannot extirpate it. Only the other day I read a story of the will left by an atheist, who made particular provision that there should be no religious service at his funeral. After his death some female relative disregarded the old man’s wish and read the burial service of the Episcopal church beside his grave. That, 1 hold, was rather a mean trick. But getting back to spiritual and material things, I hold this false distinction has done great harm in the world. There is a lift and an ecstacy in tangible things. A statue cast in oronze achieve;; both material and spiritual beauty. Even food and drink should not be sneered out of court as things gross and physical. Body and soul are acquaintances who should be friends. There is no reason for antagonism between them. Legs of the proper sort may be as physical as you please. bu s who would deny them spiritual significance. Complete divorce between mind and matter is not possible. The same stuff lies in each No tragic conflict comes from their close association. fCopyright. 1928. for The Time*)
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CITY URGED TO ACT AT ONCE IN GAS DEAL Engineering - Society Raps Trustees’ Stand on Court Moves. REPORT IS GIVEN SLACK Recommendation Is Made That Contract Clauses Be Enforced. Mayor Slack today had before him a report of a special committee of the Indianapolis Engineering Society, approved by the society, criticising avowal of Citizens Gas Company trustees that they favor f uming the gas company property over to the city, and urging city officials to take immediate steps to insure the city ownership of the plant. The report was approved by the society, meeting Thursday noon at the Board of Trade. According to terms of the contract which gas company trustees entered into when the company obtained its franchise to operate it in 1905, the board of works may direct the company directors and trustees to raise money to redeem the common stock of the company bv gaging the plant. This must be done not less than six months before the date set for conveying the property to the city and the board of works should and * so at an early date, the committee’s report declared. Has Large Surplus The report also pointed out that the last company statement to the public service commission at the end of 1927 showed the gas companv has a surplus of $1,004,484, doubtless greater at this time, which should be applied by the directors to redeem common stock, which, according to the contract, must be aP redeemed before the company can be acquired by the city. Referring to the recent statement of the gas company trustees that they favor the city taking over the plant, but will not do so until directed by a court of last resort, the report said; “This proposal nets nothing at all We all do what we are required to by a court of last resort, unless wc can get a pardon. The committc.' Is of the opinion that if this is the attitude of the trustees and directors, it becomes indispensable that appropriate action be started to get the matter on the way to final decision. It takes a long time to get a case through courts of last resort.” Other Recommendations Made The report also recommended; * That the city require the company trustees to make the semiannual financial reports required by the contract. That the city controller act promptly on his right and duty to investigate the gas company books. That the city engineer at once act on his duty to inspect the company plant and property. That the trustees be urged, when new directors are elected in January, to elect only directors who “definitely and unconditionally are committed to prompt performance of the contract” which provides the city be given ownership in 1930. That, if legislation is needed to make city ownership of the utility possible, steps to secure it be taken at once. The report expressed the faith of the society “in our instiutions and in the present city administration that it will provide sufficient safeguards around the selection of trustees and the management of the plant and property so that it will be operated successfully for the citizens.” GRAND DUCHESS IN U. S. Russian Exile Studying School Systems of America. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—50 she may adapt American methods to
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the schooling of Russian exiles in Paris, the Grand Duchess Marie first, cousin of the late Czar Nichols II of Russia, is in the United States to study the American educational system. She will remain to get a thorough understanding of United States methods.
Army, Navy to Eat Reindeer By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Uncle Sam has ordered 18,200 pounds of reindeer for Christmas dinners for army and navy men in the eastern United States.
BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent" SUKHUM, Abkhazian Soviet Republic, Dec. 21.—The first soviet “gland factory,” better known as the Sukhum monkey farm, has been started here. On a hill overlooking the Black Sea, some thirty-five natives of Africa and the South Seas—and two tiny apes born under the red flag in the last few months—gambol in their cages, unimpressed by the high scientific destiny to which they are dedicated. Their imprisonment is only temporary. The entire hillside, rich in tropical trees, is being, pre-
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PEACHES’ PAPA TO PIAYSANTA ‘Daddy’ Browning Will Give Lavishly to Children. Bn United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—There will be no rubber ducks, such as he playfully presented to his wife for Christmas two years ago, among the 75,000 gifts Edward “Daddy” Browning, husband of “Peaches” Browning and wealthy real estate dealer, will give away tomorrow and Monday to as many children as can crowd their way into his offices on Broadway. Surrounded by necklaces, fountain pens, cameras, dolls and similar trinkets, he will present to other children, “Daddy” today refused to say whether he will give his wife any present for Christmas. His suite of ornate real estate offices, occupying the entire second floor of the building haVe been decorated with bunting and Christmas bells, and gaily colored runways have been constructed to handle the throngs of children he is sure will appear early tomorrow morning. No fewer than thirty-six Santa Clauses, wearing the traditional red suit, boots and white beard of the patron of Christmas, will aid "Daddy” in distributing the toys and trinkets he has bought to give away to other persons’ children. These include mesh bags, pocketbooks, scarfpins, fire engines, trains, drums, horns, but "Daddy” would not say wha f the gifts will cost him. Hoosier Film Director Dies Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 21. News has been received here of the death at Hollywood, Cal., of Richard Easton, 31, Bloomington native and Indiana university graduate, an assistant director for the Fox Film Corporation. He was a victim of pneumonia. “Ramona” was one of the productions he diretced.
SOVIET ‘GLAND FACTORY’ TOUTED TO RENEW YOUTH FOR RUSSIA
pared as a domain where they may rove- and multiply at will. Several laboratores have been equipped for the preparation of gland extracts and the conduct of experiments oil the treatment of many diseases. The soviet scientific world is proud of its monkey farm. Particularly it is proud of the two youngsters born on soviet soil, since it had been doubted whether monkeys would raise families in Russia. it tt tt THE farm is part of an extensive endrinicological depart-
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Above—(left to right), Pauline Klingensmith, portraying Hildah, the woman of the house, in “The Gift,” at the annual Christmas entertainment Thursday at Washington high school. Three dolls who were in the dance masque scene are Margaret Kelsey, a baby doll; Evelyn Biven, a sailor doll, and Irene Wilkerson, a flapper doll. Below—Eugene was the shepherd Illustrating a song by the carolers, and Dorothy Craven and Dean Berry were a little lame boy and a blind stranger in "The Gift.”
HOPE OF ESCAPE FROM CANNIBALS
Parents of Peru Man Heartened by Letter From West. By Times Special PERU, Ind., Dec. 21.—Hope is held by Mr. and Mrs. John Sparks here that their son, Ira C. Sparks, who has been believed the victim of Philippine Island cannibals, still lives. A letter from H. Shivers, Los Angeles, Cal., leads the former Peru man’s parents to hope that he escaped a fate which had been so generally accepted that a suit to declare him legally dead has been filed in Miami Circuit court here. The letter from Shivers, dated Dec. 12, follows; “For your information, the undersigned resided in the Philippines and the city of Manila, capital, for many years and just came back from Manila in May, 1928. “Your son, Mr. Sparks, landed on the Posay Beach, Manila. I am not sure, but think it was in 1926, in his little boat. He was taken into custody by the officers for having firearms in his possession without a license. He stated he was on his way to Jerusalem, I well remember. “You might obtain further information by writing to the chief of constabulary, Manila, Philippine Islands. Hoping this will be of some interest to you, a dear old mother. Very sincerely. “AN UNKNOWN FRIEND." Ira C. Sparks left here in 1924, saying he had been called to preach. Shortly afterward, he gained nationwide notoriety when he hid in a packing case and was placed aboard a Pacific ocean ship bound for the Hawaiian Islands. At Honolulu, Sparks was discovered and put ashore. He built a small boat and embarked in it for the Holy Land. The boat was found on the shore of an island in the Philippines group, known to be inhabited bj cannibals, and since that time no word has been received concerning him.
ment under the commissariat of health. It has succeeded, the director claims, in making the country independent of foreigners in meeting its demand for a variety of serums. Indeed, several preparations already are listed among the exports of the country. Among other things, insulin is being produced here. Dr. Y. A. Tobolkin, in charge of the farm and the experimental work connected with it, reflects the general pride. A student of Voronoff, he is convinced completely of the efficacy of rejuvenation and its large place in the
Peace Club By Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Dec. 21. William H. Dickson, Pennville, who died recently, makes the following stipulation in his will, filed for probale in Jay circuit court here: “Should any of the beneficiaries refuse to abide by my will they shall receive as their respective share the sum of $1 and no more.”
POST APPROVES PACT Legion Unit Adds 0. K. to Kellogg Treaty. Letters reiterating their stand in iavor of the Kellogg peace pact which at the same time ask passage of the navy cruiser bill have been sent to Senators James Watson and Arthur R. Robinson by John H. Holliday Jr. American Legion post and its auxiliary. The letters were signed by Commander Stuart A. Bishop and the auxiliary president, Mrs. Harry G. Templeton. The legion letter declared that it “yields to no one” in its advocacy of the Kellogg p3ace pact, its abhorrence of war and its effort to abolish the same, but the post takes the psoition that an adequate preparedness is necessary to preserve peace. If this country had been prepared with an adequate navy and army in 1916, “we would not have been obliged to enter the World war at a useless expense of property and lives,” the letter says. “We were forced into the World war because a foreign country, being contemptuous of our ability to protect ourselves, sank our ships and killed our citizens, which would not have happened had they known we were prepared to protect ourselves.”
medicine of the near future. The monkey farm, he told the United Press correspondent, represents the “fountain of youth” for which mankind has been seeking through the ages. Sixty years old, Dr. Tobolkin is as spry as any of the tenants on his farm. He led the correspondent over the estate, uphill and down, taking ditches at a jump in a manner more appropriate to 30 than to 60. His vigor, he explained in response to a question is natural and not the result of rejuvenation. But when it runs out, Dr. To-
CITY WILL ASK LAW TO ISSUE STREET BONDS Present Method of Raising Thoroughfare Funds Is Called Inadequate. POCKET VETOED IN 1927 Conference on Planning to Sponsor Bill Before Legislature. Another effort to obtain a law permitting cities to issue bonds for city thoroughfare plan improvements will be sought in the coming legislature. Such law was passed by the 1927 legislature, but the law was pocket vetoed by Governor Jackson. The Indiana conference on city planning likely will sponsor the bill, it is said. The Indianapolis city plan commission was interested vitally In the legislation, as the present method of raising funds is inadequate and has slowed the city in carrying forward the thoroughfare plan. Issuance of bonds lip to 1 per cent of the city’s assessed valuation would allow Indianapolis about $7,000,000 in bonds for thoroughfare work, according to Henry Steeg, city plan secretary. 5 Cents Is Levy Now The present law permits a tax levy of 5 cents for thoroughfare improvements. The city has been handicapped for several years because former city administrations and city councils have failed to permit the maximum levy for street widening and straightening projects. John L. Benedict, attorney and state representative, is contemplating some amendments to the law, stipulating the method of assessments for widening projects. Benedict proposes a bill providing that the city bear the cost of moving or wrecking buildings or sidewalks for street widening, straightening or improvement otherwise. Such costs now are assessed against a benefited district designated by the board of works in each instance. Benedict contends that the entire city is benefited by such improvements and should share In the cost. The bill gives city councils power to levy a special tax to raise a street widening fund. Balances in 'this fund would not revert to the general fund at the end of the year, but accumulate for future improvements. City Engineer A. H. Moore expressed dissatisfaction with the law which requires a uniform base of six inches of concrete for all type of street paving. Engineer Needs Authority “This provision is objectionable, because a city engineer should be given more freedom in drafting his own specifications. If a black or macadam base should be used, the engineer should have authority to specify it. “It is not practical from an engineering standpoint to specify the same base for a street which is to remain residential as it is for a downtown thoroughfare which is heavily traveled,” Moore said. Change in the method of sewer assessment would be welcomed by city officials, as the present plan has drawn considerable criticism, Moore expressed dissatisfaction with the law providing that the city assume suspended assessments against property which is in the territory of a main sewer, but not served by local sewer facilities. Under the present law, the city assumes the assessment, which is | paid later when the property is served with sewer connections. . $200,000 on One Project “This will amount to about $200,000 on the Pleasant Run interceptor project alone. It doubtless will run about $500,000 in all this year. We hope to relieve the condition next year by annexing certain territory,” Moore said. “The present method of assessment, which provides that costs shall be levied against each individual later, is unfair, because certain property owners pay double the amount assessed against their neighbors. Both receive the same benefit.” Moore declared the city needs the maximum 5 cent levy for both the thoroughfare plan and street resurfacing for the next five years “to put the city in proper shape.” Drives Too Slowly; Pinched Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Mortimer N. Perkerkin today became the first man in the history of traffic court to be arraigned for driving too slowly at an intersection. There was no law to cover the case so he was discharged.
bolkin said, he intends to renew it artificially. MU* “T EXPECT to live beyond a 1 century,” he said, with a smile, but in all seriousness. "The way human beings seem content to give up their youth and their lives without any effort to replenish is beyond understanding, simply outrageous.” He then proceeded to recount “case histories” of patients who had been operated upon in Soviet hospitals. Dr. Tobolkin, it will be recalled, won considerable notoriety about
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Paul Q. Richey, advertising man, was elected president of the Chamber of Commerce by directors Thursday. Frank E. Gates, real estate man, was elected vicepresident and George Olive, accountant, treasurer.
NEW C.G. HEAD TO CHOOSE AIDS Richey Prepares to Name His Committee. Paul Q. Richey, new president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, today began consideration of personnel of various committees to be appointed. He was elected president at the directors’ meeting Thursday. Frank E. Gates, realtor, was named vicepresident, and George S. Olive, public accountant, was re-elected treasurer. Olive was serving the unexpired term of Oscar Schmidt. Richey is president of the Russel M. Seeds Advertising Company. He is married and lives at 3078 North Pennsylvania street. He has been a director of the chamber three years and has been chairman of the chamber publicity committee and a member of the finance committee. He also is a member of the Columbia Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Hoosier Athletic Club, Masonic order and the Shrine. The new president is a native of Muncie. He has been connected with the editorial and business staffs of several newspapers. Richey said he will continue the progressive policies inaugurated by Dick Miller, retiring president, and will strive to keep awake a civic consciousness. Gates, a native of Indianapolis, is in the real estate business with his son, Oliver F. Gates. He is treasurer of the City Manager League and was on of its organizers. He was president of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board in 1925 and 1926. He succeeds A. Kiefer Mayer as vice-president. Olive has been a director two years. He is a graduate of Emmerich Manual Training high school and Harvard university. From 1907 to 1912 he was auditor of the Indianapolis Water Company. BLOCK ATTACK MOVE Rush County Farmers Refuse to Denounce W. H. Settle. Bit United Press RUSHVILLE. Ind., Dec. 21.—The Rush County Farm Bureau in convention here has refused to adopt a resolution condemning William H. Settle, Indiana Farm Bureau Federation president. It was tabled. Offered by the resolutions committee, the attacking document read in part: “We denounce the attempt of W. H. Settle to use our organization for political preference.” PROSECUTOR INDICTED State’s Attorney in ‘Bloody’ Illinois County Accused. Bu United Press HERRIN, HI., Dec. 21.—Arlie Boswell, state’s attorney of Illinois’
“Bloody Williamson county,” has been indicted on charges of accepting money from the Birger gang. Charges are made that the evidence against the county official is convincing Charles Birger, bootleg gang leader in southern Illinois, recently was hanged for murder.
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a year ago, when he disclosed plans for crossing human beings and monkeys in the interests of science. He admitted to the United Press that the plans have not been abandoned, although the methods have been changed greatly. The time, however, has not yet arrived for making the details public. Dr. Tobolkin was a little incensed about the sensational fashion in which the news was treated abroad last year and intends to wait until there are definite results before saying anything lor publication
FIVE MERGER, DEALS AFFECT SEVEN CITIES Links Outstanding Business Events in Indiana This Week. TAKES KOKOMO PLANT New York Company and Standard Assets to Be Half Billion. BY CHARLES C. STONE Slate Editor, The Times Mergers affecting industries in seven Indiana cities constitute the outstanding development of the past week in business, a survey of the state ended today shows. The Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company, operating in Kokomo and seven other cities is to be combined with the American Radiator Company, New York, which would give total assets of $500,000,000. The Kokomo plant Is the second largest owned by the Standard Company. Muncie will be affected by a combine project, that of the GalesburgCoulter Disc Company and the Borg-Warner Corporation, the Muncie Warner Gear Company being a unit of the corporation: The Indiana Rolling Mills, Newcastle, is to be taken into the combine. BorgWarner owns the Wheeler-Schebler Carburetor Company, Indianapolis. Four May Be Combined Three concerns outside of Indiana, identity of which is not disclosed, will be combined with the Absolute Con-Tac-Tor Corporation, Elkhart, a $1,000,000 concern, which by the combine will enter the $2,000,000 class. The Elkhart corporation is now employing 300, but after the merger, expects to place 600 on its pay roll. Principal offices will be maintained at Elkhart. Effective Jan. 1, four Crawfordsville companies dealing ’ milk and its products will become one. The units of the merger are Fosdick Ice Cream Company, Ward Ice Cream Company, Wray Creamery and Sanitary Milk Depot. Consolidation of the George R Carter Company. Connersville, and the Vogt Manufacturing Company, Rochester, N. Y„ is announced. Both are engaged in manufacture of fab- ! rtcs for upholstering and decoration of automobiles and airplanes. Building Slumps New building rejects started in Indiana during November had a total of $7,021,000, 38 per cent under the total for October this year and 28 n- cent less than November, 192 1 . The total for the first eleven months of 1928 as compared with the same period last year shows a 2 per cent decrease Conditions throughout the state are shown in the following summary. Richmond—Four hundred persons will be added to the force of the Belden Manufacturing Company on completion of a $175,000 addition to its plant, construction of which is already under way. Anderson—New machinery Is being installed in the Maring Wire Company plant. The Indiana General Service Company has bought a thirty-four acre si*~ near here for a electric power substation. The Big Four railroad is building a $50,000 water filtration system In Its yards, A gain of 100 per cent in business for the months of August, September and October this year over the same months last year is reported by the American Playground Device Company. Some departments of the Howe Fire appratus plant are being operated seven days a week. Officials of the Ward-Stilson Company report a strong demand for Its products. Kokomo Companies Prosper Kokomo—The Superior Machine Tool Company, and its subsidiaries, the Kokomo Nail and Brad Company and Kokomo Spring Company, enjoyed good business during 1928, officials announce. Connersville—This city’s name now appears in natioftal advertising, announcements of new models by the Auburn Auto Company quoting prices on cars at both Connersville and Auburn. The Auburn plant here is being remodeled and is expected to be ready for production early In January, to turn out 200 cars dally. Seymour—The Sam B. Wolf Sons Shoe Company plant will resume capacity operations early in January, giving employment to 350 persons. Anew type of lasting machine has been installed to speed up production and give better workmanship. Washington—Employment will be given 100 men with reopening Jan. 2 of the passenger car section of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad shops. Decatur—An order for 300 refrigerators has been placed with the Burdg-Lawson Corporation here by the Zanesville Engineering Company, Zanesville, Ohio. Petersburg—Atlas Mine No. 3 has resumed operations, giving employment to 125 men. More Buyers for Milk Terre Haute Opening of new channels for selling Vigo county milk will double and possibly treble the $250,000 now received annually by dairy farmers of the county, according to an announcement by W. W. Ross, field agent of the Vigo Cooperative Milk Marketing Company. The granary of the Paul Kuhn Grain Elevator Company, which has not been in use, will again be utilized Jan. 1, under a lease by the Lesson Grain Company, Buffalo, N. Yj