Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1929 — Page 11

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‘NEXT EDISON' PORTRAYED BY COLLEGE HEAD Thirteen Points Set Oown By President Rigdon as Qualifications. HEALTH COMES FIRST Must Have Spirit of Play, Love of Nature, and Ability to Think. Thi, i tbo fir,* article in a *r,s tnd!?na' frm"*t educator, on the traits ard '■h,ra<‘trlst(c requisite in the Ameri.,p vogth ■■• ho is to be selected as the proteee and successor to Thomas Alva Edison. The Times is assistint Governor leslie in finditiß the Indiana representa- (., BY JONATHAN RIGDON. Fh. D. President of Centra? Norma! College, Danville. A greater honor than being the successor of Thomas A. Edison, a hope more inspiring, there may be. Just pop I am unable to think what it rould be. Even the opportunity to suggest what, qualifications will entitle a. boy to harbor the nope is a privilege that I esteem. These, qualifications. as I see them, I have set down under thirteen points.

1. Good Health. Our boy must be ■well and strong. Good health is essential. Men have lived and labored as invalids, and have achieved results well worth while, but not in work like Edison’s. 2. Spirit of Play. Tliis boy must like to play. His work often will require his attention for long periods of time. Only play.

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fcomething that he does with no thought of results. can rebuild the broken tissues and guarantee to him the long life and strength and state of mind necessary for his work. If j he does not play, he must learn to j plav. If he does not like to play, j he must learn to like it. Os course 1 much of his regular work will be play to an Edison, but he must have j also regular play. 3. Right Mental Attitude. This j particular boy must have or be capable of attaining the right men- j tal attitude toward life and the j world. This never is easy for a man; naturally it is more difficult for a boy. He must not. put second things first. He must care for people and want to help them. He must not center his abilities on getting rich. First in his inclinations must be the love of truth, and next, the ambition to render a service. His constant aim must be to compel nature to bear the burdens of men and women, boys and girls, less able than himself. Edison can not have j a successor who is not dominated by j the desire to be a benefactor to humanity. 4. Love of Nature. This boy must be a. lover of nature. He will not j neglect books and teachers, of course. These will be indispensable j in his education, but he will use . them chiefly as keys helping him to j understand nature. Interest in na- J ture and all natural things is neces- j sary for the work he is to do. From this time on most of his education \ must come at first hand. He must, j be nature-minded rather than book- j minded. He must dream. He must j commune with nature and let her i speak to him. 5. Curiosity. This boy must be filled with an over-mastering curi- j esity for new truth. He must care for truth not as ordinary men do; j he must love it. he must be on fire for it. he must have a passion for truth. 6. High Grade Intelligence. Edison's boy must have back of him an ancestry of intelligence. This does not mean that his father and mother must have been educated persons. It does mean, however, that at least one of them must have had good, strong, natural intellithe better; and if several of his more distajit ancestors. the more the better, were persons of good j natural ability, nearly everything is in the boy's favor. His education, of course will count, but their s will not count for him. If he has inherited their intelligence, he has come into possession of all that they could give him. Still less does the financial condition or the social standing of his parents have to do with his success. The directing and the ordering of one's w-ork means more than the amount of it. All order and all direction come from Intelligence, and all intelligence from heredity. The boy that Edison chooses will have good stock , back of him. 7. Ability to T’.'nk. This boy must not stop with finding facts. He must see their relations. He must find their meaning. He must evaluate ' them. He may dream a little, but not much. It will be all the better j for him if philosophical thinking j has not yet a npealed to him. He will not soon nave time for specula- | tion about the meaning of the 1 world, the origni of life, or human j destiny. He is to be concerned with the concrete, the particular, the immediate. the here and the now. In short, his must be scientific thinking. Already, boy though he is. he must have become acquainted with j the scientific method of investigat- j ing any subject. What I understand bv the'scientific method of studying any subject is what I think Hurley meant by it: Get the facts. Get all the facts, analyze the facts, classify the facts, evaluate the facts, find j the laws these facts contain, test the | laws by hypothesis and experiment. l liany beys already have learned to

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BY GENE COHN YEA Service Writer 1 NEW YORK, May 15.—Poor Coni stance Bennett, having had a mere million dollars settled on her by her late husband, Phil Plante, seems to : feel the necessity for going back to j work. She had just nicely launched herself on a film career when she married Plante and retired to private life. Her work in “Cytherea” had been widely acclaimed and she was well on her way to become an established star. When divorce proceedings started, the Pathe company began a contract dicker which started in Paris and ended here in Gramercy park, where Miss Bennett has been ill since her return. Her first picture will be a. talkie. “I’ve had three years of gadding 1

think. One of these win be Edison’s boy. 8. Independence of Judgment, When this boy reaches a conclusion, he will know where it comes from and what it rests upon. He will not be too hasty in making his judgments. but when he makes one he will not change it merely because he is told, even if it be Edison himself who tells him. He always will be tolerant. He never will be dogmatic. He never will be stubborn But before he changes his thinking he must be shown wherein it is wrong. He will listen to others. He will test out his conclusions again and again. But the mere statement that he is in error will not be enough to change him. He has confidence in himself and in his conclusions. He must be shown. ft. Persistence. There are many brilliant beginners who very soon are quitters. Many piano pupils want to start on “pieces.” They want to be concert performers without mastering their exercises. The thing is impossible. Our boy must not be easily discouraged. He can not play 'pieces” at once. He must have infinite patience. The boy who works with Edison must never give up, he must be willing to keep everlastingly at it, 10. Proficiency in Language. Our boy must, have a degree of mastery over the English language. He must at least be able to use it accurately. No matter how carefully and how accurately he may have made his discoveries, if he messes and musses them up in inaccurate expression,* he has rendered no service to the rest of us. The first requirement of science is accuracy. This boy. whose life work is to be science, need give little or no attention bo rhetorical embellishment of his laguage. That would be as likely to conceal his thought as to reveal it. Even grammar he need not regard _as a life and death matter. 11. Mechanical Inclination. He must be mechanically inclined. This inclination I think is due partly to one's heredity and partly to his experiences. If the nature of a boy’s occupation has forced mechanical activity upon him, that will help him. Then if in addition to this, his father and mother and his grandparents have been mechanically inclined, his qualifications will be all the better. Any way he must have not only a curiosity as to how things are made but also a very strong desire to make them and to unmake them and to remake them. By this time the boy we are talking about must have pulled apart at least one old Ford and put it together again, he must have built a radio set. he must have made a telephone system out of a wire fence and some pieces of tin. he must have wired a house for electric lights. The more scoldings and whippings he has had. for tinkering with things, particularly electrical things, when he should have been at work, the better his qualifications. The trial and error method is the method of all experimentation. Edison always has been a great experimenter; so must his successor be. 12. Industry. He must believe in the gospel oi hard work. IX either

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i around, no creative work whatsoI ever.” Miss Bennett complained be- | tween sneezes. “I couldn't stand idleness any longer, and that’s that. “To be sure, I have plenty of money. But I'm accustomed to being busy; to acting—l couldn't stand luxury any longer without w r ork. Luxury’s all right, but you have to have something with it. By ! itself, it’s deadly. | “I've seen Europe from one end to the other. I've bought up all of it II could afford. There really didn't j seem to be anything I wanted. That ;is the beginning of boredom—and j who wants to stand ennui? I don't. “I want to get to the point where i I’ll have every minute of my time occupied; where I can go to bed tired and fall asleep when I lilt the pillow; where I can forget the tedium of too much leisure.”

in his home or his school he has accepted the common but destructive belief that all that is necessary is to “get by,” and that with the least possible exertion, the great wizard will have no use for him. Edison is accredited with the saying that three-fourths of genius is hard work, and the other fourth is more hard work, Os course he is mistaken in this, but it leaves us in no doubt as to the value he attaches to work. 13. Right Habits. This boy must have or be capable of forming the right kind of habits. Entirely apart from a!! moral consideration—if anything can be entirely apart, from all moral consideration—our habits greatly help or greatly hinder our work. The boy who enters this contest must renounce every habit that wastes his time, hinders his work, hurts his nerves, destroys his vitality, lessens his energy, or slows down the current of his life stream whether physically or mentally. This does not mean that he must deny himself all pleasure. This would be foolish. He must seek pleasure in games and sports and social relations. He must exercise enough and not too much. He need not quit eating or drinking; but he must eat and drink only those things that will enable him to see and to think more clearly. My guess is that the boy Edison chooses to become his successor will be wrapped up in these thirteen points, or, if you prefer, will have these thirteen points wrapped up in him.

GOVERNOR WILL SPEAK Leslie Scheduled for Muncie Chamber of Commerce Banquet. Bu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 15.—Governor Harry G. Leslie will be the principal speaker at the annual spring membership banquet of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce. The banquet will be held the evening of May 21 at the Masonic temple. Guests of honor will be high officials of the Borg-Warner Corporation, which controls the Warner Gear Company of Muncie. Each year the Muncie Chamber of Commerce entertains executives of leading industries. Charles S. Davis, Muncie, vice-president, of the gear company, is president of the parent corporation.

YEA BROTHERS! ’TIS SAILOR DAY [A-HEAD, NOT A-FLOAT]

'T'HE wisecracker who first said only two things are certain; death and taxes, left out something: May 15 is straw hat day. If there are any lingering doubt about this being the positive, absolute, definite date when men shifts from the fauna to the flora for the material of his headgear one glance at the threatening skies and another at the show windows full of gleaming sailors, not to mention a sidelong stare at the brave bnynmel who ventured

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15. 1929

j ‘RIDDLE’ ENGINE STIRS WONDER OF AVIATION Diesel Invention Hailed as Likely to Revolutionize Air Science. FLIES FROM DETROIT Veil of Mystery Surrounds Motor as Craft Lands in Virginia. Bu United Press LANGLEY FIELD, Va.. May 15. The secret thaj may revolutionize the aviation industry by the introduction of Diesel engines was closely guarded today by representatives of the airplane division of the Packard Motor Car Company, i Chains and padlocks held firm a large tarpaulin which was spread ' over the Diesel engine of the plane ' that, made its dramatic landmg ! from Detroit Tuesday, just when | members of the national advisory committee on aeronautics were dis- | cussing the chances of developing a Diesel-type engine for airplanes some time within the next ten years. Their answer came out of the air. Keep Motor Covered The plane, piloted by L. M. Wolli son, designer of the engine, landed, ; and Wollson and Walter Lees • crawled out of the cockpit. ! Acting on instructions from ; Packard officials, Wollson immedi- ! ately covered the motor. Later, however, he agreed to • demonstrate the motor, stipulating that, representatives of rival con- ; cerns could not attend. The reason for the secrecy, it was said, was that no patent is obtainable on a Diesel motor for airplanes. The advantages of the Diesel engine immediately were apparent to experts after Wollson had told of the flight from Detroit. Uses Furnace Oil First, the plane used ordinary furnace oil for fuel, thereby making the fuel bill for the flight only $4.68 as compaied to the $2-1 worth of airplane gasoline that would be required for the normal flight of 650 miles. I Radio reception, according to | Wollson, was almost perfect. “It was every bit as good as though you were listening to the finest radio set in the quiet of your drawing room,” he said. The improved radio service Is possible because of the elimination of interference by electric ignition systems on gasoline aircraft engines. The third advantage of the Diesel engine is the elimination of fire hazard. Mystery Is Unrevealed At the demonstration, Wollson tincovered the engine and signalled to a man in the cockpit. The man pushed a button and there was a. loud explosion that indicated the motor was firing and was ready to start. “It seems to me® that you used i gunpowder or guncotton to kick her over,” a bystander said. “You will leave us a little of our mystery, won’t you?” Wollson replied in refusing to explain anything about the working of the motor.

GAMBLING STOPPED Source of Cleanup at Kokomo Hidden, Bu Times Special KOKOMO, May 15.—The lid has been clamped on gambling here. Word from an undisclosed source, punch boards, baseball pool tickets and Derby race tickets have vanished from their usual places in poolrooms and clubs. Cliffton Small, recently appointed sheriff, has made raids on barbecue stands in Howard county. Slot machines, tickets on pools of various sorts and puhch boards were confiscated. One employe of a poolroom when questioned stated a police officer informed him to “get everything in the clear.” and that in the future the lid null be on. Forty-two Kokomo citizens petition state officials to take a hand in alleged rice conditions here. Much resentment was displayed by others, who declared conditions were not as bad here as in other Indiana cities, and much better than in most communities of its size. County Churches to Meet Bu Times Special LEBANON, Ind., May 15.—Representatives of Christian churches in Boone county will hold a mass meeting here Monday night with a program to include music, speaking and reports from each church. Churches here, at Zionsrille, Thorntown and New Brunswick will be represented.

forth in one, was convincing. What with the week-old drizzle the haberdashers would have changed the date if possible—but, no sir, this is straw hat day, and straw hat day it is. Clothing store executives esti-

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MURDER CASE TO BERETRIED Judge Criticises Eke Hearing Prosecutors: Bu Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., May 15.—Joseph Eke, convicted in Daviess circuit court here of second degree murder of Robert Marley, and who was given a life sentence, is to have anew trial. A rehearing of the case was granted on motion of defense counsel by Judge M. S. Hastings “because of misconduct of the prosecuting attorneys of both counties in conducting the trial.” The case was tried in Daviess circuit court at Washington on a change of venue from Knox county, where Marley’s death occurred. Prosecutor Arterbum of Knox county was criticised by Judge Hastings for remarks made in his opening statement, and Homer Beasley, Daviess county prosecutor, for statements made to the jury. The second trial will be held here in September, the judge announced. GRAFT ALLEGED AIDING WAR ON MANAGER PLAN Politicians Accused in League Statement at Terre Haute. Bu Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind-, May 15. Money collected by politicians from the underworld, is being used to prevent adoption of the manager form of government here, according to Winfield Strong, secretary of the City Manager League of Terre Haute. Strong charges foes of the plan are plotting “to steal” the election here June 4 when voters will decide its fate. Among specific counts in Strong’s statement is one that Negro voters are being induced to stay away from meetings w’here the manager plan is explained and that a huge “slush” fund is being raised to oppose it. Three Remain on Park Board Bu Times Special _ _ , CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., May 15—Three of the five members of the park board here were reappointed at a special meeting of the city council. They are Leslie A. Lyons, William H. Luster and George H. Leonard. They will serve for three years.

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ARRANGE SERVICES IN 10 CEMETERIES

Memorial Day Will Be Observed by Many Organizations: Services for Decoration day are planned for ten city cemeteries, in addition to the main exercises at Crown Hill. The services are: Holy Cross and Jewish cemeteries, 2:30 p. m.; the Rev. Pierce Dixon, speaker; auspices Knights of Columbus and G. A. R. Mount Jackson; 10 a. m.; The Rev. Frank Lee Roberts, speaker; auspices Alvin P. Hovey Women’s Relief Corps and Boy Scouts. Grove of Remembrance, 2:30 p. m.; Garfield park. Judge Clarence R. Martin, speaker; auspices Service Star Legion. Judge Will Speak Anderson cemetery, 10 a. m.; Judge Vincent Manifold, speaker. Concordia cemetery, 10 a. m.; the Rev. Henry Scheperle, speaker; auspices Evangelical Lutheran church. Floral Park and Shiloh cemetery, 2 p. m., the Rev. George C. Chandler, speaker; auspices Lavelle Gossett post, No, 908, Veterans of Foreign Wars. New Crown, 10 a. m.; Asa J. Smith, speaker; auspices Otis C. Brown post and World war veterans. Memorial park, 2 p. m.; auspices Irvington American Legion post and auxiliary. Services at Bridge Washington Park: 11 a. m., auspices of Convention City post No. 1405, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Ebenezer: Auspices of Sons of Union Veterans of Civil War. Sails and Air Men’s services: 3 p. m., Meridian street bridge, auspices Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Auxiliary. Child Falls From Auto Bu Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., May 15.—Accidentally unlocking the door of her father’s car while it was in motion and falling to the pavement, Martha Darnall, 4, daughter of M. C. Darnall, principal of the local high school, is little the worse for her experience. Darnall stopped the car at once and ran back to his daughter, expecting to find her seriously injured. Instead she seemed to think the accident was a joke. Her only injury was a scratch on her face.

latest wrinkle —and that isn’t a nifty about the weather. All the old favorites like bangkoks and panamas are here with the eternal sailor predominant. Shapes are about like last year’s, but the bands have been tamed. Colors remain, but no longer do they dim the glory of the rest of the chapeau. The airplane sailor—a cross between a Zeppelin and a kite—is something new to intrigue the boulevardier who goes in for mauve ehirlfr _ .

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Coincidence Bu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 15.—Mrs. George M. Spencer, wife of a Muncie manufacturer, was interested when she visited a pineapple plantation in Hawaii. “I surely wish we could get some of your fruit at my home in Muncie, Ind., she told an official. Bending over a crated consignment, he pointed out that it was to be shipped to a Muncie wholesale dealer.

RACERS JOJ FETED Speedway Plans Will Be Told at Realty Dinner, Plans for the Speedway race will be heard by members of the Indianapolis Rea! Estate Board when they entertain speedway officials and drivers at luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce Thursday noon. E. Kirk McKinney, board president, announced that the organization will award a split-second stop watch to the drivers displaying the best sportsmanship in the race. The award was won by the late Norman Batten in 1927. Tony Gulatta and Leon Duray, each of whom received a watch for sportsmanlike driving, in 1928, will be guests at the luncheon. T. E. (Pop) Myers, vice-president and general manager of the Speedway, and Steve Hanagan, publicity director, will speak. Drivers > who will attend include Louis C'hiron, European champion, Peter De Paolo, 1925 winner: Louis Meyer, who won the race last year, and Bob McDonogh.

EMPLOYES OF POWER FIRM FETE ASSOCIATE John Nelson Resigns to Accept Colt Firearms Post John E. Nelson, who has accepted a position with the electrical division of the Colt Firearms Company, Springfield, Miss., was honored by his former associates in the commercial department of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company at a luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. His friends presented him a traveling bag. Nelson will continue to reside here while directing the Colt company’s electrical interests in Indiana. Ohio and part-s of West Virginia and Kentucky. Votes Cost 27 Cents Each B<j Timee Special CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., May 15. —Crawfordsville’s primary election last, week cost 27 cents for each vote cast. The expense was $905 and the total vote cast was 3,408. Bills for election expenses were allowed at a special meeting of the council. , . . t _.. -

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CITY TO HONOR HEROIC DEAD ON MAY 30 Parade. Graves Decoration and Memorial Services Are Arranged, CENTER AT CROWN HILL Main Ceremony Will Be Held at Cemetery in Afternoon, j Indianapolis will honor its solj dier and sailor dead with a parade lin which 2.000 persons will take part, the decoration of graves in | eleven cemeteries, and memorial ' services at the Soldiers and Sailors’ j monument, on Decoration day. j Final plans for the city's ; memorial exercises were, laid today I and a complete program of ar- | rangements sent to the ‘printers by George Hawkins, secretary of the General Memorial Association. The day's reverence of the dead begins at 9 a. m. on May 30, with the decoration of segments of the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument, followed by a parade at 2 p. m. and with the main cemetery sendee held at Crown Hill after the par- ; ade. Fatriotic organizations. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, high school cadets, reserve officers, and auxiliaries of veterans’ organizations will take part. j n the day’s program. Crampton Is Master Colonel A. B. Crampton is master of ceremonies for the morning : service at Soldiers and Sailors’ monument. Chimes from Christ j church will ring out following the placing of flowers on the monument. The Newsboys band will give a concert, followed by oomnufnity singing of America.” At 9:30 the Rev. J. T. Simpson will give invocation, with the Rev. W. W. Wyant, pastor of the North Methodist church, delivering the main address. A firing squad will salute the dead and “taps” will be played. At 2 p m. members of the G. A. R. will form on North Illinois street in front of Ft. Friendly for the parade. Other organizations will form on Pennsylvania and Meridian streets near the World war memorial. Charles A. Fay will be grand marshal. The first division will be led by the Knightstown Ophans’ Home band, followed by G. A. R. veterans in motor cars under the escort of Sons of Union Veterans. Veterans in Line The second parade division will be formed with members of the American Legion, reserve officers’ training camp, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Disabled Veterans of the World war. Cadets from Shortridge, Manual Training, Arsenal Technical, and | Crispus Attucks high schools form I the third division, with Bov Scours, I Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls, and I other shool students in the fourth division. The third division will be led by the Boy Scout band. The parade route is south on Meridian street, around the Circle to the west to Market street, thence east on Market street to Pennsylvania street, south to Georgia, and then west to Capitol avenue and, north on Capitol to the 3 p. m. services at Crown Hill cemetery. Girls to Toss Flowers Girl Scouts will line the curbs on Meridian street between Ohio street and Monument Circle and toss flowers into the motor cars of G. A. R, veterans. Expecting an overflow attendance at the Crown Hill memorial services at 3 p. m.. 1,000 chairs will be placed in a valley west of the speakers’ stand at the cemetery. W. F. Molyneaux, department commander of the Grand Army, will be the honor guest at the grave services at Crown Hill, with Dr. L. W. Munhall of Germantown, Pa., a former resident of Indianapolis, as the principal speaker. The Crown Hill services open with an assembly bugle call by a scout j bugler, follower by invocation by the Rev. T. A. White, pastor of the Meridian Heights Presbyterian church, salute to the flag, presentation of colors, strewing of flowers on graves, Dr. Munhall’s address, benediction and echo taps Seventy motor cars will be used to transport G. A. R. Veterans and disabled soldiers of the World war in the parade. The committee in charge of arrangements plans to visit thirty “shut-in” veterans of the G. A. R., who will be unable to attend the Memorial day services. During the ensuing two weeks, speakers will talk in city schools on the meaning of “Decoration Day.” SENATOR OPERATED ON Shipstead's Tonsils Are Removed to Relieve Sore Throat BALTIMORE. Md., May 15.—Dr. Henrick Shipstead, Minnesota senator, who has been recuperating in Baltimore institutions from a recent influenza attack, underwent a tonsil removal operation at Johns Hopkins hospital Tuesday and was recovering today. The operation was decided on to relieve the senator of a persistent sore throat. Planted Corn April 23 Bu United Press BLUFFTON, Ind., May 15—Farmers who have just finished planting corn are late, according to A. A. Werling, Jefferson township, near Tocsin. Werling said thatfe planted com April 22, and now it it mat* tium Ham wim bio