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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29
In New York
BY James w. Dean

NEW YORK, May ga baby a
day is given away in New York
City. That. according to a charities
organization announcement. How
ever, that is only part Of the story.
for it applies only to babies legally
adopted. In public institutions in
the city there are 10000 babies and
in private baby farms" there are
5000.
Thirty-six thousand babies without
the care and protection of their own
parents Thirty-six thousand TRACE
dies in the shadows beyond the
bright lights! Thirty-six thousand
stories to be written, with more
drama in them than all the millions
Of words set down by flctionists!
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon I
saw a truck load of kegs unloaded
at saloon only two blocks from
Wall Street. Five bartenders are
kept busy behind the bar Of that
saloon. But, suppose, the kegs
contained only near-beer.
l. Il l.
Race track gambling Is prohibited
by the State Of New York, but the
lawns of the tracks swarm with
bookmakers and wagers are placed
openly. Bettors and book-makers
work under "gentleman's agree
ment." They meet and exchange
cards. The bettor leaves a deposit
OF cash with the bookie to cover
all wagerS he will make during
the day, thus avoiding many ex-
changes OF money and decreasing the
chances of being caught. The bookie
meets the bettor the next morning
and pays the bettor what is coming
to him, II anything. This season the
transactions at the track are becom-
ing even more buslnesslike. Bettors
deposit checks instead of cash and
receive checks for their balances
from the boolxmakers through the
mails. Passing of bad checks on the
part of either bettor or bookie Ia
unknown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29
A ROYAL
WELCOME

TOM MIX was in Indianapolis
wednesday. He called on
Governor Jackson, Mayor
Shank. triumphantly toured the
Circle astride his horse. while
thousands Of wildly cheering chill
dren and adults squirmed and
crowded for a glimpse Of him.
1t was a royal welcome. But
who is Tom Mix?
He is just a movie actor-a play
cowboy. He was never elected
to office, fought war, cut a
throat or performed any of the
deeds that attract the attention
Of historians.
All he does is to ride furiously
through six reels, portraying the
romance OF the West as 1t never
was except in fiction. Yet he and
Tony, his horse, are known liter
ally to millions. When he rides
through the streets Of London,
Paris, Indianapolis, or Singapore
crowds line the way and cheer.
Every day men Of great i'm
portance in financial. business,
scientific or cultural affairs visit
Indianapolis. They come and go
unnoticed. Imagine thousands
jamming the Circle to give Thomas
Edison or John D. Rockefeller
ovations as they lope past.
Probably If President Coolidge.
Won Hindenburg and King George
should parade through the down
town section OF this city arm in
arm the spectacle would draw as
great a crowd as Mix. But they
wouldn't be idolized. Curiosity not
hero worship would cause the
crowd to gather.
There is lot of bunk in history.
1t pretends soldiers, statesmen
and such are the important per-
sonages. But the homage and
ovations Of ordinary people go to
those who furnish them sport,
amusement and entertainment.
Such are the popular idols. Aren't
the people right? Tom Mix in
fluences the youth of America
more than half the clanking gen.
erals in history.
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HOSPITALS
| REACH GOALS

GNDIANA Methodists sue
| cessfu concl'u d d
~ Wednesday four months
campaign to raise $1,000. 900 for
the denominations four hospitals
in the State. Total subscriptions
to the fund amounted to
$1.717.S50.
Attainment of the goal must be
gratifying to the workers and
those who directed the movement.
A million and a half is a large
sum to raise by voluntary sub
scriptions for any purpose.
Almost every day campaign in
this State for funds for a worthy
humanitarian project is launched
or concluded. 1t would seem that
all sources of donations would long
since be drained dry. Yet almost
without exception every drive tri-
umphantly reaches It's goal.
1t is frequently said that the
church Is losing its hold-that
people are becoming irreligious.
Probably average laymen are
less concerned about creeds and
dogma than formerly. Members of
one, denomination are not so sure
followers of other denominations
will come to- a bad end az they
were a generation ago. Creedal
controversies may still arouse
some theologians to bitterness, but
they scarcely touch the rank and
file of people.
Nevertheless religion is still a
living force. The readiness of the
response to appeals for funds for
humanitarian and hospital pur-
poses reveals that there is still a
lot of plain, practical Christianity
in Indiana
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29
RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
NO INDUSTRIAL
lDYNASTIES
BY GAYLORD NELSON

Kiss MARIE STUDE-
IMI BAKER. of South Bend,
LII died recently the day be-
fore her eighty-fifth birthday.
With her the house Of Studebaker,
long identified with Indiana indus
try. passed.
From the little blacksmith and
wagon shop established in South
Bend by her father and brothers
grew a great vehicle business
first wagons and carriages then
automobiles. The immense Stude-
baker Corporation OF today is the
outgrowth.
The name continues but no
longer is a Studebaker connected
with the enterprise. AS the found
ers died their holdings in the bust
ness passed to outsiders There
were no successors in the family
to carry on-they established no
industrial dynasty.
The passing OF this great indus
try outside the family of the
founders is typical Of American
industries. Very few great or
small. have remained in a single
family for two generations.
How different in Europe. There
single businesses are handed down
from generation to generation.
For two hundred years the bust
ness OF the house OF Rothschild
has descended without a break
from father to son. other French,
German and English enterprises
have remained in the same family
for three centuries.
Who will control Ford Motor,
Standard Oil OF any other great
American industrial enterprise
century hence? Descendants of
the founders? Unlikely. The very
absence of industrial dynasties is
probably a factor in the growth
and restless vigor of this country
business.
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learning About Prices In The Good Old Days

and in the a. m. all our inardy
wanted was buckwheat cakes, but.
ter. mapel syrup and coffee, and we
was ready for foot race. Mother
said the acid in the berries used all
the stuff that was making troubel."
TIE ha~ his views about tnis
III modern civilization. too.
IL Most peepul nowdays live
on jazz, tin lizzies and from tin cans
and paper sacks, then squeal for the
doctor. What will we look like 100
years from now IL our children keep
on riding lizzies till like tadpoles the
legs fall off useless.
Hope this will do for me an old
blue coat of the SOS, who was hit
five times and at Chickat1auga. Ca,
jumpt from corp. to capt. and when
mustered out was in command OF
500 cavalry. Amos Dahuff. Ashland,
Oregon"
T7OME of the letters have more
IAI prices in them. In Virginia
IL seventy-five years ago you
could have pair of shoes made for
rs cents. If the shoemaker had TO
furnish the leather, the price was
81. Eggs were cents a dozen.
Chickens were 10 to Is cents each.
In Saratoga, New York. in 1895,
linen cloth sold at 81 cents a yard,
while cotton shirting cost 33 cents.
Veal was 3 cents a pound. lard, Ga
cents.
Down in Oxford, North Carolina.
ladies' white kid gloves cost 62h
cents pair in 1885. Tortoise shell
side combs were rs cents a pair. Less
elaborate gloves could be bought for
20 cents, and shirt studs were
available at 1917 cents pair.
Some valuable historic documents
have been unearthed in the research
work. These are to be placed in
libraries here when owners ARE
willing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29
STUDYING SONG PICTURES
WITH JIMMY KEMPER

Jimmy Kemper has chosen a GER.
tain line of song pictures for vaude-
Vile. There seems to be a dramatic
strain to all of his work, especially
the dope" number.
This number is done before a spe-
cial set with Kemper doing both the
dope" and the Chink with a nice
dramatic touch. Hfs nanny open
ing number has the necessary sob
effect. meaning the Jolson idea.
like the sincerity and the show
manship of the Kemper person. He
has an artistic touch to his stage
work as well as the settings he uses.
He has big time appeal. He IL a
sure enough artist. Is landing solid.
The Beaucaire Sextette are sing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29

In IASHlNGTON, May 29.-Dar-
1IN winism and the theory of evo-
- luton aren't the same thing
at ALL
So says DR.. Leonhard Stejneger,
head curator of biology at the United
States National Museum.
\ There were evolutionists long he
I. fore Darwins time he says. Oar
wins theories are really an explana-
( ton of the way he thought evolu-
\ ton might come about.
4 What's evolution? A theory that
complex forms of he gradually de-
veloped from the simplest form,
such as the CELL"
X Darwin's theories can best be ex-
/. planned by the story Of the brown
hares. These hares wandered UP
into country where there was snow
in winter and, being brown, they
showed up very we'll against the
white background. This made It
!. easy FIR eagles and other enemies
to prey upon them. Gradually these
|, hares developed a strain OF white
until finally the only hares In that
region were all white. Darwi. be-
-lieved that a freak white hare or
two, born Of brown hares, survived
because of their advantages over the
,others-in other word, survival of
the fittest," or natural selection"
- Where Darwin Differed
6 Evlutionists, before Darwin's time,
explained the development of the
white hares by a theory that animals
could take on characteristics to suit
their environment and then could
pass these on to their offspring.
J There is, for instance, the famous
story Of the fish in the dark cave,
I which have no eyes. Darwin did not
believe that such acquired charac-
! taristics" could be passed on to Off
spring.
ain Greenland today all the hares
afe white. In Scandinavia there is
a. species of hare which is brown in
summer and white in winter.
Today a very prominent scientist,
, Hugo de Vries, director of the
Botanical Gardens in Amsterdam,
does not accept either Darwinism or
the earlier theories of passing on
acquired characteristics.
NV. IDe Wies believes in evolution,
M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29
BLUEGRASS FOR WEEDS

BIZ United Prcss
LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 20.-The
magic OF practically NEEDLESS
roadside can be achieved on most
Indiana farms by the simple process
Of moving during early June and
again during early August.
Under this treatment the weeds
are gradually replaced by bluegrass.
which grows naturally in every
county in Indiana, according to A..
A. Hansen Of the Purdue extension
staff.
BY moving twice instead of once
every season few weeds go to seed
and without seed they can not COM
pete with blue grass, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29
Lasky Puts All Hands to Work in Western
Studio Before Leaving for New York City

ing the stuff that one hears only in
opera or the concert stage. Act
nicely staged This organization has
genuine merit because real music is
being presented. For those who en-
JOY better music this act will more
than please.
Lester, Bell and Griffin, tumbling
and acrobatic clowns, are we'll
known in vaudeville. They open the
current bill at the Palace. Five or
six dummies are used by McCor-
mack and Wallace in their ventrilo-
quistic act. Mighty clever these two,
as they know how to create com.
plete tonal Characterization.
think 1t is a decided mistake for
the Rance Gray Players to present
such melodramatlc bunk as THE
Awakening" their second variety
stock Offering 1t Is a crook sketch
and is as pointless as a broken pen
ell. 1t is completely over-acted.
Gray. in a curtain talk, claims that
1t breaches a lesson-the necessity
of girls keeping away from sheiks.
The text of the playlet doesn't live
up to Gray's idea of the sketch.
The movie is "PalO Nine" with
Pauline Garon.
At the Palace today and Saturday
T. j. r.
other theaters today offer: Just
Married." at Engllsh's John II. Cor.
don and company in "Stung." at the
Lyric; Lena Daley. at the Capitol;
80 This Is Marriage" at the Ohio;
"Old Home Week." at the Apollo;
Ills Supreme Moment" at the Cir
Gle; Fifth Ave. Models" at the Co
lonial, and Reckless Speed" at the
Tofo
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with the greatest literary work of
his career. and in the hands Of Will
liam K. Howard it is destined to be
another screen epic. 1t is the final
chapter in the dramatic story Of
the Red Mans last stand"
Another OF our big undertake
ings," Lasky continued, will be
James Cruces production of The
Pony Express 1 firmly believe that
this will be equally as great as The
Covered Wagon, which Cruze
made"
Lasky discussed with Pola Negri
her latest Hollywood picture. Flow
err of the Night" which will be made
upon completion of the one to be
made during the next two months
at the Paramount Long Islar1 stu
dio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29

1t would be absurd to order the
police to put the lid" on burglary
during any particular week, or to
give instructions that during a
certain period every murderer is
to be arrested. Suppression of
crime, Of whatever nature. is pre-
sumed to be their regular duty.
Yet the dry law is made the
subject of special edicts. sudden
bursts of intensive activity, and
temporary crusades. 1t is given
d special treatment either in the
rigor or laxity of its enforcement.
depending on local public opinion
and the attitude of officials.
Prohibition may be morally right
or wrong. That's immaterial as
far as its enforcement is con-
cerned.
It's law-neither more nor less
important than any other criminal
statute, deserving neither more
nor less attention from police and
law enforcement officers at all
times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29

Sims Telephone pole
fell on an auto In
Seattle. 1t was self-defense.
Worlds biggest OK is on exhibit
ton in Chicago. The worlds big
gest monkey is at large.
King of Brussels is a member OF
the Rotary Club and no doubt IL
helps his Ringing business.
Reichstag voted confidence in Hin,
denburg. French haven't.
Milwaukee boy burned a candy
store. Who can explain that?
Some one should tell Bryan that
Wayne Mum, the wrestler, is climb
ing trees for training.
Bryan is all right. He'll run for
anything, bu. from nothing.
Germany had a $4,000, 1000 fire
maybe from heated arguments.
Fireworks plant blew up in Chi.
cago, amusing the children.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service. Inc.l
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29

States National Museum, for in.
stance, is all on facts. Animals and
insects are. being classified and re.
constructed. The Government isn't
concerned with the private beliefs
OF their employees as to the meaning
or the facts. There is no United
states Department of Philosophy, in
other words.
Though undoubtedly many
scientists today believe in evolution. /"
says DIR. Stejneger, 100 years from
now there may be another theory as
10 the creation and development of
lie which will seem more plausible. "
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29

ri HE production clock at the
Famous Players Lasky studio
S was given it's final winding
last week by Jesse l.. Lasky, vice
president in charge of production,
and it will run at top speed through
out the summer in order to complete
the most ambitious filming program
ever mapped out by Paramount.
After completing a strenuous
series Of conferences with directors,
writer's, stars and numerous other
studio executives, that has kept him
in his office fourteen hours daily for
the past four weeks, Lasky left for
New York. He revealed the organ
ization's latest production plans.
One of Lasky's most important
announcements was that the next
vehicle for Betty Bronson of Peter
Pan" fame will be THE Golden
Princess" In which she will be
starred. Clarence Badger will direct
her.
Neil Hamilton, Parament's new
leading man, acquired recently
through arrangement with d. w.
Griffith, will make his first trip to
the West Coast to appear opposite
Miss Bronson in this picture based
on Bret Harte's "Tennessee's Part
ner."
Zane Grey and Lucien Hubbard,
one Of Paramount's production edi-
tors. rushed back from the wilds OF
Arizona where Grey's wild Horse
Mesa is being filmed, in order to
confer with Mr.. Lasky on prepare
tions for filming Of THE Vanishing
American"
There is a feeling in the studio,
which I fully share" said Mr..
Lasky, that in The Vanishing
American Grey has provided us
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Times WASHINGTON Bureau.
1929 Netp York Arenuc.
1C7 ASHINGTON. May 29.-"I
NNII rrar hnrn in Irnner,L SanduSkX

"7 ASHINGTON. May 29.-"I
WI was born in Upper Sandusl<y,
Ohio. S-4-1S41. My pap was
hard headed. red haired Pa. dutch
man. Mother was of old Mass. Puri-
tan stock"
The United States Department Of
Agriculture is collecting data for a
chart to show the trend of prices
after wars and during panics. II
sent out call for old time diaries
and account books, to determine
what eggs and sugar and potatoes
actually cost back in the eighties.
And now come responses from
every part of the coui try-letters
written by shaky, old hands, letters
quoting prices and pouring out
story after story of the old days at
the same time. Here's one:
HE7 Y first recollection of wages
IM was when I had past my
@ 7th birthday. Father got
40 cents and dinner to use scythe
in the hay field from sun to sun.
Also fifty cents for the same time
with the grapevine cradle laying
grain in the swath.
Five in family. When mother was
Is to 20 she was hard to beat with
the Did spinning wheel turning
wool rolls into yarn. She got
found T. e. bed and board and
eeventy-five cents per week. have
seen her spin yarn then knit socks
for pap and us two boys. mittens
and galluses for us three, then
stockings for herself. She bought
canton flannel and cut and made all
FIVE of us underclothes.
GfE-7 OTHER taught ne to res
lMI and used the Bible for a.
text book. When years
old could read words in any book
up to three, four syllables. Never
saw white sugar, a school house or
school ma'am until my sth year.
We all workt. In my 9Th year
had to help with the garden. Down
on my knees astride of a row of
vegetables 1 soon learnt how to thin
'em out. In the spring we would
make a Dbl. Of mapel sugar. Also
a Dbl. of syrup. Mother kept 1890
white topknot hens, also $3.50 Domi-
neckers. We kept cows and yoke
Of big oxen. Had hog pen and
in the spring mother would get 2 or
8 pigs and put them in there and
in Oct. they would dress UP TO 25o-
POO lbs
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COui sc, W Oo
applauded. But
why should
special efforts
be made TO en-
force any par
[ i C III ar law
more rigorous
ly on one occa-
sion than an
other?
Violation Of
the prohibition
act In a heinous
onense. The
statute says so.
Burglary, lar
ceny, hold-up
a n d m ur d e r
are also high
crimes, accord
ing TO law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29
Autos Asked for
Veterans

Automobiles are needed to
carry Civil War veterans in the
annual Memorial day parade
Saturday afternoon, it was an
nounced today by H. E. Negley.
chairman transportation COM
mittee
!, Persons willing to loan their
cars are asked by Negley to
park them not later than 1870
p. m. in the first square on Vir-
ginia Ave. Machines will be
needed to take veterans to
Crown Hill cemetery following
The parade, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29
TWO RATES INCREASED
Terre Haute and Bloomington
Petitions Are Granted.

Increased rates. effective July 1,
for the Citizens Independent Tel
ephone Company at Terre Haute and
the Interstate Public Service Com
pany's gas plant at Bloomington
have been ordered by the public
service commission. rtt
The commission emphasizes need
for replacement of a large part OF
the Terre Hapte Company's present
equipment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29
Checkmating
Abd-EI-Krim

1T HE world looks on in amazement as
81 modern French army of 10000 men falls
back before 10000 half-savage Berber hillsmen
attacking under the banner of the dusky Add
el-Krlm sheik Of the Moroccan Riff.
All sorts of guesses have been made as to
I the reason Some take it as defeat Some
call it a political retreat Some believe If dine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29
SPECIAL
DRY EDICT

E1AYOR SHANK has issued
iM instructions to the police
0 to put the lid" on booze
in Indianapolis while the Speed
way crowds are here. No carous-
ing will be permitted in hotel loo-
bies. public places or resorts, &C
cording to the edict.
Why not also put the lid" on
filling station robberies?
Determination to enforce the
law-the bone-dIy act or any other
no matter whom it hits, is, OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29
What was the origin Of the word

What was the origin of the word
"Sphinx"?
The word literally means Ito
strangle." the story being that the
sphinx strangled those who could
not solve her riddles. In Greek
mythology, a female monster said
to have proposed a riddle to the
Thebans who passed her as she sat
on a rock by the roadside and to
have killed all who were not able to
guess 1t. The riddle. according to
tradition. inquired what being had
successfully four, two and three feet
and is weakest when 1t has most feet.
Oedipus answered man." who
creeps in infancy. afterwards goes
erect and finally walks with a staff
Ia third FOOT. The sphinx in COM
pliance with her own conditions
thereupon threw herself from the
rock and died
What is meant by the whisky
rebellion" in American history?
The excise tax law of 1871 proved
to be extremely unpopular in the
western counties of Pennsylvania
and Virginia because it was levied
upon whisky, the principal source
OF income OF the people. They met
in mass meetings and threatened
violence to officers who attempted
to enforce the law. In 1894 war
wants were issued for the ringlead.
ers OF the movement, and some
bloodshed resulted from an attempt
to serve them. The disorder in
creased. inspectors were flogged, and
the stills Of those who obeyed the
laws were destroyed. Washington
determined to use large force TO
overawe the rebels and to indicate
to foreign countries the strength of
the Nation. The rioters at once sub
mitted and took oaths of loyalty to
the Government. A few Of the ring.
leaders were arrested and tried, but
Washington pardoned those who
were convicted.
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sI%7 HE family made all its own

nFT77 HE family made all its own
soap. 1t raised quantities
~ OF vegetables and dried
them for winter use. The children
gathered wagonbeds full of nuts.
"In Nov. we all went TO the swamp
and got q flour Dbl. full OF big red
sour cranberries. Yum, yum. In
the winter If one of us children com.
planned of our tummies, mother
would cook a pint of them, strain
out the skins, and we drank IL hot
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-05-29

Prince Of Wales
saw a wrestling
match. then went
to a dance. Must
be different In
Africa.